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Date: 20 September 1988 / 21 September 1988 / 22 September 1988
Heats
1/8 finals
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Gintaoutas Umaras | URS | 4:32.00 |
| 2 | Dean Woods | AUS | 4:35.00 |
| 3 | Bernd Dittert | GDR | 4:34.17 |
| 4 | Colin Sturgess | GBR | 4:34.90 |
| Quarter-finals | |||
| 5 | Ryszard Dawidowicz | POL | 4:39.44 |
| 6 | Peter Clausen | DEN | 4:42.62 |
| 7 | Gary Anderson | NZL | 4:42.82 |
| 8 | Ivan Beltrami | ITA | |
| 1/8 finals | |||
| 9 | Bruno Risi | SUI | 4:44.38 |
| 10 | Thomas Duerst | FRG | 4:45.20 |
| 11 | Jyrki Tujunen | FIN | 4:46.65 |
| 12 | David Brinton | USA | 4:47.27 |
| 13 | Gabriel Curuchet | ARG | 4:50.75 |
| 14 | Roman Cermak | TCH | |
| 14 | Miklos Somogyi | HUN | |
| 14 | Erik Cent | NED | |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Jose Antonio Martiarena | ESP | 4:54.39 |
| 18 | Patrick Matt | LIE | 4:57.47 |
| 19 | Park Min-Soo | KOR | 4:58.57 |
| 20 | Antonio Silvestre | BRA | 5:02.07 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Realdo Jessurun | SUR | ||
| Mostafa Chaichi-Raghimi | IRI | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Ira Fabian | ANT | ||