Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 20 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[1] It was the first time that the metric distance was contested at the Games replacing the 6 miles.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lachie Stewart	Scotland	28:11.72
	Ron Clarke	Australia	28:13.45
	Dick Taylor	England	28:15.35
4	Roger Matthews	England	28:21.4
5	John Caine	England	28:27.6
6	John Ngeno	Kenya	28:31.4
7	Philip Ndoo	Kenya	28:42.8
8	Kerry O'Brien	Australia	28:43.49
9	John Stephen Akhwari	Tanzania	28:44.0
10	Jerome Drayton	Canada	28:45.0
11	Bernard Plain	Wales	28:51.8
12	Derek Graham	Northern Ireland	29:00.2
13	Richard Wedlock	Scotland	29:09.8
14	George Waluza	Malawi	29:33.8
15	Dave Ellis	Canada	29:37.4
16	Alan Joslyn	Wales	29:51.8
17	Ghulam Rasul	Pakistan	30:03.0
18	Nabiba Temu	Kenya	30:04.4
19	Fulgenge Rwabu	Uganda	30:44.8
20	Douglas Zinkala	Zambia	30:54.4
21	Allieu Massaquoi	Sierra Leone	31:06.2
22	Dominic Chiwaya	Malawi	31:17.8
23	Musa Mustafa	Uganda	31:32.6
24	Richard Mabuza	Swaziland	31:33.0
25	Robert Hackman	Ghana	31:50.4
26	Reuben Dlamini	Swaziland	32:56.8
27	Daniel Kalusa	Zambia	33:23.6
	Donald Pierre	Grenada	DNF
	Dandison Moore	Sierra Leone	DNF
	Andrew Boychuk	Canada	DNS
	Harry Prowell	Guyana	DNS

References

1. "Results". thecgf.com. Retrieved 23 September 2019.