| 1 | Werner Girke | FRG | |
7:58,6 |
| 2 | Rashid Sharafetdinov | URS | |
7:59,0 |
| 3 | Lajos Mecsér | HUN | |
8:00,6 |
| 4 | Mart Vilt | URS | 8:02,2 | |
| 5 | Ian McCafferty | GBR | 8:10,0 | |
| 6 | José María Morera | ESP | 8:10.6 | |
| 7 | Ivan Pavlicevic | YUG | 8:11,6 | |
| 8 | Karel Szotkowski | TCH | 8:20,4 |