| 1 | Tareq Mubarak Taher | BRN | 8:19,99 | Q |
| 2 | Abdelkader Hachlaf | MAR | 8:20,03 | Q |
| 3 | Ezekiel Kemboi | KEN | 8:20,08 | Q |
| 4 | Bouabdallah Tahri | FRA | 8:20,09 | q |
| 5 | Abubaker Ali Kamal | QAT | 8:21,20 | q |
| 6 | Eliseo Martín | ESP | 8:24,49 | q |
| 7 | Rabia Makhloufi | ALG | 8:33,88 | |
| 8 | Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen | NOR | 8:34,84 | |
| 9 | Ruben Ramolefi | RSA | 8:39,50 | |
| 10 | Benjamin Kiplagat | UGA | 8:40,65 | |
| 11 | Henrik Skoog | SWE | 8:51,61 | |
| 12 | Tom Brooks | USA | 8:56,20 | |
| Günther Weidlinger | AUT | DNF |
| 1 | Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong | KEN | 8:29,49 | Q |
| 2 | Nahom Mesfin Tariku | ETH | 8:29,57 | Q |
| 3 | Brahim Taleb | MAR | 8:29,64 | Q |
| 4 | Mircea Bogdan | ROM | 8:30,07 | |
| 5 | Joshua McAdams | USA | 8:32,46 | |
| 6 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | FRA | 8:33,11 | |
| 7 | Yoshitaka Iwamizu | JPN | 8:36,73 | |
| 8 | Zakrya Ali Kamil | QAT | 8:41,81 | |
| 9 | Itay Magidi | ISR | 8:43,00 | |
| 10 | Antonio David Jiménez | ESP | 8:50,41 | |
| 11 | Pieter Desmet | BEL | 8:55,99 | |
| 12 | Youcef Abdi | AUS | 9:51,33 |
| 1 | Brimin Kiprop Kipruto | KEN | 8:21,93 | Q |
| 2 | Halil Akkas | TUR | 8:22,37 | Q |
| 3 | Mustafa Mohamed | SWE | 8:22,80 | Q |
| 4 | Ali Ahmed Al-Amri | KSA | 8:23,61 | q |
| 5 | Roba Gary | ETH | 8:23,98 | q |
| 6 | José Luis Blanco | ESP | 8:25,00 | q |
| 7 | Filmon Ghirmai | GER | 8:25,17 | |
| 8 | Boštjan Buc | SLO | 8:26,42 | |
| 9 | Krijn van Koolwijk | BEL | 8:29,18 | |
| 10 | Aaron Aguayo | USA | 8:30,86 | |
| 11 | Vincent Zouaoui Dandrieaux | FRA | 8:36,05 | |
| 12 | Andrew Lemoncello | GBR | 8:58,93 | |
| Hamid Ezzine | MAR | DNF |