| No Final Heat. Swimmers were put in 3 heats. Best were included in Heat 3. |
| 1. Alexandre Jany |  France | 4:35.2 | WR | | 5 | 1. | | 2. Gyorgy Mitro |  Hungary | 4:50.4 | NR | +15.2s | 4 | 2. | | 3. Miloslav Bartusek |  Czechoslovakia | 4:51.4 | | +16.2s | 6 | 3. | | 4. Geza Kadas | Hungary | 4:51.5 | | +16.3s | 2 | 4. | | 5. Per-Olof Ostrand |  Sweden | 4:53.4 | | +18.2s | 3 | 5. | | 7. Jack Hale |  Great Britain | 5:01.5 | | +26.3s | 7 | 6. | | 10.Olle Johansson | Sweden | 5:03.2 | 2. | +28.0s | 1 | 7. |
| 8. Roy Botham | Great Britain | 5:02.2 | 1. | +27.0s | 6 | 1. | | 11.Rinus van Daatselaar |  Netherlands | 5:04.0 | 2. | +28.8s | 1 | 2. | | 12.J. Landkamer | Czechoslovakia | 5:04.3 | 3. | +29.1s | 4 | 3. | | 13.Bob Sindorf | Netherlands | 5:09.2 | 4. | +34.0s | 3 | 4. | | 15.Vitorio Manetti |  Italy | 5:12.5 | 5. | +37.3s | 2 | 5. | | 17.Georges Vallerey | France | 5:21.0 | 6. | +45.8s | 5 | 6. |
| 6. Janko Puchar |  Yugoslavia | 5:01.4 | 1. | +26.2s | 2 | 1. | | 9. Zmaj Defillipis | Yugoslavia | 5:02.9 | 2. | +27.7s | 1 | 2. | | 14.Gaetano Matena | Italy | 5:09.8 | 3. | +34.6s | 6 | 3. | | 16.Bror Labart |  Finland | 5:18.0 | 4. | +34.0s | 5 | 4. | | -. Rikhardos Broussalis |  Greece | | | | 3 | | | -. Luis Lopez da Conceicao |  Portugal | | | | 4 | | | -. Jose da Silva | Portugal | | | | 7 | |
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