| Final 15:00 | | time | | | 1. Stanley Vickers |  Great Britain | 1:33:09.0 | CR | | 2. Leonid Spirin |  Soviet Union | 1:35:04.2 | | | 3. Lennart Back |  Sweden | 1:35:22.2 | | | 4. Lennart Carlsson | Sweden | 1:35:38.4 | | | 5. Louis Marquis |  Switzerland | 1:35:59.4 | | | 6. Giuseppe Dordoni |  Italy | 1:36:16.2 | | | 7. Siegfried Lefanczik |  East Germany | 1:39:18.6 | | | 8. Gabriel Reymond | Switzerland | 1:39:18.6 | | | 9. Franciszek Szyszka |  Poland | 1:39:44.0 | | | 10.Georges Attane |  France | 1:40:34.6 | | | 11.Albert Johnson | Great Britain | 1:41:54.4 | | | 12.Jerzy Hausleber | Poland | 1:43:53.2 | | | -. Dieter Lindner | East Germany | DQ | | | -. Bruno Junk | Soviet Union | DQ | |
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| History Men 20km Walk | | World and European Record: Michal Lavrov, Soviet Union 1:27:38.2 Moscow, Soviet Union 7 July 1957 | | Championship Record (10km): Dolezal, Czechoslovakia 45:01.8 - 1954 |
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