1996 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	women
10,000 m	men
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
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 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21 August 1996.^[1][2] In the race, there was a mistake in the lap counting of the judges, that caused many athletes to run 24 laps (9600 m) only.

Gold	Assefa Mezegebu  Ethiopia
Silver	David Chelule  Kenya
Bronze	Tetsuhiro Furuta  Japan

21 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Assefa Mezegebu	Ethiopia	28:27.78
	David Chelule	Kenya	28:29.14
	Tetsuhiro Furuta	Japan	28:31.61
4	David Galindo	Mexico	28:34.66
5	Marko Hhawu	Tanzania	28:35.02
6	David Ngetich	Kenya	28:39.79
7	Naoki Mishiro	Japan	28:50.21
8	Sisay Bezabeh	Ethiopia	28:55.97
9	Francisco Mondragón	Mexico	28:57.61
10	Samuel Mangusho	Uganda	29:21.25
11	Godfrey Nyombi	Uganda	29:21.43
12	John Gilay	Tanzania	29:29.10
13	Gojen Singh	India	29:32.68
14	Brad Hauser	United States	29:32.88
15	David Posada	Spain	29:35.31
16	Mukat Derbe	Israel	29:35.57
17	Aleksandr Gelesh	Ukraine	29:39.66
18	Paulo Lunkes	Brazil	29:49.39
19	Janko Benša	Yugoslavia	29:53.41
20	Kang Yanwei	China	30:18.34
21	Martin Beckmann	Germany	30:23.10
22	Joseph Nsengiyumya	Rwanda	30:34.24
23	Maximilian Bahn	Germany	30:38.68
24	Peter Gilmore	United States	31:09.64
25	Sinlasone Sanith	Laos	31:52.66
26	Mohamed Ould Abdellahy	Mauritania	33:21.72
27	Win Zaw Oo	Myanmar	34:25.75
	Ricardo Maestrelo	Brazil	DNF
	Dmitriy Maksimov	Russia	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.