| 1 | Ants Antson (Senior) | URS | 4:50.50 | | - |
| 2 | Aleksandr Kertsjenko (Neo) | URS | 4:54.40 | | +3.900 |
| 3 | Valerij Kaplan (Senior) | URS | 4:57.50 | | +7.000 |
| 4 | Aleksej Legotkin (Neo) | URS | 4:58.50 | | +8.000 |
| 5 | Jurij Malykhin (Neo) | URS | 4:58.80 | | +8.300 |
| 6 | Stanislav Seljanin (Senior) | URS | 4:59.50 | | +9.000 |
| 7 | Eduard Matusevitsj (M30) | URS | 5:02.00 | | +11.500 |
| 8 | Valerij Troitskij (Neo) | URS | 5:03.20 | | +12.700 |
| 9 | Bernd Prusowski (A2) | GDR | 5:03.70 | | +13.200 |
| 10 | Valerij Lavrusjkin (Neo) | URS | 5:05.20 | | +14.700 |
| 11 | Gennadij Podkovyrov (Neo) | URS | 5:07.20 | | +16.700 |
| 12 | Aleksandr Tsjekulajev (Neo) | URS | 5:07.60 | | +17.100 |
| 13 | Anatolij Masjkov (Neo) | URS | 5:08.70 | SB | +18.200 |
| 14 | Viktor Kositsjkin (M30) | URS | 5:10.50 | SB | +20.000 |
| 15 | Oleg Samojlov (Senior) | URS | 5:11.90 | | +21.400 |
| 16 | Vladimir Gvozdetskij (Neo) | URS | 5:14.20 | | +23.700 |
| 17 | Valerij Krot (Senior) | URS | 5:19.30 | PB | +28.800 |
| 18 | Jonny Ströh (Neo) | GDR | 5:20.30 | | +29.800 |
| 19 | Volkmar Poneß (A1) | GDR | 5:22.70 | | +32.200 |
| 20 | Viktor Tsjursin (Neo) | URS | 5:25.90 | SB | +35.400 |
| 21 | Jürgen Rudolph (Neo) | GDR | 5:27.10 | | +36.600 |
| 22 | Wilfried Schramm (A1) | GDR | 5:27.40 | | +36.900 |
| 23 | Karl-Heinz Ströh (Neo) | GDR | 5:28.60 | | +38.100 |
| 24 | Valerij Muratov (Neo) | URS | 5:38.40 | SB | +47.900 |
| 25 | Klaus Wunderlich (B1) | GDR | 5:52.60 | | +1.02.100 |