| Final 18:49 |   | time | gap | L | Y | pts |  | 1. Joerg Hoffmann |   Germany | 14:50.36 | WR | 4 | 20 | 936 |  | 2. Kieren Perkins |   Australia | 14:50.58 | +0.22s | 2 | 17 | 935 |  | 3. Stefan Pfeiffer |   Germany | 14:59.34 | +8.98s | 3 | 25 | 908 |  | 4. Ian Wilson |   Great Britain | 15:11.17 | +20.81s | 1 | 20 | 873 |  | 5. Glen Housman |   Australia | 15:12.42 | +22.06s | 6 | 19 | 869 |  | 6. Igor Majcen |   Yugoslavia | 15:18.22 | +27.86s | 8 | 21 | 853 |  | 7. Lawrence Frostad |   United States | 15:22.33 | +31.97s | 5 | 23 | 842 |  | 8. Yevgeny Logvinov |   Soviet Union | 15:29.34 | +38.98s | 7 | _ | 823 |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk |  | 1. Stefan Pfeiffer |   Germany | 15:18.76 | +5.40s | 5 | 25 | - | 3. |  | 2. Glen Housman |   Australia | 15:19.16 | +5.80s | 4 | 19 | - | 4. |  | 3. Yevgeny Logvinov |   Soviet Union | 15:21.29 | +7.93s | 6 | _ | - | 6. |  | 4. Ian Wilson |   Great Britain | 15:21.98 | +8.62s | 3 | 20 | - | 7. |  | 5. Andres Minelli |   Argentina | 15:47.13 | +33.77s | 7 | 19 | - | 15. |  | 6. Mariusz Podkoscielny |   Poland | 16:04.76 | +51.40s | 2 | 22 | - | 19. |  | 7. Miltia Kanellopoulos |   Greece | 16:40.63 | +1:27.27 | 1 | _ | - | 21. |   
| Heat 2 |   | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk |  | 1. Kieren Perkins |   Australia | 15:20.36 | +7.00s | 4 | 17 | - | 5. |  | 2. Igor Majcen |   Yugoslavia | 15:25.63 | +12.27s | 3 | 21 | - | 8. |  | 3. Sean Killion |   United States | 15:34.75 | +21.39s | 5 | 23 | - | 10. |  | 4. Harry Taylor |   Canada | 15:38.13 | +24.77s | 6 | 22 | - | 11. |  | 5. Jorge Herrera |   Puerto Rico | 15:41.84 | +28.48s | 7 | 18 | - | 13. |  | 6. Danyon Loader |   New Zealand | 15:44.65 | +31.29s | 2 | 15 | - | 14. |  | 7. Jonathan Sakovich |   North Mariana | 15:58.33 | +44.97s | 1 | 20 | - | 17. |   
| Heat 1 1 |   | time | gap | L | Y | pts | Rk |  | 1. Joerg Hoffmann |   Germany | 15:13.36 |   | 4 | 20 | - | 1. |  | 2. Lawrence Frostad |   United States | 15:16.40 | +3.04s | 5 | 23 | - | 2. |  | 3. Christophe Marchand |   France | 15:31.96 | +18.60s | 6 | 20 | - | 9. |  | 4. Zoltan Szilagyi |   Hungary | 15:41.05 | +27.69s | 3 | 23 | - | 12. |  | 5. Artur Manuel Costa |   Portugal | 15:48.88 | +35.52s | 2 | 20 | - | 16. |  | 6. Jeff Ong |   Malaysia | 15:59.31 | +45.95s | 7 | 18 | - | 18. |  | 7. Rodolfo Bulnes |   Mexico | 16:26.45 | +1:13.09 | 1 | _ | - | 20. |  | 8. Chung Tsai |   Taiwan | 17:33.60 | +2:20.24 | 8 | _ | - | 22. |   
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