| 1 | Meseret Defar | ETH | |
8:38,79 | |
| 2 | Meselech Melkamu | ETH | |
8:41,50 | |
| 3 | Mariem Alaoui Selsouli | MAR | |
8:41,66 | |
| 4 | Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet | KEN | 8:41,82 | NR | |
| 5 | Olga Komyagina | RUS | 8:44,57 | ||
| 6 | Kimberley Smith | NZL | 8:48,48 | ||
| 7 | Silvia Weissteiner | ITA | 8:49,11 | ||
| 8 | Jessica Augusto | POR | 8:49,78 | ||
| 9 | Helen Clitheroe | GBR | 8:52,77 | ||
| 10 | Lisa Dobriskey | GBR | 8:52,92 | ||
| 11 | Yelena Sidorchenkova | RUS | 9:01,81 | ||
| 12 | Megan Metcalfe | CAN | 9:07,16 |