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.David Weir pulls out of IPC marathon over safety fears, BBC, 29 January 2011 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).Marathon doubts for Notts paralympian Richard Whitehead, BBC News, February 7, 2011, thisisnottingham.co.uk, February 9, 2011Craig Spence: No-legged marathon runner wasn't barred – his event simply doesn't exist in this year's Championships, insideworldparasport.biz, January 12, 2011

Medalists Medallists – MEN'S MARATHON – T11 , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World ChampionshipsMedallists – MEN'S MARATHON – T12 , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World ChampionshipsMedallists – MEN'S MARATHON – T46 , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World ChampionshipsMedallists – MEN'S MARATHON – T54 , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships

ClassGoldSilverBronze T11 Cristian Valenzuela Andrea Cionna Shinya Wada T12 Alberto Suarez Laso Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno T46 Mario Santillan Hernandez Tito Sena Ozivam Bonfim T54 Kurt Fearnley Heinz Frei Masazumi Soejima

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 Final – MEN'S MARATHON – T11 , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Cristian Valenzuela 2:41:04 CR Andrea Cionna 2:41:39 Shinya Wada 2:43:26 PB Yuichi Takahashi 2:44:22 SB Joaquim Machado 2:44:38 PB Yoshihide Hukuhara 2:54:36 Carlos Ferreira 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 Final – MEN'S MARATHON – T12 , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Alberto Suárez Laso 2:28:10 WR Elkin Alonso Serna Moreno 2:32:42 2:34:03 Manuel Garnica Roldan 2:34:47 PB Ildar Pomykalov 2:35:59 PB Moises Beristain Gutierrez 2:40:56 PB Luis Enrique Herrera 2:49:51 PB Henry Cardenas 3:44:35 Gabriel Macchi 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 Final – MEN'S MARATHON – T46 , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Mario Santillan Hernandez 2:30:59 Tito Sena 2:32:01 Ozivam Bonfim 2:33:50 SB Walter Endrizzi 2:36:38 Chris Hammer 2:50:10 Pedro Meza Zempoaltecatl 2:53:16 Christoph Sommer DNF Frederic Van den Heede 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 Final – MEN'S MARATHON – T54 , Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Kurt Fearnley 1:31:09 Heinz Frei 1:31:09 Masazumi Soejima 1:31:10 Kota Hokinoue 1:31:10 Roger Puigbo Verdaguer 1:31:10 SB Ernst van Dyk 1:31:10 Pierre Fairbank 1:31:11 SB 1:31:14 Alain Fuss 1:34:24 Tomasz Hamerlak 1:34:24 SB Saul Mendoza Hernandez 1:34:24 SB Aaron Gordian Martinez 1:34:25 Rafael Botello Jimenez 1:34:27 SB 1:36:09 Jorge Madera 1:36:40 Aron Andersson 1:36:40 Khachonsak Thamsophon 1:36:40 Ebbe Blichfeldt 1:39:58 SB Aaron Pike 1:40:53 Brett McArthur 1:42:14 Hiroyuki Yamamoto 1:42:31 Ekkachai Janthon 1:45:40 Sukhum Namlun 1:47:09 Ryan Chalmers 1:49:05 Alberto Baptista DNF Marcel Hug DNF Denis Lemeunier DNF Richard Nicholson DNF Alfonso Zaragoza DNF Josh Cassidy DNS Jean-Paul Compaore DNS Michel Filteau DNS Kyle Shaw DNS David Weir DNS

Key: SB = Season Best, DNF = Did not Finish, DNS = Did not Start

See also List of IPC world records in athletics

References General Schedule and results, Official site of the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships IPC Athletics Classification Explained, Scottish Disability Sport Specific