2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 100 athletes from 67 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Stadium Australia (destination) | ||||||||
| Competition phase | October 1, 2000 | ||||||||
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The men's marathon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on October 1, 2000 in Sydney. One hundred athletes took part, 81 of them made it to the finish.
The Ethiopian Gezahegne Abera became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Kenyan Erick Wainaina and the Ethiopian Tesfaye Tola .
Carsten Eich and Michael Fietz started for Germany . Fietz finished the race in 37th place, Eich in 54th place.
The Swiss Viktor Röthlin was 36th, the Austrian Michael Buchleitner 33rd.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 1996 |
Josia Thugwane ( South Africa )
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2:12:36 h | Atlanta 1996 |
| World Champion 1999 |
Abel Antón ( Spain )
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2:13:36 h | Seville 1999 |
| European champion 1998 |
Stefano Baldini ( Italy )
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2:12:01 h | Budapest 1998 |
| Pan American Champion 1999 |
Vanderlei de Lima ( Brazil )
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2: 17.20 h | Winnipeg 1999 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 2000 | Marathon run not in the championship program | ||
| South America champion | Alex Januário de Mendonça ( Brazil )
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2:16:37 h | São Paulo 2000 |
| Asian champion 2000 | Kenichi Kawakubo ( Japan )
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2:26:06 h | Pattaya 2000 |
| African Champion 2000 | Marathon run not in the championship program | ||
| Oceania Champion 2000 | |||
Existing records
| World record | 2:05:42 h |
Khalid Khannouchi ( Morocco )
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Chicago , USA | October 24, 1999 |
| Olympic record | 2:09:21 h |
Carlos Lopes ( Portugal )
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Los Angeles Marathon , USA | August 12, 1984 |
Remarks:
- World records were not set in the marathon because of the different track conditions.
- All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).
Routing
The race started in the North Sydney district on Miller Street at the level of the North Sydney Oval , a stadium for rugby, soccer, cricket and Australian football. The route initially ran south to the Pacific Highway . This freeway continued to the Bradfield Highway and over the Sydney Harbor Bridge . Via the Cahill Expressway , the route then led east to Bridge Street , then followed south again on Macquarie Street . It passed the New South Wales State Library and the State Parliament Building . The next prominent point was Hyde Park , which the path ran along to the east. At the south end of the park, turn left onto Oxford Street , then right onto Flinders Street , which becomes ANZAC Parade . There was a left turn onto Lang Road , which leads to Centennial Park . The park was circled on the Old Grand Drive , then it was the Lang Road back to the ANZAC Parade , on which the route continued to the left.
Again the route ran south, past the University of New South Wales in the Kingsford district. There was a turning point at Broadbent Street . The route led back to Flinders Street via the ANZAC Parade , but now skipped the loop through Centennial Park . Now it went left into Oxford Street , following this to Liverpool Street , which ran along the south end of Hyde Park . At the corner of the park, it turned right onto Elizabeth Street on the west edge of the park. Halfway through the path, the route turned left and west into Bathurst Street , which led to the Western Distributor . Here the ANZAC Bridge was crossed and the district of Lilyfield reached. The route followed Victoria Road , City-West Link Road, and Dobroyd Parade to the west. There was a right turn on Ramsay Street towards Five Rock. It went left onto Fairlight Street , which shortly afterwards initially becomes Queens Road and later merges into Gipps Road in the Canada Bay district . In the Strathfield district, the route led to the Western Motorway , which passed the Stadium Australia south . The route now left the autobahn and it went on to the stadium, where one more lap had to be covered before the goal was reached.
Starting position
The conditions for the athletes were not easy; spring had just started in Australia. The temperatures were cool and there was also a gusty wind.
As an Independent Olympic Athlete (Independent Olympic Athlete) run Calisto da Costa comes from East Timor . Elias Rodriguez was the first athlete to compete for Micronesia in the Olympic Games.
A negotiated favorites made there was not, although the Olympic champion from Atlanta Josiah Thugwane of South Africa and also the reigning world champion Abel Anton of Spain took part. As for some years now, the East African runners from Kenya and Ethiopia, from whose ranks often not particularly well-known runners were able to surprise at major events, were highly rated.
Race course
Date: October 1, 2000, 4:00 p.m.
Tiyapo Maso from Botswana was the runner who led the first half of the race. He set up a very brisk pace with 5k sections just over fifteen minutes. The section between kilometers 20 and 25 was then about a minute slower. Then Maso quickly fell back and finished 77th in the end. The top was now alternately taken over by the Kenyan Erick Wainaina and the Ethiopians Gezahegne Abera and Tesfaye Tola. They were followed within a few seconds by the British Jon Brown.
At forty kilometers, Abera was able to break away from his two companions. Wainaina was four seconds behind him, followed by Tola sixteen more seconds, who was 31 seconds ahead of Brown. Abera won the difficult race by twenty seconds over Wainaina. 39 seconds behind Wainaina, Tola finished third. Brown stayed in fourth place, even though he had made up 32 seconds on Tola. Behind him, the Italian Giacomo Leone was fifth ahead of the Spaniard Martín Fiz.
The final time of 2:10:11 h, which was only fifty seconds above Carlos Lopes ' Olympic record , was excellent given the external conditions.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 15:01 min | Tiyapo Maso | 15:01 min |
| 10 km | 29:58 min | Tiyapo Maso | 14:57 min |
| 15 km | 45:05 min | Tiyapo Maso | 15:07 min |
| 20 km | 1:00:46 h | Tiyapo Maso | 15:39 min |
| 25 km | 1:16:55 h | Tiyapo Maso | 16:02 min |
| 30 km | 1:32:48 h | Denied Abera | 15:53 min |
| 35 km | 1:48:11 h | Erick Wainaina | 15:23 min |
| 40 km | 2:03:30 h | Denied Abera | 15:19 min |
Result
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Olympic champion
Gezahegne Abera from Ethiopia
The Olympic sixth Martín Fiz from Spain
The Australian Steve Moneghetti took tenth place
Olympic twelfth Hendrick Ramaala, South Africa
The Dutchman Kamiel Maase finished thirteenth
Greg van Hest from the Netherlands came in 25th
The Mexican Andrés Espinosa came in 27th
The Estonian Pavel Loskutov turned 35.
Viktor Röthlin from Switzerland reached 36th place
The Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima finished 75th
Đuro Kodžo from Bosnia / Herzegovina came in 78th place
Piotr Gładki from Poland gave up the race
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Web links
- SportsReference Marathon , accessed March 21, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed on March 21, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 21, 2018
Video
- Ethiopia vs Kenya en Maraton de Sidney 2 000 , published January 23, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed March 21, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 687 , accessed on March 21, 2018
- ↑ (Engl.) Route description Runscore.com ( Memento of the original December 10, 2016 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on March 21, 2018
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