1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

Events at the 1998 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		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 30 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Benson Barus  Kenya
Silver	Salim Kipsang  Kenya
Bronze	Alene Emere  Ethiopia

Results

Final

30 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Benson Barus	Kenya	29:24.28
	Salim Kipsang	Kenya	29:36.80
	Alene Emere	Ethiopia	29:47.60
4	Dereje Tadesse	Ethiopia	29:54.20
5	Ovidiu Tat	Romania	29:59.24
6	Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga	Burundi	29:59.78
7	Dmitriy Baranovskiy	Ukraine	30:19.16
8	Jeffrey Gwebu	South Africa	30:27.29
9	Jumanne Tuluway	Tanzania	30:32.74
10	Tomoki Sugiyama	Japan	30:40.60
11	Jean-Paul Niyonsaba	Burundi	30:46.22
12	Radu Stroia	Romania	31:00.44
13	Javier Carriqueo	Argentina	31:12.63
14	Takhir Mamashayev	Kazakhstan	31:14.73
15	Bart Evens	Belgium	31:28.75
16	Karin Marin	Chile	31:30.23
17	Alexander Lubina	Germany	31:41.31
18	Guillaume Philippon	France	32:08.14
19	Cordero Roy Vargas	Costa Rica	32:11.40
20	Musa Mukomazi	Zimbabwe	32:17.34
21	Edouard Burrier	France	32:58.49
22	Chad Durham	United States	34:01.28
23	Martin Toroitich	Uganda	DNF
24	Lars Haferkamp	Germany	DNF
25	Justin Young	United States	DNF
26	Jesús Balboa	Bolivia	DNF
27	Giovanni Gualdi	Italy	DNF
28	Saïd Bérioui	Morocco	DQ	IAAF rule 141

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

•  Argentina (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Burundi (2)
•  Chile (1)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (2)
•  Italy (1)
•  Japan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (1)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Romania (2)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Tanzania (1)
•  Uganda (1)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United States (2)
•  Zimbabwe (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1998 Annecy FRA Jul 28-Aug 2, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 3 Dec 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015