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Date: 30 July 1980 / 31 July 1980 / 1 August 1980
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Sebastian Coe | GBR | 3:38.4 |
| 2 | Jurgen Straub | GDR | 3:38.8 |
| 3 | Steve Ovett | GBR | 3:39.0 |
| 4 | Andreas Busse | GDR | 3:40.2 |
| 5 | Vittorio Fontanella | ITA | 3:40.4 |
| 6 | Josef Plachy | TCH | 3:40.7 |
| 7 | Jose Marajo | FRA | 3:41.5 |
| 8 | Steve Cram | GBR | 3:42.0 |
| 9 | Dragan Zdravkovic | YUG | 3:43.1 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 10 | Robert Nemeth | AUT | 3:40.8 |
| 11 | Vitali Tishchenko | URS | 3:41.5 |
| 12 | Jose Luis Gonzalez | ESP | 3:42.6 |
| 13 | Vladimir Malozemlin | URS | 3:43.6 |
| 14 | Antti Loikkanen | FIN | 3:44.0 |
| 15 | Joao Campos | POR | 3:44.4 |
| 16 | Alexandre Gonzalez | FRA | 3:44.7 |
| 17 | Mehdi Aidet | ALG | 3:44.9 |
| 18 | Miroslaw Zerkowski | POL | 3:48.2 |
| Heats | |||
| 19 | Ray Flynn | IRL | 3:42.0 |
| 20 | Kassa Balcha | ETH | 3:43.1 |
| 21 | Pavel Yakovlev | URS | 3:44.2 |
| 22 | Jon Didriksson | ISL | 3:44.4 |
| 23 | Jose Manuel Abascal | ESP | 3:44.7 |
| 24 | Pierre Deleze | SUI | 3:44.8 |
| 25 | Derradji Harrek | ALG | 3:45.3 |
| 26 | Haile Zeru | ETH | 3:45.7 |
| 27 | Nigusse Bekele | ETH | 3:45.8 |
| 28 | Abderrahmane Morceli | ALG | 3:46.0 |
| 29 | Archfel Musango | ZAM | 3:53.7 |
| 30 | Marzoug Mabruk | LBA | 3:54.3 |
| 31 | Mopeli Molapo | LES | 3:55.5 |
| 32 | Sant Kumar | IND | 3:55.6 |
| 33 | Tisbite Rakotoarisoa | MAD | 3:55.9 |
| 34 | Khaled al-Shammari | KUW | 3:57.6 |
| 35 | Santos Vicente | MOZ | 3:58.7 |
| 36 | Ishmael Mhaladi | BOT | 3:59.1 |
| 37 | Mohammad Makhlouf | SYR | 4:00.3 |
| 38 | George Branche | SLE | 4:03.9 |
| 39 | Quang Khai Le | VIE | 4:06.8 |
| 40 | Damien Degboe | BEN | 4:15.3 |
| Did not start | |||
| Filbert Bayi | TAN | ||