2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres explained

The men's 10000 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 10 July.^[1]

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Yigrem Demelash Ethiopia	Philemon Kipchilis Cheboi Kenya	Geoffrey Kipkorir Kirui Kenya

Records

, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record		26:41.75	Brussels, Belgium	26 August 2005
Championship Record		27:30.85	Bydgoszcz, Poland	9 July 2008
World Junior Leading		27:08.44	Eugene, OR, United States	1 June 2012

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
			28:16.07	PB
			28:23.98	PB
			28:30.47
			28:53.02
			29:06.87
			29:40.56
			29:41.81	SB
			29:42.15	PB
			30:21.07
10			31:07.70
11			31:09.94
12			31:10.40
13			31:18.35
14			31:20.74	PB
15			31:33.69
16			31:37.53
17			31:42.17
18			31:42.81
19			31:45.17
20			31:45.29
21			31:50.25
22			31:51.98
23			31:53.86
24			31:56.41
25			32:06.73
26			32:09.18
27			32:27.04
28			33:01.37
29			33:07.04
30			33:14.32
31			33:21.21
32			35:16.30

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.

External links

• WJC12 10000 metres schedule

Notes and References

1. Web site: iaaf.org – International Association of Athletics Federations. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120727065117/http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=M/discCode=10K/combCode=hash/timetable.html. 2012-07-27.