title: Athletics at the Friendship Games – Men's marathon
text: # Athletics at the Friendship Games – Men's marathon
  
  The men's marathon event at the Friendship Games was held on 18 August 1984 in Moscow, Soviet Union, together with the annual Moscow International Peace Marathon. Apart from the elite runners, about 5000 amateurs took part.
  
  ## Results
  
  | Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Dereje Nedi | Ethiopia | 2:10:31 |
  | – | Yakov Tolstikov* | Soviet Union | 2:10:48 |
  | | Abebe Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 2:11:30 |
  | | Li Jong-hyong | North Korea | 2:11:44 |
  | 4 | Jerzy Skarżyński | Poland | 2:13:23 |
  | – | Pyotr Saltykov* | Soviet Union | 2:13:31 |
  | 5 | Yevgeniy Okorokov | Soviet Union | 2:15:18 |
  | – | Vladimir Beloborodov* | Soviet Union | 2:15:56 |
  | 6 | Viktor Semyonov | Soviet Union | 2:17:34 |
  | – | Igor Pereverzyev* | Soviet Union | 2:17:34 |
  | – | Sergey Krestyaninov* | Soviet Union | 2:17:34 |
  | – | Aleksey Kopayev* | Soviet Union | 2:17:42 |
  | – | Zamiliy Abramov* | Soviet Union | 2:17:51 |
  | – | Nikolay Ivanov* | Soviet Union | 2:17:58 |
  | 7 | Mojmír Láníček | Czechoslovakia | 2:17:59 |
  | – | Vladimir Davalov* | Soviet Union | 2:17:59 |
  | 8 | Che Choi-ho | North Korea | 2:18:20 |
  | 9 | Vladimir Nikityuk | Soviet Union | 2:18:30 |
  | 10 | Andrés Chávez | Cuba | 2:18:48 |
  | – | Aleksandr Yeruantsev* | Soviet Union | 2:18:48 |
  | – | Farid Zharipov* | Soviet Union | 2:19:05 |
  | – | Vladimir Dremov* | Soviet Union | 2:19:11 |
  | – | Valeriy Mitukhin* | Soviet Union | 2:19:17 |
  | – | Viktor Trunev* | Soviet Union | 2:19:47 |
  | – | Vitaliy Dryaunov* | Soviet Union | 2:19:50 |
  | – | Viktor Levkin* | Soviet Union | 2:19:53 |
  | 11 | Antoni Niemczak | Poland | 2:20:06 |
  | 12 | Choe Myong-sam | North Korea | 2:25:53 |
  | | Wojciech Ratkowski | Poland | DNF |
  
  *Out of competition performance
  
  