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Date: 27 July 1952
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Emil Zatopek | TCH | 2:23:03.2 |
| 2 | Reinaldo Gorno | ARG | 2:25:35.0 |
| 3 | Gustaf Jansson | SWE | 2:26:07.0 |
| 4 | Choi Yoon-Chil | KOR | 2:26:36.0 |
| 5 | Veikko Karvonen | FIN | 2:26:41.8 |
| 6 | Delfo Cabrera | ARG | 2:26:42.4 |
| 7 | Jozsef Dobronyi | HUN | 2:28:04.8 |
| 8 | Erkki Puolakka | FIN | 2:29:35.0 |
| 9 | Geoff Iden | GBR | 2:30:42.0 |
| 10 | Wally Hayward | RSA | 2:31:50.2 |
| 11 | Thomas Sidney Luyt | RSA | 2:32:41.0 |
| 12 | Gustaf Ostling | SWE | 2:32:48.4 |
| 13 | Victor Drygall | USA | 2:32:52.4 |
| 15 | Luis Celedon | CHI | 2:33:45.8 |
| 15 | Adrien van de Zande | NED | 2:33:50.0 |
| 16 | Victor Olsen | NOR | 2:33:58.4 |
| 17 | Mikko Hietanen | FIN | 2:34:01.0 |
| 18 | Charles DeWachtere | BEL | 2:34:32.0 |
| 19 | William Keith | RSA | 2:34:38.0 |
| 20 | Yakov Moskachenkov | URS | 2:34:43.8 |
| 21 | Mihaly Esztergomi | HUN | 2:35:10.0 |
| 22 | Doroteo Flores | GUA | 2:35:40.0 |
| 23 | Jean Simonet | BEL | 2:35:43.0 |
| 24 | Jacob Kjersem | NOR | 2:36:14.0 |
| 25 | Katsuo Nishida | JPN | 2:36:19.0 |
| 26 | Keizo Yamada | JPN | 2:38:11.2 |
| 27 | Feodisiy Vanin | URS | 2:38:22.0 |
| 28 | Grigory Suchkov | URS | 2:38:28.8 |
| 29 | Henry Norrstrom | SWE | 2:38:57.4 |
| 30 | Dieter Engelhardt | GER | 2:39:37.2 |
| 31 | Cristea Dinu | ROU | 2:39:42.2 |
| 32 | Jean Leblond | BEL | 2:40:37.0 |
| 33 | Chung Sik-Choi | KOR | 2:41:23.0 |
| 34 | John Systad | NOR | 2:41:29.8 |
| 35 | Jaroslav Sourek | TCH | 2:41:40.4 |
| 36 | Tom Jones | USA | 2:42:50.0 |
| 37 | Robert Prentice | AUS | 2:43:13.4 |
| 38 | Muhamad Havlidar Aslam | PAK | 2:43:38.2 |
| 39 | Adolf Gruber | AUT | 2:45:02.0 |
| 40 | Paul Collins | CAN | 2:48:58.0 |
| 41 | Vasile Teodosiu | ROU | 2:46:00.8 |
| 42 | Erik Simonsen | DEN | 2:46:41.4 |
| 43 | Ludwig Warnemunde | GER | 2:50:00.0 |
| 44 | Ted Corbitt | USA | 2:51:09.0 |
| 45 | Claud Smeal | AUS | 2:52:23.0 |
| 46 | Asfo Bussotti | ITA | 2:52:55.0 |
| 47 | Winand Osinski | POL | 2:54:38.2 |
| 48 | Svend Sorensen | DEN | 2:55:21.0 |
| 49 | Joseph West | IRL | 2:56:22.8 |
| 50 | Rudolf Morgenthaler | SUI | 2:56:33.0 |
| 51 | Hussan Abdel Fattah | EGY | 2:56:56.0 |
| 52 | Surat Singh Mathur | IND | 2:58:09.2 |
| 53 | Artidoro Berti | ITA | 2:58:36.2 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Ahmet Aytar | TUR | ||
| Yoshitaka Uchikawa | JPN | ||
| Franjo Krajcar | YUG | ||
| Chong Oh-Huong | KOR | ||
| Muhamad Benaras | PAK | ||
| Lionel Billas | FRA | ||
| Constantin Radu | ROU | ||
| Corsino Fernandez | ARG | ||
| Raul Inostroza | CHI | ||
| Luis Velasquez | GUA | ||
| Stan Cox | GBR | ||
| Jim Peters | GBR | ||
| Egilberto Martufi | ITA | ||