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Heat 1
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Tapio Kantanen | FIN | 8:24.8 |
| 2 | Kipchoge Keino | KEN | 8:27.6 |
| 3 | Takaharu Koyama | JPN | 8:29.8 |
| 4 | Gheorghe Cefan | ROU | 8:33.8 |
| 5 | Andrew Holden | GBR | 8:33.8 |
| 6 | Anton Feldmann | SUI | 8:35.8 |
| 7 | Stephen Savage | USA | 8:39.0 |
| 8 | Gerard Buchheit | FRA | 8:41.2 |
| 9 | Filbert Bayi | TAN | 8:41.4 |
| 10 | Vitus Ashaba | UGA | 8:45.0 |
| 11 | Tadeusz Zielinski | POL | 8:49.8 |
| 12 | Wigmar Pedersen | DEN | 9:03.0 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Benjamin Jipcho | KEN | 8:31.6 |
| 2 | Mikko Ala-Leppilampi | FIN | 8:31.8 |
| 3 | Mikhail Jelev | BUL | 8:35.8 |
| 4 | Willi Maier | FRG | 8:37.6 |
| 5 | Akira Takeuchi | JPN | 8:40.4 |
| 6 | Sergei Skripka | URS | 8:41.4 |
| 7 | Jan Voje | NOR | 8:42.0 |
| 8 | Hans Menet | SUI | 8:45.4 |
| 9 | Edward Leddy | IRL | 8:47.4 |
| 10 | Kazimierz Maranda | POL | 8:50.4 |
| 11 | Esau Ade Nji | CMR | 9:34.4 |
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| Kerry O'Brien | AUS | ||
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Pekka Paivarinta | FIN | 8:29.0 |
| 2 | Romualdas Bitte | URS | 8:30.2 |
| 3 | Jean-Paul Villain | FRA | 8:30.4 |
| 4 | Jozef Horoic | TCH | 8:30.6 |
| 5 | Anders Garderud | SWE | 8:30.8 |
| 6 | Wilhelm Wagner | FRG | 8:34.0 |
| 7 | Paul Thijs | BEL | 8:35.0 |
| 8 | John Bicourt | GBR | 8:38.8 |
| 9 | Douglas Brown | USA | 8:41.2 |
| 10 | Panayotis Nakopoulos | GRE | 8:48.4 |
| 11 | Yohannes Mohamed | ETH | 8:52.6 |
| 12 | Robert Hackman | GHA | 8:57.6 |
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Amos Biwott | KEN | 8:23.8 |
| 2 | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | 8:28.2 |
| 3 | Dusan Moravcik | TCH | 8:33.4 |
| 4 | Stephen Hollings | GBR | 8:35.0 |
| 5 | Franco Fava | ITA | 8:35.0 |
| 6 | Hans-Dieter Schulten | FRG | 8:39.8 |
| 7 | Boualem Rahoui | ALG | 8:41.0 |
| 8 | Spyridon Kontossoros | GRE | 8:41.0 |
| 9 | Georg Kaiser | SUI | 8:45.4 |
| 10 | Michael Manley | USA | 8:50.4 |
| 11 | Sverre Sornes | NOR | 8:54.8 |
| 12 | Usaia Sotutu | FIJ | 9:12.0 |
| 13 | Julio Quevedo | GUA | 9:28.4 |