Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

  • 10 August 2024
Winning time2:06:26 ORMedalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tamirat Tola  Ethiopia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bashir Abdi  Belgium
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Benson Kipruto  Kenya
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The men's marathon at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 10 August 2024. This was the 30th time that the men's marathon was contested at the Summer Olympics.

Background

The men's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the inaugural edition in 1896.

All three medalists in Tokyo returned: 2016 and 2020 gold medalist Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya, 2020 silver medalist Abdi Nageeye from the Netherlands, and 2020 bronze medalist Bashir Abdi from Belgium. Kipchoge, the champion of the past two Olympic marathons, sought to make history with a victory in Paris becoming the first athlete to win three Olympic gold medals in the marathon.[2] One athlete, Yaseen Abdalla, made his marathon debut after gaining entry through a universality spot.[3] The marathon world record holder, Kelvin Kiptum, was killed in a car accident in February 2024.

Course

The marathon course began at the Hôtel de Ville and traversed many of the host city's most iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre before concluding at Les Invalides. Paris officials have stated the route has taken inspiration from la marche de femmes. Due to the elevation profile, the course has been discussed as one of the more challenging Olympic marathons. Notably, for the first time in Olympic history, the public had the opportunity to run the marathon course. Following the Olympic marathon, up to 40,000 runners will be able to participate in a public marathon or a 10k race.[4]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic, and area records were as follows.[5]

Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics
Record Athlete (Nation) Time Location Date
World record  Kelvin Kiptum (KEN) 2:00:35[6] Chicago, United States 8 October 2023
Olympic record  Samuel Wanjiru (KEN) 2:06:32 Beijing, China 24 August 2008
World leading  Benson Kipruto (KEN) 2:02:16[7] Tokyo, Japan 3 March 2024
Area records before the 2024 Summer Olympics[8]
Africa (records)  Kelvin Kiptum (KEN) 2:00:35 WR
Asia (records)  El Hassan El Abbassi (BHR) 2:04:43
Europe (records)  Bashir Abdi (BEL) 2:03:36
North, Central America
and Caribbean (records) 		 Cameron Levins (CAN) 2:05:36
Oceania (records)  Brett Robinson (AUS) 2:07:31
South America (records)  Daniel do Nascimento (BRA) 2:04:51

Qualification

In order to comply with the 80-athlete capacity imposed by the IOC, World Athletics debuted a new qualification system ahead of the Paris games. Each country is eligible to send three athletes to compete in the marathon; however, each spot must be "unlocked" in one of three ways between 6 November 2022 to 30 April 2024. To unlock guaranteed spots for their country, athletes must run under a 2:08:10 in an eligible race within the time period. Athletes may also unlock a spot for their country by placing top five at a World Athletics platinum-level race or by reaching a high-enough World Athletics rankings. The world rankings were used to fill any entries not allocated to time-unlocked spots. Once spots have been unlocked for a country, the National Olympic Federation can select athletes to fill their spots as they see fit. While any athlete can be assigned to an unlocked spot, they must have run at least the Quota Reallocation Time of 2:11:30.[9][10]

National Olympic Federations could also use a universality spot in the marathon. Any country with no qualified athlete was be allowed to enter their best-ranked runner in the marathon regardless of qualification standards.[11]

The qualification period for the 2024 Olympic Marathon ended on 30 April 2024 and exceeded the 80-athlete target by one entry.[12]

Qualification standard No. of athletes NOC Nominated athletes
Entry standard – 2:08:10 3  Belgium Bashir Abdi
Koen Naert
Michael Somers
3  China He Jie
Wu Xiangdong
Yang Shaohui
3  Eritrea Samsom Amare
Berhane Tesfay
Kibrom Weldemicael
3  Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele
Deresa Geleta
Sisay Lemma
3  France Morhad Amdouni
Felix Bour
Nicolas Navarro
3  Germany Samuel Fitwi
Amanal Petros
Richard Ringer
3  Great Britain Emile Cairess
Mahamed Mahamed
Philip Sesemann
3  Israel Maru Teferi
Gashau Ayale
Girmaw Amare
3  Italy Yemaneberhan Crippa
Eyob Faniel
Daniele Meucci
3  Kenya Eliud Kipchoge
Benson Kipruto
Alexander Mutiso
3  Morocco Othmane El Goumri
Mohcin Outalha
Zouhair Talbi
3  Spain Ibrahim Chakir
Tariku Novales
Yago Rojo
3  Uganda Victor Kiplangat
Stephen Kissa
Andrew Rotich Kwemoi
2  Australia Brett Robinson
Patrick Tiernan
2  Canada Cameron Levins
Rory Linkletter
2  Japan Naoki Koyama
Suguru Osako
2  Netherlands Khalid Choukoud
Abdi Nageeye
2  Norway Zerei Kbrom Mezngi
Sondre Nordstad Moen
2  Switzerland Tadesse Abraham
Matthias Kyburz
2  Tanzania Gabriel Geay
Alphonce Simbu
2  United States Conner Mantz
Clayton Young
0  Bahrain Marius Kimutai [a]
1  Bolivia Héctor Garibay
0  Brazil Daniel Ferreira do Nascimento [b]
1  Chile Carlos Díaz
1  Djibouti Bouh Ibrahim
1  Guatemala Alberto González Mindez
1  Lesotho Tebello Ramakongoana
1  Peru Cristhian Pacheco
1  Portugal Samuel Barata
1  South Africa Stephen Mokoka
1  Sweden Suldan Hassan
1  Turkey Kaan Kigen Özbilen
1  Uzbekistan Shokhrukh Davlatov
1  Zimbabwe Isaac Mpofu
World Athletics Rankings 1  Australia Liam Adams
1  Chile Hugo Catrileo
1  Japan Akira Akasaki
1  South Africa Elroy Gelant
1  United States Leonard Korir
Universality Places 1  Cape Verde Samuel Freire
1  Chad Valentin Betoudji
1  Jordan Mo'ath Alkhawaldeh
1  Mongolia Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od
1  North Korea Han Il-ryong
1  North Macedonia Dario Ivanovski
1  Sudan Yaseen Abdalla
1  Virgin Islands Eduardo Garcia
Invitational places 1  Refugee Olympic Team Tachlowini Gabriyesos
Total 81

Results

The event was held on 10 August, starting at 08:00 (UTC+2) in the morning.[1]


Rank Athlete Nation Time Time Behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tamirat Tola  Ethiopia 2:06:26 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bashir Abdi  Belgium 2:06:47 +0:21 SB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Benson Kipruto  Kenya 2:07:00 +0:34
4 Emile Cairess  Great Britain 2:07:29 +1:03
5 Deresa Geleta  Ethiopia 2:07:31 +1:05
6 Akira Akasaki  Japan 2:07:32 +1:06 PB
7 Tebello Ramakongoana  Lesotho 2:07:58 +1:32 NR
8 Conner Mantz  United States 2:08:12 +1:46 SB
9 Clayton Young  United States 2:08:44 +2:18 SB
10 Samsom Amare  Eritrea 2:08:56 +2:30 SB
11 Elroy Gelant  South Africa 2:09:07 +2:41
12 Richard Ringer  Germany 2:09:18 +2:52 SB
13 Suguru Osako  Japan 2:09:25 +2:59 SB
14 Bouh Ibrahim  Djibouti 2:09:31 +3:05 SB
15 Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu  Germany 2:09:50 +3:24
16 Nicolas Navarro  France 2:09:56 +3:30 SB
17 Alphonce Simbu  Tanzania 2:10:03 +3:37
18 Othmane El Goumri  Morocco 2:10:06 +3:40
19 Isaac Mpofu  Zimbabwe 2:10:09 +3:43 SB
20 Hassan Chahdi  France 2:10:09 +3:43
21 Alexander Mutiso Munyao  Kenya 2:10:31 +4:05
22 Michael Somers  Belgium 2:10:32 +4:06
23 Naoki Koyama [ja]  Japan 2:10:33 +4:07
24 Patrick Tiernan  Australia 2:10:34 +4:08
25 Yemaneberhan Crippa  Italy 2:10:36 +4:10
26 Maru Teferi  Israel 2:10:42 +4:16 SB
27 Stephen Mokoka  South Africa 2:10:59 +4:33
28 Suldan Hassan  Sweden 2:11:21 +4:55
29 Han Il-ryong  North Korea 2:11:21 +4:55
30 Matthias Kyburz  Switzerland 2:11:32 +5:06
31 Gashau Ayale  Israel 2:11:36 +5:10
32 Sondre Nordstad Moen  Norway 2:11:39 +5:13 SB
33 Yaseen Abdalla  Sudan 2:11:41 +5:15 NR
34 Ibrahim Chakir  Spain 2:11:44 +5:18
35 Zouhair Talbi  Morocco 2:11:51 +5:25
36 Cameron Levins  Canada 2:11:56 +5:30 SB
37 Victor Kiplangat  Uganda 2:11:59 +5:33
38 Tadesse Abraham  Switzerland 2:12:22 +5:56
39 Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia 2:12:24 +5:58
40 Wu Xiangdong [cn]  China 2:12:34 +6:08
41 Yago Rojo  Spain 2:12:43 +6:17 SB
42 Tachlowini Gabriyesos  Refugee Olympic Team 2:12:47 +6:21
43 Eyob Faniel  Italy 2:12:50 +6:24
44 Girmaw Amare  Israel 2:12:51 +6:25 SB
45 Andrew Buchanan  Australia 2:12:58 +6:32
46 Philip Sesemann  Great Britain 2:13:08 +6:42
47 Rory Linkletter  Canada 2:13:09 +6:43
48 Samuel Barata  Portugal 2:13:23 +6:57 SB
49 Liam Adams  Australia 2:13:33 +7:07 SB
50 Felix Bour  France 2:13:46 +7:20 SB
51 Daniele Meucci  Italy 2:14:02 +7:36
52 Zerei Kbrom Mezngi  Norway 2:14:14 +7:48 SB
53 Carlos Díaz  Chile 2:14:25 +7:59
54 Henok Tesfay  Eritrea 2:14:31 +8:05
55 Yang Shaohui  China 2:14:48 +8:22
56 Samuel Freire  Cape Verde 2:15:05 +8:39
57 Mahamed Mahamed  Great Britain 2:15:19 +8:53
58 Khalid Choukoud  Netherlands 2:15:25 +8:59 SB
59 Hugo Catrileo  Chile 2:15:44 +9:18
60 Héctor Garibay  Bolivia 2:15:54 +9:28 SB
61 Koen Naert  Belgium 2:16:33 +10:07 SB
62 Andrew Rotich Kwemoi  Uganda 2:17:28 +11:02
63 Leonard Korir  United States 2:18:45 +12:19
64 Berhane Tesfay  Eritrea 2:18:50 +12:24
65 Mo'ath Alkhawaldeh  Jordan 2:20:01 +13:35 SB
66 Alberto González Mindez [de]  Guatemala 2:22:12 +15:46 SB
67 He Jie  China 2:22:31 +16:05
68 Tariku Novales  Spain 2:25:50 +19:24 SB
69 Dario Ivanovski  North Macedonia 2:28:15 +21:49
70 Valentin Betoudji  Chad 2:32:11 +25:45
71 Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od  Mongolia 2:42:33 +36:07
— Abdi Nageeye  Netherlands – 40 km DNF
Mohcin Outalha  Morocco – 35 km DNF
Gabriel Gerald Geay  Tanzania – 30 km DNF
Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya – 30 km DNF
Shokhrukh Davlatov  Uzbekistan – 30 km DNF
Amanal Petros  Germany – 30 km DNF
Stephen Kissa  Uganda – 25 km DNF
Kaan Kigen Özbilen  Turkey – Half DNF
Cristhian Pacheco  Peru – 15 km DNF
Eduardo Garcia  Virgin Islands – 5 km DNF

Notes

  1. ^ Currently serving a 3-year ban for a positive doping result. Quota place can be reallocated to another athlete by the NOC, provided that the athlete has achieved a time of at least 2:11:30 during the qualification period.
  2. ^ Currently provisionally suspended for a doping adverse result. Quota place can be reallocated to another athlete by the NOC, provided that the athlete has achieved a time of at least 2:11:30 during the qualification period.

References

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