Group 1 Place | Name | Nation | Time | Note | 1 | Worku Bikila | Ethiopia | 27:50,57 | Q | 2 | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 27:50,66 | Q | 3 | Mathias Ntawulikura | Rwanda | 27:51,69 | Q | 4 | Aloÿs Nizigama | Burundi | 27:53,21 | Q | 5 | Salah Hissou | Morocco | 27:53,32 | Q | 6 | Stefano Baldini | Italy | 27:55,79 | Q | 7 | Abel Antón | Spain | 27:56,26 | Q | 8 | Carlos de la Torre | Spain | 28:04,14 | Q | 9 | Zoltán Káldy | Hungary | 28:13,49 | q | 10 | Marko Hhawu | Tanzania | 28:14,08 | q | 11 | Paul Evans | United Kingdom | 28:24,39 | q | 12 | Robbie Johnston | New Zealand | 28:40,60 | | 13 | Katsuhiko Hanada | Japan | 28:52,22 | | 14 | Róbert Štefko | Slovakia | 29:03,80 | | 15 | Carlos Patrício | Portugal | 29:15,41 | | 16 | Ronaldo da Costa | Brazil | 29:26,58 | | 17 | Dan Middleman | United States | 29:50,72 | | 18 | Mohamed Ezzher | France | 29:55,34 | | 19 | Martín Pitayo | Mexico | 30:32,20 | | 20 | Herder Vázquez | Colombia | 33:26,15 | | 21 | Majed Abu Maraheel | Palestine | 34:40,50 | | — | Larbi Zéroual | Morocco | DNF | | Julian Paynter | Australia | DNS | | Yasuyuki Watanabe [jp] | Japan | | | Group 2 Rank | Name | Nation | Time | Note | 1 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 28:14,20 | Q | 2 | Josephat Machuka | Kenya | 28:14,27 | Q | 3 | Paul Koech | Kenya | 28:17,48 | Q | 4 | Jon Brown | Great Britain | 28:19,85 | Q | 5 | Alyan Al-Qahtani | Saudi Arabia | 28:22,35 | Q | 6 | Khalid Skah | Morocco | 28:23,21 | Q | 7 | Stéphane Franke | Germany | 28:24,30 | Q | 8 | Armando Quintanilla | Mexico | 28:27,28 | Q | 9 | Alejandro Gómez | Spain | 28:28,16 | q | 10 | Silvio Guerra | Ecuador | 28:30,15 | | 11 | Abraham Assefa | Ethiopia | 28:32,24 | | 12 | Toshinari Takaoka | Japan | 28:38,18 | | 13 | Shaun Creighton | Australia | 28:44,29 | | 14 | Alfredo Brás | Portugal | 28:50,28 | | 15 | Hendrick Ramaala | South Africa | 29:07,81 | | 16 | Brad Barquist | United States | 29:11,20 | | 17 | Charles Mulinga | Zambia | 29:14,99 | | 18 | Miroslav Vanko | Slovakia | 29:17,53 | | 19 | Sean Dollman | Ireland | 29:19,03 | | 20 | Hamid Sajjadi | Iran | 29:22,65 | | 21 | Jeff Schiebler | Canada | 29:47,79 | | — | Abdellah Béhar | France | DNF | | Paulo Guerra | Portugal | | Todd Williams | United States | | |