| 1 | Eliud Kipchoge | KEN | |
12:52,79 | |
| 2 | Hicham El Guerrouj | MAR | |
12:52,83 | |
| 3 | Kenenisa Bekele | ETH | |
12:53,12 | |
| 4 | John Kibowen | KEN | 12:54,07 | ||
| 5 | Abraham Chebii | KEN | 12:57,74 | ||
| 6 | Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam | ETH | 12:58,08 | ||
| 7 | Richard Limo | KEN | 13:01,13 | ||
| 8 | Zersenay Tadesse | ERI | 13:05,57 | NR | |
| 9 | Juan Carlos de la Ossa | ESP | 13:21,04 | ||
| 10 | Abderrahim Goumri | MAR | 13:23,67 | ||
| 11 | Abiyote Abate | ETH | 13:23,81 | ||
| 12 | Alejandro Suárez | MEX | 13:24,51 | ||
| 13 | Christian Belz | SUI | 13:26,02 | ||
| 14 | Moukheld Al-Outaibi | KSA | 13:38,92 | ||
| 15 | Jorge Torres | USA | 13:43,37 |