| Final 14:30 | time | | 1. Donald Thompson |  GBR | 4:25.30.0 | | 2. John Ljiunggren |  SWE | 4:25.47.0 | | 3. Abdon Pamich |  ITA | 4:27.55.4 | | 4. Aleksandr Stcherbina |  URS | 4:31.44.0 | | 5. Thomas Misson | GBR | 4:33.03.0 | | 6. Alexander Oakley |  CAN | 4:33.08.6 | | 7. Giuseppe Dordoni | ITA | 4:33.27.2 | | 8. Zora Singh |  IND | 4:37.44.6 | | 9. Anatoly Vediakov | URS | 4:39.57.6 | | 10.Antonio De Gaetano | ITA | 4:41.01.6 | | 11.Ladislav Moc |  TCH | 4:42.33.6 | | 12.George Hazle |  SAF | 4:43.18.8 | | 13.Max Weber |  GER | 4:44.47.4 | | 14.Svatopluk Sykora | TCH | 4:46.14.6 | | 15.Ajit Singh | IND | 4:47.28.4 | | 16.Horst Astroth | GER | 4:50.57.0 | | 17.Josef Dolezal | TCH | 4:51.18.6 | | 18.Juan Jose Ribas |  ESP | 4:51.20.0 | | 19.Ron Laird |  USA | 4:53.21.6 | | 20.Francis O'Reilly |  IRL | 4:54.40.0 | | 21.Charles Sowa |  LUX | 4:57.00.4 | | 22.Louis Marquis |  SUI | 5:00.13.0 | | 23.Bruce McDonald | USA | 5:00.47.6 | | 24.John Allen | USA | 5:03.15.2 | | 25.Alfred Leiser | SUI | 5:06.55.0 | | 26.Mohamed Ben Lazhar |  TUN | 5:07.57.4 | | 27.Rene Charriere | SUI | 5:09.00.8 | | 28.Jacques Arnoux |  FRA | 5:20.22.0 | | -. Naoui Zlassi | TUN | DNF | | -. Ake Soderlund | SWE | DNF | | -. Bela Dienesz |  HUN | DNF | | -. Norman Read |  NZL | DNF | | -. Erik Soderlund | SWE | DNF | | -. Noel Freeman |  AUS | DQ | | -. Ronald Crawford | AUS | DQ | | -. Guillermo Weller |  ARG | DQ | | -. Kurt Sakowski | GER | DQ | | -. Grigory Klimov | URS | | | -. Albert Johnson | GBR | | | -. K. Bahrouni | TUN | DNS | | -. S. Badulescu |  ROM | DNS |
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| | | Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Roma. Capp.: 65,000. | | -- competitors from -- nations. |
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