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Date: 4 December 1956 / 5 December 1956 / 6 December 1956
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | David Theile | AUS | 1:02.2 |
| 2 | John Monckton | AUS | 1:03.2 |
| 3 | Frank McKinney | USA | 1:04.5 |
| 4 | Robert Christophe | FRA | 1:04.9 |
| 5 | John Hayres | AUS | 1:05.0 |
| 6 | Graham Sykes | GBR | 1:05.6 |
| 7 | Albert Wiggins | USA | 1:05.8 |
| 8 | Yoshinobu Oyakawa | USA | 1:06.9 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Keiji Hase | JPN | 1:06.5 |
| 9 | Kazuo Tomita | JPN | 1:06.5 |
| 9 | Gilbert Bozon | FRA | 1:06.5 |
| 12 | Ekkehard Miersch | GER | 1:06.6 |
| 13 | Laszlo Magyar | HUN | 1:07.6 |
| 13 | Haydn Rigby | GBR | 1:07.6 |
| 13 | Dieter Pfeifer | GER | 1:07.6 |
| 16 | Ladislav Bacik | TCH | 1:07.9 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Lincoln William Hurring | NZL | 1:07.5 |
| 17 | Gerard Coignot | FRA | 1:07.5 |
| 19 | William Brockway | GBR | 1:07.7 |
| 20 | Joao Goncalves Filho | BRA | 1:07.9 |
| 21 | Hideo Ninomiya | JPN | 1:09.2 |
| 22 | Ahmad Nazir | PAK | 1:10.7 |
| 23 | Pedro Cayco | PHI | 1:11.6 |
| 24 | Heng Chek Lim | MAL | 1:12.4 |
| 25 | Kin Man Cheung | HKG | 1:14.0 |