AS IN THE 20, Japan had its first-ever No. 1, this time in the form of Hiroki Arai, a top-3 Ranker the last 3 years (2-3-2). Hayato Katsuki & Satoshi Maruo followed him across the line in the all-important World Team Champs, giving their nation only the second 1-2-3 sweep in Rankings history (the other was by Mexico in ’79)…
THE BEST OF the non-Japanese was Ukraine’s European Champ Maryan Zakalnytskyy, who took No. 4 over 2-time No. 1 Matej Tóth, returning to competition after sitting out ’17 after a “positive” test for which he was subsequently acquitted… Reigning No. 1 Yohann Diniz picked up a pelvic stress fracture and didn’t compete after May, with none of his early races being 50s… The U.S. hasn’t scored here since Curt Clausen was No. 4 in ’99.
| JUMP TO U.S. RANKINGS | VIEW WORLD TOP 50 LIST | VIEW U.S. TOP 50 LIST |
| 1. HIROKI ARAI (Japan) (5/18/88, 5-10½/134) (1.79/61) | |||||
| 3:44:25 | … | 1)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ||
| 2. HAYATO KATSUKI (Japan) (11/28/90, 5-6/128) (1.68/58) | |||||
| 3:44:31 | … | 2)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Arai |
| 4:03:30 | … | 1)Asian G | 8/30 | ||
| 3. SATOSHI MARUO (Japan) (11/28/91, 5-8¾/132) (1.75/60) | |||||
| 3:44:52 | … | 3)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Arai; 2. Katsuki |
| 4:14:13 | … | 4)Asian G | 8/30 | ▷ | 1. Katsuki; 2. Wang; 3. Joo |
| 4. MARYAN ZAKALNYTSKYY (Ukraine) (8/19/94, 5-10¾/143) (1.80/65) | |||||
| 3:44:59 | … | 4)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Arai; 2. Katsuki; 3. Maruo |
| 3:46:32 | … | 1)European Ch | 8/07 | ||
| 5. MATEJ TÓTH (Slovakia) (2/10/83, 6-¾/159) (1.85/72) | |||||
| 3:42:46 | … | 1)Dudince | 3/24 | ||
| 3:47:27 | … | 2)European Ch | 8/07 | ▷ | 1. Zakalnytskyy |
| 6. QIN WANG (China) (5/8/94) | |||||
| 3:45:29 | … | 5)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Arai; 2. Katsuki; 3. Maruo; 4. Zakalnytskyy |
| 4:06:48 | … | 2)Asian G | 8/30 | ▷ | 1. Katsuki |
| 7. RAFAŁ AUGUSTYN (Poland) (5/14/84, 5-10/157) (1.78/71) | |||||
| 3:48:22 | … | 7)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Arai; 2. Katsuki; 3. Maruo; 4. Zakalnytskyy; 5. Q. Wang; 6. R. Wang |
| 3:51:37 | … | 6)European Ch | 8/07 | ▷ | 1. Zakalnytskyy; 2. Toth; 3. Dziubin; 4. Haukenes; 5. Dohmann |
| 8. DZMITRY DZIUBIN (Belarus) (7/12/90) | |||||
| 3:52:25 | … | 13)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Arai; 2. Katsuki; 3. Maruo; 4. Zakalnytskyy; 5. Q. Wang; 6. R. Wang; 7. Augustyn; 8. Karlstrom; 9. Rew; 10. Banzeruk; 11. Sikora; 12. Dunfee |
| 3:47:59 | … | 3)European Ch | 8/07 | ▷ | 1. Zakalnytskyy; 2. Toth |
| 9. HÅVARD HAUKENES (Norway) (4/22/90, 5-10¾/150) (1.80/68) | |||||
| 3:48:35 | … | 4)European Ch | 8/07 | ▷ | 1. Zakalnytskyy; 2. Toth; 3. Dziubin |
| 10. RUI WANG (China) (1/06/96) | |||||
| 3:48:01 | … | 6)World Team Ch | 5/05 | ▷ | 1. Arai; 2. Katsuki; 3. Maruo; 4. Zakalnytskyy; 5. Q. Wang |
| dnf | … | –)Asian G | 8/30 | ▷ | 1. Katsuki; 2. Wang; 3. Hyun-Myuong; 4. Maruo; 5. Hendro;… |
| U.S. RANKINGS | ||||
| 1. | Nick Christie (unattached) | 4. | Pablo Gomez (Chicago RW) | |
| 1)USATF, dnf)World Team Ch | 4)USATF | |||
| 2. | Matt Forgues (unattached) | 5. | Ian Whatley (Warriors TC) | |
| 2)USATF, 46)World Team Ch | 5)USATF) | |||
| 3. | Anthony Gruttadauro (Shore AC) | 6. | Dave Talcott (Shore AC) | |
| 3)USATF, 44)World Team Ch | 6)USATF | |||
