Mens Marathon Final

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Date & Time
Sun 8th August 2021 7:00am Local
Sat 7th August 2021 10:00pm UTC

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Olympics Athletics

Season
2020

Round
Round 200

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Odori Park

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The men's marathon event at the 2020 Summer Olympics started at 07:00 on 8 August 2021 in Sapporo, Japan. 106 athletes from 46 nations competed. The previous Olympic champion, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, successfully defended his title, with Dutch and Belgian athletes Abdi Nageeye and Bashir Abdi gaining silver and bronze, respectively. Kipchoge was the third man to repeat as Olympic marathon champion, after Abebe Bikila and Waldemar Cierpinski. The Netherlands and Belgium earned their first men's marathon medals since 1980 and 1976, respectively.

The race was moved north, from Tokyo to Sapporo because the latter is on average 4 °C (7 °F) cooler in August, as decided in 2019 by the IOC. Sapporo recorded 26.0 °C (78.8 °F) at 07:00 when the race started, not much different from Tokyo