The Men's
10,000 metres
The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. The race ...
at the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
took place on August 17 at the
Beijing National Stadium
The National Stadium (), also known as the Bird's Nest (), is an 80,000-capacity stadium in Beijing. The stadium was jointly designed by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron from Basel-based architecture team Herzog & de Meuron, p ...
.
The race was dominated by the Ethiopian and Kenyan teams along with Tadese of Eritrea. With 200m remaining, Bekele pulled away from the rest of the field with a final lap of 53.42 seconds, winning his second 10,000m Olympic gold medal.
Competition format
The qualifying standards for the 2008 event were 27:50.00 (A standard) and 28:10.00 (B standard).
The Men's 10,000m competition consisted of only one race the Final.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic record was set during this competition.
Results
''OR - Olympic Record, NR - National Record, PB - Personal Best, SB - Season Best''
Splits
References
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Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
10,000 metres at the Olympics
Men's events at the 2008 Summer Olympics