European Athletics Championships 2018 / men's marathon
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| discipline | Men's marathon |
| city |
 Berlin
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| place | Circuit through Berlin |
| Attendees | 72 athletes from 25 countries |
| Competition phase | August 12, 2018 |
| Individual medal winner | |
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 gold |
Koen Naert ( BEL )
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 silver |
Tadesse Abraham ( SUI )
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 bronze |
Yassine Rachik ( ITA )
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The first three teams in the Marathon Cup - not counted in the official medal classification - |
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gold |
Italy
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silver |
 Spain
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bronze |
 Austria
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The men's marathon at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 12 in the German capital Berlin . In addition to the individual classification, there was also a team classification, the so-called Marathon Cup, with the best three runners per country, whose times were added. This Marathon Cup was held for the second time, but was not included in the official medal ranking.
Belgian Koen Naert became European champion . The Swiss Tadesse Abraham won the silver medal. The Italian Yassine Rachik came third .
Italy won the Marathon Cup with Yassine Rachik, Eyob Ghebrehiwet Faniel and Stefano La Rosa. Spain - Javier Guerra, Jesús España , Camilo Raúl Santiago - won the silver medal. Bronze went to Austria - Lemawork Ketema , Peter Herzog, Christian Steinhammer.
route
The race was held on a circuit in downtown Berlin. One lap was ten kilometers, in the last lap there was another additional loop - a section of the Straße des 17. Juni between the Großer Stern and the Brandenburg Gate .
The start and finish of the run were at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Breitscheidplatz . Sights such as the Great Tiergarten , the Berlin Victory Column , Bellevue Palace , the House of World Cultures , the Reichstag Building , the Soviet Memorial in the Tiergarten , the Brandenburg Gate , Pariser Platz , the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe , the Potsdamer Platz , the New National Gallery , the Bauhaus Archive as well as Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstrasse . The route ran through the districts of Charlottenburg , Tiergarten and Mitte .
Refreshment stations were on Reichpietschufer and Bellevue Palace. Water and sponges were distributed at Olof-Palme-Platz , at the Soviet memorial in the zoo and in the additional loop. There were showers at the Soviet Memorial in the Tiergarten and on Tauentzienstrasse.
Records
Existing records
| World record |
 Dennis Kipruto Kimetto
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2:02:57 h | Berlin Marathon , Germany | September 28, 2014 |
| European record |
 Sondre Nordstad Moen
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2:05:48 h | Fukuoka Marathon , Japan | 3rd December 2017 |
| Championship record |
Martín Fiz
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2:10:31 h | EM in Helsinki , Finland | August 14, 1994 |
Record improvements
Koen Naert improved the existing EM record to 2:09:51 h.
Championship record Marathon Cup
| Existing record |
 Russia ( Alexei Reunkow - 2:12:15 h, Stepan Kisseljow - 2:15:45 h, Sergei Rybin - 2:18:04 h) |
6:46:04 h | EM in Zurich , Switzerland | 17th August 2014 |
| New record |
Italy (Yassine Rachik - 2:12:09 h, Eyob Ghebrehiwet Faniel - 2:12:43 h, Stefano La Rosa - 2:15:57 h) |
6:40:48 h | EM in Berlin , Germany | August 12, 2018 |
Course of competition
August 12, 2018, 8:20 p.m. CEST
At a world level, runners from Africa and partly Japan have dominated this competition for many years. Here the Europeans now had the chance to show themselves with good performances. At the last European Championships , due to the hosting of the Olympic Games in the same year, there was only one race at half the distance to save the runners from having to choose one of the two competitions. Here in Berlin , the full distance marathon was on the program again.
From the start, the pace was pretty brisk. After ten kilometers a group of sixteen had separated a little. Little by little, runners fell behind, the leadership work was mainly done by the Swiss Tadesse Abraham, who won the half marathon at the 2016 European Championships. At thirty kilometers were Abraham, the Belgian Koen Naert, the three Italians Yassine Rachik, Stefano La Rosa and Eyob Ghebrehiwet Faniel, the two Spaniards Javier Guerra and Jesús España, the Austrian Lemawork Ketema, the Polish Henryk Szost and the Dutch Abdi Nageeye ten runners represented in the top group.
Now the race entered a decisive phase. Naert set himself apart from his rivals alone and had a lead of almost half a minute at kilometer 35. The first persecutors were Abraham and Rachik. Nageeye was just a few seconds behind, and Guerra was in fifth place a further fourteen seconds. The gap between the next two athletes España and Ghebrehiwet Faniel was 55 seconds. Naert now increased the pace again and extended his lead. Abraham was able to shake off his companion Rachik, Guerra followed in fourth, while Nageeye gave up the race. Finally Koen Naert became European Champion and set a new championship record with 2:09:51 h. Tadesse Abraham won silver, 1:33 minutes behind. Abraham's lead over bronze medalist Yassine Rachik was 45 seconds. Javier Guerra was fourth, 21 seconds behind Rachik. Eyob Ghebrehiwet Faniel took fifth place ahead of Jesús España. Maru Teferi from Israel crossed the finish line in seventh ahead of Lemawork Ketema.
Italy won the team championship. In addition to Rachik and Ghebrehiwet Faniel, the twelfth-placed Stefano La Rosa was included in the ranking. The team's time was more than five minutes faster than Russia's winning time when the Marathon Cup was held in Zurich four years ago . Spain finished second, whose team consisted of Guerra, España and sixteenth Camilo Raúl Santiago. Austria won bronze with Ketema, Peter Herzog - place ten - and Christian Steinhammer - place 41.
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| Split times | |||
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| brand | time | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 15:20 min | Hassan Chahdi in a large group | 15:20 min |
| 10 km | 30:55 min | Sondre Nordstad Moen in a group of 16 | 15:35 min |
| 15 km | 46:39 min | Tadesse Abraham in a group of 16 | 15:44 min |
| 20 km | 1:02:38 h | Tadesse Abraham in a group of 13 | 15:59 min |
| 25 km | 1:18:04 h | Tadesse Abraham in a group of 12 | 15:26 min |
| 30 km | 1:33:35 h | Abraham, Naert, Rachik, Guerra, Ketema, La Rosa, España, Ghebrehiwet Faniel, Szost, Nageeye | 15:31 min |
| 35 km | 1:48:22 h | Naert / Abraham, Rachik 29 s for. / Nageeye 31s for. / Guerra 45s for. / España, Ghebrehiwet Faniel 55 s for. | 15:47 min |
| 40 km | 2:03:13 h | Naert / Abraham 1:18 min back / Rachik 1:40 min back. / Guerra 2:01 min to. / Ghebrehiwet Faniel 2:13 min to. | 14:51 min |
Results
Individual evaluation
Team competition, marathon cup
The three best runners from each country were included in the ranking, and their times were added together to produce the result. However, the competition was not included in the official medal scoring.
| space | country | Athletes | Time (h) |
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Italy
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6:40:48 CR |
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Spain
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6:42:43 |
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Austria
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6:49:29 |
| 4th |
Switzerland
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6:51:58 |
| 5 |
 Poland
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6:52:31 |
| 6th |
 Ireland
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6:53:55 |
| 7th |
Germany
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6; 54:50 |
| 8th |
 Ukraine
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6:55:04 |
| 9 |
 Lithuania
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6:57:29 |
| 10 |
 France
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6:59:13 |
| 11 |
 Turkey
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7:06:07 |
| 12 |
 Greece
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7:32:58 |
The marathon runners in front of the Brandenburg Gate
Henryk Szost, Poland - nineteen place
Valdas Dopolskas, Lithuania - twenty place
Arkadiusz Gardzielewski, Poland - 21st place
Pedro Nimo, Spain - 22nd place
Yavuz Ağralı, Turkey - 23rd place
Oleksandr Sitkowskyj, Ukraine - 24th place
Sean Hehir, Ireland - 25th place
Remigijus Kančys, Lithuania - 26th place
Christian Kreienbühl, Switzerland - 27th place
Jonas Koller, Germany - 28th place
Gáspár Csere, Hungary - 29th place
Abdellatif Meftah, France - thirty place
Yohan Durand, France - 31st place
Iraitz Arrospide, Spain - 34th place
Sergio Ciobanu, Ireland - 36th place
Benjamin Malaty, France - 39th place
Błażej Brzeziński, Poland - 45th place
Markus Schöfisch, Germany - 46th place
Paul Pollock, Ireland - 47th place
Artur Kozłowski, Poland - 52nd place
Abdi Nageeye, Netherlands - race not finished
Philipp Pflieger, Germany - race not finished
Tibor Sahajda, Slovakia - race not finished
Valentin Pfeil, Austria - race not finished
Sondre Nordstad Moen, Great Britain - Race not finished
Hassan Chahdi, France - Race not finished
Yared Shegumo, Poland - Race not finished
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Web links and sources
- Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 1, 2019
- Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 1, 2019
- Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 1, 2019
Video
- Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships, Marathon course on youtube.com, published on July 25, 2018, accessed on January 1, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships, Marathon course on youtube.com, published on July 25, 2018, accessed on January 16, 2019