| 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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