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Date: 29 November 1956 / 29 November 1956 / 30 November 1956
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Jon Henricks | AUS | 55.4 |
| 2 | John Devitt | AUS | 55.8 |
| 3 | Gary Chapman | AUS | 56.7 |
| 4 | Logan Patterson | USA | 57.2 |
| 5 | Richard Hanley | USA | 57.6 |
| 6 | William Woolsey | USA | 57.6 |
| 7 | Atsushi Tani | JPN | 58.0 |
| 8 | Aldo Eminente | FRA | 58.1 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Hiroshi Suzuki | JPN | 58.0 |
| 10 | Manabu Koga | JPN | 58.1 |
| 10 | Gyula Dobay | HUN | 58.1 |
| 12 | Vitaliy Sorokin | URS | 58.2 |
| 13 | Paul Voell | GER | 58.6 |
| 14 | Paolo Pucci | ITA | 58.8 |
| 15 | Ronald Roberts | GBR | 58.9 |
| 16 | Carlo Pedersoli | ITA | 59.0 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | George Park | CAN | 58.8 |
| 18 | William Steuart | RSA | 59.2 |
| 19 | Kenneth Williams | GBR | 59.4 |
| 20 | Dennis Ford | RSA | 59.5 |
| 21 | Lev Balandin | URS | 59.6 |
| 22 | Hans Kohler | GER | 59.8 |
| 22 | Karri Kayhko | FIN | 59.8 |
| 22 | Kin Man Cheung | HKG | 59.8 |
| 25 | Haroldo de Melo Lara | BRA | 59.9 |
| 26 | Horst Bleeker | GER | 1:00.1 |
| 26 | Habib Nasution | INA | 1:00.1 |
| 28 | Sergio Martinez | COL | 1:00.2 |
| 28 | Alexandre Jany | FRA | 1:00.2 |
| 28 | Dakula Arabani | PHI | 1:00.2 |
| 31 | Peter Duncan | RSA | 1:00.4 |
| 32 | Andre Laurent | BEL | 1:00.7 |
| 32 | Shiu-Ming Wan | HKG | 1:00.7 |
| 34 | Sri Chand Bajaj | IND | 1:01.6 |