| 1 | Dieter Fromm | GDR | |
1:46,6 | WR |
| 2 | Henryk Szordykowski | POL | |
1:47,1 | |
| 3 | Noel Carroll | IRL | |
1:47,6 | |
| 4 | Robert Adams | GBR | 1:49,2 | ||
| 5 | Pierre Toussaint | FRA | 1:50,5 | ||
| 6 | Gerd Larsen | DEN | 1:51,2 | ||
| 7 | Joze Medjimurec | YUG | 1:51,9 | ||
| 8 | Ján Sisovsky | TCH | 1:52,0 |