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Date: 31 August 1960 / 1 September 1960 / 2 September 1960
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Michael Troy | USA | 2:12.8 |
| 2 | Neville Hayes | AUS | 2:14.6 |
| 3 | David Gillanders | USA | 2:15.3 |
| 4 | Federico Dennerlein | ITA | 2:16.0 |
| 5 | Haruo Yoshimuta | JPN | 2:18.3 |
| 6 | Kevin Berry | AUS | 2:18.5 |
| 7 | Valentin Kuzmin | URS | 2:18.9 |
| 8 | Kenzo Izutsu | JPN | 2:19.4 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Pavel Pazdirek | TCH | 2:23.5 |
| 10 | Eulalio Rios | MEX | 2:24.2 |
| 11 | Grigoriy Kiselev | URS | 2:24.8 |
| 12 | Ian Blyth | GBR | 2:26.8 |
| 12 | Luis Alberto Nicolao | ARG | 2:26.8 |
| 14 | Juergen Bachmann | GER | 2:28.4 |
| 15 | Alexandru Popescu | ROU | 2:28.5 |
| 16 | Ilkka Suvanto | FIN | |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Hakan Bengtsson | SWE | 2:25.0 |
| 18 | Fernando Fanjul | ARG | 2:25.2 |
| 19 | Wolfgang Sieber | GER | 2:25.4 |
| 20 | Gerrit Korteweg | NED | 2:26.4 |
| 21 | Cameron Grout | CAN | 2:27.7 |
| 22 | Amirhussin Hamsain | PHI | 2:27.9 |
| 23 | Luis Vaz Jorge | POR | 2:28.9 |
| 24 | Laszlo Kiss | HUN | 2:31.0 |
| 25 | Jose Vicente Leon | ESP | 2:31.4 |
| 26 | Giampiero Fossati | ITA | 2:31.9 |
| 27 | Veljko Rogusic | YUG | 2:35.5 |
| 28 | Henri Vidil | FRA | 2:36.0 |
| 29 | Bertus Sitters | NED | 2:36.6 |
| 30 | Heriberto De La Fe | ESP | 2:37.0 |
| 31 | Ahiron Radjal | PHI | 2:39.8 |
| 32 | Aldo Perseke | BRA | 2:50.8 |
| 33 | Seow Hoo Fong | MAL | 2:56.4 |
| 34 | Lovro Radonjic | YUG | 3:00.6 |
| Did not start | |||
| Ian Black | GBR | ||
| Miklos Ambrus | HUN | ||
| Habib Nasution | INA | ||
| Huu Dong Phan | VIE | ||
| Gershon Shefa | ISR | ||