The Men's Marathon at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada was held on August 3, 2001.

The winning margin was one second. This was the smallest margin of victory in the marathon at the World Championships until 2025.

Medalists Gold Gezahegne AberaEthiopia (ETH)Silver Simon BiwottKenya (KEN)Bronze Stefano BaldiniItaly (ITA)

Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds did not startNM no markWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best

Records Standing records prior to the 2001 World Athletics Championships World Record Khalid Khannouchi 2:05:42 October 24, 1999 Chicago, United States Event Record Robert de Castella 2:10:03 August 14, 1983 Helsinki, Finland Season Best Josephat Kiprono 2:06:50 April 22, 2001 Rotterdam, Netherlands

Intermediates RankNumberAthleteCountryTime5 KILOMETRES 1 1101 Ronnie Holassie 15:31 2 1153 Josh Cox 15:31 3 1249 Elijah Mutandiro 15:31 4 572 Asaf Bimro 15:51 5 654 Takayuki Nishida 15:5110 KILOMETRES 1 1101 Ronnie Holassie 30:54 2 334 Simretu Alemayehu 31:18 3 598 Giacomo Leone 31:18 4 1179 Khalid Khannouchi 31:18 5 696 Lee Bong-Ju 31:1815 KILOMETRES 1 1101 Ronnie Holassie 47:01 2 672 Simon Biwott 47:32 3 999 Mathias Ntawulikura 47:32 4 696 Lee Bong-Ju 47:32 5 951 Laban Nkete 47:3220 KILOMETRES 1 1101 Ronnie Holassie 1:03:27 2 959 Ian Syster 1:03:28 3 334 Simretu Alemayehu 1:03:28 4 1179 Khalid Khannouchi 1:03:28 5 672 Simon Biwott 1:03:28HALF MARATHON 1 334 Simretu Alemayehu 1:06:59 2 959 Ian Syster 1:06:59 3 761 Abdelkader El Mouaziz 1:06:59 4 598 Giacomo Leone 1:06:59 5 696 Lee Bong-Ju 1:06:5925 KILOMETRES 1 598 Giacomo Leone 1:19:14 2 761 Abdelkader El Mouaziz 1:19:14 3 654 Takayuki Nishida 1:19:14 4 696 Lee Bong-Ju 1:19:14 5 959 Ian Syster 1:19:1530 KILOMETRES 1 761 Abdelkader El Mouaziz 1:34:51 2 332 Gezahegne Abera 1:35:00 3 581 Stefano Baldini 1:35:00 4 672 Simon Biwott 1:35:00 5 630 Shigeru Aburaya 1:35:0135 KILOMETRES 1 581 Stefano Baldini 1:50:46 2 341 Tesfaye Tola 1:50:46 3 332 Gezahegne Abera 1:50:46 4 672 Simon Biwott 1:50:47 5 630 Shigeru Aburaya 1:50:4840 KILOMETRES 1 672 Simon Biwott 2:06:10 2 332 Gezahegne Abera 2:06:11 3 581 Stefano Baldini 2:06:25 4 341 Tesfaye Tola 2:06:34 5 630 Shigeru Aburaya 2:06:55

Final ranking RankAthleteCountryTimeNote Gezahegne Abera 2:12:42 SB Simon Biwott 2:12:43 Stefano Baldini 2:13:18 4 Tesfaye Tola 2:13:58 5 Shigeru Aburaya 2:14:07 6 Abdelkader El Mouaziz 2:15:41 7 Tesfaye Jifar 2:16:52 8 Yoshiteru Morishita 2:17:05 9 Takayuki Nishida 2:17:24 10 Simretu Alemayehu 2:17:35 11 Giacomo Leone 2:17:54 12 Atsushi Fujita 2:18:23 13 Benoît Zwierzchiewski 2:18:29 14 Ian Syster 2:19:38 15 Óscar Fernández 2:19:45 16 Abdelhakim Bagy 2:20:43 17 Alberico di Cecco 2:20:44 18 Olexandr Kuzin 2:21:26 19 Benjamín Paredes 2:22:07 20 Asaf Bimro 2:22:36 21 Andrés Espinosa 2:23:06 22 Lim Jin-Soo 2:23:16 23 Nicholas Harrison 2:23:24 24 Antoni Peña 2:23:29 25 Pamenos Ballantyne 2:24:36 26 Kenichi Takahashi 2:24:41 27 Franklin Tenorio 2:25:15 28 Luketz Swartbooi 2:25:40 29 Kamal Ziani 2:25:43 30 Thabiso Moqhali 2:25:44 31 Mykola Rudyk 2:26:04 32 Diego Colorado 2:26:13 33 Ahmed Adam Saleh 2:26:32 34 Larbi Zeroual 2:26:45 35 Josh Cox 2:26:52 36 Rod de Highden 2:27:42 37 Julio Rey 2:27:59 38 Eddy Hellebuyck 2:28:01 39 Anders Szalkai 2:28:33 40 Magnus Michelsson 2:28:36 41 Francisco Javier Cortés 2:28:48 42 Steve Bohan 2:29:22 43 Ernest Ndjissipou 2:29:25 44 Tesfit Berhe 2:29:50 45 Francisco Bautista 2:29:56 46 Bruce Deacon 2:30:22 47 Vasiliy Medvedev 2:30:28 48 Michael Dudley 2:30:45 49 Vasilios Zabelis 2:31:34 50 Andriy Naumov 2:31:42 51 António Zeferino 2:32:46 52 Kim Gillard 2:33:11 53 Rafael Yax 2:33:21 54 Kim Yi-Yong 2:33:28 55 Isaac García 2:33:32 56 Alfredo Arevalo 2:34:16 57 Gregorio Domínguez 2:35:15 58 Jean-Paul Niyonsaba 2:35:43 59 Ðuro Kodžo 2:35:47 PB 60 Zigmund Zilbershtein 2:36:01 61 Kopamo Pekile 2:36:24 62 Juan Eulogio Ramos 2:37:15 63 Honest Mutsakani 2:37:44 64 Oliver Utting 2:39:53 65 Nestor Jami 2:41:18 66 Abdellah Béhar 2:41:42 67 Laban Nkete 2:42:21 68 Sergey Zabavski 2:42:22 69 José Jami 2:42:23 70 Leonardo Vieira Guedes 2:43:11 71 Christian Marmen 2:44:44 72 Fraser Bertram 2:45:10 — Roberto Barbi — Andreas Erm — Abukar Mohamed — Gert Thys — Josiah Bembe — Abdelfattah Aïtzouri — Lee Bong-Ju — Josephat Kiprono — Samson Kandie — Theodoros Zachos — Ahmed Saeed Hassan — Elijah Mutandiro — Elson Williams — Arkadi Tolstyh — Mathias Ntawulikura — Stephen Bwire Mlingi — Luis Novo — Roman Kejžar — Ronnie Holassie — Azzedine Sakhri — Fekadu Degefu — Mohamed Ezzher — Giovanni Ruggiero — David Morris — Khalid Khannouchi — Josiah Thugwane — Mustapha Riad — Percy Sephoda — Pedro Ventura Jiménez — Emiliano Lemus — Daher Gadid Omar — Ntoka Kapinga

See also 2000 Summer Olympics (Sydney) 2001 Marathon Year Ranking 2001 World Marathon Cup

References Results IAAF Results - World Athletics