Lopes Cardoso ran a time of 55.08 seconds, a season's best for him, to finish last in the seven-man heat. He was 5.17 seconds behind the heat winner, Matzinger, and 3.56 seconds behind the second-last finisher, Russian Alexey Kotlov. Lopes Cardoso's was the slowest overall in the heat round and _he_did not progress to the final. <sep>, Pronoun: he <sep>, A: Matzinger <sep>, B: Alexey Kotlov