| 1 | Emile Puttemans | BEL | |
7:44,51 | |
| 2 | Willy Polleunis | BEL | |
7:51,86 | |
| 3 | Pekka Päivärinta | FIN | |
7:52,97 | NR |
| 4 | Egbert Nijstadt | NED | 7:54,60 | NR | |
| 5 | Gert Eisenberg | GDR | 7:55,09 | ||
| 6 | Vladimir Zatonskiy | URS | 7:55,12 | ||
| 7 | Hartmut Bräuer | FRG | 8:02,20 | ||
| 8 | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | 8:07,08 |