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Date: 13 August 1936 / 14 August 1936 / 15 August 1936
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Tetsuo Hamuro | JPN | 2:42.5 |
| 2 | Erwin Sietas | GER | 2:42.9 |
| 3 | Reizo Koike | JPN | 2:44.2 |
| 4 | Herbert Higgins | USA | 2:45.2 |
| 5 | Saburo Ito | JPN | 2:47.6 |
| 6 | Joachim Balke | GER | 2:47.8 |
| 7 | Teofilo Yldefonzo | PHI | 2:51.1 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 8 | Arthur Heina | GER | 2:47.3 |
| 9 | Ray Kaye | USA | 2:49.2 |
| 10 | Jack Kasley | USA | 2:53.4 |
| 11 | Felix Erbert | TCH | 2:53.5 |
| 12 | Jikirum Adjaluddin | PHI | 2:54.0 |
| 13 | Arasad Alpad | PHI | 2:54.6 |
| 14 | Finn Jensen | DEN | 2:54.8 |
| 15 | Gerald Clawsen | CAN | 2:55.6 |
| 16 | Leonard Spence | BER | |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Mohammed Hassanein | EGY | 2:55.9 |
| 18 | Hans Malmstrom | DEN | 2:56.5 |
| 19 | Antonio dos Santos | BRA | 2:56.8 |
| 20 | Erik Skou | DEN | 2:57.6 |
| 21 | Julius Edgar Arp | BRA | 3:02.6 |
| 22 | Percy Belvin | BER | 3:09.8 |
| 23 | Albert Puddy | CAN | 3:10.2 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Jorge Berroeta | CHI | ||
| Carlos Reed | CHI | ||