Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Yevgeny Kulikov Soviet Union 39.17 OR
2 Valery Muratov Soviet Union 39.25
3 Dan Immerfall United States 39.54
4 Mats Wallberg Sweden 39.56
5 Peter Mueller United States 39.57
6 Jan Bazen Netherlands 39.78
6 Arnulf Sunde Norway 39.78
8 Andrey Malikov Soviet Union 39.85
9 Oloph Granath Sweden 39.93
10 Jim Chapin United States 40.09
11 Tom Overend Canada 40.22
11 Masaki Suzuki Japan 40.22
13 Johan Granath Sweden 40.25
14 Gaétan Boucher Canada 40.53
15 Pertti Niittylä Finland 40.65
16 Norio Hirate Japan 40.85
16 Archie Marshall Great Britain 40.85
18 Mikio Oyama Japan 40.90
19 Hans van Helden Netherlands 40.91
19 Emmanuel Michon France 40.91
21 Kay Arne Stenshjemmet Norway 40.94
22 Lee Yeong-Ha South Korea 41.08
23 Bruno Toniolli Italy 41.44
24 Harald Oehme East Germany 41.54
25 Colin Coates Australia 41.77
26 Berend Schabus Austria 42.33
27 Heinz Steinberger Austria 43.28
28 Jan Egil Storholt Norway 18.00
- Horst Freese West Germany DNF