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Date: 30 July 1952 / 31 July 1952 / 1 August 1952
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Yoshinobu Oyakawa | USA | 1:05.4 |
| 2 | Gilbert Bozon | FRA | 1:06.2 |
| 3 | Jack Taylor | USA | 1:06.4 |
| 4 | Allen Stack | USA | 1:07.6 |
| 5 | Pedro Galvao | ARG | 1:07.7 |
| 6 | Robert Wardrop | GBR | 1:07.8 |
| 7 | Boris Skanata | YUG | 1:08.1 |
| 8 | Nicolaas Meiring | RSA | 1:08.3 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | William Brockway | GBR | 1:09.0 |
| 10 | Viktor Solovjev | URS | 1:09.6 |
| 11 | Joao Goncalves Filho | BRA | 1:09.7 |
| 11 | Egidio Massaria | ITA | 1:09.7 |
| 13 | Lincoln William Hurring | NZL | 1:10.2 |
| 13 | Fernando Pavan | BRA | 1:10.2 |
| 15 | Lucien Zins | FRA | 1:10.5 |
| 15 | Jitse Van der Veen | NED | 1:10.5 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Ilo da Fonseca | BRA | 1:09.9 |
| 18 | Laszlo Gyongyosi | HUN | 1:10.0 |
| 19 | Yasumasa Nishino | JPN | 1:10.1 |
| 20 | Ladislav Bacik | TCH | 1:10.2 |
| 21 | Francis O'Neill | AUS | 1:10.5 |
| 22 | Imre Nyeki | HUN | 1:10.6 |
| 23 | Norihiko Kurahashi | JPN | 1:10.7 |
| 23 | Clemente Mejia | MEX | 1:10.7 |
| 25 | Vladimir Lopatin | URS | 1:10.8 |
| 26 | Leonid Sagaiduk | URS | 1:11.4 |
| 27 | Helmut Koppelstatter | AUT | 1:11.9 |
| 28 | Wu Chuan-Yu | CHN | 1:12.3 |
| 29 | Hermann Gericke | SUI | 1:12.6 |
| 30 | Eduardo Barbeiro | POR | 1:13.0 |
| 31 | Jerzy Boniecki | POL | 1:13.4 |
| 32 | Eurico Surgey | POR | 1:13.7 |
| 33 | Peter Salmon | CAN | 1:13.8 |
| 34 | Luciene Beaumont | CAN | 1:14.2 |
| 35 | Erkki Marttinen | FIN | 1:15.2 |
| 36 | Tom Pettersen | NOR | 1:15.4 |
| 37 | Kantilall Shah | IND | 1:18.3 |
| 38 | Bijoy Barman | IND | 1:27.3 |