Finale
1.	Meeret Defar	ETH	15:54,94
2.	Tirunesh Dibaba	ETH	15:55,99
3.	Vivian Cheruiyot	KEN	15:56,04
4.	Yuhong Zhang	CHN	15:58,20
5.	Fujiko Takahashi	JPN	16:02,75
6.	Tatyana Petrova	RUS	16:04,10
7.	Fridah Domongole	KEN	16:04,71
8.	Elina Lindgren	FIN	16:08,54
9.	Hind Musa	SUD	16:09,47
10.	Jin-Sook Chang	KOR	16:17,56
11.	Galina Ignatyeva	RUS	16:23,46
12.	Yoko Miyauchi	JPN	16:38,84
13.	Adrienne Herzog	NED	16:46,53
14.	Sonia Fernandes	POR	16:47,44
15.	Agness Chikwakwa	MAW	16:56,75
16.	Mira Preradovic	BIH	17:02,48
17.	Snezana Kostic	YUG	17:05,09
18.	Lindsay Zinn	USA	17:05,99
19.	Laura Zeigle	USA	17:11,37
20.	Alba Garcia	ESP	17:28,03
21.	Daphrose Ndayikunda	BDI	17:57,02
22.	Shu-Hua Chen	TPE	18:02,56