Final | | time | | 1. Henryk Szordykowski | Poland | 3:48.8 | | 2. Frank Murphy | Ireland | 3:49.0 | | 3. Volodymyr Panteley | Soviet Union | 3:49.8 | | 4. Pierre Toussaint | France | 3:50.2 | | 5. Ulf Högberg | Sweden | 3:50.7 | | 6. Jerzy Maluśki | Poland | 3:50.7 | | 7. Edgard Salvé | Belgium | 3:54.5 | | 8. Knut Brustad | Norway | 4:00.7 | |
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| First 2 from each Heat advanced to Final. |
Heat 1 | | time | | 1. Henryk Szordykowski | Poland | 3:47.9 | Q | 2. Edgard Salvé | Belgium | 3:48.2 | Q | 3. Frank Murphy | Ireland | 3:48.4 | Q | 4. Knut Brustad | Norway | 3:48.4 | Q | 5. Miodrag Vukomanović | Yugoslavia | 3:49.8 | | 6. Mehmet Tümkan | Turkey | 3:51.2 | | 7. Heinrich Händlhuber | Austria | 3:51.6 | |
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Heat 2 | | time | | 1. Volodymyr Panteley | Soviet Union | 3:52.6 | Q | 2. Pierre Toussaint | France | 3:52.6 | Q | 3. Jerzy Maluśki | Poland | 3:52.7 | Q | 4. Ulf Högberg | Sweden | 3:52.8 | Q | 5. Ivan Kováč | Czechoslovakia | 3:52.9 | | 6. Dimko Deribeyev | Bulgaria | 3:54.2 | | 7. Walter Wilkinson | Great Britain | 3:55.4 | |
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