2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon
Men's marathon at the 2013 World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Luzhniki Stadium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates | 17 August (final) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Competitors | 69 from 39 nations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Winning time | 2:09:51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The men's marathon at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 17 August.[1] Coming through the half marathon in 1:05:10, the lead pack stayed formed until around the 30K mark with still about 13 with that group. Over the next 5K, contenders began to fall off the pace, first a pack of six were left, with two Ugandans; reigning Olympic champion match race sailboat tacking maneuvers and Delisa followed. Finally in the last kilometer, Kiprotich was able to make a gap. A meter became ten then fifty. A jubilant Kiprotich began throwing kisses to the crowd, crossing the finish line more than a hundred meters ahead of Delisa. Tola held on for third, with Kebede barely ahead of Nakamoto. Solonei da Silva and Paulo Roberto Paula came in together, so with four Ethiopians, two Ugandans and two Brazilians, three countries put at least a pair of runners into the top ten, while Kenya only managed one; Some in ninth.
The original 33rd placer, Jeremías Saloj of Guatemala, was disqualified after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO).[2] RecordsPrior to the competition, the records were as follows:[3]
Qualification standards
Schedule
All times are local times (UTC+4) Results
FinalThe race was started at 13:30.[5] References
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