| 1 | Patriz Ilg | FRG | |
7:53,50 |
| 2 | Alberto Cova | ITA | |
7:54,12 |
| 3 | Valeriy Abramov | URS | |
7:54,46 |
| 4 | Robert Nemeth | AUT | 7:57,72 | |
| 5 | Francisco Sánchez | ESP | 7:57,82 | |
| 6 | Bruno Lafranchi | SUI | 8:00,16 | |
| 7 | Hans-Jürgen Orthmann | FRG | 8:00,53 | |
| 8 | Peter Daenens | BEL | 8:01,21 | |
| 9 | Ken Newton | GBR | 8:03,40 | |
| 10 | Vittorio Fontanella | ITA | 8:04,23 | |
| 11 | Aleksandr Fedotkin | URS | 8:09,89 | |
| 12 | Klaas Lok | NED | 8:14,30 |