1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21 August 1996.^[1]^[2] In the race, there was a mistake in the lap counting of the judges, that caused many athletes to run 24 laps (9600 m) only.

Medalists

21 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Assefa Mezegebu	Ethiopia	28:27.78
	David Chelule	Kenya	28:29.14
	Tetsuhiro Furuta	Japan	28:31.61
4	David Galindo	Mexico	28:34.66
5	Marko Hhawu	Tanzania	28:35.02
6	David Ngetich	Kenya	28:39.79
7	Naoki Mishiro	Japan	28:50.21
8	Sisay Bezabeh	Ethiopia	28:55.97
9	Francisco Mondragón	Mexico	28:57.61
10	Samuel Mangusho	Uganda	29:21.25
11	Godfrey Nyombi	Uganda	29:21.43
12	John Gilay	Tanzania	29:29.10
13	Gojen Singh	India	29:32.68
14	Brad Hauser	United States	29:32.88
15	David Posada	Spain	29:35.31
16	Mukat Derbe	Israel	29:35.57
17	Aleksandr Gelesh	Ukraine	29:39.66
18	Paulo Lunkes	Brazil	29:49.39
19	Janko Benša	Yugoslavia	29:53.41
20	Kang Yanwei	China	30:18.34
21	Martin Beckmann	Germany	30:23.10
22	Joseph Nsengiyumya	Rwanda	30:34.24
23	Maximilian Bahn	Germany	30:38.68
24	Peter Gilmore	United States	31:09.64
25	Sinlasone Sanith	Laos	31:52.66
26	Mohamed Ould Abdellahy	Mauritania	33:21.72
27	Win Zaw Oo	Myanmar	34:25.75
	Ricardo Maestrelo	Brazil	DNF
	Dmitriy Maksimov	Russia	DNF