| Final | | time | | 1. Viacheslav Ivanenko |  URS | 3:38:29 | | 2. Ronald Weigel |  GDR | 3:38:56 | | 3. Hartwig Gauder | GDR | 3:39:45 | | 4. Alexandre Potachev | URS | 3:41:00 | | 5. Jose Marin |  ESP | 3:43:03 | | 6. Simon Baker |  AUS | 3:44:07 | | 7. Bo Gustafsson |  SWE | 3:44:49 | | 8. Raffaello Ducceschi |  ITA | 3:45:43 | | 9. Dietmar Meisch | GDR | 3:46:31 | | 10.Pavol Szikora |  TCH | 3:47:04 | | 11.Giovanni Perricelli | ITA | 3:47:14 | | 12.Pavol Blazek | TCH | 3:47:31 | | 13.Jorge Llopart | ESP | 3:48:09 | | 14.Francois Lapointe |  CAN | 3:48:15 | | 15.Martin Bermudez |  MEX | 3:49:22 | | 16.Alain Lemercier |  FRA | 3:50:28 | | 17.Roman Mrazek | TCH | 3:50:46 | | 18.Reima Salonen |  FIN | 3:51:36 | | 19.Andrew Jachno | AUS | 3:53:23 | | 20.Stefan Johansson | SWE | 3:53:34 | | 21.Jose Pinto |  POR | 3:55:57 | | 22.Marco Evoniuk |  USA | 3:56:55 | | 23.Carl Schueler | USA | 3:57:44 | | 24.Jacek Bednarek |  POL | 3:58:31 | | 25.Manuel Alcalde | ESP | 3:59:13 | | 26.Vitali Popovitch | URS | 3:59:23 | | 27.Leslie Morton |  GBR | 3:59:30 | | 28.Paul Blagg | GBR | 4:00:07 | | 28.Baojin Li |  CHN | 4:00:07 | | 30.Hector Moreno |  COL | 4:01:31 | | 31.Tadahiro Kosaka |  JPN | 4:03:12 | | 32.Sandro Bellucci | ITA | 4:04:56 | | 33.Arturo Bravo | MEX | 4:08:08 | | 34.Andrew Kaestner | USA | 4:12:49 | | 35.William Sawe |  KEN | 4:25:24 | | NM | | -. Erling Andersen |  NOR | DNF | | -. Godfried Dejonckheere |  BEL | DNF | | -. Sandor Urbanik |  HUN | DNF | | -. Jan Staaf | SWE | DNF | | -. Jean-Marie Neff | FRA | DQ | | -. Eric Neisse | FRA | DQ | | -. Hernan Andrade | MEX | DQ |
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