2001 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

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. As of 2024, this is the only time the men's marathon has been won by less than four seconds at these championships.

Medalists

Gold	Gezahegne Abera Ethiopia (ETH)
Silver	Simon Biwott Kenya (KEN)
Bronze	Stefano Baldini Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2001 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Khalid Khannouchi	United States (USA)	2:05:42	October 24, 1999	Chicago, United States
Event Record	Robert de Castella	Australia (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Josephat Kiprono	Kenya (KEN)	2:06:50	April 22, 2001	Rotterdam, Netherlands

Intermediates

Rank	Number	Athlete	Country	Time
5 KILOMETRES
1	1101	Ronnie Holassie	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	15:31
2	1153	Josh Cox	United States (USA)	15:31
3	1249	Elijah Mutandiro	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	15:31
4	572	Asaf Bimro	Israel (ISR)	15:51
5	654	Takayuki Nishida	Japan (JPN)	15:51
10 KILOMETRES
1	1101	Ronnie Holassie	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	30:54
2	334	Simretu Alemayehu	Ethiopia (ETH)	31:18
3	598	Giacomo Leone	Italy (ITA)	31:18
4	1179	Khalid Khannouchi	United States (USA)	31:18
5	696	Lee Bong-Ju	South Korea (KOR)	31:18
15 KILOMETRES
1	1101	Ronnie Holassie	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	47:01
2	672	Simon Biwott	Kenya (KEN)	47:32
3	999	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda (RWA)	47:32
4	696	Lee Bong-Ju	South Korea (KOR)	47:32
5	951	Laban Nkete	South Africa (RSA)	47:32
20 KILOMETRES
1	1101	Ronnie Holassie	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	1:03:27
2	959	Ian Syster	South Africa (RSA)	1:03:28
3	334	Simretu Alemayehu	Ethiopia (ETH)	1:03:28
4	1179	Khalid Khannouchi	United States (USA)	1:03:28
5	672	Simon Biwott	Kenya (KEN)	1:03:28
HALF MARATHON
1	334	Simretu Alemayehu	Ethiopia (ETH)	1:06:59
2	959	Ian Syster	South Africa (RSA)	1:06:59
3	761	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	Morocco (MAR)	1:06:59
4	598	Giacomo Leone	Italy (ITA)	1:06:59
5	696	Lee Bong-Ju	South Korea (KOR)	1:06:59
25 KILOMETRES
1	598	Giacomo Leone	Italy (ITA)	1:19:14
2	761	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	Morocco (MAR)	1:19:14
3	654	Takayuki Nishida	Japan (JPN)	1:19:14
4	696	Lee Bong-Ju	South Korea (KOR)	1:19:14
5	959	Ian Syster	South Africa (RSA)	1:19:15
30 KILOMETRES
1	761	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	Morocco (MAR)	1:34:51
2	332	Gezahegne Abera	Ethiopia (ETH)	1:35:00
3	581	Stefano Baldini	Italy (ITA)	1:35:00
4	672	Simon Biwott	Kenya (KEN)	1:35:00
5	630	Shigeru Aburaya	Japan (JPN)	1:35:01
35 KILOMETRES
1	581	Stefano Baldini	Italy (ITA)	1:50:46
2	341	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia (ETH)	1:50:46
3	332	Gezahegne Abera	Ethiopia (ETH)	1:50:46
4	672	Simon Biwott	Kenya (KEN)	1:50:47
5	630	Shigeru Aburaya	Japan (JPN)	1:50:48
40 KILOMETRES
1	672	Simon Biwott	Kenya (KEN)	2:06:10
2	332	Gezahegne Abera	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:06:11
3	581	Stefano Baldini	Italy (ITA)	2:06:25
4	341	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:06:34
5	630	Shigeru Aburaya	Japan (JPN)	2:06:55

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
	Gezahegne Abera	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:12:42	SB
	Simon Biwott	Kenya (KEN)	2:12:43
	Stefano Baldini	Italy (ITA)	2:13:18
4	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:13:58
5	Shigeru Aburaya	Japan (JPN)	2:14:07
6	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	Morocco (MAR)	2:15:41
7	Tesfaye Jifar	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:16:52
8	Yoshiteru Morishita	Japan (JPN)	2:17:05
9	Takayuki Nishida	Japan (JPN)	2:17:24
10	Simretu Alemayehu	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:17:35
11	Giacomo Leone	Italy (ITA)	2:17:54
12	Atsushi Fujita	Japan (JPN)	2:18:23
13	Benoît Zwierzchiewski	France (FRA)	2:18:29
14	Ian Syster	South Africa (RSA)	2:19:38
15	Óscar Fernández	Spain (ESP)	2:19:45
16	Abdelhakim Bagy	France (FRA)	2:20:43
17	Alberico di Cecco	Italy (ITA)	2:20:44
18	Olexandr Kuzin	Ukraine (UKR)	2:21:26
19	Benjamín Paredes	Mexico (MEX)	2:22:07
20	Asaf Bimro	Israel (ISR)	2:22:36
21	Andrés Espinosa	Mexico (MEX)	2:23:06
22	Lim Jin-Soo	South Korea (KOR)	2:23:16
23	Nicholas Harrison	Australia (AUS)	2:23:24
24	Antoni Peña	Spain (ESP)	2:23:29
25	Pamenos Ballantyne	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VIN)	2:24:36
26	Kenichi Takahashi	Japan (JPN)	2:24:41
27	Franklin Tenorio	Ecuador (ECU)	2:25:15
28	Luketz Swartbooi	Namibia (NAM)	2:25:40
29	Kamal Ziani	Spain (ESP)	2:25:43
30	Thabiso Moqhali	Lesotho (LES)	2:25:44
31	Mykola Rudyk	Ukraine (UKR)	2:26:04
32	Diego Colorado	Colombia (COL)	2:26:13
33	Ahmed Adam Saleh	Qatar (QAT)	2:26:32
34	Larbi Zeroual	France (FRA)	2:26:45
35	Josh Cox	United States (USA)	2:26:52
36	Rod de Highden	Australia (AUS)	2:27:42
37	Julio Rey	Spain (ESP)	2:27:59
38	Eddy Hellebuyck	United States (USA)	2:28:01
39	Anders Szalkai	Sweden (SWE)	2:28:33
40	Magnus Michelsson	Australia (AUS)	2:28:36
41	Francisco Javier Cortés	Spain (ESP)	2:28:48
42	Steve Bohan	Canada (CAN)	2:29:22
43	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic (CAF)	2:29:25
44	Tesfit Berhe	Eritrea (ERI)	2:29:50
45	Francisco Bautista	Mexico (MEX)	2:29:56
46	Bruce Deacon	Canada (CAN)	2:30:22
47	Vasiliy Medvedev	Uzbekistan (UZB)	2:30:28
48	Michael Dudley	United States (USA)	2:30:45
49	Vasilios Zabelis	Greece (GRE)	2:31:34
50	Andriy Naumov	Ukraine (UKR)	2:31:42
51	António Zeferino	Cape Verde (CPV)	2:32:46
52	Kim Gillard	Australia (AUS)	2:33:11
53	Rafael Yax	Guatemala (GUA)	2:33:21
54	Kim Yi-Yong	South Korea (KOR)	2:33:28
55	Isaac García	Mexico (MEX)	2:33:32
56	Alfredo Arevalo	Guatemala (GUA)	2:34:16
57	Gregorio Domínguez	Mexico (MEX)	2:35:15
58	Jean-Paul Niyonsaba	Burundi (BDI)	2:35:43
59	Ðuro Kodžo	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	2:35:47	PB
60	Zigmund Zilbershtein	Georgia (GEO)	2:36:01
61	Kopamo Pekile	Lesotho (LES)	2:36:24
62	Juan Eulogio Ramos	Guatemala (GUA)	2:37:15
63	Honest Mutsakani	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	2:37:44
64	Oliver Utting	Canada (CAN)	2:39:53
65	Nestor Jami	Ecuador (ECU)	2:41:18
66	Abdellah Béhar	France (FRA)	2:41:42
67	Laban Nkete	South Africa (RSA)	2:42:21
68	Sergey Zabavski	Tajikistan (TJK)	2:42:22
69	José Jami	Ecuador (ECU)	2:42:23
70	Leonardo Vieira Guedes	Brazil (BRA)	2:43:11
71	Christian Marmen	Canada (CAN)	2:44:44
72	Fraser Bertram	Canada (CAN)	2:45:10
—	Roberto Barbi	Italy (ITA)	DQ
—	Andreas Erm	Germany (GER)	DNF
—	Abukar Mohamed	Somalia (SOM)	DNF
—	Gert Thys	South Africa (RSA)	DNF
—	Josiah Bembe	South Africa (RSA)	DNF
—	Abdelfattah Aïtzouri	Morocco (MAR)	DNF
—	Lee Bong-Ju	South Korea (KOR)	DNF
—	Josephat Kiprono	Kenya (KEN)	DNF
—	Samson Kandie	Kenya (KEN)	DNF
—	Theodoros Zachos	Greece (GRE)	DNF
—	Ahmed Saeed Hassan	Somalia (SOM)	DNF
—	Elijah Mutandiro	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	DNF
—	Elson Williams	Guyana (GUY)	DNF
—	Arkadi Tolstyh	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	DNF
—	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda (RWA)	DNF
—	Stephen Bwire Mlingi	Tanzania (TAN)	DNF
—	Luis Novo	Portugal (POR)	DNF
—	Roman Kejžar	Slovenia (SLO)	DNF
—	Ronnie Holassie	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	DNF
—	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria (ALG)	DNF
—	Fekadu Degefu	Ethiopia (ETH)	DNF
—	Mohamed Ezzher	France (FRA)	DNF
—	Giovanni Ruggiero	Italy (ITA)	DNF
—	David Morris	United States (USA)	DNF
—	Khalid Khannouchi	United States (USA)	DNF
—	Josiah Thugwane	South Africa (RSA)	DNS
—	Mustapha Riad	Morocco (MAR)	DNS
—	Percy Sephoda	Lesotho (LES)	DNS
—	Pedro Ventura Jiménez	Honduras (HON)	DNS
—	Emiliano Lemus	Honduras (HON)	DNS
—	Daher Gadid Omar	Djibouti (DJI)	DNS
—	Ntoka Kapinga	DR Congo (COD)	DNS

See also

• 2000 Summer Olympics (Sydney)
• 2001 Marathon Year Ranking
• 2001 World Marathon Cup

References

• Results
• IAAF
• Results - World Athletics