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Host City: Montréal, Canada

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

Date Started: July 23, 1976

Date Finished: July 26, 1976

(Competitors: 41; Countries: 26; Finalists: 16)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec

Overview by IAAF

Yifter, Gammoudi and the Kenyans missed the Games because of the boycott, leaving race favourite Viren with an easier task than would otherwise have been the case. None of the heats was quicker than 28 minutes, the fastest man being Simmons with 28:01.82. Lopes was the leader for most of the first half of the final, passing 5000m in 14:08.9 with 10 men in the main group. The pace began to increase with kilometres of 2:43.4 and 2:44.1, and now only Foster and Viren were in touch. After another quick kilometre (2:43.9) Foster, who had almost missed the start with an attack of diarrhoea, began to fade. Viren continued to follow, as Lopes passed 9000m in 25:02.0, waiting until there was 450m to go before scooting past Lopes, and easing away to win by 25m with a 61.3 last lap.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

With African boycott keeping out the Kenyan and Ethiopians, the way was open for defending champion Lasse Virén. He had not been prominent in the years since the his 5K/10K double at the 1972 Olympics, but early in 1976 his form seemed good. Rumors of blood doping always accompanied his ability to peak at the Olympics, but nothing was ever proven of this. In the Olympic final, Carlos Lopes (POR) took the lead at 8 laps, and only Virén could stay with him. Shortly before the bell lap, Virén moved ahead of Lopes and the race was over. He pulled ahead steadily during the last lap, winning by almost five seconds, and completing the unique 5K/10K double/double in 1972 and 1976.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics.

World Record	27:30.8	David Bedford	London (GBR)	July 13, 1973
Olympic Record	27:38.35	Lasse Virén	Munich (FRG)	September 3, 1972

		Results

*10000 m*	Men	Final	26 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	27.40.38	Lasse Virén	Finland	FIN	22 Jul 49
2	27.45.17	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	POR	18 Feb 47
3	27.55.08	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	GBR	12 Jan 48
4	27.56.26	Anthony Simmons	Great Britain	GBR	6 Oct 48
5	28.00.07	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	ROU	29 Nov 52
6	28.00.28	Mariano Haro	Spain	ESP	27 May 40
7	28.03.20	Marc Smet	Belgium	BEL	5 Feb 51
8	28.18.22	Bernie Ford	Great Britain	GBR	3 Aug 52
9	28.24.07	Jean-Paul Gomez	France	FRA	8 May 45
10	28.25.07	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	NED	8 Jan 50
11	28.26.48	Karel Lismont	Belgium	BEL	8 Mar 49
12	28.30.09	Chris Wardlaw	Australia	AUS	3 Mar 50
13	28.38.08	Garry Bjorklund	United States	USA	22 Apr 51
14	29.18.26	David Fitzsimmons	Australia	AUS	23 Apr 50
	DNF	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	BEL	8 Oct 47
	DNF	Knut Børø	Norway	NOR	28 Sep 48
*10000 m*	Men	Heat 1	23 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	28.05.47	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	POR	18 Feb 47
2	28.11.48	Jean-Paul Gomez	France	FRA	8 May 45
3	28.12.34	Mariano Haro	Spain	ESP	27 May 40
4	28.16.07	Jos Hermens	Netherlands	NED	8 Jan 50
5	28.16.43	David Fitzsimmons	Australia	AUS	23 Apr 50
6	28.17.26	Bernie Ford	Great Britain	GBR	3 Aug 52
7	28.17.45	Karel Lismont	Belgium	BEL	8 Mar 49
8	28.27.40	Martti Vainio	Finland	FIN	30 Dec 50
9	28.49.13	Dusan Janicijevic	Yugoslavia	YUG	2 Feb 55
10	29.03.03	Ed Mendoza	United States	USA	4 Dec 52
11	30.27.43	Victor Mora	Colombia	COL	24 Nov 44
12	33.22.35	Chris McCubbins	Canada	CAN	22 Nov 45
13	42.00.11	Olmeus Charles	Haiti	HAI	16 Feb 47
*10000 m*	Men	Heat 2	23 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	28.22.07	Marc Smet	Belgium	BEL	5 Feb 51
2	28.22.19	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	GBR	12 Jan 48
3	28.23.07	Knut Børø	Norway	NOR	28 Sep 48
4	28.23.40	Ilie Floroiu	Romania	ROU	29 Nov 52
5	28.25.20	Franco Fava	Italy	ITA	3 Sep 52
5	28.30.22	Craig Virgin	United States	USA	2 Aug 55
7	28.44.37	Edmundo Warnke	Chile	CHI	3 Jul 51
8	28.49.28	Hari Chand	India	IND	1 Apr 53
9	28.55.29	Eddie Leddy	Ireland	IRL	6 Sep 51
10	29.28.17	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	COL	22 Nov 49
11	30.05.19	Rodolfo Gómez	Mexico	MEX	30 Oct 50
12	32.08.16	Pierre Levisse	France	FRA	21 Feb 52
	DNF	Raga Al-Shalawi	Saudi Arabia	KSA	19 Feb 46
	DNF	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	FIN	4 May 49
*10000 m*	Men	Heat 3	23 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	28.02.18	Anthony Simmons	Great Britain	GBR	6 Oct 48
2	28.12.24	Garry Bjorklund	United States	USA	22 Apr 51
3	28.15.05	Lasse Virén	Finland	FIN	22 Jul 49
4	28.16.48	Emiel Puttemans	Belgium	BEL	8 Oct 47
5	28.18.48	Chris Wardlaw	Australia	AUS	3 Mar 50
6	28.29.28	Detlef Uhlemann	West Germany	FRG	24 Sep 49
7	28.36.21	Toshiaki Kamata	Japan	JPN	3 Nov 51
8	28.44.17	Luis Hernández	Mexico	MEX	13 Feb 55
9	28.57.08	Dick Quax	New Zealand	NZL	1 Jan 48
10	29.27.04	Dan Shaughnessy	Canada	CAN	8 Sep 44
11	29.41.24	Lucien Rault	France	FRA	30 Mar 36
12	31.03.43	José Luis Ruíz	Spain	ESP	9 May 52
13	31.44.27	Hossein Rabbi	Iran	IRI	21 Mar 47
14	32.27.04	Tau John Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	PNG	25 Jun 56