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 |
|
| Venue: Centennial Olympic Stadium, Seoul. Capp.: 69,950. | -- competitors from -- nations. |
|