| 1 | Moses Kiptanui | KEN | |
8:04,16 | |
| 2 | Christopher Koskei | KEN | |
8:09,30 | |
| 3 | Sa'ad Shaddad Al-Asmari | SAU | |
8:12,95 | AR |
| 4 | Steffen Brand | GER | 8:14,37 | ||
| 5 | Angelo Carosi | ITA | 8:14,85 | ||
| 6 | Florin Ionescu | ROM | 8:15,44 | NR | |
| 7 | Vladimir Pronin | RUS | 8:16,59 | NR | |
| 8 | Martin Strege | GER | 8:18,57 | ||
| 9 | Matthew Birir | KEN | 8:21,15 | ||
| 10 | Alessandro Lambruschini | ITA | 8:22,64 | ||
| 11 | Vladimir Golyas | RUS | 8:27,59 | ||
| 12 | Javier Rodríguez | ESP | 8:30,96 |