| 1 | Gabriela Szabo | ROM | |
8:54,50 |
| 2 | Lynn Jennings | USA | |
8:55,23 |
| 3 | Joan Nesbit | USA | |
8:56,08 |
| 4 | Elisa Rea | ITA | 8:56,21 | |
| 5 | Lidiya Vasilevskaya | RUS | 8:58,28 | |
| 6 | Marta Dominguez | ESP | 9:01,79 | |
| 7 | Zahra Ouaziz | MAR | 9:03,84 | |
| 8 | Annette Sergent-Palluy | FRA | 9:04,03 | |
| 9 | Sinead Delahunty | IRL | 9:04,16 | |
| 10 | Marina Bastos | POR | 9:16,19 | |
| 11 | Sandra Cortez | BOL | 9:47,24 | |
| 12 | Mariya Pantyukova | RUS | 9:51,61 | |
| 13 | Gulsara Dadabayeva | TJK | 10:41,43 | |
| Kay Gooch | NED | DNS |