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The Women's marathon

Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

 at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics

2011 World Championships in Athletics

The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011....

 was held starting and finishing at Gukchae - bosang Memorial Park on August 27. A total of 54 runners began the race and twenty three nations were represented.

The fastest entrant that year was Edna Kiplagat

Edna Kiplagat

Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the marathon. she established herself as an elite marathon runner with wins at the Los Angeles and New York City Marathons in 2010...

 of Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

, who had won the 2010 New York Marathon and finished third in London

2011 London Marathon

The 2011 London Marathon took place on Sunday, 17 April 2011. The men's elite race saw Emmanuel Mutai win in a course record time to become the fourth fastest ever over the distance. Runner-up Martin Lel sprinted to the line to beat Patrick Makau, completing a Kenyan sweep of the podium...

 in April. Her compatriot Priscah Jeptoo

Priscah Jeptoo

Priscah Jeptoo is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She has won marathons in Paris and Turin and has a best time of 2:22:55 for the distance...

 (2011 Paris

Paris Marathon

The Paris International Marathon is an annual marathon which takes place from the Champs-Élysées heading towards the Place de la Concorde and continuing through the city to finish at Foch Avenue....

 champion) and Aselefech Mergia

Aselefech Mergia

Aselefech Mergia Medessa is an Ethiopian long-distance runner.She began taking part in professional road races in 2006, starting with a seventh place finish at the Delhi Half Marathon....

 of Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

 (winner in Dubai

Dubai Marathon

The Dubai Marathon is an annual marathon running race held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.The race is held in January each year, the first being run on 14 January 2000...

) completed the three fastest athletes to start the race. Other fast Ethiopian and Kenyan entrants included Sharon Cherop

Sharon Cherop

Sharon Jemutai Cherop is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She won a bronze medal at the age of sixteen in the 5000 metres at the World Junior Championships...

, Bezunesh Bekele

Bezunesh Bekele

Bezunesh Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specializes in cross-country running and marathons.She was born in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa...

 and Atsede Baysa

Atsede Baysa

Atsede Baysa Tesema, also known as Atsede Bayisa, is an Ethiopian long distance runner who specialises in road running events. She has won the Paris Marathon twice consecutively, and has also won at the Xiamen International Marathon and the Istanbul Marathon...

. The 2009

2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's Marathon

The Women's Marathon event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 23, 2009 in the streets of Berlin, Germany. The race started at 11:15h local time.-Medalists:-Abbreviations:...

 runner-up Yoshimi Ozaki

Yoshimi Ozaki

Yoshimi Ozaki is a Japanese long-distance runner, who specializes in the marathon. She won the 2008 Tokyo Women's Marathon in a personal best time of 2:23:30 hours...

 headed the Japanese team. Other major participants were Sweden's Isabella Andersson and Chinese duo Zhou Chunxiu

Zhou Chunxiu

Zhou Chunxiu is a Chinese marathon runner.She competed at the 2004 Olympic Games, finishing the marathon in 33rd place. She placed fourth in the marathon at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. She won the marathon gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar...

 and Zhu Xiaolin

Zhu Xiaolin

Zhu Xiaolin is a Chinese long-distance runner, who specialises in marathon running. She has won the Xiamen International Marathon and was third at the 2010 Rotterdam Marathon. She represented China at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was fourth in the women's marathon...

. The reigning champion Bai Xue

Bai Xue

Bai Xue is a female Chinese long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres.-Career:Bai won both the 5000 and the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Asian Championships, and finished fourth in 10,000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships. She finished twenty-first in the 10,000 metres at the...

 was absent, as were the 2008 Olympic champion Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu and the two fastest runners that year (Mary Keitany and Liliya Shobukhova

Liliya Shobukhova

Liliya Bulatovna Shobukhova is a Russian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. She previously specialized in the 3000 and 5000 metres track events....

).

A large group of 19 runners remained in the leading pack after 30 km, but a Kenyan trio of Kiplagat, Jeptoo and Cherop pulled away from the group after this point. With some 5 km to go, Kiplagat and Cherop collided at the drinks station. Kiplagat fell to the ground. Cherop slowed down and waited for her teammate until they both resumed running. It was Kiplagat who went on to take the gold medal

Gold medal

A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

 for Kenya (the first medal of the championships), while Jeptoo and Cherop finished in second and third. This was the first time that any country had won all the medals in a marathon at either the World Championships or the Olympic Games

Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program now comprises track and field events, road running...

. Bezunesh Bekele crossed the line for fourth place seven seconds later and Japan's Yukiko Akaba

Yukiko Akaba

is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres, half marathon and marathon events.She won the silver medal in half marathon at the 1999 Summer Universiade. At the 2001 Summer Universiade she finished eighth in the 5000 metres and won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres...

 completed the top five.

The competition also served as the IAAF World Marathon Cup team race, which was decided by totalling the times of each nation's three fastest runners. The Kenyan women easily won the title, while China and Ethiopia were the silver and bronze medallists, respectively. This result represented the first time that the Japanese women had failed to win a team medal, since the competition was incorporated at the 1997 World Championships.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Edna Kiplagat Edna Kiplagat Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the marathon. she established herself as an elite marathon runner with wins at the Los Angeles and New York City Marathons in 2010... '	Priscah Jeptoo Priscah Jeptoo Priscah Jeptoo is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She has won marathons in Paris and Turin and has a best time of 2:22:55 for the distance... '	Sharon Cherop Sharon Cherop Sharon Jemutai Cherop is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She won a bronze medal at the age of sixteen in the 5000 metres at the World Junior Championships... '

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record		2:15:25	London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	13 April 2003
Championship record		2:20:57	Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is... , Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...	14 August 2005
World Leading		2:19:19	London, Great Britain	17 April 2011
African Record		2:18:47	Chicago, IL, United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	7 October 2001
Asian Record		2:19:12	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	25 September 2005
North, Central American and Caribbean record		2:19:36	London, Great Britain	23 April 2006
South American record		2:27:41	Boston, MA, United States	18 April 1994
European Record		2:15:25	London, Great Britain	13 April 2003
Oceanian record		2:22:36	Chicago, IL, United States	22 October 2006

Qualification standards

A time	B time
2:43:00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 27, 2011	09:00	Final

Results

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Edna Kiplagat Edna Kiplagat Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the marathon. she established herself as an elite marathon runner with wins at the Los Angeles and New York City Marathons in 2010...		2:28:43
	Priscah Jeptoo Priscah Jeptoo Priscah Jeptoo is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She has won marathons in Paris and Turin and has a best time of 2:22:55 for the distance...		2:29:00
	Sharon Cherop Sharon Cherop Sharon Jemutai Cherop is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She won a bronze medal at the age of sixteen in the 5000 metres at the World Junior Championships...		2:29:14	SB
	Bezunesh Bekele Bezunesh Bekele Bezunesh Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specializes in cross-country running and marathons.She was born in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa...		2:29:21
	Yukiko Akaba Yukiko Akaba is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres, half marathon and marathon events.She won the silver medal in half marathon at the 1999 Summer Universiade. At the 2001 Summer Universiade she finished eighth in the 5000 metres and won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres...		2:29:35
	Zhou Chunxiu Zhou Chunxiu Zhou Chunxiu is a Chinese marathon runner.She competed at the 2004 Olympic Games, finishing the marathon in 33rd place. She placed fourth in the marathon at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. She won the marathon gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar...		2:29:58
	Isabellah Andersson Isabellah Andersson Isabellah Andersson is a Swedish - Kenyan distance runner. She resides in Vilshult in Sweden, and since May 2009 is a Swedish citizen. She competes for the club Hässelby SK....		2:30:13
	Wang Jiali Wang Jiali Wang Jiali is a Chinese long-distance runner who specialises in marathon running. She has won marathons in Zhengzhou and Beijing, as well as having won a bronze medal from the Asian Athletics Championships....		2:30:25
	Marisa Barros Marisa Barros Elisa Marisa Branco Barros Rodrigues is a female long-distance runner from Portugal who specialises in marathon running. She ran for her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was sixth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics...		2:30:29
10	Remi Nakazato		2:30:52
11	Chen Rong Chen Rong (athlete) Chen Rong is a female Chinese long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. She represented her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics....		2:31:11
12	Aberu Kebede Aberu Kebede Aberu Kebede Shewaye is an Ethiopian long distance runner who specialises in road running competitions. Her half marathon best of 1:07:39 is one of the fastest ever by an Ethiopian woman...		2:31:22
13	Irene Jerotich Kosgei Irene Jerotich Kosgei Irene Jerotich Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. Her first victory over the distance came at the Nairobi Marathon in 2006 and she won the race again in 2010 with a course record and personal best time of 2:28:47...		2:31:29	SB
14	Atsede Baysa Atsede Baysa Atsede Baysa Tesema, also known as Atsede Bayisa, is an Ethiopian long distance runner who specialises in road running events. She has won the Paris Marathon twice consecutively, and has also won at the Xiamen International Marathon and the Istanbul Marathon...		2:31:37
15	Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko		2:31:58
16	Jia Chaofeng		2:31:58
17	Tera Moody Tera Moody Tera Moody is an American athlete, who competes in the marathon and other long distance running events. Moody represented the United States at the 2009 World Championships in the marathon....		2:32:04	SB
18	Yoshimi Ozaki Yoshimi Ozaki Yoshimi Ozaki is a Japanese long-distance runner, who specializes in the marathon. She won the 2008 Tokyo Women's Marathon in a personal best time of 2:23:30 hours...		2:32:31
19	Azusa Nojiri		2:33:42
20	Lishan Dula		2:33:47
21	Olena Burkovska Olena Burkovska Olena Burkovska is Ukrainian athlete notable for debut winning the 86th Košice Peace Marathon held on 4 October 2009, in Slovakia.She broke the course record setting the time 2:30:50. Burkovska’s performance sliced 38 seconds from the 2:31:28 record set by Czech Alena Peterkova in 1989...		2:34:21
22	Mai Ito		2:35:16
23	Margarita Plaksina		2:35:39
24	Susan Partridge		2:35:57
25	Diana Lobačevskė Diana Lobačevskė Diana Lobačevskė is a Lithuanian marathon and half marathon runner. Her marathon personal record is 2:28:03.She represented Lithuania in 2011 World Championships in Athletics,.-Achievements:-References:...		2:36:05	SB
26	Wang Xuequin		2:36:10
27	Lisa Stublić Lisa Stublić Lisa Christina Stublić is a Croatian long-distance runner. Born and raised in the United States, where she competed for the Columbia University, Stublić moved to Croatia, her father's homeland, and established herself as a leading long-distance athlete in the country, having set the Croatian...		2:36:41
28	Kim Sung-eun		2:37:05	SB
29	Caroline Rotich		2:37:07	SB
30	Kathy Newberry		2:37:28	SB
31	René Kalmer René Kalmer René Kalmer is a female South African runner who has competed over distances ranging from 800 metres to the marathon. She represented South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics, running in the 1500 metres. She is a two-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics and has run at eight...		2:38:16
32	Alisa McKaig		2:38:23	SB
33	Tetyana Holovchenko Tetyana Holovchenko Tetyana Holovchenko is a Ukrainian middle/long-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:00.81 min *1500 metres - 4:05.01 min...		2:39:25	SB
34	Lee Sook-Jung		2:40:23
35	Chung Yun-Hee Chung Yun-Hee Chung Yun-Hee is a South Korean long-distance runner and marathon race specialist.She began competing in the longer road running events at a comparatively young age and was third in the Seoul Half Marathon in 2001 – her time of 1:17:51 was among the fastest by a junior that year...		2:42:28
36	Bahar Doğan		2:42:56
37	Annerien van Schalkwyk		2:43:59	SB
38	Colleen De Reuck Colleen De Reuck Colleen S. De Reuck is a long-distance runner from South Africa, who became an American citizen on December 11, 2000...		2:44:35	SB
39	Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar		2:45:58
40	Zoila Gómez		2:46:44	SB
41	Judith Toribio		2:47:21
42	Alyson Dixon		2:50:51
43	Park Jun-Sook		3:03:34
44	Choi Bo-ra		3:10:06
45	Moleboheng Mafata		3:28:30	SB
46	Shariska Winterdal		3:49:48	SB

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Dire Tune

Dire Tune is an Ethiopian long-distance runner.Tune competed in the marathon at the 2005 World Championships. At the 2006 World Road Running Championships she finished fourth in the individual competition. This was good enough to help Ethiopia win a silver medal in the team competition.On April 21,...

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Lucia Kimani

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Aselefech Mergia

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External links

• Marathon results at IAAF website