1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

Events at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21 August.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Assefa Mezegebu  Ethiopia
Silver	David Chelule  Kenya
Bronze	Tetsuhiro Furuta  Japan

Results

Final

21 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Assefa Mezegebu	Ethiopia	28:27.78
	David Chelule	Kenya	28:29.14
	Tetsuhiro Furuta	Japan	28:31.61
4	David Galindo	Mexico	28:34.66
5	Marko Hhawu	Tanzania	28:35.02
6	David Ngetich	Kenya	28:39.79
7	Naoki Mishiro	Japan	28:50.21
8	Sisay Bezabeh	Ethiopia	28:55.97
9	Francisco Mondragón	Mexico	28:57.61
10	Samuel Mangusho	Uganda	29:21.25
11	Godfrey Nyombi	Uganda	29:21.43
12	John Gilay	Tanzania	29:29.10
13	Gojen Singh	India	29:32.68
14	Brad Hauser	United States	29:32.88
15	David Posada	Spain	29:35.31
16	Mukat Derbe	Israel	29:35.57
17	Aleksandr Gelesh	Ukraine	29:39.66
18	Paulo Lunkes	Brazil	29:49.39
19	Janko Benša	Yugoslavia	29:53.41
20	Kang Yanwei	China	30:18.34
21	Martin Beckmann	Germany	30:23.10
22	Joseph Nsengiyumya	Rwanda	30:34.24
23	Maximilian Bahn	Germany	30:38.68
24	Peter Gilmore	United States	31:09.64
25	Sinlasone Sanith	Laos	31:52.66
26	Mohamed Ould Abdellahy	Mauritania	33:21.72
27	Win Zaw Oo	Myanmar	34:25.75
28	Ricardo Maestrelo	Brazil	DNF
29	Dmitriy Maksimov	Russia	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.

•  Brazil (2)
•  China (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  Germany (2)
•  India (1)
•  Israel (1)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Laos (1)
•  Mauritania (1)
•  Mexico (2)
•  Myanmar (1)
•  Russia (1)
•  Rwanda (1)
•  Spain (1)
•  Tanzania (2)
•  Uganda (2)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United States (2)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1996 Sydney AUS Aug 20-25, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 31 Oct 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015