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Date: 28 January 1956
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Yevgeny Grishin | URS | 40.2 |
| 2 | Rafayel Grach | URS | 40.8 |
| 3 | Alv Gjestvang | NOR | 41.0 |
| 4 | Yury Sergeyev | URS | 41.1 |
| 5 | Toivo Salonen | FIN | 41.7 |
| 6 | Bill Carow | USA | 41.8 |
| 7 | Colin Hickey | AUS | 41.9 |
| 7 | Bengt Malmsten | SWE | 41.9 |
| 9 | Juhani Järvinen | FIN | 42.2 |
| 9 | Matti Hamberg | FIN | 42.2 |
| 11 | Shinkichi Takemura | JPN | 42.4 |
| 11 | Johnny Werket | USA | 42.4 |
| 13 | Finn Hodt | NOR | 42.5 |
| 13 | Yrjö Uimonen | FIN | 42.5 |
| 15 | Bertil Eng | SWE | 42.6 |
| 16 | Sigmund Søfteland | NOR | 42.7 |
| 17 | Hroar Elvenes | NOR | 42.8 |
| 17 | Ken Henry | USA | 42.8 |
| 17 | Yoshitaka Hori | JPN | 42.8 |
| 17 | Bohumil Jauris | TCH | 42.8 |
| 21 | Johnny Cronshey | GBR | 42.9 |
| 22 | Taketsugu Asazaka | JPN | 43.1 |
| 22 | Guido Citterio | ITA | 43.1 |
| 22 | Gerard Maarse | NED | 43.1 |
| 25 | Gordon Audley | CAN | 43.2 |
| 25 | Raymond Gilloz | FRA | 43.2 |
| 25 | Don McDermott | USA | 43.2 |
| 28 | Chang Yung | KOR | 43.5 |
| 28 | Vladimír Kolář | TCH | 43.5 |
| 30 | Jaroslav Doubek | TCH | 43.6 |
| 30 | Kiyotaka Takabayashi | JPN | 43.6 |
| 32 | Franz Offenberger | AUT | 43.8 |
| 33 | Guido Caroli | ITA | 43.9 |
| 34 | Helmut Kuhnert | GER | 44.0 |
| 34 | Jo Yun-Sik | KOR | 44.0 |
| 36 | Ralf Olin | CAN | 44.1 |
| 37 | Kees Broekman | NED | 44.2 |
| 37 | Sigvard Ericsson | SWE | 44.2 |
| 37 | Ernst Biel | AUT | 44.2 |
| 40 | Erich Kull | SUI | 44.3 |
| 41 | Kurt Eminger | AUT | 44.4 |
| 42 | Gunnar Ström | SWE | 44.7 |
| 43 | Wim de Graaff | NED | 44.9 |
| 44 | Alex Connell | GBR | 45.2 |
| 45 | John Hearn | GBR | 45.9 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Johnny Sands | CAN | ||
| Yury Mikhaylov | URS | ||