Heat 5 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Mike Barrowman | United States | 2:13.82 | CR | - | 22 | - | 1. | 2. Nick Gillingham | Great Britain | 2:14.10 | +0.28s | 5 | 23 | - | 2. | 3. Joaquin Fernandez | Spain | 2:14.44 | +0.62s | 3 | 19 | - | 4. | 4. Hiroshi Fujieda | Japan | 2:16.23 | +2.41s | 7 | _ | - | 7. | 5. Phil Rogers | Australia | 2:16.41 | +2.59s | 6 | 19 | - | 8. | 6. Andrea Cecchi | Italy | 2:17.76 | +3.94s | 1 | 22 | - | 15. | 7. Jon Cleveland | Canada | 2:19.01 | +5.19s | 2 | 20 | - | 18. | 8. Pablo Minelli | Argentina | 2:20.51 | +6.69s | 8 | 21 | - | 21. |
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Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Kirk Stackle | United States | 2:16.66 | +2.84s | 4 | 22 | - | 9. | 1. Francesco Postiglione | Italy | 2:16.66 | +2.84s | 7 | 18 | - | 9. | 3. Cedric Penicaud | France | 2:16.82 | +3.00s | 3 | 19 | - | 11. | 4. Rodney Lawson | Australia | 2:16.90 | +3.08s | 6 | 21 | - | 12. | 5. Vadim Alexeev | Soviet Union | 2:16.91 | +3.09s | 5 | 20 | - | 13. | 6. Gary O'Toole | Ireland | 2:17.06 | +3.24s | 2 | 22 | - | 14. | 7. Ron Dekker | Netherlands | 2:17.89 | +4.07s | 1 | 24 | - | 16. | 8. Petri Suominen | Finland | 2:20.91 | +7.09s | 8 | 19 | - | 22. |
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