2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

Men's Marathon at the 2017 World Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	6 August
Competitors	98 from 50 nations
Winning time	2:08.27
Medalists
Geoffrey Kirui    Kenya   Tamirat Tola    Ethiopia   Alphonce Simbu    Tanzania
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The men's marathon at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held on 6 August, ^[1] starting and finishing on Tower Bridge. ^[2]

Summary

The race started off with a tight pack running at a leisurely pace. 10 kilometres into the race, the British crowds were pleased to see Callum Hawkins in the lead, but there were 59 others in the lead pack. By 15 kilometres there were still 31 and by half way only another three had started to fall off the back. Then the racing began as a small group went off the front including the entire Kenyan team, a Kenyan Turkish transplant, two Ethiopians, two Eritreans, Alphonce Simbu from Tanzania and Hawkins. Of that group, Geoffrey Kirui, Tamirat Tola and Gideon Kipketer were pushing the pace as a three man pack. Kipketer faltered and it was a two man race with Simbu breaking off the front of the second pack. About 10 kilometres from the finish, Tola tried to break away. But the one breaking was Tola as Kirui came back and then set off on his own. Over the last seven kilometres, Kirui opened up almost a minute and half of daylight, comfortably crossing the line for the gold. Tola struggled to successfully hold off Simbu to keep silver while an inspired Hawkins picked up the pieces and finished a strong fourth just 26 seconds back. ^[3]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[4]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	2:02:57	Dennis Kipruto Kimetto	KEN	28 Sep 2014	Berlin, Germany
Championship	2:06:54	Abel Kirui	KEN	22 Aug 2009	Berlin, Germany
World leading	2:03:58	Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich	KEN	26 Feb 2017	Tokyo, Japan
African	2:02:57	Dennis Kipruto Kimetto	KEN	28 Sep 2014	Berlin, Germany
Asian	2:06:16	Toshinari Takaoka	JPN	13 Oct 2002	Chicago, United States
NACAC	2:05:38	Khalid Khannouchi	USA	14 Apr 2002	London, Great Britain
South American	2:06:05	Ronaldo da Costa	BRA	20 Sep 1998	Berlin, Germany
European	2:06:36	Benoit Zwierzchiewski	FRA	6 Apr 2003	Paris, France
Oceanian	2:07:51	Robert de Castella	AUS	21 Apr 1986	Boston, United States

No records were set at the competition. ^[5]

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2:19.00. ^[6]

Results

The final took place on 6 August at 10:54. The results were as follows: ^[7]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Geoffrey Kirui	Kenya  (KEN)	2:08:27	SB
	Tamirat Tola	Ethiopia  (ETH)	2:09:49
	Alphonce Simbu	Tanzania  (TAN)	2:09:51
4	Callum Hawkins	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	2:10:17	PB
5	Daniele Meucci	Italy  (ITA)	2:10:56	PB
6	Gideon Kipketer	Kenya  (KEN)	2:10:56
7	Yohanes Ghebregergis	Eritrea  (ERI)	2:12:07
8	Daniel Wanjiru	Kenya  (KEN)	2:12:16
9	Yuki Kawauchi	Japan  (JPN)	2:12:19
10	Kentaro Nakamoto	Japan  (JPN)	2:12:41
11	Solomon Mutai	Uganda  (UGA)	2:13:29
12	Ezekiel Jafary	Tanzania  (TAN)	2:14:05
13	Abdi Hakin Ulad	Denmark  (DEN)	2:14:22	SB
14	Kaan Kigen Özbilen	Turkey  (TUR)	2:14:29	SB
15	Shumi Dechasa	Bahrain  (BHR)	2:15:08	PB
16	Elkanah Kibet	United States  (USA)	2:15:14
17	Javier Guerra	Spain  (ESP)	2:15:22
18	Ihor Olefirenko	Ukraine  (UKR)	2:15:34	SB
19	Tsegaye Mekonnen	Ethiopia  (ETH)	2:15:36
20	Andrés Zamora	Uruguay  (URU)	2:16:00	PB
21	Desmond Mokgobu	South Africa  (RSA)	2:16:14
22	Mick Clohisey	Ireland  (IRL)	2:16:21	SB
23	Valentin Pfeil	Austria  (AUT)	2:16:28
24	Remigijus Kančys	Lithuania  (LTU)	2:16:34
25	Derlys Ayala	Paraguay  (PAR)	2:16:37	PB
26	Hiroto Inoue	Japan  (JPN)	2:16:54
27	Ihor Russ	Ukraine  (UKR)	2:17:01	SB
28	Thonakal Gopi	India  (IND)	2:17:13
29	Mert Girmalegesse	Turkey  (TUR)	2:17:36
30	Mohamed Reda El Aaraby	Morocco  (MAR)	2:17:50
31	Andrew Davies	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	2:17:59
32	Mikael Ekvall	Sweden  (SWE)	2:18:12	SB
33	Pardon Ndhlovu	Zimbabwe  (ZIM)	2:18:37	SB
34	Munkhbayar Narandulam	Mongolia  (MGL)	2:18:42	PB
35	Namupala Reonard	Namibia  (NAM)	2:18:51	SB
36	Yuriy Rusyuk	Ukraine  (UKR)	2:18:54	SB
37	Paulus Iiyambo	Namibia  (NAM)	2:19:45
38	Stephno Gwandu Huche	Tanzania  (TAN)	2:20:05
39	Josh Griffiths	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	2:20:06
40	Tiidrek Nurme	Estonia  (EST)	2:20:41	SB
41	Ghebrezgiabhier Kibrom	Eritrea  (ERI)	2:21:22
42	Bobby Curtis	United States  (USA)	2:21:22	SB
43	Robert Chemonges	Uganda  (UGA)	2:21:24
44	Happy Ndacha Mchelenje	Malawi  (MAW)	2:21:39	PB
45	Jack Colreavy	Australia  (AUS)	2:21:44
46	Tseveenravdan Byambajav	Mongolia  (MGL)	2:21:48
47	Millen Matende	Zimbabwe  (ZIM)	2:21:52	SB
48	Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od	Mongolia  (MGL)	2:21:55
49	Leslie Encina	Chile  (CHI)	2:22:10
50	Hassan Chani	Bahrain  (BHR)	2:22:19
51	Ignas Brasevičius	Lithuania  (LTU)	2:22:20	SB
52	David Nilsson	Sweden  (SWE)	2:22:53
53	Roman Fosti	Estonia  (EST)	2:23:28	SB
54	Thomas Toth	Canada  (CAN)	2:23:47
55	Manuel Cabrera	Chile  (CHI)	2:24:08
56	Daviti Kharazishvili	Georgia  (GEO)	2:24:24
57	Segundo Jami	Ecuador  (ECU)	2:24:28
58	José Amado García	Guatemala  (GUA)	2:25:03
59	Kim Hyo-su	South Korea  (KOR)	2:25:08
60	Brad Milosevic	Australia  (AUS)	2:25:14
61	David Carver	Mauritius  (MRI)	2:25:45	SB
62	Girmaw Amare	Israel  (ISR)	2:26:37
63	Sean Hehir	Ireland  (IRL)	2:27:33
64	Yu Seung-yeop	South Korea  (KOR)	2:29:06
65	Shin Kwang-sik	South Korea  (KOR)	2:29:52
66	Rok Puhar	Slovenia  (SLO)	2:33:12
67	Juan Carlos Trujillo	Guatemala  (GUA)	2:33:42	SB
68	Luis Orta	Venezuela  (VEN)	2:33:42	PB
69	Luis Carlos Rivero	Guatemala  (GUA)	2:41:39
70	Ricardo Ramos	Mexico  (MEX)	2:41:50	SB
71	Abraham Niyonkuru	Burundi  (BDI)	2:42:27
	Jorge Castelblanco	Panama  (PAN)	DNF
	Jean-Pierre Castro	Peru  (PER)	DNF
	Anuradha Cooray	Sri Lanka  (SRI)	DNF
	Nicolás Cuestas	Uruguay  (URU)	DNF
	Abdelhadi El Hachimi	Belgium  (BEL)	DNF
	Iván Fernández	Spain  (ESP)	DNF
	Eric Gillis	Canada  (CAN)	DNF
	Josh Harris	Australia  (AUS)	DNF
	Marius Ionescu	Romania  (ROM)	DNF
	Stefano La Rosa	Italy  (ITA)	DNF
	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain  (ESP)	DNF
	Raúl Machacuay	Peru  (PER)	DNF
	Augustus Maiyo	United States  (USA)	DNF
	Mariano Mastromarino	Argentina  (ARG)	DNF
	Tsepo Mathibelle	Lesotho  (LES)	DNF
	Amanuel Mesel	Eritrea  (ERI)	DNF
	Ercan Muslu	Turkey  (TUR)	DNF
	Lebenya Nkoka	Lesotho  (LES)	DNF
	Cutbert Nyasango	Zimbabwe  (ZIM)	DNF
	Sibusiso Nzima	South Africa  (RSA)	DNF
	Bhumiraj Rai	Nepal  (NEP)	DNF
	Ricardo Ribas	Portugal  (POR)	DNF
	Aguelmis Rojas	Uruguay  (URU)	DNF
	Maru Teferi	Israel  (ISR)	DNF
	Yemane Tsegay	Ethiopia  (ETH)	DNF
	Enzo Yáñez	Chile  (CHI)	DNF
	Valērijs Žolnerovičs	Latvia  (LAT)	DNF
	Lusapho April	South Africa  (RSA)	DNS
	Mumin Gala	Djibouti  (DJI)	DNS

References

1. "Marathon Men − Timetable". IAAF . Retrieved 31 July 2017.
2. Start list
3. "World Championships 2017: Callum Hawkins fourth as Geoffrey Kirui wins marathon". BBC Sport . 6 August 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
4. "Marathon Men − Records". IAAF . Retrieved 31 July 2017.
5. "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 14 August 2017.
6. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
7. "Marathon Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF . Retrieved 9 August 2017.