1995 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	78 runners from 43 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Round trip through Gothenburg
Competition phase	12. August
Medalist Martín Fiz ( ESP )   Dionicio Cerón ( MEX )   Luíz Antônio dos Santos ( BRA )

The Gustavus Adolphus -Platz in Gothenburg

The marathon men at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics was in the streets of the August 12, 1995 Swedish city of Gothenburg held.

World champion was the reigning European champion Martín Fiz from Spain . He won in front of the Mexican Dionicio Cerón . Bronze went to the Brazilian Luíz Antônio dos Santos .

Existing records

World record	2:06:50 h	Belayneh Dinsamo	Rotterdam Marathon , Netherlands	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.

Even at these world championships, the world championship record that had existed since the first World Cup was held in 1983 was not achieved.

Result

Martín Fiz - European champion the year before and now also world champion

Eighth place for Steve Moneghetti - in 1997 he won the World Championship bronze

Pavel Loskutov - 49th place

Rainer Wachenbrunner (right) gave up the race

August 12, 1995, 2 p.m.

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Martín Fiz	Spain	2:11:41
	Dionicio Cerón	Mexico	2:12:13
	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	Brazil	2:12:49
04th	Peter Whitehead	Great Britain	2:14:08
05	Alberto Juzdado	Spain	2:15:29
06th	Diego García	Spain	2:15:34
07th	Richard Nerurkar	Great Britain	2:15:47
08th	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	2:16:13
09	Andrés Espinosa	Mexico	2:16:44
10	Steve Plasencia	United States	2:16:56
11	Bruce Deacon	Canada	2:16:58
12	Yuji Nakamura	Japan	2:17:30
13	Oleg Strizhakov	Russia	2:17:50
14th	Konrad Dobler	Germany	2:18:09
15th	Isidro Rico	Mexico	2:18:29
16	Ikaji Salum	Tanzania	2:18:39
17th	Daisuke Tokunaga	Japan	2:19:53
18th	Erick Wainaina	Kenya	2:19:53
19th	Terje Naess	Norway	2:20:06
20th	Abdelillah Zerdal	Morocco	2:20:10
21st	Ed Eyestone	United States	2:20:17
22nd	Lee Bong-ju	South Korea	2:20:31
23	John Andrews	Australia	2:20:32
24	Tahar Mansouri	Tunisia	2:20:44
25th	Hussein Ahmed Salah	Djibouti	2:20:50
26th	Elphas Ginindza	Swaziland	2:21:01
27	Michael Mukoma	Kenya	2:21:08
28	Joseph Tjitunga	Namibia	2:21:57
29	Tumo Turbo	Ethiopia	2:22:01
30th	Harri Hänninen	Finland	2:22:43
31	Omar Abdillahi	Djibouti	2:23:26
32	Martin Ndivheni	South Africa	2:23:42
33	Luca Barzaghi	Italy	2:23:51
34	John Mwathiwa	Malawi	2:24:01
35	Roman Kejžar	Slovenia	2:24:10
36	Isaac Tshabalala	South Africa	2:24:42
37	Stephen Langat	Kenya	2:25:49
38	Hsu Gi-sheng	Chinese Taipei	2:25:55
39	Dominique Chauvelier	France	2:27:30
40	Nazirdin Akylbekov	Kyrgyzstan	2:27:44
41	Toshiaki Kurabayashi	Japan	2:28:57
42	William Aguirre	Nicaragua	2:29:54
43	Juma Ikangaa	Tanzania	2:30:53
44	Eduard Tuchbatullin	Russia	2:31:19
45	Matthews Temane	South Africa	2:31:24
46	Idris Ibrahim	Sweden	2:31:31
47	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia	2:32:35
48	Mothusi Tsiana	Botswana	2:33:03
49	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	2:33:42
50	Jean-Marie Gehin	France	2:34:10
51	Mimoun Lamhajar	Morocco	2:35:17
52	Sean Quilty	Australia	2:37:01
53	Islam Dugum	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:38:37
DNF	Paul Pilkington	United States
	Peter Maher	Canada
	Paul Kuete	Cameroon
	Abdelillah Sbaiti	Morocco
	Pamenos Ballantyne	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
	Boay Akonay	Tanzania
	Mark Hudspith	Great Britain
	Antonio Vicente Neto	Brazil
	Laurentiu Staicu	Romania
	Rainer Wachenbrunner	Germany
	Sid-Ali Sakhri	Algeria
	Karel David	Czech Republic
	Asaf Bimro	Israel
	Åke Eriksson	Sweden
	Luigi Di Lello	Italy
	Joaquim Silva	Portugal
	Aleksandr Vychuzhanin	Russia
	Yayeh Aden	Djibouti
	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil
	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal
	Poulo Makhoahle	Lesotho
	Kim Yong-bok	South Korea
	Borislav Devic	Yugoslavia
	Tena Negere	Ethiopia
	Kent Jensen	Denmark

Video

• 1995 Gothenburg, Sweden. WC Men's Marathon , video posted September 9, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed May 26, 2020

Web links and sources

Commons : World Athletics Championships 1995  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage for the 1995 World Cup on the IAAF website , accessed on May 26, 2020
• Men Marathon Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed on May 26, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Marathon, Gothenborg 1995, p. 136 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 26, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 26, 2020