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Date: 21 July 1980 / 22 July 1980
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Vladimir Salnikov | URS | 14:58.27 |
| 2 | Aleksandr Chaev | URS | 15:14.30 |
| 3 | Max Metzker | AUS | 15:14.49 |
| 4 | Rainer Strohbach | GDR | 15:15.29 |
| 5 | Borut Petric | YUG | 15:21.78 |
| 6 | Rafael Escalas | ESP | 15:21.88 |
| 7 | Zoltan Wladar | HUN | 15:26.70 |
| 8 | Eduard Petrov | URS | 15:28.24 |
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| 9 | Sandor Nagy | HUN | 15:34.84 |
| 10 | Daniel Machek | TCH | 15:39.73 |
| 11 | Simon Gray | GBR | 15:43.17 |
| 12 | Darjan Petric | YUG | 15:47.49 |
| 13 | Andrew Astbury | GBR | 15:54.32 |
| 14 | Djan Madruga | BRA | 15:56.20 |
| 15 | Marcelo Juca | BRA | 16:01.11 |
| 16 | Diego Quiroga | ECU | 16:01.41 |
| 17 | Jose Maria Larranaga | PER | 16:27.90 |
| Did not start | |||
| Jean Marc Francois Carezis | VEN | ||
| Kevin Williamson | IRL | ||
| Abdelhakim Bitat | ALG | ||
| Istvan Koczka | HUN | ||