Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

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Men's 10,000 metres
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Men's 10,000m winner Mo Farah
Venue Olympic Stadium
Dates13 August 2016
(final)
Competitors34 from 16 nations
Winning time27:05.17
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Mo Farah Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Paul Tanui Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
Bronze medal icon.svg Tamirat Tola Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia
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The men's 10,000 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 13 August at the Olympic Stadium. [1] In a tactical yet comparatively quick race, Great Britain's Mo Farah defended his Olympic title in 27:05.17 minutes, becoming the sixth man to win the Olympic 10,000 metres title twice. Reaching their first Olympic podium, Kenya's Paul Tanui was the silver medallist and Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia took the bronze. Farah's winning margin was 0.47 seconds.

The medals were presented by Lydia Nsekera, IOC member, Burundi and Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, Vice President of the IAAF.

Summary

Pre-Olympics

Mo Farah had not been beaten in a major track championship since the 2011 World Championships (by Ibrahim Jeilan). The defending 2012 Olympic champion, Farah's time of 26:53.71 minutes was the second fastest that year. The year's rankings were topped by Yigrem Demelash of Ethiopia and the country's two other team members (Tamirat Tola and Abadi Hadis) placed in the world's top five, though none had senior international track experience. The Kenyan contingent presented the more experienced challengers to Farah. Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor and Paul Tanui were medallists behind Farah at the 2015 World Championships. Kamworor and the third Kenyan Bedan Karoki Muchiri had beaten Farah at the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships five months earlier. American Galen Rupp – Farah's training partner and 2012 Olympic runner-up – was also a strong entrant. [2] [3]

Final

From the two alley waterfall start, Tanui went to the front of the pack, surrounded by his Kenyan teammates. Farah went to the back, jogging along behind the pack in dead last place and even waved to his family in the crowd. [4] Peru's Luis Ostos got three laps in the spotlight before filtering back through the field. [5] For the first quarter of the race, Farah stayed in last, content to let the Kenyans and three Ethiopians exchange the lead, though he was tracked by Kenya's Muchiri. On the seventh lap, Farah moved up to mark the leaders and increase the pace, his training partner Galen Rupp moving in behind him. Suddenly Farah's back kick connected with Rupp's right knee and Farah fell to the ground among the pack of runners. [6]

The pack behind him scattered and Farah popped up quickly, his shoulder showing the scrapes of his collision with the ground. After this point the increased pace fractured the pack Farah returned to his marking position, usually fourth place behind the Kenyans with occasional surges by Ethiopians Tamirat Tola and Yigrem Demelash. Around 7000 metres and eight laps remaining, Kipsang and Karoki took their last turns at the front, but began to fade off the pace while Tamirat Tola and Yigrem Demelash took the point as the pace quickened. Breaking away from the remaining pack, the two Ethiopians, Tanui, Farah, Rupp and Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei continued in close order. With four laps to go, Farah took the lead, but instead of trying to break away, he simply defended the point. [5] [7]

With a lap to go, Farah had the lead, with Tanui aggressively trying to pass and the Ethiopians and Rupp still in pursuit. Coming up on a lapped runner, Tanui didn't concede space in order to pin Farah against the curb and into the back of the slower runner, the two exchanged elbows as Farah made his right of way. Tanui accelerated and took the lead before the back stretch. Farah followed Tanui as Rupp fell off the pace. Through the final turn, Tanui had the edge. Coming off the turn, Farah attacked with a gear Tanui's awkward running form could not match, building a half a second margin of victory down the final 100 metres and crossing the line with his Mobot celebration. The gap already established, Tamirat Tola passed Rupp and ran in to the bronze medal. Yigrem Demelash took fourth place after a late rush at his teammate, but missed catching him by one hundredth of a second. [8] [5] [7] [9]

Farah's gold medal gave him the shared distinction of being the most successful Olympian in the event and fifth Olympian to defend their title in the 10,000 m consecutively or following a lapse, preceded by Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele. Paavo Nurmi, Emil Zátopek and Lasse Viren each have won the Olympic 10,000 twice (Nurmi, non-consecutively). [10] Zane Robertson set a New Zealand national record. [5]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing global and area records were as follows:

World recordFlag of Ethiopia.svg  Kenenisa Bekele  (ETH)26:17.53 Brussels, Belgium26 August 2005
Olympic recordFlag of Ethiopia (1996-2009).svg  Kenenisa Bekele  (ETH)27:01.17 Beijing, China17 August 2008
World LeadingFlag of Ethiopia.svg  Yigrem Demelash  (ETH)26:51.11 Hengelo, Netherlands29 June 2016
Area
Time (s)AthleteNation
Africa ( records )26:17.53 WR Kenenisa Bekele Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia
Asia ( records )26:38.76 Abdullah Ahmad Hassan Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar
North, Central America
and Caribbean
( records )
26:44.36 Galen Rupp Flag of the United States.svg United States
Europe ( records )26:46.57 Mo Farah Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Oceania ( records )27:23.80 Stewart McSweyn Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
South America ( records )27:28.12 Marilson dos Santos Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil

The following national record was established during the competition:

CountryAthleteRoundTimeNotes
New Zealand Flag of New Zealand.svg  Zane Robertson  (NZL)Final27:33.67

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-3)

DateTimeRound
Saturday, 13 August 201621:27Finals

Results

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Mo Farah Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 27:05.17
Silver medal icon.svg Paul Tanui Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 27:05.64 SB
Bronze medal icon.svg Tamirat Tola Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 27:06.26
4 Yigrem Demelash Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 27:06.27
5 Galen Rupp Flag of the United States.svg  United States 27:08.92 SB
6 Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 27:10.06 PB
7 Bedan Karoki Muchiri Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 27:22.93
8 Zersenay Tadese Flag of Eritrea.svg  Eritrea 27:23.86
9 Nguse Tesfaldet Flag of Eritrea.svg  Eritrea 27:30.79 SB
10 Abraham Cheroben Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain 27:31.86 PB
11 Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 27:31.94
12 Zane Robertson Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 27:33.67 NR
13 Polat Kemboi Arıkan Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 27:35.50 PB
14 Leonard Korir Flag of the United States.svg  United States 27:35.65 SB
15 Abadi Hadis Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 27:36.34
16 David McNeill Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 27:51.71
17 Suguru Osako Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 27:51.94
18 Stephen Mokoka Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 27:54.57
19 Shadrack Kipchirchir Flag of the United States.svg  United States 27:58.32 SB
20 Bashir Abdi Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 28:01.49
21 Luis Ostos Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 28:02.03
22 Moses Kurong Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 28:03.38
23 Timothy Toroitich Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 28:04.84 SB
24 Goitom Kifle Flag of Eritrea.svg  Eritrea 28:15.99
25 Andy Vernon Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 28:19.36 SB
26 El Hassan El-Abbassi Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain 28:20.17
27 Olivier Irabaruta Flag of Burundi.svg  Burundi 28:32.75
28 Ben St Lawrence Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 28:46.32
29 Yuta Shitara Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 28:55.23
30 Kota Murayama Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 29:02.51
31 Ross Millington Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 29:14.95
32 Mohammed Ahmed Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 29:32.84
Hassan Chani Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain DNF
Ali Kaya Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey DNF

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