| 1 | José Luíz Barbosa | BRA | |
1:47,49 | AR |
| 2 | Vladimir Graudyn | URS | |
1:47,68 | |
| 3 | Faouzi Lahbi | MAR | |
1:47,79 | |
| 4 | Stanley Redwine | USA | 1:47,81 | ||
| 5 | Dieudonné Kwizera | BDI | 1:47,87 | NR | |
| 6 | Slobodan Popović | YUG | 1:48,07 | ||
| 7 | Babacar Niang | SEN | 1:48,33 | NR | |
| 8 | Rob Druppers | NED | 1:48,89 |