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Date: 10 August 1936 / 11 August 1936 / 12 August 1936
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Jack Medica | USA | 4:44.5 |
| 2 | Shumpei Uto | JPN | 4:45.6 |
| 3 | Shozo Makino | JPN | 4:48.1 |
| 4 | Ralph Flanagan | USA | 4:52.7 |
| 5 | Hiroshi Negami | JPN | 4:53.6 |
| 6 | Jean Taris | FRA | 4:53.8 |
| 7 | Robert Leivers | GBR | 5:00.9 |
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| 8 | John Macionis | USA | 4:56.4 |
| 9 | Hans Freese | GER | 4:58.5 |
| 10 | Robert Pirie | CAN | 4:58.7 |
| 11 | Odon Grof | HUN | 5:01.9 |
| 12 | Heinz Arendt | GER | 5:13.4 |
| 13 | Otto Przywara | GER | 5:14.9 |
| 14 | Walter Ledgard Sr. | PER | |
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| 15 | Arpad Lengyel | HUN | 4:57.7 |
| 16 | Norman Wainwright | GBR | 5:03.6 |
| 17 | Pieter Stam | NED | 5:07.8 |
| 18 | Heikki Hietanen | FIN | 5:08.9 |
| 19 | William Pearson | GBR | 5:12.7 |
| 20 | Robert Hamerton | CAN | 5:13.3 |
| 21 | Edmund Pader | AUT | 5:16.9 |
| 22 | Robert Hooper | CAN | 5:17.2 |
| 23 | Jorgen Jorgensen | DEN | 5:17.8 |
| 24 | Aage Hellstrom | DEN | 5:18.2 |
| 24 | Manoel Villar | BRA | 5:18.2 |
| 26 | Aluizio Lage | BRA | 5:18.3 |
| 27 | Washington Guzman | CHI | 5:19.1 |
| 28 | Poul Petersen | DEN | 5:20.3 |
| 29 | Istvan Angyel | HUN | 5:20.9 |
| 30 | Joao Havelange | BRA | 5:31.5 |
| 31 | Hans Brenner | SUI | 5:33.8 |
| 32 | Werner Lehmann | SUI | 5:36.8 |
| 33 | Franz Seltenheim | AUT | 5:38.3 |
| 34 | Edmund Cooper | BER | 5:53.8 |