# Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

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:
| World record | Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) | 26:17.53 | Brussels, Belgium | 26 August 2005 |
| Olympic record | Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) | 27:05.10 | Athens, Greece | 20 August 2004 |
| World Leading | Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) | 26:25.97 | Eugene, Oregon, United States | 8 June 2008 |
The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:
| Date | Event | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| 17 August 2008 | Final | Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) | 27:01.17 | OR |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| | Kenenisa Bekele | Ethiopia | 27:01.17 | OR |
| | Sileshi Sihine | Ethiopia | 27:02.77 | |
| | Micah Kogo | Kenya | 27:04.11 | SB |
| 4 | Moses Ndiema Masai | Kenya | 27:04.11 | SB |
| 5 | Zersenay Tadese | Eritrea | 27:05.11 | |
| 6 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 27:06.68 | |
| 7 | Martin Irungu Mathathi | Kenya | 27:08.25 | PB |
| 8 | Ahmad Hassan Abdullah | Qatar | 27:23.75 | SB |
| 9 | Fabiano Joseph Naasi | Tanzania | 27:25.33 | |
| 10 | Boniface Kiprop Toroitich | Uganda | 27:27.28 | |
| 11 | Selim Bayrak | Turkey | 27:29.33 | NR |
| 12 | Kidane Tadesse | Eritrea | 27:36.11 | |
| 13 | Galen Rupp | United States | 27:36.99 | SB |
| 14 | Dickson Marwa | Tanzania | 27:48.03 | |
| 15 | Abdihakim Abdirahman | United States | 27:52.53 | |
| 16 | Abdellah Falil | Morocco | 27:53.14 | |
| 17 | Juan Carlos de la Ossa | Spain | 27:54.20 | |
| 18 | Hasan Mahboob | Bahrain | 27:55.14 | |
| 19 | Dieudonné Disi | Rwanda | 27:56.74 | |
| 20 | Essa Ismail Rashed | Qatar | 27:58.67 | |
| 21 | Samwel Shauri | Tanzania | 28:06.26 | |
| 22 | Felix Kikwai Kibore | Qatar | 28:11.92 | |
| 23 | Carles Castillejo | Spain | 28:13.68 | |
| 24 | Ayad Lamdassem | Spain | 28:13.73 | |
| 25 | Jorge Torres | United States | 28:13.93 | |
| 26 | Surendra Kumar Singh | India | 28:13.97 | |
| 27 | Günther Weidlinger | Austria | 28:14.38 | |
| 28 | Kensuke Takezawa | Japan | 28:23.28 | |
| 29 | Juan Carlos Romero | Mexico | 28:26.57 | |
| 30 | Sergey Ivanov | Russia | 28:34.72 | |
| 31 | Takayuki Matsumiya | Japan | 28:39.77 | |
| 32 | Teklemariam Medhin | Eritrea | 28:54.33 | |
| 33 | Eric Gillis | Canada | 29:08.10 | |
| 34 | Rui Pedro Silva | Portugal | 29:09.03 | |
| 35 | Alejandro Suárez | Mexico | 29:24.78 | |
| | Cuthbert Nyasango | Zimbabwe | DNF | |
| | David Galván | Mexico | DNF | |
| | Mohamed El Hachimi | Morocco | DNF | |
| | Khoudir Aggoune | Algeria | DNS | |
OR - Olympic Record, NR - National Record, PB - Personal Best, SB - Season Best

### Splits

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