| 1 | Peter Stewart | GBR | |
7:53,6 |
| 2 | Wilfried Scholz | GDR | |
7:54,4 |
| 3 | Yuriy Aleksashin | URS | |
8:01,2 |
| 4 | Anatoliy Verlan | URS | 8:05,0 | |
| 5 | Lajos Mecsér | HUN | 8:06,2 | |
| 6 | Egbert Nijstadt | NED | 8:13,6 | |
| 7 | Giuseppe Cindolo | ITA | 8:22,6 | |
| 8 | Gérard Vervoort | FRA | 8:24,8 |