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Date: 31 August 1960 / 1 September 1960 / 2 September 1960
Heats
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Peter Snell | NZL | 1:46.3 |
| 2 | Roger Moens | BEL | 1:46.5 |
| 3 | George Kerr | WIF | 1:47.1 |
| 4 | Paul Schmidt | GER | 1:47.6 |
| 5 | Christian Waegli | SUI | 1:48.1 |
| 6 | Manfred Matuschewski | GER | 1:52.0 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 7 | Jorg Balke | GER | 1:47.5 |
| 8 | Anthony Blue | AUS | 1:47.8 |
| 9 | Jerome Siebert | USA | 1:48.0 |
| 10 | Avram Krivosheyev | URS | 1:48.1 |
| 11 | Thomas Murphy | USA | 1:48.2 |
| 12 | Ernie Cunliffe | USA | 1:50.8 |
| Quarter-finals | |||
| 13 | Donald Smith | NZL | 1:48.4 |
| 14 | Terence Sullivan | ZIM | 1:49.9 |
| 15 | John Wenk | GBR | 1:50.0 |
| 16 | Rudolf Klaban | AUT | 1:50.2 |
| 17 | Valery Bulyshev | URS | 1:50.6 |
| 18 | Thomas Farrell | GBR | 1:50.7 |
| 19 | Ron Delany | IRL | 1:51.1 |
| 20 | Zbigniew Makomaski | POL | 1:51.6 |
| 21 | Ergas Leps | CAN | 1:52.0 |
| 22 | Ralph Gomes | GUY | 1:52.3 |
| 23 | Lajos Kovacs | HUN | 1:52.4 |
| 24 | Ekrem Kocak | TUR | 1:52.5 |
| 25 | Per Knuts | SWE | 1:52.8 |
| 26 | Peter Parsch | HUN | |
| 26 | Josef Lambrechts | BEL | |
| Heats | |||
| 28 | Pierre-Yvon Lenoir | FRA | 1:49.3 |
| 29 | Istvan Rozsavolgyi | HUN | 1:49.4 |
| 30 | Jaromir Slegr | TCH | 1:50.1 |
| 31 | Moussa Said | ETH | 1:50.3 |
| 32 | Joseph Mullins | CAN | 1:51.3 |
| 33 | Borut Ingolic | YUG | 1:51.4 |
| 33 | Vasily Savinkov | URS | 1:51.4 |
| 35 | Stefan Lewandowski | POL | 1:51.6 |
| 36 | Pertti Alander | FIN | 1:52.0 |
| 36 | Gianfranco Baraldi | ITA | 1:52.0 |
| 38 | Svavar Markusson | ISL | 1:52.7 |
| 39 | Jose Gomez | ESP | 1:53.7 |
| 40 | Konstantinos Moragiemos | GRE | 1:54.3 |
| 41 | Brian Hewson | GBR | 1:54.6 |
| 42 | Abdeslem Dargouth | TUN | 1:54.7 |
| 42 | Norbert Haupert | LUX | 1:54.7 |
| 42 | Yair Panthilat | ISR | 1:54.7 |
| 45 | Frederick Owusu | GHA | 1:55.2 |
| 46 | Ahmed Lazreg | MAR | 1:55.7 |
| 47 | Zbigniew Orywal | POL | 1:55.8 |
| 48 | George Johnson | LBR | 1:55.9 |
| 49 | Somsakdi Tongaram | THA | 1:57.1 |
| 50 | Egon Oehri | LIE | 2:00.3 |
| 51 | Siegmar Ohlemann | CAN | 2:07.4 |
| Did not start | |||
| Julian Brown | BAH | ||
| A.? Nur Farah | SOM | ||
| Abdul Ghafar Ghafoori | AFG | ||
| Siegfried Esajas | SUR | ||
| Jossue Delgado | PUR | ||