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News16 Oct 2000


Men's 10000m final

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Men's 10000m Final

17 October 2000 – For 16-year-old Kenyan Robert Kipchumba, the race tactics seemed simple: Jog the first 5,000 of the 10,000 metres final at the IAAF World Junior Championships here on Tuesday, and then start racing.

It was a policy that worked with a vengeance, as the winner of the junior title at this year’s World Cross-country produced a withering 13min 45sec second half of the race to tear apart the leading group, and eventually come home in 28min 54.37sec, 4.02sec ahead of his Kenyan team mate, Duncan Lebo.

The positions were a repeat of the finishing order in the cross-country event in Vilamoura earlier this year, and it maintained the eastern African dominance of this event at junior level.

In the seven previous stagings of the World Juniors, there have been four Kenyan winners of the 10,000 – including Daniel Komen in 1994 – and three Ethiopian victors – most famously Haile Gebrselassie in 1992.

This time, Abraha Hadush, of Ethiopia, won the sprint finish for bronze (29:44.65), just beating his team mate Kebede Tekeste, but after the Kenyan pair had dropped their African rivals with three kilometres to run, they opened up a 250-metre advantage by the finish.

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