Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue Beijing National Stadium
Dates August 17
Competitors 39 from 21 nations
Medalists
  Kenenisa Bekele   Ethiopia
  Sileshi Sihine   Ethiopia
  Micah Kogo   Kenya
Athletics at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase		 men women
4 × 100 m relay men women
4 × 400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
20 km walk men women
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The Men's 10,000 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 17 at the Beijing National Stadium.[1]

The qualifying standards for the 2008 event were 27:50.00 (A standard) and 28:10.00 (B standard).[2]

Contents

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 26:17.53 Brussels, Belgium 26 August 2005
Olympic record  Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 27:05.10 Athens, Greece 20 August 2004

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition.

Date Event Name Nationality Time OR WR
17 August Final Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia 27:01.17 OR

Results

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes[3]
Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia 27:01.17 OR
Sileshi Sihine Ethiopia 27:02.77
Micah Kogo Kenya 27:04.11 SB
Moses Ndiema Masai Kenya 27:04.11 SB
5 Zersenay Tadese Eritrea 27:05.11
6 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia 27:06.68
7 Martin Irungu Mathathi Kenya 27:08.25 PB
8 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah Qatar 27:23.75 SB
9 Fabiano Joseph Naasi Tanzania 27:25.33
10 Boniface Kiprop Toroitich Uganda 27:27.28
11 Selim Bayrak Turkey 27:29.33 NR
12 Kidane Tadese Eritrea 27:36.11
13 Galen Rupp United States 27:36.99 SB
14 Dickson Marwa Tanzania 27:48.03
15 Abdihakem Abdirahman United States 27:52.53
16 Abdellah Falil Morocco 27:53.14
17 Juan Carlos de la Ossa Spain 27:54.20
18 Hasan Mahboob Bahrain 27:55.14
19 Dieudonné Disi Rwanda 27:56.74
20 Essa Ismail Rashed Qatar 27:58.67
21 Samwel Shauri Tanzania 28:06.26
22 Felix Kikwai Kibore Qatar 28:11.92
23 Carles Castillejo Spain 28:13.68
24 Ayad Lamdassem Spain 28:13.73
25 Jorge Torres United States 28:13.93
26 Surendra Kumar Singh India 28:13.97
27 Günther Weidlinger Austria 28:14.38
28 Kensuke Takezawa Japan 28:23.28
29 Juan Carlos Romero Mexico 28:26.57
30 Sergey Ivanov Russia 28:34.72
31 Takayuki Matsumiya Japan 28:39.77
32 Teklemariam Medhin Eritrea 28:54.33
33 Eric Gillis Canada 29:08.10
34 Rui Pedro Silva Portugal 29:09.03
35 Alejandro Suárez Mexico 29:24.78
Cuthbert Nyasango Zimbabwe DNF
David Galván Mexico DNF
Mohamed El Hachimi Morocco DNF
Khoudir Aggoune Algeria DNS

OR - Olympic Record, NR - National Record, PB - Personal Best, SB - Season Best

Splits

Intermediate Athlete Country Mark
1000m Alejandro Suárez  Mexico 2:50.15
2000m Kidane Tadese  Eritrea 5:27.32
3000m Kidane Tadese  Eritrea 8:09.93
4000m Kidane Tadese  Eritrea 10:59.51
5000m Kidane Tadese  Eritrea 13:48.00
6000m Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia 16:33.92
7000m Zersenay Tadese  Eritrea 19:14.71
8000m Zersenay Tadese  Eritrea 21:53.78
9000m Micah Kogo  Kenya 24:34.07

References

  1. ^ "Olympic Athletics Competition Schedule". IAAF. http://www.iaaf.org/OLY08/results/eventCode=3659/bydiscipline/index.html. Retrieved 2008-08-04. 
  2. ^ "Entry Standards - The XXIX Olympic Games - Beijing, China - 8/24 August 2008". IAAF. http://www.iaaf.org/OLY08/standards/index.html. Retrieved 2008-08-04. 
  3. ^ http://www.iaaf.org/oly08/results/eventCode=3659/racedate=08-17-2008/sex=M/discCode=10K/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det Retrieved 2008-08-17.
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