1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 24, 1980 (preliminary round) July 27, 1980 (final)
Medalist Miruts Yifter ( ETH )   Kaarlo Maaninka ( FIN )   Mohamed Kedir ( ETH )

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 24 and 27, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.

The Ethiopian Miruts Yifter became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Finn Kaarlo Maaninka and the Ethiopian Mohamed Kedir .

Jörg Peter and Werner Schildhauer started for the GDR . Both reached the final. Peter finished sixth, Schildhauer seventh.
The Swiss Markus Ryffel had to cancel his lead.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	27: 22.47 min	Henry Rono ( Kenya )	Vienna , Austria	June 11, 1978
Olympic record	27: 38.35 min	Lasse Virén ( Finland )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	3rd September 1972

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in three heats on July 24th. The four best runners and the three fastest runners qualified for the final, which took place on July 27th.

Time schedule

July 24
, 5:05 p.m . : Preliminaries July 27, 7:35 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: July 24, 1980, from 5:05 p.m.

Forward 1

The four-time Olympic champion Lasse Virén from Finland reached a fifth place in the final

The collapsed John Treacy from Ireland

The race was overshadowed by the collapse of Irishman Treacy, who collapsed 200 meters from the finish line due to dehydration .

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Mohamed Kedir	Ethiopia	28: 16.4 min
2	Kaarlo Maaninka	Finland	28: 31.0 min
3	Werner Schildhauer	GDR	28: 32.1 min
4th	Let Virén	Finland	28: 45.8 min
5	Steve Austin	Australia	29: 45.2 min
6th	Alex Hagelsteens	Belgium	29: 47.6 min
7th	Geoff Smith	Great Britain	30: 00.1 min
8th	Abdelmadjid Mada	Algeria	30: 23.5 min
9	Akel Hamdan	Syria	31: 21.9 min
10	Motlalepula Thabana	Lesotho	34: 01.5 min
DNF	Aleksandras Antipovas	Soviet Union
	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania
	John Treacy	Ireland
DNS	Bernardo Manuel	Angola

Forward 2

The Dutchman Gerard Tebroke reached the final and was fourteenth there

The Mexican Rodolfo Gómez was eliminated as eighth of his run

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Miruts Yifter	Ethiopia	28: 41.7 min
2	Jörg Peter	GDR	28: 50.0 min
3	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	28: 55.2 min
4th	Enn Sellik	Soviet Union	29: 12.1 min
5	Antonio Prieto	Spain	29: 12.8 min
6th	Rachid Habchaoui	Algeria	29: 12.9 min
7th	Enrique Aquino	Mexico	29: 21.3 min
8th	José Gomez	Mexico	29: 53.6 min
9	Damiano Musonda	Zambia	29: 53.6 min
10	Kenya's Tembo	Zimbabwe	30: 53.8 min
11	Jules Randrianarivelo	Madagascar	31: 18.4 min
DNF	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia
DNS	Gerard Barrett	Australia
	Suleiman Nyambui	Tanzania

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tolossa Kotu	Ethiopia	28: 55.3 min
2	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	28: 57.3 min
3	Bill Scott	Australia	28: 58.8 min
4th	Martti Vainio	Finland	28: 59.9 min
5	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	29: 03.1 min
6th	Gerard Tebroke	Netherlands	29: 05.0 min
7th	Jiří Sýkora	Czechoslovakia	29: 19.8 min
8th	Rodolfo Gomez	Mexico	29: 25.7 min
9	Volodymyr Schesterov	Soviet Union	29: 32.4 min
10	Hari Chand	India	29: 45.8 min
11	Leodigard Martin	Tanzania	30: 33.4 min
12	Golekane Mosveu	Botswana	30: 38.8 min
13	Nara Bahadur Dahal	Kingdom of Nepal	31: 19.8 min
DNF	Slides Alface	Mozambique
	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland

final

Werner Schildhauer, GDR, was Olympic gold medalist

Date: July 27, 1980, 7:35 p.m.

Four-time Olympic champion Lasse Virén was back, but his preliminary work did not necessarily make him appear among the medal contenders. There were other long distance runners like the Ethiopian Miruts Yifter, who had become Olympic Knight at this distance in Munich in 1972 . Virén's compatriot Martti Vainio, the reigning European champion, and Briton Brendan Foster, Olympic Knight in 1976 , were among the promising candidates.

The first half of the final race was not particularly brisk, but the pace changed over and over again. After 4000 meters, the three Ethiopians Yifter, Mohamed Kedir and Tolossa Kotu increased the pace. Slowly the field tore apart and a nine-person leading group formed. With nine laps to go, Virén took the lead for a short time. But the Finn no longer had the form of the two previous games, the Ethiopians now determined the race again. In the course of the next few laps the leading group got smaller. Again and again there were irregular tempo intensifications by the Ethiopians, which were very grueling. With four laps to go, five runners were still ahead: the three Ethiopians and the two Finns Virén and Kaarlo Maaninka, who surprisingly kept up and even briefly took the lead 1000 meters from the finish. But Yifter and Kedir quickly passed him again. On the penultimate lap, Virén then moved forward, but at the beginning of the last lap, Kedir passed him. These five runners stayed together up to 300 meters from the finish line with constantly changing guides, when Yifter irresistibly put on his final sprint. None of his opponents had anything to oppose him and Miruts Yifter ran safely to the Olympic victory. Now Lasse Virén also had no chance to keep the pace of the group behind Yifter. Kaarlo Maaninka, on the other hand, passed the two remaining Ethiopians and won the silver medal ahead of Mohamed Kedir. Tolossa Kotu finished fourth, Lasse Virén finished fifth.

Miruts Yifter was the first Ethiopian Olympic champion over 10,000 meters .

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 53.0 min	2: 53.0 min
2000 m	5: 42.5 min	2: 49.5 min
3000 m	8: 27.5 min	2: 45.0 min
4000 m	11: 24.5 min	2: 57.0 min
5000 m	14: 03.5 min	2: 39.0 min
6000 m	16: 50.0 min	2: 46.5 min
7000 m	19: 35.5 min	2: 45.5 min
8000 m	22: 23.5 min	2: 48.0 min
9000 m	25: 09.5 min	2: 46.0 min
10,000 m	27: 42.7 min	2: 33.2 min

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Miruts Yifter	Ethiopia	27: 42.69 min
2	Kaarlo Maaninka	Finland	27: 44.28 min
3	Mohamed Kedir	Ethiopia	27: 44.64 min
4th	Tolossa Kotu	Ethiopia	27: 46.47 min
5	Let Virén	Finland	27: 50.46 min
6th	Jörg Peter	GDR	28: 05.53 min
7th	Werner Schildhauer	GDR	28: 10.91 min
8th	Enn Sellik	Soviet Union	28: 13.72 min
9	Bill Scott	Australia	28: 15.08 min
10	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	28: 16.25 min
11	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	28: 22.54 min
12	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	28: 40.78 min
13	Martti Vainio	Finland	28: 46.22 min
14th	Gerard Tebroke	Netherlands	28: 50.08 min
DNF	Antonio Prieto	Spain

Video

• 1980 Moscow Olympic Games Athletics , range 9:13 min - 11:33 min, published on June 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on December 25, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000m , accessed December 25, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , S., English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 25, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 551 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 25 December 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 25, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 37, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 25, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 25, 2017