| Final 20.20h | time | | 1. Ismael Kirui |  KEN | 13:02.75 | | 2. Haile Gebrselassie |  ETH | 13:03.17 | | 3. Fita Bayissa | ETH | 13:05.40 | | 4. Worku Bikila | ETH | 13:06.64 | | 5. Khalid Skah |  MAR | 13:07.18 | | 6. Brahim Jabbour | MAR | 13:18.87 | | 7. Aloys Nizigama |  BUR | 13:20.59 | | 8. Paul Bitok | KEN | 13:23.41 | | 9. Robert Denmark |  GBR | 13:27.09 | | 10.Mathias Ntawulikura |  RWA | 13:28.58 | | 11.Abel Anton |  ESP | 13:40.21 | | 12.Jonny Danielson |  SWE | 13:40.59 | | 13.Zoltan Kaldy |  HUN | 13:43.02 | | 14.Michael Chesire | KEN | 13:44.11 | | -. Aissa Belaout |  ALG | DNF |
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| Round | H | Athl. | date | | Heats | 3 | 42 | 14.08 |
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| Heat 1 20.05h | time | | 1. Robert Denmark | GBR | 13:41.55 | | 2. Paul Bitok | KEN | 13:41.57 | | 3. Fita Bayissa | ETH | 13:41.61 | | 4. Khalid Skah | MAR | 13:41.72 | | 5. Bob Kennedy |  USA | 13:42.17 | | 6. Carlos Monteiro |  POR | 13:44.96 | | 7. Rainer Wachenbrunner |  GER | 13:46.43 | | 8. Toshinari Takaoka |  JPN | 13:46.86 | | 9. Andrey Tikhonov |  RUS | 13:53.25 | | 10.Alyan Sultan Al-Qahtani |  KSA | 13:56.59 | | 11.Phil Clode |  NZL | 13:56.94 | | 12.Murusamy Ramachandran |  MAS | 14:33.22 | | 13.Keiruan Tawai |  VAN | 15:43.73 | | -. James Lynch |  AHO | DNF |
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| Heat 2 20.23h | time | | 1. Worku Bikila | ETH | 13:27.14 | | 2. Ismael Kirui | KEN | 13:27.50 | | 3. Aloys Nizigama | BUR | 13:34.72 | | 4. Mathias Ntawulikura | RWA | 13:36.66 | | 5. Mustapha Essaid |  FRA | 13:40.21 | | 6. Brahim Boutayeb | MAR | 13:42.30 | | 7. Jon Brown | GBR | 13:46.20 | | 8. Michal Bartoszak |  POL | 13:52.95 | | 9. Bahadur Prasad |  IND | 13:53.59 | | 10.Peter O'Donoghue |  AUS | 14:12.99 | | 11.Thein Win Gopal |  MYA | 14:14.62 | | 12.Valdenor Dos Santos |  BRA | 14:39.29 | | 13.Prakash Davendra Singh |  FIJ | 15:01.72 | | -. Ovidiu Olteanu |  ROM | DNF |
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| Heat 3 20.41h | time | | 1. Haile Gebrselassie | ETH | 13:25.27 | | 2. Brahim Jabbour | MAR | 13:26.06 | | 3. Michael Chesire | KEN | 13:26.13 | | 4. Aissa Belaout | ALG | 13:29.12 | | 5. Abel Anton | ESP | 13:30.32 | | 6. Jonny Danielson | SWE | 13:34.05 | | 7. Zoltan Kaldy | HUN | 13:37.20 | | 8. Philemon Hanneck |  ZIM | 13:49.42 | | 9. Jan Pesava |  CZE | 14:02.00 | | 10.John Nuttall | GBR | 14:11.30 | | 11.Greg Whiteley | USA | 14:11.48 | | 12.Ahmad Zarekar |  IRN | 14:48.07 | | 13.Souley Oumarou |  NIG | 15:29.14 | | -. Ahmed Mohamed Moosa |  PAL | DNS |
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