In the Blitz Individual Men's event the Gold Medal went to the unfancied young Ukrainian GM Martyn Kravtsiv who surprised the strong competition to take the honors. This happened after the preliminary round winner GM Mark Paragua of the Philippines did not have a good start at the semi-final and lost 0-2 to GM Yuri Drozdovskij. In the other semi-final Kravtsiv defeated GM Chirstodoulos Banikas of Greece with a similar 2-0 score, and then repeated this achievement again against Drozdovskij in the all important final.
| Rank | Name | Fed. | Rtg. | |
| 1 | IM | Kravtsiv Martyn | UKR | 2549 |
| 2 | GM | Drozdovskij Yuri | UKR | 2587 |
| 3 | GM | Banikas Hristos | GRE | 2572 |
| 4 | GM | Paragua Mark | PHI | 2526 |
| 5 | GM | Gurevich Mikhail | TUR | 2634 |
| 6 | GM | Korobov Anton | UKR | 2605 |
| 7 | GM | Akobian Varuzhan | USA | 2606 |
| 8 | GM | Le Quang Liem | VIE | 2583 |
| 9 | GM | Wang Hao | CHN | 2696 |
| 10 | GM | Balogh Csaba | HUN | 2616 |
Source: Chessbase
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