| 1 | Meseret Defar | ETH | |
8:38,80 |
| 2 | Liliya Shobuchova | RUS | |
8:42,18 |
| 3 | Lidia Chojecka | POL | |
8:42,59 |
| 4 | Sentayehu Ejigu | ETH | 8:43,38 | |
| 5 | Olesya Syreva | RUS | 8:44,10 | |
| 6 | Mariem Alaoui Selsouli | MAR | 8:55,97 | |
| 7 | Carrie Tollefson | USA | 8:59,13 | |
| 8 | Analía Rosa | POR | 8:59,99 | |
| 9 | Tatyana Kryvobok | UKR | 9:02,87 | |
| 10 | Maria McCambridge | IRL | 9:07,26 | |
| 11 | Tatyana Holovchenko | UKR | 9:08,24 | |
| 12 | Sara Bei-Hall | USA | 9:14,49 | |
| 13 | Roisin McGettigan | IRL | 9:28,85 |