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2001 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

Athletic competition

Summary

Athletic competition

The Men's Marathon at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada was held on August 3, 2001.

The winning margin was one second. This was the smallest margin of victory in the marathon at the World Championships until 2025.

Medalists

Bronze	ITA Stefano Baldini
Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations

All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2001 World Athletics Championships
World Record
Event Record
Season Best

Intermediates

Rank	Number	Athlete	Country	Time
1	1101	Ronnie Holassie	TRI	15:31
2	1153	Josh Cox	USA	15:31
3	1249	Elijah Mutandiro	ZIM	15:31
4	572	Asaf Bimro	ISR	15:51
5	654	Takayuki Nishida	JPN	15:51
1	1101	Ronnie Holassie	TRI	30:54
2	334	Simretu Alemayehu	ETH	31:18
3	598	Giacomo Leone	ITA	31:18
4	1179	Khalid Khannouchi	USA	31:18
5	696	Lee Bong-Ju	KOR	31:18
1	1101	Ronnie Holassie	TRI	47:01
2	672	Simon Biwott	KEN	47:32
3	999	Mathias Ntawulikura	RWA	47:32
4	696	Lee Bong-Ju	KOR	47:32
5	951	Laban Nkete	RSA	47:32
1	1101	Ronnie Holassie	TRI	1:03:27
2	959	Ian Syster	RSA	1:03:28
3	334	Simretu Alemayehu	ETH	1:03:28
4	1179	Khalid Khannouchi	USA	1:03:28
5	672	Simon Biwott	KEN	1:03:28
1	334	Simretu Alemayehu	ETH	1:06:59
2	959	Ian Syster	RSA	1:06:59
3	761	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	MAR	1:06:59
4	598	Giacomo Leone	ITA	1:06:59
5	696	Lee Bong-Ju	KOR	1:06:59
1	598	Giacomo Leone	ITA	1:19:14
2	761	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	MAR	1:19:14
3	654	Takayuki Nishida	JPN	1:19:14
4	696	Lee Bong-Ju	KOR	1:19:14
5	959	Ian Syster	RSA	1:19:15
1	761	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	MAR	1:34:51
2	332	Gezahegne Abera	ETH	1:35:00
3	581	Stefano Baldini	ITA	1:35:00
4	672	Simon Biwott	KEN	1:35:00
5	630	Shigeru Aburaya	JPN	1:35:01
1	581	Stefano Baldini	ITA	1:50:46
2	341	Tesfaye Tola	ETH	1:50:46
3	332	Gezahegne Abera	ETH	1:50:46
4	672	Simon Biwott	KEN	1:50:47
5	630	Shigeru Aburaya	JPN	1:50:48
1	672	Simon Biwott	KEN	2:06:10
2	332	Gezahegne Abera	ETH	2:06:11
3	581	Stefano Baldini	ITA	2:06:25
4	341	Tesfaye Tola	ETH	2:06:34
5	630	Shigeru Aburaya	JPN	2:06:55

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
	Gezahegne Abera	ETH	2:12:42	SB
	Simon Biwott	KEN	2:12:43
	Stefano Baldini	ITA	2:13:18
4	Tesfaye Tola	ETH	2:13:58
5	Shigeru Aburaya	JPN	2:14:07
6	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	MAR	2:15:41
7	Tesfaye Jifar	ETH	2:16:52
8	Yoshiteru Morishita	JPN	2:17:05
9	Takayuki Nishida	JPN	2:17:24
10	Simretu Alemayehu	ETH	2:17:35
11	Giacomo Leone	ITA	2:17:54
12	Atsushi Fujita	JPN	2:18:23
13	Benoît Zwierzchiewski	FRA	2:18:29
14	Ian Syster	RSA	2:19:38
15	Óscar Fernández	ESP	2:19:45
16	Abdelhakim Bagy	FRA	2:20:43
17	Alberico di Cecco	ITA	2:20:44
18	Olexandr Kuzin	UKR	2:21:26
19	Benjamín Paredes	MEX	2:22:07
20	Asaf Bimro	ISR	2:22:36
21	Andrés Espinosa	MEX	2:23:06
22	Lim Jin-Soo	KOR	2:23:16
23	Nicholas Harrison	AUS	2:23:24
24	Antoni Peña	ESP	2:23:29
25	Pamenos Ballantyne	VIN	2:24:36
26	Kenichi Takahashi	JPN	2:24:41
27	Franklin Tenorio	ECU	2:25:15
28	Luketz Swartbooi	NAM	2:25:40
29	Kamal Ziani	ESP	2:25:43
30	Thabiso Moqhali	LES	2:25:44
31	Mykola Rudyk	UKR	2:26:04
32	Diego Colorado	COL	2:26:13
33	Ahmed Adam Saleh	QAT	2:26:32
34	Larbi Zeroual	FRA	2:26:45
35	Josh Cox	USA	2:26:52
36	Rod de Highden	AUS	2:27:42
37	Julio Rey	ESP	2:27:59
38	Eddy Hellebuyck	USA	2:28:01
39	Anders Szalkai	SWE	2:28:33
40	Magnus Michelsson	AUS	2:28:36
41	Francisco Javier Cortés	ESP	2:28:48
42	Steve Bohan	CAN	2:29:22
43	Ernest Ndjissipou	CAF	2:29:25
44	Tesfit Berhe	ERI	2:29:50
45	Francisco Bautista	MEX	2:29:56
46	Bruce Deacon	CAN	2:30:22
47	Vasiliy Medvedev	UZB	2:30:28
48	Michael Dudley	USA	2:30:45
49	Vasilios Zabelis	GRE	2:31:34
50	Andriy Naumov	UKR	2:31:42
51	António Zeferino	CPV	2:32:46
52	Kim Gillard	AUS	2:33:11
53	Rafael Yax	GUA	2:33:21
54	Kim Yi-Yong	KOR	2:33:28
55	Isaac García	MEX	2:33:32
56	Alfredo Arevalo	GUA	2:34:16
57	Gregorio Domínguez	MEX	2:35:15
58	Jean-Paul Niyonsaba	BDI	2:35:43
59	Ðuro Kodžo	BIH	2:35:47	PB
60	Zigmund Zilbershtein	GEO	2:36:01
61	Kopamo Pekile	LES	2:36:24
62	Juan Eulogio Ramos	GUA	2:37:15
63	Honest Mutsakani	ZIM	2:37:44
64	Oliver Utting	CAN	2:39:53
65	Nestor Jami	ECU	2:41:18
66	Abdellah Béhar	FRA	2:41:42
67	Laban Nkete	RSA	2:42:21
68	Sergey Zabavski	TJK	2:42:22
69	José Jami	ECU	2:42:23
70	Leonardo Vieira Guedes	BRA	2:43:11
71	Christian Marmen	CAN	2:44:44
72	Fraser Bertram	CAN	2:45:10
—	Roberto Barbi	ITA
—	Andreas Erm	GER
—	Abukar Mohamed	SOM
—	Gert Thys	RSA
—	Josiah Bembe	RSA
—	Abdelfattah Aïtzouri	MAR
—	Lee Bong-Ju	KOR
—	Josephat Kiprono	KEN
—	Samson Kandie	KEN
—	Theodoros Zachos	GRE
—	Ahmed Saeed Hassan	SOM
—	Elijah Mutandiro	ZIM
—	Elson Williams	GUY
—	Arkadi Tolstyh	KGZ
—	Mathias Ntawulikura	RWA
—	Stephen Bwire Mlingi	TAN
—	Luis Novo	POR
—	Roman Kejžar	SLO
—	Ronnie Holassie	TRI
—	Azzedine Sakhri	ALG
—	Fekadu Degefu	ETH
—	Mohamed Ezzher	FRA
—	Giovanni Ruggiero	ITA
—	David Morris	USA
—	Khalid Khannouchi	USA
—	Josiah Thugwane	RSA
—	Mustapha Riad	MAR
—	Percy Sephoda	LES
—	Pedro Ventura Jiménez	HON
—	Emiliano Lemus	HON
—	Daher Gadid Omar	DJI
—	Ntoka Kapinga	COD

References

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