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2011 IPC Athletics World Championships – Men's marathon

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The men's marathon at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships was held in the streets of Christchurch, New Zealand on 30 January.

British athlete David Weir, on January 29, pulled out of the marathon for safety reasons, as the roads around the circuit would not be closed to traffic.[1] He was to compete in the classification T54 event.

British athlete and world record holder Richard Whitehead did not get to compete in a marathon event. He has a double leg amputation and is classified as T42. There was no T42 marathon event, because there were too few marathon runners with a single or double leg amputation. He was not allowed to run in the marathon T46 event (athletes with single above or below elbow amputation).[2][3][4]

Medalists

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Class Gold Silver Bronze
T11 Cristian Valenzuela
 Chile
Andrea Cionna
 Italy
Shinya Wada
 Japan
T12 Alberto Suarez Laso
 Spain
Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno
 Colombia
Masahiro Okamura
 Japan
T46 Mario Santillan Hernandez
 Mexico
Tito Sena
 Brazil
Ozivam Bonfim
 Brazil
T54 Kurt Fearnley
 Australia
Heinz Frei
 Switzerland
Masazumi Soejima
 Japan

T11

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The Men's marathon, T11 was held on January 30

T11 = visual impairment: may range from no light perception in either eye to light perception with the inability to recognise the shape of a hand.

Results

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Cristian Valenzuela  Chile 2:41:04 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Andrea Cionna  Italy 2:41:39
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Shinya Wada  Japan 2:43:26 PB
4 Yuichi Takahashi  Japan 2:44:22 SB
5 Joaquim Machado  Portugal 2:44:38 PB
6 Yoshihide Hukuhara  Japan 2:54:36
7 Carlos Ferreira  Portugal 2:55:38

Key: CR = Championship Record, SB = Season Best, PB = Personal Best

T12

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The Men's marathon, T12 was held on January 30

T12 = visual impairment: may recognise the shape of a hand and have a visual acuity of 2/60 and/or visual field of under 5 degrees.

Results

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alberto Suárez Laso  Spain 2:28:10 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno  Colombia 2:32:42
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Masahiro Okamura  Japan 2:34:03
4 Manuel Garnica Roldan  Spain 2:34:47 PB
5 Ildar Pomykalov  Russia 2:35:59 PB
6 Moises Beristain Gutierrez  Mexico 2:40:56 PB
7 Luis Enrique Herrera  Mexico 2:49:51 PB
8 Henry Cardenas  Costa Rica 3:44:35
Gabriel Macchi  Portugal DNF

Key: WR = World Record, PB = Personal Best

T46

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The Men's marathon, T46 was held on January 30

T46 = single above or below elbow amputation or equivalent impairments.

Results

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mario Santillan Hernandez  Mexico 2:30:59
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tito Sena  Brazil 2:32:01
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ozivam Bonfim  Brazil 2:33:50 SB
4 Walter Endrizzi  Italy 2:36:38
5 Chris Hammer  United States 2:50:10
6 Pedro Meza Zempoaltecatl  Mexico 2:53:16
Christoph Sommer  Switzerland DNF
Frederic van Den Heede  Belgium DNF

T54

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The Men's marathon, T54 was held on January 30

T54 = normal upper limb function, partial to normal trunk function, may have significant function of the lower limbs.

Results

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kurt Fearnley  Australia 1:31:09
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Heinz Frei  Switzerland 1:31:09
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Masazumi Soejima  Japan 1:31:10
4 Kota Hokinoue  Japan 1:31:10
5 Roger Puigbo Verdaguer  Spain 1:31:10 SB
6 Ernst Francois van Dyk  South Africa 1:31:10
7 Pierre Fairbank  France 1:31:11 SB
8 Nobukazu Hanaoka  Japan 1:31:14
9 Alain Fuss  France 1:34:24
10 Tomasz Hamerlak  Poland 1:34:24 SB
11 Saul Mendoza Hernandez  Mexico 1:34:24 SB
12 Aaron Gordian Martinez  Mexico 1:34:25
13 Rafael Botello Jimenez  Spain 1:34:27 SB
14 Masayuki Higuchi  Japan 1:36:09
15 Jorge Madera  Spain 1:36:40
16 Aron Andersson  Sweden 1:36:40
17 Khachonsak Thamsophon  Thailand 1:36:40
18 Ebbe Blichfeldt  Denmark 1:39:58 SB
19 Aaron Pike  United States 1:40:53
20 Brett McArthur  Australia 1:42:14
21 Hiroyuki Yamamoto  Japan 1:42:31
22 Ekkachai Janthon  Thailand 1:45:40
23 Sukhum Namlun  Thailand 1:47:09
24 Ryan Chalmers  United States 1:49:05
Alberto Baptista  Portugal DNF
Marcel Hug  Switzerland DNF
Denis Lemeunier  France DNF
Richard Nicholson  Australia DNF
Alfonso Zaragoza  Mexico DNF
Josh Cassidy  Canada DNS
Jean-Paul Compaore  Canada DNS
Michel Filteau  Canada DNS
Kyle Shaw  Canada DNS
David Weir  Great Britain DNS

Key: SB = Season Best, DNF = Did not Finish, DNS = Did not Start

See also

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References

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General
Specific
  1. ^ David Weir pulls out of IPC marathon over safety fears, BBC, 29 January 2011
  2. ^ Marathon doubts for Notts paralympian Richard Whitehead, BBC News, February 7, 2011
  3. ^ Whitehead faces a marathon battle to fulfil his dream, thisisnottingham.co.uk, February 9, 2011
  4. ^ Craig Spence: No-legged marathon runner wasn't barred – his event simply doesn't exist in this year's Championships, insideworldparasport.biz, January 12, 2011
  5. ^ Medallists - MEN'S MARATHON - T11 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
  6. ^ Medallists - MEN'S MARATHON - T12 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
  7. ^ Medallists - MEN'S MARATHON - T46 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
  8. ^ Medallists - MEN'S MARATHON - T54 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
  9. ^ Final - MEN'S MARATHON - T11 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
  10. ^ Final - MEN'S MARATHON - T12 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
  11. ^ Final - MEN'S MARATHON - T46 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
  12. ^ Final - MEN'S MARATHON - T54 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships