2014 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2014 European Athletics Championships was held at the Letzigrund on 13 August.

Men's 10,000 metres at the European Athletics Championships

Medalists

Finish of the event

Gold	Mo Farah  Great Britain
Silver	Andy Vernon  Great Britain
Bronze	Ali Kaya  Turkey

Records

Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics Championships
World record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	26:17.53	Brussels, Belgium	26 August 2005
European record	Mo Farah (GBR)	26:46.57	Eugene, United States	3 June 2011
Championship record	Martti Vainio (FIN)	27:30.99	Prague, Czechoslovakia	29 August 1978
World Leading	Galen Rupp (USA)	26:44.36	Eugene, United States	30 May 2014
European Leading	Bashir Abdi (BEL)	27:36.40	Palo Alto, United States	4 May 2014

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
13 August 2014	19:50	Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Mo Farah	Great Britain	28:08.11
	Andy Vernon	Great Britain	28:08.66	SB
	Ali Kaya	Turkey	28:08.72	PB
4	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey	28:11.11	SB
5	Bashir Abdi	Belgium	28:13.61
6	Daniele Meucci	Italy	28:19.79
7	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	28:26.03
8	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	28:49.99
9	Sondre Nordstad Moen	Norway	28:50.53
10	Yevgeny Rybakov	Russia	28:53.48
11	Koen Naert	Belgium	29:04.87
12	Ricardo Ribas	Portugal	29:09.47
13	Mats Lunders	Belgium	29:12.86
14	Marius Øyre Vedvik	Norway	29:42.10
15	Abdi Hakin Ulad	Denmark	29:50.67
16	Mikael Ekvall	Sweden	30:04.93
17	Himro Alame	Israel	30:04.95
18	Girmaw Amare	Israel	30:53.87
	Mehmet Akkoyun	Turkey	DNF
	Adil Bouafif	Sweden	DNF
	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	DNF
	Yassine Mandour	France	DNF
	Manuel Ángel Penas	Spain	DNF
	Tom Wiggers	Netherlands	DNF