| 1 | Reuben Kosgei | KEN | |
8:15,16 |
| 2 | Ali Ezzine | MAR | |
8:16,21 |
| 3 | Bernard Barmasai | KEN | |
8:16,59 |
| 4 | Luis Miguel Martín | ESP | 8:18,87 | |
| 5 | Bouabdallah Tahri | FRA | 8:19,56 | |
| 6 | Antonio Jiménez | ESP | 8:19,82 | |
| 7 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin | QAT | 8:20,01 | |
| 8 | Raymond Yator | KEN | 8:20,87 | |
| 9 | Ralf Assmus | GER | 8:21,73 | |
| 10 | Brahim Boulami | MAR | 8:21,95 | |
| 11 | Tim Broe | USA | 8:23,07 | |
| 12 | Eliseo Martín | ESP | 8:27,78 | |
| 13 | Christian Belz | SUI | 8:31,43 | |
| 14 | Joël Bourgeois | CAN | 8:36,38 | |
| 15 | Gaël Pencreach | FRA | 8:41,51 |