| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FermÃn Cacho |  ESP | 3:39.36 Q | 
| 2 | Gennaro Di Napoli |  ITA | 3:39.41 Q | 
| 3 | Mohamed Taki |  MAR | 3:39.57 Q | 
| 4 | Simon Doyle |  AUS | 3:39.61 Q | 
| 5 | Joseph Chesire |  KEN | 3:39.97 Q | 
| 6 | Kevin Sullivan |  CAN | 3:40.43 q | 
| 7 | Andrey Loginov |  RUS | 3:40.84 q | 
| 8 | Edgar de Oliveira |  BRA | 3:41.88 | 
| 9 | Johan Landsman |  RSA | 3:43.05 | 
| 10 | Carlos Mairena |  NCA | 3:54.21 | 
| 11 | Gop Bahadur Adhikari |  NEP | 3:54.47 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew Yates |  GBR | 3:42.64 Q | 
| 2 | Mohamed Suleiman |  QAT | 3:42.75 Q | 
| 3 | Mário Silva |  POR | 3:42.81 Q | 
| 4 | David Kibet |  KEN | 3:42.98 Q | 
| 5 | Azat Rakipov |  BLR | 3:43.05 Q | 
| 6 | Isaac Viciosa |  ESP | 3:43.61 | 
| 7 | Michael Busch |  GER | 3:44.03 | 
| 8 | Bill Burke |  USA | 3:44.03 | 
| 9 | Tawai Keiruan |  VAN | 4:04.77 | 
| 10 | Naseer Ismail |  MDV | 4:12.11 | 
| Davide Tirelli |  ITA | DNS | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noureddine Morceli |  ALG | 3:37.84 Q | 
| 2 | Christophe Impens |  BEL | 3:38.87 Q | 
| 3 | Steve Cram |  GBR | 3:38.98 Q | 
| 4 | Jonah Birir |  KEN | 3:39.03 Q | 
| 5 | Branko Zorko |  CRO | 3:39.20 Q | 
| 6 | Terrance Herrington |  USA | 3:39.35 q | 
| 7 | Zeki Öztürk |  TUR | 3:41.58 | 
| 8 | Hamid Sadjadi |  IRI | 3:41.66 | 
| 9 | Jens-Peter Herold |  GER | 3:50.64 | 
| 10 | Juan Jose Tapia |  PAN | 3:52.44 | 
| 11 | Ali Khazaal |  LBN | 4:02.62 | 
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manuel Pancorbo |  ESP | 3:39.91 Q | 
| 2 | Rachid El Basir |  MAR | 3:40.01 Q | 
| 3 | Niall Bruton |  IRL | 3:40.08 Q | 
| 4 | Jim Spivey |  USA | 3:40.08 Q | 
| 5 | Vénuste Niyongabo |  BDI | 3:40.18 Q | 
| 6 | Rüdiger Stenzel |  GER | 3:40.30 q | 
| 7 | Abdi Bile |  SOM | 3:41.05 q | 
| 8 | Ovidiu Olteanu |  ROU | 3:47.62 | 
| 9 | Andriy Bulkovskiy |  UKR | 3:50.02 | 
| 10 | Mohammed Al-Khawlani |  YEM | 3:50.44 | 
| 11 | Dale Jones |  ANT | 3:54.91 |