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Date: 21 October 1968 / 21 October 1968 / 22 October 1968
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Roland Matthes | GDR | 58.7 |
| 2 | Charles Hickcox | USA | 1:00.2 |
| 3 | Ronnie Mills | USA | 1:00.5 |
| 4 | Lawrence Barbiere | USA | 1:01.1 |
| 5 | Jim Shaw | CAN | 1:01.4 |
| 6 | Bob Schoutsen | NED | 1:01.8 |
| 7 | Reinhard Blechert | FRG | 1:01.9 |
| 8 | Franco Del Campo | ITA | 1:02.0 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Karl Byrom | AUS | 1:02.3 |
| 10 | Santiago Esteva | ESP | 1:02.4 |
| 10 | Yury Gromak | URS | 1:02.4 |
| 12 | Viktor Mazanov | URS | 1:02.5 |
| 13 | Franco Chino | ITA | 1:02.7 |
| 13 | Danijel Vrhovsek | YUG | 1:02.7 |
| 15 | John Jackson | GBR | 1:02.8 |
| 16 | Ejvind Pedersen | DEN | 1:03.6 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Leonardo Barenboim | ARG | 1:04.0 |
| 17 | Kishio Tanaka | JPN | 1:04.0 |
| 19 | Roderick Jones | GBR | 1:04.1 |
| 20 | Jose Joaquin Santibanez | MEX | 1:04.2 |
| 20 | Evgeny Spiridonov | URS | 1:04.2 |
| 22 | Cesar Filardi | BRA | 1:04.6 |
| 22 | Laszlo Cseh | HUN | 1:04.6 |
| 22 | Herman Verbauwen | BEL | 1:04.6 |
| 25 | Jesus Cabrera | ESP | 1:04.8 |
| 26 | Jaime Rivera | MEX | 1:05.1 |
| 26 | Hans Tegeback | SWE | 1:05.1 |
| 28 | Gerald Evard | SUI | 1:05.8 |
| 29 | Gary Goodner | PUR | 1:06.3 |
| 30 | Eliseo Vidal | CUB | 1:06.4 |
| 31 | Luis Acosta | MEX | 1:06.5 |
| 32 | Francisco Ramis | PUR | 1:07.2 |
| 33 | Wong Man-Chiu | HKG | 1:11.3 |
| 34 | Yacoub Masboungi | LBN | 1:11.6 |
| 35 | Antonio Cruz | GUA | 1:11.8 |
| 36 | Friedrich Jokisch | ESA | 1:13.7 |
| 37 | Arturo Carranza | ESA | 1:17.4 |
| Did not start | |||
| Carlos Van Der Maath | ARG | ||
| Geoffrey Ferreira | TTO | ||
| Toomas Arusoo | CAN | ||
| Paul Nash | JAM | ||