How Long Is 10000 Meters

10,000 metres at the Olympic Games
The 2012 Olympic women'southward 10,000 grand final
Overview
Sport	Athletics
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1912 – 2020 Women: 1988 – 2020
Olympic tape
Men	27:01.17 Kenenisa Bekele (2008)
Women	29:17.45 Almaz Ayana (2016)
Reigning champion
Men	Selemon Barega(ETH)
Women	Sifan Hassan(NED)

The 10,000 metres at the Summer Olympics is the longest track running effect held at the multi-sport event. The men's 10,000 1000 has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1912. The women'southward upshot was added to the programme over lxx years afterwards, at the 1988 Olympics. It is the well-nigh prestigious 10,000 m race at elite level. The contest format is a straight final between around 30 athletes, although prior to 2004 a qualifying circular was held.

The Olympic records for the consequence were both set by Ethiopians at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics: Kenenisa Bekele prepare the men's tape at 27:01.17 minutes, while Almaz Ayana set the women'due south mark at 29:17.45 minutes. The 10,000 metres globe tape has been broken at the Olympics on ii occasions; Lasse Virén's winning time of 27:38.35 minutes in 1972 stood as the tape for less than a year, and Almaz Ayana knocked fourteen seconds off the women's record in 2016.^[1]

Vi men have won the Olympic title twice: Paavo Nurmi became the start in 1928 and he was followed by Emil Zátopek, Lasse Virén, Haile Gebrselassie, Kenenisa Bekele and Mo Farah. 2 women have achieved the feat: Derartu Tulu won her second championship in 2004 and Tirunesh Dibaba had back-to-back wins in 2008 and 2012. Derartu Tulu is the only athlete to have reached the podium on three occasions. Historically, athletes in this event take likewise had success in the 5000 metres at the Olympics. The winner of the men's Olympic ten,000 m has completed a long-distance rails double on 9 occasions, the most recent being Farah at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Tirunesh Dibaba and Sifan Hassan are the but woman to complete this double (at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics). At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Almaz Ayana smashed the globe record in a time of 29:17.45. Information technology was the first time four women bankrupt 30 minutes in a unmarried race.

Ethiopia is the almost successful nation in the event, with ten gold medals among its full of 24. Republic of finland is the next almost successful, with six gold medals and thirteen overall. Finland's menses of great success in early 20th century led to broad usage of the nickname the Flying Finns; Kaarlo Maaninka was the concluding Finnish athlete to medal over x,000 m, in 1980. Republic of kenya has won xi medals, although Naftali Temu is the only Kenyan to take won Olympic gold.

Information technology was not the start long-distance track effect to feature at an Olympic competition: 5-mile (8 km) races featured at the 1906 Intercalated Games and the 1908 Summer Olympics before the metric 5000 metres and ten,000 m events were initiated.

Medal summary [edit]

Men [edit]

Multiple medalists [edit]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1=	Paavo Nurmi	Finland(FIN)	1920–1928	2	0	0	2
1=	Emil Zátopek	Czechoslovakia(TCH)	1948–1952	2	0	0	2
i=	Lasse Virén	Finland(FIN)	1972–1976	2	0	0	2
ane=	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia(ETH)	1996–2000	two	0	0	two
1=	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia(ETH)	2004–2008	2	0	0	2
ane=	Mo Farah	Great Britain(GBR)	2012–2016	2	0	0	two
7	Ville Ritola	Finland(FIN)	1924–1928	1	1	0	two
8	Miruts Yifter	Ethiopia(ETH)	1972–1980	one	0	1	ii
ix=	Alain Mimoun	French republic(FRA)	1948–1952	0	ii	0	2
ix=	Paul Tergat	Kenya(KEN)	1996–2000	0	ii	0	2
9=	Sileshi Sihine	Federal democratic republic of ethiopia(ETH)	2004–2008	0	2	0	2
12=	Edvin Wide	Sweden(SWE)	1924–1928	0	1	1	2
12=	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland(FIN)	1932–1936	0	ane	one	two
12=	Mohammed Gammoudi	Tunisia(TUN)	1968–1972	0	1	ane	2

Medals by country [edit]

Map of countries' best results - Men'due south 10,000 metres

Rank	Nation	Gold	Argent	Bronze	Full
1	Finland(FIN)	7	four	4	15
two	Ethiopia(ETH)	half dozen	iii	6	15
3	Great United kingdom(GBR)	2	1	2	v
4=	Soviet Union(URS)	2	0	1	3
four=	Morocco(MAR)	2	0	1	iii
vi	Czechoslovakia(TCH)	2	0	0	2
7	Kenya(KEN)	1	iv	3	8
viii	United States(U.s.a.)	1	2	0	three
nine	Italia(ITA)	1	ane	0	ii
10	Poland(Politician)	i	0	0	1
eleven	France(FRA)	0	iii	0	3
12	Sweden(SWE)	0	1	two	three
13=	Tunisia(TUN)	0	1	1	ii
13=	Uganda(UGA)	0	1	1	2
15=	Hungary(HUN)	0	one	0	one
fifteen=	United Squad of Germany(EUA)	0	1	0	1
xv=	Belgium(BEL)	0	one	0	1
15=	Portugal(POR)	0	1	0	1
nineteen	Australia(AUS)	0	0	3	three
xx	Eritrea(ERI)	0	0	i	ane

Women [edit]

Multiple medalists [edit]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Full
1=	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia(ETH)	1992–2004	two	0	1	iii
ane=	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia(ETH)	2008–2016	2	0	1	iii
three	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal(POR)	1996–2000	1	0	1	two
4=	Gete Wami	Ethiopia(ETH)	1996–2000	0	1	one	2
iv=	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya(KEN)	2012–2016	0	1	ane	ii

Medalists past country [edit]

Map of countries' best results - Women'southward ten,000 metres

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silverish	Bronze	Full
1	Federal democratic republic of ethiopia(ETH)	5	ii	four	eleven
2	Red china(CHN)	one	1	0	ii
3=	Soviet Union(URS)	1	0	1	2
3=	Portugal(POR)	1	0	1	2
5	Netherlands(NED)	1	0	0	1
half dozen	Kenya(KEN)	0	ii	2	iv
7	United States(United states of america)	0	ane	one	2
8=	Great Britain(GBR)	0	1	0	1
8=	South Africa(RSA)	0	1	0	i
viii=	Bahrain(BRN)	0	1	0	1

Five miles [edit]

Intercalated Games [edit]

The 1906 Intercalated Games were held in Athens and at the time were officially recognised as part of the Olympic Games series, with the intention existence to hold a games in Greece in two-twelvemonth intervals between the internationally held Olympics. However, this programme never came to fruition and the International Olympic Commission (IOC) later on decided non to recognise these games as part of the official Olympic series. Some sports historians keep to treat the results of these games as office of the Olympic canon.^[2]

At this event a men's five-mile race was held – the kickoff time a long-distance event featured at an Olympic competition. A British runner, Henry Hawtrey, won the consequence. Two 1908 Olympic participants for Sweden, John Svanberg and Edward Dahl, were the small medalists.^[3]

1908 Olympics [edit]

References [edit]

Participation and athlete data

Athletics Men's 10,000 metres Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Athletics Women's 10,000 metres Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.
Athletics Men's 5 mile Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-01-26.

Olympic record progressions

Mallon, Neb (2012). TRACK & FIELD ATHLETICS - OLYMPIC RECORD PROGRESSIONS. Track and Field News. Retrieved on 2014-02-07.

Specific

^ "12th IAAF Globe Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. pp. Pages 546, 551=2. Archived from the original (pdf) on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
^ 1906 Athina Summer Games. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-01-26.
^ Athletics Men'southward 5 mile Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2014-01-26.

External links [edit]

IAAF x,000 metres homepage
Official Olympics website
Olympic athletics records from Runway & Field News