These are the official results of the men's 10,000 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The final was held on July 29, 1996. The winning margin was 0.83 seconds.

Medalists

Records These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics.

World record 26:43.53 Haile Gebrselassie Hengelo (NED) June 5, 1995 Olympic record 27:21.46 Brahim Boutayeb Seoul (KOR) September 26, 1988

Haile Gebrselassie set a new Olympic record with 27:07.34 in the final.

Ranking

Final RANKFINALTIME27:07.3427:08.1727:24.674.27:33.79 5.27:35.086.27:35.197.27:46.988.27:50.739.27:59.0810.27:59.7211.28:09.4612.28:20.5813.28:29.3714.28:32.1115.28:39.1116.28:45.4817.28:59.1518.29:07.7719.DNF20.DNF

Non-qualifiers RANKNON-QUALIFIERSTIME2128:30.15 2228:32.24 2328:38.18 2428:40.60 2528:44.29 2628:50.28 2728:52.22 2829:03.80 2929:07.81 3029:11.20 3129:14.993229:15.41 3329:17.53 3429:19.03 3529:22.65 3629:26.58 3729:47.79 3829:50.72 3929:55.34 4030:32.20 4133:26.15 4234:40.50 -DNF-DNF-DNF-DNF-DNS-DNS

Qualification

Group 1

Place Name Nation Time Note1 Worku Bikila 27:50,57 2 Paul Tergat 27:50,66 3 Mathias Ntawulikura 27:51,69 4 Aloÿs Nizigama 27:53,21 5 Salah Hissou 27:53,32 6 Stefano Baldini 27:55,79 7 Abel Antón 27:56,26 8 Carlos de la Torre 28:04,14 9 Zoltán Káldy 28:13,49 10 Marko Hhawu 28:14,08 11 Paul Evans 28:24,39 12 Robbie Johnston 28:40,60 13 Katsuhiko Hanada 28:52,22 14 Róbert Štefko 29:03,80 15 Carlos Patrício 29:15,41 16 Ronaldo da Costa 29:26,58 17 Dan Middleman 29:50,72 18 Mohamed Ezzher 29:55,34 19 Martín Pitayo 30:32,20 20 Herder Vázquez 33:26,15 21 Majed Abu Maraheel 34:40,50 — Larbi Zéroual Julian Paynter

Group 2

Rank Name Nation Time Note 1 Haile Gebrselassie 28:14,20 2 Josephat Machuka 28:14,27 3 Paul Koech 28:17,48 4 Jon Brown 28:19,85 5 Alyan Al-Qahtani 28:22,35 6 Khalid Skah 28:23,21 7 Stéphane Franke 28:24,30 8 Armando Quintanilla 28:27,28 9 Alejandro Gómez 28:28,16 10 Silvio Guerra 28:30,15 11 Abraham Assefa 28:32,24 12 Toshinari Takaoka 28:38,18 13 Shaun Creighton 28:44,29 14 Alfredo Brás 28:50,28 15 Hendrick Ramaala 29:07,81 16 Brad Barquist 29:11,20 17 Charles Mulinga 29:14,99 18 Miroslav Vanko 29:17,53 19 Sean Dollman 29:19,03 20 Hamid Sajjadi 29:22,65 21 Jeff Schiebler 29:47,79 — Abdellah Béhar Paulo Guerra Todd Williams

See also 1995 Men's World Championships 10.000 metres 1997 Men's World Championships 10.000 metres 1998 Men's European Championships 10.000 metres

References

External links Official Report Results