World Athletics Championships 1993 / 10,000 m men

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 20th (preliminary) August 22nd (final)
Medalist Haile Gebrselassie ( ETH )   Moses Tanui ( KEN )   Richard Chelimo ( KEN )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's 10,000 meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 20 and 22, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition, the runners from Kenya won two medals, silver and bronze. World champion was the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie , who celebrated his first successes at world level here at the beginning of a great sports career. Less than a week earlier, Gebrselassie had won the silver medal over 5000 meters . In June of this year he had already won silver over 5000 and bronze over 10,000 meters at the African Championships . Second place went to defending champion Moses Tanui . Bronze went to Richard Chelimo who won silver at the 1992 Olympic Games and 1991 World Championships .

The race was very exciting, on the last two kilometers it was a duel between Gebrselassie and Tanui, which was always in the lead, while the Ethiopian did not take the lead even after slowing down significantly. At the beginning of the last lap, Tanui lost a shoe, but still sprinted decisively and was able to pull away from Gebrselassie a few meters. But this came up again on the home stretch and became world champion. The times for the last four hundred meters were absolutely top class: Gebrselassie 54.98 s / Tanui 55.66 s. After the race, Tanui angrily refused to shake hands with the winner because he felt unfairly pressured. He accused the Ethiopian of constantly stepping on his shoe, which ultimately even led to the loss of his shoes. Objectively, it remains open to what extent Gebrselassie can be assumed to be intentional here.

The African dominance on this longest railway line was not as great as over 5000 meters. As the best non-African, the German Stéphane Franke came fourth. The Italian Francesco Panetta , who was vice world champion over 10,000 meters and world champion over 3000 meters in 1987 , came in sixth.

Existing records

World record	26: 58.38 min	Yobes Ondieki	Oslo , Norway	July 10, 1993
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.

Preliminary round

With 35 participants it became necessary to set up a preliminary round. There were two preliminary 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

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  Steve Moneghetti, third in the marathon World Championship in 1987 , was twelfth in his run and was eliminated

August 20, 1993, 6:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antonio Fabián Silio	Argentina	28: 16.62
2	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	28: 17.95
3	Moses Tanui	Kenya	28: 18.56
4th	Richard Chelimo	Kenya	28: 18.70
5	Boay Akonay	Tanzania	28: 18.97
6th	Stéphane Franke	Germany	28: 19.11
7th	Francesco Panetta	Italy	28: 20.49
8th	German Silva	Mexico	28: 22.16
9	José Carlos Adán	Spain	28: 23.08
10	Steve Plasencia	United States	28: 40.69
11	Fackson Nkandu	Zambia	29: 03.67
12	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	29: 21.18
13	Domingos Castro	Portugal	29: 35.47
14th	Nozomi Saho	Japan	29: 36.40
15th	John Mwathiwa	Malawi	29: 45.55
DNF	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary
	Mohamed Moosa Ahmed	Palestine
	José Regalo	Portugal

Forward 2

August 20, 1993, 7:20 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	28: 27.48
2	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	28: 28.32
3	William Sigei	Kenya	28: 28.33
4th	Todd Williams	United States	28: 28.62
5	Dan Nelson	United States	28: 28.76
6th	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi	28: 29.18
7th	Tadashi Fukushima	Japan	28: 29.49
8th	Oleg Strizhakov	Russia	28: 29.84
9	Antonio Serrano	Spain	28: 31.48
10	Armando Quintanilla	Mexico	28: 34.57
11	Rolando Vera	Ecuador	28: 35.45
12	Martin Pitayo	Mexico	28: 54.23
13	Tendai Chimusasa	Zimbabwe	28: 57.68
14th	Luis Jesus	Portugal	29: 12.00
15th	Jun Hiratsuka	Japan	29: 12.22
16	Ramachandran Murusamy	Malaysia	29: 38.97
17th	Gopal Thein Win	Myanmar	29: 56.61
DNS	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda

final

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  After his second place over 5000 meters a week earlier, Haile Gebrselassie (here at the Vienna City Marathon 20011) now won his first big title, which was to be followed by many more

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  The defending champion Moses Tanui (right in 2008) became vice world champion - he had lost a shoe at the beginning of the final rest and accused Gebrselassie of having unfairly stepped on his shoes again and again during the race

August 22, 1993, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	27: 46.02
2	Moses Tanui	Kenya	27: 46.54
3	Richard Chelimo	Kenya	28: 06.12
4th	Stéphane Franke	Germany	28: 10.69
5	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi	28: 13.43
6th	Francesco Panetta	Italy	28: 27.05
7th	Todd Williams	United States	28: 30.49
8th	Antonio Fabián Silio	Argentina	28: 36.88
9	German Silva	Mexico	28: 39.47
10	William Sigei	Kenya	28: 54.39
11	Antonio Serrano	Spain	29: 04.10
12	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	29: 10.83
13	Boay Akonay	Tanzania	29: 15.13
14th	Armando Quintanilla	Mexico	29: 32.34
15th	Tadashi Fukushima	Japan	29: 46.70
16	José Carlos Adán	Spain	30: 04.34
17th	Dan Nelson	United States	30: 41.72
DNF	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia
	Oleg Strizhakov	Russia
	Rolando Vera	Ecuador

Video

• 1993 Stuttgart World Championship 10000m , video published March 3, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed May 9, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 9, 2020
• Men 10000m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 9, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 10000 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 131 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 800 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 131 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 9, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 9, 2020