Athletics 2016/Women's marathon

The women's marathon of Athletics 2016 during the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 14 August 2016 in the Sambódromo. With 157 athletes competing, the event was won by Jemima Jelagat Sumgong from Kenya, with Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa from Bahrain taking the silver medal and Mare Dibaba from Ethiopia taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of a single race, in which all competitors conduct a course of 42195 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner of the event.

Preview[]

One hundred fifty-seven athletes qualified for the event with the athletes from Kenya and Ethiopia as the big favorites for the gold medal, even though there were plenty of other teams and athletes to challenge them. Mare Dibaba was the reigning world champion after winning a close sprint against Helah Jelagat Kiprop, Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa, and Jemima Jelagat Sumgong, and the four were some of the heavy favorites for the Olympic title. Tigist Tufa and Tirfi Tsegaye were some big outsiders from Ethiopia, with Mai Ito, Kim Hye-song, the European fastest Volha Mazuronak, and Americans Desiree Linden, Shalane Flanagan, and Amy Cragg as some of the other outsiders and potential challengers.

Athlete	Nationality
Mare Dibaba	Ethiopia
Adriana Aparecida da Silva	Brazil
Jessica Augusto	Portugal
Shalane Flanagan	United States
Alessandra Aguilar	Spain
Jemima Jelagat Sumgong	Kenya
Hua Shaoqing	China
Helah Jelagat Kiprop	Kenya
Amy Cragg	United States
Kayoko Fukushi	Japan
Valeria Straneo	Italy
Anja Scherl	Germany
Tigist Tufa	Ethiopia
Tomomi Tanaka	Japan
Sara Moreira	Portugal
Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa	Bahrain
Yiu Kit-ching	Hong Kong
Desiree Linden	United States
Ariana Kira Hilborna	Latvia
Anna Hahner	Germany
Kavita Tungar	India
Monika Stefanowicz	Poland
Souad Ait Salem	Algeria
Irina Smolnikova	Kazakhstan
Shitaye Eshete	Bahrain
Rosemary Quispe	Bolivia
Maor Toyouri	Israel
Carmen Patricia Martinez	Paraguay
Lucia Mwihaki Kimani	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leila Luik	Estonia
Alina Armas	Namibia
Tirfi Tsegaye	Ethiopia
Krisztina Papp	Hungary
Volha Mazuronak	Belarus
Marina Hmelevskaya	Uzbekistan
Lim Kyung-hee	South Korea
Nataliya Lehonkova	Ukraine
Claudette Mukasakindi	Rwanda
Mary Joy Tabal	Philippines
Lily Luik	Estonia
Jaisha Orchatteri	India
Sultan Haydar	Turkey
Kellys Arias	Colombia
Szofia Erdelyi	Hungary
Olha Kotovska	Ukraine
Christine Kalmer	South Africa
Rasa Drazdauskaite	Lithuania
Svitlana Stanko-Klymenko	Ukraine
Nary Ly	Cambodia
Chen Yu-hsuan	Chinese Taipei
Azucena Diaz	Spain
Jovana de la Cruz	Peru
Maryna Damantsevich	Belarus
Niluka Rajasekara	Sri Lanka
Sitora Hamidova	Uzbekistan
Mariya Korobitskaya	Kyrgyzstan
Beata Naigambo	Namibia
Erika Abril	Colombia
Daneja Grandovec	Slovenia
Tunde Szabo	Hungary
Rutendo Joan Nyahora	Zimbabwe
Otgonbayar Luvsanlundeg	Mongolia
Ines Melchor	Peru
Ana Dulce Felix	Portugal
Koutar Boulaid	Morocco
Christelle Daunay	France
Ourania Rebouli	Greece
Viktoriia Poliudina	Kyrgyzstan
Eva Vrabcova Nyvltova	Czech Republic
Manuela Soccol	Belgium
Panayiota Vlahaki	Greece
Jie Shi Neo	Singapore
Angie Orjuela	Colombia
Jane Vongvorachoti	Thailand
Estela Navascues	Spain
Sofia Riga	Greece
Maria Elena Calle	Ecuador
Andrea Deelstra	Netherlands
Ilona Marhele	Latvia
Katarzyna Kowalska	Poland
Rose Chelimo	Bahrain
Natthaya Thanaronnawat	Thailand
Lornah Chemtai Korlima	Israel
Nastassia Ivanova	Belarus
Dina Lebo Phalula	South Africa
Yue Chao	China
Jessica Trengove	Australia
Maria Peralta	Argentina
Erika Olivera	Chile
Rosa Chacha	Ecuador
Krista Duchene	Canada
Matea Matosevic	Croatia
Yolymar Pineda	Venezuela
Sara Ramadhani	Tanzania
Margarita Hernandez	Mexico
Beverly Ramos	Puerto Rico
Paula-Claudia Todoran	Romania
Liina Luik	Estonia
Munkhzaya Bayartsogt	Mongolia
Nebiat Habtemariam	Eritrea
Mai Ito	Japan
Marily dos Santos	Brazil
Kim Hye-gyong	North Korea
Silvia Paredes	Ecuador
Fionnuala McCormack	Ireland
Lisa Hahner	Germany
Catherine Bertone	Italy
Graciete Santana	Brazil
Sonia Samuels	Great Britain
Marija Vrajic	Croatia
Iwona Lewandowska	Poland
Breege Connolly	Ireland
Gulzhanat Zhanatbek	Kazakhstan
Lisa Jane Weightman	Australia
Diana Lobacevske	Lithuania
Natalia Romero	Chile
Jessica Draskau-Petersson	Denmark
Olivera Jevtic	Serbia
Daniela Carlan	Romania
Iuliia Andreeva	Kyrgyzstan
Katarina Beresova	Slovakia
Rosa Godoy	Argentina
Gladys Tejeda	Peru
Chirine Njeim	Lebanon
Vaida Zusinaite	Lithuania
Mayada Sayyad	Palestine
Hsieh Chien-ho	Chinese Taipei
Maja Neuenschwander	Switzerland
Visiline Jepkesho	Kenya
Els Rens	Belgium
Anna Incerti	Italy
Veerle Dejaeghere	Belgium
Nyakisi Adero	Uganda
Viviana Chavez	Argentina
Jelena Prokopcuka	Latvia
Lanni Marchant	Canada
Sarah Attar	Saudi Arabia
Lilia Fisikowici	Moldova
Sladana Perunovic	Montenegro
Militsa Mircheva	Bulgaria
Anne Holm Baumeister	Denmark
Anne-Mari Hyrylainen	Finland
Andrea Mayr	Austria
Tereza Master	Namibia
Helalia Johannes	Namibia
Meryem Erdogan	Turkey
Madai Perez	Mexico
Kim Kum-ok	North Korea
Milly Clark	Australia
Ahn Seul-ki	South Korea
Esma Aydemir	Turkey
Alyson Dixon	Great Britain
Irvette van Zyl	South Africa
Lizzie Lee	Ireland
Dailin Belmonte	Cuba
Kenza Dahmani Tifahi	Algeria
Kim Hye-song	North Korea

Current Records[]

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	17 April 2005		Paula Radcliffe	2:17.42
OR	5 August 2012		Tiki Gelana	2:23.07

Results[]

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Jemima Jelagat Sumgong	Kenya	2:24:04
	Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa	Bahrain	2:24:13
	Mare Dibaba	Ethiopia	2:24:30
4	Tirfi Tsegaye	Ethiopia	2:24:47
5	Volha Mazuronak	Belarus	2:24:48
6	Shalane Flanagan	United States	2:25:26
7	Desiree Linden	United States	2:26:08
8	Rose Chelimo	Bahrain	2:27:36
9	Amy Cragg	United States	2:28:25
10	Kim Hye-song	North Korea	2:28:36
11	Kim Hye-gyong	North Korea	2:28:36
12	Jelena Prokopcuka	Latvia	2:29:32
13	Valeria Straneo	Italy	2:29:44
14	Kayoko Fukushi	Japan	2:29:53
15	Gladys Tejeda	Peru	2:29:55
16	Ana Dulce Felix	Portugal	2:30:39
17	Diana Lobacevske	Lithuania	2:30:48
18	Milly Clark	Australia	2:30:53
19	Tomomi Tanaka	Japan	2:31:12
20	Fionnuala McCormack	Ireland	2:31:22	PR
21	Iwona Lewandowska	Poland	2:31:41
22	Jessica Trengove	Australia	2:31:44
23	Monika Stefanowicz	Poland	2:32:49
24	Lanni Marchant	Canada	2:33:08
25	Catherine Bertone	Italy	2:33:29
26	Eva Vrabcova Nyvltova	Czech Republic	2:33:51
27	Lilia Fisikowici	Moldova	2:34:05	PR
28	Alyson Dixon	Great Britain	2:34:11
29	Maja Neuenschwander	Switzerland	2:34:27
30	Sonia Samuels	Great Britain	2:34:36
31	Lisa Jane Weightman	Australia	2:34:41
32	Madai Perez	Mexico	2:34:42
33	Olha Kotovska	Ukraine	2:34:57
34	Azucena Diaz	Spain	2:35:02
35	Krista Duchene	Canada	2:35:29
36	Jovana de la Cruz	Peru	2:35:49
37	Rasa Drazdauskaite	Lithuania	2:35:50
38	Vaida Zusinaite	Lithuania	2:35:53
39	Yiu Kit-ching	Hong Kong	2:36:11	NR
40	Jessica Draskau-Petersson	Denmark	2:36:14
41	Beata Naigambo	Namibia	2:36:32
42	Ahn Seul-ki	South Korea	2:36:50
43	Angie Orjuela	Colombia	2:37:05
44	Anja Scherl	Germany	2:37:23
45	Maryna Damantsevich	Belarus	2:37:34
46	Mai Ito	Japan	2:37:37
47	Veerle Dejaeghere	Belgium	2:37:39
48	Margarita Hernandez	Mexico	2:38:15
49	Kim Kum-ok	North Korea	2:38:24
50	Kenza Dahmani Tifahi	Algeria	2:38:37
51	Anne-Mari Hyrylainen	Finland	2:39:02
52	Zsofia Erdelyi	Hungary	2:39:04
53	Yue Chao	China	2:39:09
54	Sitora Hamidova	Uzbekistan	2:39:45	PR
55	Anne Holm Baumeister	Denmark	2:39:49
56	Helalia Johannes	Namibia	2:39:55
57	Lizzie Lee	Ireland	2:39:57
58	Esma Aydemir	Turkey	2:39:59
59	Iuliia Andreeva	Kyrgyzstan	2:40:34
60	Andrea Deelstra	Netherlands	2:40:49
61	Ilona Marhele	Latvia	2:41:02
62	Viktoriia Poliudina	Kyrgyzstan	2:41:37
63	Dina Lebo Phalula	South Africa	2:41:46
64	Andrea Mayr	Austria	2:41:52
65	Krisztina Papp	Hungary	2:42:03
66	Svitlana Stanko-Klymenko	Ukraine	2:42:26
67	Mayada Sayyad	Palestine	2:42:28
68	Nyakisi Adero	Uganda	2:42:39
69	Adriana Aparecida da Silva	Brazil	2:43:22
70	Lim Kyung-hee	South Korea	2:43:31
71	Beverly Ramos	Puerto Rico	2:43:52
72	Munkhzaya Bayartsogt	Mongolia	2:43:55
73	Erika Abril	Colombia	2:44:05
74	Manuela Soccol	Belgium	2:44:18
75	Alina Armas	Namibia	2:44:20
76	Breege Connolly	Ireland	2:44:41
77	Marina Hmelevskaya	Uzbekistan	2:45:06
78	Marily dos Santos	Brazil	2:45:08
79	Hua Shaoqing	China	2:45:09
80	Nebiat Habtemariam	Eritrea	2:45:21
81	Anna Hahner	Germany	2:45:32
82	Lisa Hahner	Germany	2:45:33
83	Tunde Szabo	Hungary	2:45:37
84	Els Rens	Belgium	2:45:52
85	Otgonbayar Luvsanlundeg	Mongolia	2:45:55
86	Visiline Jepkesho	Kenya	2:46:05
87	Nataliya Lehonkova	Ukraine	2:46:08
88	Ourania Rebouli	Greece	2:46:32
89	Jaisha Orchatteri	India	2:47:19
90	Maor Tiyouri	Israel	2:47:27
91	Jane Vongvorachoti	Thailand	2:47:27
92	Rutendo Joan Nyahora	Zimbabwe	2:47:32
93	Yolymar Pineda	Venezuela	2:47:34
94	Mariya Korobitskaya	Kyrgyzstan	2:47:53
95	Silvia Paredes	Ecuador	2:48:01
96	Christine Kalmer	South Africa	2:48:24
97	Lily Luik	Estonia	2:48:29
98	Tereza Master	Malawi	2:48:34	NR
99	Maria Elena Calle	Ecuador	2:48:39
100	Rosa Chacha	Ecuador	2:48:52
101	Paula-Claudia Todoran	Romania	2:48:54
102	Dailin Belmonte	Cuba	2:48:58
103	Sofia Riga	Greece	2:49:07
104	Matea Matosevic	Croatia	2:50:00
105	Erika Olivera	Chile	2:50:29
106	Ariana Kira Hilborna	Latvia	2:50:51
107	Katarina Beresova	Slovakia	2:50:54
108	Militsa Mircheva	Bulgaria	2:51:06
109	Chirine Njeim	Lebanon	2:51:08
110	Rosa Godoy	Argentina	2:52:31
111	Sultan Haydar	Turkey	2:53:57
112	Meryem Erdogan	Turkey	2:54:04
113	Hsieh Chien-ho	Chinese Taipei	2:54:18
114	Leila Luik	Estonia	2:54:38
115	Carmen Patricia Martinez	Paraguay	2:56:43
116	Lucia Mwihaki Kimani	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:58:22
117	Rosemary Quispe	Bolivia	2:58:32
118	Panayiota Vlahaki	Greece	2:59:12
119	Marija Vrajic	Croatia	2:59:24
120	Kavita Tungar	India	2:59:29
121	Sara Ramadhani	Tanzania	3:00:03
122	Irina Smolnikova	Kazakhstan	3:00:31
123	Natalia Romero	Chile	3:01:29
124	Mary Joy Tabal	Philippines	3:02:27
125	Viviana Chavez	Argentina	3:03:23
126	Claudette Mukasakindi	Rwanda	3:05:57
127	Chen Yu-hsuan	Chinese Taipei	3:09:13
128	Graciete Santana	Brazil	3:09:15
129	Niluka Rajasekara	Sri Lanka	3:11:05
130	Natthaya Thanaronnawat	Thailand	3:11:31
131	Jie Shi Neo	Singapore	3:15:18
132	Sarah Attar	Saudi Arabia	3:16:11
133	Nary Ly	Cambodia	3:20:20
-	Katarzyna Kowalska	Poland	DNF
-	Helah Jelagat Kiprop	Kenya	DNF
-	Lornah Chemtai Korlima	Israel	DNF
-	Anna Incerti	Italy	DNF
-	Christelle Daunay	France	DNF
-	Alessandra Aguilar	Spain	DNF
-	Souad Ait Salem	Algeria	DNF
-	Ines Melchor	Peru	DNF
-	Kellys Arias	Colombia	DNF
-	Olivera Jevtic	Serbia	DNF
-	Estela Navascues	Spain	DNF
-	Liina Luik	Estonia	DNF
-	Maria Peralta	Argentina	DNF
-	Tigist Tufa	Ethiopia	DNF
-	Jessica Augusto	Portugal	DNF
-	Nastassia Ivanova	Belarus	DNF
-	Shitaye Eshete	Bahrain	DNF
-	Gulzhanat Zanatbek	Kazakhstan	DNF
-	Daniela Carlan	Romania	DNF
-	Sladana Perunovic	Montenegro	DNF
-	Sara Moreira	Portugal	DNF
-	Koutar Boulaid	Morocco	DNF
-	Daneja Grandovec	Slovenia	DNF
-	Irvette van Zyl	South Africa	DNF

2016 Summer Olympic Games
Athletics 2016
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Men
Track
100 m	110 m hurdles
200 m	400 m hurdles
400 m	3000 m steeplechase
800 m	4x100 m relay
1500 m	4x400 m relay
5000 m	20 km walk
10000 m	50 km walk
Field
High jump	Shot put
Pole vault	Discus throw
Long jump	Hammer throw
Triple jump	Javelin throw
Miscellaneous
Marathon	Decathlon
Women
Track
100 m	100 m hurdles
200 m	400 m hurdles
400 m	3000 m steeplechase
800 m	4x100 m relay
1500 m	4x400 m relay
5000 m	20 km walk
10000 m
Field
High jump	Shot put
Pole vault	Discus throw
Long jump	Hammer throw
Triple jump	Javelin throw
Miscellaneous
Marathon	Heptathlon