1993 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	69 athletes from 44 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Circuit through Stuttgart
Competition phase	August 14th
Medalist Mark Plaatjes ( USA )   Luketz Swartbooi ( NAM )   Bert van Vlaanderen ( NED )

Palace Square with art building and State Theater in the background (2011)

The men's marathon at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held on August 14, 1993 in the streets of the German city ​​of Stuttgart .

American Mark Plaatjes became world champion . He won ahead of the Namibian Luketz Swartbooi . Bronze went to Bert van Vlaanderen from the Netherlands .

Existing records

World record	2:06:50 h	Belayneh Dinsamo	Rotterdam marathon	April 17, 1988
World championship record	2:10:03 h	Robert de Castella	World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1983

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Result

Steve Jones was thirteenth

John Vermeule gave up the race early

August 14, 1993, 5:40 p.m.

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Mark Plaatjes	United States	2:13:57
	Luketz Swartbooi	Namibia	2:14:11
	Bert van Vlaanderen	Netherlands	2:15:12
04th	Kim Jae-ryong	South Korea	2:17:14
05	Tadao Uchikoshi	Japan	2:17:54
06th	Konrad Dobler	Germany	2:18:28
07th	Boniface Merande	Kenya	2:18:52
08th	Aleksey Zhelonkin	Russia	2:18:52
09	Tahar Mansouri	Tunisia	2:18:54
10	Peter Maher	Canada	2:19:26
11	Simon Robert Naali	Tanzania	2:19:30
12	Kurt Stenzel	Germany	2:19:53
13	Steve Jones	Great Britain	2:20:04
14th	Chang Ki-shik	South Korea	2:20:40
15th	Said Ermili	Morocco	2:22:17
16	Hitoshi Saotome	Japan	2:22:17
17th	Elphas Ginindza	Swaziland	2:23:00
18th	Cihangir Demirel	Turkey	2:23:02
19th	Mirko Vindiš	Slovenia	2:23:31
20th	Mukhamet Nazipov	Russia	2:24:07
21st	Juma Ikangaa	Tanzania	2:24:23
22nd	Uladsimir Kowtow	Belarus	2:24:26
23	Sid-Ali Sakhri	Algeria	2:24:35
24	Raf Wyns	Belgium	2:25:30
25th	Dominique Chauvelier	France	2:27:26
26th	Art boileau	Canada	2:27:30
27	Alejandro Aros	Chile	2:27:56
28	Roy Dooney	Ireland	2:28:04
29	Petr Pipa	Slovakia	2:28:05
30th	Harri Hänninen	Finland	2:28:07
31	Igor Salamun	Slovenia	2:28:56
32	Omar Abdillahi	Djibouti	2:29:28
33	Chad Bennion	United States	2:29:37
34	Tena Negere	Ethiopia	2:29:46
35	Martin Vrábel	Slovakia	2:30:37
36	Moses Matabane	Lesotho	2:30:40
37	Gi-Sheng Hsu	Chinese Taipei	2:30:56
38	Negash Dube	Ethiopia	2:33:03
39	Alberto Cuba	Cuba	2:34:26
40	Kuruppu Karunaratne	Sri Lanka	2:34:47
41	Takeharu Honda	Japan	2:37:48
42	Mothusi Tsiana	Botswana	2:42:10
43	Yeung Ng Fai	Hong Kong	2:55:17
DNF	Chaouki Achour	Algeria
	Marnix Goegebeur	Belgium
	Peter Fonseca	Canada
	Eladio Fernandez	Paraguay
	Roland Wille	Liechtenstein
	Brad Hudson	United States
	John Vermeule	Netherlands
	Stephan Freilang	Germany
	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia
	Malcolm Norwood	Australia
	Fred Schumann	Guam
	Willie Mtolo	South Africa
	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy
	Artur de Freitas	Brazil
	Mohamed Kamel Selmi	Algeria
	Carlos Patricio	Portugal
	Thierry Constantin	Switzerland
	Leszek Bebło	Poland
	Juan Torres	Spain
	Paul Evans	Great Britain
	Thomas Robert Naali	Tanzania
	Derek Froude	New Zealand
	Bertrand Itsweire	France
	Sławomir Gurny	Poland
	Cosmas Ndeti	Kenya
	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal
DNS	Dave Lewis	Great Britain

Video

• Men's Marathon World Champs Stuttgart 1993 , video published December 20, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed May 9, 2020

Web links and sources

Commons : World Athletics Championships 1993  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 9, 2020
• Men Marathon Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 9, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Marathon, Stuttgart 1993, p. 135f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 9, 2020