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Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

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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
← 1996
2004 →

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.

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gezahegne Abera  Ethiopia 2:10:11
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Erick Wainaina  Kenya 2:10:31
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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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