Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Men's marathon at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Stadium Australia, Sydney
Dates	October 1
Competitors	100 from 67 nations
Winning time	2:10:11
Medalists
Gezahegne Abera   Ethiopia   Erick Wainaina   Kenya   Tesfaye Tola   Ethiopia

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The Men's Marathon event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 1 October 2000 in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Gold	Gezahegne Abera  Ethiopia
Silver	Erick Wainaina  Kenya
Bronze	Tesfaye Tola  Ethiopia

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Khalid Khannouchi (MAR)	2:05:42	24 October 1999	Chicago, United States
Olympic Record	Carlos Lopes (POR)	2:09:21	12 August 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Season Best	António Pinto (POR)	2:06:36	16 April 2000	London, United Kingdom

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
01 !	Gezahegne Abera (ETH)	2:10:11
02 !	Erick Wainaina (KEN)	2:10:31
03 !	Tesfaye Tola (ETH)	2:11:10	SB
4	Jon Brown (GBR)	2:11:17
5	Giacomo Leone (ITA)	2:12:14	SB
6	Martín Fiz (ESP)	2:13:06
7	Abdelkader El Mouaziz (MAR)	2:12:49
8	Mohamed Ouaadi (FRA)	2:14:04
9	Tendai Chimusasa (ZIM)	2:14:19
10	Steve Moneghetti (AUS)	2:14:50
11	António Pinto (POR)	2:15:17
12	Hendrick Ramaala (RSA)	2:16:19
13	Kamiel Maase (NED)	2:16:24
14	Silvio Guerra (ECU)	2:16:27
15	Mathias Ntawulikura (RWA)	2:16:39
16	Thabiso Moqhali (LES)	2:16:43
17	João N'Tyamba (ANG)	2:16:43	NR
18	Domingos Castro (POR)	2:16:52
19	Keith Cullen (GBR)	2:16:59
20	Josia Thugwane (RSA)	2:16:59
21	Shinji Kawashima (JPN)	2:17:21
22	Simretu Alemayehu (ETH)	2:17:21
23	Kamal Kohil (ALG)	2:17:46
24	Lee Bong-Ju (KOR)	2:17:57
25	Greg van Hest (NED)	2:18:00
26	Pavel Kokin (RUS)	2:18:02
27	Andrés Espinosa (MEX)	2:18:02
28	Roderic De Highden (AUS)	2:18:04
29	Kim Jung-Won (PRK)	2:18:04
30	Kim Jong-Chol (PRK)	2:18:04
31	Pamenos Ballantyne (VIN)	2:19:08
32	Ronnie Holassie (TRI)	2:19:24
33	Michael Buchleitner (AUT)	2:19:26
34	Dmitriy Kapitonov (RUS)	2:19:38
35	Pavel Loskutov (EST)	2:19:41
36	Viktor Röthlin (SUI)	2:20:06
37	Michael Fietz (GER)	2:20:09
38	Tahar Mansouri (TUN)	2:20:33	SB
39	José Luis Molina (CRC)	2:20:37
40	Carlos Tarazona (VEN)	2:20:39
41	Nobuyuki Sato (JPN)	2:20:52	SB
42	Alberto Juzdado (ESP)	2:21:18
43	Johannes Maremane (RSA)	2:21:25
44	Bruce Deacon (CAN)	2:21:38
45	Chung Nam-Kyun (KOR)	2:22:23
46	Néstor García (URU)	2:22:30
47	Ahmed Abdelmougod Soliman (EGY)	2:22:47
48	Luketz Swartbooi (NAM)	2:22:55
49	Antoni Bernadó (AND)	2:23:03
50	Luís Novo (POR)	2:23:04
51	Lucky Bhembe (SWZ)	2:23:08	PB
52	Boubker Elafoui (MAR)	2:23:53
53	Abel Antón (ESP)	2:24:04
54	Carsten Eich (GER)	2:24:11
55	Valeriu Vlas (MDA)	2:24:35
56	Mark Steinle (GBR)	2:24:42
57	Alex Malinga (UGA)	2:24:53
58	Oscar Cortínez (ARG)	2:25:01
59	Kil Jae-Son (PRK)	2:25:13
60	Petko Stefanov (BUL)	2:26:24
61	Zebedayo Bayo (TAN)	2:26:24
62	Roman Kejžar (SLO)	2:26:38
63	Panayiotis Haramis (GRE)	2:26:55
64	Benjamín Paredes (MEX)	2:27:17
65	Baek Seung-Do (KOR)	2:28:25
66	Lee Troop (AUS)	2:29:32
67	António Zeferino (CPV)	2:29:46
68	Sergey Zabavski (TJK)	2:30:29
69	Rod DeHaven (USA)	2:30:46
70	Nazirdin Akylbekov (KGZ)	2:31:26
71	Calisto da Costa (IOA)	2:33:11
72	Marco Ivan Condori (BOL)	2:34:11
73	Sarath Prasanna Gamage (SRI)	2:34:39
74	Gian Luigi Macina (SMR)	2:35:42
75	Vanderlei Lima (BRA)	2:37:08
76	Željko Petrović (BIH)	2:38:29
77	Tiyapo Maso (BOT)	2:38:53
78	Ðuro Kodžo (BIH)	2:39:14
79	José Alejandro Semprún (VEN)	3:00:02
80	To Rithya (CAM)	3:03:56
81	Elias Rodriguez (FSM)	3:09:14
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
	Takayuki Inubushi (JPN)	DNF
	Kenneth Cheruiyot (KEN)	DNF
	Willy Kalombo Mwenze (COD)	DNF
	Abdellah Béhar (FRA)	DNF
	Stefano Baldini (ITA)	DNF
	Elijah Lagat (KEN)	DNF
	Piotr Gładki (POL)	DNF
	Patrick Ndayisenga (BDI)	DNF
	José Alirio Carrasco (COL)	DNF
	Angelo Peter Simon (TAN)	DNF
	Róbert Štefko (SVK)	DNF
	Osmiro Silva (BRA)	DNF
	Rashid Jamal (QAT)	DNF
	Adel Edeli (LBA)	DNF
	Éder Fialho (BRA)	DNF
	Vincenzo Modica (ITA)	DNF
	Daher Gadid Omar (DJI)	DNF
	Richard Rodriguez (ARU)	DNF
	Fokasi Wilbrod (TAN)	DNF

References

• IAAF results. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
• sports-reference