Final 15:20 | time | 1. Kenneth Joseph Matthews | GBR | 1:29:34.0 | 2. Dieter Lindner | GER | 1:31:13.2 | 3. Vladimir Golubnichiy | URS | 1:31:59.4 | 4. Noel Frederick Freeman | AUS | 1:32:06.8 | 5. Gennady Solodov | URS | 1:32:33.0 | 6. Ronald Lloyd Zinn | USA | 1:32:43.0 | 7. Boris Khrolovich | URS | 1:32:45.4 | 8. John William Edgington | GBR | 1:32:46.0 | 9. Gerhard Sperling | GER | 1:33:15.8 | 10.John Chester Paddick | GBR | 1:33:28.4 | 11.Alexander Bilek | TCH | 1:33:45.0 | 12.Hans-Georg Reimann | GER | 1:34:51.0 | 13.Henri Delerue | FRA | 1:34:58.0 | 14.Tommy Kristensen | DEN | 1:35:30.0 | 15.Istvan Gori | HUN | 1:35:38.0 | 16.Charles Sowa | LUX | 1:36:16.0 | 17.John Eggert Mortland | USA | 1:36:35.0 | 18.Ake Wilhelm Soderlund | SWE | 1:36:53.0 | 19.John Artur Ljunggren | SWE | 1:37:03.0 | 20.Roine Sven T. Karlsson | SWE | 1:37:07.0 | 21.Antal Kiss | HUN | 1:38:27.0 | 22.Ronald John Crawford | AUS | 1:38:47.0 | 23.Noboru Ishiguro | JPN | 1:39:40.0 | 24.Chedli El Marghni | TUN | 1:41:11.0 | 25.Kiue Kuribayashi | JPN | 1:43:07.0 | 26.Mieczyslaw Rutyna | POL | 1:48:41.0 |
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No mark | Team | | -. Robert Charles Gardiner | AUS | DNF | -. Yasuo Naito | JPN | DQ | -. Alex Harold Oakley | CAN | DQ | -. Ronald Owen Laird | USA | DQ | -. Elias Baruh | ROM | DNS | -. Naceur Ben Messaoud | TUN | DNS | -. Andrei Savescu | ROM | DNS | -. Hassine Belkhodja | TUN | DNS | -. Istvan Havasi | HUN | DNS |
| Venue: Olympic Stadium, Tokyo. Capp.: 57,363 (48,000 seats). | -- competitors from -- nations. |
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