2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre Budapest on 20 August 2023^[1]

Men's 10,000 metres at the 2023 World Championships
Venue	National Athletics Centre
Dates	20 August
Competitors	25 from 18 nations
Winning time	27:51.42
Medalists
Joshua Cheptegei    Uganda   Daniel Ebenyo    Kenya   Selemon Barega    Ethiopia
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Summary

At the start of this race, Joel Ayeko started off fast with a 62 second lap to take the lead. The rest of the field had no interest in running that fast this early. After that burst, Ayeko backed off to a more sensible 71 second pace. The peloton let Ayeko have his time on television for the first 3200 metres before Benard Kibet pulled him in. Ayeko kept the point position for another 800 metres before Kibet decided it was time to swallow him up, dropping the pace to 66 seconds. After at little more than a lap, Ayeko dropped out. Kibet and Berihu Aregawi kept the pace going. On the 16th lap, Olympic Champion Selemon Barega came from the back of the lead group to show his teammate Aregawi how fast he wanted the pace. Aregawi obliged and held the point. As the laps counted down, defending champion Joshua Cheptegei was watching from Aregawi's shoulder, Mohammed Ahmed pinned on the rail, with all three Kenyans and Barega watching on the back. With a lap and a half to go, Barega floated up to join his teammate but that just brought Cheptegei to the front to take the bell first. The pack strung out, with only the two Ethiopians and Daniel Ebenyo able to stay in contact, Ahmed struggling to stay in tow. With 200 to go, Aregawi showed his weakness and looked back, Ebenyo went around him. Barega stuck to Cheptegei all the way through the final turn, Cheptegei covering his last 400 metres in 52.77 and still hadn't broken Barega. Cheptegei looked back then pushed one more time, finally Barega couldn't keep up, Cheptegei separated for a clear 8 metre victory. Defeated, Barega continued on to the finish line, but Ebenyo didn't stop racing. Barega let up 5 metres before the finish line only to have Ebenyo cruise by on the inside for silver.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Joshua Cheptegei (UGA)	26:11.00	Valencia, Spain	7 October 2020
Championship record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	26:46.31	Berlin, Germany	17 August 2009
World Leading	Berihu Aregawi (ETH)	26:50.66	Nerja, Spain	23 June 2023
African Record	Joshua Cheptegei (UGA)	26:11.00	Valencia, Spain	7 October 2020
Asian Record	Ahmad Hassan Abdullah (QAT)	26:38.76	Brussels, Belgium	5 September 2003
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Grant Fisher (USA)	26:33.84	San Juan Capistrano, United States	6 March 2022
South American Record	Marilson Gomes dos Santos (BRA)	27:28.12	Neerpelt, Belgium	2 June 2007
European Record	Mo Farah (GBR)	26:46.57	Eugene, United States	3 June 2011
Oceanian record	Jack Rayner (AUS)	27:15.35	San Juan Capistrano, United States	6 March 2022

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 27:10.00.^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (CEST), was as follows:^[4]

Date	Time	Round
20 August	18:25	Final

Results

Final

The final was started at 18:26.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda (UGA)	27:51.42	SB
	Daniel Ebenyo	Kenya (KEN)	27:52.60
	Selemon Barega	Ethiopia (ETH)	27:52.72
4	Berihu Aregawi	Ethiopia (ETH)	27:55.71
5	Benard Kibet	Kenya (KEN)	27:56.27
6	Mohammed Ahmed	Canada (CAN)	27:56.43	SB
7	Rodrigue Kwizera	Burundi (BDI)	28:00.29	SB
8	Nicholas Kimeli	Kenya (KEN)	28:03.38
9	Yann Schrub	France (FRA)	28:07.42	SB
10	Birhanu Balew	Bahrain (BHR)	28:08.03	SB
11	Woody Kincaid	United States (USA)	28:08.71
12	Yemaneberhan Crippa	Italy (ITA)	28:16.40
13	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium (BEL)	28:20.77	SB
14	Adriaan Wildschutt	South Africa (RSA)	28:21.40
15	Ren Tazawa	Japan (JPN)	28:25.85
16	Sean McGorty	United States (USA)	28:27.54
17	Santiago Catrofe	Uruguay (URU)	28:28.49	NR
18	Zerei Kbrom Mezngi	Norway (NOR)	28:30.76
19	Merhawi Mebrahtu	Eritrea (ERI)	28:50.62
20	Joe Klecker	United States (USA)	29:03.41
21	Nils Voigt	Germany (GER)	29:06.79
22	Rogers Kibet [it]	Uganda (UGA)	29:10.07
	Joel Ayeko	Uganda (UGA)	DNF
	Carlos Díaz	Chile (CHI)
	Yismaw Dillu [it]	Ethiopia (ETH)

References

1. "WCH Budapest 23 preview: 10,000m". World Athletics. 13 August 2023. Archived from the original on 18 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
2. "10,000 Metres − Records". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
3. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. 19 August 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
4. "Men 10000 Metres -Timetable". World Athletics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
5. "10,000 Metres Men - Final" (PDF). World Athletics. 20 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.