# 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships – Men's marathon

The men's marathon at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships was held in the streets of Christchurch, New Zealand on 30 January.
British athlete David Weir, on January 29, pulled out of the marathon for safety reasons, as the roads around the circuit would not be closed to traffic. He was to compete in the classification T54 event.
British athlete and world record holder Richard Whitehead did not get to compete in a marathon event. He has a double leg amputation and is classified as T42. There was no T42 marathon event, because there were too few marathon runners with a single or double leg amputation. He was not allowed to run in the marathon T46 event (athletes with single above or below elbow amputation).

## Medalists

| Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| T11 | Cristian Valenzuela Chile | Andrea Cionna Italy | Shinya Wada Japan |
| T12 | Alberto Suarez Laso Spain | Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno Colombia | Masahiro Okamura Japan |
| T46 | Mario Santillan Hernandez Mexico | Tito Sena Brazil | Ozivam Bonfim Brazil |
| T54 | Kurt Fearnley Australia | Heinz Frei Switzerland | Masazumi Soejima Japan |

## T11

The Men's marathon, T11 was held on January 30
T11 = visual impairment: may range from no light perception in either eye to light perception with the inability to recognise the shape of a hand.

### Results

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Cristian Valenzuela | Chile | 2:41:04 | CR |
| | Andrea Cionna | Italy | 2:41:39 | |
| | Shinya Wada | Japan | 2:43:26 | PB |
| 4 | Yuichi Takahashi | Japan | 2:44:22 | SB |
| 5 | Joaquim Machado | Portugal | 2:44:38 | PB |
| 6 | Yoshihide Hukuhara | Japan | 2:54:36 | |
| 7 | Carlos Ferreira | Portugal | 2:55:38 | |
Key: CR = Championship Record, SB = Season Best, PB = Personal Best

## T12

The Men's marathon, T12 was held on January 30
T12 = visual impairment: may recognise the shape of a hand and have a visual acuity of 2/60 and/or visual field of under 5 degrees.

### Results

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Alberto Suárez Laso | Spain | 2:28:10 | WR |
| | Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno | Colombia | 2:32:42 | |
| | Masahiro Okamura | Japan | 2:34:03 | |
| 4 | Manuel Garnica Roldan | Spain | 2:34:47 | PB |
| 5 | Ildar Pomykalov | Russia | 2:35:59 | PB |
| 6 | Moises Beristain Gutierrez | Mexico | 2:40:56 | PB |
| 7 | Luis Enrique Herrera | Mexico | 2:49:51 | PB |
| 8 | Henry Cardenas | Costa Rica | 3:44:35 | |
| | Gabriel Macchi | Portugal | DNF | |
Key: WR = World Record, PB = Personal Best

## T46

The Men's marathon, T46 was held on January 30
T46 = single above or below elbow amputation or equivalent impairments.

### Results

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Mario Santillan Hernandez | Mexico | 2:30:59 | |
| | Tito Sena | Brazil | 2:32:01 | |
| | Ozivam Bonfim | Brazil | 2:33:50 | SB |
| 4 | Walter Endrizzi | Italy | 2:36:38 | |
| 5 | Chris Hammer | United States | 2:50:10 | |
| 6 | Pedro Meza Zempoaltecatl | Mexico | 2:53:16 | |
| | Christoph Sommer | Switzerland | DNF | |
| | Frederic van Den Heede | Belgium | DNF | |

## T54

The Men's marathon, T54 was held on January 30
T54 = normal upper limb function, partial to normal trunk function, may have significant function of the lower limbs.

### Results

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Kurt Fearnley | Australia | 1:31:09 | |
| | Heinz Frei | Switzerland | 1:31:09 | |
| | Masazumi Soejima | Japan | 1:31:10 | |
| 4 | Kota Hokinoue | Japan | 1:31:10 | |
| 5 | Roger Puigbo Verdaguer | Spain | 1:31:10 | SB |
| 6 | Ernst Francois van Dyk | South Africa | 1:31:10 | |
| 7 | Pierre Fairbank | France | 1:31:11 | SB |
| 8 | Nobukazu Hanaoka | Japan | 1:31:14 | |
| 9 | Alain Fuss | France | 1:34:24 | |
| 10 | Tomasz Hamerlak | Poland | 1:34:24 | SB |
| 11 | Saul Mendoza Hernandez | Mexico | 1:34:24 | SB |
| 12 | Aaron Gordian Martinez | Mexico | 1:34:25 | |
| 13 | Rafael Botello Jimenez | Spain | 1:34:27 | SB |
| 14 | Masayuki Higuchi | Japan | 1:36:09 | |
| 15 | Jorge Madera | Spain | 1:36:40 | |
| 16 | Aron Andersson | Sweden | 1:36:40 | |
| 17 | Khachonsak Thamsophon | Thailand | 1:36:40 | |
| 18 | Ebbe Blichfeldt | Denmark | 1:39:58 | SB |
| 19 | Aaron Pike | United States | 1:40:53 | |
| 20 | Brett McArthur | Australia | 1:42:14 | |
| 21 | Hiroyuki Yamamoto | Japan | 1:42:31 | |
| 22 | Ekkachai Janthon | Thailand | 1:45:40 | |
| 23 | Sukhum Namlun | Thailand | 1:47:09 | |
| 24 | Ryan Chalmers | United States | 1:49:05 | |
| | Alberto Baptista | Portugal | DNF | |
| | Marcel Hug | Switzerland | DNF | |
| | Denis Lemeunier | France | DNF | |
| | Richard Nicholson | Australia | DNF | |
| | Alfonso Zaragoza | Mexico | DNF | |
| | Josh Cassidy | Canada | DNS | |
| | Jean-Paul Compaore | Canada | DNS | |
| | Michel Filteau | Canada | DNS | |
| | Kyle Shaw | Canada | DNS | |
| | David Weir | Great Britain | DNS | |
Key: SB = Season Best, DNF = Did not Finish, DNS = Did not Start