Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade – Men's 10,000 metres

Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade
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
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
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km 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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 21 July 1981. ^[1][2][3] The times are unofficial as, due to the officials' error, the athletes ran one extra lap, making the race 10,400 metres in total.^[4]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Toomas Turb	Soviet Union	29:42.83
	Gyorgi Marko	Romania	29:51.13
	Dave Murphy	Great Britain	29:51.27
4	Mehmet Yurdadön	Turkey	29:53.86
5	Mike Cotton	United States	29:59.43
6	Alessio Faustini	Italy	30:02.20
7	Shinobu Murakoshi	Japan	30:12.69
8	Vicente Polo	Spain	30:25.86
9	Aurel Niculescu	Romania	30:29.26
10	Yutaka Kanai	Japan	30:29.60
11	Mehmet Terzi	Turkey	30:32.49
12	Vladimir Sýkora	Czechoslovakia	30:43.42
13	Marcus Nenow	United States	31:04.48
14	Yevgeniy Okorokov	Soviet Union	31:10.39
15	Francisco Pacheco	Mexico	31:32.63
16	Shane Marshall	New Zealand	31:37.78
17	Rumen Mekhandzhinski	Bulgaria	31:41.61
18	Gerardo Alcalá	Mexico	31:59.38
19	Nabil Chouéri	Lebanon	32:12.84
	Petko Karpachev	Bulgaria	DNF
	Pertti Tiainen	Finland	DNF