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Date: 29 November 1956 / 1 December 1956
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Ron Delany | IRL | 3:41.2 |
| 2 | Klaus Richtzenhain | GER | 3:42.0 |
| 3 | John Landy | AUS | 3:42.0 |
| 4 | Laszlo Tabori | HUN | 3:42.4 |
| 5 | Brian Hewson | GBR | 3:42.6 |
| 6 | Stanislav Jungwirth | TCH | 3:42.6 |
| 7 | Neville Scott | NZL | 3:42.8 |
| 8 | Ian Boyd | GBR | 3:43.0 |
| 9 | Kenneth Wood | GBR | |
| 10 | Gunnar Nielsen | DEN | |
| 11 | Murray Halberg | NZL | |
| 12 | Mervyn Lincoln | AUS | |
| Heats | |||
| 13 | Dan Waern | SWE | 3:48.8 |
| 14 | Ingvar Ericsson | SWE | 3:49.0 |
| 15 | Yevgeny Sokolov | URS | 3:49.2 |
| 16 | Istvan Rozsavolgyi | HUN | 3:49.4 |
| 17 | Andre Ballieux | BEL | 3:49.8 |
| 18 | Michel Jazy | FRA | 3:50.0 |
| 18 | Theodore Wheeler | USA | 3:50.0 |
| 18 | Piatras-Ionas Pipyne | URS | 3:50.0 |
| 18 | Josef Barthel | LUX | 3:50.0 |
| 22 | Mamo Wolde | ETH | 3:51.0 |
| 23 | Evangelos Depastas | GRE | 3:52.0 |
| 23 | Gianfranco Baraldi | ITA | 3:52.0 |
| 25 | Sergey Sukhanov | URS | 3:53.0 |
| 26 | Jerome Walters | USA | 3:55.0 |
| 26 | Olavi Salsola | FIN | 3:55.0 |
| 28 | Georgios Papavasiliou | GRE | 3:57.0 |
| 29 | Eduardo Fontecilla | CHI | 3:58.0 |
| 29 | Gunther Dohrow | GER | 3:58.0 |
| 29 | Ramon Sandoval | CHI | 3:58.0 |
| 32 | Donald Bowden | USA | 4:00.0 |
| 33 | Emile Leva | BEL | 4:06.0 |
| 34 | Sang Ok-Sim | KOR | 4:09.0 |
| 35 | Jan Mahmud | PAK | 4:15.0 |
| 36 | Somnuek Srisombati | THA | 4:30.0 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Siegfried Herrmmann | GER | ||