The Men's Marathon has been a permanent fixture in the Summer Olympics since the inaugural games in 1896. To date, Ethiopian athletes have won the most gold medals, with five in total, with Tamirat Tola the latest to win gold at Paris 2024, while also setting a new Olympic record. Meanwhile, athletes from the United States have won the most overall medals, with eleven in total. Only three athletes have won back-to-back gold medals in this event, they were Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila in 1964 and 1968, East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski, and Eliud Kipchoge, in 2016 and 2020. No athlete has ever been stripped of a medal won in this event.
Medal count by country in the Men's Marathon at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2024
This data was collected using the official Olympics.com site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 10, 2024). Medal count by country in the Men's Marathon at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2024 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117795/olympics-mens-marathon-medal-table-since-1896/
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olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Men's Marathon at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2024 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117795/olympics-mens-marathon-medal-table-since-1896/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Men's Marathon at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2024 [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 10, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117795/olympics-mens-marathon-medal-table-since-1896/
