2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 27 July. Mo Farah won the gold medal.

Men's 10,000 metres at the European Athletics Championships

Medalists

Gold	Mo Farah Great Britain (GBR)
Silver	Chris Thompson Great Britain (GBR)
Bronze	Daniele Meucci Italy (ITA)

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	26:17.53	Brussels, Belgium	26 August 2005
European record	Mohammed Mourhit (BEL)	26:52.30	Brussels, Belgium	3 September 1999
Championship record	Martti Vainio (FIN)	27:30.99	Prague, Czechoslovakia	29 August 1978
World Leading	Chris Solinsky (USA)	26:59.60	Palo Alto, CA, United States	1 May 2010
European Leading	Mo Farah (GBR)	27:28.86	Marseille, France	5 June 2010

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
27 July 2010	21:05	Final

Results

Final

Mo Farah won his first major title at the championships.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mo Farah	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	28:24.99
	Chris Thompson	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	28:27.33
	Daniele Meucci	Italy (ITA)	28:27.33
4	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain (ESP)	28:34.89
5	Carles Castillejo	Spain (ESP)	28:49.69
6	Christian Belz	Switzerland (SUI)	28:54.01
7	Andrea Lalli	Italy (ITA)	29:05.20
8	Youssef El Kalay	Portugal (POR)	29:07.61
9	Christian Glatting	Germany (GER)	29:09.84
10	Abdellatif Meftah	France (FRA)	29:14.74
11	Marcin Chabowski	Poland (POL)	29:15.65
12	Jan Fitschen	Germany (GER)	29:16.59
13	Jussi Utriainen	Finland (FIN)	29:16.87
14	Sondre Nordstad Moen	Norway (NOR)	29:19.63
15	Filmon Ghirmai	Germany (GER)	29:28.31
16	Stsiapan Rahautsou	Belarus (BLR)	29:40.19
17	Matti Räsänen	Finland (FIN)	29:45.95
18	Pavel Shapovalov	Russia (RUS)	29:50.02
19	José Rocha	Portugal (POR)	29:50.41
20	Moges Tesseme	Israel (ISR)	29:50.78
21	Marius Ionescu	Romania (ROM)	30:21.76
22	Kemal Koyuncu	Turkey (TUR)	30:28.83
	Manuel Ángel Penas	Spain (ESP)	DNF
	Monder Rizki	Belgium (BEL)	DNF
	Michael Schmid	Austria (AUT)	DNF
	Rui Pedro Silva	Portugal (POR)	DNF

References

• Results Archived 2012-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Full results