| 1 | Thierry Tonnelier | FRA | 1:50,08 | Q |
| 2 | Binko Kolev | BUL | 1:50,26 | Q |
| 3 | Andres Vera | ESP | 1:50,42 | |
| 4 | Hans Lang | FRG | 1:50,64 | |
| 5 | Didier le Guillou | FRA | 1:50,69 | |
| 6 | Viktor Semlyanskiy | URS | 1:54,44 |
| 1 | Coloman Trabado | ESP | 1:48,39 | Q |
| 2 | Peter Elliott | GBR | 1:48,79 | Q |
| 3 | Petru Dragoescu | ROM | 1:48,94 | q |
| 4 | Andrés Garcia | FRA | 1:49,62 | q |
| Rob Druppers | NED | DNF | ||
| Andras Paroczai | HUN | DNS |