Finishing 8th Santiago Perez crossed the line in 3:49.48.
Finishing 9th Yuriy Andronov crossed the line in 3:50:28.
Rounding out the top ten Latangadasu A finished in 3:51:55.
Jeffereson Perez raced till the end, passing Norway's Trond Nymark in the last few hundred meters to finsih 12th in 3:53:04. Amazing, what would amount to a bad race, one where it looked Perez never got started, and Perez still finishes in 3:53.
American's Curt Clausen and Philip Dunn finished 32nd and 35th respectively in times of 4:11:31 and 4:12:49.
Complete Results:
1 KORZENIOWSKI, Robert - POL 3:38:46
2 NIZHEGORODOV, Denis - RUS 3:42:50
3 VOYEVODIN, Aleksey - RUS 3:43:34
4 YU, Caohong - CHN 3:43:45
5 GARCIA, Jesus Angel - ESP 3:44:42
6 MAGDZIARCZYK, Roman - POL 3:48:11
7 SUDOL, Grzegorz - POL 3:49:09
8 PEREZ, Santiago - ESP 3:49:48
9 ANDRONOV, Yuriy - RUS 3:50:28
10 A, Latangadasu - CHN 3:51:55
11 FADEJEVS, Aigars - LAT 3:52:52
12 PEREZ, Jefferson - ECU 3:53:04
13 NYMARK, Trond - NOR 3:53:20
14 KORCOK, Peter - SVK 3:54:22
15 RODRIGUEZ, Miguel Angel - MEX 3:55:43
16 YAMAZAKI, Yuki - JPN 3:57:00
17 SANCHEZ, German - MEX 3:58:33
18 BATOVSKY, Milos - SVK 3:59:11
19 STEPANCHUK, Andrey - BLR 3:59:32
20 KOREPANOV, Sergey - KAZ 3:59:33
21 RIVA, Eddy - FRA 4:00:25
22 BOULANGER, David - FRA 4:01:32
23 RAKOVIC, Aleksandar - SCG 4:02:06
24 CZUKOR, Zoltan - HUN 4:03:51
25 LIEPINS, Modris - LAT 4:04:26
26 GALDINO, Sergio - BRA 4:05:02
27 KIM Dong, Young - KOR 4:05:16
28 LEHTINEN, Jani - FIN 4:05:35
29 BARRETT, Craig - NZL 4:06:48
30 ZUJUS, Daugvinas - LTU 4:09:41
31 BERRETT, Tim - CAN 4:10:31
32 CLAUSEN, Curt - USA 4:11:31
33 GONZALEZ, Jose Antonio - ESP 4:11:51
34 COSTA, Jorge - POR 4:12:24
35 DUNN, Philip - USA 4:12:49
36 VERKIN, Kazimir - SVK 4:13:11
37 KUVATOV, Rustam - KAZ 4:13:40
38 HOLUSA, Milos - CZE 4:15:01
39 ARYIROPOULOS, Yeoryios - GRE 4:17:25
40 SANTOS, JR Mario - BRA 4:20:11
41 TOTH, Janos - HUN 4:29:33
DNF GARCIA, Luis F. - GUA DNF
DNF HOEHNE, Andre - GER DNF
DNF LANGLOIS, Denis - FRA DNF
DNF KASTANIS, Spiridon - GRE DNF
DNF FLORES, Mario Ivan - MEX DNF
DNF MARTINS, Pedro - POR DNF
DNF HAN, Yucheng - CHN DNF
DNF STAMATOPOULOS, Theodoros - GRE DNF
DQ DEAKES, Nathan - AUS DQ
DQ ERM, Andreas - GER DQ
DQ MARTINEZ Julio Rene DQ
DQ de BENEDICTIS Giovanni - ITA DQ
DQ TANII Takayuki - JPN DQ
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