2003 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon

The men's marathon at the 2003 World Athletics Championships took place on August 30, 2003 at 2:20 pm local time in Paris , France .

Jaouad Gharib won the race in 2:08:31 h.

Records

World record	Khalid Khannouchi	2:05:38 h	April 14th 2002, London Marathon
Championship record	Robert de Castella	2:10:03 h	August 14, 1983, World Cup in Helsinki

Result

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Jaouad Gharib	Morocco	2:08:31 CR
	Julio Rey	Spain	2:08:38
	Stefano Baldini	Italy	2:09:14
04th	Alberto Chaíça	Portugal	2:09:25 PB
05	Shigeru Aburaya	Japan	2:09:26 SB
06th	Daniele Caimmi	Italy	2:09:29 SB
07th	Ian Syster	South Africa	2:10:17
08th	Michael Kosgei Rotich	Kenya	2:10:35
09	Hendrick Ramaala	South Africa	2:10:37
10	Atsushi Satō	Japan	2:10:38
11	Lee Bong-ju	South Korea	2:10:38
12	Tsuyoshi Ogata	Japan	2:10:39 SB
13	Rachid Ghanmouni	Morocco	2:10:56 PB
14th	Viktor Rothlin	Switzerland	2:11:14
15th	Samson Ramadhani	Tanzania	2:11:21
16	José Manuel Martínez	Spain	2:11:31
17th	Lee Troop	Australia	2:11:46
18th	Rachid Ziar	Algeria	2:11:58 SB
19th	Ambesse Tolosa	Ethiopia	2:12:19 SB
20th	Luc Krotwaar	Netherlands	2:12:28 SB
21st	Kōji Shimizu	Japan	2:13:19
22nd	Alberico di Cecco	Italy	2:13:36
23	Ruggero Pertile	Italy	2:13:45
24	Nikolaos Polias	Greece	2:13:53 PB
25th	Larbi Zeroual	France	2:14:29
26th	Ashebir Demissie	Ethiopia	2:14:32
27	Asaf Bimro	Israel	2:14:52 NO
28	Juan Carlos Cardona	Colombia	2:14:52
29	Joachim Nshimirimana	Burundi	2:14:57 SB
30th	Gert Thys	South Africa	2:15:00
31	Al Mustafa Riyadh	Bahrain	2:15:20 NR
32	Kevin Collins	United States	2:15:38
33	Karl Johan Rasmussen	Norway	2:16:00 PM
34	Abdelhakim Bagy	France	2:16:06
35	Andrew Letherby	Australia	2:16:12 SB
36	Antoni Bernadó	Andorra	2:16:19
37	Ahmed Adam Saleh	Qatar	2:16:31 NO
38	Khalid Skah	Morocco	2:16:34 PB
39	Clinton Verran	United States	2:16:42
40	Lee Myong-seun	South Korea	2:16:46
41	Roderic de Highden	Australia	2:16:56
42	Philippe Rémond	France	2:17:35 SB
43	Dawit Terefa	Ethiopia	2:17:53
44	Yusuf Zepak	Turkey	2:18:02 PB
45	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	2:18:06 NO
46	Mytahar Echchadi	Morocco	2:18:12
47	Keith Dowling	United States	2:18:17 SB
48	Alberto Juzdado	Spain	2:18:34
49	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	2:18:44
50	Jose Ernani Palalia	Mexico	2:20:03
51	Nicholas Harrison	Australia	2:20:16
52	Ji Young-joon	South Korea	2:20:21
53	Migidio Bourifa	Italy	2:21:12
54	Carlos Grisales	Colombia	2:22:34 SB
55	Shane Nankervis	Australia	2:23:12
56	Vasiliy Medvedev	Uzbekistan	2:23:39 PB
57	Foaad Ali Abubaker	Qatar	2:23:40 PB
58	Julián Berrio	Colombia	2:24:03
59	Roman Kejžar	Slovenia	2:24:20
60	Driss El Himer	France	2:24:23
61	Jumah Omar Al-Noor	Qatar	2:24:33 PB
62	John Nada Saya	Tanzania	2:25:49 SB
63	Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od	Mongolia	2:26:39 NO
64	Jimmy Hearld	United States	2:26:59 PB
65	Jussi Utriainen	Finland	2:29:03 PB
66	Francisco Javier Cortés	Spain	2:29:53
67	Mpesela Ntlot'soeu	Lesotho	2:30:44 SB
68	Sokhibdjon Sharipov	Tajikistan	2:31:29 PB
69	Carlos Almeida	Cape Verde	2:33:31 PB
	Alejandro Gomez	Spain	DNF
	Haile Satayin	Israel
	Teferi Wodajo	Ethiopia
	Tobias Hezekiah	Namibia
	Frederick Cherono	Kenya
	Omar Hence Ghadid	Djibouti
	Joao N'Tyamba	Angola
	Ezael Thlobo	South Africa
	Josiah Thugwane	South Africa
	Ambrose Makau	Kenya
	Kemal Tuwaklyyew	Turkmenistan
	Matthew O'Dowd	United Kingdom
	William Kiplagat	Kenya
	Kim Yi-yong	South Korea
	Denied Abera	Ethiopia
	El-Mostafa Damaoui	Morocco
	Moges Taye	Ethiopia
	Amnaay Zebedayo Bayo	Tanzania
	Christopher Cheboiboch	Kenya
	Ryan Shay	United States
	Papy Ilunga	Democratic Republic of Congo	DNS
	Mwenze Kalombo	Democratic Republic of Congo
	Alain Nkulu	Democratic Republic of Congo
	Leonard NtalaMeso	Democratic Republic of Congo
	Benoît Zwierzchiewski	France

Web links and sources

Commons : World Athletics Championships 2003  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Home to the World Cup in 2003 on the website of the IAAF (Engl.)