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Date: 1 December 1956 / 3 December 1956
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Kevin O'Halloran; John Devitt; Murray Rose; Jon Henricks { + Gary Chapman; Graham Hamilton; Murray Garretty} | AUS | 8:23.6 |
| 2 | Richard Hanley; George Breen; William Woolsey; Ford Konno { + Perry Jecko; Richard Tenabe} | USA | 8:31.5 |
| 3 | Vitaliy Sorokin; Vladimir Stroujanov; Gennady Nikolayev; Boris Nikitin | URS | 8:34.7 |
| 4 | Manabu Koga; Atsushi Tani; Koji Nonoshita; Tsuyoshi Yamanaka { + Hiroshi Suzuki} | JPN | 8:36.6 |
| 5 | Hans Kohler; Hans-Joachim Reich; Hans Zierold; Horst Bleeker | GER | 8:43.4 |
| 6 | Kenneth Williams; Ronald Roberts; Neil McKechnie; John Wardrop | GBR | 8:45.2 |
| 7 | Federico Dennerlein; Paolo Galletti; Guido Elmi; Angelo Romani | ITA | 8:46.2 |
| 8 | William Steuart; Anthony Briscoe; Dennis Ford; Peter Duncan | RSA | 8:49.5 |
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| 9 | Aldo Eminente; Jacques Collignon; Alexandre Jany; Jean Boiteux | FRA | 8:56.5 |
| 10 | Gyula Dobay; Gyorgy Csordas; Sandor Zaborsky; Jeno Ats | HUN | 8:57.2 |
| 11 | Dakula Arabani; Agapito Lozada; Bana Sailani; Ulpiano Babol | PHI | 9:05.7 |