| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | 7 | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 14:40.84 | AF |
| - | 4 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 14:41.53 | - |
| - | 5 | Ryan Cochrane | Canada | 14:42.69 | - |
| 4 | 3 | Yuri Prilukov | Russia | 14:43.21 | - |
| 5 | 8 | Larsen Jensen | United States | 14:48.16 | - |
| 6 | 2 | David Davies | Great Britain | 14:52.11 | - |
| 7 | 6 | Zhang Lin | China | 14:55.20 | - |
| 8 | 1 | Sun Yang | China | 15:05.12 | - |