| Place | Name | Time | Split1 | Split2 | Split3 | Pen. | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jamie Koven Green Village,NJ Brown University Alumni - RI | 17:59.07 | 04:05 | 09:18 | 14:49 | :10 | 11B(1) |
| 2. | Ian Watson London,UK London RC - UK | 18:12.41 | 04:04 | 10:01 | 15:06 | : | |
| 3. | Donald Smith North Tonawanda,NY Sloan RC - MA | 18:15.66 | 04:03 | 09:15 | 14:55 | :10 | 11B(1) |
| 4. | John Riley Coventry,RI Union BC - MA | 18:26.09 | 04:08 | 09:35 | 15:20 | : | |
| 5. | Greg Walker St. Clair Shores,MI Unaffiliated | 18:26.69 | 04:08 | 09:28 | 15:19 | : | |
| 6. | William Fisher Buffalo,NY Augusta Sculling Center - GA | 18:27.46 | 04:11 | 09:35 | 15:18 | : | |
| 7. | Nicholaas Peterson Alexandria,VA Capital RC - DC | 18:35.93 | 04:14 | : | 15:30 | : | |
| 8. | Lawrence Nwaesei St. Catherines,ON Ridley Graduate BC - ON | 18:36.85 | 04:13 | 09:50 | 15:28 | : | |
| 9. | Adam Holland Waltham,MA Unaffiliated | 18:40.04 | 04:19 | 09:50 | 15:27 | : | |
| 10. | Robert White Roslindale,MA Riverside BC - MA | 18:50.58 | 04:18 | 09:55 | 15:37 | : | |
| 11. | Brian Jamieson Ann Arbor,MI Unaffiliated | 18:51.63 | 04:09 | 09:54 | 15:34 | : | |
| 12. | Aquil Abdullah Washington,DC Unaffiliated | 18:52.18 | 04:10 | 09:39 | 15:34 | : | |
| 13. | Jonathan Moss Somerville,MA Union BC - MA | 18:56.29 | 04:13 | 09:47 | 15:37 | : | |
| 14. | Russell Cone Medford,MA Wide Load BC - MA | 19:00.09 | 04:17 | 09:43 | 15:39 | : | |
| 15. | Daniel Protz Lake Forest,IL Dartmouth College - NH | 19:02.34 | 04:12 | 09:57 | 15:44 | : | |
| 16. | Nikola Stojic Serbia,Yug Yugoslav RF - Yugoslavia | 19:04.75 | 04:14 | 09:44 | 15:46 | : | |
| 17. | Robert Blunt Toronto,ON Argonaut RC - ON | 19:05.47 | 04:14 | 10:01 | 15:49 | : | |
| 18. | Greg Lewis Sudbury,MA Rochester RC - NY | 19:11.52 | 04:26 | 10:00 | 16:00 | : | |
| 19. | Pavel Dohnalek Prague,Cze Blesk Praka - Czech Republic | 19:12.12 | 04:26 | 10:35 | 15:57 | : | |
| 20. | Nat Keohane Cambridge,MA Harvard Sculling Club - MA | 19:13.43 | 04:15 | 09:48 | 15:50 | : | |
| 21. | Joseph Bouscaren Cambridge,MA Cambridge BC - MA | 19:19.92 | 04:24 | 09:58 | 15:54 | : | |
| 22. | Gregory Johnson Fairfax,VA Unaffiliated | 19:28.49 | 04:19 | 10:06 | 15:50 | :20 | 2B(1) 11B(1) |
| 23. | Greg Myhr Madison,WI Camp Randall RC - WI | 19:29.92 | 04:16 | 09:51 | 16:00 | : | |
| 24. | Carl Yee Denver,CO Austin RC - TX | 19:33.87 | 04:24 | 10:42 | 16:13 | : | |
| 25. | Scott Walsh Norfok,VA Potomac BC - DC | 19:36.13 | 04:22 | 10:12 | 16:12 | : | |
| 26. | Marcus Dahllof Bohuslan,Swe Union BC - MA | 19:38.37 | 04:27 | 10:26 | 16:23 | : | |
| 27. | Michael Sivigny Rochester,NY Rochester RC - NY | 19:38.98 | 04:25 | 10:13 | 16:10 | : | |
| 28. | Erik Neff St. Catharines,ON Ridley Graduate BC - ON | 19:51.07 | 04:24 | 10:12 | 16:20 | :10 | 8B(1) |
| 29. | Scott Bolton Austin,TX Austin RC - TX | 19:57.98 | 04:31 | 10:26 | 16:27 | : | |
| 30. | John Pickford Washington,DC Potomac BC - DC | 20:02.54 | 04:30 | 10:22 | 16:30 | : | |
| 31. | Geoffrey Swift Washington,DC Potomac BC - DC | 20:04.90 | 04:26 | 10:22 | 16:31 | : | |
| 32. | Scott DeMoss Louisville,KY Unaffiliated | 20:14.73 | 04:29 | 10:29 | 16:41 | : | |
| 33. | Mike Ferry Princeton,NJ Penn AC - PA | 20:21.35 | : | : | : | 1:10 | 3B(2) 8B(5) |
| 34. | Brian Hallstrom Ann Arbor,MI Union BC - MA | 20:26.93 | 04:32 | 10:33 | 16:39 | :10 | 6B(1) |
| 35. | Jeffrey Myjak Medford,MA MIT BC - MA | 20:33.63 | 04:49 | 11:00 | 16:58 | : | |
| 36. | Nicholas McQuaid Lincoln,MA Augusta Sculling Center - GA | 20:38.26 | 04:24 | 09:49 | 16:08 | 1:00 | 10aI |
| 37. | Oliver Rosenbladt Earlysville,VA Rivanna RC - VA | 20:42.37 | 04:35 | 10:32 | 16:44 | :20 | 11B(2) |
| 38. | Nikolai Wedekind Vienna,Aus Randall Ruder-Verein - WI | 20:42.52 | 04:33 | 10:39 | 17:03 | :10 | 6B(1) |
| 39. | Andrej Rasevic Washington,DC Thompson's Boat Center - DC | DNS | |||||
| 40. | Dimitar Dimitrov Sofia,Bul Levski-Spartak - Bulgaria | DNS |