2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	105 athletes from 67 countries
Competition location	London
Competition phase	August 12, 2012
Medalist Stephen Kiprotich ( UGA )   Abel Kirui ( KEN )   Wilson Kipsang ( KEN )

The marathon men at the 2012 Olympics in London was held on 12 August 2012 on a course in downtown London. 105 athletes took part, 85 of whom made it to the finish.

The Olympic champion was the Ugandan Stephen Kiprotich , who won ahead of the two Kenyans Abel Kirui and Wilson Kipsang .

The Swiss Viktor Röthlin crossed the finish line in eleventh, Marcel Tschopp from Liechtenstein was in 75th place, and the Austrian Günther Weidlinger had to give up the race.

Athletes from Germany did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Samuel Wanjiru ( Kenya )	2:06:32 h	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Abel Kirui ( Kenya )	2:07:38 h	Daegu 2011
European champion	Competition not in the championship program		Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions			Mayagüez 2011
South America champion			Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Mohammed Abduh Bakhet ( Qatar )	2:21:06 h	Pattaya 2011
African champions	Competition not in the championship program		Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Jonathan Peters ( Australia )	2:20:05 h	Gold Coast 2012

Existing records

World record	Patrick Musyoki ( Kenya )	2:03:38 h	Berlin , Germany	September 25, 2011
Olympic record	Samuel Wanjiru ( Kenya )	2:06:32 h	Beijing Marathon , People's Republic of China	August 24, 2008

Note:
All times in this post are in London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

Routing

Route plan for the marathon

Elevation profile of the route

The start and finish of the marathon was on The Mall , within sight of Buckingham Palace . First it went northeast to Trafalgar Square , then right to the banks of the Thames . There it went further to the right towards the south along the embankment. At the London landmark Big Ben , the course turned right again in a westerly direction. We continued along St. James' Park and at its end in an arc to the north. The route at the Victoria Memorial led back onto The Mall .

The path now ran to the Thames, this time to the left to the north, where the route ended in a circular course of around twelve kilometers that had to be completed three times. The path followed the north bank of the Thames to Blackfriars Bridge and then turned left into the city center. The St Paul's Cathedral was passed, then the Museum of London . Then the path turned east and followed a winding route. It went past the Mansion House , the Bank of England and Leadenhall Market to the Tower of London . Here the course turned towards the banks of the Thames. It went back to Big Ben , along St. James' Park to the Victoria Memorial and then to the start and finish point. After two more laps, the race finally ended on The Mall .

Overall, the athletes had to cope with a difference in altitude of around sixteen meters. The start and finish were at a height of five meters, the deepest point at around 1.5 meters on the banks of the Thames. The highest point of 17.7 meters was reached at St Paul's Cathedral .

Race course

August 12, 2012, 11 a.m.

The race was not overly fast from the start, but at no time was there a slow pace. Even before the 10 km mark, the Brazilian Franck de Almeida was the first runner to leave the field for a few seconds. However, he was soon recovered. A little later, the Kenyan Wilson Kipsang made another attempt to break away. Kipsang now set a very high pace and ran the three fastest 5 km sections of the entire race with 14:20, 14:59 and 15:01 minutes. An eight-man chase group was formed. Kipsang worked out a lead of up to fifteen seconds, but his opponents could not be shaken off decisively. At thirty kilometers his compatriot Abel Kirui and Stephen Kiprotich from Uganda caught up with Kipsang. The Ethiopian Ayele Abshero followed directly behind them, but he could not reach and soon fell behind. At 35 kilometers, the three front-runners led by more than a minute over Brazilian Marílson dos Santos. Another minute back followed the Japanese Kentaro Nakamoto and the American Meb Keflezighi.

Kiprotich attacked after 37 kilometers and passed the two Kenyans. Kirui was nineteen seconds behind at forty kilometers, Kipsang another 32 seconds behind. Stephen Kiprotich eventually won the race, finishing 26 seconds ahead of Abel Kirui. Third was Wilson Kipsang, 1:36 minutes behind Stephen Kiprotich. Meb Keflezighi passed Marílson dos Santos on the last few kilometers. Keflezighi's gap to the bronze medalist was 1:29 minutes, and he was four seconds ahead of dos Santos. The Japanese Kentarō Nakamoto finished six seconds behind dos Santos in sixth place.

Stephen Kiprotich is Uganda's first Olympic and medalist in marathon running . It was Uganda's second ever Olympic victory in Olympic history since 1972 when John Akii-Bua won the 400-meter hurdles in Munich .

Guor Marial , who competes as an independent Olympian , comes from South Sudan .

Split times
Intermediate mark	Meanwhile	Leading	5 km time
5 km	15:23 min	Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich in a large group	15:23 min
10 km	30:38 min	Franck de Almeida - 8 seconds ahead of a large chase group	15:15 min
15 km	44:58 min	Wilson Kipsang - 13 seconds ahead of 8 chasing pack	14:20 min
20 km	59:57 min	Wilson Kipsang - 14 seconds ahead of a group of seven	14:59 min
25 km	1:14:58 h	Kipsang - 7 s before Kirui, Kiprotich, Abshero	15:01 min
30 km	1:30:15 h	Kirui, Kipsang, Kiprotich - 36 s before Abshero and 40 s before dos Santos	15:16 min
35 km	1:46:03 h	Kirui, Kipsang, Kiprotich - 1:13 min before dos Santos and 2:12 min before Nakamoto, Keflezighi	15:38 min
40 km	2:01:12 h	Kiprotich - 19 s before Kirui / 51 s before Kipsang and 2:32 min before dos Santos	15:08 min

Result

space	Surname	image	nation	Time (h)
0 1	Stephen Kiprotich		Uganda	2:08:01
0 2	Abel Kirui		Kenya	2:08:27
0 3	Wilson Kipsang		Kenya	2:09:37
0 4th	Meb Keflezighi		United States	2:11:06
0 5	Marílson dos Santos		Brazil	2:11:10
0 6th	Kentaro Nakamoto		Japan	2:11:16
0 7th	Cuthbert Nyasango		Zimbabwe	2:12:08
0 8th	Paulo Roberto Paula		Brazil	2:12:17
0 9	Henryk Szost		Poland	2:12:28
10	Ruggero Pertile		Italy	2:12:45
11	Viktor Röthlin		Switzerland	2:12:48
12	Oleksandr Sitkowskyj		Ukraine	2:12:56
13	Franck de Almeida		Brazil	2:13:35
14th	Alexei Reunkow		Russia	2:13:49
15th	Wirimai Juwawo		Zimbabwe	2:14:09
16	Michael Shelley		Australia	2:14:10
17th	Emmanuel Mutai		Kenya	2:14:49
18th	Rachid Kisri		Morocco	2:15:09
19th	Yared Asmerom		Eritrea	2:15:24
20th	Dylan Wykes		Canada	2:15:26
21st	Raúl Pacheco		Peru	2:15:35
22nd	Eric Gillis		Canada	2:16:00
23	Dmitri Safronov		Russia	2:16:04
24	Carles Castillejo		Spain	2:16:17
25th	Iaroslav Muşinschi		Moldova	2:16:25
26th	Marius Ionescu		Romania	2:16:28
27	Reid Coolsaet		Canada	2:16:29
28	Martin Dent		Australia	2:16:29
29	Vitaly Schafar		Ukraine	2:16:36
30th	Lee Merrien		Great Britain	2:17:00
31	Ignacio Cáceres		Spain	2:17:11
32	Lee Du-haeng		South Korea	2:17:19
33	Faustine Mussa		Tanzania	2:17:39
34	José Carlos Hernández		Spain	2:17:48
35	Miguel Barzola		Argentina	2:17:54
36	Quaint buta		Norway	2:17:58
37	Grigory Andreyev		Russia	2:18:20
38	José Amado García		Guatemala	2:18:23
39	Daniel Vargas		Mexico	2:18:26
40	Ryo Yamamoto		Japan	2:18:34
41	Jesper Faurschou		Denmark	2:18:44
42	Kári Steinn Karlsson		Iceland	2:18:47
43	Lusapho April		South Africa	2:19:00
44	Mike Tebulo		Malawi	2:19:11
45	Arata Fujiwara		Japan	2:19:11
46	Primož Kobe		Slovenia	2:19:28
47	Guor Marial		Independent Olympian	2:19:32
48	Luís Feiteira		Portugal	2:19:40
49	Stephen Mokoka		South Africa	2:19:52
50	Miguel Ángel Almachi		Ecuador	2:19:53
51	Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od		Mongolia	2:20:10
52	Pak Song-chol		North Korea	2:20:20
53	Kim Kwang-hyok		North Korea	2:20:20
54	Dong Guojian		People's Republic of China	2:20:39
55	Anuradha Cooray		Sri Lanka	2:20:41
56	Methkal Abu Drais		Jordan	2:21:00
57	Mark Kenneally		Ireland	2:21:13
58	Yonas Kifle		Eritrea	2:21:25
59	Ivan Babaryka		Ukraine	2:21:52
60	Carlos Cordero		Mexico	2:22:08
61	Scott jumpsuit		Great Britain	2:22:37
62	Pedro Mora		Venezuela	2:22:40
63	Jeff Hunt		Australia	2:22:59
64	Stsiapan Rahautsou		Belarus	2:23:23
65	César Lizano		Costa Rica	2:24:16
66	Samson Ramadhani		Tanzania	2:24:53
67	Jan Kreisinger		Czech Republic	2:25:03
68	Mohammed Abduh Bakhet		Qatar	2:25:17
69	Jussi Utriainen		Finland	2:26:25
70	Arturo Malaquías		Mexico	2:26:37
71	Know Hosni		Tunisia	2:26:43
72	Tamás Kovács		Hungary	2:27:48
73	Jang Sin-kweon		South Korea	2:28:20
74	Antoni Bernadó		Andorra	2:28:34
75	Marcel Tschopp		Liechtenstein	2:28:54
76	Bekir Karayel		Turkey	2:29:38
77	Chang Chia-che		Chinese Taipei	2:29:58
78	Ram Singh Yadav		India	2:30:06
79	Jean Pierre Mvuyekure		Rwanda	2:30:19
80	Konstantinos Poulios		Greece	2:33:17
81	Zohar Zemiro		Israel	2:34:59
82	Jeong Jin-hyeok		South Korea	2:38:45
83	Juan Carlos Cardona		Colombia	2:40:13
84	Augusto Ramos Soares		East Timor	2:45:09
85	Tsepo Ramonene		Lesotho	2:55:54
DNF	Abdihakem Abdirahman		United States
	Ayele Abshero		Ethiopia
	Abderrahime Bouramdane		Morocco
	Ali Mabruk El-Zaidi		Libya
	Getu Feleke		Ethiopia
	Tayeb Filali		Algeria
	Ilunga Mande Zatara		Democratic Republic of Congo
	Ryan Hall		United States
	Abraham Kiprotich		France
	Li Zicheng		People's Republic of China
	Abdellatif Meftah		France
	Coolboy Ngamole		South Africa
	Roman Prodius		Moldova
	Dino Sefir		Ethiopia
	Rui Pedro Silva		Portugal
	Patrick Tambwé		France
	Samuel Tsegay		Eritrea
	Günther Weidlinger		Austria
	Darko Živanović		Serbia
	Valērijs Žolnerovičs		Latvia

Web links

Commons : Men's Marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics  - Images, videos and audio files collection

• Men's marathon run at the 2012 Summer Olympics from Sports-Reference.com database , accessed September 11, 2018
• Official report , accessed September 11, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Association (English) , accessed on September 11, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Men's Marathon on youtube.com, on youtube.com, accessed September 11, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 687 , accessed on September 11, 2018
2. ↑ David Monti in the Running.competitor portal on April 24, 2012 , accessed on September 11, 2018