| 1 | Michail Shtshennikov | URS | |
18:23,55 | WR |
| 2 | Giovanni de Benedictis | ITA | |
18:23,60 | |
| 3 | Franz Kostyukevich | URS | |
18.47,05 | |
| 4 | Miguel A. Prieto | ESP | 18:53,83 | ||
| 5 | Valentin Massana | ESP | 19:08,79 | ||
| 6 | Sandor Urbanik | HUN | 19:11,85 | ||
| 7 | Bernd Gummelt | GER | 19:21,97 | ||
| 8 | Jimmy McDonald | IRL | 19:24,91 | ||
| 9 | Ronald Weigel | GER | 19:34,86 | ||
| 10 | Jefferson Perez | ECU | 20:20,05 | ||
| Andrew Jachno | AUS | DQ | |||
| Igor Kollar | TCH | DQ |