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Olympic Games 1996 - Atlanta

The marathon was held on Sunday August 4, 1996. The race started at 7.05 a.m. local time. A total number of 111 athletes completed the race, with an injured and limping Abdel Baser Wasiqi from Afghanistan finishing in last position in 4:24:17. There were 124 competitors from 79 countries. Thirtheen of them did not finish.

Results
1°	Josia	Thugwane	South Africa	2:12:36
2°	Lee	Bong-Ju	South Korea	2:12:39
3°	Erick	Wainaina	Kenya	2:12:44
4°	Martín	Fiz	Spain	2:13:20
5°	Richard	Nerurkar	Great Britain	2:13:39
6°	Germán	Silva	Mexico	2:14:29
7°	Steve	Moneghetti	Australia	2:14:35
8°	Benjamín	Paredes	Mexico	2:14:55
9°	Danilo	Goffi	Italy	2:15:08
10°	Luiz Antonio	dos Santos	Brazil	2:15:55
11°	Carlos	Grisales	Colombia	2:15:56
12°	Kim	Yi-Yong	South Korea	2:16:17
13°	Tendai	Chimusasa	Zimbabwe	2:16:31
14°	António Pinto	Coelho	Portugal	2:16:41
15°	Dionicio	Cerón	Mexico	2:16:48
16°	Mwenze	Kalombo	Zaire	2:17:01
17°	Leszek	Beblo	Poland	2:17:04
18°	Alberto	Juzdado	Spain	2:17:24
19°	Hiromi	Taniguchi	Japan	2:17:26
20°	Salvatore	Bettiol	Italy	2:17:27
21°	Peter	Fonseca	Canada	2:17:28
22°	Rolando	Vera	Ecuador	2:17:40
23°	Roderic	De Highden	Australia	2:17:42
24°	José Luis	Molina	Costa Rica	2:17:49
25°	Domingos	Castro	Portugal	2:18:03
26°	Tahar	Mansouri	Tunisia	2:18:06
27°	Lawrence	Peu	South Africa	2:18:09
28°	Keith	Brantly	United States of America	2:18:17
29°	Thabiso	Relekhetla	Lesotho	2:18:26
30°	Hristo	Stefanov	Bulgaria	2:18:29
31°	Bob	Kempainen	United States of America	2:18:38
32°	Harri	Hänninen	Finland	2:18:41
33°	Gert	Thys	South Africa	2:18:55
34°	Sean	Quilty	Australia	2:19:35
35°	Carey	Nelson	Canada	2:19:39
36°	Spyridon	Andriopoulos	Greece	2:19:41
37°	Oleg	Strizhakov	Russia	2:19:51
38°	Kim	Jung-Won	North Korea	2:19:54
39°	Bruce	Deacon	Canada	2:19:56
40°	Kim	Jong-Su	North Korea	2:20:19
41°	Mark	Coogan	United States of America	2:20:27
42°	Hussein Ahmed	Salah	Djibouti	2:20:33
43°	Pyotro	Sarafinyuk	Ukraine	2:20:37
44°	Abdelkader	El Mouaziz	Morocco	2:20:39
45°	Bert	van Vlaanderen	Netherlands	2:20:48
46°	Manuel	Matias	Portugal	2:20:58
47°	Vanderlei	de Lima	Brazil	2:21:01
48°	Konrad	Dobler	Germany	2:21:12
49°	Borislav	Devic	Yugoslavia	2:21:22
50°	Davide	Milesi	Italy	2:21:45
51°	Aleksandrs	Prokopcuks	Latvia	2:21:50
52°	Lameck	Aguta	Kenya	2:22:04
53°	Diego	García	Spain	2:22:11
54°	Masaki	Oya	Japan	2:22:13
55°	Peter	Whitehead	Great Britain	2:22:37
56°	Ezequiel	Bitok	Kenya	2:23:03
57°	Hsu	Gi-Sheng	Chinese Taipei	2:23:04
58°	Pavel	Loskutov	Estonia	2:23:14
59°	Rubén	Maza	Venezuela	2:23:24
60°	Steve	Brace	Great Britain	2:22:28
61°	Grzegorz	Gajdus	Poland	2:23:41
62°	Isaac	Simelane	Swaziland	2:23:43
63°	Nazerdin	Akylbekov	Kyrgyzstan	2:23:59
64°	Anders	Szalkai	Sweden	2:24:27
65°	John	Mwathiwa	Malawi	2:24:45
66°	Leonid	Shvetsov	Russia	2:24:49
67°	Eddy	Hellebuyck	Belgium	2:25:04
68°	Ahmad	Adam	Qatar	2:25:12
69°	Ikaji	Salum	Tanzania	2:25:29
70°	Pavelas	Fedorenka	Lithuania	2:25:41
71°	Miguel	Mallqui	Peru	2:25:56
72°	Ethel	Hudson	Indonesia	2:26:02
73°	Diamantino	dos Santos	Brazil	2:26:53
74°	Tika Bahadur	Bogate	Nepal	2:27:04
75°	Ronnie	Holassie	Trinidad and Tobago	2:27:20
76°	Joseph	Tjitunga	Namibia	2:27:52
77°	Valeriu	Vlas	Moldova	2:28:36
78°	Tonado Daniel	Sibandze	Swaziland	2:28:49
79°	Waldemar	Cotelo	Uruguay	2:28:50
80°	Petko	Stefanov	Bulgaria	2:29:06
81°	Abebe	Mekonnen	Ethiopia	2:29:45
82°	Luis	Martínez	Guatemala	2:29:55
83°	Sean	Wade	New Zealand	2:30:35
84°	Abderrahim	ben Redouane	Morocco	2:30:49
85°	Abdou	Manzo	Niger	2:30:57
86°	Marcelo	Barrientos	Chile	2:31:05
87°	Antoni	Bernadó	Andorra	2:31:28
88°	Adel	Adili	Libya	2:32:12
89°	Carlos	Tarazona	Venezuela	2:32:35
90°	Tharcisse	Gashaka	Burundi	2:32:55
91°	Policarpio	Calizaya	Bolivia	2:33:08
92°	Simon	Qamunga	Tanzania	2:33:11
93°	Kenjiro	Jitsui	Japan	2:33:27
94°	Antonio Carlos	Zeferino	Cape Verde	2:34:13
95°	Pamenos	Ballantyne	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2:34:16
96°	Kaleka	Mutoke	Zaire	2:34:40
97°	Ernest	Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	2:35:55
98°	Ali	El Tounsi	Morocco	2:36:01
99°	William	Aguirre	Nicaragua	2:37:02
100°	Roy	Vence	Philippines	2:37:10
101°	Mohamed	Al-Saadi	Yemen	2:40:41
102°	Julio	Hernández	Colombia	2:41:56
103°	Ajay	Chuttoo	Mauritius	2:42:07
104°	Nils	Antonio	Jamaica	2:44:10
105°	Rithya	To	Cambodia	2:47:10
106°	Maximo	Oliveras	Puerto Rico	2:47:15
107°	Islam	Djugum	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:47:38
108°	Marlon	Selwyn Williams	Virgin Islands	2:48:26
109°	Eugene	Muslar	Belize	2:51:41
110°	Abdi	Isak	Somalia	2:59:55
111°	Abdel Baser	Wasiqi	Afghanistan	4:24:17
Did not finish
DNF	Antonio	Silio	Argentina
DNF	Benjamin	Keleketu	Botswana
DNF	Omar	Moussa	Djibouti
DNF	Belayneh	Densamo	Ethiopia
DNF	Tumo	Turbo	Ethiopia
DNF	Risto	Ulmala	Finland
DNF	Stephan	Freigang	Germany
DNF	Ceslovas	Kundrotas	Lithuania
DNF	Dainius	Virbickas	Lithuania
DNF	Victor	Razafindrakoto	Madagascar
DNF	Patrick	Ishyaka	Rwanda
DNF	Kim	Wan-Ki	South Korea
DNF	Julius	Sumawe	Tanzania
Did not start
Disqualified

The women's marathon was held on Sunday July 28, 1996. The race started at 7:05 a.m. local time. A total number of 65 athletes completed the race, with Marie Benito from Guam finishing in last position in 3:27:28. There were 86 competitors from 51 countries. Twenty-one of them did not finish.

Results
1°	Fatuma	Roba	Ethiopia	2:26:05
2°	Valentina	Yegorova	Russia	2:28:05
3°	Yuko	Arimori	Japan	2:28:39
4°	Katrin	Dörre-Heinig	Germany	2:28:45
5°	Rocío	Rios	Spain	2:30:50
6°	Lidia	Simon	Romania	2:31:04
7°	Manuela	Machado	Portugal	2:31:11
8°	Sonja	Krolik	Germany	2:31:16
9°	Xiujuan	Ren	China	2:31:21
10°	Anne Marie	Lauck	United States of America	2:31:30
11°	Malgorzata	Sobanska	Poland	2:31:52
12°	Izumi	Maki	Japan	2:32:35
13°	Ornella	Ferrara	Italy	2:33:09
14°	Monica	Pont	Spain	2:33:27
15°	Angelica	Kanana	Kenya	2:34:19
16°	Liz	McColgan	Great Britain	2:34:30
17°	Junko	Asari	Japan	2:34:31
18°	Franziska	Rochat-Moser	Switzerland	2:34:48
19°	Griselda	Gonzáles	Argentina	2:35:12
20°	Jong	Song-Ok	North Korea	2:35:31
21°	Irina	Bogachova	Kyrgyzstan	2:35:44
22°	Iglandini	González	Colombia	2:35:45
23°	Serap	Aktas	Turkey	2:36:14
24°	Yelena	Mazovka	Belarus	2:36:22
25°	Marleen	Renders	Belgium	2:36:27
26°	Kim	Chang-Ok	North Korea	2:36:31
27°	Albertina	Dias	Portugal	2:36:39
28°	Kerryn	McCann	Australia	2:36:41
29°	Aniela	Nikiel	Poland	2:36:44
30°	Oh	Mi-Ja	South Korea	2:36:54
31°	Linda	Somers	United States of America	2:36:58
32°	Danuta	Bartoszek	Canada	2:37:06
33°	Maria	del Carmen Diaz	Mexico	2:37:14
34°	Nelly	Glauser	Switzerland	2:37:19
35°	Ramilya	Burangulova	Russia	2:38:04
36°	Judit	Nagy	Hungary	2:38:43
37°	Érika	Olivera	Chile	2:39:06
38°	Yvonne	Danson	Singapore	2:39:18
39°	Márcia	Narloch	Brazil	2:39:33
40°	Stefania	Statkuviene	Lithuania	2:39:51
41°	Anne	van Schuppen	Netherlands	2:40:46
42°	Maria	Polizou	Greece	2:41:33
43°	Maria Guadalupe	Loma	Mexico	2:41:56
44°	Anuta	Catuna	Romania	2:42:01
45°	Karen	MacLeod	Great Britain	2:42:08
46°	Lorraine	Moller	New Zealand	2:42:21
47°	Albertina	Machado	Portugal	2:43:44
48°	Anita	Håkenstad	Norway	2:43:58
49°	Ana Isabel	Alonso	Spain	2:44:12
50°	Natalya	Galushko	Belarus	2:44:21
51°	Adriana	Fernández	Mexico	2:44:23
52°	May	Allison	Canada	2:44:38
53°	Helena	Javornik	Slovenia	2:46:58
54°	Marilu	Salazar	Peru	2:48:58
55°	Suzana	Ciric	Yugoslavia	2:49:30
56°	Nadia	Prasad	France	2:50:05
57°	Suzanne	Malaxos	Australia	2:50:46
58°	Suzanne	Rigg	Great Britain	2:52:09
59°	Elizabeth	Mongudhi	Namibia	2:56:19
60°	Solange	de Souza	Brazil	2:56:23
61°	Gulsara	Dadabayeva	Tajikistan	3:09:08
62°	Bimala	Ranamagar	Nepal	3:16:19
63°	Erkhemsaikhan	Davaajargal	Mongolia	3:19:06
64°	Sirivanh	Khetavong	Laos	3:25:16
65°	Marie	Benito	Guam	3:27:28
Did not finish
DNF	Lisa	Ondieki	Australia
DNF	Madina	Biktagirova	Belarus
DNF	Carmen	de Oliveira	Brazil
DNF	Gitte	Karlshoj	Denmark
DNF	Martha	Tenorio	Ecuador
DNF	Jane	Salumäe	Estonia
DNF	Kirsi	Mattila	Finland
DNF	Uta	Pippig	Germany
DNF	Maria	Curatolo	Italy
DNF	Maura	Viceconte	Italy
DNF	Joyce	Chepchumba	Kenya
DNF	Salina	Chirchir	Kenya
DNF	Lee	Mi-Kyung	South Korea
DNF	Kang	Soon-Duk	South Korea
DNF	Carol	Galea	Malta
DNF	Kamila	Gradus	Poland
DNF	Cristina	Pomacu	Romania
DNF	Alla	Zhilyayeva	Russia
DNF	Elana	Meyer	South Africa
DNF	Lyubov	Klochko	Ukraine
DNF	Jenni	Spangler	United States of America
Did not start
Disqualified

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Results 1996

MEN MARATHON
2:12:36
Josia Thugwane
(South Africa)

WOMEN MARATHON
2:26:05
Fatuma Roba
(Ethiopia)

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