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Date: 22 October 1968 / 23 October 1968
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Michael Burton | USA | 4:09.0 |
| 2 | Ralph Hutton | CAN | 4:11.7 |
| 3 | Alain Mosconi | FRA | 4:13.3 |
| 4 | Gregory Brough | AUS | 4:15.9 |
| 5 | Graham White | AUS | 4:16.7 |
| 6 | John Nelson | USA | 4:17.2 |
| 7 | Hans Fassnacht | FRG | 4:18.1 |
| 8 | Brent Berk | USA | 4:26.0 |
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| 9 | Semyon Belits-Geiman | URS | 4:22.7 |
| 9 | Gregory Rogers | AUS | 4:22.7 |
| 11 | Guillermo Echevarria | MEX | 4:24.0 |
| 12 | Karl Larsson | SWE | 4:25.0 |
| 13 | Julio Arango | COL | 4:25.8 |
| 14 | Alfred Muller | GDR | 4:26.4 |
| 15 | Juan Alanis | MEX | 4:27.4 |
| 16 | Ronald Jacks | CAN | 4:29.4 |
| 17 | Francis Luyce | FRA | 4:30.3 |
| 18 | Jean-Francois Ravelin | FRA | 4:30.7 |
| 19 | Wladyslaw Wojtakajtis | POL | 4:31.1 |
| 20 | Pano Caperonis | SUI | 4:31.4 |
| 21 | Orjan Madsen | NOR | 4:31.8 |
| 22 | Werner Krammel | FRG | 4:34.0 |
| 23 | Akhmed Anarbaev | URS | 4:34.1 |
| 24 | Jorge Urreta | MEX | 4:34.3 |
| 25 | Sven Von Holst | SWE | 4:35.0 |
| 26 | Fernando Gonzalez | ECU | 4:35.3 |
| 27 | Matyas Borloi | HUN | 4:35.4 |
| 28 | Jorge Gonzalez | PUR | 4:38.1 |
| 29 | Gregorio Fiallo | CUB | 4:41.5 |
| 30 | Tony Asamali | PHI | 4:47.6 |
| 30 | Csaba Csatlos | HUN | 4:47.6 |
| 32 | Ruben Guerrero | ESA | 4:50.8 |
| 33 | Michael Goodner | PUR | 5:00.2 |
| 34 | Andrew Loh | HKG | 5:03.6 |
| 35 | Wong Man-Chiu | HKG | 5:05.8 |
| 36 | Friedrich Jokisch | ESA | 5:09.2 |
| 37 | Robert Loh | HKG | 5:10.1 |
| Did not start | |||
| Carlos Van Der Maath | ARG | ||
| Jose Alvarado | ESA | ||
| Anthony Jarvis | GBR | ||
| Roosevelt Abdulgafur | PHI | ||