2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

Men's marathon at the 2025 World Championships
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	15 September
Competitors	90 from 47 nations
Winning time	2:09:48
Medalists
Alphonce Simbu    Tanzania   Amanal Petros    Germany   Iliass Aouani    Italy
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The men's marathon at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 15 September 2025. ^[1] This edition had the smallest margin of victory in World Championships marathon history, at only 0.03 seconds. ^[2]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[3]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Kelvin Kiptum  (KEN)	2:00:35	Chicago, United States	8 October 2023
Championship record	Tamirat Tola  (ETH)	2:05:36	Eugene, United States	17 July 2022
World Leading	Sabastian Sawe  (KEN)	2:02:27	London, United Kingdom	27 April 2025
African Record	Kelvin Kiptum  (KEN)	2:00:35	Chicago, United States	8 October 2023
Asian Record	El Hassan El Abbassi  (BHR)	2:04:43	Valencia, Spain	2 December 2018
European Record	Bashir Abdi  (BEL)	2:03:36	Rotterdam, Netherlands	24 October 2021
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Cameron Levins  (CAN)	2:05:36	Tokyo, Japan	5 March 2023
Oceanian record	Andrew Buchanan  (AUS)	2:06:22	Valencia, Spain	1 December 2024
South American Record	Daniel Ferreira do Nascimento  (BRA)	2:04:51	Seoul, South Korea	17 April 2022

Qualification Standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2:06:30. ^[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: ^[1]

Date	Time	Round
15 September	07:30	Final

Results

The race was started on 15 September at 7:30.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Alphonce Simbu	Tanzania	2:09:48	SB
	Amanal Petros	Germany	2:09:48
	Iliass Aouani	Italy	2:09:53
4	Haimro Alame	Israel	2:10:03
5	Abel Chelangat	Uganda	2:10:11
6	Yohanes Chiappinelli	Italy	2:10:15	SB
7	Gashau Ayale	Israel	2:10:27
8	Samsom Amare	Eritrea	2:10:34
9	Clayton Young	United States	2:10:43	SB
10	Isaac Mpofu	Zimbabwe	2:10:46	SB
11	Ryota Kondo	Japan	2:10:53
12	Cameron Levins	Canada	2:11:07	SB
13	Richard Ringer	Germany	2:11:14
14	Suldan Hassan	Sweden	2:11:18
15	Victor Kiplangat	Uganda	2:11:33	SB
16	Kennedy Kimutai	Kenya	2:11:45
17	Koen Naert	Belgium	2:12:52
18	Abderrazak Charik	Algeria	2:13:06	SB
19	Kaan Kigen Özbilen	Turkey	2:13:27
20	Mohamed Reda El Aaraby	Morocco	2:13:29
21	Yaseen Abdalla	Sudan	2:13:32	SB
22	Vincent Kipkemoi	Kenya	2:13:38
23	Naoki Koyama  [ ja ]	Japan	2:13:42
24	Peter Lynch	Ireland	2:14:12
25	Ebba Tulu Chala	Sweden	2:14:40
26	He Jie	China	2:14:52
27	Oqbe Kibrom Ruesom	Eritrea	2:15:01
28	Reed Fischer	United States	2:15:17	SB
29	Jacob Simonsen	Denmark	2:15:31	SB
30	Yang Shaohui	China	2:15:35
31	Wu Xiangdong	China	2:16:01
32	Cristhian Zamora	Uruguay	2:16:09	SB
33	Elroy Gelant	South Africa	2:16:32
34	Yuya Yoshida  [ ja ]	Japan	2:16:58	SB
35	Justin Kent	Canada	2:17:12
36	Ben Preisner	Canada	2:17:32
37	Shokhrukh Davlatov  [ ru ]	Uzbekistan	2:18:04	SB
38	Johnatas de Oliveira	Brazil	2:18:22
39	Kiruhura Emmanuel Ntagunga	Athlete Refugee Team	2:19:11
40	CJ Albertson	United States	2:19:25
41	Omar Hassan  [ da ]	Athlete Refugee Team	2:19:47
42	Rui Pinto  [ de ]	Portugal	2:19:50
43	Tom Hendrikse  [ simple ]	Netherlands	2:19:57	SB
44	Tim Vincent	Australia	2:20:12	SB
45	Paulo Roberto Paula	Brazil	2:20:18
46	Ablelom Maryo	Eritrea	2:20:46
47	Mohammed Benyettou	Algeria	2:20:51	SB
48	Marcelo Laguera  [ de ]	Mexico	2:20:56
49	Sondre Nordstad Moen	Norway	2:21:22
50	Mateusz Kaczor	Poland	2:21:51	SB
51	Tiidrek Nurme	Estonia	2:21:58
52	Aaron Gruen	Austria	2:22:07
53	Josephat Joshua Gisemo  [ de ]	Tanzania	2:22:47	SB
54	Hugo Catrileo  [ es ]	Chile	2:23:29
55	İlham Tanui Özbilen	Turkey	2:23:35
56	Ferdinand Cereceda	Peru	2:23:46	SB
57	Liam Boudin	Australia	2:24:39
58	Dario Ivanovski	North Macedonia	2:26:31
59	Samuel Freire  [ no ]	Cape Verde	2:27:26	SB
60	Segundo Jami	Ecuador	2:28:07
61	Tendai Zimuto	Zimbabwe	2:28:10
62	Nicolás Cuestas	Uruguay	2:28:37
63	Ederson Pereira	Brazil	2:28:40
64	Leonid Latsepov  [ et ]	Estonia	2:29:59
65	Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od	Mongolia	2:30:09
66	Maxim Răileanu	Moldova	2:32:15
	Sezgin Ataç	Turkey	DNF
	Therence Bizoza	Burundi
	Soufiyan Bouqantar	Morocco
	Emile Cairess	Great Britain & N.I.
	Rene Champi	Peru
	Yemaneberhan Crippa	Italy
	Tesfaye Deriba	Ethiopia
	Othmane El Goumri	Morocco
	Deresa Geleta	Ethiopia
	Hiko Tonosa Haso	Ireland
	Hillary Kipkoech	Kenya
	Stephen Kissa	Uganda
	Zerei Kbrom Mezngi	Norway
	Solomon Mutai	Uganda
	Yves Nimubona	Rwanda
	Juan Pacheco	Mexico
	Park Min-ho	South Korea
	Daniel Nghidinwa Paulus	Namibia
	Tadese Takele	Ethiopia
	Maru Teferi	Israel
	Tseveenravdangiin Byambajav	Mongolia
	Abdi Waiss Mouhyadin	Djibouti
	Ibrahim Hassan	Djibouti	DNS
	Félicien Muhitira	Rwanda
[5]

References

1. "Timetable - Tokyo 25 - World Athletics Championship - Men Marathon". World Athletics. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
2. Pierce, Zack. "Incredible men's marathon ending goes to a photo finish to decide world champion". The Athletic. The New York Times. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
3. "Marathon − Records". World Athletics . Archived from the original on 12 August 2025. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
4. "World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 – Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
5. "Results Marathon Men - Final" (PDF). World Athletics . 15 September 2025. Retrieved 15 September 2025.