Individual men # | Athlete | Time | Notes | | Luke Kibet (KEN) | 2:15:59 | | | Mubarak Hassan Shami (QAT) | 2:17:18 | | | Viktor Röthlin (SUI) | 2:17:25 | | 4 | Yared Asmerom (ERI) | 2:17:41 | | 5 | Tsuyoshi Ogata (JPN) | 2:17:42 | SB | 6 | Satoshi Osaki (JPN) | 2:18:06 | SB | 7 | Toshinari Suwa (JPN) | 2:18:35 | SB | 8 | William Kiplagat (KEN) | 2:19:21 | | 9 | Janne Holmén (FIN) | 2:19:36 | | 10 | José Manuel Martínez (ESP) | 2:20:25 | | | Individual women # | Athlete | Time | Notes | | Catherine Ndereba (KEN) | 2:30:37 | SB | | Zhou Chunxiu (CHN) | 2:30:45 | | | Reiko Tosa (JPN) | 2:30:55 | SB | 4 | Zhu Xiaolin (CHN) | 2:31:21 | | 5 | Lidia Șimon (ROM) | 2:31:26 | SB | 6 | Kiyoko Shimahara (JPN) | 2:31:40 | SB | 7 | Rita Jeptoo (KEN) | 2:32:03 | SB | 8 | Edith Masai (KEN) | 2:32:22 | | 9 | Mara Yamauchi (GBR) | 2:32:55 | | 10 | Lyubov Morgunova (RUS) | 2:33:41 | | |