| 1 | ASI | Saif Saaeed Shaheen | QAT | 8:19,09 |
| 2 | AFR | Paul Kipsiele Koech | KEN | 8:19,37 |
| 3 | FRA | Bouabdellah Tahri | FRA | 8:29,06 |
| 4 | EUR | Jukka Keskisalo | FIN | 8:29,42 |
| 5 | OCE | Youcef Abdi | AUS | 8:36,13 |
| 6 | RUS | Pavel Potapovich | RUS | 8:38,95 |
| 7 | USA | Steve Slattery | USA | 8:43,15 |
| 8 | AME | Fernando Alex Fernandes | BRA | 8:51,33 |
| 9 | GRE | Arbédo-Aléxandros Lítsis | GRE | 9:10,83 |