European Athletics Championships 2016 / 10,000 m men

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	11 athletes from 7 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	8th of July
Medalist Polat Kemboi Arıkan ( TUR )   Ali Kaya ( TUR )   Antonio Abadía ( ESP )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held on July 8, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam . There were only eleven participants at the start, which was certainly also related to the Olympic Games that were coming up in a few weeks' time.

The runners starting for Turkey achieved a double victory in this competition. European champion was Polat Kemboi Arıkan , who had won the 10,000 meter run at the 2012 European Championships and was third over 5000 meters there. The EM third from 2014 Ali Kaya came in second. Bronze went to the Spaniard Antonio Abadía .

Records

World record	26: 17.53 min	Kenenisa Bekele	Brussels , Belgium	August 26, 2005
European record	26: 46.57 min	Mohamed Farah	Eugene (Oregon) , USA	June 3, 2011
Championship record	27: 30.99 min	Martti Vainio	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 29, 1978

In a pure track disconnecting since been 1,978 existing EM -record not nearly reached even at these European Championships.

execution

With only eleven participants, there was no need for preliminary runs, all runners started in a joint final.

Result

European champion Polat Kemboi Arikan

July 8, 2016, 8:45 p.m.

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
	Polat Kemboi Arikan	Turkey	28: 18.52
	Ali Kaya	Turkey	28: 21.42
	Antonio Abadía	Spain	28: 26.07
04th	Dmytro Lashyn	Ukraine	28: 27.90
05	Dewi Griffiths	Great Britain	28: 28.55
06th	Juan Perez	Spain	28: 37.42
07th	Daniel Mateo	Spain	28: 43.03
08th	Soufiane Bouchikhi	Belgium	29: 03.74
09	Ahmed El Mazoury	Italy	29: 29.36
DNF	Aimeru Alemya	Israel
DSQ	Girmaw Amare	Israel	IAAF Rule 163.3b - Crossing the track
DNS	Andrew Vernon	Great Britain

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  Vice European Champion Ali Kaya

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  Dewi Griffiths finished fifth

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  Daniel Mateo finished seventh

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  Soufiane Bouchikhi (right) reached eighth place

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  The ninth placed Ahmed El Mazoury

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  Girmaw Amare was disqualified for violating the lane boundary

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 25, 2020
• Men 10000m European Championship 2016 Amsterdam on todor66.com, accessed February 25, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 25, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on February 25, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men , accessed February 25, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 10.000 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 14 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on February 25, 2020
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on February 25, 2020