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Host City: Los Angeles, United States

Format: Top five in each heat and next three fastest advanced to the final.

Date Started: August 3, 1984

Date Finished: August 6, 1984

(Competitors: 45; Countries: 33; Finalists: 18)

Venue(s): Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California

Overview by IAAF

Before the Games Fernando Mamede set a world record of 27:13.81, and was more than two minutes quicker on the pre-Games list of performers than Cova. However, the Italian, the World and European Champion, was favourite because of his big finishing kick and tactical acumen. After heats, which saw Bitok as the fastest man with 28:12.17, the final began as a shuffle. In 26°C heat Musa Gouda (SUD) led for the first four kilometres at 28:30 pace. The gritty Irishman John Treacy was the leader at halfway in 14:19.9. Nick Rose (GBR) surged to the front during the sixth kilometre, but was overtaken by ’78 European Champion Martti Vainio (FIN). At the end of a kilometre run in 2:38.7 Rose was 10m behind, with only Cova in touch. After kilometres of 2:40.8 and 2:43.9 the pace slowed to 2:46.1 as Vainio gathered himself to contain the inevitable attack by Cova. It was to no avail, as Cova waited until 200m to go before sprinting away, covering the last 200m in 27.7 to win by 25m. The big shock came five days later when Vainio (27:51.10) was disqualified for steroid use.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The world record had been set in July 1984 by Portugal's Fernando Mamede, but he fared poorly in major competition. The favorite was Italy's Alberto Cova, who had won the 1983 World Championships and the 1982 European Championships. At both races, second place was taken by the GDR's Werner Schildhauer but he was not in Los Angeles because of the Soviet-led boycott. At 5K, Britain's Nick Rose took the lead and only Cova and Martti Vainio (FIN), the 1978 European Champion, could stay in touch. Vainio then opened up the pace, dropping Rose and he and Cova battled to the finish. With 200 metres to go, Cova unleashed his finishing sprint and won by almost 25 metres, running that 200 in 27.7. Five days later, Vainio was disqualified for testosterone use. Cova later admitted to blood doping, but that was not a banned practice in that era.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

World Record	27:13.81	Fernando Mamede	Stockholm (SWE)	July 2, 1984
Olympic Record	27:38.35	Lasse Virén	Munich (FRG)	September 3, 1972

		Results

*10000 m*	Men	Final	6 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	27.47.54	Alberto Cova	Italy	ITA	1 Dec 58
2	28.06.22	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	GBR	25 Jan 52
3	28.06.46	Mike Musyoki	Kenya	KEN	28 May 56
4	28.07.50	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	ITA	7 Feb 62
5	28.08.21	Christoph Herle	West Germany	FRG	19 Nov 55
6	28.09.01	Sosthenes Bitok	Kenya	KEN	23 Mar 57
7	28.27.06	Yutaka Kanai	Japan	JPN	16 Oct 59
8	28.28.08	Steve Jones	Great Britain	GBR	4 Aug 55
9	28.28.68	John Treacy	Ireland	IRL	4 Jun 57
10	28.29.43	Ahmed Musa Jouda	Sudan	SUD	27 Jan 57
11	28.31.61	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	ZIM	10 Jan 57
12	28.31.73	Nick Rose	Great Britain	GBR	30 Dec 51
13	28.32.28	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	TAN	29 May 53
14	28.32.57	Joseph Nzau	Kenya	KEN	14 Apr 50
15	28.34.59	Pat Porter	United States	USA	31 May 59
16	28.55.54	Masanari Shintaku	Japan	JPN	20 Dec 57
	DQ	Martti Vainio
	DNF	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	POR	1 Nov 51
*10000 m*	Men	Heat 1	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	28.22.13	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	POR	1 Nov 51
2	28.23.43	Salvatore Antibo	Italy	ITA	7 Feb 62
3	28.24.24	Mike Musyoki	Kenya	KEN	28 May 56
4	28.24.30	Masanari Shintaku	Japan	JPN	20 Dec 57
5	28.25.08	Mike McLeod	Great Britain	GBR	25 Jan 52
6	28.28.50	José Gómez	Mexico	MEX	19 Mar 56
7	28.30.40	Omar Aguilar	Chile	CHI	1 Dec 59
8	28.36.15	Paul Williams	Great Britain	GBR	8 Oct 55
9	28.38.42	Craig Virgin	United States	USA	2 Aug 55
10	29.11.48	José João da Silva	Brazil	BRA	7 Sep 55
11	30.07.49	Luis Tipan	Ecuador	ECU	8 Feb 54
12	30.30.50	Ibrahim Kivina	Tanzania	TAN	25 Feb 58
13	30.44.46	Basil Kilani	Jordan	JOR	6 Aug 60
	DNF	Ruddy Cornielle	Dominican Republic	DOM	14 Jul 60
	DNF	Ramon Lopez	Paraguay	PAR	6 Jun 63
*10000 m*	Men	Heat 2	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	28.26.10	Alberto Cova	Italy	ITA	1 Dec 58
2	28.28.53	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	ZIM	10 Jan 57
3	28.28.71	Joseph Nzau	Kenya	KEN	14 Apr 50
4	28.30.28	Christoph Herle	West Germany	FRG	19 Nov 55
5	28.31.13	Nick Rose	Great Britain	GBR	30 Dec 51
6	28.43.08	Gidamis Shahanga	Tanzania	TAN	4 Sep 57
7	28.58.22	Antonio Prieto	Spain	ESP	11 Jan 58
8	28.59.19	Martín Pitayo	Mexico	MEX	10 Jan 60
9	29.10.18	Paul Cummings	United States	USA	5 Sep 53
10	29.31.32	Arie Gamliel	Israel	ISR	21 Nov 57
11	29.38.07	Muhiddin Mohamed Kulmiye	Somalia	SOM	58
12	30.48.27	Matthews Kambale	Malawi	MAW	27 Dec 52
13	30.49.43	Orlando Mora	Costa Rica	CRC	29 Jan 60
14	31.29.14	Tau John Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	PNG	25 Jun 56
	DNF	Ali Al-Ghadi	Yemen	YEM	10 Oct 52
*10000 m*	Men	Heat 3	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	28.12.17	Sosthenes Bitok	Kenya	KEN	23 Mar 57
2	28.14.67	Yutaka Kanai	Japan	JPN	16 Oct 59
3	28.15.18	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	TAN	29 May 53
4	28.15.22	Steve Jones	Great Britain	GBR	4 Aug 55
5	28.18.13	John Treacy	Ireland	IRL	4 Jun 57
7	28.20.06	Pat Porter	United States	USA	31 May 59
8	28.20.26	Ahmed Musa Jouda	Sudan	SUD	27 Jan 57	NR
9	29.01.22	Francesco Panetta	Italy	ITA	10 Jan 63
10	29.06.08	Marios Kassianidis	Cyprus	CYP	16 Sep 54
11	29.07.19	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	COL	22 Nov 49
12	29.58.06	Julio César Gómez	Argentina	ARG	27 Jan 63
13	30.19.29	Frans Ntaole	Lesotho	LES	8 Aug 50
14	32.04.11	Albert Marie	Seychelles	SEY	3 Mar 57
	DQ	Martti Vainio	Finland	FIN
	DNF	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	TUR	4 Jul 58