1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	45 athletes from 34 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 3, 1984 (preliminary round) August 6, 1984 (final)
Medalist Alberto Cova ( ITA )   Mike McLeod ( GBR )   Michael Musyoki ( KEN )

The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 3 and 6, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 45 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Italian Alberto Cova . He won ahead of the British Mike McLeod and the Kenyan Michael Musyoki .

The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Christoph Herle , who reached the final and was fifth. Runners from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Miruts Yifter ( Ethiopia )	27: 42.69 min	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Alberto Cova ( Italy )	28: 01.04 min	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982		27: 41.03 min	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	José Gómez ( Mexico )	29: 14.75 min	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Gerardo Alcala ( Mexico )	31: 05.86 min	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Omar Aguilar ( Chile )	29: 12.1 min	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Zhang Guowei ( People's Republic of China )	29: 45.41 min	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Mohamed Kedir ( Ethiopia )	28: 55.5 min	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	27: 13.81 min	Fernando Mamede ( Portugal )	Stockholm , Sweden	2nd July 1984
Olympic record	27: 38.35 min	Lasse Virén ( Finland )	Final of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany )	3rd September 1972

Preliminary round

Date: August 3, 1984

The 45 participants were drawn in three runs. The first five athletes of each run qualified for the final. Furthermore, the three fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

With Marios Kassianidis in run 3, a track and field athlete from Cyprus took part in the Olympic Games for the first time.

The Kenyan Sostenes Bitok achieved the fastest lead time with 28: 12.17 minutes in run 3. The slowest directly qualified athlete was the Briton Nick Rose in run 2 with 28: 31.13 min. The fastest athlete who could not qualify was the Mexican José Gómez , who retired in the first run with 28: 28.50 minutes.

Forward 1

Craig Virgin was eliminated in ninth place in his forerunner

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	28: 21.87 min
2	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	28: 22.57 min
3	Michael Musyoki	Kenya	28: 24.24 min
4th	Masanari Shintaku	Japan	28: 24.30 min
5	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	28: 24.92 min
6th	José Gomez	Mexico	28: 28.50 min
7th	Omar Aguilar	Chile	28: 29.06 min
8th	Paul Williams	Canada	28: 36.15 min
9	Craig Virgin	United States	28: 37.58 min
10	José João da Silva	Brazil	29: 10.52 min
11	Luis Tipan	Ecuador	30: 07.49 min
12	Ibrahim Kivina	Tanzania	30: 29.50 min
13	Basil Kilani	Jordan	30: 43.54 min
DNF	Ruddy Cornielle	Dominican Republic
	Ramón López	Paraguay

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alberto Cova	Italy	28: 26.10 min
2	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	28: 28.53 min
3	Joseph Nzau	Kenya	28: 28.71 min
4th	Christoph Herle	BR Germany	28: 30.28 min
5	Nick Rose	Great Britain	28: 31.13 min
6th	Gidamis Shahanga	Tanzania	28: 42.92 min
7th	Antonio Prieto	Spain	28: 57.78 min
8th	Martin Pitayo	Mexico	28: 59.19 min
9	Paul Cummings	United States	29: 09.82 min
10	Aria Gamliel	Israel	29: 31.32 min
11	Mohiddin Kulmiye	Somalia	29: 37.93 min
12	Matthews Cambals	Malawi	30: 47.73 min
13	Orlando Mora	Costa Rica	30: 49.43 min
14th	Tau John Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	31: 29.14 min
DNF	Ali Al-Ghadi	United Arab Emirates

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sostenes Bitok	Kenya	28: 12.17 min
2	Yutaka Kanai	Japan	28: 14.67 min
3	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	28: 15.18 min
4th	Steve Jones	Great Britain	28: 15.22 min
5	John Treacy	Ireland	28: 18.13 min
6th	Martti Vainio	Finland	28: 19.25 min
7th	Patrick Porter	United States	28: 19.94 min
8th	Ahmed Musa Jouda	Sudan	28: 20.26 min
9	Francesco Panetta	Italy	29: 00.78 min
10	Marios Kassianidis	Cyprus	29: 06.08 min
11	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	29: 07.19 min
12	Julio Gomez	Argentina	29: 58.06 min
13	Frans Ntaole	Lesotho	30: 18.71 min
14th	Albert Marie	Seychelles	32: 04.11 min
DNF	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey

final

Olympic champion Alberto Cova, Italy

Date: August 6, 1984

All three Kenyans and all three British had qualified for the final. Other finalists were two Italians and two Japanese. There was also one runner each from the USA, Germany, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Finland, Portugal and Tanzania.

World and European champion Alberto Cova from Italy was the favorite. The Portuguese world record holder Fernando Mamede was also able to qualify for the final, but was not rated as strong. The vice world champion Werner Schildhauer did not take part because of the Olympic boycott of the GDR.

The race was led by the Sudanese Ahmed Musa Jouda in the early stages . The Finn Martti Vainio took the lead after 5000 meters and increased the pace. Only the Cova could follow the Finn. 200 meters from the finish, Cova started the final sprint, which the Finn had nothing to counter. With three and a half seconds ahead of Vainio, Cova was Olympic champion. Brit Mike McLeod and Kenyan Michael Musyoki crossed the finish line behind the Finn . Cova's compatriot Salvatore Antibo finished the race in fifth place, the world record holder Mamede had given up in the meantime.

The intermediate times make it clear that the second half of the race was run significantly faster than the first. However, after the 5000 meter intermediate time of 14: 19.8 minutes, no top times were possible. This was about medals, not records.

Martti Vainio was subsequently disqualified because of a positive doping test. He had taken methenolone . His silver medal was revoked and given to McLeod, while the Kenyan Musyoki subsequently received the bronze medal. All other runners who could finish the race were promoted to a place. He was also not allowed to take part in the final over 5000 meters for which Vainio had qualified.

Alberto Cova became the first Italian Olympic champion over 10,000 meters with his victory .

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 53.0 min	Jouda, Treacy, Barie	2: 53.0 min
2000 m	5: 47.6 min	Jouda, Treacy, Barie	2: 54.6 min
4000 m	11: 32.5 min	Jouda, Treacy, Barie
5000 m	14: 19.8 min	Treacy, Porter, Jones	2: 47.3 min
6000 m	17:00, 3 min	Vainio, Cova, Rose	2: 40.5 min
7000 m	19: 40.9 min	Vainio, Cova	2: 40.6 min
8000 m	22: 25.0 min	Vainio, Cova	2: 44.1 min
9000 m	25: 12.8 min	Vainio, Cova	2: 47.8 min
10,000 m	27: 47.5 min	Cova	2: 34.7 min

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alberto Cova	Italy	27: 47.54 min
2	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	28: 06.22 min
3	Michael Musyoki	Kenya	28: 06.46 min
4th	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	28: 06.50 min
5	Christoph Herle	BR Germany	28: 08.21 min
6th	Sostenes Bitok	Kenya	28: 09.01 min
7th	Yutaka Kanai	Japan	28: 27.06 min
8th	Steve Jones	Great Britain	28: 28.08 min
9	John Treacy	Ireland	28: 28.68 min
10	Ahmed Musa Jouda	Sudan	28: 29.43 min
11	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	28: 31.61 min
12	Nick Rose	Great Britain	28: 31.73 min
13	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	28: 32.28 min
14th	Joseph Nzau	Kenya	28: 32.57 min
15th	Patrick Porter	United States	28: 34.59 min
16	Masanari Shintaku	Japan	28: 55.54 min
DNF	Fernando Mamede	Portugal
DOP	Martti Vainio	Finland

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , pp. 20f

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000m , accessed January 7, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 278f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018

Video

• Men's 10,000m Final - 1984. Part 1 , posted April 17, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed January 7, 2018
• Men's 10,000m Final - 1984. Part 2 , posted April 17, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed January 7, 2018
• Men's 10,000m Final - 1984. Part 3 , posted April 17, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed January 7, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672 , accessed on January 7, 2018
2. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 278f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
3. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 279, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 7, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference 10,000 m , English, accessed on January 7, 2018
5. ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 1061 .
6. ↑ List of Olympic doping offenders on SportsReference , accessed on January 7, 2018