| 1 | Bob Verbeeck | BEL | |
8:10,84 |
| 2 | Thomas Wessinghage | FRG | |
8:10,88 |
| 3 | Vitaliy Tishenko | URS | |
8:10,91 |
| 4 | Frank O'Mara | IRL | 8:11,11 | |
| 5 | Dietmar Millonig | AUT | 8:11,21 | |
| 6 | Robert Nemeth | AUT | 8:11,24 | |
| 7 | Zivko Romeo | YUG | 8:13,98 | |
| 8 | Stig Roar Husby | NOR | 8:14,70 | |
| 9 | Ivan Uvizl | TCH | 8:15,11 | |
| 10 | Valeriy Abramov | URS | 8:16,88 | |
| 11 | Petr Klimes | TCH | 8:17,48 | |
| 12 | Walter Merlo | ITA | 8:20,54 |