| 1 | Beate Anders | GER | |
11:50,90 | WR |
| 2 | Kerry Saxby | AUS | |
12:03,21 | |
| 3 | Ileana Salvador | ITA | |
12:07,67 | |
| 4 | Olga Kardopolzeva | URS | 12:07,70 | ||
| 5 | Yelena Nikolayeva | URS | 12.09,60 | ||
| 6 | Emilia Cano | ESP | 12:40,87 | ||
| 7 | Olga Sanchez | ESP | 12:54,40 | ||
| 8 | Zuzana Zemkova | TCH | 12:59,85 | ||
| 9 | Victoria Herazo | USA | 13:09,90 | ||
| 10 | Myriam Ramon | ECU | 13:24,95 | ||
| Annarita Sidoti | ITA | DQ | |||
| Kathrin Born | GER | DQ |