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Date: 26 July 1980 / 26 July 1901
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Sandor Wladar | HUN | 2:01.93 |
| 2 | Zoltan Verraszto | HUN | 2:02.40 |
| 3 | Mark Kerry | AUS | 2:03.14 |
| 4 | Vladimir Shemetov | URS | 2:03.48 |
| 5 | Fred Eefting | NED | 2:03.92 |
| 6 | Michael Soderlund | SWE | 2:04.10 |
| 7 | Douglas Campbell | GBR | 2:04.23 |
| 8 | Paul Moorfoot | AUS | 2:06.15 |
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| 9 | Vladimir Dolgov | URS | 2:05.11 |
| 10 | Miloslav Rolko | TCH | 2:05.13 |
| 11 | Viktor Kuznetsov | URS | 2:05.14 |
| 12 | Joerg Stingl | GDR | 2:05.19 |
| 13 | Frederic Delcourt | FRA | 2:05.20 |
| 14 | Franky de Groote | BEL | 2:06.97 |
| 15 | Mark Tonelli | AUS | 2:07.04 |
| 16 | Bengt Baron | SWE | 2:07.13 |
| 17 | Nenad Milos | YUG | 2:07.51 |
| 18 | Mihai Mandache | ROU | 2:07.97 |
| 19 | Zbigniew Januszkiewicz | POL | 2:08.11 |
| 20 | Robert Rudolf | HUN | 2:08.13 |
| 21 | James Carter | GBR | 2:09.94 |
| 22 | David Cummins | IRL | 2:12.45 |
| 23 | Dietmar Goehring | GDR | 2:14.11 |
| 24 | Daniel Ayora | PER | 2:17.12 |
| 25 | Ngoc Thanh Pham | VIE | 2:28.40 |
| Did not start | |||
| Romulo Arantes Jr. | BRA | ||
| Djan Madruga | BRA | ||
| Rui Pinto Abreu | POR | ||