2011 London Marathon


The 2011 London Marathon was the 31st running of the annual marathon race in London, England, which took place on Sunday, 17 April. The elite men's race was won by Kenya's Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai in a course record time of 2:04:40 hours and the elite women's race was won by Mary Jepkosgei Keitany, also of Kenya, in 2:19:19.
Mutai's win made him the fourth-fastest ever over the distance. Runner-up Martin Lel sprinted to the line to beat Patrick Makau Musyoki, completing a Kenyan sweep of the podium. Keitany became the fourth-fastest woman ever, while defending champion Liliya Shobukhova came second with a Russian record time.
In the elite wheelchair racing marathon, Briton David Weir beat the defending champion Josh Cassidy to claim his fifth title at the event – the most in the history of the competition. London's 2009 women's wheelchair winner Amanda McGrory won her second title in a course record time of 1:46:31 hours.
In the under-17 Mini Marathon, the 3-mile able-bodied and wheelchair events were won by Robbie Farnham-Rose, Jessica Judd, Sheikh Muhidin and Jade Jones.
A total of 163,926 people applied to enter the race, with 50,532 having their application accepted and 35,303 reaching the start line. Among those starters 34,688 runners, 22,427 men and 12,261 women, finished the race. A total of 35 Guinness World Records were set at the competition. The majority of the records were for completing the fastest race in a certain costume, but others included the fastest couple and fastest parent-child pairings. German Uli Killian solved 100 Rubik's Cube puzzles whilst completing the race. Steve Chalke, a Christian social activist, improved the record for the most funds raised for charity through a marathon run, raising £2.3 million for his Oasis Charitable Trust – beating his own record set at the previous year's race. The largest age group present at the race were men in their 30s, followed by men in their 40s. The joint-youngest runners were Michael Bennett and Helen Nutter, both taking part on their eighteenth birthdays, while the oldest participant was 87-year-old Paul Freedman.
Going against the traditionally strict invitational criteria for the elite races, an additional nine Japanese women were a late addition to the field. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck Tōhoku region of Japan meant that the Nagoya Women's Marathon was cancelled and a sympathetic agreement between the London race organisers and the Japan Association of Athletics Federations resulted in London taking the role of the cancelled Nagoya race.
The 2011 London Marathon marked the last time that Dave Bedford acted as the sole race director, with Hugh Brasher joining Bedford in a joint role in 2012, and later taking full responsibility.

Results

Elite men

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai2:04:40
Martin Lel2:05:45
Patrick Makau Musyoki2:05:45
4Marílson Gomes dos Santos2:06:34
5Tsegaye Kebede2:07:48
6Jaouad Gharib2:08:26
7Dmitry Safronov2:09:35
8Bat-Ochiryn Ser-Od2:11:35
9Michael Shelley2:11:38
10Viktor Röthlin2:12:44
11Carlos Cordero2:13:13
12Jason Lehmkuhle2:13:40
13Lee Merrien2:14:27
14Andrew Lemoncello2:15:24
15José Manuel Martínez2:15:25
16Jesper Faurschou2:16:15
17Tomas Luna Dominguez2:16:58
18David Webb2:17:41
19Daniel Vargas2:19:26
20John Gilbert2:19:28
—Abel Kirui
—James Kwambai
—Stanley Biwott
—Jairus Chanchima
—Patrick Smyth
—Fred Kosgei
—Lee Troop
—Shadrack Kosgei
—Yonas Kifle
—Mo Trafeh
—Ahmad Abdullah
—Stephen Shay
—Arturo Regules
—Collis Birmingham

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Mary Jepkosgei Keitany2:19:19
Edna Kiplagat2:20:46
Bezunesh Bekele2:23:42
4Atsede Baysa2:23:50
5Yukiko Akaba2:24:09
6Irina Mikitenko2:24:24
7Jéssica Augusto2:24:33
8Aberu Kebede2:24:34
9Askale Tafa2:25:24
10Azusa Nojiri2:25:29
11Yoshiko Fujinaga2:25:40
12Zhu Xiaolin2:26:28
13Noriko Matsuoka2:26:54
14Madaí Perez2:27:02
15Lornah Kiplagat2:27:57
16Jo Pavey2:28:24
17Madoka Ogi2:29:52
18Mizuho Nasukawa2:30:00
19Louise Damen2:30:00
20Magdalena Lewy-Boulet2:31:22
21Risa Shigetomo2:31:28
22Susan Partridge2:34:13
23Zhou Chunxiu2:34:29
24Helen Davies2:35:43
25Paula Apolonio2:35:47
26Tanith Maxwell2:39:07
27Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu2:39:16
28Yurika Nakamura2:41:22
29Liz Yelling2:41:34
—Aselefech Mergia
—Iness Chepkesis Chenonge
—Anikó Kálovics

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
David Weir1:30:05
Heinz Frei1:30:07
Tomasz Hamerlak1:30:54
4Roger Puigbò1:30:55
5Josh Cassidy1:30:56
6Nobukazu Hanaoka1:30:57
7Saúl Mendoza1:31:01
8Choke Yasuoka1:31:01
9Denis Lemeunier1:31:01
10Jordi Jiménez1:34:41
11Marcel Hug1:35:35
12Simon Lawson1:43:19
13Hiroyuki Yamamoto1:43:39
14Mark Telford1:45:54
15Richard Colman1:49:03

Wheelchair women

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Amanda McGrory1:46:31
Shelly Woods1:46:31
Sandra Graf1:46:33
4Tatyana McFadden1:46:34
5Diane Roy1:57:03
6Sarah Piercy2:25:13