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2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

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The Men's 10,000 metres at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 28. There were twenty entrants, with nineteen athletes from twelve countries starting the race.

Mo Farah had been undefeated over the distance that year and his European record of 26:46.57 minutes topped the season's rankings. Eritrea's Zersenay Tadese and Ethiopians Imane Merga and Sileshi Sihine were other entrants ranked in the top six. Kenenisa Bekele, the unbeaten world champion since 2003, decided to defend his title, but his form was unknown as injuries had meant that he had not raced since early 2010. Kenya, typically strong in the event, sent a team of 2007 bronze medallist Martin Mathathi, Peter Cheruiyot Kirui, and World Cross Country runner-up Paul Kipngetich Tanui.

Zersenay Tadese set a fast pace for much of the race, a decision which soon reduced the leading pack to the Ethiopian and Kenyan teams, with the additions of the Eritrean, Mo Farah, and Galen Rupp. Kenenisa Bekele dropped out at the halfway point, unable to match the leading pace. The final 500 metres saw Farah take the lead with an injection of speed, with Imane Merga and Ibrahim Jeilan the only runners to follow him. Farah appeared to have judged the race well, having led at the bell for the final 400 m and completing his last lap in 53.36 seconds. However, Ibrahim Jeilan was even faster and overtook Farah in the final metres of the straight, taking the gold by a margin of less than 0.3 seconds. Imane Merga claimed the bronze five seconds later and Zersenay Tadese and Martin Mathathi came fourth and fifth.

Ibrahim Jeilan, the 2006 World Junior Champion, was an unexpected winner and Farah later remarked that he had never heard of him. Having felt overlooked for the Ethiopian team for the 2008 Olympics and 2009 World Championships, Ibrahim had moved to Japan to prepare himself away from the major circuit. It was the fifth consecutive time that an Ethiopian athlete had won the world title. Imane Merga's bronze was his first ever world medal on the track.

Medalists

Gold		width=200 style="background-color:silver"	Silver		width=200 style="background-color:#CC9966"	Bronze
Ibrahim Jeilan
Ethiopia

Records

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

Oceanian record	Ben St.Lawrence	27:24.95	Palo Alto, United States	1 May 2010

Qualification standards

A time	B time
27:40.00	28:00.00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 28, 2011	19:30	Final

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ibrahim Jeilan	Ethiopia	27:13.81
	Mo Farah	Great Britain	27:14.07
	Imane Merga	Ethiopia	27:19.14
	Zersenay Tadese	Eritrea	27:22.57
	Martin Mathathi	Kenya	27:23.87
	Peter Cheruiyot Kirui	Kenya	27:25.63	PB
	Galen Rupp	United States	27:26.84	SB
	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia	27:34.11
	Paul Kipngetich Tanui	Kenya	27:54.03
10	Matt Tegenkamp	United States	28:41.62
11	Rui Silva	Portugal	28:48.62
12	Daniele Meucci	Italy	28:50.28
13	Stephen Mokoka	South Africa	28:51.97
14	Scott Bauhs	United States	29:03.92
15	Yuki Sato	Japan	29:04.15
16	Juan Carlos Romero	Mexico	29:38.38
	Ali Hasan Mahboob	Bahrain
	Bayron Piedra	Ecuador
	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia
	Teklemariam Medhin	Eritrea

References

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[http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=o/age=n/season=2011/sex=M/all=n/legal=A/disc=10K/detail.html 10000 metres 2011]. IAAF (2011-08-29). Retrieved on 2011-08-29.
link. (2013-11-13 . IAAF (2011-08-28). Retrieved on 2011-08-29.)
link. (2012-05-09 . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-29.)
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/14699428.stm World Athletics 2011: Mo Farah misses out on 10,000m gold]. [[BBC Sport]] (2011-08-28). Retrieved on 2011-08-29.
link. (2011-09-15 . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-29.)
Although Farah was the runner-up, he ran the second fastest time ever by a British athlete and became the country's first ever men's medallist in the event.Mulkeen, Jon (2011-08-28). [http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/farah-beaten-bolt-disqualified-on-night-of-surprises-in-daegu/ Farah beaten, Bolt disqualified on night of surprises in Daegu] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-06-16 . ''[[Athletics Weekly]]''. Retrieved on 2011-08-29.)

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