| Venue: Estádio Olímpico João Havelange (Estádio Nilton Santos-Botafogo), Capacity: 46,931. |
| Final 11:15 | time | | SO | bib | | 1. Ruth Jebet |  BRN | 8:59.75 | | 16 | 451 | | 2. Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi |  KEN | 9:07.12 | | 9 | 947 | | 3. Emma Coburn |  USA | 9:07.63 | | 6 | 1331 | | 4. Beatrice Chepkoech | KEN | 9:16.05 | PB | 13 | 943 | | 5. Sofia Assefa |  ETH | 9:17.15 | SB | 4 | 638 | | 6. Gesa Felicitas Krause |  GER | 9:18.41 | | 2 | 760 | | 7. Madeline Heiner Hills |  AUS | 9:20.38 | PB | 17 | 325 | | 8. Colleen Quigley | USA | 9:21.10 | PB | 11 | 1367 | | 9. Genevieve Lacaze | AUS | 9:21.21 | PB | 3 | 329 | | 10.Lalita Shivaji Babar |  IND | 9:22.74 | | 5 | 826 | | 11.Courtney Frerichs | USA | 9:22.87 | | 15 | 1342 | | 12.Habiba Ghribi |  TUN | 9:28.75 | | 8 | 1254 | | 13.Lydia Chebet Rotich | KEN | 9:29.90 | | 18 | 955 | | 14.Aisha Praught |  JAM | 9:34.20 | | 14 | 897 | | 15.Etenesh Diro | ETH | 9:38.77 | | 7 | 646 | | 16.Genevieve Lalonde |  CAN | 9:41.88 | | 12 | 481 | | 17.Sara Louise Treacy |  IRL | 9:52.70 | | 10 | 848 | | 18.Fabienne Schlumpf |  SUI | 9:59.30 | | 1 | 1212 |
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| Entry Standard 9:45.00 to be obtained from May 1, 2015 to July 11, 2016. | | A National Olympic Comitee may enter up to 3 qualified athletes. | | NOCs may enter athletes regardless of time (1 athlete per sex) if they have no athletes meeting the entry standard. |
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| | | 58 qualified athletes as 10 June 2016 |
| No | NOC | 1. | 2. | 3. | | 3 | Australia | Madeline Heiner | Genevieve LaCaze | Victoria Mitchell | | 3 | Canada | Jessica Furlan | Geneviève Lalonde | Erin Teschuk | | 3 | Ethiopia | | | 3 | France | Maeva Danois | Emma Oudiou | Ophelie Claude-Boxberger | | 3 | Germany | Gesa Felicitas Krause | Jana Sussmann | Maya Rehberg | | 3 | Ireland | Sara Treacy | Michelle Finn | Kerry O’Flaherty | | 3 | Kenya | | | 3 | Morocco | Salima Elouali Alami | | 3 | Russia | | | 3 | Turkey | Tuğba Güvenç | Özlem Kaya | Meryem Akda | | 3 | United States | | | 2 | China | Li Zhenzhu | Zhang Xinyan | | 2 | India | Lalita Babar | Sudha Singh | | 2 | Sweden | Klara Bodinson | Charlotta Fougberg | | 1 | Algeria | Amina Bettiche | | 1 | Argentina | Belén Casetta | | 1 | Bahrain | John Kibet Koech | | 1 | Belarus | Sviatlana Kudzelich | | 1 | Brazil | Juliana dos Santos | | 1 | Bulgaria | Silvia Danekova | | 1 | Colombia | Muriel Coneo | | 1 | Czech Republic | Lucie Sekanová | | 1 | Finland | Sandra Eriksson | | 1 | Great Britain | | | 1 | Jamaica | Aisha Praught | | 1 | Poland | Matylda Kowal | | 1 | Romania | Ancuța Bobocel | | 1 | Slovenia | Maruša Mišmaš | | 1 | Spain | Diana Martín | | 1 | Switzerland | Fabienne Schlumpf | | 1 | Tunisia | Habiba Ghribi | | 1 | Uganda | Peruth Chemutai | | 1 | Ukraine | Mariya Shatalova | | | Invitational places | | | | | | Universality places | | | | | 58 | Total | |
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