WORLD RECORD PROGRESSION FOR THE MEN'S 10,000 M

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The following table shows the 'world record progression for the Men's 10,000 metres', as recognised by the IAAF.

Record	Athlete	Nat	Venue	Date
31:20.8	Hannes Kolehmainen		Stockholm, Sweden	July 8 1912
30:58.8	Jean Bouin		Paris, France	November 16 1911
30:40.2	Paavo Nurmi		Stockholm, Sweden	June 22 1921
30:35.4	Ville Ritola		Helsinki, Finland	May 25 1924
30:23.2	Ville Ritola		Paris, France	July 6 1924
30:06.2	Paavo Nurmi		Kuopio, Finland	August 31 1924
30:05.6	Ilmari Salminen		Kouvola, Finland	July 18 1937
30:02.0	Taisto Mäki		Tampere, Finland	September 29 1938
29:52.6	Taisto Mäki		Helsinki, Finland	September 17 1939
29:35.4	Viljo Heino		Helsinki, Finland	August 25 1944
29:28.2	Emil Zátopek		Ostrava, Czech Republic	June 11 1949
29:27.2	Viljo Heino		Kouvola, Finland	September 1 1949
29:21.2	Emil Zátopek		Ostrava, Czech Republic	October 22 1949
29:02.6	Emil Zátopek		Turku, Finland	August 4 1950
29:01.6	Emil Zátopek		Stará Boleslav, Czech Republic	November 1 1953
28:54.2	Emil Zátopek		Brussels, Belgium	June 1 1954
28:42.8	Sándor Iharos		Budapest, Hungary	July 15 1956
28:30.4	Vladimir Kuts		Moscow, Soviet Union	September 11 1956
28:18.8	Pyotr Bolotnikov		Kiev, Ukraine	October 15 1960
28:18.2	Pyotr Bolotnikov		Moscow, Soviet Union	August 11 1962
28:15.6	Ron Clarke		Melbourne, Australia	December 18 1963
28:14.0	Ron Clarke		Turku, Finland	May 16 1965
27:39.4	Ron Clarke		Oslo, Norway	July 14 1965
27:38.4	Lasse Virén		Munich, Germany	September 3 1972
27:30.8	David Bedford		London, Great Britain	July 13 1973
27:30.5	Samson Kimobwa		Helsinki, Finland	June 30 1977
27:22.4	Henry Rono		Vienna, Austria	June 11 1978
27:13.81	Fernando Mamede		Stockholm, Sweden	July 2 1984
27:08.23	Arturo Barrios		Berlin, Germany	August 18 1989
27:07.91	Richard Chelimo		Stockholm, Sweden	July 5 1993
26:58.38	Yobes Ondieki		Oslo, Norway	July 10 1993
26:52.23	William Sigei		Oslo, Norway	July 22 1994
26:43.53	Haile Gebrselassie		Hengelo, Netherlands	June 5 1995
26:38.08	Salah Hissou		Brussels, Belgium	August 23 1996
26:31.32	Haile Gebrselassie		Oslo, Norway	August 4 1997
26:27.85	Paul Tergat		Brussels, Belgium	August 22 1997
26:22.75	Haile Gebrselassie		Hengelo, Netherlands	June 1 1998
26:20.31	Kenenisa Bekele		Ostrava, Czech Republic	June 8 2004
26:17.53	Kenenisa Bekele		Brussels, Belgium	August 26 2005

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Notes

# Several sources mention Hannes Kolehmainen's time at the 1912 Summer Olympics as a world record. [1] [2]

See also

★ Long-distance track event

References

★ http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_69.pdf