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Men's marathon at the 2015 World Championships
Victorious Ghirmay Ghebreslassie
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	22 August
Competitors	67 from 38 nations
Winning time	2:12:27
Medalists
Ghirmay Ghebreslassie    Eritrea   Yemane Tsegay    Ethiopia   Solomon Mutai    Uganda
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Events at the 2015 World Championships
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
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's marathon at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 August.

The name Gebrselassie is familiar in running circles, but this race was won by Haile's sound alike Ghirmay Ghebreslassie from a different country, neighboring Eritrea. Not only was he the youngest winner of a World Championship marathon, he was the first gold medalist for his country ever.

The early leader was Ser-Od Bat-Ochir, then Daniele Meucci and Ruggero Pertile getting camera time to the half way mark while the favorites including defending champion Stephen Kiprotich stayed slightly off the pace. Ghebreslassie marked the more experienced runners. Tsepo Ramonene made a breakaway at 25 km opening up a 30-second lead. As he watched two Kenyans drop out and other favorites struggle, Ghebreslassie decided to set loose at 34 km. Over the next couple of kilometers, he made up the gap and passed Ramonene with authority. But a couple of kilometers later Yemane Tsegay passed Ghebreslassie. Tsegay's lead only lasted two minutes until Ghebreslassie took the lead for good. Over the final kilometers, he extended his lead to 40 seconds. Running relaxed and fast like an exuberant teenager, he was handed an Eritrean flag as he entered the stadium. He held his flag but kept on running past the finish line until officials were able to tell him he was done. “I’ve never finished in a stadium before.” Behind him, in comparison, Tsegay, Solomon Mutai and the other runners finished looking as if they had just finished a marathon.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record	Dennis Kipruto Kimetto (KEN)	2:02:57	Berlin, Germany	28 September 2014
Championship record	Abel Kirui (KEN)	2:06:54	Berlin, Germany	22 August 2009
World Leading	Eliud Kipchoge (KEN)	2:04:42	London, Great Britain	26 April 2015
African Record	Dennis Kipruto Kimetto (KEN)	2:02:57	Berlin, Germany	28 September 2014
Asian Record	Toshinari Takaoka (JPN)	2:06:16	Chicago, United States	13 October 2002
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Khalid Khannouchi (USA)	2:05:38	London, Great Britain	14 April 2002
South American Record	Ronaldo da Costa (BRA)	2:06:05	Berlin, Germany	20 September 1998
European Record	Benoit Zwierzchiewski (FRA)	2:06:36	Paris, France	6 April 2003
Oceanian record	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:07:51	Boston, United States	21 April 1986

Qualification standards

Schedule

All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results

The race was started at 07:35.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ghirmay Ghebreslassie	Eritrea (ERI)	2:12:27
	Yemane Tsegay	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:13:07	SB
	Solomon Mutai	Uganda (UGA)	2:13:29
4	Ruggero Pertile	Italy (ITA)	2:14:22	SB
5	Shumi Dechasa	Bahrain (BHR)	2:14:35
6	Stephen Kiprotich	Uganda (UGA)	2:14:42
7	Lelisa Desisa	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:14:53
8	Daniele Meucci	Italy (ITA)	2:14:53
9	Amanuel Mesel	Eritrea (ERI)	2:15:06
10	Jackson Kiprop	Uganda (UGA)	2:15:15
11	Pak Chol	North Korea (PRK)	2:15:44	SB
12	Alphonce Felix Simbu	Tanzania (TAN)	2:16:58
13	Javier Guerra	Spain (ESP)	2:17:00
14	Tsepo Mathibelle	Lesotho (LES)	2:17:17	SB
15	Berhanu Lemi	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:17:37
16	Abdelhadi El Hachimi	Belgium (BEL)	2:17:41
17	Aleksey Reunkov	Russia (RUS)	2:18:12
18	Solonei da Silva	Brazil (BRA)	2:19:20
19	Tadesse Abraham	Switzerland (SUI)	2:19:25
20	Roman Fosti	Estonia (EST)	2:20:35
21	Masakazu Fujiwara	Japan (JPN)	2:21:06	SB
22	Mark Korir	Kenya (KEN)	2:21:20
23	Cuthbert Nyasango	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	2:22:15	SB
24	Xu Wang	China (CHN)	2:23:08
25	Ian Burrell	United States (USA)	2:23:17	SB
26	Pierre-Célestin Nihorimbere	Burundi (BDI)	2:23:29
27	Ezekiel Jafary	Tanzania (TAN)	2:23:43	SB
28	Scott Smith	United States (USA)	2:23:53	SB
29	Anuradha Cooray	Sri Lanka (SRI)	2:25:04
30	Cephas Pasipamiri	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	2:25:05	SB
31	Roman Prodius	Moldova (MDA)	2:26:46
32	Edwin Kipchirchir Kemboi	Austria (AUT)	2:28:06
33	Ho Chin-ping	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2:28:14
34	Guan Siyang	China (CHN)	2:30:17
35	Henri Manninen	Finland (FIN)	2:30:22	SB
36	David Nilsson	Sweden (SWE)	2:31:24
37	Gilbert Mutandiro	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	2:31:35
38	Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od	Mongolia (MGL)	2:32:09
39	Noh Si-hwan	South Korea (KOR)	2:32:35
40	Kazuhiro Maeda	Japan (JPN)	2:32:49
41	Desmond Mokgobu	South Africa (RSA)	2:34:11
42	Fabiano Joseph Naasi	Tanzania (TAN)	2:35:27	SB
	Wissem Hosni	Tunisia (TUN)	DNF
	Bekir Karayel	Turkey (TUR)	DNF
	Abraham Kiplimo	Uganda (UGA)	DNF
	Edmilson Santana	Brazil (BRA)	DNF
	Ivan Babaryka	Ukraine (UKR)	DNF
	Oleksandr Babarynka	Ukraine (UKR)	DNF
	Jeffrey Eggleston	United States (USA)	DNF
	Sibusiso Nzima	South Africa (RSA)	DNF
	Gilberto Lopes	Brazil (BRA)	DNF
	Muhan Hasi	China (CHN)	DNF
	Richer Pérez	Cuba (CUB)	DNF
	Beraki Beyene	Eritrea (ERI)	DNF
	Carles Castillejo	Spain (ESP)	DNF
	Mihail Krassilov	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	DNF
	Yu Seung-yeop	South Korea (KOR)	DNF
	Dennis Kipruto Kimetto	Kenya (KEN)	DNF
	Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich	Kenya (KEN)	DNF
	Mohammad Jafar Moradi	Iran (IRI)	DNF
	Aadam Ismaeel Khamis	Bahrain (BHR)	DNF
	Hasan Mahboob	Bahrain (BHR)	DNF
	Adil Annani	Morocco (MAR)	DNF
	Rachid Kisri	Morocco (MAR)	DNF
	Abel Villanueva	Peru (PER)	DNF
	Marius Ionescu	Romania (ROM)	DNF
	Thabiso Benedict Moeng	South Africa (RSA)	DNF
	Guor Marial	South Sudan (SSD)	DNS

References

1. "Beijing 2015: Timetable". Beijing 2015. 10 August 2015. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
2. Start list
3. "REPORT: MEN'S MARATHON – IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BEIJING 2015". iaaf.org. 22 August 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
4. "Eritrea's Ghirmay Ghebreslassie Wins World Championships Men's Marathon - Competitor.com". Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
5. "Records & Lists – Marathon". IAAF. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
6. IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 – Standards (PDF), IAAF, 2012, retrieved 18 August 2015
7. Final results

• Events at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics
• Marathons at the World Athletics Championships
• Marathons in China
• Men's marathons