| Final 16:00 | time | | 1. William M. Mills |  USA | 28:24.4 | | 2. Mohamed Cammoudi |  TUN | 28:24.8 | | 3. Ronald William Clarke |  AUS | 28:25.8 | | 4. Mamo Wolde |  ETH | 28:31.8 | | 5. Leonid Ivanov |  URS | 28:53.2 | | 6. Kokichi Tsuburaya |  JPN | 28:59.4 | | 7. Murray Gordon Halberg |  NZL | 29:10.8 | | 8. Anthony Cook | AUS | 29:15.8 | | 9. Gerald Paul Lindgren | USA | 29:20.6 | | 10.Franc Cervan |  YUG | 29:21.0 | | 11.Siegfried Herrmann |  GER | 29:27.0 | | 12.Henri Clerckx |  BEL | 29:29.6 | | 13.Jean Fayolle |  FRA | 29:30.8 | | 14.Teruo Funai | JPN | 29:33.2 | | 15.Jean Vaillant | FRA | 29:33.6 | | 16.Jozsef Suetoe |  HUN | 29:43.0 | | 17.Josef Tomas |  TCH | 29:46.4 | | 18.Ronald Hill |  GBR | 29:53.0 | | 19.Pal Benum |  NOR | 30:00.8 | | 20.Siegfried Rothe | GER | 30:04.6 | | 21.Michael John Bullivant | GBR | 30:12.0 | | 22.Alistair Fergus Murray | GBR | 30:22.4 | | 23.Arthur Barry Magee | NZL | 30:32.0 | | 24.Gilbert Ronald Larrieu | USA | 30:42.6 | | 25.Piotr Bolotnikow | URS | 30:52.8 | | 26.Bruce Kido |  CAN | 30:56.4 | | 27.Artur Hannemann | GER | 30:56.6 | | 28.Kazumi Watanabe | JPN | 31:00.6 | | 29.Ranatunge J. Karunananda |  CEY | 32:21.2 |
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| | | Venue: Olympic Stadium, Tokyo. Capp.: 57,363 (48,000 seats). | | -- competitors from -- nations. |
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