Yusuke Suzuki continued in front for a while and by 10km had a commanding 13 second lead.
He was followed by China's Zhen Wang who was flying after him. However, the judges got this one right and DQ'd Wang before he reached 15km.
Guatemala's Erick Barrondo, Russia's Aleksandr Ivanov and China's Ding Chen followed.
By 10km the splits looked like:
POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | |
1 | Yusuke Suzuki |
|
40:34:00 | |
2 | Zhen Wang |
|
40:47:00 | |
3 | Ding Chen |
|
40:47:00 | |
4 | Erick Barrondo |
|
40:48:00 | |
5 | Bertrand Moulinet |
|
40:48:00 | |
6 | Irfan Kolothum Thodi |
|
40:48:00 | |
7 | Takumi Saito |
|
40:48:00 | |
8 | Aleksandr Ivanov |
|
40:48:00 | |
9 | Denis Strelkov |
|
40:49:00 | |
10 | Iñaki Gómez |
|
40:51:00 | |
11 | Miguel Ángel López |
|
40:51:00 | |
12 | Andrii Kovenko |
|
40:54:00 | |
13 | Ruslan Dmytrenko |
|
40:54:00 | |
14 | Dane Bird-Smith |
|
40:54:00 | |
15 | Zelin Cai |
|
40:59:00 | |
16 | Matteo Giupponi |
|
40:59:00 | |
17 | Hyunsub Kim |
|
41:00:00 | |
18 | João Vieira |
|
41:01:00 | |
19 | Christopher Linke |
|
41:01:00 | |
20 | Caio Bonfim |
|
41:02:00 | |
21 | Isaac Palma |
|
41:10:00 | |
22 | Hatem Ghoula |
|
41:10:00 | |
23 | Ivan Losev |
|
41:11:00 | |
24 | Aléxandros Papamihaíl |
|
41:25:00 | |
25 | Luis Fernando López |
|
41:25:00 | |
26 | Rafal Augustyn |
|
41:36:00 | |
27 | Benjamin Thorne |
|
41:38:00 | |
28 | Rolando Saquipay |
|
41:38:00 | |
29 | Andrey Ruzavin |
|
41:40:00 | |
30 | Jaime Quiyuch |
|
41:41:00 |
31 | Diego Flores |
|
41:43:00 | |
32 | Gurmeet Singh | IND | 41:51:00 | |
33 | Youngjun Byun |
|
41:51:00 | |
34 | José Leonardo Montaña |
|
42:00:00 | |
35 | Anton Kucmin |
|
42:05:00 | |
36 | Giorgio Rubino |
|
42:07:00 | |
37 | Yerko Araya |
|
42:07:00 | |
38 | Chandan Singh |
|
42:08:00 | |
39 | Mauricio Arteaga |
|
42:09:00 | |
40 | Ebrahim Rahimian |
|
42:14:00 | |
41 | Álvaro Martín |
|
42:14:00 | |
42 | Marius Žiukas |
|
42:17:00 | |
43 | Eider Arévalo |
|
42:28:00 | |
44 | Dawid Tomala |
|
42:31:00 | |
45 | Federico Tontodonati |
|
42:38:00 | |
46 | Byeong Kwang Choe |
|
42:38:00 | |
47 | Ato Ibáñez |
|
42:41:00 | |
48 | Alex Wright |
|
42:51:00 | |
49 | Anibal Paau |
|
42:54:00 | |
50 | Sérgio Vieira |
|
43:00:00 | |
51 | Georgiy Sheiko |
|
43:07:00 | |
52 | Lebogang Shange |
|
43:08:00 | |
53 | Francisco Arcilla |
|
43:30:00 | |
54 | Perseus Karlström |
|
43:37:00 | |
55 | Rhydian Cowley |
|
43:40:00 | |
56 | Máté Helebrandt |
|
43:47:00 | |
57 | Arnis Rumbenieks |
|
43:52:00 | |
58 | Dzianis Simanovich |
|
43:56:00 | |
59 | Vitaliy Anichkin |
|
43:56:00 | |
60 | Juan Manuel Cano |
|
44:18:00 | |
61 | Timothy Seaman |
|
46:12:00 | |
62 | Alejandro Francisco Florez |
|
46:12:00 |
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