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unusual facts about 10,000 metres


Preeja Sreedharan

She finished twenty-fifth at the Olympic 10,000 metres.


1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

These are the official results of the Women's 3,000 metres event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

2011 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Ostrava on 14 July.

Abdelaziz El Idrissi

El Idrissi represented Morocco at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 5,000 metres.

Ashu Kasim

She had further success on the track the following year as she was fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2007 All-Africa Games.

Athletics at the 2011 Summer Universiade – Men's 10,000 metres

Sergey Rybin of Russia lead the race for almost the entire distance until the last 300 metres when he was overtaken by Suguru Osako of Japan and collapsed from exhaustion.

Denzel Ramirez

He first represented Trinidad and Tobago at the 2005 Central American and Caribbean Championships, where he ran 33:25 in the 10,000 metres race.

Eva Pereira

Two years later at the 2009 Lusophony Games in Lisbon, Portugal she placed 6th in the 10,000 metres with a time of 44:56.

Isaac García

He was more successful at regional level: he began with a 10,000 metres silver medal at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games and followed it up with another silver at the 1991 CAC Championships.

Karl Fleschen

Karl Fleschen (born 28 June 1955 in Daun, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a retired West German runner who specialized in the 3000, 5000 and 10,000 metres.

Kazuhiro Maeda

He compete twice at world level for Japan in 2007: he finished seventeenth in the 10,000 metres at the 2007 World Championships and then came 30th at the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships in Udine.

Knut Børø

Knut Tore Børø (born 28 September 1948 in Hitra, Sør-Trøndelag) is a retired Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in 5000 and 10,000 metres.

Lucas Rotich

His personal best times are 3:43.64 minutes in the 1500 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Rehlingen; 7:35.57 minutes in the 3000 metres, achieved in May 2011 in Doha; 12:55.06 minutes in the 5000 metres from the 2010 Bislett Games; and 26:43.98 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved in September 2011 at the Brussels Diamond League meeting.

Mark Kiptoo

Success followed later that year at the 2007 Military World Games, where he won the 5000 m and took second place behind compatriot John Cheruiyot Korir over 10,000 metres.

Moses Ndiema Masai

Moses Ndiema Masai (born 1 June 1986 in Kapsogom, Mount Elgon District) is a Kenyan runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres.

Paul Arpin

Paul Arpin (born February 20, 1960 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a retired long-distance runner from France, who represented his native country in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in seventh place.

Paul Malakwen Kosgei

Later that year he became the African champion on the track in the 10,000 metres and also won silver medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2002 IAAF World Cup.

Paulo Guerra

Paulo Alexandre Martins Guerra (born 21 August 1970 in Barrancos, Baixo Alentejo Province) is a Portuguese runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres and cross-country running.

Takanobu Otsubo

In the 10,000 metres his personal best time is 28:14.92 minutes, achieved in November 2005 in Hachiōji.

Tesfayohannes Mesfin

His personal best times are 13:27.06 minutes in the 5000 metres (Seville, 2006); 28:19.88 minutes in the 10,000 metres (Bambous, 2006); 1:03:08 hours in the half marathon (Edmonton, 2005) and 2:12:17 hours in the marathon (Hamburg Marathon, 2008).

Toshinari Takaoka

Toshinari Takaoka (高岡 寿成; born 24 September 1970 in Yamashiro, Kyoto) is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres, 10,000 metres and the marathon race.

Vincent Chepkok

His personal best times are 7:30.15 minutes in the 3000 metres, achieved in Doha in 2011; 12:51.45 minutes in the 5000 metres, also in Doha in 2010; and 28:23.46 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Barakaldo.

Vincent Kipruto

He was inspired by the achievements of William Kiplagat, a marathon runner who lived locally, and Kipruto began representing his school in the 10,000 metres.

Yuri Kanō

She started out as a 10,000 metres runner on the track and won the silver medal behind Leigh Daniel at the 1999 Summer Universiade.


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Anikó Kálovics

By 2004 she had achieved her lifetime bests in all her track events: 9:08.24 minutes in the 3000 metres, achieved in September 2004 in Trento; 15:10.21 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in July 2004 at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre; and 31:40.31 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Watford.

Marco Mazza

His personal best time in the 10,000 metres is 27:44.05 minutes, achieved in April 2002 in Camaiore.

Mark Ooijevaar

He won the Dutch Allround Championships for students in 2006 and was named in the Dutch national team to represent the country at the 2007 Winter Universiade held in Turin on both the 5000 and 10,000 metres distances.

Matthews Batswadi

His stadium record for the 10 000 metres of 28:46.8 at the Germiston Stadium in Ekhuruleni, set at the South African Athletics Championships in 1978, still stands.

Mohammed Abduh Bakhet

His personal best times are 29:18.76 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing; 1:01:38 hours in the half marathon, achieved at the 2007 World Road Running Championships in Udine; and 2:13:19 hours in the marathon, achieved in September 2009 in the Toronto Marathon.

Pål Benum

His only international outing came at the 1964 Summer Olympics, where he placed nineteenth in the 10,000 metres.