The men's scratch at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 4. Twenty-one athletes participated in the scratch race. The competition consisted of 60 laps, making a total of 15 km.^[1]

Gold	Ben Swift (GBR)
Silver	Nolan Hoffman (RSA)
Bronze	Wim Stroetinga (NED)

The race was held at 20:35.^[2]

Rank	Name	Nation	Laps Down
	Ben Swift	United Kingdom
	Nolan Hoffman	South Africa
	Wim Stroetinga	Netherlands
4	Alex Frame	New Zealand
5	Martin Bláha	Czech Republic
6	Lucas Liss	Germany
7	Jang Sun-jae	South Korea
8	Ángel Colla	Argentina
9	Pablo Bernal	Spain
10	Vivien Brisse	France
11	Edison Bravo	Chile
12	Franco Marvulli	Switzerland
13	Pavel Gatskiy	Kazakhstan
14	Andreas Mueller	Austria
15	Ivan Savitsky	Russia
16	Alex Edmondson	Australia
17	Hariff Salleh	Malaysia
18	Aliaksandr Lisouski	Belarus
19	Moreno de Pauw	Belgium
20	Bobby Lea	United States
21	Elia Viviani	Italy