Heat 6 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Artur Wojdat | Poland | 3:51.82 | | 4 | 22 | - | 1. | 2. Zoltan Szilagyi | Hungary | 3:52.28 | +0.46s | 6 | 23 | - | 3. | 3. Ian Brown | Australia | 3:52.63 | +0.81s | 5 | 25 | - | 5. | 4. Christophe Marchand | France | 3:53.94 | +2.12s | 3 | 20 | - | 9. | 5. Kieren Perkins | Australia | 3:54.57 | +2.75s | 2 | 17 | - | 10. | 6. Igor Majcen | Yugoslavia | 3:58.14 | +6.32s | 8 | 21 | - | 17. | 7. Tomohiro Noguchi | Japan | 3:58.34 | +6.52s | 1 | _ | - | 18. | 8. Dmitry Lepikov | Soviet Union | 4:00.85 | +9.03s | 7 | 18 | - | 22. |
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Heat 5 | | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk | 1. Joerg Hoffmann | Germany | 3:51.85 | +0.03s | 5 | 20 | - | 2. | 2. Yevgeny Logvinov | Soviet Union | 3:52.86 | +1.04s | 6 | _ | - | 6. | 3. Jorge Herrera | Puerto Rico | 3:54.86 | +3.04s | 7 | 18 | - | 11. | 4. Sean Killion | United States | 3:55.04 | +3.22s | 4 | 23 | - | 12. | 5. Mariusz Podkoscielny | Poland | 3:58.07 | +6.25s | 1 | 22 | - | 16. | 6. Norbert Agh | Hungary | 3:58.58 | +6.76s | 3 | 20 | - | 20. | 7. Carlos Scanavino | Uruguay | 4:02.37 | +10.55s | 2 | 26 | - | 23. | -. Hans-Olov Nilsson | Sweden | DNS | | 8 | _ | - | -. |
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