Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

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Olympic rings
Mens 10000 m medal ceremony - 2012 Olympics.jpg
sport athletics
discipline 10,000 meter run
gender Men
Attendees 29 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase 4th August 2012
Medalist
gold medal Mo Farah ( GBR ) United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Silver medal Galen Rupp ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Bronze medal Tariku Bekele ( ETH ) EthiopiaEthiopia 

The 10,000-meter race of the men at the 2012 Olympics in London was on August 4, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium London discharged. 29 athletes took part.

The British Mo Farah became Olympic champion . The American Galen Rupp won the silver medal. The Ethiopian Tariku Bekele won bronze .

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

Current title holders

Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) EthiopiaEthiopia  27: 01.17 min Beijing 2008
World Champion Ibrahim Jeilan ( Ethiopia ) EthiopiaEthiopia  27: 13.81 min Daegu 2011
European champion Polat Kemboi Arıkan ( Turkey ) TurkeyTurkey  28: 22.27 min Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions Juan Carlos Romero ( Mexico ) MexicoMexico  28: 54.06 min Mayagüez 2011
South America champion Giovani dos Santos ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  28: 41.02 min Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion Ali Hasan Mahboob ( Bahrain ) BahrainBahrain  28: 35.49 min Kobe 2011
African champions Kenneth Kipkemoi ( Kenya ) KenyaKenya  27: 19.74 min Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion Competition not in the championship program Cairns 2012

Existing records

Award ceremony (from left to right):
Silver: Galen Rupp (USA)
Gold: Mo Farah (GBR)
Bronze: Tariku Bekele (ETH)
World record Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) EthiopiaEthiopia  26: 17.53 min Brussels , Belgium August 26, 2005
Olympic record 27: 01.17 min Beijing Final , People's Republic of China August 17, 2008

Note:
All times in this post are London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

run

Start of the race
Racing scene: right in the green jerseys the Bekele brothers - Mo Farah li. on the outside - Galen Rupp in the back field
Finish: Mo Farah ahead of Galen Rupp and Tariku Bekele

August 4, 2012, 9:15 pm

The competition was held in just one race without preliminary heats.

The favorites were the Ethiopian Olympic champion from 2008 and world record holder Kenenisa Bekele, as well as the Briton Mo Farah. Bekele's form was difficult to gauge as he had been plagued by injuries before the games.

Bekele started the race quickly, but soon it slowed down, as early as the third lap the pace was really slow, the second kilometer was covered in a time of just over three minutes. Now Zersenay Tadese from Eritrea took the lead and made the race significantly faster again with 1000 meter sections between 2:40 and 2:47 minutes. On lap seven, Moses Ndiema Kipsiro from Uganda fell after the runner behind came into contact in the tightly closed field. He fell back into the group of six, which in the meantime had lost touch with the rest of the field, but quickly got up again and caught up with the large leading group with an intermediate sprint.

Due to the fast pace, the field fell apart more and more. First, a group of nine pulled away a little, from which six runners remained by kilometer four. But when it slowed down a little halfway through the course, a large group of fifteen runners came together again at the front.

When Tadese slowed down a little after a good seven kilometers, the Kenyan Moses Ndiema Masai took the initiative and increased the pace again. It got really fast on the last thousand meters, there were still twelve runners together in front. The decision was not made until the final round. Farah took the lead, the group behind him got smaller and smaller and in the end he ran safely to the Olympic victory with great sprint force. He covered the final kilometer in 2: 28.45 minutes. Farah's US training partner Galen Rupp passed Tariku Bekele, the brother of favorite Kenenisa Bekele, on the home straight and finished second. The next places went to the Bekele brothers from Ethiopia: Tariku won bronze, Kenenisa came fourth ahead of the Kenyan Bedan Karoki. Zersenay Tadese, who had led for a long time, finished sixth. Moses Ndiema Masai, who took the initiative at kilometer seven, was twelfth.

Mo Farah was the first British Olympic champion over this distance.

Split times
Intermediate
mark
Meanwhile Leading 1000 m time
1000 m 2: 54.88 min Kenenisa Bekele in front of the closed field 2: 54.88 min
2000 m 5: 59.56 min Wilson Kiprop in front of the closed field 3: 04.68 min
3000 m 8: 42.45 min Zersenay Tadese in front of a large leadership group 2: 42.89 min
4000 m 11: 23.16 min Zersenay Tadese in a group of nine 2: 40.71 min
5000 m 14: 05.79 min Zersenay Tadese in a group of six 2: 42.63 min
6000 m 16: 52.71 min Zersenay Tadese in front of a large leadership group 2: 46.92 min
7000 m 19: 32.58 min Moses Ndiema Masai in front of a large leading group 2: 39.87 min
8000 m 22: 15.49 min Moses Ndiema Masai in front of a large leading group 2: 42.91 min
9000 m 25: 01.97 min Gebregziabher Gebremariam with a top group of 12 2: 46.32 min
10,000 m 27: 30.42 min Mo Farah 2: 28.45 min

result

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
0 1 Mo Farah United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 27: 30.42
0 2 Galen Rupp United StatesUnited States United States 27: 30.90
0 3 Tariku Bekele EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia 27: 31.43
0 4th Kenenisa Bekele EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia 27: 32.44
0 5 Bedan Karoki KenyaKenya Kenya 27: 32.94
0 6th Zersenay Tadese EritreaEritrea Eritrea 27: 33.51
0 7th Teklemariam Medhin EritreaEritrea Eritrea 27: 34.76
0 8th Gebregziabher Gebremariam EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia 27: 36.34
0 9 Polat Kemboi Arıkan TurkeyTurkey Turkey 27: 38.81
10 Moses Ndiema Kipsiro UgandaUganda Uganda 27: 39.22
11 Cameron Levins CanadaCanada Canada 27: 40.68
12 Moses Ndiema Masai KenyaKenya Kenya 27: 41.34
13 Dathan Ritzenhein United StatesUnited States United States 27: 45.89
14th Robert Kajuga RwandaRwanda Rwanda 27: 56.67
15th Nguse Tesfaldet EritreaEritrea Eritrea 27: 56.78
16 Thomas Ayeko UgandaUganda Uganda 27: 58.96
17th Moukheld Al-Outaibi Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 28: 07.25
18th Mohammed Ahmed CanadaCanada Canada 28: 13.91
19th Matthew Tegenkamp United StatesUnited States United States 28: 18.26
20th Ben St. Lawrence AustraliaAustralia Australia 28: 32.67
21st Diego Estrada MexicoMexico Mexico 28: 36.19
22nd Yūki Satō JapanJapan Japan 28: 44.06
23 Ayad Lamdassem SpainSpain Spain 28: 49.85
24 Daniele Meucci ItalyItaly Italy 28: 57.46
25th Chris Thompson United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 29: 06.14
26th Mykola Labovskyy UkraineUkraine Ukraine 29: 32.12
DNF Wilson Kiprop KenyaKenya Kenya
Ali Hasan Mahboob BahrainBahrain Bahrain
Bayron Piedra EcuadorEcuador Ecuador

Picture gallery

Web links

Video recordings

  • Finale on youtube.com, published August 4, 2012, accessed September 11, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 673 , accessed on September 11, 2018