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Date: 24 July 1980 / 25 July 1980 / 26 July 1980
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Volker Beck | GDR | 48.70 |
| 2 | Vasili Arkhipenko | URS | 48.86 |
| 3 | Gary Oakes | GBR | 49.11 |
| 4 | Nikolai Vasiliev | URS | 49.34 |
| 5 | Rok Kopitar | YUG | 49.67 |
| 6 | Horia Toboc | ROU | 49.84 |
| 7 | Franz Meier | SUI | 50.00 |
| 8 | Yanko Bratanov | BUL | 56.35 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Ryszard Szparak | POL | 50.41 |
| 10 | Harry Schulting | NED | 50.61 |
| 11 | Aleksandr Kharlov | URS | 50.64 |
| 12 | Jozsef Szalai | HUN | 51.06 |
| 13 | John Aki-Bua | UGA | 51.10 |
| 14 | Juan Lloveras | ESP | 51.86 |
| 15 | Antonio Ferreira | BRA | 52.31 |
| 16 | Christer Gullstrand | SWE | |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Jose Casabona | ESP | 51.26 |
| 18 | Davison Lishebo | ZAM | 51.73 |
| 19 | Amer Maaraoui | SYR | 53.26 |
| 20 | Abdultif Hashem | KUW | 53.31 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Leonel Teller | NCA | ||
| Wilfred Kareng | BOT | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Ali Hassan Kadhum | IRQ | ||