2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres walk
# 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres walk

The men's 10000 metres race walk at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 13 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Éider Arévalo Colombia | Aleksandr Ivanov Russia | Su Guanyu China |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

| World Junior Record | Viktor Burayev (RUS) | 38:46.4 | Moscow, Russia | 20 May 2000 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Championship Record | Stanislav Emelyanov (RUS) | 39:35.01 | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 11 July 2008 |
| World Junior Leading | Benjamin Thorne (CAN) | 40:26.0 | Calgary, Canada | 30 June 2012 |
| Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics |||||
| World Junior Leading | Éider Arévalo (COL) | 40:09.74 | Barcelona, Spain | 13 July 2012 |

## Results

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Éider Arévalo | Colombia | 40:09.74 | WJL |
| | Aleksandr Ivanov | Russia | 40:12.90 | PB |
| | Guanyu Su | China | 40:16.87 | PB |
| 4 | Takumi Saito | Japan | 40:19.10 | NJ |
| 5 | Álvaro Martín | Spain | 40:35.52 | PB |
| 6 | Jesús Vega | Mexico | 41:05.59 | PB |
| 7 | Nils Brembach | Germany | 41:19.12 | |
| 8 | Igor Liaschenko | Ukraine | 41:21.60 | SB |
| 9 | Yosuke Kimura | Japan | 41:41.52 | PB |
| 10 | Marco Antonio Rodríguez | Bolivia | 42:05.91 | NJ |
| 11 | Pavel Parshin | Russia | 42:10.25 | |
| 12 | Vito Minei | Italy | 42:51.79 | PB |
| 13 | Tyler Sorensen | United States | 42:53.60 | SB |
| 14 | Andrii Hrechkovskyi | Ukraine | 43:01.58 | PB |
| 15 | Marius Šavelskis | Lithuania | 43:03.27 | SB |
| 16 | Kenny Martín Pérez | Colombia | 43:04.02 | SB |
| 17 | Blake Steele | Australia | 43:04.81 | PB |
| 18 | Konstadínos Dedópoulos | Greece | 43:07.11 | |
| 19 | Paolo Yurivilca | Peru | 43:10.15 | PB |
| 20 | Edgars Gjacs | Latvia | 43:10.59 | PB |
| 21 | Erwin González | Mexico | 43:11.21 | |
| 22 | Francesco Fortunato | India | 43:13.27 | |
| 23 | Neeraj Neeraj | Italy | 43:27.92 | PB |
| 24 | Sahin Senoduncu | Turkey | 43:29.28 | NJ |
| 25 | Yauhen Zaleski | Belarus | 44:09.05 | PB |
| 26 | Óscar Villavicencio | Ecuador | 44:25.12 | |
| 27 | Adrian Ionut Dragomir | Romania | 44:29.12 | |
| 28 | Barys Sharhar | Belarus | 44:32.68 | |
| 29 | Marc Tur | Spain | 44:42.41 | |
| 30 | Samuel Pereira | Portugal | 45:06.34 | |
| 31 | Brian Pintado | Ecuador | 45:13.84 | PB |
| 32 | Luis Angel Sanchez | Guatemala | 45:36.65 | |
| 33 | Tewfik Yesref | Algeria | 45:38.36 | PB |
| 34 | Kuldeep Kuldeep | India | 45:40.65 | |
| 35 | Peter Tichý | Slovakia | 47:21.63 | |
| 36 | Joakim Saelen | Norway | 48:50.80 | PB |
| – | Brad Aiton | Australia | DSQ | |
| – | Benjamin Thorne | Canada | DSQ | |
| – | Jiaxing Yin | China | DSQ | |
| – | Bruno Fidelis | Brazil | DNF | |
| – | Byeongho Choe | South Korea | DNF | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event.

* Algeria (1)
* Australia (2)
* Belarus (2)
* Bolivia (1)
* Brazil (1)
* Canada (1)
* China (2)
* Colombia (2)
* Ecuador (2)
* Germany (1)
* Greece (1)
* Guatemala (1)
* India (2)
* Italy (2)
* Japan (2)
* Latvia (1)
* Lithuania (1)
* Mexico (2)
* Norway (1)
* Peru (1)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (1)
* Russia (2)
* Slovakia (1)
* Spain (2)
* Turkey (1)
* Ukraine (2)
* United States (1)
