Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
Dates	20 July 1970
Medalists
Lachie Stewart    Scotland   Ron Clarke    Australia   Dick Taylor    England

Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 mile walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 20 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[1] It was the first time that the metric distance was contested at the Games, replacing the 6 miles.

Final results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lachie Stewart	Scotland	28:11.72
	Ron Clarke	Australia	28:13.45
	Dick Taylor	England	28:15.35
4	Roger Matthews	England	28:21.4
5	John Caine	England	28:27.6
6	John Ngeno	Kenya	28:31.4
7	Philip Ndoo	Kenya	28:42.8
8	Kerry O'Brien	Australia	28:43.49
9	John Stephen Akhwari	Tanzania	28:44.0
10	Jerome Drayton	Canada	28:45.0
11	Bernard Plain	Wales	28:51.8
12	Derek Graham	Northern Ireland	29:00.2
13	Richard Wedlock	Scotland	29:09.8
14	George Waluza	Malawi	29:33.8
15	Dave Ellis	Canada	29:37.4
16	Alan Joslyn	Wales	29:51.8
17	Ghulam Rasul	Pakistan	30:03.0
18	Nabiba Temu	Kenya	30:04.4
19	Fulgenge Rwabu	Uganda	30:44.8
20	Douglas Zinkala	Zambia	30:54.4
21	Allieu Massaquoi	Sierra Leone	31:06.2
22	Dominic Chiwaya	Malawi	31:17.8
23	Musa Mustafa	Uganda	31:32.6
24	Richard Mabuza	Swaziland	31:33.0
25	Robert Hackman	Ghana	31:50.4
26	Reuben Dlamini	Swaziland	32:56.8
27	Daniel Kalusa	Zambia	33:23.6
	Donald Pierre	Grenada	DNF
	Dandison Moore	Sierra Leone	DNF
	Andrew Boychuk	Canada	DNS
	Harry Prowell	Guyana	DNS