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

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

Men's 10,000 metres
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
VenueBeijing National Stadium
DatesAugust 17
Competitors39 from 21 nations
Winning time27:01.17 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Micah Kogo  Kenya
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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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

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
4 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 edit

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 edit

  1. ^ "Olympic Athletics Competition Schedule". IAAF. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
  2. ^ "Entry Standards - The XXIX Olympic Games - Beijing, China - 8/24 August 2008". IAAF. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
  3. ^ "Iaaf.org - Olympic Games 2008 - Results 08-17-2008 - 10 000 Metres M Final". Archived from the original on 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2008-08-17. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
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