2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)

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Olympic rings
Panathenaic Stadium (14027345349) .jpg
sport athletics
discipline Marathon run
gender Men
Attendees 101 athletes from 60 countries
Competition location Marathon - Athens
Competition phase August 29, 2004
Medalist
gold medal Stefano Baldini ( ITA ) ItalyItaly 
Silver medal Meb Keflezighi ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Bronze medal Vanderlei de Lima ( BRA ) BrazilBrazil 

The men's marathon at the 2004 Athens Olympics was held on August 29, 2004 on a course from Marathon to Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens. Of the 101 athletes who started, 81 reached the finish.

Olympic champion was the Italian Stefano Baldini . He won ahead of the American Meb Keflezighi and the Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima .

The Austrian Michael Buchleitner finished in 29th place. The Swiss Viktor Röthlin had to give up the race.
Athletes from Germany and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000 Gezahegne Abera ( Ethiopia ) Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia  2:10:11 h Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003 Jaouad Gharib ( Morocco ) MoroccoMorocco  2:08:31 h Paris 2003
European Champion 2002 Janne Holmén ( Finland ) FinlandFinland  2:12:14 h Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003 Vanderlei de Lima ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  2:19:08 h Santo Domingo 2003
Central am. u. Caribbean Champion 2003 Pamenos Ballantyne ( St. Vincent / Grenadines ) Saint Vincent GrenadinesSt. Vincent and the Grenadines  1:09:14 h - half marath . St. George’s 2003
South America Champion 2002 Vanderlei de Lima ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  2:11:19 h São Paulo 2002
Asian champion 2002 Satoshi Ōsaki ( Japan ) JapanJapan  2:16:46 h Hong Kong 2002
African champion 2004 Marathon run not in the championship program Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002 Georges Richmond ( Tahiti ) TahitiTahiti  1:10:40 - half marath . Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record 2:04:55 h Paul Tergat ( Kenya ) KenyaKenya  Berlin , Germany September 28, 2003
Olympic record 2:09:21 h Carlos Lopes ( Portugal ) PortugalPortugal  Los Angeles Marathon , USA August 12, 1984

Comment on the term "world record" :

The International Athletics Association ( IAAF) has only held official world records in marathons since January 1, 2004. Before that, the term “world best” was used here because of the different track conditions. Paul Tergat's best time from 2003 was subsequently recognized as a world record. In addition, the IAAF counts the time run by Khalid Khannouchi in the London Marathon in 2002 - 2:05:38 h - as the first official world record among the world records.

Routing

The route began in the town of Marathon and led south along national road 83, circling the burial mound of the Athenians who fell in the battle of Marathon . The course then crossed the city of Nea Makri. After ten flat kilometers the first climbs came. At Rafina , the route turned west onto National Road 54. Via Rafina-Pikermi , Pallini and Gerakas you reached Agia Paraskevi at km 32 , where the highest point of the route was reached at 240 meters above sea level. From there it went downhill through Chalandri , Cholargos and Goudi to the core city of Athens . The finish line was in the Panathinaiko Stadium , where the runners still had to complete one lap.

initial situation

The favorites initially included the reigning world champion Jaouad Gharib from Morocco, the Spanish vice world champion Julio Rey, the two-time World Cup third Stefano Baldini from Italy and the Kenyan Paul Tergat, who used to be a very successful 10,000 meter runner, now the world record holder on the marathon route. Alberto Chaíça from Portugal and the Japanese Shigeru Aburaya, who were next placed at the last World Championships, were also among the contenders for a good result.

Race course

August 29, 2004, 6:00 p.m. Athens local time ( UTC + 2 )

The start took place at temperatures around 30 ° C. The athletes approached the race very carefully because of these high temperatures. At twenty kilometers, the Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima was able to pull away a little from the field. In the following period he increased his lead continuously until after thirty kilometers he had run out of about fifty seconds.

Now the pursuers tightened the pace, led by Baldini, Tergat and the US athlete Meb Keflezighi. A promising race to catch up began because there were still many kilometers to go. Tergat later lost touch and in the end fell back to eleventh place. De Lima's lead melted to around twenty seconds by 35 km. At 36 km there was an incident. De Lima was pushed off the track by the suspended Irish priest Cornelius Horan , whereupon the Brazilian fell into the crowd on the edge of the track. Several spectators helped him up so he could continue the race while Horan was arrested by the Greek police. De Lima, who had already struggled a lot to defend his lead, couldn't find his way back to his running rhythm, he suffered from cramps and pain. At 38 km he was overtaken by Baldini and Keflezighi, who now continued to run at a high pace.

As a result, Stefano Baldini shook off his last companion and won with 34 seconds ahead of Meb Keflezighi. 42 seconds behind the American, Vanderlei de Lima also crossed the finish line to great applause and saved the bronze medal. As a special honor for his sportsmanship, he was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal by IOC President Jacques Rogge . Just fifteen seconds after de Lima, Briton Jon Brown crossed the finish line in fourth, ahead of the two Japanese Shigeru Aburaya and Toshinari Suwa. The Kenyan Erick Wainaina finished seventh ahead of the Portuguese Alberto Chaíça.

Vanderlei de Lima was the first Brazilian medalist in the marathon .

Split times
Intermediate
mark
Meanwhile Leading 5 km time
5 km 15:57 min Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od 15:57 min
10 km 31:54 min Vanderlei de Lima 15:57 min
15 km 48:15 min Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi / Han Gang 16:21 min
20 km 1:03:54 h Vanderlei de Lima 15:39 min
25 km 1:19:33 h Vanderlei de Lima 15:39 min
30 km 1:35:03 h Vanderlei de Lima 15:30 min
35 km 1:50:09 h Vanderlei de Lima 15:06 min
40 km 2:04:49 h Stefano Baldini 14:40 min

Result

space athlete country Time (h) annotation
01 Stefano Baldini ItalyItaly Italy 2:10:55
02 Meb Keflezighi United StatesUnited States United States 2:11:29
03 Vanderlei de Lima BrazilBrazil Brazil 2:12:11
04th Jon Brown United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 2:12:26
05 Shigeru Aburaya JapanJapan Japan 2:13:11
06th Toshinari Suwa JapanJapan Japan 2:13:24
07th Erick Wainaina KenyaKenya Kenya 2:13:30
08th Alberto Chaíça PortugalPortugal Portugal 2:14:17
09 Tendai Chimusasa ZimbabweZimbabwe Zimbabwe 2:14:19
10 Alberico Di Cecco ItalyItaly Italy 2.14: 34
11 Paul Tergat KenyaKenya Kenya 2:14:45
12 Jaouad Gharib MoroccoMorocco Morocco 2:15:12
13 Alan Culpepper United StatesUnited States United States 2:15:26
14th Leonid Schwezow RussiaRussia Russia 2:15:28
15th Lee Bong-ju Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 2:15:33
16 Ambesse Tolosa Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia 2:15:39
17th Gert Thys South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 2:16:08
18th Ji Young jun Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 2:16:14
19th Antoni Peña SpainSpain Spain 2:16:38
20th Grigory Andreyev RussiaRussia Russia 2:16:55
21st Ayele Seteng IsraelIsrael Israel 2:17:25
22nd Jonathan Wyatt New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 2:17:45
23 Janne Holmén FinlandFinland Finland 2:17:50
24 Daniel Robinson United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 2:17:53
25th Nikolaos Polias GreeceGreece Greece 2:17:56
26th Ndabili Bashingili BotswanaBotswana Botswana 2:18:09
27 Pavel Loskutov EstoniaEstonia Estonia 2:18:09
28 José Ríos SpainSpain Spain 2:18:40
29 Lee Troop AustraliaAustralia Australia 2:18:46
30th Michael Buchleitner AustriaAustria Austria 2:19:19
31 Anuradha Cooray Sri LankaSri Lanka Sri Lanka 2:19:24
32 Joachim Nshimirimana BurundiBurundi Burundi 2:19:31
33 Dale Warrender New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 2:19:42
34 Waldemar Glinka PolandPoland Poland 2:19:43
35 Jong Myong-chol Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 2:19:47
36 El Hassan Lahssini FranceFrance France 2:19:50
37 Michał Bartoszak PolandPoland Poland 2:20:20
38 Ahmed Jumah Jaber QatarQatar Qatar 2:20:27
39 Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya 2:20:31
40 Samson Ramadhani TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania 2:20:38
41 Lee Myong-seung Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 2:21:01
42 Tomoaki Kunichika JapanJapan Japan 2:21:13
43 José Alirio Carrasco ColombiaColombia Colombia 2:21:14
44 Ernest Ndjissipou Central African RepublicCentral African Republic Central African Republic 2:21:23
45 Nicholas Harrison AustraliaAustralia Australia 2:21:42
46 Teferi Wodayo Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia 2:21:53
47 Aguelmis Rojas CubaCuba Cuba 2:21:59
48 Abel Chimukoko ZimbabweZimbabwe Zimbabwe 2:22:09
49 Said Belhout AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 2:22:32
50 Matthew O'Dowd United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 2:22:37
51 Juan Carlos Cardona ColombiaColombia Colombia 2:22:49
52 Daniele Caimmi ItalyItaly Italy 2:23:07
53 João N'Tyamba AngolaAngola Angola 2:23:26
54 Roman Kejžar SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 2:23:34
55 Procopio Franco MexicoMexico Mexico 2:23:34
56 Wu Wen-Chien Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 2:23:54
57 Antoni Bernadó AndorraAndorra Andorra 2:23:55
58 Julio Rey SpainSpain Spain 2:24:54
59 Asaf Bimro IsraelIsrael Israel 2:25:20
60 Sisay Bezabeh AustraliaAustralia Australia 2:25:26
61 Silvio Guerra EcuadorEcuador Ecuador 2:25:29
62 Mathias Ntawulikura RwandaRwanda Rwanda 2:26:05
63 Róbert Štefko Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 2:27:12
64 José Amado García GuatemalaGuatemala Guatemala 2:27:13
65 Dan Browne United StatesUnited States United States 2:27:17
66 Han Gang China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 2:27:31
67 Eduardo Buenavista PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines 2:28:18
68 Driss El Himer FranceFrance France 2:29:07
69 Andrés Espinosa MexicoMexico Mexico 2:29:43
70 Mpesela Ntlot Soeu Lesotho 1987Lesotho Lesotho 2:30:19
71 Franklin Tenorio EcuadorEcuador Ecuador 2:31:12
72 José Ernani Palalia MexicoMexico Mexico 2:31:41
73 Dmitri Burmakin RussiaRussia Russia 2:31:51
74 Mindaugas Pukštas Lithuania 1989Lithuania Lithuania 2:33:02
75 Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od MongoliaMongolia Mongolia 2:33:24
76 Zhu Ronghua China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 2:34:02
77 Alfredo Arévalo GuatemalaGuatemala Guatemala 2:34:02
78 Antonio Zeferino Cape VerdeCape Verde Cape Verde 2:36:22
79 Valery Pisarev KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan 2:40:10
80 Zepherinus Joseph Saint LuciaSt. Lucia St. Lucia 2:44:19
81 Marcel Matanin SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 2:50:26
DNF Zsolt Bácskai HungaryHungary Hungary
Dmytro Baranovskyi UkraineUkraine Ukraine
Zebedayo Bayo TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania
Mustapha Bennacer AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
Khalid El-Boumlili MoroccoMorocco Morocco
Gil da Cruz Trindade East TimorEast Timor East Timor
Luis Fonseca Venezuela 1954Venezuela Venezuela
Jean-Paul Gahimbaré BurundiBurundi Burundi
Rachid Ghanmouni MoroccoMorocco Morocco
Luc Krotwaar NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
John Nada Saya TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania
Hailu Negussie Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia
Asat Rakipau Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus
Hendrick Ramaala South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
André Luiz Ramos BrazilBrazil Brazil
Al Mustafa Riyadh BahrainBahrain Bahrain
Viktor Röthlin SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Ian Syster South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
Jussi Utriainen FinlandFinland Finland
Rômulo Wagner BrazilBrazil Brazil

Web links

Video

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 687 , accessed on April 24, 2018
  2. IAAF world records, men's marathon on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 24, 2018
  3. Description of the route on Runscore.com (French) , accessed on April 24, 2018
  4. Article at BBC Sport on August 29, 2004 , accessed on April 24, 2018