| 1 | Ainsley Bennett | GBR | 46,87 | Q |
| 2 | Yevgeniy Lomtyev | URS | 46,93 | Q |
| 3 | Angel Heras | ESP | 47,08 | q |
| 4 | Toma Tomov | BUL | 47,35 | |
| 5 | Jean-Jacques Fevrier | FRA | 47,84 |
| 1 | Christoph Trappe | FRG | 47,90 | Q |
| 2 | Dusan Malovec | TCH | 47,94 | Q |
| 3 | Boyidar Konstantinov | BUL | 48,25 | |
| Sergey Lovachev | URS | DNF | ||
| Sandor Ujhelyi | HUN | DNF |