| 1 | Habiba Ghribi | TUN | |
9:11,97 | NR |
| 2 | Milcah Chemos Cheywa | KEN | |
9:17,16 | |
| 3 | Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge | KEN | |
9:17,88 | |
| 4 | Lydia Chebet Rotich | KEN | 9:25,74 | ||
| 5 | Sofia Assefa | ETH | 9:28,24 | ||
| 6 | Hanane Ouhaddou | MAR | 9:32,36 | ||
| 7 | Gesa Felicitas Krause | GER | 9:32,74 | ||
| 8 | Birtukan Fente | ETH | 9:36,81 | ||
| 9 | Lyubov Kharlamova | RUS | 9:44,14 | ||
| 10 | Emma Coburn | USA | 9:51,40 | ||
| 11 | Barbara Parker | GBR | 9:56,66 | ||
| 12 | Birtukan Adamu | ETH | 10:05,10 | ||
| Yuliya Zaripova (*) | RUS | DQ | |||
| Binnaz Uslu (*) | TUR | DQ | |||
| Sara Moreira (*) | POR | DQ |
* ... nachträglich wegen Dopings disqualifiziert