2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon


The Men's marathon at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held starting and finishing at Gukchae-bosang Memorial Park on September 4. Abel Kirui was the defending champion.
The story was all Kirui. Running a casual pace to 15 km, first the Moroccan contingent tried to test the field. The pace picked up and the field strung out. After 25 km, it was down to Kirui, Vincent Kipruto, Eliud Kiptanui, Feyisa Lilesa and Abderrahime Bouramdane. Then Kirui put the hammer down, running 14:18 between 25 and 30 km. Nobody could go with him and he ran all alone, extending his lead for the remainder of the race to finish in 2:07:38. The 2:28 gap was the largest winning margin in World Championship history. After dropping Bouramdane and Kiptanui. Kipruto and Lilesa ran tactically for the remainder of the race, with Kipruto getting silver.
The race was also the World Cup team competition. In that competition, the scoring is based on the cumulative time of the top three finishers for each team. Each country participating in the World Cup was allowed 5 entries into the marathon. The event was clearly won by Kenya, with 1st, 2nd and 5th-place finishers. Perennial champion Japan finished second, a cumulative minute ahead of Morocco.

Medalists

World Marathon Cup

GoldSilverBronze
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Abel Kirui
Vincent Kipruto
David Barmasai Tumo		'
Hiroyuki Horibata
Kentaro Nakamoto
Yuki Kawauchi
Abderrahime Bouramdane
Rachid Kisri
Ahmed Baday

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record2:03:59Berlin, Germany28 September 2008
Championship record2:06:54Berlin, Germany22 August 2009
World Leading2:03:40London, Great Britain17 April 2011
African record2:03:59Berlin, Germany28 September 2008
Asian record2:06:16Chicago, United States13 October 2002
North, Central American and Caribbean record2:05:38London, Great Britain24 April 2002
South American record2:06:05Berlin, Germany20 September 1998
European record2:06:36London, Great Britain16 April 2000
Paris, France6 April 2003--
Oceanian record2:07:51Boston, United States21 April 1986

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Final

World Cup scoring

RankCountryAthleteTime
1'6:29:23
1Abel Kirui2:07:38
2Vincent Kipruto2:10:06
5David Barmasai Tumo2:11:39
6Eliud Kiptanui
Benjamin Kolum Kiptoo
2'6:41:13
7Hiroyuki Horibata2:11:52
10Kentaro Nakamoto2:13:10
18Yuki Kawauchi2:16:11
29Yoshinori Oda
38Yukihiro Kitaoka
3'6:53:41
25José Manuel Martínez2:17:44
26Rafael Iglesias2:17:45
30Pablo Villalobos2:18:12
4'6:54:32
14Dong Guojian2:15:45
24Li Zicheng2:17:35
33Wu Shiwei2:21:12
5'6:57:03
23Jeong Jin-hyeok2:17:04
28Lee Myong-seung2:18:05
35Hwang Jun-hyeon2:21:54
40Hwang Jun-suk
44Kim Min
6'7:04:52
31Mike Morgan2:18:30
37Mike Sayenko2:22:49
39Jeff Eggleston2:23:33
41Nicholas Arciniaga
45Sergio Reyes