2015 IPC Athletics World Championships – Men's marathon

The men's marathon at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships was held in the streets of London on 26 April as part of the 2015 London Marathon.

Classification edit

Athletes were given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allowed athletes to compete against others with a similar level of function.

The athletics classifications are:

11–13: Blind (11) and visually impaired (12, 13) athletes
31–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy
51–58: Athletes with a spinal cord disability

The class numbers were given prefixes of "T", "F" and "P" for track, field and pentathlon events, respectively.

Visually impaired athletes classified 11 run with full eye shades and a guide runner; those classified 12 have the option of using a guide; those classified 13 did not use a guide runner.

Events edit

T12 edit

The T12 classification marathon was contested by T12 and T11 athletes. Up to two guide runners were allowed to support each competitor.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	El Amin Chentouf	Morocco	2:21:33	WR
	Alberto Suárez Laso	Spain	2:21:47
	Tadashi Horikoshi	Japan	2:27:42
4	Masahiro Okamura	Japan	2:31:40
5	Yutaka Kumagai	Japan	2:37:48
6	Gabriel Macchi	Portugal	2:38:11
7	Oleg Antipin	Spain	2:42:14
8	Joaquim Machado	Portugal	2:44:02
9	Nicolas Bompard	France	2:44:27
10	Jorge Pina	Portugal	2:44:29
11	Igor Khavlin	Russia	2:44:37
12	Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno	Colombia	2:48:16
13	Masato Hatate	Japan	2:49:12
14	Sandi Novak	Slovenia	2:51:38
15	Csaba Orban	Hungary	2:59:14
16	Ralf Arnold	Germany	2:59:56

T13 edit

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Aniceto Antonio Dos Santos	Brazil	2:35:42
	Youssef Benibrahim	Morocco	2:36:07
	Tim Prendergast	New Zealand	2:47:23
4	Jason Romero	United States	2:51:53
5	Stephen Marklew	Great Britain	3:01:03

T46 edit

The T46 classification marathon was contested by T46 and T45 athletes.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abderrahman Ait Khamouch	Spain	2:26:54	WR
	Alex Pires Da Silva	Brazil	2:27:36
	Alessandro Di Lello	Italy	2:31:25
4	Ahmed Farhat	Morocco	2:40:21
5	Derek Rae	Great Britain	2:40:40
6	Ezequiel Da Costa	Brazil	2:41:35
7	Mario Bauer	Austria	2:41:50
8	Manuel Mendes	Portugal	2:44:35
9	Pedro Meza	Austria	2:44:52
10	José Monteiro	Portugal	3:11:34
11	Isidro Vildosola	Philippines	3:20:04

T52 edit

The T52 classification marathon was contested by T52 and T51 athletes.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Raymond Martin	United States	1:52:27
	Santiago Sanz	Spain	1:53:33
	Cristian Torres	Colombia	2:08:52
4	Rob Smith	Great Britain	2:12:43
5	Hirokazu Ueyonabaru	Japan	2:40:08
6	Stefan Strobel	Germany	3:08:00

T54 edit

Elite wheelchair competitors at the start of the London Marathon: David Weir (37) 2nd, Josh Cassidy (22), Ernst van Dyk (23) 5th, Kota Hokinoue (26) 7th

The T54 classification marathon was contested by T54 and T53 athletes.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Joshua George	United States	1:31:31
	David Weir	Great Britain	1:31:32
	Masazumi Soejima	Japan	1:31:33
4	Pierre Fairbank	France	1:31:33
5	Ernst Van Dyk	South Africa	1:31:38
6	Tomasz Hamerlak	Poland	1:31:56
7	Kota Hokinoue	Japan	1:32:22
8	Jordi Madera	Spain	1:33:22
9	Heinz Frei	Switzerland	1:32:23
10	Simon Lawson	Great Britain	1:34:21
11	Ryota Yoshida	Japan	1:35:35
12	Alhassane Balde	Germany	1:38:31
13	Tobias Loetscher	Switzerland	1:38:32
14	Laurens Molina	Costa Rica	1:38:32
15	Denis Lemeunier	France	1:38:33
16	Ebbe Blichfeldt	Denmark	1:38:34
17	Hiroki Nishida	Japan	1:41:48
18	Hiroyuki Yamamoto	Japan	1:43:29
19	Alexey Bychenok	Russia	1:46:06
20	John Smith	Great Britain	1:46:17
21	Cornel Villiger	Switzerland	1:46:18
22	Justin Levene	Great Britain	1:46:20
23	Patrick Monahan	Ireland	1:46:47
24	Alexandrino Silva	Portugal	1:47:07
25	Mark Telford	Great Britain	1:50:49
	Josh Cassidy	Canada	DNF
	Marcel Hug	Switzerland	DNF
	Rafael Botello Jimenez	Spain	DNF