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Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
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
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
30 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
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The men's 10,000 metres event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 3 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.

Results※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gidamis Shahanga	Tanzania	28:10.20
	Zacharia Barie	Tanzania	28:10.60
	Julian Goater	England	28:16.20
4	Charlie Spedding	England	28:25.00
5	Allister Hutton	Scotland	28:28.70
6	Dennis Fowles	Wales	28:33.90
7	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	28:38.85
8	Lawrence Whitty	Australia	28:43.93
9	Mike McLeod	England	28:46.97
10	Marios Kassianidis	Cyprus	28:57.94
11	Steve Jones	Wales	29:13.68
12	Peter Butler	Canada	29:16.89
13	Esau Zwane	Swaziland	30:02.74
14	Nada Meta	Swaziland	30:03.84
15	Peter Koech	Kenya	30:06.00
16	Erastus Kimei	Kenya	30:36.00
17	Nicholas Akers	Cayman Islands	35:21.79
18	David Bonn	Cayman Islands	41:21.49
	Shiri Chand	Fiji	DNF
	Tau Tokwepota	Papua New Guinea	DNF
	Abel Manumanua	Papua New Guinea	DNF
	Mackay Talasasa	Solomon Islands	DNF
	John Andrews	Australia	DNS

References※

• Results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Australian results Archived 14 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine