1999 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	80 athletes from 38 countries
venue	Seville
place	Seville circuit
Competition phase	August 28th
Medalist
gold	Abel Antón ( ESP )
silver	Vincenzo Modica ( ITA )
bronze	Nobuyuki Satō ( JPN )
Marathon Cup (team ranking) without counting in the medal table
Rank 1	Italy
Rank 2	Japan
Rank 3	Ethiopia

Plaza de España , Seville , in 1999

The men's marathon at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 28, 1999 in the streets of the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

World champion was the Spanish defending champion Abel Antón , who started on the track distances at the European Championships in 1994 and won gold over 10,000 meters and bronze over 5000 meters . Silver went to the Italian European Championship third from 1998 Vincenzo Modica . The Japanese Nobuyuki Satō came in third place.

As with the previous World Championships , there was a team classification, the so-called Marathon Cup. The number of participants was correspondingly high. Five runners per nation were allowed, of which the times of the best three were added together for the evaluation. However, this competition was not part of the official medal table. The team from Italy won ahead of Japan and Ethiopia .

Existing best times / records

World record	2:06:05 h	Ronaldo da Costa	Berlin Marathon 1998 , Germany	September 20, 1998
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, nobody came close to the world championship record that had existed since the first world championship in 1983 .

Result

After his victory over 10,000 meters and third place over 5000 meters at the European Championships in 1994 , Abel Antón (photo: 2008) has now defended his World Championship title on the marathon distance

Martín Fiz, the 1995 winner , runner-up in 1997 and European champion in 1994 , came eighth here

Daniele Caimmi (here at the Vienna City Marathon 2013 with starting number 51) came in tenth

The eleventh placed Gezahegne Abera

Gert Thys (Photo: 2013) reached number fifteen

26th place for Eddy Hellebuyck

Alfred Shemweta - Rank 28

Steve Moneghetti, 1997 World Cup third - 29th place

August 28, 1999, 6:45 p.m.

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Abel Antón	Spain	2:13:36
	Vincenzo Modica	Italy	2:14:03
	Nobuyuki Satō	Japan	2:14:07
04th	Luís Novo	Portugal	2:14:27
05	Danilo Goffi	Italy	2:14:50
06th	Atsushi Fujita	Japan	2:15:45
07th	Kōji Shimizu	Japan	2:15:50
08th	Martín Fiz	Spain	2:16:17
09	Simon Biwott	Kenya	2:16:20
10	Daniele Caimmi	Italy	2:16:23
11	Denied Abera	Ethiopia	2:16:42
12	Gemechu Kebede	Ethiopia	2:16:44
13	Ambesse Tolosa	Ethiopia	2:16:45
14th	Mostafa El Damaoui	Morocco	2:16:49
15th	Gert Thys	South Africa	2:17:13
16	Simon Mphulanyane	South Africa	2:17:38
17th	Makhosonke Fika	South Africa	2:17:47
18th	Akira Manai	Japan	2:17:56
19th	Jean Pierre Monciaux	France	2:18:07
20th	Roberto Barbi	Italy	2:18:13
21st	Hyung Jae-young	South Korea	2:18:19
22nd	Nikolaos Pollias	Greece	2:18:27
23	Mohamed Ouaadi	France	2:18:45
24	Rod DeHaven	United States	2:19:06
25th	Giovanni Ruggiero	Italy	2:19:34
26th	Eddy Hellebuyck	United States	2:20:18
27	Bruce Deacon	Canada	2:20:25
28	Alfred Shemweta	Sweden	2:20:27
29	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	2:20:32
30th	Belaye Wolashe	Ethiopia	2:21:04
31	Dube Jillo	Ethiopia	2:23:04
32	Szalkai is different	Sweden	2:23:18
33	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	2:23:39
34	Jonathan Hume	United States	2:23:50
35	Valeriu Vlas	Moldova	2:24:22
36	Tadayuki Ojima	Japan	2:24:29
37	John Monyatso	South Africa	2:25:03
38	Juan Camacho	Mexico	2:25:18
39	Antonio Zeferino	Cape Verde	2:26:03
40	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	2:26:40
41	Faustino Reynoso	Mexico	2:26:57
42	Alejandro Cruz	Mexico	2:27:31
43	Rachid Aitbensalem	Morocco	2:27:51
44	Mohamed Guennani	France	2:28:59
45	Vicente Chura	Peru	2:29:27
46	Abner Chipu	South Africa	2:29:51
47	Steve Swift	United States	2:30:04
48	Patrick Carroll	Australia	2:31:26
49	Willy Kalombo Mwenze	Democratic Republic of Congo	2:31:55
50	Francisco Javier Cortés	Spain	2:32:06
51	Sergey Zabavski	Hungary	2:32:22
52	Andreiy Gordeyev	Belarus	2:33:09
53	Mpakeletsa Sephali	Lesotho	2:33:21
54	William Ramirez	Colombia	2:36:18
55	Zvade Vodage	Israel	2:36:19
56	Luke Magongo	Swaziland	2:38:26
57	Andrew Smith	Guyana	2:39:45
58	Lwan Thu	Myanmar	2:45:34
59	Georges Richmond	Tahiti	2:45:36
60	Trpe Martinovski	Macedonia	2:48:36
61	Sean Quilty	Australia	2:48:58
62	Bouh Omar Moussa	Djibouti	2:52:33
63	Daviano Aviles	Mexico	2:53:24
64	Richard Rodriguez	Aruba	2:53:51
65	To Rithya	Cambodia	2:59:20
DNF	Philippe Rémond	France
	Luis Soares	France
	Roman Kejžar	Slovenia
	Manukau Teuribaki	Kiribati
	Patrick Ntambwe	Democratic Republic of Congo
	Vilayvanh Phachansili	Laos
	Ali Mohamed Abdi	Djibouti
	Antoni Peña	Spain
	Keith Brantly	United States
	Zebedayo Bayo	Tanzania
	Ghadid Omar Hence	Djibouti
	Fabián Roncero	Spain
	Shaun Creighton	Australia
	Abdelfattah Aïtzouri	Morocco
	Antonio Salvador	Portugal
DNS	Nazirdin Akylbekov	Kyrgyzstan
	Benjamin Paredes	Mexico
	Ahmed Salah	Djibouti

Marathon cup

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Italy	Vincenzo Modica Danilo Goffi Daniele Caimmi	6:45:16
2	Japan	Nobuyuki Satō Atsushi Fujita Kōji Shimizu	6:45:42
3	Ethiopia	Zahegne Abera Gemechu Kebede Ambesse Tolosa	6:50:11
4th	South Africa	Gert Thys Simon Mphulanyane Makhosonke Fika	6:52:38
5	Spain	Abel Antón Martín Fiz Alejandro Gómez	6:56:33
6th	United States	Rod DeHaven Eddy Hellebuyck Jonathan Hume	7:03:14
7th	France	Jean Pierre Monciaux Mohamed Ouaadi Mohamed Guennani	7:05:51
8th	Mexico	Juan Camacho Faustino Reynoso Alejandro Cruz	7:19:46
9	Australia	Steve Moneghetti Patrick Carroll Sean Quilty	7:40:56

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  Anders Szalkai - 32nd place

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  Fabián Roncero - Race not finished

Video

• 1999 World Championships Men's Marathon on youtube.com, accessed July 13, 2020

Web links and sources

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 13, 2020
• Men 800m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 13, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 800 m, Seville 1999, p. 137 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 13, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 13, 2020