2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres

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

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June.

Medalists

Gold	Polat Kemboi Arıkan Turkey
Silver	Daniele Meucci Italy
Bronze	Yevgeniy Rybakov Russia

Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics Championships
World record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	26:17.53	Brussels, Belgium	26 August 2005
European record	Mo Farah (GBR)	26:46.57	Eugene, United States	3 June 2011
Championship record	Martti Vainio (FIN)	27:30.99	Prague, Czechoslovakia	29 August 1978
World Leading	Wilson Kiprop (KEN)	27:01.98	Eugene, United States	1 June 2012
European Leading	Daniele Meucci (ITA)	27:32.86	Stanford, United States	29 April 2012

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
30 June 2012	21:00	Final

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey	28:22.27
	Daniele Meucci	Italy	28:22.73
	Yevgeniy Rybakov	Russia	28:22.95	SB
4	Bashir Abdi	Belgium	28:23.72
5	Carles Castillejo	Spain	28:24.51
6	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	28:26.46
7	Khalid Choukoud	Netherlands	28:26.82	PB
8	Rui Pedro Silva	Portugal	28:31.16	SB
9	Keith Gerrard	Great Britain	28:57.97
10	Manuel Ángel Penas	Spain	29:02.01
11	Koen Naert	Belgium	29:02.08
12	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	29:02.53
13	Abdi Nageeye	Netherlands	29:05.12
14	Adil Bouafif	Sweden	29:07.31
15	Mark Kenneally	Ireland	29:10.55
16	Mats Lunders	Belgium	29:16.46
17	Denis Mayaud	France	29:16.83
18	Tasama Moogas	Israel	29:22.03
19	Ronald Schröer	Netherlands	29:31.06
20	Roman Romanenko	Ukraine	29:32.57
21	David Rooney	Ireland	29:57.82	SB
22	Jarkko Järvenpää	Finland	30:59.63
	Mustafa Mohamed	Sweden	DNF
	Mykola Labovskyy	Ukraine	DNF
	Yousef El Kalai	Portugal	DNF
	José Rocha	Portugal	DNF	Doping

References

• Final Results
• Full results