| Final 13:15 | time | | 1. Hartwig Gauder |  GDR | 3:40:55 | | 2. Vyacheslav Ivanenko |  URS | 3:41:54 | | 3. Valeri Suntsov | URS | 3:42:38 | | 4. Sergei Protsyshin | URS | 3:45:51 | | 5. Reima Salonen |  FIN | 3:46:14 | | 6. Dietmar Meisch | GDR | 3:48:01 | | 7. Bo Gustafsson |  SWE | 3:50:13 | | 8. Pavol Szikora |  TCH | 3:51:35 | | 9. Jorge Llopart |  ESP | 3:52:12 | | 10.Erling Andersen |  NOR | 3:53:42 | | 11.Sandro Bellucci |  ITA | 3:54:10 | | 12.Grzegorz Ledzion |  POL | 3:54:16 | | 13.Raffaello Ducceschi | ITA | 3:56:42 | | 14.Alain Lemercier |  FRA | 3:59:11 | | 15.Martial Fesselier | FRA | 3:59:44 | | 16.Lars Ove Moen | NOR | 4:05:01 | | 17.Ivo Pitak | TCH | 4:14:32 | | 18.Dennis Jackson |  GBR | 4:16:42 | | 19.Roland Nilsson | SWE | 4:24:02 | | 20.Roman Mrazek | TCH | 4:27:28 | | 21.Martin Toporek |  AUT | 4:33:38 | | 22.Thomas Pomozi | SWE | 4:43:11 |
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| NM | | -. Alfons Schwarz |  FRG | DNF | | -. Maurizio Damilano | ITA | DNF | | -. Manuel Alcalde | ESP | DNF | | -. Jose Pinto |  POR | DNF | | -. Ronald Weigel | GDR | DQ | | -. Les Morton | GBR | DQ |
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