2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

The Women's marathon at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held starting and finishing at Gukchae – bosang Memorial Park on 27 August. A total of 54 runners began the race and twenty three nations were represented.[1]

Official Video

The fastest entrant that year was Edna Kiplagat of Kenya, who had won the 2010 New York Marathon and finished third in London in April. Her compatriot Priscah Jeptoo (2011 Paris champion) and Aselefech Mergia of Ethiopia (winner in Dubai) completed the three fastest athletes to start the race. Other fast Ethiopian and Kenyan entrants included Sharon Cherop, Bezunesh Bekele and Atsede Baysa. The 2009 runner-up Yoshimi Ozaki headed the Japanese team. Other major participants were Sweden's Isabella Andersson and Chinese duo Zhou Chunxiu and Zhu Xiaolin. The reigning champion Bai Xue was absent, as were the 2008 Olympic champion Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu and the two fastest runners that year (Mary Keitany and Liliya Shobukhova).[2]

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.[3] It was Kiplagat who went on to take the gold medal 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.[4] Bezunesh Bekele crossed the line for fourth place seven seconds later and Japan's Yukiko Akaba completed the top five.[1][5]

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.[4]

Medalists

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Gold Silver Bronze
Edna Kiplagat
  Kenya (KEN)
Priscah Jeptoo
  Kenya (KEN)
Sharon Cherop
  Kenya (KEN)

Records

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Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record   Paula Radcliffe (GBR) 2:15:25 London, Great Britain 13 April 2003
Championship record   Paula Radcliffe (GBR) 2:20:57 Helsinki, Finland 14 August 2005
World Leading   Mary Keitany (KEN) 2:19:19 London, Great Britain 17 April 2011
African Record   Catherine Ndereba (KEN) 2:18:47 Chicago, IL, United States 7 October 2001
Asian Record   Mizuki Noguchi (JPN) 2:19:12 Berlin, Germany 25 September 2005
North, Central American and Caribbean record   Deena Kastor (USA) 2:19:36 London, Great Britain 23 April 2006
South American record   Carmem de Oliveira (BRA) 2:27:41 Boston, MA, United States 18 April 1994
European Record   Paula Radcliffe (GBR) 2:15:25 London, Great Britain 13 April 2003
Oceanian record   Benita Willis (AUS) 2:22:36 Chicago, IL, United States 22 October 2006

Qualification standards

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A time B time
2:43:00

Schedule

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Date Time Round
27 August 2011 09:00 Final

Results

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KEY: NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Final

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
  Edna Kiplagat   Kenya (KEN) 2:28:43
  Priscah Jeptoo   Kenya (KEN) 2:29:00
  Sharon Cherop   Kenya (KEN) 2:29:14 SB
4 Bezunesh Bekele   Ethiopia (ETH) 2:29:21
5 Yukiko Akaba   Japan (JPN) 2:29:35
6 Zhou Chunxiu   China (CHN) 2:29:58
7 Isabellah Andersson   Sweden (SWE) 2:30:13
8 Wang Jiali   China (CHN) 2:30:25
9 Marisa Barros   Portugal (POR) 2:30:29
10 Remi Nakazato   Japan (JPN) 2:30:52
11 Chen Rong   China (CHN) 2:31:11
12 Aberu Kebede   Ethiopia (ETH) 2:31:22
13 Irene Jerotich Kosgei   Kenya (KEN) 2:31:29 SB
14 Atsede Baysa   Ethiopia (ETH) 2:31:37
15 Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko   Ukraine (UKR) 2:31:58
16 Jia Chaofeng   China (CHN) 2:31:58
17 Tera Moody   United States (USA) 2:32:04 SB
18 Yoshimi Ozaki   Japan (JPN) 2:32:31
19 Azusa Nojiri   Japan (JPN) 2:33:42
20 Lishan Dula   Bahrain (BHR) 2:33:47
21 Olena Burkovska   Ukraine (UKR) 2:34:21
22 Mai Ito   Japan (JPN) 2:35:16
23 Margarita Plaksina   Russia (RUS) 2:35:39
24 Susan Partridge   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 2:35:57
25 Diana Lobačevskė   Lithuania (LTU) 2:36:05 SB
26 Wang Xuequin   China (CHN) 2:36:10
27 Lisa Stublić   Croatia (CRO) 2:36:41
28 Kim Sung-eun   South Korea (KOR) 2:37:05 SB
29 Caroline Rotich   Kenya (KEN) 2:37:07 SB
30 Kathy Newberry   United States (USA) 2:37:28 SB
31 René Kalmer   South Africa (RSA) 2:38:16
32 Alisa McKaig   United States (USA) 2:38:23 SB
33 Tetyana Holovchenko   Ukraine (UKR) 2:39:25 SB
34 Lee Sook-Jung   South Korea (KOR) 2:40:23
35 Chung Yun-Hee   South Korea (KOR) 2:42:28
36 Bahar Doğan   Turkey (TUR) 2:42:56
37 Annerien van Schalkwyk   South Africa (RSA) 2:43:59 SB
38 Colleen De Reuck   United States (USA) 2:44:35 SB
39 Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar   Mongolia (MGL) 2:45:58
40 Zoila Gómez   United States (USA) 2:46:44 SB
41 Judith Toribio   Peru (PER) 2:47:21
42 Alyson Dixon   Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) 2:50:51
43 Park Jun-Sook   South Korea (KOR) 3:03:34
44 Choi Bo-ra   South Korea (KOR) 3:10:06
45 Moleboheng Mafata   Lesotho (LES) 3:28:30 SB
46 Shariska Winterdal   Aruba (ARU) 3:49:48 SB
Dire Tune   Ethiopia (ETH) DSQ
Lucia Kimani   Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) DNF
Alessandra Aguilar   Spain (ESP) DNF
Aselefech Mergia   Ethiopia (ETH) DNF
Jemena Misayauri   Peru (PER) DNF
Epiphanie Nyirabarame   Rwanda (RWA) DNF
Yuliya Ruban   Ukraine (UKR) DNF
Kateryna Stetsenko   Ukraine (UKR) DNF
Tanith Maxwell   South Africa (RSA) DNS

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Marathon – W Final Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (27 August 2011). Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  2. ^ Johnson, Len (21 August 2011). Women's Marathon – PREVIEW Archived 3 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  3. ^ Ken Marantz (2011). "Kenya sweeps marathon / Akaba leads Japan with 5th-place finish : Sports : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)". Yomiuri Shimbun. Japan. Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2011. 'I was so annoyed because it was not my fault, but after seeing that my friend has fallen down, I had to slow down and wait for her,' she said. Alt URL
  4. ^ a b Johnson, Len (27 August 2011). Women's Marathon – Kiplagat leads historical sweep for Kenya Archived 3 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Edna Kiplagat survives fall to win women's marathon and lead Kenyan 1–2–3 in Daegu". The Daily Telegraph. 27 August 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
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