Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's marathon T12
Appearance
Men's marathon T12 at the XVI Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Tokyo National Stadium | ||||||||||||
Dates | 5 September 2021 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 13 from 8 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 2:21:43 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The men's marathon T12 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, took place on 5 September 2021.
The T12 category is for athletes with visual impairment. Athletes in this category will generally have some residual sight, the ability to recognise the shape of a hand at a distance of 2 metres and the ability to perceive clearly will be no more than 2/60. T12 athletes commonly run with guides.
Records
[edit]Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:[1]
World Record | Jaryd Clifford (AUS) | 2:19:08 | Sydney, Australia | 25 April 2021 |
Paralympic Record | Alberto Suárez Laso (ESP) | 2:24:50 | London, United Kingdom | 9 September 2012 |
Area | Time | Athlete | Nation |
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Africa | 2:21:23 | El Amin Chentouf | Morocco |
America | 2:26:39 | Elkin Serna | Colombia |
Asia | 2:22:28 | Tadashi Horikoshi | Japan |
Europe | 2:21:47 | Alberto Suárez Laso | Spain |
Oceania | 2:19:08 WR | Jaryd Clifford | Australia |
Results
[edit]The race took place on 5 September 2021, at 6:50:[2]
Rank | Name | Nationality | Class | Time | Notes |
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El Amin Chentouf | Morocco | T12 | 2:21:43 | GR | |
Jaryd Clifford | Australia | T12 | 2:26:09 | ||
Tadashi Horikoshi | Japan | T12 | 2:28:01 | SB | |
4 | Hatem Nasrallah | Tunisia | T12 | 2:29:55 | |
5 | Alberto Suárez Laso | Spain | T12 | 2:30:44 | SB |
6 | Wajdi Boukhili | Tunisia | T12 | 2:31:16 | |
7 | Yutaka Kumagai | Japan | T12 | 2:31:32 | SB |
8 | Gustavo Nieves | Spain | T12 | 2:32:08 | SB |
9 | Shinya Wada | Japan | T11 | 2:33:05 | GR (T11) |
10 | Denis Gavrilov Sergey Ivanov (Guide) |
RPC | T12 | 2:39:48 | SB |
11 | Nacer-Eddine Karfas | Algeria | T12 | 2:41:02 | SB |
12 | Hicham Hanyn | Morocco | T12 | 2:41:04 | SB |
Yeltsin Jacques | Brazil | T11 | DNF |
References
[edit]- ^ "Records – World Para Athletics". Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.