1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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	men	women
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
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	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 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 27 July.^[1][2]

Gold	Addis Abebe  Ethiopia
Silver	Bedilu Kibret  Ethiopia
Bronze	James Songok  Kenya

27 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia	28:42.13
	Bedilu Kibret	Ethiopia	28:48.53
	James Songok	Kenya	28:50.42
4	Norbert Kilimiali	Tanzania	28:51.00
5	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	29:08.36
6	Boay Akonay	Tanzania	29:28.46
7	Mohamed Choumassi	Morocco	29:32.50
8	Stephenson Nyamau	Kenya	29:46.81
9	James Loveless	United States	30:14.19
10	Michael Lavalle	United States	30:21.78
11	Viktor Karpenko	Soviet Union	30:21.96
12	Jun Hiratsuka	Japan	30:26.79
13	Carsten Arndt	West Germany	30:40.08
14	Franklin Tenorio	Ecuador	30:44.90
15	Masaki Yamamoto	Japan	30:57.53
16	Hussein Hassan Adani	Somalia	31:04.25
17	David Pujolar	Spain	31:24.69
18	Francisco González	Mexico	31:34.27
19	Vitor Barbosa	Portugal	31:41.11
20	Jürg Albert	East Germany	31:55.50
21	Ross Wilson	New Zealand	32:56.44
	Baltazar Sousa	Portugal	DNF
	Ventislav Chavdarov	Bulgaria	DNF
	Vanderlei de Lima	Brazil	DNF
	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	DNF
	Alejandro Villanueva	Mexico	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.