Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
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
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Brendan Foster	England	28:13.65
	Michael Musyoki	Kenya	28:19.14
	Mike McLeod	England	28:34.30
4	Dave Black	England	28:37.90
5	Suleiman Nyambui	Tanzania	28:56.65
6	Tony Simmons	Wales	29:01.23
7	Joel Cheruiyot	Kenya	29:20.15
8	Allister Hutton	Scotland	29:30.68
9	Dick Quax	New Zealand	29:58.00
10	Alan Thurlow	New Zealand	30:05.24
11	Samson Kimobwa	Kenya	30:13.40
12	Shivnath Singh	India	30:26.67
13	Peter Butler	Canada	31:17.18
14	Aurelio Falero	Gibraltar	31:31.39
15	Ngwila Musonda	Zambia	31:59.52
16	Vincent Rakabaele	Lesotho	32:08.43
17	Patrick Chiwala	Zambia	32:14.89
18	Nicholas Akers	Cayman Islands	33:29.01
19	Motlalepula Thabana	Lesotho	35:32.24
20	Henry Baptiste	Saint Lucia	35:57.36
	Paul Bannon	Canada	DNS
	Bernard James	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	DNS
	Baba Ibrahim Suma-Keita	Sierra Leone	DNS

• Final results (The Canberra Times)