| Heat 1 | Team | Time | | 1. Klaus Richtzenhain | GER | 3:46:6 | | 2. Stanislav Jungwidth | TCH | 3:46:6 | | 3. Ian Boyd | GBR | 3:47:0 | | 4. Murray Halberg | NZL | 3:47:2 | | 5. Istvan Rozsavolgyi | HUN | 3:49:4 | | 6. Andre Ballieux | BEL | 3:49:8 | | 7. Michel Jazy | FRA | 3:50:0 | | 8. Theodore Wheeler | USA | 3:50:0 | | 9. Piatras-Ionas Pipine | URS | 3:50:0 | | 10.Josef Barthel | LUX | 3:50:0 | | 11.Mamo Wolde | ETH | 3:51:0 |
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| Heat 2 | Team | Time | | 1. Mervyn Lincoln | AUS | 3:45:4 | | 2. Keneth Wood | GBR | 3:46:6 | | 3. Ron Delany | IRL | 3:47:4 | | 4. Laszlo Tabori | HUN | 3:48:0 | | 5. Ingvar Ericsson | SWE | 3:49:0 | | 6. Yevgeny Sokolov | URS | 3:49:2 | | 7. Evangelos Depastas | GRE | 3:52:0 | | 8. Olavi Salsola | FIN | 3:55:0 | | 9. Gunther Dohrow | GER | 3:58:0 | | 10.Ramon Sandoval | CHI | 3:58:0 | | 11.Donald. Bowden | USA | 4:00:0 | | 12.Emile Leva | BEL | 4:06:0 | | 13.Sank Ok-Sim | KOR | 4:09:0 | | 14.Jan Mahmud | PAK | 4:15:0 | | 15.Somnuek Srisombati | THA | 4:30:0 |
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