| 1 | Wioletta Frankiewicz | POL | 9:46,38 | Q | |
| 2 | Yuliya Zarudneva | RUS | 9:46,40 | Q | |
| 3 | Hatti Dean | GBR | 9:46,43 | Q | |
| 4 | Ancuta Bobocel | ROU | 9:48,01 | Q | |
| 5 | Zulema Fuentes-Pila | ESP | 9:50,97 | q | |
| 6 | Rosa María Morató | ESP | 9:53,96 | ||
| 7 | Sandra Eriksson | FIN | 9:55,73 | ||
| 8 | Lívia Tóth | HUN | 10:03,97 | ||
| 9 | Lyudmila Kuzmina | RUS | 10:10,83 | ||
| 10 | Stephanie O'Reilly | IRL | 10:13,94 | ||
| Iríni Kokkinaríou (*) | GRE | DNF |
* ... Iríni Kokkinaríou, GRE (DNF) nachträglich wegen Dopings disqualifiziert
| 1 | Layes Abdullayeva | AZE | 9:40,42 | Q | NR |
| 2 | Lyubov Kharlamova | RUS | 9:40,81 | Q | |
| 3 | Katarzyna Kowalska | POL | 9:41,14 | Q | |
| 4 | Marta Domínguez (*) | ESP | 9:41,93 | Q | |
| 5 | Sophie Duarte | FRA | 9:42,33 | q | |
| 6 | Fionnuala Britton | IRL | 9:44,84 | q | |
| 7 | Oxana Juravel | MDA | 9:53,43 | q | |
| 8 | Marcela Lustigová | CZE | 10:05,22 | ||
| 9 | Binnaz Uslu | TUR | 10:15,28 | ||
| 10 | Barbara Parker | GBR | 10:20,99 | ||
| Ulrika Johansson | SWE | DNF |
* ... Marta Dominguez, ESP nachträglich wegen Dopings disqualifiziert