2015 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon
| World Athletics Championships 2015 | |
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| discipline | Men's marathon |
| city |
 Beijing
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| place | Circuit through Beijing Start and finish: National Stadium |
| Attendees | 68 athletes from 39 countries |
| Competition phase | 22nd August 2015 |
| Medalist | |
|---|---|
 gold |
Ghirmay Ghebreslassie ( ERI )
 |
 silver |
Yemane Tsegay ( ETH )
 |
 bronze |
Munyo Solomon Mutai ( UGA )
 |
The men's marathon at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place in Beijing , People's Republic of China , on August 22, 2015 . It was the fourth race in the 2015/16 World Marathon Majors .
Ghirmay Ghebreslassie from Eritrea was world champion in front of the Ethiopian Yemane Tsegay . Third place went to Munyo Solomon Mutai from Uganda.
route
The run started at the Yongding Gate . The route then led past sights such as the Temple of Heaven , Zhengyangmen , the Forbidden City , the Chinese National Museum and the Diaoyutai State Guest House . When Haidian Park , the half of the course was. Past the various universities in Beijing and the China National Tennis Center , it was finally back to the national stadium , where the last few meters had to be run.
Records
| World record |
 Dennis Kipruto Kimetto
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2:02:57 h | Berlin Marathon , Germany | September 28, 2014 |
| Championship record |
Abel Kirui
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2:06:54 h | World Cup in Berlin , Germany | August 22, 2009 |
initial situation
As is almost always the case with such large championships, it was not easy for the marathon to find favorite positions. Too seldom can the athletes run this distance because otherwise the form is lost. In addition, the focus for the season highlight is not for all marathon stars on the world championships, but often also on the major city marathons such as London, Berlin, New York, etc. One of the favorites here in Beijing was definitely the defending champion and 2012 Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich from Uganda , the Ethiopian Vice World Champion Lelisa Desisa and his compatriot Yemane Tsegay, eighth of the last world championships. Another group of runners with good prospects was the Italian European Champion Daniele Meucci.
Race course
August 22, 2015, 7:15 am local time (1:15 CEST )
Given the difficult climatic conditions of Beijing with its high levels of air pollution, no fast race was to be expected. A larger field, with Shumi Dechasa from Bahrain at the top, stayed together for a long time. The individual 5 km sections were covered between fifteen and a half to sixteen minutes up to thirty kilometers, which was expected to be moderate. Shortly before twenty kilometers, Meucci took the lead and moved slightly away from the field. His compatriot Ruggero Pertile followed two seconds behind, another four seconds behind was a group of nineteen.
After 25 kilometers, Tsepo Ramonene from Lesotho took the initiative and set himself a few meters away from his rivals, but without increasing the pace. At thirty kilometers he had worked out a lead of a little more than ten seconds over Pertile and another six seconds on what was now a group of twelve. The distance then shrank again and at the same time the field of pursuit fell more and more apart. Ghirmay Ghebreslassie from Eritrea came closer and closer to the leader, while Tsegay and Munyo Mutai from Uganda were also only a little behind. Just a little more than twenty seconds behind Ramonene, a group of Desisa, Kiprotich and Jackson Kiprop, also from Uganda, followed. Pertile and Amanuel Mesel from Eritrea were a good thirty seconds behind. That was the status at kilometer 35.
Now the decisive phase began. Ramonene could no longer keep the pace while his pursuers accelerated. Ghebreslassie and Tsegay got into the race particularly well. At forty kilometers, the Eritrean was eight seconds ahead of the Ethiopian. Thirty more seconds behind, Mutai was still doing well in the battle for the medals. The closest pursuers Dechasa, Desisa, Pertile and Kiprotich, on the other hand, were already more than one and a half minutes behind. Ramonene had fallen further behind.
The order at the top did not change until the finish line. Ghirmay Ghebreslassie became world champion with a lead of forty seconds over Yemane Tsegay. Munyo Mutai won bronze twelve seconds behind Tsegay. Fourth place went to Ruggero Pertile, who was 57 seconds short of the medal. Shumi Dechasa was fifth ahead of Stephen Kiprotich and Lelisa Desisa in seventh. At the same time as Desisa, Daniele Meucci crossed the finish line in eighth ahead of Amanuel Mesel and Jackson Kiprop.
| Split times | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 16:06 min | Shumi Dechasa in a large group | 16:06 min |
| 10 km | 31:51 min | Shumi Dechasa in a large group | 15:45 min |
| 15 km | 47:48 min | Shumi Dechasa in a large group | 15:57 min |
| 20 km | 1:03:23 h | Daniele Meucci - 2 seconds in front of a group of 21 people | 15:35 min |
| 25 km | 1:19:16 h | Meucci - 2 seconds ahead of Pertile and 6 seconds ahead of the 19-man chasing group | 15:53 min |
| 30 km | 1:35:02 h | Ramonene - 13 seconds ahead of Pertile and 19 seconds ahead of 12 chasing pack | 15:46 min |
| 35 km | 1:50:38 h | Ramonene - 10 s before Ghebreslassie / 13 s before Tsegay, Mutai / 23 s before Desisa, Kiprotich, Kiprop and 32 s before Pertile, Mesel | 15:36 min |
| 40 km | 2:05:41 h | Ghebreslassie - 8 s before Tsegay / 39 s before Mutai / 1:33 min before Dechasa / 1:35 min before Desisa and 1:37 min before Pertile, Kiprotich | 15:03 min |
Result
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The Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa finished seventh
A somewhat disappointed Daniele Meucci from Italy - after all , as European champion in eighth place
The Eritrean Amanuel Mesel came in ninth
The North Korean Pak Chol reached eleventh place
Twelfth place for Alphonce Simbu from Tanzania
Tsepo Ramonene from Lesotho, who was six kilometers from the finish line, finished fourteenth
The Belgian Abdelhadi El Hachimi came in sixteenth place
The Brazilian Solonei da Silva came in eighteenth
The Swiss Tadesse Abraham finished nineteenth
As the best Japanese, Masakazu Fujiwara came in 21st
Edwin Kemboi, who started for Austria, crossed the finish line in 32nd place
The Swede David Nilsson took 36th place
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Web links and sources
- Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, Men's Marathon, on the IAAF website , accessed on October 26, 2018
- Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 26, 2018
- Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 26, 2018
Video
- 15th IAAF World Championships Beijing - 2015-08-22 on youtube.com, published August 24, 2015 (Spanish), accessed October 26, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marathon Course. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 24, 2015 ; accessed on October 26, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
