| 1 | Ian Stewart | GBR | |
7:55,4 |
| 2 | Javier Alvarez | ESP | |
7:56,2 |
| 3 | Werner Girke | FRG | |
7:56,8 |
| 4 | Lajos Mecsér | HUN | 8:01,0 | |
| 5 | Pavel Penkava | TCH | 8:03,2 | |
| 6 | Dane Korica | YUG | 8:04,4 | |
| 7 | Umberto Risi | ITA | 8:04,4 | |
| 8 | Stanislaw Podzoba | POL | 8:09,6 | |
| 9 | José Morera | ESP | 8:10,6 | |
| 10 | Rolf Hesselvall | SWE | 8:11,8 | |
| 11 | Nedeljko Farcic | YUG | 8:12,2 |