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.
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.

Records

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

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Final

The race was started at 13:30.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Stephen Kiprotich2:09:51
Lelisa Desisa2:10:12
Tadese Tola2:10:23
Tsegaye Kebede2:10:47
Kentaro Nakamoto2:10:50
Solonei da Silva2:11:40SB
Paulo Roberto Paula2:11:40SB
Yemane Tsegay2:11:43SB
Peter Kimeli Some2:11:47
10Jackson Kiprop2:12:12
11Beraki Beyene2:13:40SB
12Bernard Kipyego2:14:01
13Jeff Eggleston2:14:23SB
14Masakazu Fujiwara2:14:29
15Javier Guerra2:14:33
16Samuel Tsegay2:14:41SB
17Kazuhiro Maeda2:15:25
18Yuki Kawauchi2:15:35
19Abraham Kiplimo2:16:25
20Rob Watson2:16:28SB
21Paul Pollock2:16:42SB
22Mustafa Mohamed2:17:09SB
23Martin Dent2:17:11SB
24Aleksey A. Sokolov 2:17:12
25Michael Kipyego2:17:47
26Marius Ionescu2:18:31
27Daniel Tapia2:18:32SB
28Benjamin Malaty2:19:21
29Jordan Chipangama2:19:47
30Miguel Ángel Almachi2:19:48SB
31Kiflom Sium2:20:01
32Chang Chia-che2:20:02SB
33Faustine Mussa2:20:51
34Christian Kreienbühl2:21:17
35Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od2:21:55
36Carlos Trujillo2:23:13SB
37Tilahun Aliyev2:23:32
38Mohamed Ikoki Msandeki2:24:20SB
39Zohar Zemiro2:25:23
40Michael Ott2:26:02
41Vasyl Matviychuk2:26:21SB
42Sibusiso Nzima2:26:32
43Sung Ji-Hun2:26:43
44Yin Shujin2:27:19
45Roman Prodius2:29:08
46Hendrick Ramaala2:30:23
47Sergiu Ciobanu2:34:17SB
48Kim Young-Jin2:35:53
49Shawn Forrest2:39:09SB
50Mihail Krassilov2:44:31SB
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 Saloj2:20:40DQ