2001 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon
8th World Athletics Championships | |
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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 |
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
August 3, 2001, 6:45 p.m.
Marathon cup
space | country | Athletes | Time (h) |
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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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 8, 2020
- ↑ EPO: Marathon man Barbi was positive in Edmonton , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 17, 2001 on faz.net, accessed on August 5, 2020