| 1 | Haile Gebrselassie | ETH | |
27:57,27 | |
| 2 | Paul Tergat | KEN | |
27:58,56 | |
| 3 | Assefa Mezgebu | ETH | |
27:59,15 | |
| 4 | Girma Tolla | ETH | 28:02,08 | ||
| 5 | António Pinto | POR | 28:03,42 | ||
| 6 | Habte Jifar | ETH | 28:08,82 | ||
| 7 | Benjamin Maiyo | KEN | 28:14,98 | ||
| 8 | Kamiel Maase | NED | 28:15,58 | ||
| 9 | David Chelule | KEN | 28:17,77 | ||
| 10 | Khalid Skah | MAR | 28:25,10 | ||
| 11 | Hendrick Ramaala | RSA | 28:25,57 | ||
| 12 | Toshinari Takaoka | JPN | 28:30,73 | ||
| 13 | João N'Tyamba | ANO | 28:31,09 | NR | |
| 14 | Enrique Molina | ESP | 28:37,19 | ||
| 15 | Ismaïl Sghyr | MAR | 28:41,49 | ||
| 16 | Saïd Berioui | MAR | 28:46,77 | ||
| 17 | Mohamed Ezzher | FRA | 28:47,01 | ||
| 18 | Kenji Takao | JPN | 28:49,95 | ||
| 19 | José Manuel Martinez | ESP | 28:55,87 | ||
| 20 | Satoshi Irifune | JPN | 29:04,09 | ||
| 21 | Brad Hauser | USA | 29:18,21 | ||
| 22 | Peter Julian | USA | 29:20,31 | ||
| 23 | Enoch Skosana | RSA | 29:30,51 | ||
| 24 | Alejandro Salvador | MEX | 29:36,58 | ||
| 25 | Bruno Toledo | ESP | 29:39,28 | ||
| 26 | Sean Kaley | CAN | 29:52,35 | ||
| 27 | Samir Moussaoui | ALG | 30:20,24 | ||
| Shadrack Hoff | RSA | DNF | |||
| Alan Culpepper | USA | DNF | |||
| Jon Brown | GBR | DNF | |||
| Ali Mabruk El-Zaidi | LBA | DNF | |||
| Mohamed Dhaif Allah Al Khawlani | YEM | DNF |