World Athletics Championships 1991 / 10,000 m men
3rd World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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
August 26, 1991, 8:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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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 |
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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 19, 2020