Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon

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The men's marathon event at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in August 29, 2004 in the streets of Athens, Greece. The streets were recently painted for the event, which provided an excellent condition of the road surface for the athletes, along with the excellent climate of that day.

As with previous Olympics, the marathon marked the end of the 2004 Summer Olympics.

[edit] Incident

Unfortunately, the event was marked by an incident in which Cornelius Horan, an Irish protester pushed Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil into the crowds while de Lima was leading the event on the last 10 kilometers. De Lima lost about 15 to 20 seconds of his running time because of the interruption, and finished third in the event with a time of 2:12:11 — winning the bronze medal. It is still to be seen if de Lima has any rights whatsoever to appeal for a time change or a medal reconsideration to the International Olympic Committee; however, he was awarded the specialPierre de Coubertin Medal for sportsmanship in addition to his bronze. The protester had a sign on his back that read "The Grand Prix Priest. Israel Fulfilment of Prophecy Says The Bible. The Second Coming is Near."

This incident had been preceded by a dog also interfering with the race; the dog, which escaped from the crowd and got in front of de Lima, was quickly subdued by two larger, security dogs and run off the field.

[edit] Records

World Record	2:04:55	Paul Tergat	Kenya	Berlin, Germany	28 September 2003
Olympic Record	2:09:21	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	Los Angeles, USA	12 August 1984

[edit] Results

1.	Stefano Baldini (ITA)	2:10:55
2.	Mebrahtom Keflezighi (USA)	2:11:29 SB
3.	Vanderlei de Lima (BRA)	2:12:11 (but see above)
4.	Jon Brown (GBR)	2:12:26 SB
5.	Shigeru Aburaya (JPN)	2:13:11
6.	Toshinari Suwa (JPN)	2:13:24
7.	Eric Wainaina (KEN)	2:13:30
8.	Alberto Chaica (POR)	2:14:17
9.	Alberico di Cecco (ITA)	2:14:34
10.	Paul Tergat (KEN)	2:14:45
11.	Jaouad Gharib (MAR)	2:15:12
12.	Alan Culpepper (USA)	2:15:26
13.	Leonid Shvetsov (RUS)	2:15:28
14.	Lee Bong-Ju (KOR)	2:15:33
15.	Ambesse Tolosa (ETH)	2:15:39
16.	Gert Thys (RSA)	2:16:08
17.	Ji Young-Joon (KOR)	2:16:14
18.	Antoni Pena (ESP)	2:16:38
19.	Georgiy Andreyev (RUS)	2:16:55
20.	Haile Satayin (ISR)	2:17:25
21.	Jonathan Wyatt (NZL)	2:17:45
22.	Janne Holmen (FIN)	2:17:50
23.	Dan Robinson (GBR)	2:17:53
24.	Nikolaos Polias (GRE)	2:17:56
25.	Ndabili Bashingili (BOT)	2:18:09
26.	Pavel Loskutov (EST)	2:18:09
27.	Jose Rios (ESP)	2:18:40
28.	Lee Troop (AUS)	2:18:46
29.	Michael Buchleitner (AUT)	2:19:19
30.	Anuradha Cooray (SRI)	2:19:24
31.	Li Zhu-hong (CHN)	2:19:26
32.	Joachim Nshimirimana (BDI)	2:19:31
33.	Dale Warrender (NZL)	2:19:42
34.	Waldemar Glinka (POL)	2:19:43
35.	Jong Myong-Chol (PRK)	2:19:47
36.	El Hassan Lahssini (FRA)	2:19:50
37.	Michal Bartoszak (POL)	2:20:20
38.	Ahmed Jumaa Jaber (QAT)	2:20:27
39.	Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi (LBA)	2:20:31
40.	Samson Ramadhani (TAN)	2:20:38
41.	Lee Myong-Seun (KOR)	2:21:01
42.	Tomoaki Kunichika (JPN)	2:21:13
43.	Jose Alirio Carrasco (COL)	2:21:14
44.	Ernest Ndjissipou (CAF)	2:21:23
45.	Nicholas Harrison (AUS)	2:21:42
46.	Tereje Wodajo (ETH)	2:21:53
47.	Aguelmis Rojas (CUB)	2:21:59
48.	Abel Chimukoko (ZIM)	2:22:09
49.	Said Belhout (ALG)	2:22:32
50.	Matthew O Dowd (GBR)	2:22:37
51.	Juan Carlos Cardona (COL)	2:22:49
52.	Daniele Caimmi (ITA)	2:23:07
53.	Joao N Tyamba (ANG)	2:23:26
54.	Roman Kejzar (SLO)	2:23:34
55.	Procopio Franco (MEX)	2:23:34
56.	Wu Wen-Chien (TPE)	2:23:54
57.	Antoni Bernado (AND)	2:23:55
58.	Julio Rey (ESP)	2:24:54
59.	Asaf Bimro (ISR)	2:25:20
60.	Sisay Bezabeh (AUS)	2:25:26
61.	Silvio Guerra (ECU)	2:25:29
62.	Mathias Ntawulikura (RWA)	2:26:05
63.	Robert Stefko (CZE)	2:27:12
64.	Jose Amado Garcia (GUA)	2:27:13
65.	Daniel Browne (USA)	2:27:17
66.	Hang Gang (CHN)	2:27:31
67.	Eduardo Buenavista (PHI)	2:28:18
68.	Driss El Himer (FRA)	2:29:07
69.	Andres Espinosa (MEX)	2:29:43
70.	Mpesela Ntlot Soeu (LES)	2:30:19
71.	Franklin Tenorio (ECU)	2:31:12
72.	Jose Ernani Palalia (MEX)	2:31:41
73.	Dmitriy Burmakin (RUS)	2:31:51
74.	Mindaugas Pukstas (LTU)	2:33:02
75.	Bat-Ochir Ser-Od (MGL)	2:33:24
76.	Ronghua Zhu (CHN)	2:34:02
77.	Alfredo Arevalo (GUA)	2:34:02
78.	Antonio Carlos Zeferino (CPV)	2:36:22
79.	Valery Pisarev (KGZ)	2:40:10
80.	Zepherinus Joseph (LCA)	2:44:19
81.	Marcel Matanin (SVK)	2:50:26
	Hendrick Ramaala (RSA)	DNF
	Amnaay Zebedayo Bayo (TAN)	DNF
	Hailu Negussie (ETH)	DNF
	Viktor Rothlin (SUI)	DNF
	Al Mustafa Riyadh (BRN)	DNF
	Romulo Silva (BRA)	DNF
	Ian Syster (RSA)	DNF
	Zsolt Bacskai (HUN)	DNF
	Azat Rakipov (BLR)	DNF
	Dmytro Baranovskyy (UKR)	DNF
	Rachid Ghanmouni (MAR)	DNF
	Rachid Ziar (ALG)	DNF
	Mustapha Bennacer (ALG)	DNF
	Andre Luiz Ramos (BRA)	DNF
	Luis Fonseca (VEN)	DNF
	Khalid El Boumlili (MAR)	DNF
	John Nada Saya (TAN)	DNF
	Gil da Cruz Trindade (TLS)	DNF
	Jussi Utriainen (FIN)	DNF
	Jean Paul Gahimbare (BDI)	DNF
	Luc Krotwaar (NED)	DNS