Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

The 10,000 - meter race of men in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was held on 17 August 2008 at Beijing National Stadium. 39 athletes took part.

The competition was played in a final.

Abbreviations: WR = World Record, OR = Olympic Record, NR = national record ER = European record, NAR = North America record, SAR = South America record, ASR = Asian record, AFR = Africa record, OZR = Ozeanienrekord PB = personal best, JWB = Jahresweltbestzeit

Existing Records

Title holders

Final

August 17, 2008

For the fourth consecutive year, there were at major events the same intake on the first two places: Kenenisa Bekele ahead of his compatriot Sileshi Sihine. This result was at the Games in Athens in 2004 and also at the World Athletics Championships in 2005 and 2007. Bekele's victory was the fourth consecutive Olympic victory of Ethiopia over 10,000 meters. For the first time were the runners in the first four places below the current Olympic record.

Silver Medal for Sileshi Sihine ( ETH)

Bronze Medal for Micah Kogo Kipkemboi (KEN )

Moses Ndiema Masai (KEN ) finishes fourth

Haile Gebrselassie (ETH ), winner of 1996 and 2000, reached # 6

Galen Rupp (USA) reached number 13

Abdihakem Abdirahman (USA): No. 15

27th place for Weidlinger (AUT )

Kensuke Takezawa (JPN ) reached number 28

Teklemariam Medhin ( ERI): Place 32

34th place for Rui Pedro Silva ( POR)

Cuthbert Nyasongo (ZIM ) had to give up

Also not finish the race: the Mexican David Galván