Final 17:30 | time | 1. Ilmari Salminen | Finland | 30:15.4 | 2. Arvo Askola | Finland | 30:15.6 | 3. Volmari Iso-Hollo | Finland | 30:20.2 | 4. Kohei Murakoso | Japan | 30:25.0 | 5. Alec Burns | Great Britain | 30:58.2 | 6. Juan Carlos Zabala | Argentina | 31:22.0 | 7. Max Gebhardt | Germany | 31:29.6 | 8. Don Lash | United States | 31:39.4 | 9. Odd Rasdal | Norway | 31:40.4 | 10.Harry Siefert | Denmark | 31:52.6 | 11.Giuseppe Beviacqua | Italy | 31:57.0 | 12.Kelen János | Hungary | 32:01.0 | 13.Henning Sundesson | Sweden | 32:11.8 | 14.Noji Józef | Poland | 32:13.0 | 15.Rudolf Wöber | Austria | 32:22.0 | 16.Eino Pentti | United States | 32:23.0 | 17.Ludvík Bombík | Czechoslovakia | 32:24.0 | 18.Lucien Tostain | France | 32:24.2 | 19.André Sicard | France | 32:25.0 | 20.André Lonlas | France | 32:58.0 | 21.Walter Schönrock | Germany | 32:59.0 | 22.Josef Siegers | Germany | | -. Pierre Bajart | Belgium | DNF | -. Scotty Rankine | Canada | DNF | -. Milton Wallace | Canada | DNF | -. William Eaton | Great Britain | DNF | -. Stanley Wudyka | United States | DNF | -. Fusashige Suzuki | Japan | DNF | -. Raunaq Singh Gill | India | DNF | -. John Potts | Great Britain | DNF |
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| Venue: Olympiastadion, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Capp.: 100,000. | 30 competitors from 18 nations. |
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