World Athletics Championships 1991 / 10,000 m men

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 26 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary) August 26th (final)
Medalist Moses Tanui ( KEN )   Richard Chelimo ( KEN )   Khalid Skah ( MAR )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's 10,000-meter race at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 26, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

In this competition, the athletes from Kenya achieved a double victory. World champion was Moses Tanui . He won ahead of Richard Chelimo . Bronze went to the Moroccan Khalid Skah .

Existing records

World record	27: 08.23 min	Arturo Barrios	Berlin , FR Germany	August 18, 1989
World championship record	27: 38.63 min	Paul Kipkoech	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	August 29, 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships. The Kenyan world champion Moses Tanui only missed the record in the final by eleven hundredths of a second.

Preliminary round

August 24, 1991, 8:20 pm

As in the 1983 World Championships , the number of participants was so large that preliminary runs were necessary. This preliminary round was carried out in two runs. The first eight athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Khalid Skah	Morocco	28: 23.28
2	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	28: 23.42
3	Thomas Osano	Kenya	28: 23.56
4th	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	28: 23.75
5	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi	28: 23.80
6th	Aaron Ramirez	United States	28: 24.52
7th	Haruo Urata	Japan	28: 24.70
8th	Moses Tanui	Kenya	28: 25.52
9	Stéphane Franke	Germany	28: 30.13
10	Kōichi Morishita	Japan	28: 34.29
11	Geraldo de Assis	Brazil	28: 51.25
12	Antonio Prieto	Spain	28: 57.28
13	Carey Nelson	Canada	29: 07.27
14th	John Mwathiwa	Malawi	30: 31.43
15th	Chuluunbaatar Ariunsaikhan	Mongolia	30: 50.77
16	Gerard Degaetano	Malta	31: 03.21
17th	Lucas Eningo Elonga	Equatorial Guinea	35: 31.57
DNF	Antonio Fabián Silio	Argentina
	John Halvorsen	Norway
DNS	Arturo Barrios	Mexico

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia	28: 23.77
2	Richard Chelimo	Kenya	28: 23.79
3	Richard Nerurkar	Great Britain	28: 24.03
4th	Katsumi Ikeda	Japan	28: 26.14
5	Hammou Boutayeb	Morocco	28: 26.54
6th	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	28: 26.72
7th	Fernando Couto	Portugal	28: 27.56
8th	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	28: 29.37
9	Marti ten Kate	Netherlands	28: 31.66
10	Andy Bristow	Great Britain	28: 41.60
11	Steve Plasencia	United States	28: 47.13
12	Jesús Herrera	Mexico	28: 59.22
13	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	28: 59.34
14th	Zoltan Kaldy	Hungary	29: 00.89
15th	José Manuel Albentosa	Spain	29: 20.92
16	Ahmed Al Hamshani	Jordan	31: 13.52
DNF	Manny Lolin	Marshall Islands
DNS	Miguel Angel Vargas	Costa Rica
	Manuel Moreno	Cape Verde
	Silvio Guerra	Ecuador

final

World Champion Moses Tanui (right, in 2002)

Bronze medalist Khalid Skah - Olympic champion the following year

August 26, 1991, 8:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Moses Tanui	Kenya	27: 38.74
2	Richard Chelimo	Kenya	27: 39.41
3	Khalid Skah	Morocco	27: 41.74
4th	Thomas Osano	Kenya	27: 53.66
5	Richard Nerurkar	Great Britain	27: 57.14
6th	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi	28: 03.03
7th	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	28: 10.38
8th	Hammou Boutayeb	Morocco	28: 12.77
9	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	28: 13.14
10	Kōichi Morishita	Japan	28: 13.71
11	Haruo Urata	Japan	28: 18.15
12	Stéphane Franke	Germany	28: 20.00
13	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia	28: 33.44
14th	Marti ten Kate	Netherlands	28: 33.49
15th	Eamonn Martin	Great Britain	28: 35.82
16	Andy Bristow	Great Britain	28: 47.01
17th	Aaron Ramirez	United States	28: 47.56
18th	Fernando Couto	Portugal	28: 48.05
19th	Katsumi Ikeda	Japan	28: 50.25
20th	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	28: 52.41

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  Koichi Morishita came in tenth

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  Addis Abebe came in thirteenth place

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  Marti ten Kate finished fourteenth

Video

• 3434 World Track & Field 1991 10000m Men on youtube.com, accessed April 19, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 19, 2020
• Men 10000m Athletics III World Championship Tokyo (JPN) 1991 from todor66.com, accessed April 19, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 10.000 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 130 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 19, 2020