| 1 | Berhane Adere | ETH | |
8:40,25 | |
| 2 | Marta Dominguez | ESP | |
8:42,17 | |
| 3 | Meseret Defar | ETH | |
8:42,58 | |
| 4 | Zahra Ouaziz | MAR | 8:49,50 | ||
| 5 | Zhor El Kamch | MAR | 8:49,55 | ||
| 6 | Galina Bogomolova | RUS | 8:50,62 | ||
| 7 | Benita Johnson | AUS | 8:51,62 | ||
| 8 | Maria Tsirba | GRE | 8:52,21 | NR | |
| 9 | Maria Cristina Grosu | ROM | 8:58,65 | ||
| 10 | Amaia Piedra | ESP | 8:59,76 | ||
| 11 | Hayley Tullett | GBR | 9:00,17 | ||
| 12 | Susanne Pumper | AUT | 9:08,64 |