Athletics at the 1989 Summer Universiade
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	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
5 km walk		women
20 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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t e

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1989 Summer Universiade was held at the Wedaustadion in Duisburg on 27 August 1989.^[1][2][3]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Julius Kariuki	Kenya	28:35.46
	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	28:39.56
	Antonio Serrano	Spain	28:43.97
4	Mogambi Otwori	Kenya	28:49.76
5	Salvador Pineda	Mexico	28:53.34
6	Antonio Rapisarda	France	28:54.49
7	Oleg Syroyezhko	Soviet Union	29:04.87
8	John Scherer	United States	29:05.22
9	Bob Kempainen	United States	29:06.73
10	Baek Seung-do	South Korea	29:36.03
11	Katsumi Ikeda	Japan	29:46.39
12	Francisco Fontaneda	Spain	29:50.96
13	Alejandro Martínez	Mexico	29:53.58
14	Nikolay Chameyev	Soviet Union	31:10.12
	Walter Merlo	Italy	DNF
	Paulo Ferreira	Portugal	DNF	[4]
	Steve Boyd	Canada	DNF
	Ibrahim Elmi	Somalia	DNF