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Date: 26 July 1980 / 28 July 1980 / 31 July 1980
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | 8:09.7 |
| 2 | Filbert Bayi | TAN | 8:12.5 |
| 3 | Eshetu Tura | ETH | 8:13.6 |
| 4 | Domingo Ramon | ESP | 8:15.8 |
| 5 | Francisco Sanchez | ESP | 8:18.0 |
| 6 | Giuseppe Gerbi | ITA | 8:18.5 |
| 7 | Boguslaw Maminski | POL | 8:19.5 |
| 8 | Anatoli Dimov | URS | 8:19.8 |
| 9 | Vasile Bichea | ROU | 8:23.9 |
| 10 | Dusan Moravcik | TCH | 8:29.1 |
| 11 | Lahcene Babaci | ALG | 8:31.8 |
| 12 | Tommy Ekblom | FIN | 8:40.9 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 13 | Roger Hackney | GBR | 8:29.2 |
| 14 | Roberto Volpi | ITA | 8:29.7 |
| 15 | Colin Reitz | GBR | 8:29.8 |
| 16 | Krzysztof Wesolowski | POL | 8:33.1 |
| 17 | Vesa Laukkanen | FIN | 8:33.3 |
| 18 | Hailu Woldetsadik | ETH | 8:35.0 |
| 19 | Aleksandr Vorobei | URS | 8:44.3 |
| 20 | Paul Copu | ROU | 8:45.0 |
| 21 | Stanimir Nenov | BUL | 8:50.2 |
| 22 | Wolfgang Konrad | AUT | 8:51.6 |
| 23 | Anthony Staynings | GBR | 8:52.3 |
| 24 | Sergei Olizarenko | URS | |
| Heats | |||
| 25 | Nikolae Voicu | ROU | 8:49.0 |
| 26 | Girma Woldehana | ETH | 8:54.6 |
| 27 | Ralf Ponitzsch | GDR | 8:56.5 |
| 28 | Anders Carlsson | SWE | 9:01.8 |
| 29 | Albert Marie | SEY | 9:19.7 |
| 30 | Abdulkarim Joumaa | SYR | 9:29.4 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Jose Manuel Sena | POR | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Tapio Kantanen | FIN | ||