2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 10,000 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 34 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 22, 2000 (preliminary round) September 25, 2000 (final) |
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The men's 10,000-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 22nd and 25th, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 34 athletes took part.
The Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Kenyan Paul Tergat and the Ethiopian Assefa Mezgebu .
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. The German Vice European Champion Dieter Baumann was banned because of a positive doping result and was not allowed to participate.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1996 | Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia ) | 27: 07.34 min | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | 27: 57.27 min | Seville 1999 | |
European champion 1998 | António Pinto ( Portugal ) | 27: 48.62 min | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Elenilson da Silva ( Brazil ) | 28: 43.50 min | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 | Juan Díaz ( Venezuela ) | 31: 06.88 min | Bridgetown 1999 |
South American Champion 1999 | Silvio Guerra ( Ecuador ) | 30: 30.20 min | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian champion 2000 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama ( Qatar ) | 29: 53.00 min | Jakarta 2000 |
African Champion 2000 | Abraha Hadush ( Ethiopia ) | 28: 40.51 min | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Brent Butler ( Guam ) | 32: 36.39 min | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 26: 22.75 min | Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia ) | Hengelo , Netherlands | June 1, 1998 |
Olympic record | 27: 07.34 min | Atlanta Final , USA | July 29, 1996 |
Note: All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).
Preliminary round
A total of two preliminary runs were completed. 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 runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
September 22, 2000, 9:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 27: 50.01 | |
2 | Patrick Ivuti | Kenya | 27: 50.10 | |
3 | John Korir | Kenya | 27: 50.19 | |
4th | Assefa Mezgebu | Ethiopia | 27: 50.64 | |
5 | Toshinari Takaoka | Japan | 27: 59.95 | |
6th | Samir Moussaoui | Algeria | 28: 08.22 | |
7th | Abdihakem Abdirahman | United States | 28: 09.04 | |
8th | Enrique Molina | Spain | 28: 09.76 | |
9 | Andres Jones | Great Britain | 28: 11.20 | |
10 | Armando Quintanilla | Mexico | 28: 14.54 | |
11 | Sisay Bezabeh | Australia | 28: 21.63 | |
12 | Sean Kaley | Canada | 28: 36.07 | |
13 | Robert Denmark | Great Britain | 28: 43.74 | |
14th | Shaun Creighton | Australia | 28: 52.71 | |
15th | Daniele Caimmi | Italy | 29: 01.26 | |
16 | Teodoro Cuñado | Spain | 29: 10.90 | |
17th | Michael Aish | New Zealand | 29: 31.83 |
Forward 2
September 22, 2000, 10:05 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Girma Tolla | Ethiopia | 27: 44.01 | |
2 | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 27: 44.07 | |
3 | Katsuhiko Hanada | Japan | 27: 45.13 | |
4th | Mohammed Mourhit | Belgium | 27: 45.73 | |
5 | Saïd Bérioui | Morocco | 27: 45.83 | |
6th | Karl Keska | Great Britain | 27: 48.29 | |
7th | David Galvan | Mexico | 27: 49.53 | |
8th | Aloÿs Nizigama | Burundi | 27: 50.09 | |
9 | José Ríos | Spain | 27: 51.40 | |
10 | José Ramos | Portugal | 27: 56.30 | |
11 | Meb Keflezighi | United States | 27: 58.96 | |
12 | Rachid Berradi | Italy | 28: 01.18 | |
13 | Mauricio Díaz | Chile | 28: 05.61 | NO |
14th | Yonas Kifle | Eritrea | 28: 08.59 | NO |
15th | Jeff Schiebler | Canada | 28: 30.46 | |
16 | Dmitri Maximov | Russia | 28: 54.15 | |
17th | Alan Culpepper | United States | 29: 00.17 |
final
September 25, 2000, 10:00 p.m.
Three Ethiopians and three Kenyans had qualified for the final. There were also two US runners, two Japanese and two Spaniards. The starting field was completed by one participant each from Algeria, Belgium, Burundi, Italy, Morocco, Mexico, Portugal and Great Britain.
The favorite was the 1996 Olympic champion , world record holder and reigning world champion Haile Gebrselassie from Ethiopia. The 1996 silver medalist and vice world champion Paul Tergat from Kenya was his strongest competitor. Other medal candidates were primarily Gebrselassies and Tergats compatriots from Ethiopia and Kenya. There was a special rivalry between these two nations regarding the supremacy in the long distances . Ethiopia started the World Cup -Third Assefa Mezgebu and the World Cup -Vierte Girma Tolla, Kenya Patrick Ivuti and John Cheruiyot Korir. Against this superiority, runners from other parts of the world could hardly get anything.
The race was characterized by tactical maneuvers, with the Kenyans and the Ethiopians watching each other. Aloÿs Nizigama from Burundi set the pace in the first half. The first four thousand meters were run very quickly with 1000-meter sections, some of which were well below 2:40 minutes and once just above this mark. Then Nizigama took a pause and it slowed down considerably with a 1000 meter time of just over three minutes. But it did not stop. Ivuti now took the lead and accelerated the pace back to a level as at the beginning of the race. When Nizigama took over from him at the head, things slowed down again. But Korir then ensured a high pace again. With five laps to go, a group of six had formed. The Kenyans Tergat, Ivuti and Korir tried to assert themselves against Gebrselassie and his compatriot Mezgebu. The Moroccan Saïd Bérioui, initially also part of this group, could not keep up the pace and slowly fell behind. Nizigama had to be demolished beforehand. Now it was called three times Kenya and twice Ethiopia. Korir led the group at high speed, followed by Gebrselassie, Tergat, Mezgebu and Ivuti. At the beginning of the last lap, Mezgebu moved one position forward in front of Tergat. The two Ethiopians now ran side by side to block Gebrselassie's main opponent Tergat. But on the back straight, Tergat attacked and took the lead. He now increased the pace, only the two Ethiopians could follow him. There was a smaller gap to Ivuti, while Korir fell significantly behind. Mezgebu also had to tear down the exit from the target curve. Gebrselassie tried everything and he gradually got on a level with Tergat. He had never had to fight for victory like this in recent years. But this time it was enough and Haile Gebrselassie became Olympic champion. So it came to the same finish on the first two places as in 1996 in Atlanta. Paul Tergat won silver ahead of Assefa Mezgebu. The two Kenyans Patrick Ivuti and John Korir followed on the next ranks ahead of Saïd Bérioui. The best runner behind the Africans was the seventh-placed Japanese Toshinari Takaoka. The British Karl Keska finished eighth, and the long-leading Aloÿs Nizigama finished ninth.
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 1000 m time |
1000 m | 2: 39.52 min | Aloÿs Nizigama | 2: 39.52 min |
2000 m | 5: 23.31 min | Aloÿs Nizigama | 2: 34.99 min |
3000 m | 8: 03.03 min | Aloÿs Nizigama | 2: 39.72 min |
4000 m | 10: 55.47 min | Aloÿs Nizigama | 2: 42.44 min |
5000 m | 13: 55.88 min | Aloÿs Nizigama | 3: 00.41 min |
6000 m | 16: 31.19 min | Patrick Ivuti | 2: 35.78 min |
7000 m | 19: 24.63 min | Aloÿs Nizigama | 2: 53.44 min |
8000 m | 22: 04.46 min | John Korir in a top group of six | 2: 39.83 min |
9000 m | 24: 44.09 min | John Korir in a top group of five | 2: 39.63 min |
10,000 m | 27: 18.20 min | Haile Gebrselassie | 2: 34.11 min |
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 27: 18.20 | |
2 | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 27: 18.29 | |
3 | Assefa Mezgebu | Ethiopia | 27: 19.75 | |
4th | Patrick Ivuti | Kenya | 27: 20.44 | |
5 | John Korir | Kenya | 27: 24.75 | |
6th | Saïd Bérioui | Morocco | 27: 37.83 | |
7th | Toshinari Takaoka | Japan | 27: 40.44 | |
8th | Karl Keska | Great Britain | 27: 44.09 | |
9 | Aloÿs Nizigama | Burundi | 27: 44.56 | |
10 | Abdihakem Abdirahman | United States | 27: 46.17 | |
11 | Girma Tolla | Ethiopia | 27: 49.75 | |
12 | Meb Keflezighi | United States | 27: 53.63 | |
13 | David Galvan | Mexico | 27: 54.56 | |
14th | José Ramos | Portugal | 28: 07.43 | |
15th | Katsuhiko Hanada | Japan | 28: 08.11 | |
16 | Samir Moussaoui | Algeria | 28: 17.25 | |
17th | Rachid Berradi | Italy | 28: 45.96 | |
18th | José Ríos | Spain | 28: 50.31 | |
DNF | Enrique Molina | Spain | ||
Mohammed Mourhit | Belgium |
literature
- Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 70f
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000m , accessed March 20, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed March 20, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 20, 2018
Video
- 10,000m Final Men, 2000 - Haile Gebrselassie & Paul Tergat , published February 13, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed March 20, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ doping? - The Dieter Baumann case on sportunterricht.de, accessed on March 20, 2018
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 673 , accessed on March 20, 2018