2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 20, 2004
Winning time	27: 05.10 min ( OR )
	Medalist
	Kenenisa Bekele ( ETH )
	Sileshi Sihine ( ETH )
	Zersenay Tadese ( ERI )

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 20, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 24 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele . He won before his compatriot Sileshi Sihine and the Eritrean Zersenay Tadese .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia 1996	27: 18.20 min	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia 1996	26: 49.57 min	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	José Manuel Martínez ( Spain ) Spain	27: 47.65 min	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Teodoro Vega ( Mexico ) Mexico	28: 49.38 min	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Eduardo Rojas ( Mexico ) Mexico	29: 37.08 min	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	William Naranjo ( Colombia ) Colombia	29: 37.38 min	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Ahmad Hassan Abdullah ( Qatar ) Qatar	28: 45.64 min	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Charles Waweru Kamathi ( Kenya ) Kenya	28: 07.83 min	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	10,000 m run not in the championship program		Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record	26: 20.31 min	Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia 1996	Ostrava , Czech Republic	June 8, 2004
Olympic record	27: 07.34 min	Haile Gebrselassie ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia 1996	Atlanta Final , USA	July 29, 1996

Note: All times are based on.

run

Start of the race:
front row (from
left to right ): Gebrselassie, Browne, Kifle, Abdirahman, Busienei, Martínez, Galván, Sihine back row (from left to right): Maase, Mosop, Joseph, Ritzenhein, Msuri, Korir, Vega, Henwood, Amyn, Kamathi , Ono

August 20, 2004 10:35 p.m. Athens local time ( UTC + 2 )

The competition was held in these games without preliminary heats.

The Ethiopian world champion and world record holder Kenenisa Bekele was the favorite . His compatriot, the 1996 and 2000 Olympic champion and multiple world champion Haile Gebrselassie. suffered from a calf injury and had to give up his supremacy to Bekele the previous year. Competition for Bekele came mainly from its own camp. Sileshi Sihine, third in the World Cup, was a clear candidate for a medal. All other athletes with a prospect of top positions were Africans. Especially the three Kenyans John Cheruiyot Korir, WM -Vierter, Charles Kamathi, world champion in 2001 and World Cup -Fünfter 2003 and Moses Mosop opportunities were granted, mitzumischen forward.

As at last year's World Championships in Paris , the first three kilometers with 1000 meter times of just over or just under 2:50 minutes were run extremely leisurely. So the field of participants stayed together for a long time. Then the Ethiopians Bekele, Gebrselassie and Sihine took the lead and accelerated the pace. It was exactly the same in Paris. The field now stretched more and more and the large leading group gradually became smaller and smaller. Halfway through the course, the group had shrunk to five runners. The three Ethiopians were ahead, followed by the two Kenyans Kiprop and Korir. For a short time, Zersenay Tadese from Eritrea and Kamathi came together as a group of two at a distance of ten meters. But it didn't stop there, Tadese caught up with the leaders again when the pace temporarily slowed down a little between kilometers five and six. The pressure from the Ethiopians at the front was relentless, so Tadese and Korir lost touch and the race was now even faster. After eighteen laps Gebrselassie could not follow either. The top group consisted of only three runners, with Bekele and Sihine in front, Kiprop behind, who then took the lead himself. In the 22nd round it was then also about the Kenyan. Bekele and Sihine moved away and the distance to the rear quickly grew. In the last thousand meters, Bekele increased the pace enormously, the Ethiopian covered this last section in 2: 27.91 minutes and broke away from his companion. With a lead of more than four seconds, Kenenisa Bekele became Olympic champion and, despite the leisurely first three kilometers, still set a new Olympic record. Sileshi Sihine won the silver medal. More than eleven seconds behind him, Zersenay Tadese crossed the finish line as a bronze medalist. Another three seconds back Boniface Kiprop was fourth, Haile Gebrselassie was fifth, John Cheruiyot Korir came in sixth ahead of Moses Cheruiyot Mosop. The French Ismaïl Sghyr was eighth, more than fifty seconds behind the Olympic champion, the best non-African in this race.

Kenenisa Bekele won the third consecutive gold medal for Ethiopia in this discipline.

Zersenay Tadesse won the first ever Olympic medal for Eritrea.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 50.85 min	Dieudonné Disi in front of the closed field	2: 50.85 min
2000 m	5: 45.16 min	Dieudonné Disi in front of the closed field	2: 54.31 min
3000 m	8: 33.98 min	Haile Gebrselassie in a large management group	2: 48.82 min
4000 m	11: 15.87 min	Kenenisa Bekele in a larger management group	2: 41.89 min
5000 m	13: 50.87 min	Sileshi Sihine in a group of five	2: 35.00 min
6000 m	16: 34.51 min	Kenenisa Bekele in a group of five	2: 43.91 min
7000 m	19: 11.92 min	Sileshi Sihine in a group of four	2: 37.41 min
8000 m	21: 57.18 min	Boniface Kiprop	2: 46.26 min
9000 m	24: 37.19 min	Sileshi Sihine in a group of three	2: 40.01 min
10,000 m	27: 05.18 min	Kenenisa Bekele	2: 27.91 min

result

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	27: 05.10	OR
2	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	27: 09.39
3	Zersenay Tadese	Eritrea Eritrea	27: 22.57	NO
4th	Boniface Toroitich Kiprop	Kenya Kenya	27: 25.48
5	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia 1996 Ethiopia	27: 27.70
6th	John Cheruiyot Korir	Kenya Kenya	27: 41.91
7th	Moses Cheruiyot Mosop	Kenya Kenya	27: 46.61
8th	Ismaïl Sghyr	France France	27: 57.09
9	José Manuel Martínez	Spain Spain	27: 57.61
10	Fabiano Joseph	Tanzania Tanzania	28: 01.94
11	Wilson Kipkemei Busienei	Uganda Uganda	28: 10.75
12	Dan Browne	United States United States	28: 14.53
13	Charles Waweru Kamathi	Kenya Kenya	28: 17.08
14th	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands Netherlands	28: 23.39
15th	Abdihakem Abdirahman	United States United States	28: 26.26
16	Yonas Kifle	Eritrea Eritrea	28: 29.87
17th	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda Rwanda	28: 43.19
18th	Mohammed Amyn	Morocco Morocco	28: 55.96
19th	Ryuji Ono	Japan Japan	29: 06.50
20th	Teodoro Vega	Mexico Mexico	29: 06.55
21st	David Galvan	Mexico Mexico	29: 38.05
DNF	John Henwood	New Zealand New Zealand
	John Yuda Msuri	Tanzania Tanzania
	Dathan Ritzenhein	United States United States