10,000m Olympic Stadium

Aug 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

1912 32:30.80 Len Richardson (RSA) Stockholm

1912 31:20.80

1924 30:23.20

1928 30:18.80

1932 30:11.40

1948 29:59.60

London Olympics men’s 10,000m gold medallist Mo Farah (GBR)

1952 29:17.00

1956 28:45.60

1960 28:32.20

1964 28:24.40

1972 27:38.35

1988 27:21.46

1996 27:07.34

2004 27:05.10

2008 27:01.17 Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Beijing

Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) Seoul 1988 31:44.69

1988 31:05.21

1996 31:01.63

2000 30:17.49

Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) Beijing 2008 29:54.66

OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION

World records

Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Brussels, 2005 26:17.53

Junxia Wang (CHN) Beijing, 1993 29:31.78

Women

Men

Sources: Rio 2016, Olympic.org, IAAF

Pictures: Associated Press