| 1 | Beate Anders | GDR | |
11:59,36 | WR |
| 2 | Ileana Salvador | ITA | |
12:18,84 | |
| 3 | Annarita Sidoti | ITA | |
12:27,94 | |
| 4 | Dana Vavracova | TCH | 12:28,76 | ||
| 5 | Ildiko Ilyes | HUN | 12:31,41 | ||
| 6 | Andrea Brückmann | FRG | 12:33,30 | ||
| 7 | Aniko Szebenszky | HUN | 12:38,14 | ||
| 8 | Victoria Oprea | ROM | 12:44,96 | ||
| 9 | Pia-Carola Pagani | ITA | 12:48,10 | ||
| 10 | Zuzana Zemkova | TCH | 13:10,85 | ||
| Olga Krishtop | URS | DQ | |||
| Vera Makolova | URS | DQ |