| 1 | Antti Loikkanen | FIN | |
3:38,2 |
| 2 | Thomas Wessinghage | FRG | |
3:38,2 |
| 3 | Jürgen Straub | GDR | |
3:40,2 |
| 4 | José Manuel Abascal | ESP | 3:40,3 | |
| 5 | Anatoliy Mamontov | URS | 3:41,1 | |
| 6 | János Zemen | HUN | 3:43,0 | |
| 7 | Francis González | FRA | 3:43,4 | |
| 8 | Joost Borm | NED | 3:45,2 | |
| 9 | Eberhard Helm | FRG | 3:46,8 | |
| 10 | Tamas Szanto | HUN | 3:49,0 |