| Final | Team | time | seed | Y | | 1. Roxanne Tammadge | RSA | 8:54.64 | 8:44.89 | 20 | | 2. Rene D'Warnes | RSA | 8:59.23 | 8:57.42 | 19 | | 3. Shrone Austin | SEY | 9:08.10 | 9:07.00 | 22 | | 4. Melia Bekhouche | ALG | 9:10.99 | 9:06.94 | 23 | | 5. Raquel Lourenco | MOZ | 11:09.75 | | 16 |
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| Record - 2007 | | Kirsty Coventry (ZIM) 8:43.89 |
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