Men's 10,000 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Location	Amsterdam
Dates	July 9 (final)
Competitors	12 from 7 nations
Winning time	28:18.52
Medalists
Polat Kemboi Arıkan    Turkey   Ali Kaya    Turkey   Antonio Abadía    Spain
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2016 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Half marathon	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t e

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on 8 July.^[1]

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
World record	Kenenisa Bekele (ETH)	26:17.53	Brussels, Belgium	26 August 2005
European record	Mo Farah (GBR)	26:46.57	Eugene, United States	3 June 2011
Championship record	Martti Vainio (FIN)	27:30.99	Prague, Czechoslovakia	29 August 1978
World Leading	Mo Farah (GBR)	26:53.71	Eugene, United States	27 May 2016
European Leading	Mo Farah (GBR)	26:53.71	Eugene, United States	27 May 2016

All times are local times (UTC+2)

^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Polat Kemboi Arikan	Turkey	28:18.52
	Ali Kaya	Turkey	28:21.42
	Antonio Abadía	Spain	28:26.07
4	Dmytro Lashyn	Ukraine	28:27.90	PB
5	Dewi Griffiths	Great Britain	28:28.55	PB
6	Juan Antonio Pérez	Spain	28:37.42
7	Daniel Mateo	Spain	28:43.03	PB
8	Soufiane Bouchikhi	Belgium	29:03.74
9	Ahmed El Mazoury	Italy	29:29.36
	Aimeru Alemya	Israel	DNF
	Girmaw Amare	Israel	DQ
	Andy Vernon	Great Britain	DNS

• amsterdam2016.org, official championship site.