| Final | time | | 1. Daniel Plaza |  Spain | 1:21:45 | | 2. Guillaume LeBlanc |  Canada | 1:22:25 | | 3. Giovanni De Benedictis |  Italy | 1:23:11 | | 4. Maurizio Damilano | Italy | 1:23:39 | | 5. Chen Shaoguo |  China | 1:24:06 | | 6. Jimmy McDonald |  Ireland | 1:25:16 | | 7. Daniel García |  Mexico | 1:25:35 | | 8. Urbanik Sándor |  Hungary | 1:26:08 | | 9. Moreno Héctor |  Colombia | 1:26:23 | | 10.Miguel Ángel Prieto | Spain | 1:26:38 | | 11.Robert Ihly |  Germany | 1:26:56 | | 12.Mikhail Shchennikov |  United Team | 1:27:17 | | 13.Vladimir Andreyev | United Team | 1:28:25 | | 14.Tim Berrett | Canada | 1:28:25 | | 15.Stefan Johansson |  Sweden | 1:28:37 | | 16.Chris Maddocks |  Great Britain | 1:28:45 | | 17.Pavol Blažek |  Czechoslovakia | 1:29:23 | | 18.Walter Arena | Italy | 1:29:34 | | 19.Igor Kollár | Czechoslovakia | 1:29:38 | | 20.Axel Noack | Germany | 1:29:55 | | 21.Joel Sánchez | Mexico | 1:30:12 | | 22.Nicholas A'Hern |  Australia | 1:31:39 | | 23.Andrew Penn | Great Britain | 1:31:40 | | 24.Martin Rush | Great Britain | 1:31:56 | | 25.Shemisu Hasen |  Ethiopia | 1:32:39 | | 26.Viktoras Meškauskas |  Lithuania | 1:33:24 | | 27.Galdino Sérgio |  Brazil | 1:33:32 | | 28.Ján Záhončík | Czechoslovakia | 1:33:37 | | 29.Ernesto Canto | Mexico | 1:33:51 | | 30.Allen James |  United States | 1:35:12 | | 31.Andrew Jachno | Australia | 1:36:49 | | 32.Marcelo Palma | Brazil | 1:40:11 | | Did Not Finish | | -. Li Mingcai | China | DNF | | -. Robert Korzeniowski |  Poland | DNF | | -. Oleg Troshin | United Team | DNF | | -. Ademar Kammler | Brazil | DNF | | -. Jefferson Pérez |  Ecuador | DNF | | Disqualified | | -. Valentí Massana | Spain | DSQ | | -. Thierry Toutain |  France | DSQ | | -. Bobby O'Leary | Ireland | DSQ | | -. José Urbano |  Portugal | DSQ | | -. Saleumphone Sopraseut |  Laos | DSQ |
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| | | Finish: Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc 67,007. | | 42 competitors from 23 nations. |
| World Record: Pavol Blažek, Czechoslovakia :18.13 September 16, 1990 Hildesheim, West Germany | | Olympic Record: Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia 1:19.57 September 23, 1988 Seoul, South Korea |
Four seconds covered the first 16 at 5km, but the leading pack had
halved at 10km. By the three-quarters mark, two contenders – Li
Mingcai (CHN), and Robert Korzeniowski (POL) – had dropped out,
while France’s Thierry Toutain was disqualified. Three men were still
at the front – Plaza, LeBlanc and Valentí Massana (ESP), with veteran
Damilano losing ground 11 seconds back. Plaza broke away from the
other two, and Massana was disqualified on the way up the hill to
Montjuic stadium – a climb of 1460m. Plaza, a local who had trained
on the course with virtually nothing else in mind for six months, was
well ahead of Leblanc by the time the stadium was reached. De
Benedictis passed Damilano on the hill climb to take the bronze medal.
| Splits | 5km | 10km | 15km | | 1. Plaza | 19:50 | 40:06 | 60:31 | | 2. Leblanc | 19:50 | 40:07 | 60:31 | | 3. De Benedictis | 19:50 | 40:12 | 61:00 | | 4. Damilano | 19:50 | 40:06 | 60:42 | | 5. Chen | 19:52 | 40:34 | 61:11 | | 6. McDonald | 20:53 | 42:02 | 63:13 | | 7. García | 19:54 | 41:04 | 62:44 | | 8. Urbanik | 19:50 | 40:47 | 62:37 |
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