Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon

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Athletics at the 1996 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
10000 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
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The official results of the men's marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, held on Sunday August 4, 1996. The race started on 07.05h local time. A total number of 111 athletes completed the race, with Abdel Baser Wasiqi from Afghanistan finishing in last position in 4'24:17. There were 124 competitors from 79 countries. Thirtheen of them did not finish.

1 Medalists
2 Records
3 Results
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Josia Thugwane South Africa (RSA)	Lee Bong-Ju South Korea (KOR)	Erick Wainaina Kenya (KEN)

[edit] Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in hours) prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics.

World Record	2'06:50	Belayneh Densamo	Rotterdam (NED)	April 17, 1988
Olympic Record	2'09:21	Carlos Lopes	Los Angeles (USA)	August 12, 1984

[edit] Results

RANK	ATHLETE	TIME
	Josia Thugwane (RSA)	2'12:36
	Lee Bong-Ju (KOR)	2'12:39
	Erick Wainaina (KEN)	2'12:44
4.	Martín Fiz (ESP)	2'13:20
5.	Richard Nerurkar (GBR)	2'13:39
6.	Germán Silva (MEX)	2'14:29
7.	Steve Moneghetti (AUS)	2'14:35
8.	Benjamin Paredes (MEX)	2'14:55
9.	Danilo Goffi (ITA)	2'15:08
10.	Luiz Antonio dos Santos (BRA)	2'15:55
11.	Carlos Grisales (COL)	2'15:56
12.	Kim Yi-Yong (KOR)	2'16:17
13.	Tendai Chimusasa (ZIM)	2'16:31
14.	António Pinto (POR)	2'16:41
15.	Dionicio Cerón (MEX)	2'16:48
16.	Mwenze Kalombo (ZAI)	2'17:01
17.	Leszek Bebło (POL)	2'17:04
18.	Alberto Juztado (ESP)	2'17:24
19.	Hiromi Taniguchi (JPN)	2'17:26
20.	Salvatore Bettiol (ITA)	2'17:27
21.	Peter Fonseca (CAN)	2'17:28
22.	Rolando Vera (ECU)	2'17:40
23.	Roderic De Highden (AUS)	2'17:42
24.	José Luis Molina (CRC)	2'17:49
25.	Domingos Castro (POR)	2'18:03
26.	Tahar Mansouri (TUN)	2'18:06
27.	Lawrence Peu (RSA)	2'18:09
28.	Keith Brantly (USA)	2'18:17
29.	Thabiso Relekhetla (LES)	2'18:26
30.	Hristo Stefanov (BUL)	2'18:29
31.	Bob Kempainen (USA)	2'18:38
32.	Harri Hanninen (FIN)	2'18:41
33.	Gert Thys (RSA)	2'18:55
34.	Sean Quilty (AUS)	2'19:35
35.	Carey Nelson (CAN)	2'19:39
36.	Spyridon Andriopoulos (GRE)	2'19:41
37.	Oleg Strizhakov (RUS)	2'19:51
38.	Kim Jung-Won (PRK)	2'19:54
39.	Bruce Deacon (CAN)	2'19:56
40.	Kim Jong-Su (PRK)	2'20:19
41.	Mark Coogan (USA)	2'20:27
42.	Ahmed Saleh (DJI)	2'20:33
43.	Peter Sarafinyuk (UKR)	2'20:37
44.	Abdelkader El Mouaziz (MAR)	2'20:39
45.	Bert van Vlaanderen (NED)	2'20:48
46.	Manuel Matias (POR)	2'20:58
47.	Vanderlei de Lima (BRA)	2'21:01
48.	Konrad Dobler (GER)	2'21:12
49.	Borislav Dević (YUG)	2'21:22
50.	Davide Milesi (ITA)	2'21:45
51.	Aleksandrs Prokopčuks (LAT)	2'21:50
52.	Lameck Aguta (KEN)	2'22:04
53.	Diego García (ESP)	2'22:11
54.	Masaki Oya (JPN)	2'22:13
55.	Peter Whitehead (GBR)	2'22:37
56.	Ezekiel Bitok (KEN)	2'23:03
57.	Hsu Gi-Sheng (TPE)	2'23:04
58.	Pavel Loskutov (EST)	2'23:14
59.	Ruben Maza (VEN)	2'23:24
60.	Steve Brace (GBR)	2'22:28
61.	Grzegorz Gajdus (POL)	2'23:41
62.	Isaac Simelane (SWZ)	2'23:43
63.	Nazerdin Akylbekov (KGZ)	2'23:59
64.	Anders Szalkai (SWE)	2'24:27
65.	John Mwathiwa (MAW)	2'24:45
66.	Leonid Shvetsov (RUS)	2'24:49
67.	Eddy Hellebuyck (BEL)	2'25:04
68.	Ahmad Adam (QAT)	2'25:12
69.	Ikaji Salum (TAN)	2'25:29
70.	Pavelas Fedorenka (LTU)	2'25:41
71.	Miguel Mallqui (PER)	2'25:56
72.	Ethel Hudson (INA)	2'26:02
73.	Diamantino dos Santos (BRA)	2'26:53
74.	Tika Bahadur Bogate (NEP)	2'27:04
75.	Ronnie Holassie (TRI)	2'27:20
76.	Joseph Tjitunga (NAM)	2'27:52
77.	Valeriu Vlas (MDA)	2'28:36
78.	Tonado Daniel Sibandze (SWZ)	2'28:49
79.	Waldemar Cotelo (URU)	2'28:50
80.	Petko Stefanov (BUL)	2'29:06
81.	Abebe Mekonnen (ETH)	2'29:45
82.	Luis Martínez (GUA)	2'29:55
83.	Sean Wade (NZL)	2'30:35
84.	Abderrahim ben Redouane (MAR)	2'30:49
85.	Abdou Monzo (NIG)	2'30:57
86.	Marcelo Barrientos (CHI)	2'31:05
87.	Antoni Bernardo (AND)	2'31:28
88.	Adel Adili (LBA)	2'32:12
89.	Carlos Tarazona (VEN)	2'32:35
90.	Tharcisse Gashaka (BDI)	2'32:55
91.	Policarpio Calizaya (BOL)	2'33:08
92.	Simon Qamunga (TAN)	2'33:11
93.	Kenjiro Jitsui (JPN)	2'33:27
94.	Antonio Carlos Zeferino (CPV)	2'34:13
95.	Pamenos Ballantyne (VIN)	2'34:16
96.	Kaleka Mutoke (ZAI)	2'34:40
97.	Ernest Ndissipou (CAF)	2'35:55
98.	Ali El Tounsi (MAR)	2'36:01
99.	William Aguirre (NCA)	2'37:02
100.	Roy Vence (PHI)	2'37:10
101.	Mohamed Al-Saadi (YEM)	2'40:41
102.	Julio Hernández (COL)	2'41:56
103.	Ajay Chuttoo (MRI)	2'42:07
104.	Nils Antonio (JAM)	2'44:10
105.	Rithya To (CAM)	2'47:10
106.	Maximo Oliveras (PUR)	2'47:15
107.	Islam Djugum (BIH)	2'47:38
108.	Marlon Selwyn Williams (ISV)	2'48:26
109.	Eugene Muslar (BIZ)	2'51:41
110.	Abdi Isak (SOM)	2'59:55
111.	Abdel Baser Wasiqi (AFG)	4'24:17
—	Belayneh Densamo (ETH)	DNF
—	Stephan Freigang (GER)	DNF
—	Patrick Ishyaka (RWA)	DNF
—	Benjamin Keleketu (BOT)	DNF
—	Kim Wan-Ki (KOR)	DNF
—	Ceslovas Kundrotas (LTU)	DNF
—	Omar Moussa (DJI)	DNF
—	Victor Razafindrakoto (MAD)	DNF
—	Antonio Silio (ARG)	DNF
—	Julius Sumawe (TAN)	DNF
—	Tumo Turbo (ETH)	DNF
—	Risto Ulmala (FIN)	DNF
—	Dainius Virbickas (LTU)	DNF