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Date: 24 November 1956
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Norman Read | NZL | 4:30:42.8 |
| 2 | Yevgeny Maskinskov | URS | 4:32:57.0 |
| 3 | John Ljunggren | SWE | 4:35:02.0 |
| 4 | Abdon Pamich | ITA | 4:39:00.0 |
| 5 | Antal Roka | HUN | 4:50:09.0 |
| 6 | Raymond Smith | AUS | 4:56:08.0 |
| 7 | Adolf Weinacker | USA | 5:00:16.0 |
| 8 | Albert Johnson | GBR | 5:02:19.0 |
| 9 | Eric Hall | GBR | 5:03:59.0 |
| 10 | Ion Barbu | ROU | 5:08:33.6 |
| 11 | Elliott Denman | USA | 5:12:14.0 |
| 12 | Leo Sjogren | USA | 5:12:34.0 |
| 13 | Ronald Crawford | AUS | 5:22:36.0 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Milan Skront | TCH | ||
| Josef Dolezal | TCH | ||
| Grigory Klimov | URS | ||
| Janos Somogyi | HUN | ||
| Dumitru Paraschivescu | ROU | ||
| Donald Thompson | GBR | ||
| Disqualified | |||
| Edward Allsopp | AUS | ||
| Mikhail Lavrov | URS | ||