| Final 16:15 | Team | Time | | 1. Ron Delaney | IRL | 3:41.2 | | 2. Klaus Richtzenhain | GDR | 3:42.0 | | 3. John Landy | AUS | 3:42.0 | | 4. Laszlo Tabori | HUN | 3:42.4 | | 5. Brian Hewson | GBR | 3:42.6 | | 6. Stanislav Jungwirth | TCH | 3:42.6 | | 7. Neville Scott | NZL | 3:42:8 | | 8. Ian Boyd | GBR | 3:43:0 | | 9. Kenneth Wood | GBR | | 10.Gunnar Nielsen | DEN | | 11.Murray Halberg | NZL | | 12.Mervyn Lincoln | AUS |
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| Heats- Thursday 29.11 16:30 |
| Heat 1 | Team | Time | | 1. Klaus Richtzenhain | GER | 3:46:6 | | 2. Stanislav Jungwidth | TCH | 3:46:6 | | 3. Ian Boyd | GBR | 3:47:0 | | 4. Murray Halberg | NZL | 3:47:2 | | 5. Istvan Rozsavolgyi | HUN | 3:49:4 | | 6. Andre Ballieux | BEL | 3:49:8 | | 7. Michel Jazy | FRA | 3:50:0 | | 8. Theodore Wheeler | USA | 3:50:0 | | 9. Piatras-Ionas Pipine | URS | 3:50:0 | | 10.Josef Barthel | LUX | 3:50:0 | | 11.Mamo Wolde | ETH | 3:51:0 |
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| Heat 2 | Team | Time | | 1. Mervyn Lincoln | AUS | 3:45:4 | | 2. Keneth Wood | GBR | 3:46:6 | | 3. Ron Delany | IRL | 3:47:4 | | 4. Laszlo Tabori | HUN | 3:48:0 | | 5. Ingvar Ericsson | SWE | 3:49:0 | | 6. Yevgeny Sokolov | URS | 3:49:2 | | 7. Evangelos Depastas | GRE | 3:52:0 | | 8. Olavi Salsola | FIN | 3:55:0 | | 9. Gunther Dohrow | GER | 3:58:0 | | 10.Ramon Sandoval | CHI | 3:58:0 | | 11.Donald. Bowden | USA | 4:00:0 | | 12.Emile Leva | BEL | 4:06:0 | | 13.Sank Ok-Sim | KOR | 4:09:0 | | 14.Jan Mahmud | PAK | 4:15:0 | | 15.Somnuek Srisombati | THA | 4:30:0 |
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| Heat 3 | Team | Time | | 1. Neville Scott | NZL | 3:48:0 | | 2. Brian Hewson | GBR | 3:48:0 | | 3. John Landy | AUS | 3:48:6 | | 4. Gunnar Nielsen | DEN | 3:48.6 | | 5. Dan. Waern | SWE | 3:48:8 | | 6. Gianfranco Baraldi | ITA | 3:52:0 | | 7. Sergey Soukhanov | URS | 3:53:0 | | 8. Jerome Walters | USA | 3:55:0 | | 9. Georgios Papavassiliou | GRE | 3:57:0 | | 10.Eduardo Fontecilla | CHI | 3:58:0 | | -. Siegfried Herrmann | GER | DNF |
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