1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

The Men's Marathon at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, was held on Saturday August 14, 1993.

Medalists

Gold	Mark Plaatjes United States (USA)
Silver	Luketz Swartbooi Namibia (NAM)
Bronze	Bert van Vlaanderen Netherlands (NED)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1993 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Belayneh Densamo (ETH)	2:06:50	April 17, 1988	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Event Record	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Kim Wan-Ki (KOR)	2:09:25	March 21, 1993	Kyong-Ju, South Korea

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Mark Plaatjes (USA)	2:13:57
	Luketz Swartbooi (NAM)	2:14:11
	Bert van Vlaanderen (NED)	2:15:12
4	Kim Jae-ryong (KOR)	2:17:14
5	Tadao Uchikoshi (JPN)	2:17:54
6	Konrad Dobler (GER)	2:18:28
7	Boniface Merande (KEN)	2:18:52
8	Aleksey Zhelonkin (RUS)	2:18:52
9	Tahar Mansouri (TUN)	2:18:54
10	Peter Maher (CAN)	2:19:26
11	Simon Robert Naali (TAN)	2:19:30
12	Kurt Stenzel (GER)	2:19:53
13	Steve Jones (GBR)	2:20:04
14	Chang Ki-Shik (KOR)	2:20:40
15	Said Ermili (MAR)	2:22:17
16	Hitoshi Saotome (JPN)	2:22:17
17	Elphas Ginindza (SWZ)	2:23:00
18	Cihangir Demirel (TUR)	2:23:02
19	Mirko Vindiš (SLO)	2:23:31
20	Mukhamet Nazipov (RUS)	2:24:07
21	Juma Ikangaa (TAN)	2:24:23
22	Vladimir Kotov (BLR)	2:24:26
23	Sid-Ali Sakhri (ALG)	2:24:35
24	Raf Wyns (BEL)	2:25:30
25	Dominique Chauvelier (FRA)	2:27:26
26	Art Boileau (CAN)	2:27:30
27	Alejandro Aros (CHI)	2:27:56
28	Roy Dooney (IRL)	2:28:04
29	Petr Pipa (SVK)	2:28:05
30	Harri Hänninen (FIN)	2:28:07
31	Igor Salamun (SLO)	2:28:56
32	Omar Abdillahi (DJI)	2:29:28
33	Chad Bennion (USA)	2:29:37
34	Tena Negere (ETH)	2:29:46
35	Martin Vrabel (SVK)	2:30:37
36	Moses Matabane (LES)	2:30:40
37	Gi-Sheng Hsu (TPE)	2:30:56
38	Negash Dube (ETH)	2:33:03
39	Alberto Cuba (CUB)	2:34:26
40	Kuruppu Karunaratne (SRI)	2:34:47
41	Takeharu Honda (JPN)	2:37:48
42	Mothusi Tsiana (BOT)	2:42:10
43	Yeung Ng Fai (HKG)	2:55:17
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Chaouki Achour (ALG)	DNF
—	Marnix Goegebeur (BEL)	DNF
—	Peter Fonseca (CAN)	DNF
—	Eladio Fernandez (PAR)	DNF
—	Roland Wille (LIE)	DNF
—	Brad Hudson (USA)	DNF
—	John Vermeule (NED)	DNF
—	Stephan Freigang (GER)	DNF
—	Abebe Mekonnen (ETH)	DNF
—	Malcolm Norwood (AUS)	DNF
—	Fred Schumann (GUM)	DNF
—	Willie Mtolo (RSA)	DNF
—	Salvatore Bettiol (ITA)	DNF
—	Artur de Freitas (BRA)	DNF
—	Mohamed Kamel Selmi (ALG)	DNF
—	Carlos Patricio (POR)	DNF
—	Thierry Constantin (SUI)	DNF
—	Leszek Bebło (POL)	DNF
—	Juan Torres (ESP)	DNF
—	Paul Evans (GBR)	DNF
—	Thomas Robert Naali (TAN)	DNF
—	Derek Froude (NZL)	DNF
—	Bertrand Itsweire (FRA)	DNF
—	Sławomir Gurny (POL)	DNF
—	Cosmas Ndeti (KEN)	DNF
—	Joaquim Pinheiro (POR)	DNF
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	Dave Lewis (GBR)	DNS

See also

• Men's Olympic Marathon (1992)
• 1993 Marathon Year Ranking

References

• Results
• IAAF