| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elena Fidatov |
ROU
|
15:36.39 Q |
| 2 | Olga Churbanova |
RUS
|
15:37.23 Q |
| 3 | Gina Procaccio |
USA
|
15:37.66 Q |
| 4 | Florence Barsosio |
KEN
|
15:38.22 Q |
| 5 | Päivi Tikkanen |
FIN
|
15:38.25 |
| 6 | Atsumi Yashima |
JPN
|
15:40.02 |
| 7 | Rosario Murcia |
FRA
|
15:41.73 |
| 8 | Nina Christiansen |
DEN
|
15:44.66 |
| 9 | Brynhild Synstnes |
NOR
|
15:46.17 |
| 10 | Adriana Fernández |
MEX
|
15:46.89 |
| 11 | Milka Mikhaylova |
BUL
|
15:49.31 |
| 12 | Tamara Koba |
UKR
|
15:53.67 |
| 13 | Martha Ernstsdóttir |
ISL
|
16:05.33 |
| 14 | Marina Bastos |
POR
|
16:16.78 |
| Alison Wyeth |
GBR
|
DNF | |
| Derartu Tulu |
ETH
|
DNS | |
| Elana Meyer |
RSA
|
DNS |
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sonia O'Sullivan |
IRL
|
15:13.88 Q |
| 2 | Gabriela Szabo |
ROU
|
15:14.65 Q |
| 3 | Mariya Konovalova |
RUS
|
15:14.70 Q |
| 4 | Paula Radcliffe |
GBR
|
15:14.77 Q |
| 5 | Sara Wedlund |
SWE
|
15:15.67 q |
| 6 | Sally Barsosio |
KEN
|
15:18.41 q |
| 7 | Michiko Shimizu |
JPN
|
15:18.97 q |
| 8 | Silvia Sommaggio |
ITA
|
15:20.89 |
| 9 | Ana Dias |
POR
|
15:29.32 |
| 10 | Serap Aktas |
TUR
|
15:53.76 |
| 11 | Libbie Johnson-Hickman |
USA
|
15:54.97 |
| 12 | Anne Cross |
AUS
|
16:09.32 |
| Monika Schäfer |
GER
|
DNF | |
| Zhaoxia Dong |
CHN
|
DNF | |
| Hilde Stavik |
NOR
|
DNF | |
| Marleen Renders |
BEL
|
DNS | |
| Gete Wami |
ETH
|
DNS |
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rose Cheruiyot |
KEN
|
15:21.36 Q |
| 2 | Zahra Ouaziz |
MAR
|
15:22.02 Q |
| 3 | Fernanda Ribeiro |
POR
|
15:22.04 Q |
| 4 | Gwen Griffiths-van Lingen |
RSA
|
15:32.22 Q |
| 5 | Anne-Marie Danneels |
BEL
|
15:33.70 |
| 6 | Chiemi Takahashi |
JPN
|
15:35.13 |
| 7 | Carolyn Schuwalow |
AUS
|
15:37.62 |
| 8 | Gitte Karlshøj |
DEN
|
15:39.12 |
| 9 | Luchia Yishak |
ETH
|
15:42.37 |
| 10 | Laura Mykytok |
USA
|
15:48.95 |
| 11 | Andrea Karhoff |
GER
|
16:02.26 |
| 12 | Ursula Spielmann-Jeitziner |
SUI
|
16:12.57 |
| 13 | Sinead Evans |
IRL
|
16:18.61 |
| 14 | Marie-Pierre Duros |
FRA
|
16:48.66 |
| 15 | Mirsada Buric-Adam |
BIH
|
17:07.44 |
| Viktoriya Nenasheva |
RUS
|
DNF | |
| Gunhild Halle-Haugen |
NOR
|
DNF |