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

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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
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1st Kenenisa Bekele 23x15px Ethiopia
2nd Sileshi Sihine 23x15px Ethiopia
3rd Micah Kogo  Kenya
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Athletics at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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The Men's 10,000 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 17 at the Beijing National Stadium.[1]

The race was dominated by the Ethiopian and Kenyan teams along with Tadese of Eritrea. With 200m remaining, Bekele pulled away from the rest of the field with a final lap of 53.42 seconds, winning his second 10,000m Olympic gold medal.

Competition format

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

The Men's 10,000m competition consisted of only one race the Final.

Records

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

World record Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 26:17.53 Brussels, Belgium 26 August 2005
Olympic record 22x20px 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 23x15px Ethiopia 27:01.17 OR

Results

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes[3]
1st Kenenisa Bekele 23x15px Ethiopia 27:01.17 OR
2nd Sileshi Sihine 23x15px Ethiopia 27:02.77
3rd Micah Kogo  Kenya 27:04.11 SB
4 Moses Ndiema Masai  Kenya 27:04.11 SB
5 Zersenay Tadese  Eritrea 27:05.11
6 Haile Gebrselassie 23x15px 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

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  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.