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Date: 28 July 1980 / 30 July 1980 / 1 August 1980
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Miruts Yifter | ETH | 13:21.0 |
| 2 | Suleiman Nyambui | TAN | 13:21.6 |
| 3 | Kaarlo Maaninka | FIN | 13:22.0 |
| 4 | Eamonn Coghlan | IRL | 13:22.8 |
| 5 | Markus Ryffel | SUI | 13:23.1 |
| 6 | Dietmar Millonig | AUT | 13:23.3 |
| 7 | John Treacy | IRL | 13:23.7 |
| 8 | Aleksandr Fedotkin | URS | 13:24.1 |
| 9 | Jiri Sykora | TCH | 13:25.0 |
| 10 | Yohannes Mohamed | ETH | 13:28.4 |
| 11 | Martti Vainio | FIN | 13:32.1 |
| 12 | Mohamed Kedir | ETH | 13:34.2 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 13 | Barry Smith | GBR | 13:36.7 |
| 14 | Nick Rose | GBR | 13:40.6 |
| 15 | Valeriy Abramov | URS | 13:40.7 |
| 16 | Zakariah Barie | TAN | 13:44.9 |
| 17 | Alex Hagelsteens | BEL | 13:46.7 |
| 18 | Stephen Austin | AUS | 13:47.6 |
| 19 | Emiel Puttemans | BEL | 13:50.2 |
| 20 | David Moorcroft | GBR | 13:58.2 |
| 21 | David Fitzsimmons | AUS | 13:58.3 |
| 22 | Hansjorg Kunze | GDR | 14:00.3 |
| 23 | Enrique Aquino | MEX | 14:01.4 |
| 24 | Elhachemi Abdenouz | ALG | 14:15.9 |
| Heats | |||
| 25 | Enn Sellik | URS | 13:52.4 |
| 26 | Rachid Habchaoui | ALG | 13:59.9 |
| 27 | Michael O'Shea | IRL | 14:03.0 |
| 28 | Gopal Saini | IND | 14:06.6 |
| 29 | Zephania Nsube | ZIM | 14:06.7 |
| 30 | Robert Chideka | BOT | 14:47.2 |
| 31 | Bernardo Manuel | ANG | 14:51.4 |
| 32 | Saleh Elali | SYR | 15:08.2 |
| 33 | Pedro Molomo | MOZ | 15:11.9 |
| 34 | Amadou Alimi | BEN | 15:44.0 |
| 35 | Laxaman Basnet | NEP | 16:11.7 |
| Did not start | |||
| Lasse Viren | FIN | ||
| Ilie Floroiu | ROU | ||