| 1 | Meseret Defar | ETH | |
9:11,22 |
| 2 | Berhane Adere | ETH | |
9:11,43 |
| 3 | Shayne Culpepper | USA | |
9:12,15 |
| 4 | Marta Dominguez | ESP | 9:12,85 | |
| 5 | Joanne Pavey | GBR | 9:13,09 | |
| 6 | Yelena Sadoroshnaya | RUS | 9:13,70 | |
| 7 | Sabrina Mockenhaupt | GER | 9:13,70 | |
| 8 | Marina Dubrova | UKR | 9:14,34 | |
| 9 | Maria McCambridge | IRL | 9:14,72 | |
| 10 | Veerle Dejaeghere | BEL | 9:15,21 | |
| 11 | Galina Bogomolova | RUS | 9:17,15 | |
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