1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 51 athletes from 35 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 23, 1988 (preliminary round) September 26, 1988 (final) |
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 23 and 26, 1988 in two rounds at the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 51 athletes took part
The Olympic champion was the Moroccan Brahim Boutayeb . He won ahead of the Italian Salvatore Antibo and the Kenyan Kipkemboi Kimeli .
Hansjörg Kunze from the GDR reached the final and came in sixth.
Runners from the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1984 |
Alberto Cova ( Italy )
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27: 47.54 min | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 |
Paul Kipkoech ( Kenya )
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27: 38.63 min | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 |
Stefano Mei ( Italy )
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27: 56.79 min | Stuttgart 1986 |
Pan American champion 1987 |
Bruce Bickford ( USA )
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28: 20.37 min | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Rafael Zepeda ( Mexico )
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29: 46.62 min | Caracas 1987 |
South America Champion 1987 | Juan Pablo Juárez ( Argentina )
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29: 18.39 min | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Cai Shangyan ( People's Republic of China )
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29: 47.85 min | Singapore 1987 |
African Champion 1988 |
Brahim Boutayeb ( Morocco )
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28: 55.28 min | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 27: 13.81 min |
Fernando Mamede ( Portugal )
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Stockholm , Sweden | 2nd July 1984 |
Olympic record | 27: 38.35 min |
Lasse Virén ( Finland )
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Final of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany ) | 3rd September 1972 |
Preliminary round
Date: September 23, 1988
The athletes competed in a total of two preliminary runs. The first eight athletes per run qualified for the final. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
Forward 2
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final
Date: September 26, 1988
All three Kenyans, two Japanese, two Mexicans and two French had qualified for the final. The field was completed by one participant each from the GDR, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the USA and Great Britain.
There was no definite favorite in the final race. The Italian Salvatore Antibo was the first to take the initiative and pulled away on the first two laps. But he slowed so that the pursuers could catch up again. In the sixth lap, Antibo increased the pace again, but this time he had companions: the Kenyans Moses Tanui and Kipkemboi Kimeli as well as the Moroccan Brahim Boutayeb followed him. Halfway through the track - 13: 35.32 min - the race was so fast, mainly thanks to the high speed on the third kilometer, that a new world record was even possible. But then the pace slowed a little. At 7000 meters, Boutayeb started again and broke away from the other three from the lead group. At 9000 meters he had run out a lead of about 25 meters. Kimeli had also moved slightly behind Boutayeb and Tanui had fallen behind. With two laps to go, Antibo was about five meters behind Kimeli. At the top, Brahim Boutayeb could not take away the Olympic victory and set a new Olympic record with 27: 21.46 minutes . Behind them, Salvatore Antibo released the last of his strength, sprinted over Kipkemboi Kimeli and won the silver medal. More than ten seconds back, the Frenchman Jean-Louis Prianon took fourth place, the Mexican Arturo Barrios was fifth ahead of Hansjörg Kunze from the GDR, who five days later won the bronze medal over 5000 meters .
Brahim Boutayeb ran the first Moroccan Olympic victory over 10,000 meters .
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 1000 m time |
1000 m | 2: 41.74 min | Salvatore Antibo | 2: 41.74 min |
2000 m | 5: 29.37 min | Kimeli and the closed field again | 2: 47.63 min |
3000 m | 8: 07.78 min | Kimeli, Boutayeb, Antibo, Tanui | 2: 38.41 min |
4000 m | 10: 50.05 min | Kimeli, Antibo, Boutayeb, Tanui | 2: 42.27 min |
5000 m | 13: 35.32 min | Kimeli, Boutayeb, Tanui, Antibo | 2: 45.27 min |
6000 m | 16: 20.07 min | Boutayeb, Kimeli, Tanui, Antibo | 2: 44.75 min |
7000 m | 19:04:56 min | Boutayeb, Kimeli | 2: 44.49 min |
8000 m | 21: 50.17 min | Brahim Boutayeb | 2: 45.61 min |
9000 m | 24: 35.79 min | Brahim Boutayeb | 2: 45.62 min |
10,000 m | 27: 21.46 min | Brahim Boutayeb | 2: 45.67 min |
Bottom line
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Brahim Boutayeb |
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27: 21.46 min | OR |
2 | Salvatore Antibo |
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27: 23.55 min | |
3 | Kipkemboi Kimeli |
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27: 25.16 min | |
4th | Jean-Louis Prianon |
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27: 36.43 min | |
5 | Arturo Barrios |
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27: 39.32 min | |
6th | Hansjörg Kunze |
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27: 39.35 min | |
7th | Paul Arpin |
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27: 39.36 min | |
8th | Moses Tanui |
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27: 47.23 min | |
9 | Marti ten Kate |
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27: 50.30 min | |
10 | Antonio Prieto |
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27: 52.78 min | |
11 | Mauricio González |
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27: 59.90 min | |
12 | Evgeni Ignatov |
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28: 09.32 min | |
13 | Antonio Pinto |
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28: 09.53 min | |
14th | Kozu Akutsu |
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28: 09.70 min | |
15th | Rolando Vera |
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28: 17.64 min | |
16 | John Halvorsen |
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28: 39.35 min | |
17th | Shuichi Yoneshige |
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29: 04.44 min | |
18th | Bruce Bickford |
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29: 09.74 min | |
DNF | Eamonn Martin |
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Boniface Merande |
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Web links
- SportsReference 10,000m , accessed January 24, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 229f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 24, 2018
Video
- 10,000m Final Men - 1988 , published April 4, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed January 24, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672 , accessed on January 24, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 229f, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 24, 2018
- ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul, volume two, part two , results in athletics: p. 230, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 24, 2018