2001 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	80 athletes from 38 countries
venue	Edmonton
place	Edmonton circuit
Competition phase	3rd August
Medalist
gold	Gezahegne Abera ( ETH )
silver	Simon Biwott ( KEN )
bronze	Stefano Baldini ( ITA )
Marathon Cup (team ranking) without counting in the medal table
Rank 1	Ethiopia
Rank 2	Japan
Rank 3	Italy

The marathon men at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was in the streets of the August 3, 2001 Canadian city of Edmonton held.

The Ethiopian Olympic champion from 2000 Gezahegne Abera became world champion . He won ahead of the Kenyan Simon Biwott . Bronze went to the reigning European champion Stefano Baldini from Italy .

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 Ethiopia won ahead of Japan and Italy .

Existing best times / records

World record	2:05:42 h	Khalid Khannouchi	Chicago , USA	October 24, 1999
World championship record	2:10:03 h	Robert de Castella	World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1983

Edmonton skyline, in 2019

Note:
Records have still not been set in marathon running and street walking due to the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

At these world championships, too , the world championship record that had been in place since the first World Cup in 1983 remained safe.

doping

There was a doping case here.

The Italian Roberto Barbi , initially placed in sixty, had already been proven to have used the blood doping agent erythropoietin before these world championships after an unannounced blood and urine test by the IAAF on July 30th . He was disqualified after the official confirmation of this evidence.

Result

World champion Gezahegne Abera

Stefano Baldini, reigning European champion , won bronze

Benoît Zwierzchiewski came in thirteenth place

38th place for Eddy Hellebuyck

Anders Szalkai came in 39th

Ðuro Kodžo was 59.

Gert Thys - not on target

Khalid Khannouchi - not on target

August 3, 2001, 6:45 p.m.

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Denied Abera	Ethiopia	2:12:42
	Simon Biwott	Kenya	2:12:43
	Stefano Baldini	Italy	2:13:18
04th	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia	2:13:58
05	Shigeru Aburaya	Japan	2:14:07
06th	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	Morocco	2:15:41
07th	Tesfaye Jifar	Ethiopia	2:16:52
08th	Yoshiteru Morishita	Japan	2:17:05
09	Takayuki Nishida	Japan	2:17:24
10	Simretu Alemayehu	Ethiopia	2:17:35
11	Giacomo Leone	Italy	2:17:54
12	Atsushi Fujita	Japan	2:18:23
13	Benoît Zwierzchiewski	France	2:18:29
14th	Ian Syster	South Africa	2:19:38
15th	Óscar Fernández	Spain	2:19:45
16	Abdelhakim Bagy	France	2:20:43
17th	Alberico Di Cecco	Italy	2:20:44
18th	Oleksandr Kusyn	Ukraine	2:21:26
19th	Benjamin Paredes	Mexico	2:22:07
20th	Asaf Bimro	Israel	2:22:36
21st	Andrés Espinosa	Mexico	2:23:06
22nd	Lim Jin-soo	South Korea	2:23:16
23	Nicholas Harrison	Australia	2:23:24
24	Antoni Peña	Spain	2:23:29
25th	Pamenos Ballantyne	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	2:24:36
26th	Kenichi Takahashi	Japan	2:24:41
27	Franklin Tenorio	Ecuador	2:25:15
28	Luketz Swartbooi	Namibia	2:25:40
29	Kamal Ziani	Spain	2:25:43
30th	Thabiso Moqhali	Lesotho	2:25:44
31	Mykola Rudyk	Ukraine	2:26:04
32	Diego Colorado	Colombia	2:26:13
33	Ahmed Adam Saleh	Qatar	2:26:32
34	Larbi Zeroual	France	2:26:45
35	Josh Cox	United States	2:26:52
36	Rod de Highden	Australia	2:27:42
37	Julio Rey	Spain	2:27:59
38	Eddy Hellebuyck	United States	2:28:01
39	Szalkai is different	Sweden	2:28:33
40	Magnus Michelsson	Australia	2:28:36
41	Francisco Javier Cortés	Spain	2:28:48
42	Steve Bohan	Canada	2:29:22
43	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	2:29:25
44	Tesfit Berhe	Eritrea	2:29:50
45	Francisco Bautista	Mexico	2:29:56
46	Bruce Deacon	Canada	2:30:22
47	Vasiliy Medvedev	Uzbekistan	2:30:28
48	Michael Dudley	United States	2:30:45
49	Vasilios Zabelis	Greece	2:31:34
50	Andriy Naumov	Ukraine	2:31:42
51	Antonio Zeferino	Cape Verde	2:32:46
52	Kim Gillard	Australia	2:33:11
53	Rafael Yax	Guatemala	2:33:21
54	Kim Yi-yong	South Korea	2:33:28
55	Isaac García	Mexico	2:33:32
56	Alfredo Arevalo	Guatemala	2:34:16
57	Gregorio Domínguez	Mexico	2:35:15
58	Jean-Paul Niyonsaba	Burundi	2:35:43
59	Ðuro Kodžo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:35:47
60	Zigmund Zilbershtein	Georgia	2:36:01
61	Kopamo Pekile	Lesotho	2:26:24
62	Juan Eulogio Ramos	Guatemala	2:37:15
63	Honest Mutsakani	Zimbabwe	2:37:44
64	Oliver Utting	Canada	2:39:53
65	Nestor Jami	Ecuador	2:41:18
66	Abdellah Béhar	France	2:41:42
67	Laban Nkete	South Africa	2:42:21
68	Sergey Zabavski	Tajikistan	2:42:22
69	José Jami	Ecuador	2:42:33
70	Leonardo Vieira Guedes	Brazil	2:43:11
71	Christian Marmen	Canada	2:44:44
72	Fraser Bertram	Canada	2:45:10
DNF	Abukar Mohamed	Somalia
	Gert Thys	South Africa
	Josiah Bembe	South Africa
	Abdelfattah Aïtzouri	Morocco
	Lee Bong-ju	South Korea
	Josephat Kiprono	Kenya
	Samson Kandie	Kenya
	Theodoros Zahos	Greece
	Ahmed Saeed Hassan	Somalia
	Elijah Mutandiro	Zimbabwe
	Elson Williams	Guyana
	Arkadi Tolstyh	Kyrgyzstan
	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda
	Stephen Bwire Mlingi	Tanzania
	Luís Novo	Portugal
	Roman Kejžar	Slovenia
	Ronnie Holassie	Trinidad and Tobago
	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria
	Fekadu Degefu	Ethiopia
	Mohamed Ezzher	France
	Giovanni Ruggiero	Italy
	David Morris	United States
	Khalid Khannouchi	United States
DOP	Roberto Barbi	Italy
DNS	Josiah Thugwane	South Africa
	Mustapha Riyadh	Morocco
	Percy Sephoda	Lesotho
	Pedro Ventura Jiménez	Honduras
	Emiliano Lemus	Honduras
	Hence Gadid Omar	Honduras
	Ntoka Kapinga	Democratic Republic of Congo

Marathon cup

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Ethiopia	Pitched Abera Tesfaye Tola Tesfaye Jifar	6:43:32
2	Japan	Shigeru Aburaya Yoshiteru Morishita Takayuki Nishida	6:48:36
3	Italy	Stefano Baldini Giacomo Leone Alberico Di Cecco	6:51:56
4th	France	Benoît Zwierzchiewski Abdelhakim Bagy Larbi Zeroual	7:05:57
5	Spain	Óscar Fernández Antoni Peña Kamal Ziani	7:08:57
6th	Mexico	Benjamin Paredes Andrés Espinosa Francisco Bautista	7:15:09
7th	Ukraine	Oleksandr Kusyn Mykola Rudyk Andriy Naumov	7:19:12
8th	Australia	Nicholas Harrison Rod de Highden Magnus Michelsson	7:19:42
9	United States	Josh Cox Eddy Hellebuyck Michael Dudley	7:25:38
10	Canada	Steve Bohan Bruce Deacon Oliver Utting	7:39:37
11	Guatemala	Rafael Yax Alfredo Arevalo Juan Eulogio Ramos	7:44:52
12	Ecuador	Franklin Tenorio Nestor Jami José Jami	7:48:56

Video

• 2001 IAAF World Championships Men's Marathon on youtube.com, accessed August 8, 2020

Web links and sources

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 8, 2020
• Men Marathon Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 8, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Marathon, Edmonton 2001, p. 137 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 8, 2020
• Athletics World Cup: In the sprint to marathon gold , Der Tagesspiegel August 4, 2001 on tagesspiegel.de, accessed on August 8, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 8, 2020
2. ↑ EPO: Marathon man Barbi was positive in Edmonton , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 17, 2001 on faz.net, accessed on August 5, 2020