| 1 | Gabriela Szabo | ROM | |
8:45,75 |
| 2 | Sonia O'Sullivan | IRL | |
8:46,19 |
| 3 | Fernanda Ribeiro | POR | |
8:49,79 |
| 4 | Marina Bastos | POR | 8:52,64 | |
| 5 | Marta Dominguez | ESP | 8:52,74 | |
| 6 | Olga Yegorova | RUS | 8:52,99 | |
| 7 | Farida Fates | FRA | 8:54,98 | |
| 8 | Laurence Duquenoy | FRA | 9:00,27 | |
| 9 | Luminita Gogirlea | ROM | 9:00,75 | |
| 10 | Estibaliz Urrutia | ESP | 9:01,68 | |
| 11 | Etaferahu Tarekegne | ETH | 9:02,42 | |
| 12 | Cheri Goddard | USA | 9:04,05 | |
| 13 | Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim | GER | 9:05,78 | |
| 14 | Luminita Zaituc | GER | 9:17,50 | |
| 15 | Sinead Delahunty | IRL | 9:19,93 |