| 1 | Robert De Castella | AUS | |
2:10:03 | |
| 2 | Kebede Balcha | ETH | |
2:10:27 | |
| 3 | Waldemar Cierpinski | GDR | |
2:10:37 | |
| 4 | Kjell-Erik Ståhl | SWE | 2:10:38 | NR | |
| 5 | Agapius Masong | TAN | 2:10:42 | ||
| 6 | Armand Parmentier | BEL | 2:10:57 | ||
| 7 | Gianni Poli | ITA | 2:11:05 | NR | |
| 8 | Hugh Jones | GBR | 2:11:15 | ||
| 9 | Karel Lismont | BEL | 2:11:24 | ||
| 10 | Stig Roar Husby | NOR | 2:11:29 | NR | |
| 11 | Art Boileau | CAN | 2:11:30 | ||
| 12 | Juan Carlos Traspaderne | ESP | 2:11:34 | NR | |
| 13 | Marco Marchei | ITA | 2:11:47 | ||
| 14 | Pertti Tiainen | FIN | 2:12:11 | ||
| 15 | Juma Ikangaa | TAN | 2:13:11 | ||
| 16 | Ryszard Marczak | POL | 2:13:20 | ||
| 17 | Svend Erik Kristensen | DEN | 2:13:34 | ||
| 18 | Ron Tabb | USA | 2:13:38 | ||
| 19 | Henrik Jørgensen | DEN | 2:14:10 | ||
| 20 | Hans Joachim Truppel | GDR | 2:14:20 | ||
| 21 | Ricardo Ortega | ESP | 2:14:46 | ||
| 22 | Tommy Persson | SWE | 2:14:57 | ||
| 23 | Bruno Lafranchi | SUI | 2:14:58 | ||
| 24 | Dave Edge | CAN | 2:15:43 | ||
| 25 | Yuriy Pleshkov | URS | 2:15:50 | ||
| 26 | Øyvind Dahl | NOR | 2:16:02 | ||
| 27 | Paul Ballinger | NZL | 2:16:06 | ||
| 28 | Jürgen Eberding | GDR | 2:16:55 | ||
| 29 | Gerard Nijboer | NED | 2:16:59 | ||
| 30 | Frederik Vandervennet | BEL | 2:17:11 | ||
| 31 | Trevor Wright | NZL | 2:17:31 | ||
| 32 | Mehmet Terzi | TUR | 2:17:56 | ||
| 33 | Delfim Moreira | POR | 2:18:27 | ||
| 34 | Jong-Hyong Li | PRK | 2:18:51 | ||
| 35 | Yoshihiro Nishimura | JPN | 2:18:56 | ||
| 36 | Cidalio Caetano | POR | 2:19:21 | ||
| 37 | John Skovbjerg | DEN | 2:19:44 | ||
| 38 | Jeff Coole | AUS | 2:20:25 | ||
| 39 | Benji Durden | USA | 2:20:38 | ||
| 40 | Chang-Sik So | PRK | 2:20:43 | ||
| 41 | Wilson Theleso | BOT | 2:21:36 | NR | |
| 42 | Hideki Kita | JPN | 2:21:37 | ||
| 43 | Baikuntha Manandhar | NEP | 2:21:43 | ||
| 44 | Henrik Sandstrom | FIN | 2:21:56 | ||
| 45 | Rudi Verriet | NED | 2:22:07 | ||
| 46 | Dominique Chauvelier | FRA | 2:23:25 | ||
| 47 | Djama Robleh | DJI | 2:24:04 | ||
| 48 | Gerry Helme | GBR | 2:25:02 | ||
| 49 | Sam Hlawe | SWZ | 2:26:42 | ||
| 50 | Jan-Iwar Westlund | SWE | 2:27:05 | ||
| 51 | Carlos Carvajal | CHI | 2:27:30 | ||
| 52 | Don Greig | NZL | 2:27:37 | ||
| 53 | Luis Tipan | ECU | 2:28:30 | ||
| 54 | Benjamin Campos Palmireno | BRA | 2:29:41 | ||
| 55 | Jan Fjaerestad | NOR | 2:30:58 | ||
| 56 | Tavares Silva | POR | 2:31:31 | ||
| 57 | Syrja Dalipi | ALB | 2:31:40 | ||
| 58 | Raymond Swan | BER | 2:33:20 | ||
| 59 | Chang-Ming Chen | TPE | 2:34:00 | ||
| 60 | Agust Thorsteinsson | ISL | 2:34:05 | ||
| 61 | José Jaime Hernandez | ESA | 2:34:26 | ||
| 62 | Michael Lekhelsi | LES | 2:52:01 | ||
| 63 | Said Toumane | COM | 3:03:10 | ||
| Ahmet Altun | TUR | DNF | |||
| Santiago De La Parte | ESP | DNF | |||
| Mike Gratton | GBR | DNF | |||
| Gerhard Hartmann | AUT | DNF | |||
| Yair Karni | ISR | DNF | |||
| Koshiro Kawaguchi | JPN | DNF | |||
| Louis Kenny | IRL | DNF | |||
| Ramon Lopez | PAR | DNF | |||
| Alfredo Maravilla | ARG | DNF | |||
| Ed Mendoza | USA | DNF | |||
| Giampaolo Messina | ITA | DNF | |||
| Dereje Nedi | ETH | DNF | |||
| Peter Quance | CAN | DNF | |||
| Ahmed Salah | DJI | DNF | |||
| Carlos Victorino | MEX | DNF | |||
| Grenville Wood | AUS | DNF | |||
| Antonio Villanueva | MEX | DNF | |||
| Ralf Salzmann | FRG | DNF |