| 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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