World Athletics Championships 1997 / 10,000 m men
6th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 33 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
venue | Athens | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 3rd (preliminary) August 6th (final) |
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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 | Haile Gebrselassie | Oslo , Norway | June 4th 1997 |
World championship record | 27: 12.95 min | 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) |
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1 | Domingos Castro | Portugal | 28: 07.04 |
2 | Mohammed Mourhit | Belgium | 28: 12.02 |
3 | Saïd Bérioui | Morocco | 28: 12.33 |
4th | Carsten Eich | Germany | 28: 12.46 |
5 | Paul Koech | Kenya | 28: 13.24 |
6th | Assefa Mezgebu | Ethiopia | 28: 13.95 |
7th | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 28: 13.98 |
8th | Salah Hissou | Morocco | 28: 15.09 |
9 | José Ramos | Portugal | 28: 20.06 |
10 | Carlos de la Torre | Spain | 28: 20.50 |
11 | Toshiyuki Hayata | Japan | 28: 27.97 |
12 | Dan Middleman | United States | 28: 56.76 |
13 | Marco Antonio Condori | Bolivia | 29: 51.24 |
14th | Agustín Morán | Panama | 30: 12.32 NO |
Forward 2
August 3, 1997, 11 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 27: 55.36 |
2 | Got Jifar | Ethiopia | 27: 55.71 |
3 | Dominic Kirui | Kenya | 27: 56.62 |
4th | Abderrahim Zitouna | Morocco | 27: 57.11 |
5 | Darren Wilson | Australia | 27: 57.54 |
6th | Kamiel Maase | Netherlands | 27: 57.78 |
7th | Julio Rey | Spain | 28: 03.36 |
8th | Hendrick Ramaala | South Africa | 28: 05.70 |
9 | Toshinari Takaoka | Japan | 28: 07.36 |
10 | Stefano Baldini | Italy | 28: 07.81 |
11 | Tendai Chimusasa | Zimbabwe | 28: 14.03 |
12 | Mohamed Ezzher | France | 28: 47.48 |
13 | João N'Tyamba | Angola | 29: 38.92 |
14th | Bradley Barquist | United States | 29: 43.01 |
15th | Margarito Zamora | Mexico | 29: 52.03 |
16 | Panayotis Charamis | Greece | 30: 08.60 |
17th | Georges Richmond | French Polynesia | 31: 48.17 |
DNF | Carlos Patrício | Portugal | |
Zoltán Káldy | Hungary |
final
August 6, 1997, 8:35 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 27: 24.58 |
2 | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 27: 25.62 |
3 | Salah Hissou | Morocco | 27: 28.67 |
4th | Paul Koech | Kenya | 27: 30.39 |
5 | Assefa Mezgebu | Ethiopia | 27: 32.48 |
6th | Domingos Castro | Portugal | 27: 36.52 |
7th | Got Jifar | Ethiopia | 28: 00.29 |
8th | Julio Rey | Spain | 28: 07.06 |
9 | Stefano Baldini | Italy | 28: 11.97 |
10 | Darren Wilson | Australia | 28: 20.16 |
11 | Kamiel Maase | Netherlands | 28: 23.20 |
12 | Dominic Kirui | Kenya | 28: 28.13 |
13 | Abderrahim Zitouna | Morocco | 28: 29.09 |
14th | Hendrick Ramaala | South Africa | 28: 33.48 |
15th | Tendai Chimusasa | Zimbabwe | 28: 55.29 |
16 | Carsten Eich | Germany | 28: 59.34 |
17th | Saïd Bérioui | Morocco | 29: 22.05 |
18th | José Ramos | Portugal | 29: 49.00 |
DNS | Toshinari Takaoka | Japan | |
Mohammed Mourhit | Belgium |
Paul Koech, reigning Africa champion , came fourth
Stefano Baldini, later very successful as a marathon runner , came in ninth
Hendrick Ramaala (here at the 2011 Berlin Marathon ) finished fourteenth
Video
- Haile Gebrselassie - World 10,000m Final, Athens 1997 on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020
Web links
- 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 17, 2020
- Men 10000m Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com (English), accessed June 17, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 10000 m, Athens 1997, p. 131f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 17, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 16, 2020