| Final | time | | | 1. Martti Vainio |  Finland | 27:30.99 | Cr Nr | | 2. Venanzio Ortis |  Italy | 27:31.48 | | | 3. Aleksandras Antipovas |  Soviet Union | 27:31.50 | Nr | | 4. Brendan Foster |  Great Britain | 27:32.65 | | | 5. Dave Black | Great Britain | 27:36.27 | | | 6. Gerard Tebroke |  Netherlands | 27:36.64 | Nr | | 7. Ilie Floroiu |  Romania | 27:40.06 | Nr | | 8. Enn Sellik | Soviet Union | 27:40.61 | | | 9. Knut Kvalheim |  Norway | 27:41.26 | | | 10.Jerzy Kowol |  Poland | 27:53.61 | Nr | | 11.John Treacy |  Ireland | 28:17.0 | | | 12.Schots Léon |  Belgium | 28:19.6 | | | 13.Andreica Cătălin | Romania | 28:29.4 | | | 14.Mike McLeod | Great Britain | 28:38.0 | | | 15.Dahl Øyvind | Norway | 28:43.2 | | | 16.Frank Grillaert | Belgium | 28:43.5 | | | 17.Ryszard Kopijasz | Poland | 28:44.2 | | | 18.Karel Lismont | Belgium | 28:49.2 | | | 19.Waldemar Cierpinski |  East Germany | 28:58.9 | | | 20.Karel Gába |  Czechoslovakia | 29:56.3 | | | -. Pierre Levisse |  France | DNF | | | -. Detlef Uhlemann |  West Germany | DNF | | | -. Jos Hermens | Netherlands | DNF | | | -. Paul Copu | Romania | DNF | |
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| 24 athletes from 14 countries. | | Belgium 3 | Czechoslovakia 1 | East Germany 1 | | Finland 1 | France 1 | Ireland 1 | | Italy 1 | Netherlands 2 | Norway 2 | | Poland 2 | Romania 3 | Soviet Union | 2 | | Great Britain 3 | West Germany 1 |
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