European Athletics Championships 2010 / 10,000 m men

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 27th
Medalist Mohammed Farah ( GBR )   Christopher Thompson ( GBR )   Daniele Meucci ( ITA )

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on July 27, 2010 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

In this competition, the British long distance runners achieved a double victory. European champion was the European Championship runner-up over 5000 meters from 2006 Mohammed Farah , who won his second title here four days later on the 5000 meter course. Second place went to Christopher Thompson . The Italian Daniele Meucci came in third.

Existing records

World record	26: 17.53 min	Kenenisa Bekele	Brussels , Belgium	August 26, 2005
European record	26: 52.30 min	Mohammed Mourhit	Stockholm , Sweden	September 3, 1999
Championship record	27: 30.99 min	Martti Vainio	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 29, 1978

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

execution

As is usual on the longest track distance, there was no preliminary round, all 26 participants started in a joint final.

final

Mo Farah won his first of two European Championship titles here and was also the dominant long-distance track racer at world level in the years to come

Vice European Champion Chris Thompson

July 27, 2010, 9:05 pm

After a slow start - passage time 5000 meters 14: 38.10 min - Mo Farah and Ayad Lamdassem were able to pull away. Shortly before the end, Farah sprinted away from the Spaniard. This was overtaken by Christopher Thompson and Daniele Meucci. Meucci and Thompson crossed the finish line at the same time, but Thompson was rated ahead of Meucci in the photo finish . So there was a British double victory. Of the 26 starters, 22 made it to the finish line.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Mohammed Farah	Great Britain	28: 24.99
2	Christopher Thompson	Great Britain	28: 27.33
3	Daniele Meucci	Italy	28: 27.33
4th	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	28: 34.89
5	Carles Castillejo	Spain	28: 49.69
6th	Christian Belz	Switzerland	28: 54.01
7th	Andrea Lalli	Italy	29: 05.20
8th	Youssef El Kalay	Portugal	29: 07.61
9	Christian Glatting	Germany	29: 09.84
10	Abdellatif Meftah	France	29: 14.74
11	Marcin Chabowski	Poland	29: 15.65
12	Jan Fitschen	Germany	29: 16.59
13	Jussi Utriainen	Finland	29: 16.87
14th	Sondre Nordstad Moen	Norway	29: 19.63
15th	Filmon Ghirmai	Germany	29: 28.31
16	Stsiapan Rahautsou	Belarus	29: 40.19
17th	Matti Räsänen	Finland	29: 45.65
18th	Pavel Shapovalov	Russia	29: 50.02
19th	José Rocha	Portugal	29: 50.41
20th	Tasama Moogas	Israel	29: 50.78
21st	Marius Ionescu	Romania	30: 21.76
22nd	Kemal Koyuncu	Turkey	30: 28.83
DNF	Manuel Ángel Penas	Spain
	Moon Rizki	Belgium
	Michael Schmid	Austria
	Rui Pedro Silva	Portugal

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  Daniele Meucci - third only beaten by a thousandth of a second

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  Ayad Lamdassem - here ahead of Mo Farah - came fourth in the end

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  Carles Castillejo finished fifth

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  Andrea Lalli reached seventh place

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  Abdellatif Meftah came in tenth place

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  Marcin Chabowski - eleventh place

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  Defending champion Jan Fitschen came in twelfth place

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  Jussi Utriainen - thirteen place

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  Sondre Nordstad Moen - Fourteenth

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  Filmon Ghirmai - 15th place

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  Stsiapan Rahautsou - sixteenth place

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  Marius Ionescu - Rank 21

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  Kemal Koyuncu (red jersey) - 22nd place

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  Rui Pedro Silva - not at the finish

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Barcelona 2010 at european-athletics.org, accessed December 13, 2019
• Men 10000m European Championship 2010 Barcelona on todor66.com, accessed December 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2010 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on December 13, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 10000m European Championship 2010 Barcelona, ​​p. 501 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on December 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2010, 10,000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on December 13, 2019
• 20th European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​Spain from ifosta.de, accessed on December 13, 2019

Video

• Mo Farah Wins 10000m European Athletics 2010 on youtube.com, accessed December 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000m men , accessed December 13, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 10000 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 14 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on December 13, 2019