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August 8, Elite men marathon:

Lakata wins marathon world title

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Cycling News
Published:
August 8, 2010, 16:13,
Updated:
August 9, 2010, 21:52

Top six men within 10 seconds of each other

Albana Lakata wins the marathon World Championship for Austria.

Albana Lakata wins the marathon World Championship for Austria.

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Alban Lakata (Austria) won the 107km elite men's marathon World Championships ahead of Mirko Celestino (Italy) and Burry Stander (South Africa).

"I am without words. This was my dream. I really don't know what to say," said Lakata after his victory.

The men started fast, with the first 52km ridden at an average speed of 30.4km/h.

"In the first two thirds of the race, my legs didn't feel good, and I was struggling to stay on the back of the lead group," said Lakata. "I was one whole minute down, and had almost given up hope of a good result."

"Today was brutal. It was one attack after another, as it if was a cross country race," said Jose Antonio Hermida (Spain), who finished sixth, after the race. "It was a group of around 20 in the first part of the competition, but it was clear that not all were going to hang at that pace."

With about 10km to go, Lakata attacked and opened a small gap, which he held on to until the end. The race behind him was for second, with a group sprinting each other for the remaining medals. The top six men in the race all finished within nine seconds of Lakata.

"The correct place for an attack was something I had carefully noted in training," said Lakata. "I took the opportunity, and put a gap into second place. I couldn't believe it, but simply pulled out all the stops - gave it literally everything that I have and to cross that line first - it was an amazing feeling!"

 

Full Results

# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Alban Lakata (Austria) 3:49:55  
2 Mirko Celestino (Italy) 0:00:05  
3 Burry Stander (South Africa) 0:00:06  
4 Ralph Naef (Switzerland) 0:00:06  
5 Christoph Sauser (Switzerland) 0:00:07  
6 José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spain) 0:00:09  
7 Karl Platt (Germany) 0:00:25  
8 Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spain) 0:00:28  
9 Thomas Dietsch (France) 0:00:32  
10 Urs Huber (Switzerland) 0:00:59  
11 Andreas Kugler (Switzerland) 0:01:22  
12 Tim Bohme (Germany) 0:01:23  
13 Jochen Kass (Germany) 0:02:07  
14 Mike Felderer (Italy) 0:04:44  
15 Karl Markt (Austria) 0:04:48  
16 Kevin Van Hoovels (Belgium) 0:05:05  
17 Matej Mugerli (Slovenia) 0:05:06  
18 Lukas Buchli (Switzerland) 0:05:07  
19 Marc Trayter Alemany (Spain) 0:06:47  
20 Bas Peters (Netherlands) 0:06:55  
21 Thomas Zahnd (Switzerland) 0:07:16  
22 Torsten Marx (Germany) 0:07:21  
23 Jure Golcer (Slovenia) 0:07:51  
24 Johann Pallhuber (Italy) 0:08:02  
25 Kevin Evans (South Africa) 0:08:44  
26 Frank Schotman (Netherlands) 0:10:22  
27 Massimo De Bertolis (Italy) 0:10:47  
28 Rene Tann (Germany) 0:10:56  
29 Stefan Sahm (Germany) 0:11:43  
30 Walter Costa (Italy) 0:12:06  
31 Nicolas Vermeulen (Belgium) 0:12:27  
32 Roland Golderer (Germany) 0:12:31  
33 Uwe Hardter (Germany) 0:13:32  
34 Luka Rakusa (Slovenia) 0:13:32  
35 David George (South Africa) 0:13:35  
36 Benjamin Wittrup Justesen (Denmark) 0:14:04  
37 Ivan Rybarik (Czech Republic) 0:14:04  
38 Benjamin Sonntag (Germany) 0:14:04  
39 Markus Kaufmann (Germany) 0:14:04  
40 Jan Jobanek (Czech Republic) 0:15:03  
41 Patrick Uhlig (Germany) 0:15:03  
42 Friedrich Dahler (Switzerland) 0:15:03  
43 Carsten Bresser (Germany) 0:15:06  
44 Jens Gorm Hansen (Denmark) 0:15:07  
45 Stefan Roffler (Switzerland) 0:15:08  
46 Marco Lang (Switzerland) 0:15:11  
47 Tomas Vokrouhlik (Czech Republic) 0:15:20  
48 Jhon Jairo Botero Salazar (Colombia) 0:17:20  
49 Ramses Bekkenk (Netherlands) 0:17:37  
50 Klaus Nielsen (Denmark) 0:17:44  
51 Mannie Heymans (Namibia) 0:18:01  
52 Matthias Leisling (Germany) 0:18:45  
53 Frans Claes (Belgium) 0:19:51  
54 Stefan Schaufuss (Germany) 0:20:07  
55 Christof Bischof (Switzerland) 0:20:44  
56 Julio Humberto Caro Silva (Colombia) 0:20:58  
57 Oscar Lazzaroni (Italy) 0:21:02  
58 Pierluigi Bettelli (Italy) 0:21:02  
59 Artyom Golovaschenko (Kazakhstan) 0:21:04  
60 Thomas Strobl (Austria) 0:21:07  
61 Adrien Niyonshuti RWA19870202 0:21:15  
62 Peter Glassford (Canada) 0:21:31  
63 Bram Rood (Netherlands) 0:22:10  
64 Mikael Salomonsson (Sweden) 0:22:42  
65 Kristofers Racenajs (Latvia) 0:22:55  
66 Johannes Sickmueller (Germany) 0:23:33  
67 Allan Bachmann (Denmark) 0:23:49  
68 Ervins Smolins (Latvia) 0:24:40  
69 Gusti Wildhaber (Switzerland) 0:25:05  
70 Robert Banach (Poland) 0:25:34  
71 Adrian Jackson (Australia) 0:25:44  
72 Christopher Maletz (Germany) 0:25:57  
73 Roland Plank (Austria) 0:26:07  
74 Bartosz Banach (Poland) 0:27:31  
75 Rasmus Jessing (Denmark) 0:27:46  
76 Lenart Noc (Slovenia) 0:28:27  
77 Björn Papstein (Germany) 0:28:27  
78 Nejc Cernilogar (Slovenia) 0:29:12  
79 Norbert Wyss (Switzerland) 0:31:13  
80 Jesper Dahlström (Sweden) 0:32:03  
81 Wolfgang Mayer (Germany) 0:32:28  
82 Daniel Gathof (Germany) 0:35:12  
83 Ryan Sherlock (Ireland) 0:35:15  
84 Syun Matsumoto (Japan) 0:35:31  
85 Joaquin Cammisi (Argentina) 0:35:45  
86 Alexander Pscheidl (Germany) 0:37:13  
87 Ebertowski Przemyslaw (Poland) 0:37:30  
88 Pavao Roset (Croatia) 0:37:36  
89 Thomas Achouri (Belgium) 0:37:36  
90 Krzywy Krzysztof (Poland) 0:39:01  
91 Timothy Carleton (Canada) 0:40:01  
92 Jukka Vastaranta (Finland) 0:40:26  
93 Guido Thaler (Austria) 0:41:35  
94 Yanosuke Fujimoto (Japan) 0:43:40  
95 Daniel Bintz (Luxembourg) 0:44:49  
96 Gusty Bausch (Luxembourg) 0:46:41  
97 Nelson Luis (Luxembourg) 0:47:47  
98 Nikolay Zaitsev (Kazakhstan) 0:53:08  
99 Kirill Kazantsev (Kazakhstan) 0:58:11  
100 Philipp Bützow (Luxembourg) 1:01:02  
101 Tom Wecker (Luxembourg) 1:01:04  
102 Dmytro Petrov (Ukraine) 1:01:12  
103 Mike Blewitt (Australia) 1:01:51  
104 Matt Ligtermoet (Australia) 1:13:14  
105 Ales Hrvatin (Croatia) 1:18:13  
106 Tommy Arnoldy (Luxembourg) 1:30:09  
107 Sébastien Einsle (Luxembourg) 1:51:26  
DNF Daniel Geismayr (Austria)    
DNF Johnny Cattaneo (Italy)    
DNF Jérôme Junker (Luxembourg)    
DNF Steve Fries (Luxembourg)    
DNF Alexandre Moos (Switzerland)    
DNF Thomas Stoll (Switzerland)    
DNF Wolfram Kurschat (Germany)    
DNF Putz Michal (Poland)    
DNF Eddie Andres Rendon (Colombia)    
DNF Sanjin Sirotic (Croatia)    
DNF Hannes Genze (Germany)    
DNF Volker Ordowski (Germany)