2001 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

Athletic competition The Men's Marathon at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada was held on August 3, 2001. The winning margin was one second. This was the smallest margin of victory in the marathon at the World Championships until 2025. Medalists Gold ETH 1996 Gezahegne AberaEthiopia (ETH)Silver KEN Simon BiwottKenya (KEN)Bronze ITA Stefano BaldiniItaly (ITA) Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best Records Standing records prior to the 2001 World Athletics Championships World Record Khalid Khannouchi USA 2:05:42 October 24, 1999 USA Chicago, United States Event Record Robert de Castella AUS 2:10:03 August 14, 1983 FIN Helsinki, Finland Season Best Josephat Kiprono KEN 2:06:50 April 22, 2001 NED Rotterdam, Netherlands Intermediates RankNumberAthleteCountryTime5 KILOMETRES 1 1101 Ronnie Holassie TRI 15:31 2 1153 Josh Cox USA 15:31 3 1249 Elijah Mutandiro ZIM 15:31 4 572 Asaf Bimro ISR 15:51 5 654 Takayuki Nishida JPN 15:5110 KILOMETRES 1 1101 Ronnie Holassie TRI 30:54 2 334 Simretu Alemayehu ETH 1996 31:18 3 598 Giacomo Leone ITA 31:18 4 1179 Khalid Khannouchi USA 31:18 5 696 Lee Bong-Ju KOR 31:1815 KILOMETRES 1 1101 Ronnie Holassie TRI 47:01 2 672 Simon Biwott KEN 47:32 3 999 Mathias Ntawulikura RWA 1962 47:32 4 696 Lee Bong-Ju KOR 47:32 5 951 Laban Nkete RSA 47:3220 KILOMETRES 1 1101 Ronnie Holassie TRI 1:03:27 2 959 Ian Syster RSA 1:03:28 3 334 Simretu Alemayehu ETH 1996 1:03:28 4 1179 Khalid Khannouchi USA 1:03:28 5 672 Simon Biwott KEN 1:03:28HALF MARATHON 1 334 Simretu Alemayehu ETH 1996 1:06:59 2 959 Ian Syster RSA 1:06:59 3 761 Abdelkader El Mouaziz MAR 1:06:59 4 598 Giacomo Leone ITA 1:06:59 5 696 Lee Bong-Ju KOR 1:06:5925 KILOMETRES 1 598 Giacomo Leone ITA 1:19:14 2 761 Abdelkader El Mouaziz MAR 1:19:14 3 654 Takayuki Nishida JPN 1:19:14 4 696 Lee Bong-Ju KOR 1:19:14 5 959 Ian Syster RSA 1:19:1530 KILOMETRES 1 761 Abdelkader El Mouaziz MAR 1:34:51 2 332 Gezahegne Abera ETH 1996 1:35:00 3 581 Stefano Baldini ITA 1:35:00 4 672 Simon Biwott KEN 1:35:00 5 630 Shigeru Aburaya JPN 1:35:0135 KILOMETRES 1 581 Stefano Baldini ITA 1:50:46 2 341 Tesfaye Tola ETH 1996 1:50:46 3 332 Gezahegne Abera ETH 1996 1:50:46 4 672 Simon Biwott KEN 1:50:47 5 630 Shigeru Aburaya JPN 1:50:4840 KILOMETRES 1 672 Simon Biwott KEN 2:06:10 2 332 Gezahegne Abera ETH 1996 2:06:11 3 581 Stefano Baldini ITA 2:06:25 4 341 Tesfaye Tola ETH 1996 2:06:34 5 630 Shigeru Aburaya JPN 2:06:55 Final ranking RankAthleteCountryTimeNote Gezahegne Abera ETH 1996 2:12:42 SB Simon Biwott KEN 2:12:43 Stefano Baldini ITA 2:13:18 4 Tesfaye Tola ETH 1996 2:13:58 5 Shigeru Aburaya JPN 2:14:07 6 Abdelkader El Mouaziz MAR 2:15:41 7 Tesfaye Jifar ETH 1996 2:16:52 8 Yoshiteru Morishita JPN 2:17:05 9 Takayuki Nishida JPN 2:17:24 10 Simretu Alemayehu ETH 1996 2:17:35 11 Giacomo Leone ITA 2:17:54 12 Atsushi Fujita JPN 2:18:23 13 Benoît Zwierzchiewski FRA 2:18:29 14 Ian Syster RSA 2:19:38 15 Óscar Fernández ESP 2:19:45 16 Abdelhakim Bagy FRA 2:20:43 17 Alberico di Cecco ITA 2:20:44 18 Olexandr Kuzin UKR 2:21:26 19 Benjamín Paredes MEX 2:22:07 20 Asaf Bimro ISR 2:22:36 21 Andrés Espinosa MEX 2:23:06 22 Lim Jin-Soo KOR 2:23:16 23 Nicholas Harrison AUS 2:23:24 24 Antoni Peña ESP 2:23:29 25 Pamenos Ballantyne VIN 2:24:36 26 Kenichi Takahashi JPN 2:24:41 27 Franklin Tenorio ECU 2:25:15 28 Luketz Swartbooi NAM 2:25:40 29 Kamal Ziani ESP 2:25:43 30 Thabiso Moqhali LES 1987 2:25:44 31 Mykola Rudyk UKR 2:26:04 32 Diego Colorado COL 2:26:13 33 Ahmed Adam Saleh QAT 2:26:32 34 Larbi Zeroual FRA 2:26:45 35 Josh Cox USA 2:26:52 36 Rod de Highden AUS 2:27:42 37 Julio Rey ESP 2:27:59 38 Eddy Hellebuyck USA 2:28:01 39 Anders Szalkai SWE 2:28:33 40 Magnus Michelsson AUS 2:28:36 41 Francisco Javier Cortés ESP 2:28:48 42 Steve Bohan CAN 2:29:22 43 Ernest Ndjissipou CAF 2:29:25 44 Tesfit Berhe ERI 2:29:50 45 Francisco Bautista MEX 2:29:56 46 Bruce Deacon CAN 2:30:22 47 Vasiliy Medvedev UZB 2:30:28 48 Michael Dudley USA 2:30:45 49 Vasilios Zabelis GRE 2:31:34 50 Andriy Naumov UKR 2:31:42 51 António Zeferino CPV 2:32:46 52 Kim Gillard AUS 2:33:11 53 Rafael Yax GUA 2:33:21 54 Kim Yi-Yong KOR 2:33:28 55 Isaac García MEX 2:33:32 56 Alfredo Arevalo GUA 2:34:16 57 Gregorio Domínguez MEX 2:35:15 58 Jean-Paul Niyonsaba BDI 2:35:43 59 Ðuro Kodžo BIH 2:35:47 PB 60 Zigmund Zilbershtein GEO 1990 2:36:01 61 Kopamo Pekile LES 1987 2:36:24 62 Juan Eulogio Ramos GUA 2:37:15 63 Honest Mutsakani ZIM 2:37:44 64 Oliver Utting CAN 2:39:53 65 Nestor Jami ECU 2:41:18 66 Abdellah Béhar FRA 2:41:42 67 Laban Nkete RSA 2:42:21 68 Sergey Zabavski TJK 2:42:22 69 José Jami ECU 2:42:23 70 Leonardo Vieira Guedes BRA 2:43:11 71 Christian Marmen CAN 2:44:44 72 Fraser Bertram CAN 2:45:10 — Roberto Barbi ITA DQ — Andreas Erm GER DNF — Abukar Mohamed SOM DNF — Gert Thys RSA DNF — Josiah Bembe RSA DNF — Abdelfattah Aïtzouri MAR DNF — Lee Bong-Ju KOR DNF — Josephat Kiprono KEN DNF — Samson Kandie KEN DNF — Theodoros Zachos GRE DNF — Ahmed Saeed Hassan SOM DNF — Elijah Mutandiro ZIM DNF — Elson Williams GUY DNF — Arkadi Tolstyh KGZ DNF — Mathias Ntawulikura RWA 1962 DNF — Stephen Bwire Mlingi TAN DNF — Luis Novo POR DNF — Roman Kejžar SLO DNF — Ronnie Holassie TRI DNF — Azzedine Sakhri ALG DNF — Fekadu Degefu ETH 1996 DNF — Mohamed Ezzher FRA DNF — Giovanni Ruggiero ITA DNF — David Morris USA DNF — Khalid Khannouchi USA DNF — Josiah Thugwane RSA DNS — Mustapha Riad MAR DNS — Percy Sephoda LES 1987 DNS — Pedro Ventura Jiménez HON DNS — Emiliano Lemus HON DNS — Daher Gadid Omar DJI DNS — Ntoka Kapinga COD 1997 DNS See also 2000 Summer Olympics (Sydney) 2001 Marathon Year Ranking 2001 World Marathon Cup References Results IAAF Results - World Athletics M Category:Marathons at the World Athletics Championships Category:2001 marathons Category:Men's marathons Category:Marathons in Canada