| 1 | Beate Anders | GDR | |
12:21,91 |
| 2 | Ileana Salvador | ITA | |
12:32,40 |
| 3 | Reyes Sobrino | ESP | |
12:39,50 |
| 4 | Dana Vavracova | TCH | 12:42,00 | |
| 5 | Olga Sanchez | ESP | 12:43,49 | |
| 6 | Andrea Alföldi | HUN | 12:43,62 | |
| 7 | Aniko Szebenszky | HUN | 12:44,37 | |
| 8 | Monica Gunnarsson | SWE | 12:54,52 | |
| 9 | Andrea Brückmann | FRG | 12:57,07 | |
| 10 | Alina Ivanova | URS | 12:57,36 | |
| 11 | Erika Alfridi | ITA | 13:04,71 | |
| 12 | Valeria Todorova | BUL | 13:06,68 |