| Date | 6 August 1948 — 16:30 |
|---|---|
| Location | Empire Stadium, Wembley, London |
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Points | Distance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 600 | Yrjö Mäkelä | 835 | 62.55 | ||||
| 2 | 499 | Pierre Sprécher | 757 | 58.79 | ||||
| 3 | 612 | Per Eriksson | 715 | 56.70 | ||||
| 4 | 618 | Davorin Marčelja | 688 | 55.34 | ||||
| 5 | 606 | Godtfred Holmvang | 656 | 53.66 | ||||
| 6 | 607 | Per Stavem | 639 | 52.79 | ||||
| 7 | 617 | Floyd Simmons | 624 | 51.99 | ||||
| 8 | 405 | Peter Mullins | 612 | 51.32 | ||||
| 9 | 564 | Witold Gerutto | 607 | 51.06 | ||||
| 10 | 611 | Erik Andersson | 607 | 51.04 | ||||
| 11 | 615 | Bob Mathias | 593 | 50.32 | ||||
| 12 | 598 | Albert Dayer | 564 | 48.71 | ||||
| 13 | 601 | Hannes Sonck | 555 | 48.24 | ||||
| 14 | 609 | Wacław Kuźmicki | 539 | 47.34 | ||||
| 15 | 614 | Fritz Nussbaum | 518 | 46.13 | ||||
| 16 | 432 | Enrique Kistenmacher | 499 | 45.06 | ||||
| 17 | 28 | Ezz El-Din Moukhtar | 491 | 44.59 | ||||
| 18 | 46 | Örn Clausen | 484 | 44.16 | ||||
| 19 | 445 | Edward Adamczyk | 476 | 43.70 | ||||
| 20 | 610 | Kjell Tånnander | 475 | 43.65 | ||||
| 21 | 602 | Jacques Crétaine | 469 | 43.26 | ||||
| 22 | 663 | Hernán Figueroa | 465 | 43.05 | ||||
| 23 | 613 | Oskar Gerber | 455 | 42.44 | ||||
| 24 | 437 | Lionel Fournier | 454 | 42.39 | ||||
| 25 | 524 | Ignace Heinrich | 430 | 40.98 | ||||
| 26 | 430 | Hércules Azcune | 387 | 38.31 | ||||
| 27 | 295 | Mario Recordón | 383 | 38.06 | ||||
| 28 | 616 | Irving Mondschein | 363 | 36.81 |