2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

Events at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
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
10,000 m walk		men		women
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 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Moncton 2010 Stadium on 20 July. A field of 20 athletes from 14 countries competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dennis Chepkongin Masai Kenya	Gebretsadik Abraha Ethiopia	Paul Kipchumba Lonyangata Kenya

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World junior record	Samuel Wanjiru	Kenya	26:41.75	Bruxelles	August 26, 2005
Championship record	Josphat Bett	Kenya	27:30.85	Bydgoszcz	July 9, 2008

No new records were established during the competition.

Results

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Dennis Chepkongin Masai	Kenya	27:53.88	WJL
	Gebretsadik Abraha	Ethiopia	28:03.45	PB
	Paul Kipchumba Lonyangata	Kenya	28:14.55	PB
4	Mohammed Ahmed	Canada	29:11.75
5	Aaron Pulford	New Zealand	29:14.23	NJR
6	Parker Stinson	United States	29:32.23	PB
7	Suresh Kumar	India	29:40.07
8	Suguru Osako	Japan	29:40.14
9	Fuminori Shikata	Japan	29:47.87
10	Joseph Chebet	Uganda	29:56.53	SB
11	Gabriel Navarro	Spain	29:57.78	PB
12	Mohammed Merbouhi	Algeria	30:06.23	PB
13	Andrew Nixon	Canada	30:35.43
14	Nicolae Soare	Romania	30:37.23	PB
15	Mansour Haraoui	Algeria	30:54.84
16	Graham Bazell	United States	30:59.57
17	Indalow Takala	Israel	31:25.38
	Edwin Chebii Kimurer	Bahrain		DNF
	Debebe Woldesenbet	Ethiopia		DNF
	José Costa	Portugal		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, NJR = National junior record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best, WJL = World junior leading

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

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External links

• 10,000 metres results from IAAF. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-21.
• 13th IAAF World Junior Championships Facts & Figures. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-21.