| Final | time | | 1. Jens-Peter Herold |  East Germany | 3:38.25 | | 2. Gennaro di Napoli |  Italy | 3:38.60 | | 3. Mario Silva |  Portugal | 3:38.73 | | 4. Peter Elliott |  Great Britain | 3:39.07 | | 5. Steve Cram | Great Britain | 3:39.08 | | 6. Jose Luis Gonzalez |  Spain | 3:39.15 | | 7. Hans Kulker |  Netherlands | 3:39.85 | | 8. Markus Hacksteiner |  Switzerland | 3:40.44 | | 9. Neil Horsfield | Great Britain | 3:40.59 | | 10.Marc Corstjens |  Belgium | 3:41.31 | | 11.Fermin Cacho | Spain | 3:42.21 | | 12.Mogens Guldberg |  Denmark | 3:42:76 | | 13.Robin Van Helden | Netherlands | 3:46.13 |
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| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Jose Luis Gonzalez | Spain | 3:38.75 | | 2. Markus Hacksteiner | Switzerland | 3:38.94 | | 3. Fermin Cacho | Spain | 3:39.22 | | 4. Gennaro di Napoli | Italy | 3:39.25 | | 5. Steve Cram | Great Britain | 3:39.93 | | 6. Robin Van Helden | Netherlands | 3:40.61 | | 7. Mogens Guldberg | Denmark | 3:40.71 | | 8. Jari Venäläinen |  Finland | 3:41.23 | | 9. Vladimir Kolpakov |  Soviet Union | 3:41.64 | | 10.Christophe Impens | Belgium | 3:41.64 | | 11.Eric Dubus |  France | 3:44.47 | | -. Peter Elliott | Great Britain | DNF |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Jens-Peter Herold | East Germany | 3:39.63 | | 2. Mario Silva | Portugal | 3:39.91 | | 3. Neil Horsfield | Great Britain | 3:39.97 | | 4. Hans Kulker | Netherlands | 3:40.02 | | 5. Marc Corstjens | Belgium | 3:40.30 | | 6. Hervé Phelippeau | France | 3:40.72 | | 7. Branko Zorko |  Yugoslavia | 3:40.86 | | 8. Teófilo Benito | Spain | 3:40.99 | | 9. LarsBoegh | Denmark | 3:41.12 | | 10.David Tirelli | Italy | 3:43.76 | | 11.Philippe Collard | France | 3:46.39 | | 12.Eckhard Rüter |  West Germany | 3:48.51 |
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