| POS | BIB | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 462 | Willy Rutto Komen |  KEN | 8:33.36 Q | 
| 2 | 586 | Thamer Kamal Ali |  QAT | 8:33.66 Q | 
| 3 | 500 | Abdelghani Aït Bahmad |  MAR | 8:34.64 Q | 
| 4 | 239 | Nahom Mesfin |  ETH | 8:35.05 Q | 
| 5 | 738 | Benjamin Kiplagat |  UGA | 8:35.77 q PB | 
| 6 | 372 | László Tóth |  HUN | 8:49.15 q PB | 
| 7 | 447 | Tsuyoshi Takeda |  JPN | 8:51.75 | 
| 8 | 810 | José Peña |  VEN | 8:52.36 NJ | 
| 9 | 273 | Yoann Kowal |  FRA | 8:58.74 | 
| 10 | 620 | Igor Chernobay |  RUS | 8:58.81 PB | 
| 11 | 147 | Le Yang |  CHN | 9:05.38 | 
| 12 | 547 | Shafat Salad |  NZL | 9:11.16 | 
| 13 | 732 | Adem Belir |  TUR | 9:12.28 | 
| 14 | 513 | Aroon Arias |  MEX | 9:13.84 | 
| 15 | 208 | Jesús Manuel Cardó |  ESP | 9:42.32 | 
| 16 | 606 | Edwin Molepo |  RSA | 9:46.06 | 
| 17 | 780 | Alexander Mason |  USA | 9:51.61 | 
| POS | BIB | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | MARK | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 460 | Bisluke Kipkorir Kiplagat |  KEN | 8:36.34 Q | 
| 2 | 136 | Xiangqian Lin |  CHN | 8:41.10 Q | 
| 3 | 259 | Vincent Chapuis |  FRA | 8:45.80 Q PB | 
| 4 | 588 | Salem Saeed Malek |  QAT | 8:47.59 q PB | 
| 5 | 680 | Osman Yahya |  SUD | 8:59.92 SB | 
| 6 | 557 | Mario Bazán |  PER | 9:02.33 | 
| 7 | 808 | Marvin BLANCO |  VEN | 9:02.56 PB | 
| 8 | 102 | Marcus Dillon |  CAN | 9:10.12 | 
| 9 | 437 | Atsuro Kikuchi |  JPN | 9:12.11 | 
| 10 | 731 | Osman Bas |  TUR | 9:14.52 | 
| 11 | 406 | Alessandro Salsi |  ITA | 9:23.10 | 
| 12 | 797 | Cory Thorne |  USA | 9:24.10 | 
| 13 | 212 | José Luis Galván |  ESP | 9:24.19 | 
| 14 | 729 | Messaoud Hamed |  TUN | 9:31.69 | 
| 15 | 12 | Benjamin ASHKETTLE |  AUS | 9:33.86 | 
| 473 | Ali Ahmed Al-Amri |  KSA | DQ | |
| 88 | Tareq Mubarak Taher |  BRN | DQ |