European Athletics Championships 2012 / 10,000 m men

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 30th
	Medalist
	Polat Kemboi Arıkan ( TUR )
	Daniele Meucci ( ITA )
	Yevgeny Rybakov ( RUS )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 30, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

The European champion was the native Kenyan Polat Kemboi Arıkan , who started for Turkey , three days later third over 5000 meters . He won Daniele Meucci before the Italian European Championship third in 2010 . Bronze went to the Russian Evgeny Rybakov .

Existing records

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

The European Championship record, which has existed since 1978 , was not achieved at these European championships either.

doping

There was one doping case in this competition:
The Portuguese José Rocha , who had ended the race prematurely, was convicted of the doping rule violation on December 11, 2012 and suspended for two years. His result at the European Championships was canceled.

execution

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

final

Here was a top group of eight

European champion Polat Kemboi Arıkan

June 30, 2012, 9:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey Turkey	28: 22.27
2	Daniele Meucci	Italy Italy	28: 22.73
3	Yevgeny Rybakov	Russia Russia	28: 22.95
4th	Bashir Abdi	Belgium Belgium	28: 23.72
5	Carles Castillejo	Spain Spain	28: 24.51
6th	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain Spain	28: 26.46
7th	Khalid Choukoud	Netherlands Netherlands	28: 26.82
8th	Rui Pedro Silva	Portugal Portugal	28: 31.16
9	Keith Gerrard	United Kingdom Great Britain	28: 57.97
10	Manuel Ángel Penas	Spain Spain	29: 02.01
11	Koen Naert	Belgium Belgium	29: 02.08
12	Stefano La Rosa	Italy Italy	29: 02.53
13	Abdi Nageeye	Netherlands Netherlands	29: 05.12
14th	Adil Bouafif	Sweden Sweden	29: 07.31
15th	Mark Kenneally	Ireland Ireland	29: 10.55
16	Mats Lunders	Belgium Belgium	29: 16.46
17th	Tasama Moogas	Israel Israel	29: 22.03
18th	Ronald Schröer	Netherlands Netherlands	29: 31.06
19th	Roman Romanenko	Ukraine Ukraine	29: 32.57
20th	David Rooney	Ireland Ireland	29: 57.82
21st	Jarkko Järvenpää	Finland Finland	30: 59.63
DNF	Youssef El Kalai	Portugal Portugal
	Mykola Labovskyy	Ukraine Ukraine
	Mustafa Mohamed	Sweden Sweden
DSQ	Denis Mayaud	France France
DOP	José Rocha	Portugal Portugal

Vice European Champion Daniele Meucci
Bronze medalist Yevgeny Rybakov
Bashir Abdi finished fourth

Carles Castillejo - fifth place
Ayad Lamdassem reached number six
Khalid Choukoud came in seventh place
Rui Pedro Silva finished eighth
Keith Gerrard - ninth place
Koen Naert - eleventh place
Stefano La Rosa (here in second place in a cross-country run) - twelfth place

Abdi Nageeye - thirteenth place
Adil Bouafif - ranked fourteen
Mark Kenneally - Rank fifteen
Mats Lunders - sixteenth place
Ronald Schröer - 18th place
Youssef El Kalai (right at the award ceremony of the 2010 European Cross Country Championships ) - race not finished
Mustafa Mohamed - Race not finished