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Date: 30 August 1960 / 31 August 1960
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Murray Rose | AUS | 4:18.3 |
| 2 | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | JPN | 4:21.4 |
| 3 | John Konrads | AUS | 4:21.8 |
| 4 | Ian Black | GBR | 4:21.8 |
| 5 | Alan Somers | USA | 4:22.0 |
| 6 | Murray McLachlan | RSA | 4:26.3 |
| 7 | Eugene Lenz | USA | 4:26.8 |
| 8 | Makoto Fukui | JPN | 4:29.6 |
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| 9 | Jozsef Katona | HUN | 4:29.5 |
| 10 | Hans Joachim Klein | GER | 4:31.6 |
| 11 | Aubrey Burer | RSA | 4:31.9 |
| 12 | Richard Campion | GBR | 4:32.3 |
| 13 | Mauricio Ocampo | MEX | 4:35.3 |
| 14 | Sven Johansson | SWE | 4:35.6 |
| 15 | Kari Haavisto | FIN | 4:36.0 |
| 16 | Jean Pascal Curtillet | FRA | 4:36.5 |
| 17 | Paolo Galletti | ITA | 4:36.6 |
| 18 | Gerhard Hetz | GER | 4:38.4 |
| 19 | Jerzy Tracz | POL | 4:38.6 |
| 20 | Veljko Rogusic | YUG | 4:39.5 |
| 21 | Bana Sailani | PHI | 4:40.2 |
| 22 | Per Ericsson | SWE | 4:41.2 |
| 23 | Ruben Roca | CUB | 4:41.3 |
| 24 | Milan Jeger | YUG | 4:41.4 |
| 25 | Ilkka Suvanto | FIN | 4:42.1 |
| 26 | Raul Guzman | MEX | 4:42.2 |
| 27 | Jan Lutomski | POL | 4:42.8 |
| 28 | Massimo Rosi | ITA | 4:45.1 |
| 29 | Tamas Hornyanszky | HUN | 4:46.2 |
| 30 | Jean Pommat | FRA | 4:46.5 |
| 31 | Jose Manuel Cossio | ESP | 4:50.1 |
| 32 | Eduardo Sousa | POR | 4:51.6 |
| 33 | Hansueli Duerst | SUI | 4:52.5 |
| 34 | Zakaria Nasution | INA | 4:54.0 |
| 35 | Helmut Ilk | AUT | 4:58.1 |
| 36 | Amiram Trauber | ISR | 4:58.6 |
| 37 | Karl Fridlin | SUI | 5:02.3 |
| 38 | Seow Jit Fong | MAL | 5:07.3 |
| 39 | Robert Chenaux | PUR | 5:24.6 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Leonid Kolesnikov | URS | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Fernando Fanjul | ARG | ||