The men's 10,000 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre Budapest on 20 August 2023[1] At the start of this race, Joel Ayeko started off fast with a 62 second lap to take the lead.

Ayeko kept the point position for another 800 metres before Kibet decided it was time to swallow him up, dropping the pace to 66 seconds.

On the 16th lap, Olympic Champion Selemon Barega came from the back of the lead group to show his teammate Aregawi how fast he wanted the pace.

With a lap and a half to go, Barega floated up to join his teammate but that just brought Cheptegei to the front to take the bell first.

Defeated, Barega continued on to the finish line, but Ebenyo didn't stop racing.