Uganda´s Cheptegei Wins Men´s 10000m at World Junior Champs Opening Day

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Men´s 10000m was the last event at the opening day of the IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon as Uganda´s Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei took a confident win on Tuesday evening.

The 17 year old World Junior season leader Cheptegei (27:56.26) clocked 59 seconds over the last 400m to win the race in 28:32.82.

The final two spot on the podium went also to African nations as Kenya´s Elvis Kipchoge Cheboi and Nicholas Mboroto Kosimbei took second and third respectively.

Top 6 six places in the men´s 10000m were taken by African nations

Results Men´s 10000m Final

Courtesy: IAAF.ORG

Position	Athlete	Nation	Mark
1	Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei	UGA	28:32.86
2	Elvis Kipchoge Cheboi	KEN	28:35.20
3	Nicholas Mboroto Kosimbei	KEN	28:38.68
4	Afewerki Berhane	ERI	28:45.83	PB
5	Abdallah Kibet Mande	UGA	28:53.77
6	Yihunilign Adane	ETH	28:54.84
7	Keisuke Nakatani	JPN	29:11.40
8	Hazuma Hattori	JPN	29:12.74
9	Robleh Djama Aden	DJI	29:43.49	NJR
10	Carlos Mayo	ESP	29:52.31	PB
11	Tae-Jin Kim	KOR	29:53.93	PB
12	Bart Van Nunen	NED	29:58.90
13	István Szögi	HUN	30:15.93
14	Miguel marques	POR	30:23.50	PB
15	Brendan Shearn	USA	30:24.30
16	Andreas Jansson	SWE	30:38.81
17	Junhaeng Jo	KOR	30:43.11
18	Cheng-Hsun Ho	TPE	30:48.86
19	Noah Schutte	NED	31:00.94
20	Santiago Pardo	ESP	31:04.13
21	Giulio Perpetuo	ITA	31:04.48
22	Jakub Zemaník	CZE	31:06.76
23	Márkos Goúrlias	GRE	31:09.95
24	Jonathan Green	USA	31:15.69
25	Onur Aras	TUR	31:25.09
26	Mykola Nyzhnyk	UKR	31:27.03
27	Djamal Mehbali	ALG	31:29.21
28	Jesse Hooton	CAN	31:38.78
29	Dominik Kubec	CZE	31:47.15
30	Sandro Enriquez	MEX	32:08.44
31	Kristian Tjørnhom	NOR	32:08.79
32	Jhordan Alonso Ccope	PER	32:11.42
33	Daniel Angoma	PER	32:19.66
34	Omar Guerniche	ITA	32:30.44
35	Lars Jonassen Føyen	NOR	32:37.73
	Saffet Elkatmis	TUR	DNF
	Ahmed Slimane	ALG	DNF
	Abdi Ibrahim Abdo	BRN	DNF