| Order / Lane | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | PB | SB 1995 | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Nerurkar |  GBR | ||
| 2 | Dionicio Cerón |  MEX | ||
| 3 | Harri Hänninen |  FIN | 2:28:07 | |
| 4 | Stephen Lagat |  KEN | ||
| 5 | Jean Marie Gehin |  FRA | 2:14:30 | |
| 6 | Omar Abdillahi |  DJI | 2:29:28 | |
| 7 | Yuji Nakamura |  JPN | ||
| 8 | Sean Quilty |  AUS | ||
| 9 | Kent Jensen |  DEN | ||
| 10 | Paul Pilkington |  USA | ||
| 11 | Steve Moneghetti |  AUS | 2:08:16 | 2:08:33 | 
| 12 | Abdelillah Zerdal |  MAR | ||
| 13 | Mimoun Lamhajar |  MAR | ||
| 14 | Peter Whitehead |  GBR | ||
| 15 | Tena Negere |  ETH | 2:29:46 | |
| 16 | Peter Maher |  CAN | 2:19:26 | |
| 17 | Erick Wainaina |  KEN | ||
| 18 | Paul Kuété |  CMR | 2:18:35 | |
| 19 | Konrad Dobler |  GER | 2:18:28 | |
| 20 | Oleg Strizhakov |  RUS | ||
| 21 | Abdelillah Sbaiti |  MAR | ||
| 22 | Steve Plasencia |  USA | ||
| 23 | Isidro Rico |  MEX | ||
| 24 | Pavel Loskutov |  EST | ||
| 25 | Isaac Tshabalala |  RSA | ||
| 26 | Andrés Espinosa |  MEX | 2:07:19 | |
| 27 | Pamenos Ballantyne |  VIN | 2:21:22 | 2:21:22 | 
| 28 | Mothusi Tsiana |  BOT | 2:42:10 | |
| 29 | Eduard Tukhbatullin |  RUS | ||
| 30 | Boay Akonay |  TAN | ||
| 31 | Matthews Temane |  RSA | ||
| 32 | Mark Hudspith |  GBR | 2:11:58 | 2:11:58 | 
| 33 | Idris Ibrahim |  SWE | ||
| 34 | Joseph Tjitunga |  NAM | ||
| 35 | Terje Naess |  NOR | ||
| 36 | Antonio Vicente Neto |  BRA | ||
| 37 | Bong-ju Lee |  KOR | ||
| 38 | Laurentiu Staicu |  ROU | ||
| 39 | Elphas Ginindza |  SWZ | 2:22:43 | |
| 40 | Roman Kejžar |  SLO | ||
| 41 | William Aguirre |  NCA | 2:20:39 | |
| 42 | MartÃn Fiz |  ESP | 2:08:57 | 2:08:57 | 
| 43 | Rainer Wachenbrunner |  GER | ||
| 44 | Gi-Sheng Hsu |  TPE | 2:14:35 | 2:14:35 | 
| 45 | Sid-Ali Sakhri |  ALG | 2:11:09 | |
| 46 | John Mwathiwa |  MAW | ||
| 47 | Luca Barzaghi |  ITA | 2:10:53 | |
| 48 | Karel David |  CZE | 2:11:57 | |
| 49 | LuÃz Antônio dos Santos |  BRA | ||
| 50 | Asaf Bimro |  ISR | 2:17:12 | 2:17:12 | 
| 51 | John Andrews |  AUS | ||
| 52 | Ã…ke Eriksson |  SWE | ||
| 53 | Abebe Mekonnen |  ETH | 2:07:35 | |
| 54 | Ed Eyestone |  USA | ||
| 55 | Ahmed Salah |  DJI | 2:07:07 | |
| 56 | Daisuke Tokunaga |  JPN | ||
| 57 | Juma Ikangaa |  TAN | 2:08:01 | |
| 58 | Luigi Di Lello |  ITA | ||
| 59 | Joaquim Silva |  POR | ||
| 60 | Ikaji Salum |  TAN | ||
| 61 | Aleksandr Vychuzhanin |  RUS | 2:32:37 | |
| 62 | Yayeh Aden |  DJI | ||
| 63 | Valdenor dos Santos |  BRA | 2:10:20 | |
| 64 | Borislav Devic |  SCG | 2:13:57 | 2:13:57 | 
| 65 | Diego GarcÃa |  ESP | 2:21:16 | |
| 66 | Martin Ndivheni |  RSA | ||
| 67 | Alberto Juzdado |  ESP | 2:11:18 | |
| 68 | Joaquim Pinheiro |  POR | ||
| 69 | Tahar Mansouri |  TUN | 2:13:51 | 2:13:51 | 
| 70 | Poulo Makhoahle |  LES | ||
| 71 | Nazirdin Akylbekov |  KGZ | ||
| 72 | Tumo Turbo |  ETH | ||
| 73 | Yong-Bok Kim |  KOR | ||
| 74 | Toshiaki Kurabayashi |  JPN | ||
| 75 | Islam Dugum |  BIH | ||
| 76 | Dominique Chauvelier |  FRA | 2:11:24 | |
| 77 | Bruce Deacon |  CAN | ||
| 78 | Michael Mukoma |  KEN |