| 1 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | FRA | 8:31,05 | Q | |
| 2 | Patrick Nasti | ITA | 8:34,08 | Q | |
| 3 | Lukasz Parszczynski | POL | 8:35,05 | Q | |
| 4 | Antonio Dávid Jiménez | ESP | 8:35,44 | q | |
| 5 | Hakan Duvar | TUR | 8:37,40 | q | |
| 6 | Krystian Zalewski | POL | 8:37,82 | q | |
| 7 | James Wilkinson | GBR | 8:39,19 | ||
| 8 | Alberto Paulo | POR | 8:41,63 | ||
| 9 | Rob Mullett | GBR | 8:48,38 | ||
| 10 | Alexandru Ghinea | ROU | 8:55,88 | ||
| Halil Akkas | TUR | DNF | |||
| Jukka Keskisalo | FIN | DNS | |||
| Nordine Gezzar (*) | FRA | 8:31,33 | Q |
* ... Ergebnis von Nordine Gezzar, FRA (8:31,33) wegen Dopings nachträglich gestrichen
| 1 | Tarik Langat Akdag | TUR | 8:27,31 | Q | |
| 2 | Ion Luchianov | MDA | 8:29,28 | Q | |
| 3 | Víctor García | ESP | 8:29,44 | Q | |
| 4 | Lukasz Oslizlo | POL | 8:29,46 | Q | |
| 5 | Abdelaziz Merzoughi | ESP | 8:29,51 | q | |
| 6 | Steffen Uliczka | GER | 8:29,55 | q | |
| 7 | Yuri Floriani | ITA | 8:32,63 | q | |
| 8 | Kaur Kivistik | EST | 8:36,10 | q | |
| 9 | Noureddine Smaïl | FRA | 8:41,11 | ||
| 10 | Itai Maggidi | ISR | 8:47,29 | ||
| 11 | Ildar Minshin | RUS | 8:52,84 | ||
| Luke Gunn | GBR | DNF |