| 1 | Jevgenij Grisjin (M30) | URS | 41.40 | TR | - |
| 2 | Edward Rudolph (Neo) | USA | 42.10 | | +0.700 |
| 3 | Zhihuan Luo (Neo) | CHN | 42.40 | | +1.000 |
| 4 | Oleg Sjabarov (Senior) | URS | 42.50 | | +1.100 |
| 5 | Keiichi Suzuki (Neo) | JPN | 42.60 | | +1.200 |
| Eduard Matusevitsj (Senior) | URS | 42.60 | | +1.200 |
| 6 | Zin-Hook Kim (Neo) | PRK | 42.70 | NR | +1.300 |
| 7 | Jouko Launonen (Senior) | FIN | 42.90 | | +1.500 |
| Shigeki Shinha (Senior) | JPN | 42.90 | SB | +1.500 |
| 8 | Wensheng Wang (Neo) | CHN | 43.00 | | +1.600 |
| Jinyu.40 Wang (Neo) | CHN | 43.00 | | +1.600 |
| Juhani.35 Järvinen (Senior) | FIN | 43.00 | | +1.600 |
| Fumio Nagakubo (Senior) | JPN | 43.00 | | +1.600 |
| Magne Thomassen (Neo) | NOR | 43.00 | | +1.600 |
| Viktor Kositsjkin (Senior) | URS | 43.00 | | +1.600 |
| Boris Stenin (Senior) | URS | 43.00 | | +1.600 |
| Vladimir Gurov (Senior) | URS | 43.00 | | +1.600 |
| 9 | Per Ivar Moe (A1) | NOR | 43.20 | TRJ | +1.800 |
| Nils Egil Aaness (Senior) | NOR | 43.20 | | +1.800 |
| Arnold Uhrlass (Senior) | USA | 43.20 | | +1.800 |
| 10 | Henk van der Grift (Senior) | NED | 43.30 | | +1.900 |
| 11 | Günther Traub (Senior) | FRG | 43.40 | | +2.000 |
| Günter Tilch (Senior) | GDR | 43.40 | | +2.000 |
| 12 | Haruo Takano (Neo) | JPN | 43.70 | | +2.300 |
| Robert Merkulov (M30) | URS | 43.70 | | +2.300 |
| 13 | Taketoshi Uruma (Neo) | JPN | 43.90 | | +2.500 |
| Knut.33 Johannesen (Senior) | NOR | 43.90 | | +2.500 |
| 14 | Toshihiro Inoue (Neo) | JPN | 44.00 | SB | +2.600 |
| 15 | Torstein Seiersten (M30) | NOR | 44.20 | | +2.800 |
| 16 | Ivar Nilsson (M30) | SWE | 44.30 | | +2.900 |
| 17 | Helmut Kuhnert (Senior) | GDR | 44.50 | | +3.100 |
| Rudie Liebrechts (Neo) | NED | 44.50 | | +3.100 |
| 18 | Hongbin Su (A2) | CHN | 44.60 | | +3.200 |
| Keijo Tapiovaara (Senior) | FIN | 44.60 | | +3.200 |
| 19 | Kurt Robert Stille (Senior) | DEN | 44.70 | | +3.300 |
| Richard Hunt (Senior) | USA | 44.70 | SB | +3.300 |
| 20 | Hermann Strutz (Senior) | AUT | 44.80 | | +3.400 |
| 21 | Jonny Nilsson (Neo) | SWE | 45.00 | | +3.600 |
| 22 | Arie Zee (Senior) | NED | 45.10 | | +3.700 |
| 23 | Yasuji Tanaka (Neo) | JPN | 45.30 | SB | +3.900 |
| Göran Slott (Neo) | SWE | 45.30 | | +3.900 |
| 24 | Mario Gios (Senior) | ITA | 45.50 | | +4.100 |
| Fred Anton Maier (Senior) | NOR | 45.50 | | +4.100 |
| 25 | Gerhard Zimmermann (Neo) | FRG | 45.80 | | +4.400 |
| Satoshi Shinpo (Neo) | JPN | 45.80 | | +4.400 |
| 26 | Luvsavlkhagvyn Dasjnjam (Neo) | MGL | 45.90 | | +4.500 |
| 27 | Y Kohno (n/a) | JPN | 46.00 | PB | +4.600 |
| 28 | Jürgen Schmidt (Neo) | GDR | 46.10 | | +4.700 |
| 29 | Kjell Bäckman (Senior) | SWE | 46.50 | | +5.100 |
| 30 | Renato de Riva (Senior) | ITA | 46.90 | | +5.500 |
| Tadao Ishihata (Neo) | JPN | 46.90 | | +5.500 |
| 31 | Susumu Nakajima (A2) | JPN | 47.90 | SB | +6.500 |