2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10000 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 10 July.[1][2][3]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yigrem Demelash  Ethiopia	Philemon Kipchilis Cheboi  Kenya	Geoffrey Kipkorir Kirui  Kenya

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Samuel Wanjiru (KEN)	26:41.75	Brussels, Belgium	26 August 2005
Championship Record	Josphat Kipkoech Bett (KEN)	27:30.85	Bydgoszcz, Poland	9 July 2008
World Junior Leading	Geoffrey Kipkorir Kirui (KEN)	27:08.44	Eugene, OR, United States	1 June 2012

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Yigrem Demelash	Ethiopia	28:16.07	PB
	Philemon Kipchilis Cheboi	Kenya	28:23.98	PB
	Geoffrey Kipkorir Kirui	Kenya	28:30.47
4	Kinde Atanaw	Ethiopia	28:53.02
5	Moses Martin Kurong	Uganda	29:06.87
6	Kenta Murayama	Japan	29:40.56
7	Ken Yokote	Japan	29:41.81	SB
8	Rahul Kumar Pal	India	29:42.15	PB
9	Zakaria Boudad	Morocco	30:21.07
10	Daniele D'Onofrio	Italy	31:07.70
11	Jacob Kildoo	United States	31:09.94
12	Matías Silva	Chile	31:10.40
13	Angel Ronco	Spain	31:18.35
14	Claudiu Costin Cimpoeru	Romania	31:20.74	PB
15	Ryan Pickering	United States	31:33.69
16	Edwin Haroldo Pirir	Guatemala	31:37.53
17	Samuel Barata	Portugal	31:42.17
18	Jonas Koller	Germany	31:42.81
19	Myeongjun Son	South Korea	31:45.17
20	Youcef Addouche	Algeria	31:45.29
21	Áron Tóth	Hungary	31:50.25
22	Yerson Orellana	Peru	31:51.98
23	Binlu Wang	China	31:53.86
24	Kevin Dooney	Ireland	31:56.41
25	Ibrahim Ahmed	Canada	32:06.73
26	Lucas Jaramillo	Chile	32:09.18
27	Oleksiy Obukhovskyy	Ukraine	32:27.04
28	Demeke Teshale	Israel	33:01.37
29	Alexandre Lavigne	Canada	33:07.04
30	Yuriy Datsko	Ukraine	33:14.32
31	Zendio Daza	Peru	33:21.21
32	Akoye Derseh	Israel	35:16.30
	Mouloud Madoui	Algeria	DNF
	Artur Bossy	Spain	DNF
	Abdelmunaim Yahya Adam	Sudan	DNS

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.

•  Algeria (2)
•  Canada (2)
•  Chile (2)
•  China (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  Germany (1)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Hungary (1)
•  India (1)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Israel (2)
•  Italy (1)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Peru (2)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Spain (2)
•  Uganda (1)
•  Ukraine (2)
•  United States (2)

References

1. http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=M/discCode=10K/combCode=hash/timetable.html
2. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
3. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• WJC12 10000 metres schedule