2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

Events at the 2008 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		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
10,000 m walk		men		women
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 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 9 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Josphat Bett Kipkoech  Kenya
Silver	Titus Mbishei  Kenya
Bronze	Ibrahim Jeylan  Ethiopia

Results

Final

9 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Josphat Bett Kipkoech	Kenya	27:30.85
	Titus Mbishei	Kenya	27:31.65
	Ibrahim Jeylan	Ethiopia	28:07.98
4	Humegaw Mesfin	Ethiopia	28:08.58
5	Stephen Kiprotich	Uganda	28:10.71
6	Yousef Nasir	Morocco	29:19.85
7	Ryuji Kashiwabara	Japan	29:31.52
8	Houssem Rouabhi	Algeria	29:58.19
9	Mohammad Ahmed	Canada	30:03.53
10	Vedat Günen	Turkey	30:03.87
11	Nyial Majock	Canada	30:13.42
12	Robert Krebs	Germany	30:19.66
13	Guillem Durán	Spain	30:23.79
14	Daniel Mateo	Spain	30:26.20
15	Mikael Ekvall	Sweden	30:30.69
16	Simon Laurent	France	30:43.60
17	Donald Cabral	United States	30:47.55
18	Damian Kabat	Poland	30:49.95
19	Daniel Dunbar	United States	30:51.67
20	Yusuke Mita	Japan	31:22.45
21	Bentamra Boucherit	Algeria	DNF
22	Víctor Aravena	Chile	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

•  Algeria (2)
•  Canada (2)
•  Chile (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  France (1)
•  Germany (1)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Spain (2)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Uganda (1)
•  United States (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015