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Date: 22 July 1952 / 24 July 1952
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Emil Zatopek | TCH | 14:06.6 |
| 2 | Alain Mimoun | FRA | 14:07.4 |
| 3 | Herbert Schade | GER | 14:08.6 |
| 4 | Gordon Pirie | GBR | 14:18.0 |
| 5 | Christopher Chataway | GBR | 14:18.0 |
| 6 | Les Perry | AUS | 14:23.6 |
| 7 | Erno Beres | HUN | 14:24.8 |
| 8 | Ake Andersson | SWE | 14:26.0 |
| 9 | Bertil Albertsson | SWE | 14:27.8 |
| 10 | Aleksandr Anufriyev | URS | 14:31.4 |
| 11 | Alan Parker | GBR | 14:37.0 |
| 12 | Ilmari Taipale | FIN | 14:40.0 |
| 13 | Eero Tuomaala | FIN | 14:54.2 |
| 14 | Lucien Theys | BEL | 14:59.0 |
| 15 | Gaston Reiff | BEL | |
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| 16 | Nikifor Popov | URS | 14:28.6 |
| 17 | Ivan Semyenov | URS | 14:28.8 |
| 18 | Alojzy Graj | POL | 14:30.0 |
| 19 | Ib Planck | DEN | 14:31.6 |
| 20 | Osman Cosgul | TUR | 14:36.2 |
| 21 | Charles Capozzoli | USA | 14:39.0 |
| 21 | Martin Stokken | NOR | 14:39.0 |
| 23 | Curtis Stone | USA | 14:42.8 |
| 24 | August Sutter | SUI | 14:45.2 |
| 25 | Jean-Joseph Schlegel | FRA | 14:45.6 |
| 26 | Bertil Karlsson | SWE | 14:45.8 |
| 27 | Kurt Roetzer | AUT | 14:49.4 |
| 28 | Vaino Koskela | FIN | 14:50.8 |
| 29 | Velimir Ilic | YUG | 14:51.6 |
| 30 | Ostein Saksvik | NOR | 14:55.4 |
| 31 | John Landy | AUS | 14:56.4 |
| 32 | Pierre Page | SUI | 14:57.0 |
| 33 | Helmuth Perz | AUT | 14:57.2 |
| 34 | Osamu Inoue | JPN | 14:59.0 |
| 35 | Stevan Pavlovic | YUG | 14:59.2 |
| 36 | Ali Baghbanbashi | IRI | 15:03.0 |
| 37 | Ben Ahmed Abdelkrim | FRA | 15:10.2 |
| 38 | Wes Santee | USA | 15:10.4 |
| 39 | Zdravko Ceraj | YUG | 15:17.8 |
| 40 | Paul Frieden | LUX | 15:23.2 |
| 41 | Kristjan Johansson | ISL | 15:23.8 |
| 42 | Alphonse Van den Rydt | BEL | 15:51.2 |
| 43 | Jozsef Kovacs | HUN | 17:09.2 |
| Did not finish | |||
| George Hoskins | NZL | ||
| Richard Ferguson | CAN | ||