Final | time | | 1. Dieter Baumann | Germany | 13:12.52 | | 2. Paul Bitok | Kenya | 13:12.71 | | 3. Fita Bayisa | Ethiopia | 13:13.03 | | 4. Brahim Boutayeb | Marocco | 13:13.27 | | 5. Yobes Ondieki | Kenya | 13:17.50 | | 6. Worku Bikila | Ethiopia | 13:23.52 | | 7. Rob Denmark | Great Britain | 13:27.76 | | 8. Abel Anton | Spain | 13:27.80 | | 9. Mohamed Issangar | Marocco | 13:28.97 | | 10.Andrew Sambu | Tanzania | 13:37.20 | | 11.Domingos Castro | Portugal | 13:38.08 | | 12.Bob Kennedy | United States | 13:39.72 | | 13.Pascal Thiebault | France | 13:43.39 | | 14.Dominic Kirui | Kenya | 13:45.16 | | 15.Marcel Versteeg | Netherlands | 13:48.32 | | 16.Salvatore Antibo | Italy | 14:02.47 | |
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Heat 1 | time | | 1. Pascal Thiebault | France | 13:31.16 | | 2. Fita Bayisa | Ethiopia | 13:31.24 | | 3. Abel Anton | Spain | 13:31.48 | | 4. Yobes Ondieki | Kenya | 13:31.88 | | 5. Jack Buckner | Great Britain | 13:37.14 | | 6. John Doherty | Ireland | 13:41.27 | | 7. Risto Ulmala | Finland | 13:52.52 | | 8. Mahmoud Kalboussi | Tunisia | 13:55.01 | | 9. Robert Ian Johnston | New Zealand | 13:57.87 | | 10.Brendan Matthias | Canada | 14:01.57 | | 11.Godfrey Siamusiye | Zambia | 14:08.83 | | 12.Aissa Belaout | Algeria | 15:02.76 | | 13.Tawai Keiruan | Vanuatu | 15:27.46 | | 14.Yussuf Moli Yesky | Chad | 15:29.25 | | -.Apolineria Belisle Gomez | Honduras | DNS | |
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Heat 2 | time | | 1. Worku Bikila | Ethiopia | 13:32.93 | | 2. Paul Bitok | Kenya | 13:36.81 | | 3. Brahim Boutayeb | Marocco | 13:37.27 | | 4. Frank O'Mara | Ireland | 13:38.79 | | 5. Reuben Reina | United States | 13:40.50 | | 6. Jonny Danielson | Sweden | 13:43.91 | | 7. Raimundo Santos | Portugal | 13:48.06 | | 8. Hamid Sajjadi | Iran | 14:04.54 | | 9. Herder Vázquez | Colombia | 14:06.80 | | 10.José Luis Molina | Costa Rica | 14:09.22 | | 11.Leo Garnes | Barbados | 15:21.95 | | 12.Marlon Williams | US Virgin Islands | 15:26.49 | | -. Evgeni Ignatov | Bulgaria | DNF | | -. Husein Saleh Joaim | Yemen | DNS | | -. Antonio Silio | Argentina | DNS | |
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Heat 3 | time | | 1. Dieter Baumann | Germany | 13:20.82 | | 2. Rob Denmark | Great Britain | 13:22.41 | | 3. Mohamed Issangar | Marocco | 13:22.98 | | 4. Dominic Kirui | Kenya | 13:24.21 | | 5. Domingos Castro | Portugal | 13:24.57 | | 6. Antonio Serrano Sánchez | Spain | 13:42.94 | | 7. Tendai Chimusasa | Zimbabwe | 13:50.16 | | 8. Bahadur Prasad | India | 13:50.71 | | 9. Isaac Simelane | Swaziland | 14:00.44 | | 10.Paul Donovan | Ireland | 14:03.79 | | 11.Ignacio Fragoso | Mexico | 14:16.14 | | 12.Abdullah Al-Dosari | Bahrain | 14:23.07 | | 13.Moussa Souleiman | Djibouti | 14:28.77 | | 14.Tello Namane | Lesotho | 14:33.04 | | -. John Trautmann | United States | DNF | | -. Mwenze Kalombo | Zaire | DNS | |
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Heat 4 | time | | 1. Salvatore Antibo | Italy | 13:33.71 | | 2. Bob Kennedy | United States | 13:35.76 | | 3. Marcel Versteeg | Netherlands | 13:35.95 | | 4. Andrew Sambu | Tanzania | 13:36.99 | | 5. Ian Hamer | Great Britain | 13:40.20 | | 6. Addis Abebe | Ethiopia | 13:40.76 | | 7. Martín Fiz | Spain | 13:42.20 | | 8. Andrey Tikhonov | United Team | 13:44.67 | | 9. Zachariah Ditetso | Botswana | 13:54.88 | | 10.Carlos Monteiro | Portugal | 14:00.53 | | 11.Seraphin Mugabo | Rwanda | 14:25.97 | | 12.Ernest Ndjissipou | Central Africa | 14:40.12 | | 13.Awad Al-Hasini | Jordan | 14:55.58 | | 14.Policarpio Calizaya | Bolivia | 15:02.02 | | -. Davendra Singh | Fiji | DNS | | -. Vincent Rousseau | Belgium | DNS | |
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