Final 11:30 | time | 1. Vladimir Golubnichiy | URS | 1:34.07.2 | 2. Noel Freeman | AUS | 1:34.16.4 | 3. Stanley Vickers | GBR | 1:34.56.4 | 4. Dieter Lindner | GER | 1:35.33.8 | 5. Norman Read | NZL | 1:36.59.0 | 6. Lennart Back | SWE | 1:37.17.0 | 7. John Ljiunggren | SWE | 1:37.59.0 | 8. Ladislav Moc | TCH | 1:38.32.4 | 9. Alexander Oakley | CAn | 1:38.46.0 | 10.Eric Hall | GBR | 1:38.54.0 | 11.Ronald Crawford | AUS | 1:39.16.2 | 12.Henri Delerue | FRA | 1:39.37.6 | 13.George Hazle | SAF | 1:40.16.2 | 14.Lennart Carlsson | SWE | 1:40.25.0 | 15.Tommy Kristensen | DEN | 1:41.07.6 | 16.Johannes Koch | GER | 1:41.53.4 | 17.Louis Marquis | SUI | 1:41.59.6 | 18.Charles Sowa | LUX | 1:42.43.8 | 19.Ronald Zinn | USA | 1:42.47.0 | 20.Zora Singh | IND | 1:43.19. | 21.Stefano Serchinich | ITA | 1:43.58.6 | 22.Luigi De Rosso | ITA | 1:45.04.2 | 23.Robert Minim | USA | 1:45.09.0 | 24.Rudolph Haluza | USA | 1:45.11.0 | 25.Leo Rosschou Larsen | DEN | 1:46.35.8 | 26.Gianni Corsaro | ITA | 1:46.47.2 | 27.Kalifa Bahrouni | TUN | 1:47.09.6 | 28.Naoui Zlassi | TUN | 1:55.21.0 | -. Mohamed Ben Lazhar | TUN | DNF | -. Gabriel Reymond | SUI | DNF | -. Siegfried Lefanczik | GER | DNF | -. Kenneth Matthews | GBR | DNF | -. Anatoly Vediakov | URS | DNF | -. Gennady Solodov | URS | DNF | -. Tibor Balajcza | HUN | DNF | -. Ajit Singh | IND | DNF | -. E. Filipescu | ROM | DNS |
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| Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Roma. Capp.: 65,000. | -- competitors from -- nations. |
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