Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon Olympic records stood as follows. According to IAAF statistics, the top ten fastest men's marathon times prior to the 2012 Olympics are as follows: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon The men's marathon at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on the Olympic marathon street course on 12 August, the final day of the Games. The course started and finished on The Mall in central London. Runners completed one short circuit of around part of the City of Westminster and then three longer circuits of around Westminster, the Victoria Embankment and the City of London.
Madrid bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics candidacy campaign was, ""Ready for you"." Madrid was eliminated in the third round of the ballot to select a host city at the 117th IOC sitting on July 6, 2005 in Singapore attended by Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain. The candidature scored the second highest mark of 8.3 in the IOC report, ranking first in six categories. Their evaluation was mostly favourable. Madrid bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics Madrid 2012 was one of the five short-listed bids for the 2012 Summer Games. Madrid and New York City were the only two cities that opted to hold the 2012