| Final | time | | 1. Damian Kallabis |  Germany | 8:13.10 | | 2. Alessandro Lambruschini |  Italy | 8:16.70 | | 3. Jim Svenoy |  Norway | 8:18.97 | | 4. Luis Martin |  Spain | 8:20.54 | | 5. Luciano di Pardo | Italy | 8:20.96 | | 6. Ramiro Moran | Spain | 8:24.06 | | 7. Eliseo Martin | Spain | 8:26.60 | | 8. Rafal Wojcik |  Poland | 8:27.74 | | 9. Marc Ostendarp | Germany | 8:31.72 | | 10.Bouabdellah Tahri |  France | 8:41.45 | | 11.Andre Green | Germany | 9:03.17 | | -. Angelo Carosi | Italy | DNF |
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| Round | H | Athl. | date | | Heats | 2 | 27 | 20.08 |
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| Heat 1 | time | | 1. Luciano di Pardo | Italy | 8:26.52 | | 2. Marc Ostendarp | Germany | 8:26.92 | | 3. Jim Svenoy | Norway | 8:26.92 | | 4. Alessandro Lambruschini | Italy | 8:27.05 | | 5. Eliseo Martin | Spain | 8:27.35 | | 6. Georgios Giannelis |  Greece | 8:28.81 | | 7. Vincent le Dauphin | France | 8:29.08 | | 8. Joao Junqueira |  Portugal | 8:32.02 | | 9. Marcel Laros |  Netherlands | 8:38.89 | | 10.Jan Zakrzewski | Poland | 8:40.94 | | 11.Michal Bartoszak | Poland | 8:45.70 | | 12.Konstantin Tomskiy |  Russia | 8:49.53 | | -. Gunther Weidlinger |  Austria | DNF |
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| Heat 2 | time | | 1. Luis Martin | Spain | 8:27.31 | | 2. Ramiro Moran | Spain | 8:27.46 | | 3. Damian Kallabis | Germany | 8:27.54 | | 4. Rafal Wojcik | Poland | 8:27.79 | | 5. Andre Green | Germany | 8:27.98 | | 6. Bouabdellah Tahri | France | 8:28.30 | | 7. Angelo Carosi | Italy | 8:28.77 | | 8. Michael Buchleitner | Austria | 8:31.54 | | 9. Mohamed Belabbes | France | 8:33.64 | | 10.Vitor Almeida | Portugal | 8:35.05 | | 11.Panayiotis Papoulias | Greece | 8:45.01 | | 12.Yaroslav Mushinskiy |  Moldova | 8:47.27 | | 13.Ville-Veikko Sainio |  Finland | 8:52.23 | | 14.Stathis Stasi |  Cyprus | 8:52.65 |
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