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 | ||||||||
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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 ) | 27: 30.42 min | London 2012 |
World Champion | 27: 01.13 min | Beijing 2015 | |
European champion | Polat Kemboi Arıkan ( Turkey ) | 28: 18.52 min | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean champions | Lopez Lomong ( USA ) | 29: 49.03 min | San José 2015 |
South America champion | Bayron Piedra ( Ecuador ) | 28: 30.80 min | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion | El Hassan el-Abbassi ( Bahrain ) | 28: 50.71 min | Wuhan 2015 |
African champions | Stephen Mokoka ( South Africa ) | 28: 02.97 min | Durban 2016 |
Oceania Champion | Matthew Dryden ( New Zealand ) | 34: 18.41 min | Cairns 2015 |
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 are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
run
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 | |||
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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
Picture gallery
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 2, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English), accessed on October 2, 2018
- Sports-Reference, result 10,000 m men (English), accessed on October 2, 2018
Video
- Mo Farah: My Rio Highlights , range 0:00 min to 1:10 min on youtube.com, published on August 6, 2016, accessed on October 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 672 , accessed on October 2, 2018