Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

The men's marathon event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 1 October 2000 in Sydney, Australia.[1] One hundred athletes from 65 nations competed.[2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia, the nation's first victory in the event since winning three in a row from 1960 to 1968. Ethiopia's fourth gold medal in the men's marathon moved it out of a tie with France and the United States into sole possession of the most men's marathon gold medals. Ethiopia also became the first nation to have two medalists in the men's marathon in the same Games since South Africa did it in 1912, as Tesfaye Tola took bronze. Kenya won its third men's marathon medal in four Games with Erick Wainaina's silver. This made Wainaina the sixth man to earn two medals in the event, after his bronze in 1996.

Men's marathon
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Olympic Stadium
VenueStadium Australia, Sydney
Date1 October
Competitors100 from 65 nations
Winning time2:10:11
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gezahegne Abera
 Ethiopia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Erick Wainaina
 Kenya
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tesfaye Tola
 Ethiopia
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Background

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This was the 24th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning runners from the 1996 marathon included all three medalists (gold medalist Josia Thugwane of South Africa, silver medalist Lee Bong-Ju of South Korea, and bronze medalist Erick Wainaina of Kenya) along with fourth-place finisher Martín Fiz of Spain, seventh-place finisher Steve Moneghetti of Australia, and eighth-place finisher Benjamín Paredes of Mexico. The Kenyan and Ethiopian teams were considered strong, but without any individual favorite. Khalid Khannouchi of Morocco had set the world record in 1999, but earlier in 2000 had changed citizenship to the United States. Abel Antón of Spain had won the last two world championships; he did compete in Sydney.[2]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Federated States of Micronesia, Slovakia, and Tajikistan each made their first appearance in Olympic men's marathons; there was also one Independent Olympic Athlete from East Timor. The United States made its 23rd appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

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Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run 2:14:00 or faster during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run 2:20:00 or faster could be entered.[3]

Competition format and course

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As all Olympic marathons, the competition was a single race. The marathon distance of 26 miles, 385 yards was run over a point-to-point route starting at the North Sydney Oval and finishing at the Olympic Stadium.[2]

Records

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These were the standing world and Olympic records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

World record   Khalid Khannouchi (MAR) 2:05:42 Chicago, United States 24 October 1999
Olympic record   Carlos Lopes (POR) 2:09:21 Los Angeles, United States 12 August 1984

No new world or Olympic bests were set during the competition. The following national records were established during the competition:

Nation Athlete Round Time
  Angola João N'Tyamba Final 2:16:43

Schedule

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All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 1 October 2000 16:00 Final

Results

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
  Gezahegne Abera   Ethiopia 2:10:11
  Erick Wainaina   Kenya 2:10:31
  Tesfaye Tola   Ethiopia 2:11:10 SB
4 Jon Brown   Great Britain 2:11:17
5 Giacomo Leone   Italy 2:12:14 SB
6 Martín Fiz   Spain 2:13:06
7 Abdelkader El Mouaziz   Morocco 2:13:49
8 Mohamed Ouaadi   France 2:14:04
9 Tendai Chimusasa   Zimbabwe 2:14:19
10 Steve Moneghetti   Australia 2:14:50
11 António Pinto   Portugal 2:15:17
12 Hendrick Ramaala   South Africa 2:16:19
13 Kamiel Maase   Netherlands 2:16:24
14 Silvio Guerra   Ecuador 2:16:27
15 Mathias Ntawulikura   Rwanda 2:16:39
16 Thabiso Moqhali   Lesotho 2:16:43
17 João N'Tyamba   Angola 2:16:43 NR
18 Domingos Castro   Portugal 2:16:52
19 Keith Cullen   Great Britain 2:16:59
20 Josia Thugwane   South Africa 2:16:59
21 Shinji Kawashima   Japan 2:17:21
22 Simretu Alemayehu   Ethiopia 2:17:21
23 Kamel Kohil   Algeria 2:17:46
24 Lee Bong-Ju   South Korea 2:17:57
25 Greg van Hest   Netherlands 2:18:00
26 Pavel Kokin   Russia 2:18:02
27 Andrés Espinosa   Mexico 2:18:02
28 Roderic De Highden   Australia 2:18:04
29 Kim Jung-Won   North Korea 2:18:04
30 Kim Jong-chol   North Korea 2:18:04
31 Pamenos Ballantyne   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2:19:08
32 Ronnie Holassie   Trinidad and Tobago 2:19:24
33 Michael Buchleitner   Austria 2:19:26
34 Dmitriy Kapitonov   Russia 2:19:38
35 Pavel Loskutov   Estonia 2:19:41
36 Viktor Röthlin   Switzerland 2:20:06
37 Michael Fietz   Germany 2:20:09
38 Tahar Mansouri   Tunisia 2:20:33 SB
39 José Luis Molina   Costa Rica 2:20:37
40 Carlos Tarazona   Venezuela 2:20:39
41 Nobuyuki Sato   Japan 2:20:52 SB
42 Alberto Juzdado   Spain 2:21:18
43 Johannes Maremane   South Africa 2:21:25
44 Bruce Deacon   Canada 2:21:38
45 Jeong Nam-gyun   South Korea 2:22:23
46 Néstor García   Uruguay 2:22:30
47 Ahmed Abdel Mougod Soliman   Egypt 2:22:47
48 Luketz Swartbooi   Namibia 2:22:55
49 Antoni Bernadó   Andorra 2:23:03
50 Luís Novo   Portugal 2:23:04
51 Lucky Bhembe   Swaziland 2:23:08 PB
52 Boubker El-Afoui   Morocco 2:23:53
53 Abel Antón   Spain 2:24:04
54 Carsten Eich   Germany 2:24:11
55 Valeriu Vlas   Moldova 2:24:35
56 Mark Steinle   Great Britain 2:24:42
57 Alex Malinga   Uganda 2:24:53
58 Oscar Cortínez   Argentina 2:25:01
59 Kil Jae-son   North Korea 2:25:13
60 Petko Stefanov   Bulgaria 2:26:24
61 Zebedayo Bayo   Tanzania 2:26:24
62 Roman Kejžar   Slovenia 2:26:38
63 Panagiotis Kharamis   Greece 2:26:55
64 Benjamín Paredes   Mexico 2:27:17
65 Baek Seung-do   South Korea 2:28:25
66 Lee Troop   Australia 2:29:32
67 António Zeferino   Cape Verde 2:29:46
68 Sergey Zabavski   Tajikistan 2:30:29
69 Rod DeHaven   United States 2:30:46
70 Nazirdin Akylbekov   Kyrgyzstan 2:31:26
71 Calisto da Costa   Individual Olympic Athletes 2:33:11
72 Marco Condori   Bolivia 2:34:11
73 Sarath Prasanna Gamage   Sri Lanka 2:34:39
74 Gian Luigi Macina   San Marino 2:35:42
75 Vanderlei Lima   Brazil 2:37:08
76 Željko Petrović   Bosnia and Herzegovina 2:38:29
77 Tiyapo Maso   Botswana 2:38:53
78 Ðuro Kodžo   Bosnia and Herzegovina 2:39:14
79 José Alejandro Semprún   Venezuela 3:00:02
80 To Rithya   Cambodia 3:03:56
81 Elias Rodriguez   Federated States of Micronesia 3:09:14
Takayuki Inubushi   Japan DNF
Kenneth Cheruiyot   Kenya DNF
Willy Kalombo Mwenze   Democratic Republic of the Congo DNF
Abdellah Béhar   France DNF
Stefano Baldini   Italy DNF
Elijah Lagat   Kenya DNF
Piotr Gładki   Poland DNF
Patrick Ndayisenga   Burundi DNF
José Alirio Carrasco   Colombia DNF
Angelo Simon   Tanzania DNF
Róbert Štefko   Slovakia DNF
Osmiro Silva   Brazil DNF
Rashid Jamal   Qatar DNF
Adel Edeli   Libya DNF
Éder Fialho   Brazil DNF
Vincenzo Modica   Italy DNF
Daher Gadid Omar   Djibouti DNF
Richard Rodriguez   Aruba DNF
Fokasi Wilbrod   Tanzania DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Marathon". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Marathon, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  3. ^ http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/images/stories/tfn_pdfs/ogqualifying_standards.pdf[permanent dead link]
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