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Date: 8 August 1932 / 9 August 1932 / 10 August 1932
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Clarence "Buster" Crabbe | USA | 4:48.4 |
| 2 | Jean Taris | FRA | 4:48.5 |
| 3 | Tsutomu Oyokota | JPN | 4:52.3 |
| 4 | Takashi Yokoyama | JPN | 4:52.5 |
| 5 | Noboru Sugimoto | JPN | 4:56.1 |
| 6 | Andrew "Boy" Charlton | AUS | 4:58.6 |
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| 7 | James Gilhula | USA | 4:55.4 |
| 8 | Noel Phillip Ryan | AUS | 4:59.7 |
| 9 | Paolo Costoli | ITA | 5:06.0 |
| 10 | Giuseppe Perentin | ITA | 5:10.5 |
| 11 | Walter Spence | CAN | 5:15.6 |
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| 12 | Norman Wainwright | GBR | 5:12.0 |
| 13 | Robert Leivers | GBR | 5:14.6 |
| 14 | George Larson | CAN | 5:20.1 |
| 15 | George Burrows | CAN | 5:28.9 |
| 16 | Ignacio Gutierrez | MEX | 5:29.1 |
| 17 | Juljus Kanassy | HUN | 5:40.8 |
| 18 | Manuel Villegas | MEX | 5:54.2 |
| 19 | Nalin Malik | IND | 5:59.0 |