| 1 | Patriz Ilg | FRG | |
8:15,06 | |
| 2 | Boguslaw Maminski | POL | |
8:17,03 | |
| 3 | Colin Reitz | GBR | |
8:17,75 | NR |
| 4 | Joseph Mahmoud | FRA | 8:18,32 | NR | |
| 5 | Roger Hackney | GBR | 8:19,38 | ||
| 6 | Graeme Fell | GBR | 8:20,01 | ||
| 7 | Julius Korir | KEN | 8:20,11 | ||
| 8 | Henry Marsh | USA | 8:20,45 | ||
| 9 | Mariano Scartezzini | ITA | 8:21,17 | ||
| 10 | Domingo Ramón | ESP | 8:21,32 | ||
| 11 | Hagen Melzer | GDR | 8:21,33 | ||
| 12 | Tommy Ekblom | FIN | 8:21,50 |