Heat 1 | | time | | 1. Bruce Tulloh | GBR | 14:14.4 | Q | 2. Lech Boguszewicz | POL | 14:19.2 | Q | 3. Siegfried Herrmann | GDR | 14:20.0 | Q | 4. Yuriy Nikitin | URS | 14:20.2 | Q | 5. Sven-Olov Larsson | SWE | 14:21.2 | | 6. Jean Vaillant | FRA | 14:36.8 | | 7. Béla Szekeres | HUN | 14:38.4 | | 8. Eugène Allonsius | BEL | 14:44.4 | | 9. Fevzi Pakel | TUR | 14:47.6 | | 10.Jean Aniset | LUX | 14:48.2 | |
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Heat 2 | | time | | 1. John Anderson | GBR | 14:15.0s | Q | 2. Michel Bernard | FRA | 14:15.6s | Q | 3. Valentin Samoilov | URS | 14:15.8s | Q | 4. Kazimierz Zimny | POL | 14:15.8s | Q | 5. Manuel de Oliveira | POR | 14:16.2s | | 6. István Kiss | HUN | 14:28.8s | | 7. Josef Tomáš | TCH | 14:39.4s | | 8. Friedrich Janke | GDR | 14:41.4s | | -. Ambu | ITA | DNS | |
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