Kenenisa Bekele World 10,000m Champion 2009

What an amazing race this morning! Zersenay Tadese did everything he could do burn the finish out of Kenenisa Bekele but the Master was just too good. What was that last lap?

The Americans Ritzenheim and Rupp ran really really well, new USA Record for Reitenheim in 27m22.28.

A sobering thought about the progress and dominance of African running, when I was growing up Dave Bedford held the World Record in 27m30, today that time wouldn't have got him into the first 7 of a championship race where the early pace was pedestrian!

10,000 Metres - M FINAL

17 August 2009 - 20:50
Position Bib Athlete Country Mark
1 402 Kenenisa Bekele ETH 26:46.31 (CR)
2 347 Zersenay Tadese ERI 26:50.12 (SB)
3 735 Moses Ndiema Masai KEN 26:57.39 (SB)
4 415 Imane Merga ETH 27:15.94 (PB)
5 730 Bernard Kiprop Kipyego KEN 27:18.47 (SB)
6 1221 Dathan Ritzenhein USA 27:22.28 (PB)
7 734 Micah Kipkemboi Kogo KEN 27:26.33 (SB)
8 1227 Galen Rupp USA 27:37.99 (SB)
9 346 Kidane Tadasse ERI 27:41.50 (SB)
10 407 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam ETH 27:44.04 (SB)
11 950 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah QAT 27:45.03 (SB)
12 344 Teklemariam Medhin ERI 27:58.89 (SB)
13 1092 Fabiano Joseph Naasi TAN 28:04.32 (SB)
14 825 Juan Carlos Romero MEX 28:09.78 (SB)
15 358 Carles Castillejo ESP 28:09.89
16 1091 Dickson Marwa Mkami TAN 28:18.00 (SB)
17 1211 Tim Nelson USA 28:18.04
18 820 Juan Luis Barrios MEX 28:31.40
19 611 Surendra Kumar Singh IND 28:35.51 (SB)
20 1013 Anatoliy Rybakov RUS 28:42.28
21 1093 Ezekiel Jafari TAN 28:45.34
22 1137 Martin Toroitich UGA 28:49.49 (SB)
23 941 Rui Pedro Silva POR 28:51.40
24 143 David McNeill AUS 29:18.59 (SB)
25 690 Yuki Iwai JPN 29:24.12
132 Collis Birmingham AUS DNF
368 Ayad Lamdassem ESP DNF
380 Manuel Ángel Penas ESP DNF
404 Abebe Dinkesa ETH DNF
956 Nicholas Kemboi QAT DNF
618 Martin Fagan IRL DNS