Start Time: 03:25pm
WR 03:50.46 Yunxia Qu (CHN)
ER 03:52.47 Tatyana Kazankina (RUS)
IR 03:58.85 Sonia O’Sullivan (IRL)
MR 04:06.59 Geraldine Hendricken (IRL)
| Place | No. | Name | YOB | Club | Hip No. | Official Time |
| 1 | 56 | Judit Varga | 76 | Italy | 10 | 4:14.03 |
| 2 | 142 | Dacia Perkins | 83 | USA | 13 | 4:17.66 |
| 3 | 40 | Roseanne Galligan | 87 | Ireland | 6 | 4:17.69 |
| 4 | 41 | Harriet Scott | 86 | England | 7 | 4:20.27 |
| 5 | 37 | Olesya Tyurina | 80 | Russia | 3 | 4:21.38 |
| 6 | 42 | Roisin McGettigan | 80 | Ireland | 8 | 4:21.57 |
| 7 | 189 | Lauren Hagans | 86 | USA | 14 | 4:24.46 |
| 8 | 977 | Gemma Turtle | 86 | England | 5 | 4:26.65 |
| 9 | 36 | Benita Johnson | 79 | Australia | 2 | 4:28.82 |
| 10 | 38 | Jennifer Kemp | 83 | Canada | 4 | 4:35.36 |
| 11 | 141 | Sara Treacy | 89 | Ireland | 12 | 4:40.64 |
| 12 | 48 | Lorraine Manning | 78 | Ireland | 15 | 4:55.89 |
| DNS | 55 | Sally Kipyego | 85 | Kenya | 9 | DNS |
| DNS | 120 | Nicole Edwards | 86 | Canada | 11 | DNS |
