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Date: 5 August 1932
Heats
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | William Carr | USA | 46.2 |
| 2 | Benjamin Eastman | USA | 46.5 |
| 3 | Alexander Wilson | CAN | 47.4 |
| 4 | William Walters | RSA | 48.2 |
| 5 | James Gordon | USA | 48.2 |
| 6 | George Golding | AUS | 48.8 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 7 | Borje Strandvall | FIN | 48.6 |
| 7 | Godfrey Rampling | GBR | 48.0 |
| 9 | Felix Rinner | AUT | 48.8 |
| 9 | Crew Stoneley | GBR | |
| 11 | James Ball | CAN | |
| 11 | Joachim Buchner | GER | 49.2 |
| Quarter-finals | |||
| 13 | Raymond Lewis | CAN | 49.1 |
| 13 | Hjalmar Johannesen | NOR | 49.4 |
| 13 | Domingos Puglisi | BRA | 50.1 |
| 16 | Adolf Metzner | GER | 49.2 |
| 16 | Seikan Oki | JPN | |
| 18 | Iwao Masuda | JPN | |
| Heats | |||
| 19 | Johan "Kell" Areskoug | SWE | 50.7 |
| 19 | Carlos de Anda | MEX | 49.8 |
| 19 | Sten Pettersson | SWE | 50.2 |
| 19 | Walter Nehb | GER | 49.4 |
| 19 | Stuart Black | NZL | 49.9 |
| 19 | Ricardo Arguello | MEX | 50.9 |
| 25 | Khristos Mantikas | GRE | 49.6 |
| 25 | Seiken Cho | JPN | 50.0 |
| 25 | Manuel Alvarez | MEX | 49.9 |