# 2001 London Marathon

The 2001 London Marathon was the 21st running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 22 April. The elite men's race was won by Morocco's Abdelkader El Mouaziz in a time of 2:07:11 hours and the women's race was won by Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu in 2:23:57.
In the wheelchair races, France's Denis Lemeunier (1:42:37) and Britain's Tanni Grey-Thompson (2:13:55) won the men's and women's divisions, respectively.
Around 92,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 43,517 had their applications accepted and 31,156 started the race. A total of 30,066 runners finished the race, comprising 23,259 men and 6807 women.

## Results
### Men

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Abdelkader El Mouaziz | Morocco | 2:07:11 |
| | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 2:08:15 |
| | António Pinto | Portugal | 2:09:36 |
| 4 | Tesfaye Jifar | Ethiopia | 2:09:45 |
| 5 | Japhet Kosgei | Kenya | 2:10:45 |
| 6 | Mark Steinle | England | 2:10:46 |
| 7 | Takayuki Inubushi | Japan | 2:11:42 |
| 8 | Abel Antón | Spain | 2:11:57 |
| 9 | Hendrick Ramaala | South Africa | 2:12:02 |
| 10 | Gert Thys | South Africa | 2:12:11 |
| 11 | Mark Hudspith | United Kingdom | 2:13:13 |
| 12 | Joseph Mereng | Kenya | 2:13:26 |
| 13 | Mohamed El Hattab | Morocco | 2:14:27 |
| 14 | Alfred Shemveta | Sweden | 2:15:34 |
| 15 | Erick Wainaina | Kenya | 2:15:43 |
| 16 | Craig Kirkwood | New Zealand | 2:16:25 |
| 17 | Simon Pride | United Kingdom | 2:16:27 |
| 18 | David Makori | Kenya | 2:17:09 |
| 19 | William Burns | Switzerland | 2:18:29 |
| 20 | Robert Holladay | United Kingdom | 2:19:26 |
| — | Tesfaye Tola | Ethiopia | DNF |
| — | Mark Croasdale | United Kingdom | DNF |
| — | Santtu Mäkinen | Finland | DNF |
| — | Yakov Tolstikov | Russia | DNF |
| — | Armando Quintanilla | Mexico | DNF |
| — | Zebedayo Bayo | Tanzania | DNF |
| — | Jon Brown | United Kingdom | DNF |
| — | Luis Soares | France | DNF |
| — | Paul Evans | United Kingdom | DNF |
| — | Luís Jesus | Portugal | DNF |

### Women

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Derartu Tulu | Ethiopia | 2:23:57 |
| | Svetlana Zakharova | Russia | 2:24:04 |
| | Joyce Chepchumba | Kenya | 2:24:12 |
| 4 | Lidia Șimon | Romania | 2:24:15 |
| 5 | Elfenesh Alemu | Ethiopia | 2:24:29 |
| 6 | Nuța Olaru | Romania | 2:25:18 |
| 7 | Alina Ivanova | Russia | 2:25:34 |
| 8 | Tegla Loroupe | Kenya | 2:26:10 |
| 9 | Adriana Fernández | Mexico | 2:26:22 |
| 10 | Madina Biktagirova | Russia | 2:27:14 |
| 11 | Marleen Renders | Belgium | 2:28:31 |
| 12 | Harumi Hiroyama | Japan | 2:29:01 |
| 13 | Lidiya Vasilevskaya | Russia | 2:31:36 |
| 14 | Irina Bogacheva | Kyrgyzstan | 2:32:28 |
| 15 | Teresa Duffy | United Kingdom | 2:35:27 |
| 16 | Lynne MacDougall | United Kingdom | 2:37:20 |
| 17 | Bev Hartigan | United Kingdom | 2:37:45 |
| 18 | Sara Elizabeth Cedillo | Mexico | 2:38:53 |
| 19 | Tania Jones | Canada | 2:39:10 |
| 20 | Mika Adachi | Japan | 2:41:35 |
| — | Pamela Chepchumba | Kenya | DNF |
| — | Michaela McCallum | United Kingdom | DNF |

### Wheelchair men

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Denis Lemeunier | France | 1:42:37 |
| | Kevin Papworth | United Kingdom | 1:44:54 |
| | David Weir | United Kingdom | 1:50:55 |
| 4 | Tushar Patel | United Kingdom | 1:50:56 |
| 5 | Chris Madden | United Kingdom | 1:53:23 |
| 6 | Richie Powell | United Kingdom | 2:02:31 |
| 7 | Bogdan Krol | Poland | 2:06:47 |
| 8 | Edward Grazier | United Kingdom | 2:08:01 |
| 9 | Mark Telford | United Kingdom | 2:08:08 |
| 10 | John Hanks | United Kingdom | 2:09:52 |

### Wheelchair women

| Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| Tanni Grey-Thompson | United Kingdom | 2:13:55 |
| Deborah Brennan | United Kingdom | 2:36:50 |
| Mary Rice | Ireland | 3:14:37 |