The Men's 10,000 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 17 at the Beijing National Stadium. The winning margin was 1.60 seconds.

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.

Competition format The qualifying standards for the 2008 event were 27:50.00 (A standard) and 28:10.00 (B standard).

The Men's 10,000m competition consisted of only one race the Final.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading time were as follows:

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date Event Athlete Time Notes 17 August 2008 Final 27:01.17 OR

Results RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes Retrieved 2008-08-17. Kenenisa Bekele 27:01.17 Sileshi Sihine 27:02.77 Micah Kogo 27:04.11SB4 Moses Ndiema Masai 27:04.11SB5 Zersenay Tadese 27:05.116 Haile Gebrselassie 27:06.687 Martin Irungu Mathathi 27:08.25PB8 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah 27:23.75SB9 Fabiano Joseph Naasi 27:25.3310 Boniface Kiprop Toroitich 27:27.2811 Selim Bayrak 27:29.33NR12 Kidane Tadesse 27:36.1113 Galen Rupp 27:36.99SB14 Dickson Marwa 27:48.0315 Abdihakim Abdirahman 27:52.5316 Abdellah Falil 27:53.1417 Juan Carlos de la Ossa 27:54.2018 Hasan Mahboob 27:55.1419 Dieudonné Disi 27:56.7420 Essa Ismail Rashed 27:58.6721 Samwel Shauri 28:06.2622 Felix Kikwai Kibore 28:11.9223 Carles Castillejo 28:13.6824 Ayad Lamdassem 28:13.7325 Jorge Torres 28:13.9326 Surendra Kumar Singh 28:13.9727 Günther Weidlinger 28:14.3828 Kensuke Takezawa 28:23.2829 Juan Carlos Romero 28:26.5730 Sergey Ivanov 28:34.7231 Takayuki Matsumiya 28:39.7732 Teklemariam Medhin 28:54.3333 Eric Gillis 29:08.1034 Rui Pedro Silva 29:09.0335 Alejandro Suárez 29:24.78 Cuthbert Nyasango David Galván Mohamed El Hachimi Khoudir Aggoune

OR - Olympic Record, NR - National Record, PB - Personal Best, SB - Season Best

Splits Intermediate Athlete Country Mark 1000m Alejandro Suárez 2:50.15 2000m Kidane Tadese 5:27.32 3000m Kidane Tadese 8:09.93 4000m Kidane Tadese 10:59.51 5000m Kidane Tadese 13:48.00 6000m Haile Gebrselassie 16:33.92 7000m Zersenay Tadese 19:14.71 8000m Zersenay Tadese 21:53.78 9000m Micah Kogo 24:34.07

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