1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	46 athletes from 30 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 26, 1996 (preliminary round) July 29, 1996 (final)
Medalist Haile Gebrselassie ( ETH )   Paul Tergat ( KEN )   Salah Hissou ( MAR )

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 26 and 28, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 46 athletes took part.

The Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Kenyan Paul Tergat and the Moroccan Salah Hissou .

Stéphane Franke started for Germany . He qualified for the final and finished ninth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Khalid Skah ( Morocco )	27: 46.70 min	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia )	27: 12.95 min	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Abel Antón ( Spain )	28: 06.03 min	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Armando Quintanilla ( Mexico )	28: 57.41 min	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Marcos Villa ( Mexico )	29: 44.16 min	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Sérgio Gonçalves da Silva ( Brazil )	29: 10.73 min	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Marti Sopjew ( Turkmenistan )	30: 04.87 min	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Stephen Kiogora ( Kenya )	29: 16.4 min	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Paul McRae ( New Zealand )	31: 11.97 min	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	26: 43.53 min	Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia )	Hengelo , Netherlands	August 16, 1995
Olympic record	27: 21.46 min	Brahim Boutayeb ( Morocco )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 26, 1988

Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).

Preliminary round

July 26, 1996, from 9.45 p.m.

The athletes competed in a total of two preliminary runs. The first eight long-distance runners qualified for the finals. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

Majed Abu Maraheel was the first athlete to participate in the Olympic Games for the Palestinian Territories .

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	27: 50.57
2	Paul Tergat	Kenya	27: 50.66
3	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	27: 51.69
4th	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi	27: 53.21
5	Salah Hissou	Morocco	27: 53.32
6th	Stefano Baldini	Italy	27: 55.79
7th	Abel Antón	Spain	27: 56.26
8th	Carlos de la Torre	Spain	28: 04.14
9	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	28: 13.49
10	Marko Hhawu	Tanzania	28: 14.08
11	Paul Evans	Great Britain	28: 24.39
12	Robert Johnston	New Zealand	28: 40.60
13	Katsuhiko Hanada	Japan	28: 52.22
14th	Róbert Štefko	Slovakia	29: 03.80
15th	Carlos Patrício	Portugal	29: 15.41
16	Ronaldo da Costa	Brazil	29: 26.58
17th	Dan Middleman	United States	29: 50.72
18th	Mohamed Ezzher	France	29: 55.34
19th	Martin Pitayo	Mexico	30: 32.20
20th	Herder Vázquez	Colombia	33: 26.15
21st	Majed Abu Maraheel	Palestine	34: 40.50
DNF	Larbi Zéroual	Morocco
DNS	Julian Paynter	Australia
	Yasuyuki Watanabe	Japan

Forward 2

The South African Hendrick Ramaala finished fifteenth in his preliminary run and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	28: 14.20
2	Josephat Machuka	Kenya	28: 14.27
3	Paul Koech	Kenya	28: 17.48
4th	Jon Brown	Great Britain	28: 19.85
5	Alyan Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia	28: 22.35
6th	Khalid Skah	Morocco	28: 23.21
7th	Stéphane Franke	Germany	28: 24.30
8th	Armando Quintanilla	Mexico	28: 27.28
9	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	28: 28.16
10	Silvio Guerra	Ecuador	28: 30.15
11	Abraham Assefa	Ethiopia	28: 32.24
12	Toshinari Takaoka	Japan	28: 38.18
13	Shaun Creighton	Australia	28: 44.29
14th	Alfredo Brás	Portugal	28: 50.28
15th	Hendrick Ramaala	South Africa	29: 07.81
16	Bradley Barquist	United States	29: 11.20
17th	Charles Mulinga	Zambia	29: 14.99
18th	Miroslav Vanko	Slovakia	29: 17.53
19th	Sean Dollman	Ireland	29: 19.03
20th	Hamid Sajjadi	Iran	29: 22.65
21st	Jeff Schiebler	Canada	29: 47.79
DNF	Abdellah Béhar	France
	Paulo Guerra	Portugal
	Todd Williams	United States

final

Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia

July 29, 1996, 10:00 p.m.

All three Kenyans and all three Spaniards had qualified for the final. They ran against two Ethiopians, two Moroccans and two participants from Great Britain as well as one participant each from Burundi, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania and Hungary.

The clear favorite was the Ethiopian world champion and world record holder Haile Gebrselassie. His strongest competitors were the Kenyan Paul Tergat, third in the World Cup last year, the 1992 Olympic champion and vice world champion Khalid Skah from Morocco and his compatriot Salah Hissou, fourth in the 1995 World Cup .

The first half of the race was run at 13: 55.22 minutes at a pace that was still feasible for most of the finalists. Initially, the Italian Stefano Baldini was in charge, but was soon replaced by Aloÿs Nizigama from Burundi. After the 5000 meter mark, the three Kenyans Tergat, Paul Koech and Josephat Machuka took the lead and ensured a significantly higher pace. Six runners were still together in a leading group, besides the three Kenyans there were Gebrselassie, Hissou and Nizigama. After 8000 meters, Tergat accelerated the pace. Now it was only Gebrselassie who could follow. Behind them, Hissou held up well with a gap of six to seven meters, but his deficit grew larger and larger as the race went on and the other runners in the former top group were slowly catching up on Hissou. At the beginning of the last lap, Gebrselassie put in a long sprint, Tergat increasingly lost contact with him. On the home stretch, the Kenyan came closer again, but could no longer reach his competitor. Haile Gebrselassie won the race with a new Olympic record . Silver medalist Paul Tergat also beat the previous record. This was only possible thanks to the exceptionally fast second half of the race in 13: 12.12 minutes. Salah Hissou was able to defend his third place and won the bronze medal more than sixteen seconds behind Tergat. Aloÿs Nizigama came in fourth, Josephat Machuka in fifth and Paul Koech in sixth. Khalid Skah finished seventh ahead of South African Mathias Ntawulikura. The German Stéphane Franke finished ninth, making him the best finalist who did not come from Africa.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 48.32 min	Stefano Baldini with the entire field	2: 48.32 min
2000 m	5: 31.26 min	Aloÿs Nizigama with the complete field	2: 42.94 min
3000 m	8: 16.87 min	Aloÿs Nizigama with the complete field	2: 45.61 min
4000 m	11: 06.63 min	Aloÿs Nizigama with the complete field	2: 49.76 min
5000 m	13: 55.22 min	Aloÿs Nizigama with the complete field	2: 48.49 min
6000 m	16: 35.48 min	Paul Koech in a top group of six	2: 40.26 min
7000 m	19: 18.36 min	Josephat Machuka in a top group of six	2: 42.88 min
8000 m	22: 01.62 min	Paul Tergat in front of Haile Gebrselassie	2: 43.39 min
9000 m	24: 35.88 min	Paul Tergat in front of Haile Gebrselassie	2: 34.29 min
10,000 m	27: 07.34 min	Haile Gebrselassie	2: 31.46 min

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	27: 07.34	OR
2	Paul Tergat	Kenya	27: 08.17
3	Salah Hissou	Morocco	27: 24.67
4th	Aloÿs Nizigama	Burundi	27: 33.79
5	Josephat Machuka	Kenya	27: 35.08
6th	Paul Koech	Kenya	27: 35.19
7th	Khalid Skah	Morocco	27: 46.98
8th	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	27: 50.73
9	Stéphane Franke	Germany	27: 59.08
10	Jon Brown	Great Britain	27: 59.72
11	Armando Quintanilla	Mexico	28: 09.46
12	Marko Hhawu	Tanzania	28: 20.58
13	Abel Antón	Spain	28: 29.37
14th	Carlos de la Torre	Spain	28: 32.11
15th	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	28: 39.11
16	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	28: 45.48
17th	Worku Bikila	Ethiopia	28: 59.15
18th	Stefano Baldini	Italy	29: 07.77
DNF	Paul Evans	Great Britain
	Alyan Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 33f

Video

• 10,000m Final Men, 1996 - Haile Gebrselassie & Paul Tergat. First 5K , published May 19, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed February 27, 2018
• Finale du 10000m des Jeux Olympiques 1996 d'Atlanta - Haile Gebresselassie & Paul Tergat , published on November 8, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on February 27, 2018

Web links

• SportsReference 10,000m , accessed February 27, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 80, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on February 27, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 673 , accessed on February 27, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 80, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on February 27, 2018