1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

Events at the
1991 World Championships
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
3000 mwomen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmenwomen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmenwomen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmenwomen
10 km walkwomen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Combined events
Heptathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

The men's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan was held on September 1, 1991. The race started at 18:00 local time.

Medalists

Gold Hiromi Taniguchi
 Japan
Silver Hussein Ahmed Salah
 Djibouti
Bronze Steve Spence
 United States

Records

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record Belayneh Dinsamo  Ethiopia (ETH) 2:06:50 April 17, 1988 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Championships record Robert de Castella  Australia (AUS) 2:10:03 August 14, 1983 Helsinki, Finland
Season best Kōichi Morishita  Japan (JPN) 2:08:53 February 3, 1991 Ōita, Japan

Intermediates

Results

Rank Athlete Nation Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hiromi Taniguchi  Japan 2:14:57
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hussein Ahmed Salah  Djibouti 2:15:26
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Steve Spence  United States 2:15:36
4 Jan Huruk  Poland 2:15:47
5 Futoshi Shinohara  Japan 2:15:52
6 Salvatore Bettiol  Italy 2:15:58
7 Maurilio Castillo  Mexico 2:16:15
8 Gelindo Bordin  Italy 2:17:03
9 Tekeye Gebrselassie  Ethiopia 2:18:37
10 Konrad Dobler  Germany 2:19:01
11 Steve Moneghetti  Australia 2:19:18
12 Sam Carey  Great Britain & N.I. 2:20:02
13 Peter Maher  Canada 2:20:31
14 Diego García  Spain 2:21:16
15 Dominique Chauvelier  France 2:21:37
16 Tonnie Dirks  Netherlands 2:22:17
17 Elphas Ginindza  Eswatini 2:22:43
18 Stephan Freigang  Germany 2:23:13
19 Kim Won-tak  South Korea 2:23:14
20 Dave Buzza  Great Britain & N.I. 2:23:24
21 Vladimir Bukhanov  Soviet Union 2:24:26
22 Motsemme Kgaotsang  Botswana 2:25:28
23 Kim Reynierse  Aruba 2:26:50
24 Martin Vrábeľ  Czechoslovakia 2:26:56
25 Gian Luigi Macina  San Marino 2:28:40
26 Steve Taylor  United States 2:29:09
27 Myint Kan  Myanmar 2:29:14
28 William Aguirre  Nicaragua 2:29:35
29 Aleksandr Vychuzhanin  Soviet Union 2:32:37
30 Alberto Cuba  Cuba 2:32:57
31 Krishna Bahadur Basnet  Nepal 2:33:13
32 Fai Yeung Ng  Hong Kong 2:34:26
33 Freddy Lujan  Bolivia 2:36:54
34 Hsu Gi-sheng  Chinese Taipei 2:37:20
35 Roland Wille  Liechtenstein 2:48:12
36 Abdillah Soilihi  Comoros 2:56:36
— Faasalele Fuauli  Western Samoa (WSM) DNF
— Alessio Faustini  Italy DNF
— Manuel Matias  Portugal DNF
— Abebe Mekonnen  Ethiopia DNF
— Takeyuki Nakayama  Japan DNF
— Antoni Niemczak  Poland DNF
— Jörg Peter  Germany DNF
— Joaquim Pinheiro  Portugal DNF
— Francisco Romera  Spain DNF
— Yakov Tolstikov  Soviet Union DNF
— Carlos Ayala  Mexico DNF
— Alfredo Shahanga  Tanzania DNF
— Nivaldo Vieira  Brazil DNF
— Åke Eriksson  Sweden DNF
— Brad Hudson  United States DNF
— Mohamed Kamel Selmi  Algeria DNF
— Ahmed Al Hamshani  Jordan DNF
— Simon Mrashani  Tanzania DNF
— Kim Wan-ki  South Korea DNF
— Laurenio Beserra  Brazil DNF
— Jean-Luc Assemat  France DNF
— Tesfaye Dadi  Ethiopia DNF
— Daniel Böltz  Switzerland DNF
— Manny Lolin  Malaysia DNF

See also

References

allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_marathon