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Date: 24 July 1952 / 25 July 1952 / 26 July 1952
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Josef Barthel | LUX | 3:45.2 |
| 2 | Robert McMillen | USA | 3:45.2 |
| 3 | Werner Lueg | GER | 3:45.4 |
| 4 | Roger Bannister | GBR | 3:46.0 |
| 5 | Patrick El-Mabrouk | FRA | 3:46.0 |
| 6 | Rolf Lamers | GER | 3:46.8 |
| 7 | Olle Aberg | SWE | 3:47.0 |
| 8 | Ingvar Ericsson | SWE | 3:47.6 |
| 9 | Donald MacMillan | AUS | 3:49.6 |
| 10 | Denis Johansson | FIN | 3:49.8 |
| 11 | Audun Boysen | NOR | 3:51.4 |
| 12 | Warren Druetzler | USA | 3:56.0 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 13 | Stanislav Jungwirth | TCH | 3:51.0 |
| 14 | Sture Landqvist | SWE | 3:51.4 |
| 14 | Vaclav Cevona | TCH | 3:51.4 |
| 16 | William Nankeville | GBR | 3:52.0 |
| 17 | Bill Parnell | CAN | 3:52.4 |
| 18 | Mikhail Velsvebel | URS | 3:52.6 |
| 19 | George Hoskins | NZL | 3:53.0 |
| 20 | Vilmos Tolgyesi | HUN | 3:53.2 |
| 21 | Frans Herman | BEL | 3:53.8 |
| 22 | Gunther Dohrow | GER | 3:55.2 |
| 23 | Nikolay Byelokurov | URS | 3:55.6 |
| 24 | John Ross | CAN | 4:00.6 |
| Heats | |||
| 25 | Aulis Pystynen | FIN | 3:53.0 |
| 26 | Leonard Eyre | GBR | 3:53.2 |
| 27 | Fritz Prossinag | AUT | 3:54.2 |
| 28 | Arthold Jennings | RSA | 3:55.4 |
| 29 | Daniel Janssens | BEL | 3:55.8 |
| 30 | Sandor Iharos | HUN | 3:56.0 |
| 31 | Fred Luthy | SUI | 3:56.4 |
| 32 | Urpo Vaharanta | FIN | 3:56.8 |
| 32 | Jean Vernier | FRA | 3:56.8 |
| 32 | Edmund Potrzebowski | POL | 3:56.8 |
| 35 | John Landy | AUS | 3:57.0 |
| 36 | Andrija Otenhajmer | YUG | 3:57.8 |
| 36 | Mieczyslaw Dlugoborski | POL | 3:57.8 |
| 38 | Javier Montes | USA | 3:58.2 |
| 39 | Cahit Onel | TUR | 3:58.4 |
| 40 | Turhan Goker | TUR | 4:00.6 |
| 41 | Stefan Lewandowski | POL | 4:00.8 |
| 42 | Maurice Marshall | NZL | 4:01.0 |
| 43 | Sandor Garay | HUN | 4:01.2 |
| 44 | Ekrem Kocak | TUR | 4:01.4 |
| 45 | Nikolay Kuchurin | URS | 4:03.6 |
| 46 | Vasilios Mavroidis | GRE | 4:07.8 |
| 47 | William Hanna | EGY | 4:11.2 |
| 48 | Filemon Camacho | VEN | 4:18.0 |
| 49 | Pierre Gillet | FRA | 4:26.6 |
| 50 | Stit Leangtanom | THA | 4:32.6 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Hans Harting | NED | ||
| Willem Slijkhuis | NED | ||