| 1 | Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot | KEN | |
14:55,36 |
| 2 | Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet | KEN | |
14:56,21 |
| 3 | Meseret Defar | ETH | |
14:56,94 |
| 4 | Sentayehu Ejigu | ETH | 14:59,99 | |
| 5 | Mercy Cherono | KEN | 15:00,23 | |
| 6 | Linet Chepkwemoi Masai | KEN | 15:01,01 | |
| 7 | Lauren Fleshman | USA | 15:09,25 | |
| 8 | Genzebe Dibaba | ETH | 15:09,35 | |
| 9 | Tejitu Daba | BRN | 15:14,62 | |
| 10 | Yelena Zadorozhnaya | RUS | 15:15,48 | |
| 11 | Zakia Mrisho | TAN | 15:18,81 | |
| 12 | Helen Clitheroe | GBR | 15:21,22 | |
| 13 | Hitomi Niiya | JPN | 15:41,67 | |
| 14 | Elizaveta Grechishnikova | RUS | 15:45,61 | |
| 15 | Amy Hastings | USA | 15:56,06 |