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Date: 1 September 1960 / 3 September 1960
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak | POL | 8:34.2 |
| 2 | Nikolay Sokolov | URS | 8:36.4 |
| 3 | Semyon Rzhishchin | URS | 8:42.2 |
| 4 | Gaston Roelants | BEL | 8:47.6 |
| 5 | Gunnar Tjornebo | SWE | 8:58.6 |
| 6 | Ludwig Muller | GER | 9:01.6 |
| 7 | Charles "Deacon" Jones | USA | 9:18.2 |
| 8 | Aleksey Konov | URS | 9:18.2 |
| 9 | Hans Huneke | GER | |
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| 10 | Hermann Buhl | GER | 8:49.6 |
| 11 | George Young | USA | 8:50.8 |
| 12 | Georgios Papavasiliou | GRE | 8:51.2 |
| 13 | Lage Tedenby | SWE | 8:52.8 |
| 13 | Bohumil Zhanal | TCH | 8:52.8 |
| 15 | David Chapman | GBR | 8:53.0 |
| 16 | Franc Hafner | YUG | 8:55.4 |
| 17 | Philip Coleman | USA | 8:56.6 |
| 18 | Vladimir Brlica | TCH | 8:59.8 |
| 19 | Attila Simon | HUN | 9:02.6 |
| 20 | Guy Texereau | FRA | 9:03.8 |
| 21 | Pentti Karvonen | FIN | 9:04.8 |
| 22 | Jerzy Chromik | POL | 9:06.2 |
| 23 | Michael Palmer | GBR | 9:10.4 |
| 24 | Walter Kammermann | SUI | 9:11.8 |
| 25 | Gerhart Hecker | HUN | 9:12.4 |
| 26 | Jose Fernandez | ESP | 9:12.8 |
| 27 | Cahit Onel | TUR | 9:14.6 |
| 28 | Eric Shirley | GBR | 9:14.8 |
| 29 | Mubarak Shah | PAK | 9:20.0 |
| 30 | Mohamed Lahcen | MAR | 9:29.4 |
| 31 | Joaquim Ferreira | POR | 9:30.2 |
| 32 | Alfredo Tinoco | MEX | 9:38.0 |
| Did not start | |||
| Sebastiao Mendes | BRA | ||
| Walter Steinbach | AUT | ||
| Balkrishan Grewal | IND | ||