| 1 | Henryk Szordykowski | POL | 3:47,9 | Q |
| 2 | Edgar Salvé | BEL | 3:48,2 | Q |
| 3 | Frank Murphy | IRL | 3:48,4 | Q |
| 4 | Knut Brustad | NOR | 3:49,3 | Q |
| 5 | Miodrag Vukomanović | 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 Maluśki | POL | 3:52,7 | Q |
| 4 | Ulf Högberg | SWE | 3:52,8 | Q |
| 5 | Ivan Kováč | TCH | 3:52,9 | |
| 6 | Dimko Deribeyev | BUL | 3:54,2 | |
| 7 | Walter Wilkinson | GBR | 3:55,4 |