2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres

Events at the 2010 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
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
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 27 July. Mo Farah won the gold medal.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Mo Farah Great Britain (GBR)
Silver	Chris Thompson Great Britain (GBR)
Bronze	Daniele Meucci Italy (ITA)

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	26:17.53	Brussels, Belgium	26 August 2005
European record	Mohammed Mourhit (BEL)	26:52.30	Brussels, Belgium	3 September 1999
Championship record	Martti Vainio (FIN)	27:30.99	Prague, Czechoslovakia	29 August 1978
World Leading	Chris Solinsky (USA)	26:59.60	Palo Alto, CA, United States	1 May 2010
European Leading	Mo Farah (GBR)	27:28.86	Marseille, France	5 June 2010

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
27 July 2010	21:05	Final

Results

Final

Mo Farah won his first major title at the championships.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	21	Mo Farah	Great Britain	28:24.99
	1	Chris Thompson	Great Britain	28:27.33
	17	Daniele Meucci	Italy	28:27.33
4	15	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	28:34.89
5	7	Carles Castillejo	Spain	28:49.69
6	6	Christian Belz	Switzerland	28:54.01
7	26	Andrea Lalli	Italy	29:05.20
8	22	Youssef El Kalay	Portugal	29:07.61
9	3	Christian Glatting	Germany	29:09.84
10	2	Abdellatif Meftah	France	29:14.74
11	13	Marcin Chabowski	Poland	29:15.65
12	16	Jan Fitschen	Germany	29:16.59
13	11	Jussi Utriainen	Finland	29:16.87
14	9	Sondre Nordstad Moen	Norway	29:19.63
15	10	Filmon Ghirmai	Germany	29:28.31
16	8	Stsiapan Rahautsou	Belarus	29:40.19
17	14	Matti Räsänen	Finland	29:45.95
18	4	Pavel Shapovalov	Russia	29:50.02
19	23	José Rocha	Portugal	29:50.41
20	24	Moges Tesseme	Israel	29:50.78
21	5	Marius Ionescu	Romania	30:21.76
22	20	Kemal Koyuncu	Turkey	30:28.83
	18	Manuel Ángel Penas	Spain	DNF
	12	Monder Rizki	Belgium	DNF
	25	Michael Schmid	Austria	DNF
	19	Rui Pedro Silva	Portugal	DNF

References

1. "Brit Farah wins 10,000m gold". BBC Sport. 27 July 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2013.

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