Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)
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 | ||||||||
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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 ) | 27: 01.17 min | Beijing 2008 |
World Champion | Ibrahim Jeilan ( Ethiopia ) | 27: 13.81 min | Daegu 2011 |
European champion | Polat Kemboi Arıkan ( Turkey ) | 28: 22.27 min | Helsinki 2012 |
Central America and Caribbean champions | Juan Carlos Romero ( Mexico ) | 28: 54.06 min | Mayagüez 2011 |
South America champion | Giovani dos Santos ( Brazil ) | 28: 41.02 min | Buenos Aires 2011 |
Asian champion | Ali Hasan Mahboob ( Bahrain ) | 28: 35.49 min | Kobe 2011 |
African champions | Kenneth Kipkemoi ( Kenya ) | 27: 19.74 min | Porto-Novo 2012 |
Oceania Champion | Competition not in the championship program | Cairns 2012 |
Existing records
World record | Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) | 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
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 | |||
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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
Picture gallery
The 2008 Ethiopian Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele took fourth place
Web links
- SportsReference 10,000 m * Official Report , accessed September 11, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Association (English) , accessed on September 11, 2018
Video recordings
- Finale on youtube.com, published August 4, 2012, accessed September 11, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 673 , accessed on September 11, 2018