| Final 17:30 | time | | 1. Ilmari Salminen |  Finland | 30:15.4 | | 2. Arvo Askola | Finland | 30:15.6 | | 3. Volmari Iso-Hollo | Finland | 30:20.2 | | 4. Kohei Murakoso |  Japan | 30:25.0 | | 5. Alec Burns |  Great Britain | 30:58.2 | | 6. Juan Carlos Zabala |  Argentina | 31:22.0 | | 7. Max Gebhardt |  Germany | 31:29.6 | | 8. Don Lash |  United States | 31:39.4 | | 9. Odd Rasdal |  Norway | 31:40.4 | | 10.Harry Siefert |  Denmark | 31:52.6 | | 11.Giuseppe Beviacqua |  Italy | 31:57.0 | | 12.Kelen János |  Hungary | 32:01.0 | | 13.Henning Sundesson |  Sweden | 32:11.8 | | 14.Noji Józef |  Poland | 32:13.0 | | 15.Rudolf Wöber |  Austria | 32:22.0 | | 16.Eino Pentti | United States | 32:23.0 | | 17.Ludvík Bombík |  Czechoslovakia | 32:24.0 | | 18.Lucien Tostain |  France | 32:24.2 | | 19.André Sicard | France | 32:25.0 | | 20.André Lonlas | France | 32:58.0 | | 21.Walter Schönrock | Germany | 32:59.0 | | 22.Josef Siegers | Germany | | | -. Pierre Bajart |  Belgium | DNF | | -. Scotty Rankine |  Canada | DNF | | -. Milton Wallace | Canada | DNF | | -. William Eaton | Great Britain | DNF | | -. Stanley Wudyka | United States | DNF | | -. Fusashige Suzuki | Japan | DNF | | -. Raunaq Singh Gill |  India | DNF | | -. John Potts | Great Britain | DNF |
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| | | Venue: Olympiastadion, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Capp.: 100,000. | | 30 competitors from 18 nations. |
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