2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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	women
10,000 m
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
10,000 m walk	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

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at the National Stadium in Independence Park, on 20 July.^[1][2]

Gold	Gebre-Egziabher Gebremariam  Ethiopia
Silver	Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia
Bronze	Solomon Bushendich  Kenya

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gebre-Egziabher Gebremariam	Ethiopia	29:02.71
	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia	29:03.74
	Solomon Bushendich	Kenya	29:05.96
4	Kei Ide	Japan	29:29.18
5	Dieudonné Gahungu	Burundi	29:30.09
6	Pascal Ntahokaraja	Burundi	29:31.60
7	Franck de Almeida	Brazil	29:49.95
8	Andrew Limo	Kenya	30:04.86
9	Jean Baptiste Simukeka	Rwanda	30:06.97
10	Samson Kiflemariam	Eritrea	30:16.79
11	Junichi Seino	Japan	30:22.40
12	François Bagambiki	Rwanda	30:31.67
13	Mohamed Bashir	Denmark	31:11.38
14	Mohamed Chekalil	Algeria	31:27.26
15	Charles Millioen	United States	32:03.71
16	Dan Glaz	United States	32:22.13
17	Moustapha Houssein Guelleh	Djibouti	32:36.79
	Aissam Gtaib	Morocco	DNF
	Edilberto Méndez	Mexico	DNF
	Selahattin Selçuk	Turkey	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.