Heat 1 | | time | | 1. Soufiane El Bakkali | Morocco | 8:17.90 | Q | 2. Leonard Chemutai | Uganda | 8:18.19 | Q, SB | 3. Getnet Wale | Ethiopia | 8:18.25 | Q | 4. Daniel Arce | Spain | 8:18.31 | Q | 5. Ahmed Jaziri | Tunisia | 8:18.33 | Q, SB | 6. Amos Serem | Kenya | 8:18.41 | qR | 7. Karl Bebendorf | Germany | 8:20.46 | | 8. Nicolas-Marie Daru | France | 8:20.52 | | 9. Ruben Querinjean | Luxembourg | 8:27.97 | | 10.James Corrigan | United States | 8:36.67 | | 11.Yassin Bouih | Italy | 8:40.34 | | 12.Bilal Tabti | Algeria | 9:04.81 | |
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Heat 2 | | time | | 1. Mohamed Tindouft | Morocco | 8:10.62 | Q, PB | 2. Samuel Firewu | Ethiopia | 8:11.61 | Q | 3. Abraham Kibiwot | Kenya | 8:12.02 | Q | 4. Ryuji Mira | Japan | 8:12.41 | Q | 5. Avinash Sable | India | 8:15.43 | Q | 6. Matthew Wilkinson | United States | 8:16.82 | | 7. Nahuel Carabaña | Andorra | 8:19.44 | | 8. Osama Zoghlami | Italy | 8:20.52 | | 9. Alexis Miellet | France | 8:22.08 | | 10.Velten Schneider | Germany | 8:25.75 | | 11.Matthew Clarke | Australia | 8:49.85 | | -. Tomáš Habarta | Czechia | DNF | |
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