| 1 | Berhane Adere | ETH | |
8:40,25 |
| 2 | Marta Domínguez | 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 Cristina Grosu | ROM | 8:58,65 | |
| 9 | Amaia Piedra | ESP | 8:59,76 | |
| 10 | Hayley Tullett | GBR | 9:00,17 | |
| 11 | Susanne Pumper | AUT | 9:08,64 | |
| Maria Tsirba | GRE | DQ |
* ... Ergebnis von Maria Tsirba , GRE (8. in 8:52,21) nachträglich wegen Dopings gestrichen