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