FEMALE RESULTS: Hassan makes history with record in Women’s Olympic Marathon Paris 2024

Check out the results of the men’s Olympic marathon held this Saturday, August 10.

The streets of Paris were filled with fans who were able to see up close the best of men’s athletics in the Olympic marathon.

And France witnessed the crowning of a new Olympic champion: Ethiopia won the gold medal thanks to the excellent performance of Tamirat Tola, who with a time of 2:06:26 set a new Olympic record.

Tola, 33 years old and with a personal best of 2:03:39, was the one who finally was able to withstand the demanding route and the Parisian weather to climb to the top of the podium.

The silver medal went to Belgium’s Bashir Abdi 2:06:47, his second Olympic medal in the marathon after his bronze medal in Tokyo 2020. Abdi also became the first Belgian man to win two Olympic medals in the marathon since 1976.

While the bronze medal went to Benson Kipruto with 2:07:00. Great Britain took fourth place with Emile Cairess recording a time of 2:07:29.

Tola was number 4 on the Ethiopian team, replacing Sisay Lemma. World champion in 2002 and Olympic bronze medalist at Rio 2016, he passed the half marathon in 1:04:51. The takeoff came from the 30th kilometer onwards, bringing down the breakaway of Italy’s Eyob Faniel and other big favorites. Tola thus gave Ethiopia the gold medal that had eluded it in the last Olympic editions.

Paris was the scene of the first great duel between Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele in the 5,000 m at the 2003 World Championships. However, today we could not see that duel again. The double Olympic champion and one of the great favorites, Eliud Kipchoge, began to show signs that something was not right when he took his hand to his left hip despite the fact that he started leading the first kilometers of the race. These apparent problems could have been the cause of him being so far behind the pack, or the demanding route and hot weather took its toll. Kipchoge eventually dropped out and did not finish the race.

Another favorite Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele also missed the podium and finally came 39th in the race with a time of 2:12:24.

Matthias Kyburz of Switzerland, the first Olympic athlete to train with artificial intelligence, placed 30th with a time of 2:11:32.

Spanish and Latin American results

The best from Spain was Ibrahim Chakir (34th position) with a time of 2:11:44 while the Chilean Carlos Diaz was the most outstanding from Latin America with a finishing time of 2:14:25 (53rd position).

Photos: from World Athletics and Olympics.com