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Date: 26 July 1952 / 26 July 1952 / 27 July 1952
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Charles Scholes | USA | 57.4 |
| 2 | Hiroshi Suzuki | JPN | 57.4 |
| 3 | Goran Larsson | SWE | 58.2 |
| 4 | Toru Goto | JPN | 58.5 |
| 5 | Geza Kadas | HUN | 58.6 |
| 6 | Rex Aubrey | AUS | 58.7 |
| 7 | Aldo Eminente | FRA | 58.7 |
| 8 | Ronald Gora | USA | 58.8 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Yoshihiro Hamaguchi | JPN | 58.3 |
| 10 | Richard Cleveland | USA | 58.6 |
| 11 | Lev Balandin | URS | 58.8 |
| 12 | Carlo Pedersoli | ITA | 58.9 |
| 12 | Alexandre Jany | FRA | 58.9 |
| 14 | Luciene Beaumont | CAN | 59.3 |
| 15 | Gyorgy Ipacs | HUN | 59.4 |
| 15 | John Wardrop | GBR | 59.4 |
| 17 | Ronald Roberts | GBR | 59.5 |
| 18 | Joris Tjebbes | NED | 59.8 |
| 18 | Endelj Edassi | URS | 59.8 |
| 20 | Nicasio Silverio | CUB | 59.9 |
| 21 | John Durr | RSA | 1:00.2 |
| 22 | Thomas Welsh | GBR | 1:00.3 |
| 23 | Kin Man Cheung | HKG | 1:00.9 |
| 24 | Vladimir Skomarovskij | URS | 1:01.1 |
| Heats | |||
| 25 | Iosef Novac | ROU | 1:00.5 |
| 25 | Rene Muniz | MEX | 1:00.5 |
| 25 | Olle Johansson | SWE | 1:00.5 |
| 28 | Chwee Neo | SIN | 1:00.6 |
| 28 | Francis O'Neill | AUS | 1:00.6 |
| 30 | Jan Lans | MEX | 1:00.9 |
| 30 | Michel Vandamme | FRA | 1:00.9 |
| 32 | Peter Salmon | CAN | 1:01.0 |
| 33 | Pentti Ikonen | FIN | 1:01.1 |
| 34 | Federico Zwanck | ARG | 1:01.2 |
| 34 | Haroldo de Melo Lara | BRA | 1:01.2 |
| 36 | Dennis Ford | RSA | 1:01.3 |
| 37 | Alberto Isaac | MEX | 1:01.4 |
| 37 | Lars Svantesson | SWE | 1:01.4 |
| 39 | Marcelo Trabucco | ARG | 1:01.5 |
| 40 | Roberto Queralt | ESP | 1:01.6 |
| 41 | Oscar Saiz Amigo | VEN | 1:01.7 |
| 42 | Leo Telivuo | FIN | 1:02.0 |
| 42 | Abdelaziz Elshafie | EGY | 1:02.0 |
| 42 | Aram Boghossian | BRA | 1:02.0 |
| 45 | Per Olsen | NOR | 1:02.1 |
| 46 | Dorri El-Said | EGY | 1:02.3 |
| 46 | Alfonso Buonocore | ITA | 1:02.3 |
| 48 | Mauno Valkeinen | FIN | 1:02.5 |
| 49 | Ricardo Conde | ESP | 1:02.6 |
| 49 | Fernando Madeira | POR | 1:02.6 |
| 51 | Hernan Aviles Morales | CHI | 1:02.8 |
| 52 | Francisco Monteiro | HKG | 1:03.1 |
| 53 | Guilherma Duarte | POR | 1:03.7 |
| 54 | Robert Cook | BER | 1:04.1 |
| 54 | Geoffrey Marks | SRI | 1:04.1 |
| 56 | Walter Bardgett | BER | 1:04.4 |
| 57 | Jose Valdes | GUA | 1:04.5 |
| 58 | Phan Nguyen Van | VIE | 1:05.0 |
| 59 | David Buch | ISR | 1:05.6 |
| 60 | Michel Currat | SUI | 1:07.2 |
| 61 | Isaac Monsoor | IND | 1:10.8 |