1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

Events at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 September.^[1][2] Josephat Machuka finished second, but as he was being passed just before the finish, he deliberately punched at the eventual winner Haile Gebreselassie during the final sprint and was disqualified. ^{[3] [4]}

Medalists

Gold	Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia
Silver	Josephat Ndeti  Kenya
Bronze	Yasuyuki Watanabe  Japan

Results

Final

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	28:03.99
	Josephat Ndeti	Kenya	28:46.25
	Yasuyuki Watanabe	Japan	28:52.89
4	Tegenu Abebe	Ethiopia	29:29.97
5	Oscar Cortínez	Argentina	29:31.80
6	Nestor Cevasco	Argentina	29:32.84
7	Eliseo Martín	Spain	29:38.13
8	Elias Bastos	Brazil	29:39.99
9	Bruno Toledo	Spain	29:52.28
10	Antonio Andriani	Italy	29:59.18
11	Maurizio Leone	Italy	30:01.85
12	Kim Min-Woo	South Korea	30:02.55
13	José Alejandro Semprún	Venezuela	30:02.85
14	Juma Ninga	Tanzania	30:03.58
15	Jo Yeong-Do	South Korea	30:41.81
16	Marcos Villa	Mexico	30:43.34
17	Cláudio da Silva	Brazil	30:50.03
18	Jorge Chávez	Peru	31:20.73
19	Yahya Dogan	Turkey	31:38.13
20	Muzaffer Çintimar	Turkey	31:39.82
21	Stelios Marneros	Cyprus	32:11.55
22	Josephat Machuka	Kenya	DQ
23	Michael Lola	Tanzania	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

•  Argentina (2)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  Italy (2)
•  Japan (1)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  South Korea (2)
•  Spain (2)
•  Tanzania (2)
•  Turkey (2)
•  Venezuela (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1992 Seoul KOR Sep 16-20, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 5 Mar 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015
3. BBC Sports, May 28, 2004: Olympic countdown: 73 days
4. YouTube video: 1992 World Junior Championships 10000m final sprint Machuka hit Haile