European Athletics Championships 2002 / men's marathon

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Munich
place	Circuit through Munich
Attendees	34 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 11, 2002
Medalist
gold	Janne Holmén ( SWE )
silver	Pavel Loskutov ( EST )
bronze	Julio Rey ( ESP )
Marathon Cup (team ranking) without counting in the medal table
Rank 1	Spain
Rank 2	Italy
Rank 3	Israel

European champion Janne Holmén

The men's marathon at the 2002 European Athletics Championships took place on August 11, 2002 in Munich , Germany .

The Finn Janne Holmén won the race in 2:12:14 h. The Estonian Pavel Loskutov was runner-up in Europe ahead of the Spaniard Julio Rey .

As in the two previous European championships, there was a team classification, the so-called Marathon Cup. For this, the times of the three best runners per nation were added up. However, the evaluation was not part of the official medal table. The team from Spain won ahead of Italy and Israel.

Existing records

World record	Khalid Khannouchi	2:05:38 h	London Marathon 2002	April 14, 2003
European record	Carlos Lopes	2:07:12 h	Rotterdam Marathon 1985	April 20, 1985
Championship record	Martín Fiz	2:10:31 h	EM in Helsinki	August 14, 1994

Route

The race took place on a circuit that had to be run three times through the city center. The starting point was the residence . The course ran over Odeonsplatz - Giselastraße - Englischer Garten - Maximilianeum - Prinzregentenstraße - Isartor - Viktualienmarkt - Odeonsplatz and ended with the finish in the Olympic Stadium .

Result

Viktor Loskutov, Estonia - silver medalist

Piotr Benoît Zwierzchiewski, France - fourth place

Viktor Röthlin, Switzerland - sixteenth place

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Janne Holmén	Finland	2:12:14 SB
	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	2:13:18
	Julio Rey	Spain	2:13:21
04th	Daniele Caimmi	Italy	2:13:30
05	Alberto Juzdado	Spain	2:13:35
06th	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	2:13:40
07th	Ziani camel	Spain	2:13:51
08th	Karl Johan Rasmussen	Norway	2:14:00 PM PB
09	Francisco Javier Cortes	Spain	2:14:14
10	Migidio Bourifa	Italy	2:14:58
11	Xavier Caballero	Spain	2:15:07
12	Alberico di Cecco	Italy	2:15:52
13	Danilo Goffi	Italy	2:15:57
14th	Benoît Zwierzchiewski	France	2:16:00
15th	Gino van Geyte	Belgium	2:16:04 SB
16	Viktor Röthlin	Switzerland	2:16:16 SB
17th	Piotr Gładki	Poland	2:17:19
18th	Asaf Bimro	Israel	2:17:30 SB
19th	Ottavio Andriani	Italy	2:17:41 SB
20th	Vasilios Zabelis	Greece	2:19:31
21st	Sergio Chiesa	Italy	2:19:43
22nd	Wodage Zvadya	Israel	2:20:51 SB
23	José Santos	Portugal	2:20:55
24	Yrjo Pesons	Finland	2:22:58
25th	Antoni Bernadó	Andorra	2:23:13 SB
26th	Torben Nielsen	Denmark	2:23:36
27	Manuel Pita	Portugal	2:23:41 PB
28	Margus Pirksaar	Estonia	2:23:51
29	Antonio Sousa	Portugal	2:27:09
30th	Alcidio Costa	Portugal	2:27:09
31	Zigmund Zilbershtein	Georgia	2:30:10 PB
32	Haile Satayin	Israel	2:30:38 SB
	Guy Fays	Belgium	DNF
	Sreten Ninković	Yugoslavia

Result marathon cup

(only four teams in the rating)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Spain	Julio Rey Alberto Juzdado Alejandro Gómez	6:40:36
2	Italy	Daniele Caimmi Migidio Bourifa Alberico Di Cecco	6:44:20
3	Israel	Asaf Bimro Wodage Zvadya Ayele Setegne	7:08:59
4th	Portugal	José Santos Manuel Pita António Sousa	7:11:45

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  Piotr Gladki, Poland - seventeenth place

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  Yrjo Pesonen, Finland - 24th

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  Sreten Ninković, - race not finished

Web links and sources

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 13, 2019
• Men Marathon Athletics XVIII European Championships 2002 Munich from todor66.com, accessed on February 13, 2019