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Olympic Games 2012 - London

The Olympic Men's Marathon started and finished in The Mall on Sunday, August 12. Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda broke away from two Kenyan rivals to win the marathon near Buckingham Palace in front of vast crowds enjoying the closing event of the Olympic Games. After running side by side with world champion Abel Kirui and Wilson Kipsang, the 23-year-old put in a powerful kick to shake off the Kenyans six kilometers from the end of the race. He crossed the finish line draped in the red, black and yellow Ugandan flag, which he knelt to kiss. The crowd of people that lined the route through central London on a sweltering day were a sign of the huge enthusiasm the Games have generated. Athletes completed a first loop of 2.2 miles, which took them to the river Thames, south to the Houses of Parliament, and back up to The Mall past Buckingham Palace. After this they ran back to the river, and this time head east, towards the City of London and beyond to the Tower of London, in an eight-mile loop that was repeated three times before crossing the finishing line. Kiprotich's gold medal is the second in Uganda's Olympic history.

Results
1°	Stephen	Kiprotich	Uganda	2:08:01
2°	Abel	Kirui	Kenya	2:08:27
3°	Wilson Kipsang	Kiprotich	Kenya	2:09:37
4°	Mebrahtom	Keflezighi	United States of America	2:11:06
5°	Marilson	dos Santos	Brazil	2:11:10
6°	Kentaro	Nakamoto	Japan	2:11:16
7°	Cuthbert	Nyasango	Zimbabwe	2:12:08
8°	Paulo Roberto	Paula	Brazil	2:12:17
9°	Henryk	Szost	Poland	2:12:28
10°	Ruggero	Pertile	Italy	2:12:45
11°	Viktor	Rothlin	Switzerland	2:12:48
12°	Oleksandr	Sitkovskyy	Ukraine	2:12:56
13°	Franck	De Almeida	Brazil	2:13:35
14°	Aleksey	Reunkov	Russia	2:13:49
15°	Wirimai	Juwawo	Zimbabwe	2:14:09
16°	Michael	Shelley	Australia	2:14:10
17°	Emmanuel Kipchirchir	Mutai	Kenya	2:14:49
18°	Rachid	Kisri	Morocco	2:15:09
19°	Yared	Asmerom	Eritrea	2:15:24
20°	Dylan	Wykes	Canada	2:15:26
21°	Raul	Pacheco	Peru	2:15:35
22°	Eric	Gillis	Canada	2:16:00
23°	Dmitriy	Safronov	Russia	2:16:04
24°	Carles	Castillejo	Spain	2:16:17
25°	Iaroslav	Musinschi	Moldova	2:16:25
26°	Marius	Ionescu	Romania	2:16:28
27°	Reid	Coolsaet	Canada	2:16:29
28°	Martin	Dent	Australia	2:16:29
29°	Vitaliy	Shafar	Ukraine	2:16:36
30°	Lee	Merrien	Great Britain	2:17:00
31°	Ignacio	Caceres	Spain	2:17:11
32°	Duhaeng	Lee	South Korea	2:17:19
33°	Faustine	Mussa	Tanzania	2:17:39
34°	Jose Carlos	Hernandez	Spain	2:17:48
35°	Miguel	Barzola	Argentina	2:17:54
36°	Urige	Buta	Norway	2:17:58
37°	Grigoriy	Andreev	Russia	2:18:20
38°	José Amado	García	Guatemala	2:18:23
39°	Daniel	Vargas	Mexico	2:18:26
40°	Ryo	Yamamoto	Japan	2:18:34
41°	Jesper	Faurschou	Denmark	2:18:44
42°	Kari Steinn	Karlsson	Iceland	2:18:47
43°	Lusapho	April	South Africa	2:19:00
44°	Mike	Tebulo	Malawi	2:19:11
45°	Arata	Fujiwara	Japan	2:19:11
46°	Primoz	Kobe	Slovenia	2:19:28
47°	Guor	Marial	Independent Olympic Athletes	2:19:32
48°	Luis	Feiteira	Portugal	2:19:40
49°	Stephen	Mokoka	South Africa	2:19:52
50°	Miguel Angel	Almachi	Ecuador	2:19:53
51°	Ser-Od	Bat-Ochir	Mongolia	2:20:10
52°	Song-Chol	Pak	North Korea	2:20:20
53°	Kwang-Hyok	Kim	North Korea	2:20:20
54°	Guojian	Dong	China	2:20:39
55°	Anuradha	Cooray	Sri Lanka	2:20:41
56°	Methkal	Abu Drais	Jordan	2:21:00
57°	Mark	Kenneally	Ireland	2:21:13
58°	Yonas	Kifle	Eritrea	2:21:25
59°	Ivan	Babaryka	Ukraine	2:21:52
60°	Carlos	Cordero	Mexico	2:22:08
61°	Scott	Overall	Great Britain	2:22:37
62°	Pedro	Mora	Venezuela	2:22:40
63°	Jeff	Hunt	Australia	2:22:59
64°	Stsiapan	Rahautsou	Belarus	2:23:23
65°	Cesar	Lizano	Costa Rica	2:24:16
66°	Samson	Ramadhani	Tanzania	2:24:53
67°	Jan	Kreisinger	Czech Republic	2:25:03
68°	Mohammed Abduh	Bakhet	Qatar	2:25:17
69°	Jussi	Utriainen	Finland	2:26:25
70°	Arturo	Malaquias	Mexico	2:26:37
71°	Wissem	Hosni	Tunisia	2:26:43
72°	Tamás	Kovács	Hungary	2:27:48
73°	Sinkweon	Jang	South Korea	2:28:20
74°	Antoni	Bernadó	Andorra	2:28:34
75°	Marcel	Tschopp	Liechtenstein	2:28:54
76°	Bekir	Karayel	Turkey	2:29:38
77°	Chia-Che	Chang	Chinese Taipei	2:29:58
78°	Ram Singh	Yadav	India	2:30:06
79°	Jean Pierre	Mvuyekure	Rwanda	2:30:19
80°	Konstandinos	Poulios	Greece	2:33:17
81°	Zohar	Zemiro	Israel	2:34:59
82°	Jinhyeok	Jeong	South Korea	2:38:45
83°	Juan Carlos	Cardona	Colombia	2:40:13
84°	Augusto	Soares	Timor-Leste	2:45:09
85°	Tsepo	Ramonene	Lesotho	2:55:54
Did not finish
DNF	Zicheng	Li	China
DNF	Ilunga	Zatara Mande	Democratic Republic of Congo
DNF	Darko	Zivanovic	Serbia
DNF	Gunther	Weidlinger	Austria
DNF	Abraham	Kiprotich	France
DNF	Patrick	Tambwe	France
DNF	Valerijs	Zolnerovics	Latvia
DNF	Ali Mabrouk	El Zaidi	Libya
DNF	Ryan	Hall	United States of America
DNF	Abdihakem	Abdirahman	United States of America
DNF	Getu	Feleke	Ethiopia
DNF	Dino	Sefir	Ethiopia
DNF	Samuel	Tsegay	Eritrea
DNF	Ayele	Abshero	Ethiopia
DNF	Tayeb	Filali	Algeria
DNF	Rui Pedro	Silva	Portugal
DNF	Coolboy	Ngamole	South Africa
DNF	Abderrahime	Bouramdane	Morocco
DNF	Roman	Prodius	Moldova
DNF	Abdellatif	Meftah	France
Did not start
Disqualified

The Women's marathon took place on August 5, 2012 around an urban circuit specifically designed for the competition, with start and finish in The Mall. Although the marathon traditionally ends inside the Olympic stadium, this one took the runners past some of the biggest landmarks of London: Big Ben, St. Paul's Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, London Bridge, the Tower of London and finally right by Buckingham Palace, which was near the finish. In a race that began in heavy rain, saw the sun briefly come out and ended in another downpour, Tiki Gelana from Ethiopia won the London 2012 Olympic women's marathon in 2:23:07, holding off Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya by five seconds. Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova of Russia captured the bronze. Gelana felt the marathon slipping away when she tumbled around the halfway point of the marathon, knocked down by another runner as she reached for her water bottle - a hard fall that bloodied her right elbow. Already aching, Gelana thought about pulling out but recovered from the fall to win the women's Olympic marathon and Ethiopia's second-ever Olympic gold medal in the women's marathon, after Fatuma Roba won in 1996 in Atlanta. There were four runners in a bunched pack over the last three miles, but Gelana made her move, grimacing as she surged to the front. With the rain picking up - going from a light drizzle to a deluge - she kept glancing over her shoulder to see if Jeptoo was gaining ground. Gelana coasted in and raised her hands as she crossed the finish line. The British marathoners couldn't follow up. Their best chance at a medal, Paula Radcliffe - the fastest woman ever in the marathon - didn't compete because of a foot injury.

Results
1°	Tiki	Gelana	Ethiopia	2:23:07
2°	Priscah	Jeptoo	Kenya	2:23:12
3°	Tatyana	Petrova Arkhipova	Russia	2:23:29
4°	Mary	Keitany	Kenya	2:23:56
5°	Tetyana	Gamera-Shmyrko	Ukraine	2:24:32
6°	Xiaolin	Zhu	China	2:24:48
7°	Jéssica	Augusto	Portugal	2:25:11
8°	Valeria	Straneo	Italy	2:25:27
9°	Albina	Mayorova	Russia	2:25:38
10°	Shalane	Flanagan	United States of America	2:25:51
11°	Kara	Goucher	United States of America	2:26:07
12°	Helalia	Johannes	Namibia	2:26:09
13°	Marisa	Barros	Portugal	2:26:13
14°	Irina	Mikitenko	Germany	2:26:44
15°	Kimberley	Smith	New Zealand	2:26:59
16°	Ryoko	Kizaki	Japan	2:27:16
17°	Lisa Jane	Weightman	Australia	2:27:32
18°	Isabellah	Andersson	Sweden	2:27:36
19°	Yoshimi	Ozaki	Japan	2:27:43
20°	Edna	Kiplagat	Kenya	2:27:52
21°	Ana Dulce	Félix	Portugal	2:28:12
22°	Wang	Xueqin	China	2:28:21
23°	Mare	Dibaba	Ethiopia	2:28:48
24°	Hilda	Kibet	Netherlands	2:28:52
25°	Inés	Melchor	Peru	2:28:54
26°	Alessandra	Aguilar	Spain	2:29:19
27°	Rasa	Drazdauskaite	Lithuania	2:29:29
28°	Diana	Lobacevske	Lithuania	2:29:32
29°	Anna	Incerti	Italy	2:29:38
30°	Rosaria	Console	Italy	2:30:09
31°	Diane	Nukuri	Burundi	2:30:13
32°	Susanne	Hahn	Germany	2:30:22
33°	Nastassia	Staravoitava	Belarus	2:30:25
34°	Sviatlana	Kouhan	Belarus	2:30:26
35°	René	Kalmer	South Africa	2:30:51
36°	Karolina	Jarzynska	Poland	2:30:57
37°	Souad	Aït Salem	Algeria	2:31:15
38°	Beata	Naigambo	Namibia	2:31:16
39°	Jessica	Trengove	Australia	2:31:17
40°	Jessica	Draskau-Petersson	Denmark	2:31:43
41°	Chung	Yun-Hee	South Korea	2:31:58
42°	Aselefech	Mergia	Ethiopia	2:32:03
43°	Gladys	Tejeda	Peru	2:32:07
44°	Freya	Murray	Great Britain	2:32:14
45°	Lidia	Simon	Romania	2:32:46
46°	Marisol	Romero	Mexico	2:33:08
47°	Adriana Aparecida	da Silva	Brazil	2:33:15
48°	Olena	Burkovska	Ukraine	2:33:26
49°	Kim	Kum-ok	North Korea	2:33:30
50°	Karina	Pérez	Mexico	2:33:30
51°	Erika	Abril	Colombia	2:33:33
52°	Lisa	Stublic	Croatia	2:34:03
53°	Maja	Neuenschwander	Switzerland	2:34:50
54°	Andrea	Mayr	Austria	2:34:51
55°	Wilma	Arizapana	Peru	2:35:09
56°	Jon	Kyong-Hui	North Korea	2:35:17
57°	Claire	Hallissey	Great Britain	2:35:39
58°	Wang	Jiali	China	2:35:46
59°	Rehaset	Mehari	Eritrea	2:35:49
60°	Iuliia	Andreeva	Kyrgyzstan	2:36:01
61°	María Elena	Espeso	Spain	2:36:12
62°	Lishan	Dula	Bahrain	2:36:20
63°	Bahar	Dogan	Turkey	2:36:35
64°	Érika	Olivera	Chile	2:36:41
65°	Natalia	Cerches	Moldova	2:37:13
66°	Linda	Byrne	Ireland	2:37:13
67°	Ivana	Sekyrova	Czech Republic	2:37:14
68°	Ava	Hutchinson	Ireland	2:37:17
69°	Natalia	Romero	Chile	2:37:47
70°	Dailín	Belmonte	Cuba	2:38:08
71°	Ana	Subotic	Serbia	2:38:22
72°	Sultan	Haydar	Turkey	2:38:26
73°	Samira	Raif	Morocco	2:38:31
74°	Kim	Mi-Gyong	North Korea	2:38:33
75°	Remalda	Kergyte	Lithuania	2:39:01
76°	Lim	Kyung-Hee	South Korea	2:39:03
77°	Sladana	Perunovic	Montenegro	2:39:07
78°	Olga	Dubovskaya	Belarus	2:39:12
79°	Risa	Shigetomo	Japan	2:40:06
80°	Amira	Ben Amor	Tunisia	2:40:13
81°	Tanith	Maxwell	South Africa	2:40:27
82°	María	Peralta	Argentina	2:40:50
83°	Rosa	Chacha	Ecuador	2:40:57
84°	Triya	Ningsih	Indonesia	2:41:15
85°	Beata	Rakonczai	Hungary	2:41:20
86°	Constantina	Dita	Romania	2:41:34
87°	Leena	Puotiniemi	Finland	2:42:01
88°	Žana	Jereb	Slovenia	2:42:50
89°	Ümmü	Kiraz	Turkey	2:43:07
90°	Mamorallo	Tjoka	Lesotho	2:43:15
91°	Gabriela	Traña	Costa Rica	2:43:17
92°	Zsofia	Erdelyi	Hungary	2:44:45
93°	Jane	Suuto	Uganda	2:44:46
94°	Yolimar	Pineda	Venezuela	2:45:16
95°	Anikó	Kálovics	Hungary	2:45:55
96°	Kim	Seongeun	South Korea	2:46:38
97°	Vanessa	Veiga	Spain	2:46:53
98°	Dace	Lina	Latvia	2:47:47
99°	Katarína	Berešová	Slovakia	2:48:11
100°	Benita	Willis	Australia	2:49:38
101°	Claudette	Mukasakindi	Rwanda	2:51:07
102°	Otgonbayar	Luvsanlkhündegiin	Mongolia	2:52:15
103°	Evelin	Talts	Estonia	2:54:15
104°	Konstadina	Kefala	Greece	3:01:18
105°	Ni Lar	San	Myanmar	3:04:27
106°	Juventina	Napoleão	Timor-Leste	3:05:07
107°	Caitriona	Jennings	Ireland	3:22:11
Did not finish
DNF	Lucia	Kimani	Bosnia and Herzegovina
DNF	Yolanda	Caballero	Colombia
DNF	Soumiya	Labani	Morocco
DNF	Lornah	Kiplagat	Netherlands
DNF	Liliya	Shobukhova	Russia
DNF	Olivera	Jevtic	Serbia
DNF	Irvette	van Blerk	South Africa
DNF	Tetyana	Filonyuk	Ukraine
DNF	Mara	Yamauchi	Great Britain
DNF	Desiree	Davila	United States of America
DNF	Sharon	Tavengwa	Zimbabwe
Did not start
DNS	Paula	Radcliffe	Great Britain
Disqualified

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Results 2012

MEN MARATHON
2:08:01
Stephen Kiprotich
(Uganda)

WOMEN MARATHON
2:23:07
Tiki Gelana
(Ethiopia)

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