| Final 20:40 | time | | | 1. Pyotr Bolotnikov |  URS | 28:54.0 | CR | | 2. Friedrich Janke |  GDR | 29:01.6 | | | 3. Roy Fowler |  GBR | 29:02.0 | | | 4. Martin Hyman | GBR | 29:02.0 | | | 5. Robert Bogey |  FRA | 29:02.6 | | | 6. Leonid Ivanov | URS | 29:04.8 | | | 7. Franc Červan |  YUG | 29:07.6 | NR | | 8. Mike Bullivant | GBR | 29:13.4 | | | 9. Josef Tomáš |  TCH | 29:22.4 | | | 10.Hamida Addeche | FRA | 29:22.8 | | | 11.Constantin Grecescu |  ROU | 29:24.4 | | | 12.Henri Clerckx |  BEL | 29:31.4 | | | 13.Siegfried Rothe | GDR | 29:33.8 | | | 14.Antonio Ambu |  ITA | 29:34.6 | | | 15.Şükrü Saban |  TUR | 29:37.4 | | | 16.Istvan Ivanovic | YUG | 29:37.8 | | | 17.Yuriy Nikitin | URS | 29:49.4 | | | 18.Peter Kubicki |  FRG | 29:55.8 | | | 19.Magnar Lundemo |  NOR | 29:59.4 | | | 20.Janos Pinter |  HUN | 30:20.0 | | | 21.Jerzy Mathias |  POL | 30:31.8 | | | 22.Miklós Szabó | HUN | 31:13.4 | | | 23.Jozsef Suto | HUN | 31:39.6 | | | 24.Jean Aniset |  LUX | 31:44.8 | | | -. Mariano Haro |  ESP | DNF | | | -. Jim Hogan |  IRL | DNF | |
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| History Men 10000m | | World and European Record: Bolotnikov (URS) 28:18.2 |
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