World Athletics Championships 2001 / 10,000 m men

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	8th August
Medalist Charles Waweru Kamathi ( KEN )   Assefa Mezgebu ( ETH )   Haile Gebrselassie ( ETH )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 2001 World Athletics Championships was held on August 8, 2001 at the Commonwealth Stadium in the Canadian city ​​of Edmonton .

At this longest track competition, like two days later, there was a duel over 5000 meters between the runners from Kenya and Ethiopia . Gold went to a Kenyan, silver and bronze went to the Ethiopians. World champion was Charles Waweru Kamathi . Second place went to Assefa Mezgebu , who had won bronze at the 1999 World Championships and the 2000 Olympic Games . Bronze went to the 1996 and 2000 Olympic champion, Haile Gebrselassie , who won this competition four times in a row at the World Championships from 1993 to 1999 and also won silver over 5000 meters in 1993.

Existing records

World record	26: 22.75 min	Haile Gebrselassie	Hengelo , Netherlands	June 1, 1998
World Cup 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.

execution

As in the 1999 World Championships , the organizers decided to forego the preliminaries this year, as all runners entered the final together.

final

World Champion Charles Waweru Kamathi (here at the Berlin Marathon 2008 )

Vice World Champion Assefa Mezgebu (green jersey) previously won bronze twice ( WM 1999 / OS 2000 )

August 8, 2001, 9:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Charles Waweru Kamathi	Kenya	27: 53.25
2	Assefa Mezgebu	Ethiopia	27: 53.97
3	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	27: 54.41
4th	Yibeltal Admassu	Ethiopia	27: 55.24
5	Fabián Roncero	Spain	27: 56.07
6th	José Ríos	Spain	27: 56.58
7th	Paul Malakwen Kosgei	Kenya	27: 57.56
8th	John Cheruiyot Korir	Kenya	27: 58.06
9	Got Jifar	Ethiopia	28: 02.71
10	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands	28: 05.41
11	Jaouad Gharib	Morocco	28: 05.45
12	José Manuel Martínez	Spain	28: 06.33
13	Jeff Schiebler	Canada	28: 07.06
14th	Marco Mazza	Italy	28: 08.00
15th	Toshinari Takaoka	Japan	28: 13.99
16	Abderrahim Goumri	Morocco	28: 14.06
17th	Teodoro Vega	Mexico	28: 14.77
18th	Alan Culpepper	United States	28: 18.44
19th	Abdi Abdirahman	United States	28: 34.38
20th	João N'Tyamba	Angola	28: 38.31
21st	Saïd Bérioui	Morocco	28: 38.80
22nd	Naoki Mishiro	Japan	28: 42.68
23	Meb Keflezighi	United States	28: 44.48
24	Camel kohil	Algeria	28: 52.47
25th	John Henwood	New Zealand	29: 01.62
DNF	José Ramos	Portugal
	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi
	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium

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  Haile Gebrselassie, four-time world champion ( 1993 to 1999 ) and two-time Olympic champion ( 1996 and 2000 ), won bronze this time

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  Fabián Roncero came in fifth as the best non-African and the best European

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  Paul Malakwen Kosgei (No. 91, at the Frankfurt Marathon 2014) finished seventh

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  Kamiel Maase came in tenth place

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  The eleventh placed Jaouad Gharib

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  José Manuel Martínez was twelfth

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  Sixteenth place for Abderrahim Goumri

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  Teodoro Vega - seventeenth place

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  Alan Culpepper - Rank eighteen

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  Abdi Abdirahman - Rank nineteen

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  Meb Keflezighi - Rank 23

Video

• 10000 MT FINAL CPTO DEL MUNDO EDMONTON 2001 , video published on June 8, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on August 8, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 8, 2020
• Men 10000m Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 8, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 10000 m, Edmonton 2001, p. 132 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 8, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 8, 2020