| Final | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Jean Boiteux | FRA | 4:30.7 | 7. 1. | | 2. Ford Konno | USA | 4:31.3 | 12.3. | | 3. Per-Olof Östrand | SWE | 4:35.2 | 1. 2. | | 4. Peter Duncan | SAF | 4:37.9 | 5. 5. | | 5. Jack Wardrop | GBR | 4:39.9 | 4. 4. | | 6. Wayne Moore | USA | 4:40.1 | 2. 6. | | 7. Jimmy McLane | USA | 4:40.3 | 10.7. | | 8. Hironoshin Furuhashi | JPN | 4:42.1 | 3. 8. |
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| Semi 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Jean Boiteux | FRA | 4:33.1 | 1. | | 2. Per-Olof Östrand | SWE | 4:33.6 | 2. | | 3. Jack Wardrop | GBR | 4:41.1 | 4. | | 4. Jimmy McLane | USA | 4:42.2 | 7. | | 5. Murray Johnston | SAF | 4:45.5 | 10. | | 6. Godfryd Gremlowski | POL | 4:47.4 | 13. | | 7. Yoshio Tanaka | JPN | 4:48.0 | 14. | | 8. Joris Tjebbes | NED | 5:01.9 | 21. |
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| Semi 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Wayne Moore | USA | 4:42.0 | 6. | | 2. Yasuo Tanaka | JPN | 4:44.9 | 9. | | 3. Gerry McNamee | CAN | 4:46.7 | 12. | | 4. John Marshall | AUS | 4:50.3 | 15. | | 5. Dennis Ford | SAF | 4:53.6 | 17. | | 6. Jo Bernardo | FRA | 4:56.0 | 19. |
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| Semi 3 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Ford Konno | USA | 4:38.6 | 3. | | 2. Peter Duncan | SAF | 4:41.7 | 5. | | 3. Hironoshin Furuhashi | JPN | 4:44.2 | 8. | | 4. Tetsuo Okamoto | BRA | 4:46.2 | 11. | | 5. Allen Gilchrist | CAN | 4:52.4 | 16. | | 6. Gusztáv Kettesi | HUN | 4:54.2 | 18. | | 7. Enrique Granados | ESP | 4:56.2 | 20. |
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| Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Jack Wardrop | GBR | 4:43.7 | 4. | | 2. Yasuo Tanaka | JPN | 4:44.3 | 6. | | 3. Godfryd Gremlowski | POL | 4:49.0 | 13. | | 4. Jo Bernardo | FRA | 4:53.5 | 18. | | 5. Pentti Ikonen | FIN | 4:55.7 | 26. | | 6. Geoffrey Marks | SLA | 5:15.2 | 43. | | 7. Georg Mascetti | SAR | 5:31.2 | 49. |
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| Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Hironoshin Furuhashi | JPN | 4:43.3 | 3. | | 2. Viktor Drobinsky | URS | 4:56.5 | 28. | | 3. Neo Chwee Kok | SIN | 4:57.5 | 30. | | 4. Eduardo Priggione | URU | 5:12.1 | 41. | | 5. Walter Bardgett | BER | 5:18.0 | 46. | | 6. Francisco Monteiro | HKG | 5:21.6 | 47. |
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| Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Jimmy McLane | USA | 4:46.5 | 10. | | 2. Dennis Ford | SAF | 4:50.2 | 14. | | 3. Allen Gilchrist | CAN | 4:52.5 | 16. | | 4. Enrique Granados | ESP | 4:53.7 | 20. | | 5. Federico Zwanck | ARG | 4:56.4 | 27. | | 6. Ricardo Esperard | BRA | 5:09.5 | 39. | | 7. Walter Schneider | SUI | 5:27.3 | 48. |
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| Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Jean Boiteux | FRA | 4:45.1 | 7. | | 2. Murray Johnston | SAF | 4:52.3 | 15. | | 3. Anatoly Raznochintsev | URS | 4:56.8 | 29. | | 4. Peter Steinwender | AUT | 5:03.6 | 31. | | 5. Peter Head | GBR | 5:04.2 | 32. | | 6. Cheung Kin Man | HKG | 5:11.4 | 40. |
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| Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. György Csordás | HUN | 4:45.7 | 8. | | 2. Ford Konno | USA | 4:47.9 | 12. | | 3. Joris Tjebbes | NED | 4:54.4 | 22. | | 4. Carlos Alberto Bonacich | ARG | 5:06.3 | 34. | | 5. Per Olsen | NOR | 5:08.6 | 36. | | 6. Pentti Paatsalo | FIN | 5:09.3 | 38. | | 7. Robert Cook | BER | 5:15.4 | 44. |
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| Heat 6 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Per-Olof Östrand | SWE | 4:38.6 | 1. | | 2. Gusztáv Kettesi | HUN | 4:53.0 | 17. | | 3. Garrick Agnew | AUS | 4:55.5 | 25. | | 4. Roar Woldum | NOR | 5:14.4 | 42. | | 5. Einari Aalto | FIN | 5:15.8 | 45. |
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| Heat 7 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Tetsuo Okamoto | BRA | 4:46.1 | 9. | | 2. John Marshall | AUS | 4:46.8 | 11. | | 3. Gerry McNamee | CAN | 4:53.5 | 19. | | 4. Alfredo Yantorno | ARG | 4:54.5 | 23. | | 5. Ronald Burns | GBR | 4:55.2 | 24. | | 6. Nguyễn Văn Phan | VIE | 5:36.5 | 50. |
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| Heat 8 | Team | time | Rk. | | 1. Wayne Moore | USA | 4:43.2 | 2. | | 2. Peter Duncan | SAF | 4:44.0 | 5. | | 3. Yoshio Tanaka | JPN | 4:54.0 | 21. | | 4. Angelo Romani | ITA | 5:05.1 | 33. | | 5. René Million | FRA | 5:07.0 | 35. | | 6. Fernando Madeira | POR | 5:08.6 | 37. | | 7. Muhammad Ramzan | PAK | 5:45.7 | 51. |
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