2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 155 athletes from 77 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Sambodromo | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 21, 2016 | ||||||||
| Winning time | 2:08:44 h | ||||||||
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The men's marathon at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on August 21, 2016. The start and finish were at the Sambodromo in central Rio de Janeiro . 155 athletes started, 140 were able to finish the race.
The Olympic champion was the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge , who won ahead of the Ethiopian Feyisa Lilesa . Galen Rupp from the USA won the bronze medal.
The German Philipp Pflieger crossed the finish line in 55th place, Julian Flügel in 71st.
The Swiss Tadesse Abraham was 7th, Christian Kreienbühl was 76th.
Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Yonas Kinde from Ethiopia participated as a refugee from his home country under the Olympic flag and the abbreviation ROT (Refugee Olympic Team).
The IAAF had set April 2015 2:17:00 h as a qualification time to perform in a competition between 1 January 2015 and 11 July 2016. In November 2015, this time was corrected to 2:19:00 h.
Current title holders
| Olympic champion |
Stephen Kiprotich ( Uganda )
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2:12:28 h | London 2012 |
| World Champion |
Ghirmay Ghebreslassie ( Eritrea )
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2:08:01 h | Beijing 2015 |
| European champion |
Tadesse Abraham ( Switzerland )
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1:02:03 h - half marathon | Amsterdam 2016 |
| North / Central America / Caribbean champions | Competition not in the championship program | San José 2015 | |
| South America champion | Juan Huamán ( Peru )
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2:28:23 h | Asunción 2015 |
| Asian champion | Shingo Igarshi ( Japan )
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2:14:29 h | Hong Kong 2015 |
| African champions | Competition not in the championship program | Durban 2016 | |
| Oceania Champion | Rowan Walker ( Australia )
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2:21:47 h | Gold Coast 2014 |
Existing records
| World record |
Dennis Kimetto ( Kenya )
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2:02:57 h | Berlin | September 28, 2014 |
| Olympic record |
Samuel Wanjiru ( Kenya )
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2:06:32 h | Beijing Marathon , People's Republic of China | August 24, 2008 |
Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
Route
The race started on the Sambódromo , a grandstand street in the Cidade Nova district . After about seven hundred meters, the route turned right into Avenida Presidente Vargas and followed the course of the road to Avenida Rio Bravo . Here began a ten km long circuit that had to be completed three times. The route turned left to the northwest onto Avenida Rio Bravo . On Avenida Rodrigues Alves we went north, there the Museu do Amanhã located on a peninsula was circled. Back on Avenida Rodrigues Alves , the path ran eastwards along the shore to Rua Primeiro de Março , then further south to Lago do Praço . There was a left arch leading to Praça Mal. Âncora . Now it went back east along the bank to Avenida General Justo . There the route ran in a southerly direction to Avenida Marechal Câmara , from where the course turned north-west. Then the route led back to the starting point of the circuit with several curves.
After completing the three rounds, we continued on Avenida Dom Henrique back to the Botafogo district . At the height of Rua Marquês de Olinda was the turning point from which the route led back to the junction of the circular route. Here the route led to the left into Avenida Presidente Vargas , on which it went back to the Sambódromo .
doping
There was a doping case in this competition. The Moroccan Abdelmajid El Hissouf, originally ranked 68th, was disqualified in November 2017 for taking prohibited substances. In addition, he was suspended for the period from November 8, 2016 to November 7, 2020.
Summary of the race
The race started in light rain. The field of runners stayed together for a long time, the 5 km sections were completed in 15:30 minutes or even a little slower. The leading group was very large for a long time, at halfway through the race it consisted of 46 athletes. The temperatures were too high for a fast race. At thirty kilometers, the leading group with the Ethiopian Lemi Berhanu in the lead had reduced to nine runners. The 2012 Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich from Uganda and World Champion Ghirmay Ghebreslassie from Eritrea also lost touch.
Now the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge pushed the pace significantly. After another two kilometers, four runners had cleared away: Kipchoge, the Ethiopian Feyisa Lilesa, Berhanu and the American Galen Rupp. At 33 km, Berhanu also had to tear down. Kipchoge, Lilesa and Rupp led by less than a minute in front of a three-man chase group with Berhanu, Munyo Solomon Mutai from Uganda and the Kenyan Stanley Kipleting Biwott. A short time later, Rupp also lost contact with Lilesa and Kipchoge, but remained third. Lilesa and Kipchoge were now walking shoulder to shoulder. But Lilesa could no longer keep up the pace and fell back. Soon the top three could no longer see each other on the winding course.
Behind Rupp, Ghebreslassie had worked his way up to fourth place and started the pursuit. At forty kilometers, Kipchoge was 36 seconds ahead of Lilesa, who was twelve seconds ahead of Rupp. Ghebreslassie was 59 seconds behind Rupp. On the last long stretch, Kipchoge was able to increase his lead to 1:10 minutes. Lilesa crossed the finish line eleven seconds ahead of Rupp.
During the entire race the track was wet and the sky was cloudy. Several runners reached the finish with significant signs of exhaustion due to these difficult external conditions. Meb Keflezhigi from the USA slipped briefly, falling head and shoulders behind the finish line. After a few push-ups, he got up and walked on. The Iranian Mohammad Jafar Moradi suffered a thigh injury during the run and was only able to finish the race on all fours. The Argentine Federico Bruno was also injured. All he could do was hop sideways. With the help and encouragement of the Paraguayan Derlis Ayala, he also reached the goal.
With 155 starters, this competition had the largest field of runners in an Olympic marathon to date. The 140 athletes who crossed the finish line also set a new record. The first 62 athletes crossed the finish line in less than 2:20 hours.
The second placed Ethiopian Feyisa Lilesa belongs to the Oromo people, who are oppressed in his homeland . At the finish he showed crossed fists over his head, the symbol of the protest movement in Ethiopia, which had been violently suppressed only two weeks earlier.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 15:31 min | Abraham Niyonkuru in a large group | 15:31 min |
| 10 km | 31:08 min | Ghirmay Ghebreslassie - in a large group | 15:37 min |
| 15 km | 46:53 min | Eliud Kipchoge - in a large group | 15:45 min |
| 20 km | 1:02:27 h | Ghirmay Ghebreslassie - in a large group | 15:34 min |
| 25 km | 1:18:12 h | Lemi Berhanu - in a large group | 15:45 min |
| 30 km | 1:33:15 h | Lemi Berhanu - in the top group of 9 | 15:03 min |
| 35 km | 1:47:40 h | Kipchoge, Lilesa, Rupp - 57 s before Berhanu, Biwott, Mutai | 14:25 min |
| 40 km | 2:02:24 h | Kipchoge - 36 s before Lilesa / 48 s before Rupp / 1:47 min before Ghebreslassie and 2:02 min before Simbu | 14:44 min |
Result
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August 21, 2016, 9:30 a.m.
Picture gallery
Jared Ward, USA
6th place
Callum Hawkins, UK
9th place
Paulo Roberto Paula, Brazil
15th place
Evans Kiplagat Barkowet, Azerbaijan
28th place
Ihor Olefirenko, Ukraine
30th place
Suehiro Ishikawa, Japan
36th place
Artur Kozłowski, Poland
39th place
Nicolás Cuestas, Uruguay
40th place
Pardon Ndhlovu, Zimbabwe
Place 41
Florent Caelen, Belgium
44th place
Daniel Vargas, Mexico
54th place
Atef Saad, Tunisia
62nd place
Solonei da Silva, Brazil
77th place
Andrés Ruiz, Colombia
78th place
Scott Westcott, Australia
80th place
Gábor Józsa, Hungary
86th place
Valdas Dopolskas
square 110
Derek Hawkins, United Kingdom
number 113
Christoforos Merousis, Greece
115th place
Anton Kosmač, Slovenia
116th place
Segundo Jami, Ecuador
place 123
Jorge Castelblanco, Panama
Place 134
Kuniaki Takizaki, Cambodia
No. 138
Tesfaye Abera, Ethiopia
not in goal
Alemu Bekele, Bahrain
not there
Tsepo Mathibelle, Lesotho
not in the finish
Henryk Szost, Poland
not in the finish
Abdelmajid El Hissouf, Morocco
disqualified for doping abuse
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, Official Report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 3, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English), accessed on October 3, 2018
- Sports-Reference, Result of the Men's Marathon , accessed on October 3, 2018
Video
- Eliud Kipchoge wins Men's Marathon gold on youtube.com, published on August 22, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2018
- Feyisa Lilesa Marathon in Rio Olympic on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 3, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 687 , accessed on October 3, 2018
- ↑ Course overview on Runner's World (English) , accessed on September 11, 2018
- ↑ Dopage: quatre athlètes marocains suspendus par l'IAAF (French) , accessed on September 11, 2018
- ↑ Africa, Oromo , Society for Threatened Peoples, accessed October 3, 2018
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