Final | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Bob Windle | AUS | 17:01.7 | 1. | 2. John Nelson | USA | 17:03.0 | 2. | 3. Allan Wood | AUS | 17:07.7 | 3. | 4. William Farley | USA | 17:18.2 | 7. | 5. Russell Phegan | AUS | 17:22.4 | 6. | 6. Sueaki Sasaki | JPN | 17:25.3 | 5. | 7. Roy Saari | USA | 17:29.2 | 4. | 8. Katona József | HUN | 17:30.8 | 8. |
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Heat 1 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Bob Windle | AUS | 17:15.9 | 1. | 2. Katona József | HUN | 17:33.5 | 8. | 3. Kazuyuki Iwamoto | JPN | 17:52.7 | 13. | 4. Holger Kirschke | GER | 18:01.6 | 15. | 5. Celestino Pérez | PUR | 18:07.2 | 17. | 6. Tan Thuan Heng | MAS | 18:24.2 | 23. | 7. Esa Lepola | FIN | 18:33.4 | 27. |
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Heat 2 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Roy Saari | USA | 17:27.0 | 4. | 2. Sueaki Sasaki | JPN | 17:28.8 | 5. | 3. John Gilchrist | CAN | 17:42.0 | 12. | 4. Tin Maung Ni | BUR | 18:09.5 | 20. | 5. Alan Durrett | ZAM | 18:24.9 | 24. | 6. Slobodan Dijaković | YUG | 18:31.2 | 25. | 7. Walter Ledgard, Jr. | PER | 19:10.3 | 29. |
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Heat 3 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. John Nelson | USA | 17:22.4 | 2. | 2. Russell Phegan | AUS | 17:28.9 | 6. | 3. Guillermo Echevarría | MEX | 17:35.0 | 9. | 4. Miguel Torres | ESP | 17:36.0 | 10. | 5. Heinz Junga | GER | 18:08.7 | 19. | 6. Petr Lohnický | TCH | 18:18.4 | 22. | 7. Eliot Chenaux | PUR | 18:33.1 | 26. |
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Heat 4 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. Allan Wood | AUS | 17:26.3 | 3. | 2. Veljko Rogošić | YUG | 18:05.5 | 16. | 3. John Thurley | GBR | 18:12.3 | 21. | 4. Ricardo Morello | ARG | 18:46.5 | 28. | 5. Pano Capéronis | SUI | 19:10.5 | 30. | 6. Robert Loh | HKG | 19:28.6 | 31. |
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Heat 5 | Team | time | Rk. | 1. William Farley | USA | 17:30.5 | 7. | 2. Satoru Nakano | JPN | 17:40.4 | 11. | 3. Julio Arango | COL | 17:59.1 | 14. | 4. Alfredo Guzmán | MEX | 18:07.4 | 18. |
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