Final | | time | | 1. Luciano Sušanj | Yugoslavia | 46.38s | WB | 2. Benno Stops | East Germany | 47.31s | | 3. Dariusz Podobas | Poland | 47.40s | | 4. Gerd Pollakowski | East Germany | 48.28s | |
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| First 2 from each Semi advanced to Final. |
Semi 1 | | time | | 1. Luciano Sušanj | Yugoslavia | 46.73s | Q | 2. Benno Stops | East Germany | 47.28s | Q | 4. Ulrich Reich | West Germany | 47.62s | | -. Hermann Köhler | West Germany | DNS | |
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Semi 2 | | time | | 3. Dariusz Podobas | Poland | 47.55s | Q | 5. Gerd Pollakowski | East Germany | 47.75s | Q | 6. Falko Geiger | West Germany | 47.84s | | 7. Manuel Soriano | Spain | 48.01s | |
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Heat 1 | | time | | 4. Falko Geiger | West Germany | 47.88s | Q | 5. Benno Stops | East Germany | 48.06s | Q | 9. Jan Balachowski | Poland | 48.31s | | 16.Lucien Sainte-Rose | France | 48.80s | |
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Heat 2 | | time | | 6. Hermann Köhler | West Germany | 48.19s | Q | 11.Manuel Soriano | Spain | 48.41s | Q | 12.Jim Aukett | Great Britain | 48.47s | | 15.Khadzhi Rakhmanov | Soviet Union | 48.74s | |
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Heat 3 | | time | | 7. Gerd Pollakowski | East Germany | 48.20s | Q | 8. Ulrich Reich | West Germany | 48.28s | Q | 10.Patrick Salvador | France | 48.33s | | 13.Miroslav Tulis | Czechoslovakia | 48.48s | |
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Heat 4 | | time | | 1. Luciano Sušanj | Yugoslavia | 46.83s | Q | 2. Dariusz Podobas | Poland | 47.55s | Q | 3. Michael Fredriksson | Sweden | 47.70s | | 14.Bjarni Stefánsson | Iceland | 48.73s | NR |
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