World Athletics Championships 1987 / 10,000 m men
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| discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 28 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
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 Rome
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| Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 29th August | ||||||||
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on August 29, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .
World champion was the Kenyan Paul Kipkoech . Second place went to the Italian Vice European Champion of 1986 over 3000 meters obstacle Francesco Panetta , who a week later also won the World Championship title over 3000 meters obstacle here. As at the World Championships four years earlier, bronze went to Hansjörg Kunze from the GDR .
Records
Existing records
| World record | 27: 13.81 min |
 Fernando Mamede
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Stockholm , Sweden | 2nd July 1984 |
| World championship record | 27: 45.54 min | 1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland | August 7, 1983 |
Record improvement
World champion Paul Kipkoech from Kenya improved the existing world championship record on August 29th by 6.91 seconds to 27: 38.63 minutes.
execution
In the case of 28 participants, there was no preliminary round, all runners started in a joint final.
final
August 29, 1987
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Web links
- IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 22, 2020
- Men 10000m Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 22, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 10000 m, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 130), English, accessed on March 22, 2020
Video
- 10,000m Final Men - World Athletics Championships, Rome 1987 on youtube.com, accessed March 22, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 10000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 22, 2020