Ethiopia has scored its second marathon title since 2001 with Tamirat Tola placing first at the World Athletics Championship in Hayward Field, Eugene.
Tola clocked 2hr 05min 36sec to win gold,smashing the previous best of 2:06.54 set by Kenyan Abel Kirui in Berlin in 2009.
The 30-year-old Tola placed ahead of his compatriot Mosinet Geremew and Belgium’s Bashir Abdi. Geremew was 66secs slower than Tola, with Abdi three seconds behind Gerenew’s time.
Tola’s win brings the second world championship marathon gold for Ethiopia in 20 years.
Kenya’s Kamworor came home a distant fifth in 2:07:14 with Canadian Cameron Levins pipping him in the final 50m for fourth in 2:07:09.
Men’s marathon partial results:
1. Tamirat Tola ETH 2:05:36 
(half split 64:08 / 61:28)
(half split 64:08 / 61:28)2. Mosinet Geremew ETH 2:06:44 
3. Bashir Abdi BEL 2:06:48 
4. Cameron Levins CAN 2:07:09
5. Geoffrey Kamworor KEN 2:07:14
6. Seifu Tura ETH 2:07:17
7. Gabriel Gerald Geay TAN 2:07:31
8. Daniel Do Nascimento BRA 2:07:35
9. Shuma Dechasa BRN 2:07:52
10. Isaac Mpofu ZIM 2:07:56 National Record
11. Maru Teferi ISR 2:07:59
12. Othmane El Goumri MAR 2:08:14
13. Yusuke Nishiyama JPN 2:08:35
14. Hamza Sahli MAR 2:08:45
15 Barnabas Kiptum KEN 2:08:59
16. Oqbe Kibrom Ruesom ERI 2:09:02
17. Hassan Chahdi FRA 2:09:20
18. Melikhaya Frans RSA 2:09:24
19. Galen Rupp USA 2:09:36
20. Rory Linkleter CAN 2:10:24
21. Mohamed Reda El Aaraby MAR 2:10:33
22. Goitom Kifle ERI 2:11:10
