| Final | time | | 1. Salvatore Antibo | Italy | 13:22.00 | | 2. Gary Staines | Great Britain | 13:22.45 | | 3. Slawomir Majusiak | Poland | 13:22:92 | | 4. Dionisio Castro | Portugal | 13:23.99 | | 5. Jonny Danielsson | Sweden | 13:24.16 | | 6. Risto Ulmala | Finland | 13:25.08 | | 7. Stefano Mei | Italy | 13:27.13 | | 8. Harri Hanninen | Finland | 13:28.22 | | 9. Cyrille Laventure | France | 13:28.25 | | 10.Carlos Monteiro | Portugal | 13:30.19 | | 11.Abel Anton | Spain | 13:31.27 | | 12.lan Hamer | Great Britain | 13:32.61 | | 13.Eamonn Martin | Great Britain | 13:34.62 | | 14.Arnold Machler | Switzerland | 13:45.01 | | -. John Halvorsen | Norway | |
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| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Slawomir Majusiak | Poland | 13:40.12 | | 2. Salvatore Antibo | Italy | 13:40.14 | | 3. Risto Ulmala | Finland | 13:41.81 | | 4. Ian Hamer | Great Britain | 13:42.46 | | 5. Marcus O'Sullivan | Ireland | 13:45.74 | | 6. Mikhail Dasko | Soviet Union | 13:47.04 | | 7. Thierry Pantel | France | 13:48.80 | | 8. Vincent Rousseau | Belgium | 13:53.90 | | 9. Antonio Leitao | Portugal | 13:54.38 | | 10.Renato Gotti | Italy | 14:05.30 | | 11.Pascal Thiebaut | France | 14:07.13 | | 12.Steffen Brand | West Germany | 14:12.84 | | 13.Marcel Versteeg | Netherlands | 14:22.42 | | 14.Gerald Degaetano | Malta | 14:39.00 | | 15.Are Nakkim | Norway | 14:42.16 | | -. Martin Fiz | Spain | DNF |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Gary Staines | Great Britain | 13:29.00 | | 2. Dionisio Castro | Portugal | 13:29.03 | | 3. Arnold Machler | Switzerland | 13:29.09 | | 4. Carlos Monteiro | Portugal | 13:29.16 | | 5. Stefano Mei | Italy | 13:29.49 | | 6. Cyrille Laventure | France | 13:29.58 | | 7. Eamonn Martin | Great Britain | 13:29.62 | | 8. Jonny Danielsson | Sweden | 13:29.65 | | 9. Abel Anton | Spain | 13:29.81 | | 10.John Halvorsen | Norway | 13:30.05 | | 11.Harri Hanninen | Finland | 13:35.58 | | 12.Evgeni Ignatov | Bulgaria | 13:37.51 | | 13.Antonio Serrano | Spain | 13:42.03 | | 14.Zeki Ozturk | Turkey | 13:44.55 | | 15.Frank O'Mara | Ireland | 13:59.44 |
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