| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabriela Szabo |
ROU
|
15:26.62 Q |
| 2 | Paula Radcliffe |
GBR
|
15:27.25 Q |
| 3 | Harumi Hiroyama-Suzuki |
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 Johnson-Hickman |
USA
|
15:30.56 q SB |
| 8 | Gunhild Halle-Haugen |
NOR
|
15:32.13 q |
| 9 | Kate Anderson-Richardson |
AUS
|
15:36.16 q |
| 10 | Ebru Kavaklioglu |
RUS
|
15:37.19 PB |
| 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 | Zahra Ouaziz |
MAR
|
15:58.84 |
| 16 | Genet Gebregiorgis |
ETH
|
16:04.40 SB |
| 17 | Laurence Duquenoy |
FRA
|
16:06.02 |
| 18 | Justine Nahimana |
BDI
|
17:21.77 |
| 19 | Nebiat Habtemariam |
ERI
|
18:26.50 |
| 20 | Zalia Aliou |
TOG
|
18:34.45 NR |
| 21 | Martha Portoblanco |
NCA
|
19:08.44 |
| Maysa Matrood |
IRQ
|
DNS | |
| Elana Meyer |
RSA
|
DNS |
| POS | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fernanda Ribeiro |
POR
|
15:27.30 Q |
| 2 | Jianying Liu |
CHN
|
15:29.28 Q PB |
| 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 |
ROU
|
15:40.86 |
| 9 | Olivera Jevtic |
SCG
|
15:43.76 |
| 10 | HrisostomÃa Iakóvou |
GRE
|
15:51.14 |
| 11 | Restituta Joseph |
TAN
|
15:55.22 NR |
| 12 | Amy Rudolph |
USA
|
16:00.87 |
| 13 | Una English |
IRL
|
16:07.09 |
| 14 | Jelena Prokopcuka |
LAT
|
16:27.63 |
| 15 | Helena Javornik |
SLO
|
16:28.38 |
| Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim |
GER
|
DNF | |
| Anne Hare |
NZL
|
DNF | |
| Carol Howe |
CAN
|
DNS | |
| Annemari KIEKARA |
FIN
|
DNS |