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Date: 20 July 1976 / 20 July 1976 / 21 July 1976
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Matt Vogel | USA | 54.35 |
| 2 | Joe Bottom | USA | 54.50 |
| 3 | Gary Hall | USA | 54.65 |
| 4 | Roger Pyttel | GDR | 55.09 |
| 5 | Roland Matthes | GDR | 55.11 |
| 6 | Clay Evans | CAN | 55.81 |
| 7 | Hideaki Hara | JPN | 56.34 |
| 8 | Neil Rogers | AUS | 56.57 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Klaus Steinbach | FRG | 55.90 |
| 10 | John Mills | GBR | 56.54 |
| 11 | Stephen Pickell | CAN | 56.66 |
| 12 | Bruce Robertson | CAN | 56.72 |
| 13 | Peter Broscienski | FRG | 56.81 |
| 14 | Jorge Delgado Jr. | ECU | 56.91 |
| 15 | Par Arvidsson | SWE | 56.93 |
| 16 | Evgeni Seredin | URS | 57.46 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Michael Kraus | FRG | 57.22 |
| 18 | John Coutts | NZL | 57.29 |
| 19 | Jorge Jaramillo | COL | 57.33 |
| 20 | John Park | GBR | 57.42 |
| 21 | Paolo Barelli | ITA | 57.64 |
| 21 | Aleksandr Manachinskiy | URS | 57.64 |
| 23 | Hartmut Flockner | GDR | 57.66 |
| 24 | Ross Seymour | AUS | 57.74 |
| 25 | Miloslav Rolko | TCH | 57.79 |
| 26 | Kees Vervoorn | NED | 57.84 |
| 27 | Luis Goicoechea | VEN | 57.92 |
| 28 | John Daly | PUR | 58.04 |
| 29 | Arnaldo Perez | PUR | 58.37 |
| 29 | Serge Buttet | FRA | 58.37 |
| 31 | Richard Iredale | GBR | 58.50 |
| 32 | Shinsuke Kayama | JPN | 58.55 |
| 33 | Romulo Arantes Jr. | BRA | 58.80 |
| 34 | Riccardo Urbani | ITA | 58.83 |
| 35 | Jose Luis Prado | MEX | 59.16 |
| 36 | Adi Prag | ISR | 59.99 |
| 37 | Konstantinos Koskinas | GRE | 1:00.20 |
| 38 | Robert Howard | IRL | 1:00.92 |
| 39 | Carlos Gonzalez | PAN | 1:00.97 |
| 40 | Steven Newkirk | ISV | 1:01.46 |
| 41 | Paulo Jose Frischknecht | POR | 1:01.97 |
| 42 | Campari Knoepffler | NCA | 1:02.05 |
| 43 | Lawrence Kwoh | HKG | 1:02.47 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Francois Deley | BEL | ||
| Did not start | |||
| John Ebito | NGR | ||
| Janos Bartha | HUN | ||