Final | time | 1. Leonid Spirine | URS | 1:31:27.4 | 2. Antanas Mikenas | URS | 1:32:03.0 | 3. Bruno Iounk | URS | 1:32:12.0 | 4. John Lunggren | SWE | 1:32:24.0 | 5. Stanley Vickers | GBR | 1:32:34.2 | 6. Donald Keane | AUS | 1:33:52.0 | 7. George Coleman | GBR | 1:34:01.8 | 8. Roland Hardy | GBR | 1:34:40.4 | 9. Giuseppe Dordoni | ITA | 1:35:00.4 | 10.Edward Allsopp | AUS | 1:35:43.0 | 11.Abdon Pamich | ITA | 1:36:03.6 | 12.Henry Laskau | USA | 1:38:46.8 | 13.Ronald Crawford | AUS | 1:39:35.0 | 14.Dumitru Paraschivescu | ROM | 1:39:57.4 | 15.Ion Barbu | ROM | 1:41:37.8 | 16.Bruce MacDonald | USA | 1:43:25.6 | 17.James Hewson | USA | 1:46:24.8 | -. Josef Dolezal | TCH | DQ | -. Alexander Oakley | CAN | DQ | -. Dieter Lindner | GER | DQ | -. Lars Hindmar | SWE | DQ |
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| Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground. Capp.: 120,000. | -- competitors from -- nations. |
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