| Pos | Name | Club/Country | Age Class | Day 1: Glen Tanar | Day 2: Balfour Forest | Day 3: Birsemore Hill | Day 4: Creag Choinnich | Day 5: Glen Feardar | Day 6: Glen Feardar | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Magnar Reppesgård | Hedrum OL (NOR) | M80 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 4 |
| 2nd | Bill Vigar | QO (GBR) | M80 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 13 | 9 |
| 3rd | Andrew Gregory | MDOC (GBR) | M80 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 4th | Stanley Johnston | LOC (GBR) | M80 | 2 | 3 | 4 | *29 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 5th | Steve O'Brien | DEE (GBR) | M80 | *29 | 5 | 9 | *29 | 4 | 3 | 21 |
| 6th | Tony Noott | BOK (GBR) | M80 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 21 |
| 7th | John Thompson | TVOC (GBR) | M80 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 21 |
| 8th | Frank Martindale | LOK (GBR) | M80 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 22 |
| 9th | Donald Moir | LEI (ENG) | M80 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 24 |
| 10th | Bill Brown | WSX (GBR) | M80 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 35 |
| 11th | Hans Bengtsson | New England Orienteering Club (USA) | M80 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 36 |
| 12th | Philip Thompson | EPOC (GBR) | M80 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 6 | *29 | *29 | 37 |
| 13th | Guy Goodair | EPOC (GBR) | M80 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 14 | *29 | *29 | 46 |
| 14th | Mike Hardy | CLOK (GBR) | M80 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 46 |
| 15th | John Warren | WIM (GBR) | M80 | 14 | 13 | 16 | 10 | *29 | 11 | 48 |
| 16th | Alan Yeadon | SARUM (GBR) | M80 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 18 | 56 |
| 17th | Alan Heron | SELOC (GBR) | M80 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 11 | *29 | 15 | 58 |
| 18th | Peter Bellarby | GRAMP (GBR) | M80 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 58 |
| 19th | Brian Spoonley | DEE (GBR) | M80 | 20 | *29 | *29 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 64 |
| 20th | Ron Oxburgh | WAOC (GBR) | M80 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 68 |
| 21st | Alan Coddington | NOR (GBR) | M80 | *29 | 20 | *29 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 72 |
| 22nd | Bo Löwegren | Västerås SOK (SWE) | M80 | 12 | *29 | *29 | *29 | *29 | *29 | 99 |
| 23rd | Svein M Forthun | Kolbotn & Skimt OL (NOR) | M80 | 21 | *29 | *29 | 20 | *29 | *29 | 99 |
| 24th | Jim Clark | ESOC (SCO) | M80 | 22 | *29 | *29 | *29 | *29 | *29 | 109 |
| 25th | Will Heap | SO (GBR) | M40 | *29 | *29 | *29 | *29 | *29 | *29 | 116 |