| Event: | Men's 10,000 metres |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
The men's 10,000 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June.
| Gold | Polat Kemboi Arıkan | |
| Silver | Daniele Meucci | |
| Bronze | Yevgeniy Rybakov |
| Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | 26:17.53 | Brussels, Belgium | 26 August 2005 | ||
| European record | 26:46.57 | 3 June 2011 | |||
| Championship record | 27:30.99 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | 29 August 1978 | ||
| World Leading | 27:01.98 | Eugene, United States | 1 June 2012 | ||
| European Leading | 27:32.86 | Stanford, United States | 29 April 2012 | ||
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28:22.27 | |||||
| 28:22.73 | |||||
| 28:22.95 | SB | ||||
| 28:23.72 | |||||
| 28:24.51 | |||||
| 28:26.46 | |||||
| 28:26.82 | PB | ||||
| 28:31.16 | SB | ||||
| 28:57.97 | |||||
| 10 | 29:02.01 | ||||
| 11 | 29:02.08 | ||||
| 12 | 29:02.53 | ||||
| 13 | 29:05.12 | ||||
| 14 | 29:07.31 | ||||
| 15 | 29:10.55 | ||||
| 16 | 29:16.46 | ||||
| 17 | 29:16.83 | ||||
| 18 | 29:22.03 | ||||
| 19 | 29:31.06 | ||||
| 20 | 29:32.57 | ||||
| 21 | 29:57.82 | SB | |||
| 22 | 30:59.63 | ||||
| Doping |