The men's marathon

Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

 at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships

2011 IPC Athletics World Championships

The 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships was held in Christchurch, New Zealand from January 21 to 30, 2011. Athletes with a disability competed, and the Championships was a qualifying event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games....

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. 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

Amputation

Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for...

 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).

Medalists

Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
T11	Cristian Valenzuela	Andrea Cionna Andrea Cionna Andrea Cionna, born in 1968, is an Italian athlete from Osimo in the Province of Ancona. He holds the world record for the fastest marathon run by a totally blind man, set in 2:31:59 in Rome in 2007, and has won two bronze medals in blind long-distance running at the Paralympic Games.Cionna first...	Shinya Wada
T12	Alberto Suarez Laso	Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno	Masahiro Okamura
T46	Mario Santillan Hernandez	Tito Sena Tito Sena Tito Sena is a Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T46 long distance events.He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There he won a silver medal in the men's Marathon - T46 event and finished ninth in the men's 5000 metres - T46 event-External links:...	Ozivam Bonfim Ozivam Bonfim Ozivam Bonfim is a paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T46 distance running events.In the 2004 Summer Paralympics Ozivam competed in the 1500m and won a bronze medal in the T46 5000m.-References:...
T54	Kurt Fearnley Kurt Fearnley Kurt Fearnley OAM is an Australian wheelchair racer, who competes at the Olympic level. At the 2004 Olympic Games, he finished 5th in the demonstration sport of Men's 1500m wheelchair...	Heinz Frei Heinz Frei Heinz Frei is a Swiss wheelchair athlete. Frei has had a long career of racing, winning the London Marathon wheelchair race three times, and earning 5 medals at the 2003 European games at the age of 45...	Masazumi Soejima Masazumi Soejima is a Paralympian athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T54 long distance events.Masazumi has competed in the marathon in both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics, 10000m in 2004, 5000m and 1500m in 2008 but it was as part of the Japanese 4x400m relay in 2004 that he won his only medal, a...

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

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Cristian Valenzuela		2:41:04	CR
	Andrea Cionna Andrea Cionna Andrea Cionna, born in 1968, is an Italian athlete from Osimo in the Province of Ancona. He holds the world record for the fastest marathon run by a totally blind man, set in 2:31:59 in Rome in 2007, and has won two bronze medals in blind long-distance running at the Paralympic Games.Cionna first...		2:41:39
	Shinya Wada		2:43:26	PB
	Yuichi Takahashi Yuichi Takahashi is a Paralympian athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T11 long distance events.Yuichi took part in the 5000m, 10000m and marathon in the 2004 Summer Paralympics winning the T11 marathon. In the 2008 Summer Paralympics he attempted to defend this title but only managed to finish...		2:44:22	SB
	Joaquim Machado Joaquim Machado Joaquim Machado is a former Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder.- External links :* * *...		2:44:38	PB
	Yoshihide Hukuhara		2:54:36
	Carlos Ferreira		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

Visual acuity

Visual acuity is acuteness or clearness of vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain....

 of 2/60 and/or visual field

Visual field

The term visual field is sometimes used as a synonym to field of view, though they do not designate the same thing. The visual field is the "spatial array of visual sensations available to observation in introspectionist psychological experiments", while 'field of view' "refers to the physical...

 of under 5 degrees.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alberto Suarez Laso		2:28:10	WR
	Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno		2:32:42
	Masahiro Okamura		2:34:03
	Manuel Garnica Manuel Garnica Hector Manuel Garnica Venegas is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division...		2:34:47	PB
	Ildar Pomykalov Ildar Pomykalov Ildar Pomykalov is a Paralympian athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T12 long distance events.He competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. There he won a bronze medal in the men's 5000 metres - T12 event, finished fourth in the men's 10000 metres - T12 event...		2:35:59	PB
	Moises Beristain Gutierrez		2:40:56	PB
	Luis Enrique Herrera		2:49:51	PB
	Henry Cardenas		3:44:35
	Gabriel Macchi		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

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mario Santillan Hernandez		2:30:59
	Tito Sena Tito Sena Tito Sena is a Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T46 long distance events.He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There he won a silver medal in the men's Marathon - T46 event and finished ninth in the men's 5000 metres - T46 event-External links:...		2:32:01
	Ozivam Bonfim Ozivam Bonfim Ozivam Bonfim is a paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T46 distance running events.In the 2004 Summer Paralympics Ozivam competed in the 1500m and won a bronze medal in the T46 5000m.-References:...		2:33:50	SB
	Walter Endrizzi Walter Endrizzi Walter Endrizzi is a Paralympic athlete from Italy competing mainly in category T46 long distance events.He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There he won a bronze medal in the men's Marathon - T46 event-External links:...		2:36:38
	Chris Hammer		2:50:10
	Pedro Meza Zempoaltecatl		2:53:16
	Christoph Sommer		DNF
	Frederic van Den Heede		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

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kurt Fearnley Kurt Fearnley Kurt Fearnley OAM is an Australian wheelchair racer, who competes at the Olympic level. At the 2004 Olympic Games, he finished 5th in the demonstration sport of Men's 1500m wheelchair...		1:31:09
	Heinz Frei Heinz Frei Heinz Frei is a Swiss wheelchair athlete. Frei has had a long career of racing, winning the London Marathon wheelchair race three times, and earning 5 medals at the 2003 European games at the age of 45...		1:31:09
	Masazumi Soejima Masazumi Soejima is a Paralympian athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T54 long distance events.Masazumi has competed in the marathon in both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics, 10000m in 2004, 5000m and 1500m in 2008 but it was as part of the Japanese 4x400m relay in 2004 that he won his only medal, a...		1:31:10
	Kota Hokinoue		1:31:10
	Roger Puigbo Verdaguer		1:31:10	SB
	Ernst Francois van Dyk		1:31:10
	Pierre Fairbank Pierre Fairbank Pierre Fairbank is a Paralympian athlete from France competing mainly in category T53 Sprint events.Pierre first competed in the Paralympics in 2000 in Sydney where he won a gold in the T53 200m, a silver in the T53 400m and a bronze in the T53 800m, he also competed in the T54 Marathon...		1:31:11	SB
	Nobukazu Hanaoka		1:31:14
	Alain Fuss Alain Fuss Alain Fuss is a Paralympian athlete from France competing mainly in category T54 long distance events.Alain has competed in two Paralympics. His first appearance in Athens in 2004 he competed in the T54 5000m, 10000m and marathon without any medal success...		1:34:24
	Tomasz Hamerlak Tomasz Hamerlak xxxTomasz Hamerlak is a Paralympic athlete from Poland competing mainly in category T54 distance events.Tomasz has competed in three paralympics, always competing in a variety of middle and long distance events, his only medal success came in 2004 with a bronze medal in the T54 mararhon.-References:...		1:34:24	SB
	Saul Mendoza Hernandez		1:34:24	SB
	Aaron Gordian Martinez		1:34:25
	Rafael Botello Jimenez		1:34:27	SB
	Masayuki Higuchi		1:36:09
	Jorge Madera		1:36:40
	Aron Andersson		1:36:40
	Khachonsak Thamsophon		1:36:40
	Ebbe Blichfeldt		1:39:58	SB
	Aaron Pike		1:40:53
	Brett McArthur		1:42:14
	Hiroyuki Yamamoto		1:42:31
	Ekkachai Janthon		1:45:40
	Sukhum Namlun		1:47:09
	Ryan Chalmers		1:49:05
	Alberto Baptista		DNF
	Marcel Hug Marcel Hug Marcel Hug is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T54 wheelchair racing events.Marcel competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics as part of the Swiss relay teams in the 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams as wellas the 400m and 5000m but it was in the 800m and 1500m where he...		DNF
	Denis Lemeunier Denis Lemeunier Denis Lemeunier is a French wheelchair racer. He is best known for defeating defending champion Kevin Papworth in the 2001 London Marathon wheelchair race, a feat given that his wheelchair, which normally would take a year to break in, was only 5 weeks old...		DNF
	Richard Nicholson Richard Nicholson Richard Nicholson is a Paralympic competitor from Australia. He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics, the 2000 Summer Paralympics, 2004 Summer Paralympics and the 2008 Summer Paralympics. At the 2000 Games, he won a silver medal in the powerlifting Men's Up To 60 kg event...		DNF
	Alfonso Zaragoza		DNF
	Josh Cassidy Josh Cassidy Josh Cassidy is a Canadian athlete from Oakville, Ontario, and winner of the men's wheelchair event at the 2010 London Marathon.Cassidy completed the course with a time of 1 hour, 35 minutes and 21 seconds. Cassidy, born in Ottawa and aged 25 as of April 2010, studied design at...		DNS
	Jean-Paul Compaore		DNS
	Michel Filteau		DNS
	Kyle Shaw		DNS
	David Weir		DNS

Key: SB = Season Best, DNF = Did not Finish, DNS = Did not Start