| 1 | Dragan Zdravkovic | YUG | |
7:54,73 |
| 2 | Valeriy Abramov | URS | |
7:57,79 |
| 3 | Uwe Mönkemeyer | FRG | |
7:58,11 |
| 4 | Lubomir Tesacek | TCH | 7:58,72 | |
| 5 | Ari Paunonen | FIN | 7:59,53 | |
| 6 | Christos Papachristos | GRE | 8:00,10 | |
| 7 | Laszlo Szabo | HUN | 8:00,20 | |
| 8 | Hagen Melzer | GDR | 8:00,74 | |
| 9 | Hans-Jürgen Orthmann | FRG | 8:01,83 | |
| 10 | Axel Krippschock | GDR | 8:05,80 | |
| 11 | Gerhard Hartmann | AUT | 8:13,90 |