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Heat 1
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Karl-Friedrich Haas | GER | 47.5 |
| 2 | Leslie Lewis | GBR | 47.8 |
| 3 | Edwin Carr | AUS | 48.0 |
| 4 | Zoltan Adamik | HUN | 48.5 |
| 5 | Evelio Planas | CUB | 49.4 |
| 6 | Abdul Rehman | PAK | 51.2 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Ardalion Ignatyev | URS | 48.1 |
| 2 | Rolf Back | FIN | 48.5 |
| 3 | Rubert Bloch | AUT | 49.6 |
| 4 | Gerard Rasquin | LUX | 50.0 |
| 5 | John Anderton | RSA | 50.3 |
| 6 | Pongamat Amatayakul | THA | 52.9 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Arthur Wint | JAM | 47.3 |
| 2 | John Carroll | CAN | 48.0 |
| 3 | Egon Solymossy | HUN | 49.2 |
| 4 | Josef Steger | SUI | 49.2 |
| 5 | Jaakko Suikkari | FIN | 50.9 |
| 6 | Aurang Zeb | PAK | 51.0 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt | SWE | 48.4 |
| 2 | Terence Higgins | GBR | 48.7 |
| 3 | Junkichi Matoba | JPN | 49.4 |
| 4 | Vasilios Sillis | GRE | 49.7 |
| 5 | Dosan Acarbay | TUR | 50.7 |
| 6 | Ivan Jacob | IND | 51.3 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Herb McKenley | JAM | 48.0 |
| 2 | Louis van Biljon | RSA | 48.1 |
| 3 | Roger Moens | BEL | 48.6 |
| 4 | Ferenc Banhalmi | HUN | 49.4 |
| 5 | Aryeh Gill-Glick | ISR | 50.2 |
| 6 | Ernst von Gunten | SUI | 50.7 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Tage Ekfeldt | SWE | ||
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Malvin Whitfield | USA | 48.6 |
| 2 | Guillermo Gutierrez | VEN | 48.7 |
| 3 | Gianni Rocca | ITA | 49.2 |
| 4 | Gosta Brannstrom | SWE | 50.1 |
| 5 | Javier Souza | MEX | 50.3 |
| 6 | Emin Doybak | TUR | 51.1 |
| 7 | Fernando Casimiro | POR | 52.2 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Jacques Degats | FRA | 48.5 |
| 2 | Morris Curotta | AUS | 48.7 |
| 3 | Vincenzo Lombardo | ITA | 49.3 |
| 4 | Rudolf Haidegger | AUT | 49.9 |
| 5 | Albert Lowagie | BEL | 50.1 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Hans Geister | GER | 47.9 |
| 2 | Yves Camus | FRA | 48.0 |
| 3 | Milan Filo | TCH | 48.7 |
| 4 | Gudmundur Larusson | ISL | 49.7 |
| 5 | Sompop Svadanandana | THA | 53.6 |
| 6 | Jeremias Stokes | GUA | 53.6 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Gerrard Cole | USA | 48.3 |
| 2 | Alan Dick | GBR | 48.7 |
| 3 | Edmund Pilags | URS | 49.2 |
| 4 | Angel Garcia | CUB | 49.2 |
| 5 | Antoine Uytterhoeven | BEL | 50.0 |
| 6 | Jean Hamilius | LUX | 50.3 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | George Rhoden | JAM | 48.1 |
| 2 | Gerard Mach | POL | 48.5 |
| 3 | Paul Dolan | IRL | 48.5 |
| 4 | Jean-Pierre Goudeau | FRA | 48.8 |
| 5 | Douglas Clement | CAN | 50.0 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | James Lavery | CAN | 48.4 |
| 2 | Yury Lituyev | URS | 48.8 |
| 3 | Francisco Rivera | PUR | 49.3 |
| 4 | Antonio Siddi | ITA | 50.9 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Ollie Matson | USA | 48.1 |
| 2 | Hans Schneider | SUI | 48.7 |
| 3 | Argemiro Roque | BRA | 48.9 |
| 4 | Schalk Booysen | RSA | 49.0 |
| 5 | Jiri David | TCH | 49.1 |
| 6 | Fred Hammer | LUX | 49.6 |
| 7 | Osvald Mildh | FIN | 50.2 |