Template:Olympic medalists in the men's marathon

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens details	Spiridon Louis Greece	Charilaos Vasilakos Greece	Gyula Kellner Hungary
1900 Paris details	Michel Théato France^[1]	Émile Champion France	Ernst Fast Sweden
1904 St. Louis details	Thomas Hicks United States	Albert Corey United States^[2]	Arthur Newton United States
1908 London details	Johnny Hayes United States	Charles Hefferon South Africa	Joseph Forshaw United States
1912 Stockholm details	Ken McArthur South Africa	Christian Gitsham South Africa	Gaston Strobino United States
1920 Antwerp details	Hannes Kolehmainen Finland	Jüri Lossmann Estonia	Valerio Arri Italy
1924 Paris details	Albin Stenroos Finland	Romeo Bertini Italy	Clarence DeMar United States
1928 Amsterdam details	Boughera El Ouafi France	Manuel Plaza Chile	Martti Marttelin Finland
1932 Los Angeles details	Juan Carlos Zabala Argentina	Sam Ferris Great Britain	Armas Toivonen Finland
1936 Berlin details	Sohn Kee-chung Japan^[3]	Ernest Harper Great Britain	Nan Shoryu Japan^[3]
1948 London details	Delfo Cabrera Argentina	Tom Richards Great Britain	Étienne Gailly Belgium
1952 Helsinki details	Emil Zátopek Czechoslovakia	Reinaldo Gorno Argentina	Gustaf Jansson Sweden
1956 Melbourne details	Alain Mimoun France	Franjo Mihalić Yugoslavia	Veikko Karvonen Finland
1960 Rome details	Abebe Bikila Ethiopia	Rhadi Ben Abdesselam Morocco	Barry Magee New Zealand
1964 Tokyo details	Abebe Bikila Ethiopia	Basil Heatley Great Britain	Kokichi Tsuburaya Japan
1968 Mexico City details	Mamo Wolde Ethiopia	Kenji Kimihara Japan	Mike Ryan New Zealand
1972 Munich details	Frank Shorter United States	Karel Lismont Belgium	Mamo Wolde Ethiopia
1976 Montreal details	Waldemar Cierpinski East Germany	Frank Shorter United States	Karel Lismont Belgium
1980 Moscow details	Waldemar Cierpinski East Germany	Gerard Nijboer Netherlands	Satymkul Dzhumanazarov Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles details	Carlos Lopes Portugal	John Treacy Ireland	Charlie Spedding Great Britain
1988 Seoul details	Gelindo Bordin Italy	Douglas Wakiihuri Kenya	Ahmed Salah Djibouti
1992 Barcelona details	Hwang Young-cho South Korea	Koichi Morishita Japan	Stephan Freigang Germany
1996 Atlanta details	Josia Thugwane South Africa	Lee Bong-ju South Korea	Erick Wainaina Kenya
2000 Sydney details	Gezahegne Abera Ethiopia	Erick Wainaina Kenya	Tesfaye Tola Ethiopia
2004 Athens details	Stefano Baldini Italy	Mebrahtom Keflezighi United States	Vanderlei de Lima Brazil
2008 Beijing details	Samuel Wanjiru Kenya	Jaouad Gharib Morocco	Tsegay Kebede Ethiopia
2012 London details	Stephen Kiprotich Uganda	Abel Kirui Kenya	Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich Kenya
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Eliud Kipchoge Kenya	Feyisa Lelisa Ethiopia	Galen Rupp United States

References

^ The IOC attributes Théato's medal to France, despite later sources finding that his nationality was Luxembourgish.
^ Corey is described in the 1904 Games report as a "Frenchman wearing the colors of the Chicago Athletic Association", but the IOC attributes his medal to the United States.
^ ^a ^b Both Sohn Kee-chung (Son Kitei) and Nam Sung-yong (Nan Shoryu) were from Korea. The IOC attributes both medals to Japan due to Korea being a Japanese colony at the time. All Korean Olympians during the Japanese colonial rule could only participate in the games as a representative of Japan and had to compete with Japanese names instead of their original Korean names. However, some sources still refer to Son Kitei as the first Korean to win an Olympic marathon today.

[Theato-1] The IOC attributes Théato's medal to France, despite later sources finding that his nationality was Luxembourgish.

[Coray-2] Corey is described in the 1904 Games report as a "Frenchman wearing the colors of the Chicago Athletic Association", but the IOC attributes his medal to the United States.

[Son-3] Both Sohn Kee-chung (Son Kitei) and Nam Sung-yong (Nan Shoryu) were from Korea. The IOC attributes both medals to Japan due to Korea being a Japanese colony at the time. All Korean Olympians during the Japanese colonial rule could only participate in the games as a representative of Japan and had to compete with Japanese names instead of their original Korean names. However, some sources still refer to Son Kitei as the first Korean to win an Olympic marathon today.

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