10,000 metres, Men
Participants
| Nr. | Athlete | NOC |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les Perry |  AUS |
| 2 | Helmut Perz |  AUT |
| 3 | Alphonse Vandenrydt |  BEL |
| 4 | Marcel Vandewattyne | BEL |
| 5 | Raúl Inostroza |  CHI |
| 6 | Thyge Thøgersen |  DEN |
| 7 | Väinö Koskela |  FIN |
| 8 | Hugo Niskanen | FIN |
| 9 | Hannu Posti | FIN |
| 10 | Ould Lamine Abdallah |  FRA |
| 11 | Ahmed Labidi | FRA |
| 12 | Alain Mimoun | FRA |
| 13 | Fred Norris |  GBR |
| 14 | Gordon Pirie | GBR |
| 15 | Frank Sando | GBR |
| 16 | Luis Velásquez |  GUA |
| 17 | Béla Juhász |  HUN |
| 18 | Kristján Jóhannsson |  ISL |
| 19 | Martin Stokken |  NOR |
| 20 | Abdul Rashid |  PAK |
| 21 | Bill Keith |  RSA |
| 22 | Bertil Albertsson |  SWE |
| 23 | Bertil Karlsson | SWE |
| 24 | Valter Nyström | SWE |
| 25 | Emil Zátopek |  TCH |
| 26 | Osman Coşgül |  TUR |
| 27 | Aleksandr Anufriyev |  URS |
| 28 | Nikifor Popov | URS |
| 29 | Ivan Pozhidayev | URS |
| 30 | Curt Stone |  USA |
| 31 | Fred Wilt | USA |
| 32 | Trần Văn Lý |  VNM |
| 33 | Franjo Mihalić |  YUG |
Non-starters
| Nr. | Athlete | NOC |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delfo Cabrera |  ARG |
| 2 | Corsino Fernández | ARG |
| 3 | Reinaldo Gorno | ARG |
| 4 | Rikard Greenfort | DEN |
| 5 | Antonio Amorós |  ESP |
| 6 | José Coll | ESP |
| 7 | Herbert Schade |  GER |
| 8 | Vasilis Mavrapostolos |  GRE |
| 9 | Doroteo Flores | GUA |
| 10 | József Kovács | HUN |
| 11 | Osamu Inoue |  JPN |
| 12 | Paul Frieden |  LUX |
| 13 | Jan Szwargot |  POL |
| 14 | Syd Luyt | RSA |
| 15 | Hans Frischknecht |  SUI |
| 16 | Milan Švajgr | TCH |
| 17 | Horace Ashenfelter | USA |
| 18 | Domeniko Cetinić | YUG |