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Date: 18 October 1968 / 19 October 1968 / 20 October 1968
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Kip Keino | KEN | 3:34.9 |
| 2 | James Ryun | USA | 3:37.8 |
| 3 | Bodo Tummler | FRG | 3:39.0 |
| 4 | Harald Norpoth | FRG | 3:42.5 |
| 5 | John Whetton | GBR | 3:43.8 |
| 6 | Jacques Boxberger | FRA | 3:46.6 |
| 7 | Henryk Szordykowski | POL | 3:46.6 |
| 8 | Josef Odlozil | TCH | 3:48.6 |
| 9 | Thomas Von Ruden | USA | 3:49.2 |
| 10 | Ben Jipcho | KEN | 3:51.2 |
| 11 | Andre de Hertoghe | BEL | 3:53.6 |
| 12 | Martin Liquori | USA | 4:18.2 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 13 | Oleg Raiko | URS | 3:52.7 |
| 14 | Ahmed Issa | CHA | 3:53.2 |
| 15 | Hans-Rudi Knill | SUI | 3:53.6 |
| 16 | Francesco Arese | ITA | 3:54.8 |
| 17 | Arne Kvalheim | NOR | 3:55.3 |
| 18 | John Boulter | GBR | 3:56.1 |
| 19 | Norman Trerise | CAN | 3:57.2 |
| 20 | Edgar Salve | BEL | 3:58.1 |
| 21 | Mikhail Zhelobovsky | URS | 3:59.0 |
| 22 | Hamadi Haddou | MAR | 4:01.6 |
| 23 | Claude Nicolas | FRA | 4:04.4 |
| 24 | Arnd Kruger | FRG | 4:05.3 |
| Heats | |||
| 25 | Jose Neri | MEX | 3:47.5 |
| 26 | Gianni del Buono | ITA | 3:48.4 |
| 27 | Jorge Gonzalez | ESP | 3:50.4 |
| 28 | Jorge Grosser | CHI | 3:51.7 |
| 29 | David Bailey | CAN | 3:52.1 |
| 30 | Matias Habtemichael | ETH | 3:53.2 |
| 31 | Anders Garderud | SWE | 3:54.2 |
| 32 | Byron Dyce | JAM | 3:54.6 |
| 33 | Jerzy Maluski | POL | 3:54.8 |
| 33 | Francis Murphy | IRL | 3:54.8 |
| 35 | Robert Honti | HUN | 3:54.9 |
| 36 | Peter Watson | AUS | 3:55.4 |
| 37 | Ioannis Virvilis | GRE | 3:55.5 |
| 38 | Maurice Benn | GBR | 3:56.4 |
| 39 | Rudolf Klaban | AUT | 3:59.1 |
| 40 | Renzo Finelli | ITA | 3:59.5 |
| 41 | Ove Kjell Berg | SWE | 4:00.4 |
| 42 | Tom Hansen | DEN | 4:01.4 |
| 43 | Julio Quevedo | GUA | 4:03.1 |
| 44 | Edouard Sagna | SEN | 4:04.1 |
| 45 | Subramaniam Ramasamy | MAS | 4:06.4 |
| 46 | Rudi Simon | BEL | 4:06.9 |
| 47 | Pekka Vasala | FIN | 4:08.5 |
| 48 | Willie Rios | PUR | 4:14.4 |
| 49 | Xaver Frick | LIE | 4:15.3 |
| 50 | Jeffrey Payne | BER | 4:18.9 |
| 51 | Miguel Nunez | DOM | 4:23.6 |
| 52 | Alfredo Cubias | ESA | 4:32.5 |
| 53 | Emilio Barahona | HON | 4:56.0 |
| 54 | Arturo Cordoba | HON | 5:18.9 |