2011 IPC Athletics World Championships – Men's marathon

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

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
	Cristian Valenzuela	Chile	2:41:04	CR
	Andrea Cionna	Italy	2:41:39
	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

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
	Alberto Suárez Laso	Spain	2:28:10	WR
	Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno	Colombia	2:32:42
	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

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
	Mario Santillan Hernandez	Mexico	2:30:59
	Tito Sena	Brazil	2:32:01
	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

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
	Kurt Fearnley	Australia	1:31:09
	Heinz Frei	Switzerland	1:31:09
	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

• List of IPC world records in athletics

References

General

• , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
• , Scottish Disability Sport

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 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
6. Medallists - MEN'S MARATHON - T12 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
7. Medallists - MEN'S MARATHON - T46 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
8. Medallists - MEN'S MARATHON - T54 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
9. Final - MEN'S MARATHON - T11 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
10. Final - MEN'S MARATHON - T12 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
11. Final - MEN'S MARATHON - T46 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
12. Final - MEN'S MARATHON - T54 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships