Men 5000 m
Heat 1
| Pos | Athlete | NOC | Mark | |
| 1 | Smail Sghir | MAR | 13:19.69 | Q |
| 2 | Dieter Baumann | GER | 13:19.81 | Q |
| 3 | Daniel Komen | KEN | 13:19.87 | Q |
| 4 | Enrique Molina | ESP | 13:22.74 | Q |
| 5 | Paul Bitok | KEN | 13:24.85 | Q |
| 6 | Abdellah Behar | FRA | 13:26.50 | q |
| 7 | Worku Bikila | ETH | 13:31.18 | q |
| 8 | Alan Culpepper | USA | 13:34.74 | |
| 9 | Anacleto Jiménez | ESP | 13:36.55 | |
| 10 | Keith Cullen | GBR | 13:42.40 | |
| 11 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama | QAT | 13:49.55 | |
| 12 | Sergey Drygin | RUS | 13:55.56 | |
| 13 | Jeff Schiebler | CAN | 13:57.31 | |
| 14 | Mark Carroll | IRL | 13:57.88 | |
| 15 | Rob Denmark | GBR | 13:58.08 | |
| 16 | Ali Zayed | LBA | 13:58.26 | |
| 17 | Néstor García | URU | 14:12.15 | |
| 18 | Francis Munthali | MAW | 14:14.80 | |
| Jonathan Wyatt | NZL | DNF | ||
| Marco Antonio Condori | BOL | DNS |
Heat 2
| Pos | Athlete | NOC | Mark | |
| 1 | Bob Kennedy | USA | 13:23.07 | Q |
| 2 | Khalid Boulami | MAR | 13:23.46 | Q |
| 3 | Thomas Nyariki | KEN | 13:23.55 | Q |
| 4 | El Hassan Lahssini | MAR | 13:23.75 | Q |
| 5 | Dionisio Castro | POR | 13:24.51 | Q |
| 6 | Manuel Pancorbo | ESP | 13:25.71 | q |
| 7 | Pablo Olmedo | MEX | 13:27.65 | q |
| 8 | Fita Bayissa | ETH | 13:28.54 | q |
| 9 | Ismael Kirui | KEN | 13:34.52 | |
| 10 | Ayele Mezegebu | ETH | 13:38.96 | |
| 11 | Mustapha Essaïd | FRA | 13:39.11 | |
| 12 | Panagiotis Papoulias | GRE | 13:58.27 | |
| 13 | Brian Baker | USA | 14:03.95 | |
| 14 | Adrian Passey | GBR | 14:07.49 | |
| 15 | Samuli Vasala | FIN | 14:10.92 | |
| 16 | Yohannes Ghirmai | ERI | 14:59.47 | |
| 17 | Anatola Lekade | TOG | 15:00.21 | |
| 18 | Yeli Moussa | NIG | 15:00.61 |
| Pos | Athlete | NOC | Mark |
| 1 | Daniel Komen | KEN | 13:07.38 |
| 2 | Khalid Boulami | MAR | 13:09.34 |
| 3 | Thomas Nyariki | KEN | 13:11.09 |
| 4 | Smail Sghir | MAR | 13:17.45 |
| 5 | Dieter Baumann | GER | 13:17.64 |
| 6 | Bob Kennedy | USA | 13:19.45 |
| 7 | El Hassan Lahssini | MAR | 13:20.52 |
| 8 | Enrique Molina | ESP | 13:24.54 |
| 9 | Manuel Pancorbo | ESP | 13:25.78 |
| 10 | Fita Bayissa | ETH | 13:25.98 |
| 11 | Abdellah Behar | FRA | 13:29.10 |
| 12 | Worku Bikila | ETH | 13:30.02 |
| 13 | Paul Bitok | KEN | 13:30.25 |
| 14 | Dionisio Castro | POR | 13:31.74 |
| 15 | Pablo Olmedo | MEX | 14:05.59 |
| Pos | Athlete | NOC | Mark | |
| 1 | Gabriela Szabo | ROM | 15:26.62 | Q |
| 2 | Paula Radcliffe | GBR | 15:27.25 | Q |
| 3 | Harumi Hiroyama | JPN | 15:27.75 | Q |
| 4 | Roberta Brunet | ITA | 15:29.03 | Q |
| 5 | Ayelech Worku | ETH | 15:29.37 | Q |
| 6 | Li Wei | CHN | 15:29.62 | Q |
| 7 | Libbie Hickman | USA | 15:30.56 | q |
| 8 | Gunhild Halle | NOR | 15:32.13 | q |
| 9 | Kate Anderson | AUS | 15:36.16 | q |
| 10 | Yelena Kopytova | RUS | 15:37.19 | |
| 11 | Adriana Fernández | MEX | 15:41.55 | |
| 12 | Melody Fairchild | USA | 15:47.66 | |
| 13 | Marina Bastos | POR | 15:54.01 | |
| 14 | Valerie Vaughan | IRL | 15:57.58 | |
| 15 | Zohra Ouaziz | MAR | 15:58.84 | |
| 16 | Genet Gebregiorgis | ETH | 16:04.40 | |
| 17 | Laurence Duquenoy | FRA | 16:06.02 | |
| 18 | Justine Nahimana | BUR | 17:21.77 | |
| 19 | Nebiat Habtemariam | ERI | 18:26.50 | |
| 20 | Zalia Aliou | TOG | 18:34.45 | |
| 21 | Martha Portobanco | NCA | 19:08.44 | |
| Maysa Matrood | IRQ | DNS | ||
| Elana Meyer | RSA | DNS |
Heat 2
| Pos | Athlete | NOC | Mark | |
| 1 | Fernanda Ribeiro | POR | 15:27.30 | Q |
| 2 | Jianying Liu | CHN | 15:29.28 | Q |
| 3 | Lydia Cheromei | KEN | 15:32.00 | Q |
| 4 | Merima Denboba | ETH | 15:32.01 | Q |
| 5 | Naoko Takahashi | JPN | 15:32.25 | Q |
| 6 | Yuko Kawakami | JPN | 15:32.71 | Q |
| 7 | Sonia O'Sullivan | IRL | 15:40.82 | |
| 8 | Stela Olteanu | ROM | 15:40.86 | |
| 9 | Olivera Jevtic | YUG | 15:43.76 | |
| 10 | Chrystosomia Iakovou | GRE | 15:51.14 | |
| 11 | Restituta Joseph | TAN | 15:55.22 | |
| 12 | Amy Rudolph | USA | 16:00.87 | |
| 13 | Una English | IRL | 16:07.09 | |
| 14 | Jelena Celnova | LAT | 16:27.63 | |
| 15 | Helena Javornik | SLO | 16:28.38 | |
| Anne Hare | NZL | DNF | ||
| Kristina Da Fonseca-Wollheim | GER | DNF | ||
| Carol Howe | CAN | DNS | ||
| Annemari Sandell | FIN | DNS |
| Pos | Athlete | NOC | Mark |
| 1 | Gabriela Szabo | ROM | 14:57.68 |
| 2 | Roberta Brunet | ITA | 14:58.29 |
| 3 | Fernanda Ribeiro | POR | 14:58.85 |
| 4 | Paula Radcliffe | GBR | 15:01.74 |
| 5 | Lydia Cheromei | KEN | 15:07.88 |
| 6 | Jianying Liu | CHN | 15:10.64 |
| 7 | Libbie Hickman | USA | 15:11.15 |
| 8 | Harumi Hiroyama | JPN | 15:21.19 |
| 9 | Li Wei | CHN | 15:24.04 |
| 10 | Merima Denboba | ETH | 15:27.76 |
| 11 | Kate Anderson | AUS | 15:27.78 |
| 12 | Ayelech Worku | ETH | 15:28.07 |
| 13 | Naoko Takahashi | JPN | 15:32.83 |
| 14 | Gunhild Halle | NOR | 15:37.85 |
| 15 | Yuko Kawakami | JPN | 15:45.48 |
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