2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

The men's marathon at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 17 August.Start list

Coming through the half marathon in 1:05:10, the lead pack stayed formed until around the 30K mark with still about 13 with that group. Over the next 5K, contenders began to fall off the pace, first a pack of six were left, with two Ugandans; reigning Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich and Jackson Kiprop, with three Ethiopians; Lelisa Desisa, Tadese Tola and Tsegaye Kebede and Peter Kimeli Some the lone Kenyan. Kiprop fell back but Kentaro Nakamoto fought his way back to the pack as Kiprotich began experimenting with surges. Some and then Nakamoto started to fall behind. Kebede was next to go, followed by Tola, but Desisa stuck to Kiprotich like glue. Kiprotich crossed the roadway from side to side, more like match race sailboat tacking maneuvers and Delisa followed. Finally in the last kilometer, Kiprotich was able to make a gap. A meter became ten then fifty. A jubilant Kiprotich began throwing kisses to the crowd, crossing the finish line more than a hundred meters ahead of Delisa. Tola held on for third, with Kebede barely ahead of Nakamoto. Solonei da Silva and Paulo Roberto Paula came in together, so with four Ethiopians, two Ugandans and two Brazilians, three countries put at least a pair of runners into the top ten, while Kenya only managed one; Some in ninth.

The original 33rd placer, Jeremías Saloj of Guatemala, was disqualified after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO).

Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record2:03:38Berlin, Germany25 September 2011Championship record2:06:54Berlin, Germany22 August 2009World Leading2:04:45Dubai, United Arab Emirates25 January 2013African Record2:03:38Berlin, Germany25 September 2011Asian Record2:06:26Chicago, United States13 October 2002North, Central American and Caribbean record2:05:38London, Great Britain14 April 2002South American Record2:06:05Berlin, Germany20 September 1998European Record2:06:36Paris, France6 April 2003Oceanian record2:07:51Boston, MA, United States21 April 1986

Qualification standards Time 2:17:00

Schedule Date Time Round17 August 2013 15:30 Final

Results KEY:NRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Final The race was started at 13:30.Final Results

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Stephen Kiprotich 2:09:51 Lelisa Desisa 2:10:12 Tadese Tola 2:10:23 Tsegaye Kebede 2:10:47 Kentaro Nakamoto 2:10:50 Solonei da Silva 2:11:40 SB Paulo Roberto Paula 2:11:40 SB Yemane Tsegay 2:11:43 SB Peter Kimeli Some 2:11:47 10 Jackson Kiprop 2:12:12 11 Beraki Beyene 2:13:40 SB 12 Bernard Kipyego 2:14:01 13 Jeff Eggleston 2:14:23 SB 14 Masakazu Fujiwara 2:14:29 15 Javier Guerra 2:14:33 16 Samuel Tsegay 2:14:41 SB 17 Kazuhiro Maeda 2:15:25 18 Yuki Kawauchi 2:15:35 19 Abraham Kiplimo 2:16:25 20 Rob Watson 2:16:28 SB 21 Paul Pollock 2:16:42 SB 22 Mustafa Mohamed 2:17:09 SB 23 Martin Dent 2:17:11 SB 24 Aleksey A. Sokolov (Алексей Соколов) 2:17:12 25 Michael Kipyego 2:17:47 26 Marius Ionescu 2:18:31 27 Daniel Tapia 2:18:32 SB 28 Benjamin Malaty 2:19:21 29 Jordan Chipangama 2:19:47 30 Miguel Ángel Almachi 2:19:48 SB 31 Kiflom Sium 2:20:01 32 Chang Chia-che 2:20:02 SB 33 Faustine Mussa 2:20:51 34 Christian Kreienbühl 2:21:17 35 Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od 2:21:55 36 Carlos Trujillo 2:23:13 SB 37 Tilahun Aliyev 2:23:32 38 Mohamed Ikoki Msandeki 2:24:20 SB 39 Zohar Zemiro 2:25:23 40 Michael Ott 2:26:02 41 Vasyl Matviychuk 2:26:21 SB 42 Sibusiso Nzima 2:26:32 43 Sung Ji-Hun 2:26:43 44 Yin Shujin 2:27:19 45 Roman Prodius 2:29:08 46 Hendrick Ramaala 2:30:23 47 Sergiu Ciobanu 2:34:17 SB 48 Kim Young-Jin 2:35:53 49 Shawn Forrest 2:39:09 SB 50 Mihail Krassilov 2:44:31 SB Nicholas Kipkemboi Bernard Kiprop Koech Jobo Khatoane Tsepo Ramonene Mohamed Bilal Hafid Chani Hiroyuki Horibata Feyisa Lilesa Ayam Lamdassem Tayeb Filali Yared Asmerom Yonas Kifle José Antonio Uribe Michel Butter Hermano Ferreira Jean Pierre Mvuyekure Aadam Ismaeel Khamis Wissem Hosni Cephas Pasipamiri Jeremías Saloj 2:20:40 DQ (33rd)More than 1900 blood samples collected – Moscow 2013. IAAF (20 September 2013). Retrieved on 4 February 2014.

References

External links Marathon results at IAAF website