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| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | John Akii-Bua | UGA | 47.82 |
| 2 | Ralph Mann | USA | 48.51 |
| 3 | David Hemery | GBR | 48.52 |
| 4 | James Seymour | USA | 48.64 |
| 5 | Rainer Schubert | FRG | 49.65 |
| 6 | Evgeniy Gavrilenko | URS | 49.66 |
| 7 | Stavros Tziortzis | GRE | 49.66 |
| 8 | Yuri Zorin | URS | 50.25 |