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Date: 5 August 1948 / 6 August 1948 / 7 August 1948
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | James McLane | USA | 19:18.5 |
| 2 | John Marshall | AUS | 19:31.3 |
| 3 | Gyorgy Mitro | HUN | 19:43.2 |
| 4 | Gyorgy Csordas | HUN | 19:54.2 |
| 5 | Marjan Stipetic | YUG | 20:10.7 |
| 6 | Forbes Norris | USA | 20:18.8 |
| 7 | Donald Bland | GBR | 20:19.8 |
| 8 | William Heusner | USA | 20:45.4 |
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| 9 | Joseph Bernardo | FRA | 20:25.5 |
| 10 | Ferenc Voros | HUN | 20:31.4 |
| 11 | Federico Perez | URU | 20:32.6 |
| 12 | Miroslav Bartusek | TCH | 20:32.9 |
| 13 | Luis Gonzalez | COL | 20:41.6 |
| 14 | Rolf Egon | BRA | 20:44.6 |
| 15 | Jack Hale | GBR | |
| 15 | Per-Olof Ostrand | SWE | |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Donald Johnston | RSA | 20:41.8 |
| 18 | John Wardrop | GBR | 20:43.0 |
| 19 | Ramon Bravo | MEX | 20:45.5 |
| 20 | Luis Child | COL | 20:47.0 |
| 21 | Angel Maldonado | MEX | 20:47.2 |
| 22 | Rene Cornu | FRA | 21:01.6 |
| 23 | Sambiao Basanung | PHI | 21:05.9 |
| 24 | Isidoro Martinez | ESP | 21:13.7 |
| 25 | Cesar Pineda | MEX | 21:15.8 |
| 26 | Alejandro Febrero | ESP | 21:15.9 |
| 27 | Adolfo Mancuso | ARG | 21:16.7 |
| 28 | Ivan Ilic | YUG | 21:17.0 |
| 29 | Joseph Reynders | BEL | 21:23.1 |
| 30 | Franklin Gibson | CAN | 21:25.6 |
| 31 | Juan Garay | ARG | 21:33.2 |
| 32 | Jesus Dominguez | ESP | 21:33.5 |
| 33 | Garrick Agnew | AUS | 21:40.1 |
| 34 | Ivan Puhar | YUG | 21:45.1 |
| 35 | Derek Oatway | BER | 21:55.1 |
| 36 | Bimal Chandra | IND | 22:52.9 |
| 37 | Philip Tribley | BER | 22:56.6 |
| 38 | Allen Gilchrist | CAN | 23:00.6 |
| 39 | Anwar Chaudhry | PAK | 25:37.4 |