| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Points | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dan O'Brien |  USA | 47.46 | ||
| 2 | Paul Meier |  GER | 47.73 | ||
| 3 | Christian Plaziat |  FRA | 47.91 | ||
| 4 | Alain Blondel |  FRA | 48.12 | ||
| Mike Smith |  CAN | DNS | |||
| Robert Zmelik |  CZE | DNS | |||
| Dezsö Szabó |  HUN | DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Points | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eduard Hämäläinen |  BLR | 47.64 | ||
| 2 | Steve Fritz |  USA | 48.40 | ||
| 3 | Christian Schenk |  GER | 48.78 | ||
| 4 | Ramil Ganiyev |  UZB | 49.80 | ||
| 5 | Rob Muzzio |  USA | 49.82 | ||
| 6 | Petri Keskitalo |  FIN | 50.76 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Points | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henrik Dagård |  SWE | 48.38 | ||
| 2 | Sándor Munkacsi |  HUN | 48.71 | ||
| 3 | Indrek Kaseorg |  EST | 48.99 | ||
| 4 | Xavier Brunet |  ESP | 49.09 | ||
| 5 | Munehiro Kaneko |  JPN | 49.60 | ||
| 6 | Katsuhiko Matsuda |  JPN | 49.68 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | Points | Reaction Time | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomáš Dvořák |  CZE | 49.40 | ||
| 2 | Michael Kohnle |  GER | 50.17 | ||
| 3 | Alex Kruger |  GBR | 50.33 | ||
| 4 | Ronalds Blums |  LAT | 50.55 | ||
| 5 | Barry Walsh |  IRL | 51.29 | ||
| 6 | Sébastien Levicq |  FRA | 51.75 |