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Date: 2 August 1948 / 3 August 1948 / 4 August 1948
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | William Smith | USA | 4:41.0 |
| 2 | James McLane | USA | 4:43.4 |
| 3 | John Marshall | AUS | 4:47.7 |
| 4 | Geza Kadas | HUN | 4:49.4 |
| 5 | Gyorgy Mitro | HUN | 4:49.9 |
| 6 | Alexandre Jany | FRA | 4:51.4 |
| 7 | Jack Hale | GBR | 4:55.9 |
| 8 | Alfredo Yantorno | ARG | 4:58.7 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | William Heusner | USA | 4:57.4 |
| 10 | Marjan Stipetic | YUG | 4:58.6 |
| 11 | Miroslav Bartusek | TCH | 4:58.7 |
| 11 | Ivan Puhar | YUG | 4:58.7 |
| 13 | Branko Vidovic | YUG | 4:59.4 |
| 14 | Donald Johnston | RSA | 4:59.5 |
| 15 | Imre Nyeki | HUN | |
| 15 | Per-Olof Ostrand | SWE | |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Luis Gonzalez | COL | 5:02.1 |
| 18 | Frank Botham | GBR | 5:03.4 |
| 19 | Joseph Bernardo | FRA | 5:03.8 |
| 20 | Federico Perez | URU | 5:04.7 |
| 21 | Rene Cornu | FRA | 5:05.2 |
| 22 | Jose Duranona | ARG | 5:05.8 |
| 23 | Garrick Agnew | AUS | 5:06.1 |
| 24 | Luis Child | COL | 5:08.5 |
| 25 | Isidoro Martinez | ESP | 5:10.0 |
| 26 | Juan Garay | ARG | 5:10.4 |
| 27 | Franklin Gibson | CAN | 5:13.4 |
| 28 | Isidoro Perez | ESP | 5:16.1 |
| 29 | Ari Guðmundsson | ISL | 5:16.2 |
| 30 | Alejandro Febrero | ESP | 5:16.9 |
| 31 | Thomas Holt | GBR | 5:20.7 |
| 32 | Derek Oatway | BER | 5:20.9 |
| 33 | Allen Gilchrist | CAN | 5:21.5 |
| 33 | Sambiao Basanung | PHI | 5:21.5 |
| 35 | Walter Schneider | SUI | 5:25.5 |
| 36 | Walter Bardgett | BER | 5:37.2 |
| 37 | Robert Cook | BER | 5:37.9 |
| 38 | Bimal Chandra | IND | 5:38.6 |
| 39 | Jack Hakim | EGY | 5:40.3 |
| 40 | Anwar Chaudhry | PAK | 6:17.4 |
| 41 | Karam Ali Sultan | PAK | 7:16.9 |