The race was dominated by the Ethiopian and Kenyan teams along with Tadese of Eritrea. With 200m remaining, Bekele pulled away from the rest of the field with a final lap of 53.42 seconds, winning his second 10,000m Olympic gold medal.
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athletics, 2008, summer, olympics, metres, metres, 2008, summer, olympics, took, place, august, beijing, national, stadium, metresat, games, xxix, olympiadvenuebeijing, national, stadiumdatesaugust, 17competitors39, from, nationswinning, time27, ormedalistsken. The Men s 10 000 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 17 at the Beijing National Stadium 1 Men s 10 000 metresat the Games of the XXIX OlympiadVenueBeijing National StadiumDatesAugust 17Competitors39 from 21 nationsWinning time27 01 17 ORMedalistsKenenisa Bekele EthiopiaSileshi Sihine EthiopiaMicah Kogo Kenya 20042012 Official Video HighlightsThe race was dominated by the Ethiopian and Kenyan teams along with Tadese of Eritrea With 200m remaining Bekele pulled away from the rest of the field with a final lap of 53 42 seconds winning his second 10 000m Olympic gold medal Contents 1 Competition format 2 Records 3 Results 3 1 Splits 4 ReferencesCompetition format EditThe qualifying standards for the 2008 event were 27 50 00 A standard and 28 10 00 B standard 2 The Men s 10 000m competition consisted of only one race the Final Records EditPrior to this competition the existing world and Olympic records were as follows World record Kenenisa Bekele ETH 26 17 53 Brussels Belgium 26 August 2005Olympic record Kenenisa Bekele ETH 27 05 10 Athens Greece 20 August 2004The following new Olympic record was set during this competition Date Event Name Nationality Time OR WR17 August Final Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia 27 01 17 ORResults EditRank Athlete Country Time Notes 3 Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia 27 01 17 OR Sileshi Sihine Ethiopia 27 02 77 Micah Kogo Kenya 27 04 11 SB4 Moses Ndiema Masai Kenya 27 04 11 SB5 Zersenay Tadese Eritrea 27 05 116 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia 27 06 687 Martin Irungu Mathathi Kenya 27 08 25 PB8 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah Qatar 27 23 75 SB9 Fabiano Joseph Naasi Tanzania 27 25 3310 Boniface Kiprop Toroitich Uganda 27 27 2811 Selim Bayrak Turkey 27 29 33 NR12 Kidane Tadese Eritrea 27 36 1113 Galen Rupp United States 27 36 99 SB14 Dickson Marwa Tanzania 27 48 0315 Abdihakem Abdirahman United States 27 52 5316 Abdellah Falil Morocco 27 53 1417 Juan Carlos de la Ossa Spain 27 54 2018 Hasan Mahboob Bahrain 27 55 1419 Dieudonne Disi Rwanda 27 56 7420 Essa Ismail Rashed Qatar 27 58 6721 Samwel Shauri Tanzania 28 06 2622 Felix Kikwai Kibore Qatar 28 11 9223 Carles Castillejo Spain 28 13 6824 Ayad Lamdassem Spain 28 13 7325 Jorge Torres United States 28 13 9326 Surendra Kumar Singh India 28 13 9727 Gunther Weidlinger Austria 28 14 3828 Kensuke Takezawa Japan 28 23 2829 Juan Carlos Romero Mexico 28 26 5730 Sergey Ivanov Russia 28 34 7231 Takayuki Matsumiya Japan 28 39 7732 Teklemariam Medhin Eritrea 28 54 3333 Eric Gillis Canada 29 08 1034 Rui Pedro Silva Portugal 29 09 0335 Alejandro Suarez Mexico 29 24 78Cuthbert Nyasango Zimbabwe DNFDavid Galvan Mexico DNFMohamed El Hachimi Morocco DNFKhoudir Aggoune Algeria DNSOR Olympic Record NR National Record PB Personal Best SB Season Best Splits Edit Intermediate Athlete Country Mark1000m Alejandro Suarez Mexico 2 50 152000m Kidane Tadese Eritrea 5 27 323000m Kidane Tadese Eritrea 8 09 934000m Kidane Tadese Eritrea 10 59 515000m Kidane Tadese Eritrea 13 48 006000m Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopia 16 33 927000m Zersenay Tadese Eritrea 19 14 718000m Zersenay Tadese Eritrea 21 53 789000m Micah Kogo Kenya 24 34 07References Edit Olympic Athletics Competition Schedule IAAF Archived from the original on 13 September 2008 Retrieved 2008 08 04 Entry Standards The XXIX Olympic Games Beijing China 8 24 August 2008 IAAF Archived from the original on 13 September 2008 Retrieved 2008 08 04 Iaaf org Olympic Games 2008 Results 08 17 2008 10 000 Metres M Final Archived from the original on 2008 08 18 Retrieved 2008 08 17 Retrieved 2008 08 17 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Men 27s 10 000 metres amp oldid 1109059217, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,