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Date: 19 August 2008 / 22 August 2008
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Tirunesh Dibaba | ETH | 15:41.40 |
| 2 | Elvan Abeylegesse | TUR | 15:42.74 |
| 3 | Meseret Defar | ETH | 15:44.12 |
| 4 | Sylvia Kibet | KEN | 15:44.96 |
| 5 | Vivian Cheruiyot | KEN | 15:46.32 |
| 6 | Liliya Shobukhova | RUS | 15:46.62 |
| 7 | Alemitu Bekele | TUR | 15:48.48 |
| 8 | Meselech Melkamu | ETH | 15:49.03 |
| 9 | Kara Goucher | USA | 15:49.39 |
| 10 | Shalane Flanagan | USA | 15:50.80 |
| 11 | Priscah Cherono | KEN | 15:51.78 |
| 12 | Gulnara Galkina-Samitova | RUS | 15:56.97 |
| 13 | Xue Fei | CHN | 16:09.84 |
| 14 | Jennifer Rhines | USA | 16:34.63 |
| 15 | Megan Metcalfe | CAN | 17:06.82 |
| Heats | |||
| 16 | Yuriko Kobayashi | JPN | 15:15.87 |
| 17 | Simret Sultan | ERI | 15:16.25 |
| 18 | Kayoko Fukushi | JPN | 15:20.46 |
| 19 | Mariem Alaoui Selsouli | MAR | 15:21.47 |
| 20 | Volha Krautsova | BLR | 15:21.85 |
| 21 | Silvia Weissteiner | ITA | 15:23.45 |
| 22 | Zhang Yingying | CHN | 15:23.81 |
| 23 | Zakia Mrisho Mohamed | TAN | 15:24.28 |
| 24 | Dolores Checa | ESP | 15:31.22 |
| 25 | Yukiko Akaba | JPN | 15:38.30 |
| 26 | Jessica Augusto | POR | 16:05.71 |
| 27 | Krisztina Papp | HUN | 16:08.86 |
| 28 | Lucia Chandamale | MAW | 16:44.09 |
| 29 | Francine Niyonizigiye | BDI | 17:08.44 |
| 30 | Celma da Graca Soares Bonfim | STP | 17:25.99 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Elena Zadorozhnaya | RUS | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Jo Pavey | GBR | ||