1. Linford Christie | Great Britain | 6.56s | | 2 | 2. Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 6.59s | | 3 | 3. Jiří Valík | Czechoslovakia | 6.63s | | 1 | 4. Andreas Berger | Austria | 6.64s | | 4 | 5. Bruno Marie-Rose | France | 6.66s | | 5 | 6. Jason Livingston | Great Britain | 6.75s | | 6 |
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Semi 1 | | time | | 1. Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 6.58s | Q | 3. Jiří Valík | Czechoslovakia | 6.63s | Q | 7. Enrique Talavera | Spain | 6.70s | | 8. Nigel Walker | Great Britain | 6.70s | | 13.Dietmar Schulte | West Germany | 6.78s | |
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2. Linford Christie | Great Britain | 6.61s | Q | 3. Andreas Berger | Austria | 6.63s | Q | 5. José Javier Arqués | Spain | 6.66s | | 12.Vitaliy Savin | Soviet Union | 6.77s | |
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2. Linford Christie | Great Britain | 6.66s | Q | 6. Jiří Valík | Czechoslovakia | 6.70s | Q | 9. Sergio López | Spain | 6.73s | Q | 10.Vitaliy Savin | Soviet Union | 6.74s | q | 10.Raymond Schüler | West Germany | 6.74s | q | 15.Antoine Richard | France | 6.78s | |
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1. Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 6.61s | Q | 3. Bruno Marie-Rose | France | 6.68s | Q | 4. José Javier Arqués | Spain | 6.69s | Q | 7. Nigel Walker | Great Britain | 6.71s | q | 10.Dietmar Schulte | West Germany | 6.74s | q | 17.Jouni Myllymäki | Finland | 6.81s | |
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4. Enrique Talavera | Spain | 6.69s | Q, PB | 8. Andreas Berger | Austria | 6.72s | Q | 13.Jason Livingston | Great Britain | 6.77s | Q | 14.Franz Ratzenberger | Austria | 6.77s | | 16.Stefan Burkart | Switzerland | 6.79s | | 18.Kennet Kjensli | Norway | 6.83s | |
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