| Venue: Empire Stadium, London. |
| Event Ranking | time | pts | 1984 | Y | | 1. Godtfred Holmvang |  NOR | 4:28.6 | 633 | 754 | 30 | | 2. Erik Andersson |  SWE | 4:34.0 | 589 | 719 | 26 | | 2. Pierre Sprécher |  FRA | 4:34.0 | 589 | 719 | 26 | | 4. Per Eriksson | SWE | 4:35.8 | 575 | 707 | 23 | | 5. Wacław Kuźmicki |  POL | 4:41.8 | 531 | 669 | 27 | | 6. Ignace Heinrich | FRA | 4:43.8 | 517 | 657 | 22 | | 7. Enrique Kistenmacher |  ARG | 4:49.6 | 478 | 621 | 25 | | 8. Irving Mondschein |  USA | 4:49.8 | 477 | 620 | 24 | | 9. Mario Recordón |  CHI | 4:54.8 | 445 | 590 | 26 | | 10.Davorin Marčelja |  YUG | 4:55.2 | 443 | 588 | 24 | | 11.Floyd Simmons | USA | 4:58.0 | 426 | 571 | 25 | | 11.Yrjö Mäkelä |  FIN | 4:58.0 | 426 | 571 | 21 | | 13.Albert Dayer |  BEL | 5:01.2 | 407 | 553 | 22 | | 14.Edward Adamczyk | POL | 5:01.4 | 406 | 552 | 26 | | 15.Hannes Sonck | FIN | 5:01.8 | 404 | 549 | 28 | | 16.Fritz Nussbaum |  SUI | 5:02.6 | 399 | 545 | 24 | | 17.Kjell Tånnander | SWE | 5:04.8 | 387 | 532 | 21 | | 18.Hernán Figueroa | CHI | 5:06.4 | 378 | 523 | 20 | | 19.Clausen Örn |  ISL | 5:07.0 | 375 | 520 | 19 | | 20.Per Stavem | NOR | 5:07.4 | 373 | 518 | 22 | | 20.Sayed Moukhtar |  EGY | 5:08.4 | 368 | 512 | | | 22.Azcune Hércules |  URU | 5:09.0 | 364 | 509 | 19 | | 23.Oskar Gerber | SUI | 5:10.8 | 355 | 499 | | | 24.Bob Mathias | USA | 5:11.0 | 354 | 498 | 17 | | 25.Lionel Fournier |  CAN | 5:12.4 | 347 | 490 | 31 | | 26.Peter Mullins |  AUS | 5:17.6 | 321 | 463 | 22 | | 27.Witold Gerutto | POL | 5:17.8 | 320 | 462 | 35 | | 28.Jacques Crétaine | FRA | 5:20.8 | 306 | 446 | |
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