Men's marathon
Gold
Samuel Kamau Wansiru
Temperature
18°C / 64.4°F
The men's marathon of Athletics 2012 during the 2012 Summer Olympics was held on 12 August 2012 in the The Mall . With 155 athletes competing, the event was won by Stephen Kiprotich from Uganda , with Abel Kirui from Kenya taking the silver medal and Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich from Kenya taking bronze.
Format [ ] The competition exists out of a single race, in which all competitors conduct a course of 42195 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner of the event.
Preview [ ] One hundred five athletes qualified for the event with five of the ten fastest athletes all-time in the field, all of which coming from Kenya or Ethiopia. The two nations were well-represented by Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich , two-time world champion Abel Kirui , Emmanuel Kipchirchi Mutai , Getu Feleke , Ayele Abshero , and Dino Sefir . Other big medal contenders included the Olympic champion of 2004 Mebrahtom Keflezighi , Stephen Kiprotich , the European champion Viktor Rothlin , and Commonwealth champion Samson Ramadhani . Some potential outsiders also included two-time winner of the marathon of New York Marilson dos Santos , silver medalist of the Commonwealth Games Michael Shelley , Japanese champion Arata Fujiwara , and Abdihakem Abdirahman .
Current Records [ ]
Record
Date
Nat.
Name
Time
WR
25 September 2011
Patrick Makau Musyoki
2:03.38
OR
24 August 2008
Samuel Wanjiru
2:06.32
Results [ ]
Result
Athlete
Nationality
Time
Stephen Kiprotich
Uganda
2:08:01
Abel Kirui
Kenya
2:08.27
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich
Kenya
2:09.37
4
Mebrahtom Keflezighi
United States
2:11:06
5
Marilson dos Santos
Brazil
2:11.10
6
Kentaro Nakamoto
Japan
2:11.16
7
Cuthbert Nyasango
Zimbabwe
2:12.08
PR
8
Paulo Roberto Paula
Brazil
2:12.17
9
Henryk Szost
Poland
2:12.28
10
Ruggero Pertile
Italy
2:12.45
11
Viktor Rothlin
Switzerland
2:12.48
12
Oleksandr Sitkovskyy
Ukraine
2:12.56
13
Frank de Almeida
Brazil
2:13.35
14
Aleksey Reunkov
Russia
2:13.49
15
Wirimai Juwawo
Zimbabwe
2:14.09
16
Michael Shelley
Australia
2:14.10
17
Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai
Kenya
2:14.49
18
Rachid Kisri
Morocco
2:15.09
19
Yared Asmerom
Eritrea
2:15.24
20
Dylan Wykes
Canada
2:15.26
21
Raul Pacheco
Peru
2:15.35
22
Eric Gillis
Canada
2:16.00
23
Dmitriy Safronov
Russia
2:16.04
24
Carles Castillejo
Spain
2:16.17
25
Iaroslav Musinschi
Moldova
2:16.25
26
Marius Ionescu
Romania
2:16.28
27
Reid Coolsaet
Canada
2:16.29
28
Martin Dent
Australia
2:16.29
29
Vitaliy Shafar
Ukraine
2:16.36
30
Lee Merrien
Great Britain
2:17.00
31
Ignacio Caceres
Spain
2:17.11
32
Lee Du-haeng
South Korea
2:17.19
33
Faustine Mussa
Tanzania
2:17.39
34
Jose Carlos Hernandez
Spain
2:17.48
35
Miguel Barzola
Argentina
2:17.54
36
Urige Buta
Norway
2:17.58
37
Grigoriy Andreev
Russia
2:18.20
38
Jose Amado Garcia
Guatemala
2:18.23
39
Daniel Vargas
Mexico
2:18.26
40
Ryo Yamamoto
Japan
2:18.34
41
Jesper Faurschou
Denmark
2:18.44
42
Kari Steinn Karlsson
Iceland
2:18.47
43
Lusapho April
South Africa
2:19.00
44
Mike Tebulo
Malawi
2:19.11
45
Arata Fujiwara
Japan
2:19.11
46
Primoz Kobe
Slovenia
2:19.28
47
Guor Marial
Independent Olympic Athletes
2:19.32
48
Luis Feiteira
Portugal
2:19.40
49
Stpehen Mokoka
South Africa
2:19.52
50
Miguel Angel Almachi
Ecuador
2:19.53
51
Ser-Ok Bat-Ochir
Mongolia
2:20.10
52
Pak Song-chol
North Korea
2:20.20
53
Kim Kwang-hyok
North Korea
2:20.20
54
Dong Guojian
China
2:20.39
55
Anuradha Cooray
Sri Lanka
2:20.41
56
Methkal Abu Drais
Jordan
2:21.00
57
Mark Kenneally
Ireland
2:21.13
58
Yonas Kifle
Eritrea
2:21.25
59
Ivan Babaryka
Ukraine
2:21.52
60
Carlos Cordero
Mexico
2:22.08
61
Scott Overall
Great Britain
2:22.37
62
Pedro Mora
Venezuela
2:22.40
63
Jeff Hunt
Australia
2:22.59
64
Stsiapan Rahautsou
Belarus
2:23.23
65
Cesar Lizano
Costa Rica
2:24.16
66
Samson Ramadhani
Tanzania
2:24.53
67
Jan Kreisinger
Czech Republic
2:25.03
68
Mohammed Abduh Bakhet
Qatar
2:25.17
69
Jussi Utriainen
Finland
2:26.25
70
Arturo Malaquias
Mexico
2:26.37
71
Wissem Hosni
Tunisia
2:26.43
72
Tamas Kovacs
Hungary
2:27.48
73
Jang Sin-kweon
South Korea
2:28.20
74
Antoni Bernado
Andorra
2:28.34
75
Marcel Tschopp
Liechtenstein
2:28.54
76
Bekir Karayel
Turkey
2:29.38
77
Chang Chia-che
Chinese Taipei
2:29.58
78
Ram Singh Yadav
India
2:30.06
79
Jean Pierre Mvuyekure
Rwanda
2:30.19
80
Konstadinos Poulios
Greece
2:33.17
81
Zohar Zemiro
Israel
2:34.59
82
Jeong Jin-hyeok
South Korea
2:38.45
83
Juan Carlos Cardona
Colombia
2:40.13
84
Augusto Soares
Timor-Leste
2:45.09
85
Tsepo Ramonene
Lesotho
2:55.54
-
Abdihakem Abdirahman
United States
DNF
-
Ayele Abshero
Ethiopia
DNF
-
Abderrahime Bouramdane
Morocco
DNF
-
Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi
Libya
DNF
-
Getu Feleke
Ethiopia
DNF
-
Tayeb Filali
Algeria
DNF
-
Ryan Hall
United States
DNF
-
Zatara Mande Ilunga
Democratic Republic of the Congo
DNF
-
Abraham Kiprotich
France
DNF
-
Li Zicheng
China
DNF
-
Abdellatif Meftah
France
DNF
-
Coolboy Ngamole
South Africa
DNF
-
Roman Prodius
Moldova
DNF
-
Dino Sefir
Ethiopia
DNF
-
Rui Pedro Silva
Portugal
DNF
-
Patrick Tambwe
France
DNF
-
Samuel Tsegay
Eritrea
DNF
-
Gunther Weidlinger
Austria
DNF
-
Darko Zivanovic
Serbia
DNF
-
Valerijs Zolnerovics
Latvia
DNF
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