| Final 15:00 Temp 21-22°C | time | | | 1. Son Kitei |  Japan | 2:29:19.2 | Or | | 2. Ernest Harper |  Great Britain | 2:31:23.2 | | | 3. Nan Shoryu | Japan | 2:31:42.0 | | | 4. Erkki Tamila |  Finland | 2:32:45.0 | | | 5. Muinonen Väinö | Finland | 2:33:46.0 | | | 6. Johannes Coleman |  South Africa | 2:36:17.0 | | | 7. Donald Robertson | Great Britain | 2:37:06.2 | | | 8. Jackie Gibson | South Africa | 2:38:04.0 | | | 9. Mauno Tarkiainen | Finland | 2:39:33.0 | | | 10.Thore Enochsson |  Sweden | 2:43:12.0 | | | 11.Stylianos Kyriakides |  Greece | 2:43:20.0 | | | 12.Nouba Khaled |  France | 2:45:34.0 | | | 13.Henry Palmé | Sweden | 2:46:08.4 | | | 14.Franz Tuschek |  Austria | 2:46:29.0 | | | 15.Jimmy Bartlett |  Canada | 2:48:21.4 | | | 16.Duval Émile | France | 2:48:39.8 | | | 17.Manuel Dias |  Portugal | 2:49:00.0 | | | 18.Johnny Kelley |  United States | 2:49:32.4 | | | 19.Miloslav Luňák |  Czechoslovakia | 2:50:26.0 | | | 20.Felix Meskens |  Belgium | 2:51:19.0 | | | 21.Takáč Ján | Czechoslovakia | 2:51:20.0 | | | 22.Rudolf Wöber | Austria | 2:51:28.0 | | | 23.Ludovic Gal |  Romania | 2:55:02.0 | | | 24.Robert Nevens | Belgium | 2:55:51.0 | | | 25.Anders Hartington Andersen |  Denmark | 2:56:31.0 | | | 26.Gabriel Mendoza |  Peru | 2:57:17.8 | | | 27.Tommy Lalande | South Africa | 2:57:20.0 | | | 28.Artūrs Motmillers |  Latvia | 2:58:02.0 | | | 29.Eduard Braesecke |  Germany | 2:59:33.4 | | | 30.Percy Wyer | Canada | 3:00:11.0 | | | 31.Fernand Le Heurteur | France | 3:01:11.0 | | | 32.Wilhelm Rothmayer | Austria | 3:02:32.0 | | | 33.Bronisław Gancarz |  Poland | 3:03:11.0 | | | 34.Max Beer |  Switzerland | 3:06:26.0 | | | 35.Guillermo Suárez | Peru | 3:08:18.0 | | | 36.Boris Kharalampiev |  Bulgaria | 3:08:53.8 | | | 37.Arul Swami |  India | 3:10:44.0 | | | 38.Josef Šulc | Czechoslovakia | 3:11:47.4 | | | 39.Franz Eha | Switzerland | 3:18:17.0 | | | 40.Wang Zhenglin |  Rep. China | 3:25:36.4 | | | 41.Stane Šporn |  Yugoslavia | 3:30:47.0 | | | 42.José Farías | Peru | 3:33:24.0 | | | Did not finish - 14 athletes. | | -. Juan Acosta |  Chile | DNF | | | -. Franz Barsicke | Germany | DNF | | | -. Tarzan Brown | United States | DNF | | | -. Giannino Bulzone |  Italy | DNF | | | -. Paul de Bruyn | Germany | DNF | | | -. Kazimierz Fiałka | Poland | DNF | | | -. Aurelio Genghini | Italy | DNF | | | -. Billy McMahon | United States | DNF | | | -. Jaime Mendes | Portugal | DNF | | | -. Bert Norris | Great Britain | DNF | | | -. Luis Oliva |  Argentina | DNF | | | -. Tamao Shiwaku | Japan | DNF | | | -. Harold Webster | Canada | DNF | | | -. Juan Carlos Zabala | Argentina | DNF | |
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| | | Venue: Olympiastadion, Charlottenburg, Berlin. Capp.: 100,000. | | 56 competitors from 27 nations. |
| Korea was colony of Japan, therefore Korean sportsmen competed as members of Japanese team and were using their japanese names. Son Kitei was Korean called Sohn-Kee-chung and was ashamed to compete for Japan. Nan Shoryu was also Korean called Nam Sung-yong. |
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