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Date: 3 December 1956 / 6 December 1956
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Yoshio Furukawa | JPN | 2:34.7 |
| 2 | Masahiro Yoshimura | JPN | 2:36.7 |
| 3 | Kharis Iounitchev | URS | 2:36.8 |
| 4 | Terry Gathercole | AUS | 2:38.7 |
| 5 | Igor Zasseda | URS | 2:39.0 |
| 6 | Knud Gleie | DEN | 2:40.0 |
| 7 | Manuel Sanguily | CUB | 2:42.0 |
| 8 | Hugues Broussard | FRA | |
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| 9 | Gilbert Desmit | BEL | 2:43.5 |
| 10 | Fridrikh Dossaev | URS | 2:43.9 |
| 11 | Christopher Walkden | GBR | 2:47.1 |
| 12 | Louis Kozma | BEL | 2:48.4 |
| 13 | Rene Kohn | LUX | 2:50.9 |
| 14 | Robert Hughes | USA | 2:52.2 |
| 15 | Shamsher Khan | IND | 3:17.0 |
| 16 | Istvan Szivos | HUN | 3:18.7 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Alvaro Gomez | COL | ||
| Parsons Nabiula | PHI | ||
| Ghulam Rasul | PAK | ||
| Herbert Klein | GER | ||
| Octavio Mobiglia | BRA | ||