Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | 3. Darjan Petric | Yugoslavia | 15:24.60 | | +1.27s | - | 4. Rainer Heinkel | West Germany | 15:26.01 | | +5.68s | - | 5. Rafael Escalas | Spain | 15:27.03 | | +6.70s | - | 5. Rainer Stronbach | East Germany | 15:27.05 | | +6.72s | - | 13.Luca Pellegrini | Italy | 15:53.89 | | +33.56s | - | 17.Ricardo Valdivia | Spain | 16:06.71 | | +46.38s | - | -. Ferdi Doktoroglu | Turkey | DNS | | | - |
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Heat 1 | | time | | gap | L | 7. Alexander Chayev | Soviet Union | 15:33.56 | | +13.23s | - | 8. Zaltan Wladar | Hungary | 15:33.80 | | +13.47s | - | 9. Reanto Paparella | Italy | 15:37.88 | NR | +17.55s | - | 10.Arne Borgstrom | Norway | 15:47.75 | | +27.42s | - | 12.Henrik Steenberge | Belgium | 15:49.24 | | +28.91s | - | 18.Jaroslaw Chroscielewski | Poland | 16:07.90 | | +47.57s | - | -. Kemal Sadri Ozun | Turkey | DNS | | | - |
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