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Date: 1 December 1956
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Alain Mimoun | FRA | 2:25:00 |
| 2 | Franjo Mihalic | YUG | 2:26:32 |
| 3 | Veikko Karvonen | FIN | 2:27:47 |
| 4 | Lee Chang-Hoon | KOR | 2:28:45 |
| 5 | Yoshiaki Kawashima | JPN | 2:29:19 |
| 6 | Emil Zatopek | TCH | 2:29:34 |
| 7 | Ivan Filin | URS | 2:30:37 |
| 8 | Evert Nyberg | SWE | 2:31:12 |
| 9 | Thomas Nilsson | SWE | 2:33:33 |
| 10 | Eino Oksanen | FIN | 2:36:10 |
| 11 | Arnold Vaide | SWE | 2:36:21 |
| 12 | Chung Sik-Choi | KOR | 2:36:53 |
| 13 | Paavo Kotila | FIN | 2:38:59 |
| 14 | Mercer Davies | RSA | 2:39:48 |
| 15 | Harry Hicks | GBR | 2:39:55 |
| 16 | Hideo Hamamura | JPN | 2:40:53 |
| 17 | Albert Richards | NZL | 2:41:34 |
| 18 | John Russell | AUS | 2:41:44 |
| 19 | Lothar Beckert | GER | 2:42:10 |
| 20 | Nick Costes | USA | 2:42:20 |
| 21 | Johnny Kelley | USA | 2:43:40 |
| 22 | Muhamad Havlidar Aslam | PAK | 2:44:33 |
| 23 | Adolf Gruber | AUT | 2:46:20 |
| 24 | Aurele Van den Driessche | BEL | 2:47:18 |
| 25 | Keith Ollerenshaw | AUS | 2:48:12 |
| 26 | Naw Myint | MYA | 2:49:32 |
| 27 | Pavel Kantorek | TCH | 2:52:05 |
| 28 | Kurt Hartung | GER | 2:52:14 |
| 29 | Bashay Feleke | ETH | 2:53:37 |
| 30 | Abdul Rashid | PAK | 2:57:47 |
| 31 | Arap Sum Kanuti | KEN | 2:58:42 |
| 32 | Gebre Birkay | ETH | 2:58:49 |
| 33 | Kurao Hiroshima | JPN | 3:04:17 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Giuseppe Lavelli | ITA | ||
| Jan Barnard | RSA | ||
| Ron Clark | GBR | ||
| Eduardo Fontecilla | CHI | ||
| Ali Baghbanbashi | IRI | ||
| Boris Grichayev | URS | ||
| Les Perry | AUS | ||
| Juan Silva | CHI | ||
| Albert Ivanov | URS | ||
| Klaus Porbadnik | GER | ||
| Fred Norris | GBR | ||
| Wha Dong-Lim | KOR | ||
| Dean Thackwray | USA | ||