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Date: 26 August 1960 / 29 August 1960 / 30 August 1960
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | William Mulliken | USA | 2:37.4 |
| 2 | Yoshihiko Ohsaki | JPN | 2:38.0 |
| 3 | Wieger Mensonides | NED | 2:39.7 |
| 4 | Egon Henninger | GER | 2:40.1 |
| 5 | Roberto Lazzari | ITA | 2:40.1 |
| 6 | Terry Gathercole | AUS | 2:40.2 |
| 7 | Andrzej Klopotowski | POL | 2:41.2 |
| 8 | Paul Hait | USA | 2:41.4 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Arkadiy Golovchenko | URS | 2:40.9 |
| 10 | Georgy Prokopenko | URS | 2:41.0 |
| 11 | Mihai Mitrofan | ROU | 2:41.6 |
| 12 | Christopher Walkden | GBR | 2:41.7 |
| 13 | Gilbert Desmit | BEL | 2:41.8 |
| 14 | Isao Masuda | JPN | 2:42.3 |
| 15 | Gyorgy Kunsagi | HUN | 2:42.4 |
| 16 | Djordje Perisic | YUG | 2:44.2 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Vitezslav Svozil | TCH | 2:42.4 |
| 18 | Tommie Lindstrom | SWE | 2:42.8 |
| 19 | Pekka Lairola | FIN | 2:43.3 |
| 20 | William Burton | AUS | 2:43.9 |
| 21 | Konrad Enke | GER | 2:44.6 |
| 22 | Gerard Rowlinson | GBR | 2:45.0 |
| 23 | Berndt Nilsson | SWE | 2:45.7 |
| 24 | Richard Audoly | FRA | 2:46.5 |
| 25 | Steve Rabinovitch | CAN | 2:47.2 |
| 26 | Farid Zablith Filho | BRA | 2:48.6 |
| 27 | Engin Unal | TUR | 2:49.0 |
| 28 | Guillermo Alsina | ESP | 2:51.4 |
| 29 | Gershon Shefa | ISR | 2:51.7 |
| 30 | Lee Laurel | TPE | 2:52.8 |
| 31 | Emilio Diaz | ESP | 2:52.9 |
| 32 | Ke Nhon Troung | VIE | 2:53.0 |
| 33 | Antonio Saloso | PHI | 2:53.3 |
| 34 | Pierpaolo Spangaro | ITA | 2:53.8 |
| 35 | Roland Boullanger | FRA | 2:54.4 |
| 36 | Nicolas Zacharopoulos | GRE | 2:56.4 |
| 37 | Werner Risi | SUI | 2:56.6 |
| 38 | Nicolas Wildhaber | SUI | 2:58.7 |
| 39 | Tony Williams | SRI | 2:59.8 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Ernest Schweitzer | LUX | ||
| Gerald Brauner | AUT | ||
| Laszlo Felkai | HUN | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Adrian Oanta | ROU | ||
| Otman Siregar | INA | ||