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Date: 3 September 1960 / 6 September 1960
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Herb Elliott | AUS | 3:35.6 |
| 2 | Michel Jazy | FRA | 3:38.4 |
| 3 | Istvan Rozsavolgyi | HUN | 3:39.2 |
| 4 | Dan Waern | SWE | 3:40.0 |
| 5 | Zoltan Vamos | ROU | 3:40.8 |
| 6 | Dyrol Burleson | USA | 3:40.9 |
| 7 | Michel Bernard | FRA | 3:41.5 |
| 8 | Jim Grelle | USA | 3:45.0 |
| 9 | Arne Hamarsland | NOR | 3:45.0 |
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| 10 | Terence Sullivan | ZIM | 3:42.8 |
| 11 | Yevgeny Momotkov | URS | 3:43.6 |
| 12 | Adolf Schwarte | GER | 3:45.3 |
| 13 | Lajos Kovacs | HUN | 3:46.0 |
| 14 | Brian Kent-Smith | GBR | 3:46.1 |
| 15 | Olavi Salonen | FIN | 3:46.4 |
| 16 | Michael Wiggs | GBR | 3:46.5 |
| 17 | Albert Thomas | AUS | 3:46.8 |
| 17 | Mervyn Lincoln | AUS | 3:46.8 |
| 19 | Siegfried Valentin | GER | 3:46.9 |
| 20 | Rudolf Klaban | AUT | 3:47.1 |
| 20 | Svavar Markusson | ISL | 3:47.1 |
| 22 | Alfredo Rizzo | ITA | 3:47.3 |
| 23 | Andrei Barabas | ROU | 3:47.4 |
| 23 | Arthur Hannemann | GER | 3:47.4 |
| 25 | Laurence Reed | GBR | 3:47.9 |
| 25 | Muharrem Dalkilic | TUR | 3:47.9 |
| 27 | Evangelos Depastas | GRE | 3:48.4 |
| 28 | Peter Close | USA | 3:50.2 |
| 29 | Olavi Vuorisalo | FIN | 3:52.2 |
| 30 | Joseph Mullins | CAN | 3:53.1 |
| 31 | Tomas Ballestin | ESP | 3:57.3 |
| 32 | Mohamed Gouider | TUN | 3:58.4 |
| 33 | Stefan Lewandowski | POL | 3:59.3 |
| 34 | Yair Panthilat | ISR | 3:59.8 |
| 35 | Kassim Mukhtar | IRQ | 4:00.1 |
| 36 | Dhira Phiphobmongkol | THA | 4:24.4 |
| Did not start | |||
| Zbigniew Orywal | POL | ||
| Peter Parsch | HUN | ||
| Egon Oehri | LIE | ||