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Date: 28 July 1952 / 29 July 1952 / 30 July 1952
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Jean Boiteux | FRA | 4:30.7 |
| 2 | Ford Konno | USA | 4:31.3 |
| 3 | Per-Olof Ostrand | SWE | 4:35.2 |
| 4 | Peter Duncan | RSA | 4:37.9 |
| 5 | John Wardrop | GBR | 4:39.9 |
| 6 | Wayne Moore | USA | 4:40.1 |
| 7 | James McLane | USA | 4:40.3 |
| 8 | Hironoshi Furuhashi | JPN | 4:42.1 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Yasuo Tanaka | JPN | 4:44.9 |
| 10 | Graham Johnston | RSA | 4:45.5 |
| 11 | Tetsuo Okamoto | BRA | 4:46.2 |
| 12 | Gerry McNamee | CAN | 4:46.7 |
| 13 | Godfryd Gremlowski | POL | 4:47.4 |
| 14 | Yoshio Tanaka | JPN | 4:48.0 |
| 15 | John Marshall | AUS | 4:50.3 |
| 16 | Allen Gilchrist | CAN | 4:52.4 |
| 17 | Dennis Ford | RSA | 4:53.6 |
| 18 | Gusztav Kettesi | HUN | 4:54.3 |
| 19 | Joseph Bernardo | FRA | 4:56.0 |
| 20 | Enrique Granados | ESP | 4:56.2 |
| 21 | Joris Tjebbes | NED | 5:01.9 |
| Heats | |||
| 22 | Gyorgy Csordas | HUN | 4:45.7 |
| 23 | Severo Yantorno | ARG | 4:54.5 |
| 24 | Ronald Burns | GBR | 4:55.2 |
| 25 | Garrick Agnew | AUS | 4:55.5 |
| 26 | Pentti Ikonen | FIN | 4:55.7 |
| 27 | Federico Zwanck | ARG | 4:56.4 |
| 28 | Viktor Drobinskij | URS | 4:56.5 |
| 29 | Anatolij Raznotshintsev | URS | 4:56.8 |
| 30 | Chwee Neo | SIN | 4:57.5 |
| 31 | Peter Steinwender | AUT | 5:03.6 |
| 32 | Peter Head | GBR | 5:04.2 |
| 33 | Angelo Romani | ITA | 5:05.1 |
| 34 | Carlos Bonacich | ARG | 5:06.3 |
| 35 | Rene Million | FRA | 5:07.0 |
| 36 | Per Olsen | NOR | 5:08.6 |
| 36 | Fernando Madeira | POR | 5:08.6 |
| 38 | Pentti Paatsalo | FIN | 5:09.3 |
| 39 | Ricardo Capanema Esberard | BRA | 5:09.5 |
| 40 | Kin Man Cheung | HKG | 5:11.4 |
| 41 | Eduardo Priggione | URU | 5:12.1 |
| 42 | Roar Woldum | NOR | 5:14.4 |
| 43 | Geoffrey Marks | SRI | 5:15.2 |
| 44 | Robert Cook | BER | 5:15.4 |
| 45 | Einar Aalto | FIN | 5:15.8 |
| 46 | Walter Bardgett | BER | 5:18.0 |
| 47 | Francisco Monteiro | HKG | 5:21.6 |
| 48 | Walter Schneider | SUI | 5:27.3 |
| 49 | Georg Mascetti | SAR | 5:31.2 |
| 50 | Phan Nguyen Van | VIE | 5:36.5 |
| 51 | Mohammad Ramzan | PAK | 5:45.7 |