1 | Henryk Szordykowski | POL | 3:47,9 | Q |
2 | Edgard Salvé | BEL | 3:48,2 | Q |
3 | Frank Murphy | IRL | 3:48,4 | Q |
4 | Knut Brustad | NOR | 3:49,3 | Q |
5 | Miodrag Vukomanovic | YUG | 3:49,8 | |
6 | Mehmet Tümkan | TUR | 3:51,2 | |
7 | Heinrich Händlhuber | AUT | 3:51,6 |
1 | Vladimir Panteley | URS | 3:52,6 | Q |
2 | Pierre Toussaint | FRA | 3:52,6 | Q |
3 | Jerzy Maluski | POL | 3:52,7 | Q |
4 | Ulf Högberg | SWE | 3:52,8 | Q |
5 | Ivan Kovács | TCH | 3:52,9 | |
6 | Dimko Deribeyev | BUL | 3:54,2 | |
7 | Walter Wilkinson | GBR | 3:55,4 |