2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase	August 13, 2016
	Medalist
	Mo Farah ( GBR )
	Paul Tanui ( KEN )
	Tamirat Tola ( ETH )

The men's 10,000 meter run at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 13, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 34 athletes took part.

The British Mo Farah became Olympic champion . The Kenyan Paul Tanui won the silver medal . Bronze went to the Ethiopian Tamirat Tola .

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

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Mo Farah ( Great Britain ) United Kingdom	27: 30.42 min	London 2012
World Champion	Mo Farah ( Great Britain ) United Kingdom	27: 01.13 min	Beijing 2015
European champion	Polat Kemboi Arıkan ( Turkey ) Turkey	28: 18.52 min	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean champions	Lopez Lomong ( USA ) United States	29: 49.03 min	San José 2015
South America champion	Bayron Piedra ( Ecuador ) Ecuador	28: 30.80 min	Lima 2015
Asian champion	El Hassan el-Abbassi ( Bahrain ) Bahrain	28: 50.71 min	Wuhan 2015
African champions	Stephen Mokoka ( South Africa ) South Africa	28: 02.97 min	Durban 2016
Oceania Champion	Matthew Dryden ( New Zealand ) New Zealand	34: 18.41 min	Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record	Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia	26: 17.53 min	Brussels , Belgium	August 26, 2005
Olympic record	Kenenisa Bekele ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia	27: 01.17 min	Beijing Final , People's Republic of China	August 17, 2008

Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).

run

Final scene ( from left to right ): Shitara, Chani, Irabaruta, Korir, Murayama

Final scene ( from left to right ): Osako, Arıkan, Korir, Millington, Robertson

Final scene ( from left to right ): Cheroben, Chani, Tola, Amlosom, Korir, Kipchirchir, El-Abassi, Cheptegei, Kurong

Final scene ( from left to right ): Hadis, Kipchirchir, Farah

Final scene ( from left to right ): Amlosom, Ahmed, Kipchirchir, Hadis, Rupp

The competition was held directly in a final run without qualification.

The British double Olympic champion in 2012 over 5000 and 10,000 meters Mo Farah was once again the clear favorite as a double world champion over the two long-distance tracks in 2013 and 2015 . His strongest opponents came from the African countries Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Above all, the three Kenyans Geoffrey Kamworor, Paul Tanui and Bedan Karoki, who placed behind Farah at the last World Championships, had great ambitions to beat the British this time. Farah's American training colleague Galen Rupp was also strong again.

Farah lined up in the first laps as usual in the field with contact to the front. The first thousand meters were run cautiously with 2: 55.20 minutes. Then the runners picked up the pace more and more. After three kilometers, the Ethiopians Tamirat Tola and Yigrem Demelash took over the leadership. For many laps, these two worked together with changes at the top and kept the pace high. The 1000 meter sections between kilometers three and eight were completed in times of just over 2:40 minutes. The Kenyans Tanui and Kamworor were the first to persecute the Ethiopians. Farah also belonged to this top group. He fell just before halfway through the race, but quickly got up and was able to continue the race without any problems.

On the penultimate kilometer the race got even faster, the leading group consisted of the six runners Tanui, Tola, Demelash, Farah, Rupp and Joshua Cheptegei from Uganda on the last laps. With a thousand meters to go, Farah took the initiative for the first time and increased the pace significantly. Cheptegei now had to be demolished.

On the back straight of the final lap, Tanui launched an attack, the high pace blew the lead group. Only Farah stayed on the Kenyan's heels, behind which there was now a gap. On the home straight, Farah passed Tanui with his strong final sprint and won his third gold medal overall, the first here in Rio . The World Championship -Third Paul Tanui won silver, bronze went Tamirat Tola before Yigrem Demelash and Galen Rupp. Joshua Cheptegei was sixth, Bedan Karoki was seventh ahead of Zersenay Tadese from Eritrea.

Only by exactly four seconds missed Moa Farah with his winning time Kenenisa Bekele's Olympic record from 2008 . The Briton covered the last kilometer in 2: 28.22 minutes.

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	1000 m time
1000 m	2: 55.20 min	Luis Ostos	2: 55.20 min
2000 m	5: 44.49 min	Olivier Irabaruta	2: 49.29 min
3000 m	8: 30.70 min	Tamirat Tola	2: 46.21 min
4000 m	11: 12.29 min	Yigrem Demelash	2: 41.59 min
5000 m	13: 53.11 min	Tamirat Tola	2: 40.82 min
6000 m	16: 37.20 min	Paul Kipngetich Tanui	2: 44.09 min
7000 m	19: 19.07 min	Bedan Karoki	2: 41.87 min
8000 m	22:00, 83 min	Yigrem Demelash	2: 41.76 min
9000 m	24: 36.95 min	Mo Farah	2: 36.12 min
10,000 m	27: 05.17 min	Mo Farah	2: 28.22 min

result

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Mo Farah	United Kingdom Great Britain	27: 05.17
2	Paul Kipngetich Tanui	Kenya Kenya	27: 05.64
3	Tamirat Tola	Ethiopia Ethiopia	27: 06.26
4th	Yigrem Demelash	Ethiopia Ethiopia	27: 06.27
5	Galen Rupp	United States United States	27: 08.92
6th	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda Uganda	27: 10.06
7th	Bedan Karoki	Kenya Kenya	27: 22.93
8th	Zersenay Tadese	Eritrea Eritrea	27: 23.86
9	Nguse amlosom	Eritrea Eritrea	27: 30.79
10	Abraham Cheroben	Bahrain Bahrain	27: 31.86
11	Geoffrey Kamworor	Kenya Kenya	27: 31.94
12	Zane Robertson	New Zealand New Zealand	27: 33.67	NO
13	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey Turkey	27: 35.50
14th	Leonard Korir	United States United States	27: 35.65
15th	Abadi Hadis	Ethiopia Ethiopia	27: 36.34
16	David McNeill	Australia Australia	27: 51.71
17th	Suguru Osako	Japan Japan	27: 51.94
18th	Stephen Mokoka	South Africa South Africa	27: 54.57
19th	Shadrack Kipchirchir	United States United States	27: 58.32
20th	Bashir Abdi	Belgium Belgium	28: 01.49
21st	Luis Ostos	Peru Peru	28: 02.03
22nd	Moses Kurong	Uganda Uganda	28: 03.38
23	Timothy Toroitich	Uganda Uganda	28: 04.84
24	Goitom Kifle	Eritrea Eritrea	28: 15.99
25th	Andrew Vernon	United Kingdom Great Britain	28: 19.36
26th	El Hassan el-Abbassi	Bahrain Bahrain	28: 20.17
27	Olivier Irabaruta	Burundi Burundi	28: 32.75
28	Ben St. Lawrence	Australia Australia	28: 46.32
29	Yūta Shitara	Japan Japan	28: 55.23
30th	Kota Murayama	Japan Japan	29: 02.51
31	Ross Millington	United Kingdom Great Britain	29: 14.95
32	Mohammed Ahmed	Canada Canada	29: 32.84
DNF	Hassan Chani	Bahrain Bahrain
DNF	Ali Kaya	Turkey Turkey

Picture gallery

British Olympic Champion Mo Farah
Bronze medalist Tamirat Tola from Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Yigrem Demelash narrowly missed a medal in fourth
The American Galen Rupp took fifth place
Joshua Cheptegei from Uganda only lost contact with the leaders shortly before the end and ended up sixth
The Kenyan Bedan Karoki came in seventh place
The Olympic eighth Zersenay Tadese from Eritrea
Abraham Cheroben from Bahrain came in tenth place
The Kenyan Geoffrey Kamworor came in eleventh
The New Zealander Zane Robertson set a new national record in twelfth place
Fourteenth place for the American Leonard Korir
The Ethiopian Abadi Hadis came in fifteenth
Seventeen best Japanese: Suguru Osako
The South African Stephen Mokoka finished the race in eighteenth
The Belgian Bashir Abdi finished twentieth
Olivier Irabaruta took 27th place
The Japanese Kota Murayama came in thirty in this race
The Canadian Mohammed Ahmed turned 32.
Hassan Chani from Bahrain gave up the race