World Athletics Championships 1995 / 10,000 m men

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (preliminary) August 8th (final)
Medalist Haile Gebrselassie ( ETH )   Khalid Skah ( MAR )   Paul Tergat ( KEN )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 5th and 8th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

World champion was the Ethiopian defending champion, World Cup runner-up in 1993 over 5000 meters and world record holder Haile Gebrselassie , who also won bronze over 10,000 and silver over 5000 meters at the 1993 African Championships . Second place went to the Moroccan Olympic champion in 1992 and third in the 1991 World Cup, Khalid Skah . Bronze went to the Kenyan Paul Tergat .

Records

Existing records

World record	26: 43.53 min	Haile Gebrselassie	Hengelo , Netherlands	June 5, 1995
World championship record	27: 38.63 min	Paul Kipkoech	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	August 29, 1987

Record improvement

The existing World Cup record has been improved twice:

• 27: 29.07 min - Josephat Machuka ( Kenya ), 2nd preliminary, 5th August
• 27: 12.95 min - Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia ), final, August 8th

Preliminary round

This year too, with forty athletes, the number of participants was so high that it was necessary to carry out preliminary runs. There were 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.

The athletes who qualified for the finals over their time came from the second race without exception. This was so fast that the winner even set a new World Cup record, which was clearly undercut again in the final.

Forward 1

August 5, 1995, 6:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	28: 10.66
2	Paul Tergat	Kenya	28: 10.78
3	Antonio Pinto	Portugal	28: 11.47
4th	Paulo Guerra	Portugal	28: 11.94
5	Assefa Mezgebu	Ethiopia	28: 11.96
6th	Khalid Skah	Morocco	28: 11.99
7th	Toshiyuki Hayata	Japan	28: 12.77
8th	Todd Williams	United States	28: 13.83
9	Paul Evans	Great Britain	28: 14.76
10	Stephan Freilang	Germany	28: 17.04
11	Martin Pitayo	Mexico	28: 24.20
12	Rolando Vera	Ecuador	28: 33.10
13	Andrew Panga	Tanzania	28: 44.44
14th	Kenji Takao	Japan	28: 47.01
15th	Antonio Serrano	Spain	28: 51.37
16	Jeff Schiebler	Canada	29: 12.20
17th	Arnold Mächler	Switzerland	29: 33.77
18th	Charles Mulinga	Zambia	30: 06.49
19th	Ismael Ould Adermaz	Mauritania	33: 04.49
DNF	Robbie Johnston	New Zealand
	Alyan Sultan Al Qahtani	Saudi Arabia

Forward 2

August 5, 1995, 7:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Josephat Machuka	Kenya	27: 29.07 CR
2	Joseph Kimani	Kenya	27: 35.20
3	Salah Hissou	Morocco	27: 47.20
4th	Mathias Ntawulikura	South Africa	27: 47.93
5	Domingos Castro	Portugal	27:48, 19
6th	Yasuyuki Watanabe	Japan	27: 48.55
7th	German Silva	Mexico	27: 49.07
8th	Stefano Baldini	Italy	27: 50.27
9	Stéphane Franke	Germany	27: 50.93
10	Abel Antón	Spain	27: 51.37
11	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	27: 51.64
12	Hendrick Ramaala	South Africa	27: 54.59
13	Chris Fox	United States	28: 32.67
14th	Jorge Marquez	Mexico	28: 53.02
15th	Miroslav Vanko	Slovakia	28: 53.69
16	Tom Ansberry	United States	29: 01.43
17th	Noel Berkeley	Ireland	29: 16.69
DNF	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi
	Antonio Fabián Silio	Argentina
DNS	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia

final

Haile Gebrselassie (photo: 2009) defended his title - in the next few years he achieved an impressive series of successes

August 8, 1995, 6:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	27: 12.95 CR
2	Khalid Skah	Morocco	27: 14.53
3	Paul Tergat	Kenya	27: 14.70
4th	Salah Hissou	Morocco	27: 19.30
5	Josephat Machuka	Kenya	27: 23.72
6th	Joseph Kimani	Kenya	27: 30.02
7th	Stéphane Franke	Germany	27: 48.88
8th	Paulo Guerra	Portugal	27: 52.55
9	Todd Williams	United States	27: 52.87
10	Toshiyuki Hayata	Japan	27: 53.12
11	Domingos Castro	Portugal	27: 53.42
12	Yasuyuki Watanabe	Japan	27: 53.82
13	German Silva	Mexico	27: 55.34
14th	Assefa Mezgebu	Ethiopia	27: 56.06
15th	Mathias Ntawulikura	South Africa	27: 57.92
16	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	27: 59.38
17th	Hendrick Ramaala	South Africa	28: 00.08
18th	Stefano Baldini	Italy	28: 08.39
19th	Antonio Pinto	Portugal	28: 26.42
DNF	Abel Antón	Spain

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  Vice world champion Khalid Skah (here in 2012) - in 1992 he was Olympic champion, 1991 World Cup -Dritter

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  Bronze medalist Paul Tergat, later a great but always inferior opponent of Haile Gebrselassie

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  Assefa Mezgebu (green jersey) came in fourteen

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  Hendrick Ramaala (Photo: Berlin Marathon 2011 ) came seventeenth

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  Stefano Baldini was eighteenth - he later celebrated his great successes (including his Olympic victory in 2004 ) as a marathon runner

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  The reigning European champion Abel Antón gave up the race prematurely - in 1997 and 1999 he became marathon world champion

Video

• Uncut - 10,000m Men Final Goteborg 1995 , Video posted March 8, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed May 25, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 25, 2020
• Men 10000m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 25, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 10000 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 131 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 25, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 25, 2020