| 1 | John Davies | GBR | 1:51,8 | Q |
| 2 | Petar Kyatovskiy | BUL | 1:51,9 | Q |
| 3 | Slavko Koprivica | YUG | 1:52,5 |
| 1 | Antonio Fernández | ESP | 1:54,0 | Q |
| 2 | Phil Lewis | GBR | 1:54,3 | Q |
| 3 | Atanas Atanasov | BUL | 1:54,4 | |
| 4 | Stavros Mermingis | GRE | 1:57,8 | |
| 5 | Ali Erte | TUR | 1:58,0 |
| 1 | Yevgeniy Arshanov | URS | 1:54,1 | Q |
| 2 | Andrzej Kupczyk | POL | 1:54,3 | Q |
| 3 | Jan Sisovsky | TCH | 1:54,7 | |
| 4 | Eric Reygaert | BEL | 1:56,5 |