World Athletics Championships 1997 / 10,000 m men

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6th World Athletics Championships
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discipline 10,000 meter run
gender Men
Attendees 33 athletes from 22 countries
venue GreeceGreece Athens
Competition location Olympic Stadium
Competition phase August 3rd (preliminary)
August 6th (final)
Medalist
gold medal Haile Gebrselassie ( ETH ) Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia 
Silver medal Paul Tergat ( KEN ) KenyaKenya 
Bronze medal Salah Hissou ( MAR ) MoroccoMorocco 

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 3 and 6, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

The Ethiopian Olympic champion from 1996 Haile Gebrselassie , who was also vice world champion over 5000 meters in 1993 , won his third title in a row . Second place went to his Kenyan rival Paul Tergat , who was third in the 1995 World Cup and second in the 1996 Olympic Games . Bronze went to the Moroccan Olympic third party from 1996 Salah Hissou .

There was the same ranking in the first three places as a year earlier at the Olympic Games. World champion Haile Gebrselassie covered the first half of the route in 13: 59.5 minutes, then the second in 13: 25.1 minutes. He ran the last kilometer in 2: 30.7 minutes and the last four hundred meters in 56.0 seconds. Second-placed Paul Tergat even scored 55.2 seconds on the last lap, but his deficit was too big to endanger the Ethiopian who had run away.

Existing records

World record 26: 31.32 min Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Haile Gebrselassie Oslo , Norway June 4th 1997
World championship record 27: 12.95 min Ethiopia 1991Ethiopia Haile Gebrselassie World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden August 8, 1995

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Agustín Morán from Panama set a new national record with 30: 12.32 minutes.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held 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.

The reason for the uneven distribution of the participants in the two preliminary runs remains unclear. Fourteen runners started in the first race, twenty in the second.

Forward 1

August 3, 1997, 10:25 p.m.

space Surname nation Time (min)
1 Domingos Castro PortugalPortugal Portugal 28: 07.04
2 Mohammed Mourhit BelgiumBelgium Belgium 28: 12.02
3 Saïd Bérioui MoroccoMorocco Morocco 28: 12.33
4th Carsten Eich GermanyGermany Germany 28: 12.46
5 Paul Koech KenyaKenya Kenya 28: 13.24
6th Assefa Mezgebu Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia 28: 13.95
7th Paul Tergat KenyaKenya Kenya 28: 13.98
8th Salah Hissou MoroccoMorocco Morocco 28: 15.09
9 José Ramos PortugalPortugal Portugal 28: 20.06
10 Carlos de la Torre SpainSpain Spain 28: 20.50
11 Toshiyuki Hayata JapanJapan Japan 28: 27.97
12 Dan Middleman United StatesUnited States United States 28: 56.76
13 Marco Antonio Condori BoliviaBolivia Bolivia 29: 51.24
14th Agustín Morán PanamaPanama Panama 30: 12.32 NO

Forward 2

August 3, 1997, 11 p.m.

space Surname nation Time (min)
1 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia 27: 55.36
2 Got Jifar Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia 27: 55.71
3 Dominic Kirui KenyaKenya Kenya 27: 56.62
4th Abderrahim Zitouna MoroccoMorocco Morocco 27: 57.11
5 Darren Wilson AustraliaAustralia Australia 27: 57.54
6th Kamiel Maase NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 27: 57.78
7th Julio Rey SpainSpain Spain 28: 03.36
8th Hendrick Ramaala South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 28: 05.70
9 Toshinari Takaoka JapanJapan Japan 28: 07.36
10 Stefano Baldini ItalyItaly Italy 28: 07.81
11 Tendai Chimusasa ZimbabweZimbabwe Zimbabwe 28: 14.03
12 Mohamed Ezzher FranceFrance France 28: 47.48
13 João N'Tyamba AngolaAngola Angola 29: 38.92
14th Bradley Barquist United StatesUnited States United States 29: 43.01
15th Margarito Zamora MexicoMexico Mexico 29: 52.03
16 Panayotis Charamis GreeceGreece Greece 30: 08.60
17th Georges Richmond French PolynesiaFrench Polynesia French Polynesia 31: 48.17
DNF Carlos Patrício PortugalPortugal Portugal
Zoltán Káldy HungaryHungary Hungary

final

Haile Gebrselassie (here at the Vienna City Marathon 2011) with his third World Cup victory in a row, in between there was an Olympic victory in 1996 - many more successes lay ahead of him

August 6, 1997, 8:35 pm

space Surname nation Time (min)
1 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia 27: 24.58
2 Paul Tergat KenyaKenya Kenya 27: 25.62
3 Salah Hissou MoroccoMorocco Morocco 27: 28.67
4th Paul Koech KenyaKenya Kenya 27: 30.39
5 Assefa Mezgebu Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia 27: 32.48
6th Domingos Castro PortugalPortugal Portugal 27: 36.52
7th Got Jifar Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia 28: 00.29
8th Julio Rey SpainSpain Spain 28: 07.06
9 Stefano Baldini ItalyItaly Italy 28: 11.97
10 Darren Wilson AustraliaAustralia Australia 28: 20.16
11 Kamiel Maase NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 28: 23.20
12 Dominic Kirui KenyaKenya Kenya 28: 28.13
13 Abderrahim Zitouna MoroccoMorocco Morocco 28: 29.09
14th Hendrick Ramaala South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 28: 33.48
15th Tendai Chimusasa ZimbabweZimbabwe Zimbabwe 28: 55.29
16 Carsten Eich GermanyGermany Germany 28: 59.34
17th Saïd Bérioui MoroccoMorocco Morocco 29: 22.05
18th José Ramos PortugalPortugal Portugal 29: 49.00
DNS Toshinari Takaoka JapanJapan Japan
Mohammed Mourhit BelgiumBelgium Belgium

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References and comments

  1. IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 16, 2020