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Date: 27 November 1956 / 29 November 1956
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Christopher Brasher | GBR | 8:41.2 |
| 2 | Sandor Rozsnyoi | HUN | 8:43.6 |
| 3 | Ernst Larsen | NOR | 8:44.0 |
| 4 | Heinz Laufer | GER | 8:44.4 |
| 5 | Semyon Rzhishchin | URS | 8:44.6 |
| 6 | John Disley | GBR | 8:44.6 |
| 7 | Neil Robbins | AUS | 8:50.0 |
| 8 | Eric Shirley | GBR | 8:57.0 |
| 9 | Charles "Deacon" Jones | USA | 9:13.0 |
| 10 | Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak | POL | |
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| 11 | Horace Ashenfelter | USA | 8:51.0 |
| 12 | Vasily Vlasenko | URS | 8:55.0 |
| 13 | Georgios Papavasiliou | GRE | 8:55.6 |
| 14 | Karl Tjornebo-Karlsson | SWE | 9:02.0 |
| 15 | Ilkka Auer | FIN | 9:04.0 |
| 16 | Laszlo Jeszenszky | HUN | 9:04.2 |
| 17 | Yevgeny Kodyaykin | URS | 9:09.6 |
| 18 | Graham Thomas | AUS | 9:09.8 |
| 19 | Philip Coleman | USA | 9:10.0 |
| 19 | Olavi Rinteenpaa | FIN | 9:10.0 |
| 21 | Ronald Blackney | AUS | 9:16.0 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Eduardo Fontecilla | CHI | ||
| Frans Herman | BEL | ||