| 1 | Agnese Possamai | ITA | |
8:55,25 |
| 2 | Olga Bondarenko | URS | |
8:58,03 |
| 3 | Yvonne Murray | GBR | |
9:00,94 |
| 4 | Birgit Schmidt | FRG | 9:06,85 | |
| 5 | Iva Jurkova | TCH | 9:14,17 | |
| 6 | Ludmilla Melicherova | TCH | 9:19,17 | |
| 7 | Rossitza Ekova | BUL | 9:23,24 | |
| Brigitte Kraus | FRG | DNF |