World Athletics Championships 1999 / 10,000 m men
| 7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 32 athletes from 17 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Seville
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| Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 24th | ||||||||
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 24, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city of Seville .
The Ethiopian runners won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. The 1996 Olympic champion and world record holder Haile Gebrselassie celebrated his fourth win in a row , who was also vice world champion over 5000 meters in 1993 . This time too, the Kenyan Paul Tergat lost out again as a silver medalist in his duel with Haile Gebrselassie, as he did at the 1996 Olympic Games and the 1997 World Championships when he was second. In addition, Paul Tergat won the 1995 World Cup bronze. Third here in Seville was Assefa Mezgebu .
The race was dominated by the long distance runners from Africa . Among the runners in the first eleven places were the Portuguese European champion from 1998 António Pinto in fifth and the Dutchman Kamiel Maase in eighth, only two athletes who did not come from Africa.
Existing records
| World record | 26: 22.75 min |
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Hengelo , Netherlands | June 1, 1998 |
| World Cup record | 27: 12.95 min |
.svg){kind=small} Haile Gebrselassie
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World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden | August 8, 1995 |
The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships. Only the three medal winners undercut the 28-minute mark.
João N'Tyamba from Angola set a new national record with 28: 31.09 minutes.
execution
Apart from the World Championships in 1987 , there was always a preliminary round in this competition due to the high number of participants. This time the organizers decided to forego the heats for the first time since 1987, also in view of the 32 starters, all runners competed together in the final race.
Result
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August 24, 1999, 9:30 p.m.
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Bronze medalist Assefa Mezgebu (green jersey)
Kamiel Maase came in eighth as the second best non-African
Hendrick Ramaala (here at the Berlin Marathon 2011 ) reached eleventh place
José Manuel Martínez finished nineteenth
Twenty place for Satoshi Irifune
Alan Culpepper (here at the 2005 Boston Marathon ) did not finish in this race
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Video
- 1999 IAAF World Athletics Championships - Men's 10,000 m Final , Video posted April 19, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed July 13, 2020
Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 13, 2020
- Men 10000m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 13, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 10000 m, Seville 1999, p. 132 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 13, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 13, 2020