1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

Events at the 1993 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
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
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 Men's Marathon at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, was held on Saturday August 14, 1993.

Medalists

Gold	Mark Plaatjes United States (USA)
Silver	Luketz Swartbooi Namibia (NAM)
Bronze	Bert van Vlaanderen Netherlands (NED)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records

Standing records prior to the 1993 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Belayneh Densamo (ETH)	2:06:50	April 17, 1988	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Event Record	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Kim Wan-Ki (KOR)	2:09:25	March 21, 1993	Kyong-Ju, South Korea

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
01 !	Mark Plaatjes (USA)	2:13:57
02 !	Luketz Swartbooi (NAM)	2:14:11
03 !	Bert van Vlaanderen (NED)	2:15:12
4	Kim Jae-ryong (KOR)	2:17:14
5	Tadao Uchikoshi (JPN)	2:17:54
6	Konrad Dobler (GER)	2:18:28
7	Boniface Merande (KEN)	2:18:52
8	Aleksey Zhelonkin (RUS)	2:18:52
9	Tahar Mansouri (TUN)	2:18:54
10	Peter Maher (CAN)	2:19:26
11	Simon Robert Naali (TAN)	2:19:30
12	Kurt Stenzel (GER)	2:19:53
13	Steve Jones (GBR)	2:20:04
14	Chang Ki-Shik (KOR)	2:20:40
15	Said Ermili (MAR)	2:22:17
16	Hitoshi Saotome (JPN)	2:22:17
17	Elphas Ginindza (SWZ)	2:23:00
18	Cihangir Demirel (TUR)	2:23:02
19	Mirko Vindiš (SLO)	2:23:31
20	Mukhamet Nazipov (RUS)	2:24:07
21	Juma Ikangaa (TAN)	2:24:23
22	Vladimir Kotov (BLR)	2:24:26
23	Sid-Ali Sakhri (ALG)	2:24:35
24	Raf Wyns (BEL)	2:25:30
25	Dominique Chauvelier (FRA)	2:27:26
26	Art Boileau (CAN)	2:27:30
27	Alejandro Aros (CHI)	2:27:56
28	Roy Dooney (IRL)	2:28:04
29	Petr Pipa (SVK)	2:28:05
30	Harri Hänninen (FIN)	2:28:07
31	Igor Salamun (SLO)	2:28:56
32	Omar Abdillahi (DJI)	2:29:28
33	Chad Bennion (USA)	2:29:37
34	Tena Negere (ETH)	2:29:46
35	Martin Vrabel (SVK)	2:30:37
36	Moses Matabane (LES)	2:30:40
37	Gi-Sheng Hsu (TPE)	2:30:56
38	Negash Dube (ETH)	2:33:03
39	Alberto Cuba (CUB)	2:34:26
40	Kuruppu Karunaratne (SRI)	2:34:47
41	Takeharu Honda (JPN)	2:37:48
42	Mothusi Tsiana (BOT)	2:42:10
43	Yeung Ng Fai (HKG)	2:55:17
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Chaouki Achour (ALG)	DNF
—	Marnix Goegebeur (BEL)	DNF
—	Peter Fonseca (CAN)	DNF
—	Eladio Fernandez (PAR)	DNF
—	Roland Wille (LIE)	DNF
—	Brad Hudson (USA)	DNF
—	John Vermeule (NED)	DNF
—	Stephan Freigang (GER)	DNF
—	Abebe Mekonnen (ETH)	DNF
—	Malcolm Norwood (AUS)	DNF
—	Fred Schumann (GUM)	DNF
—	Willie Mtolo (RSA)	DNF
—	Salvatore Bettiol (ITA)	DNF
—	Artur de Freitas (BRA)	DNF
—	Mohamed Kamel Selmi (ALG)	DNF
—	Carlos Patricio (POR)	DNF
—	Thierry Constantin (SUI)	DNF
—	Leszek Bebło (POL)	DNF
—	Juan Torres (ESP)	DNF
—	Paul Evans (GBR)	DNF
—	Thomas Robert Naali (TAN)	DNF
—	Derek Froude (NZL)	DNF
—	Bertrand Itsweire (FRA)	DNF
—	Sławomir Gurny (POL)	DNF
—	Cosmas Ndeti (KEN)	DNF
—	Joaquim Pinheiro (POR)	DNF
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	Dave Lewis (GBR)	DNS

See also

• Men's Olympic Marathon (1992)
• 1993 Marathon Year Ranking

References

• Results
• IAAF