Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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The Women's Marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 17 around an urban circuit specifically designed for the competition at Beijing, and finished in the Beijing National Stadium.^[1] The qualifying standards were 2:37.00 (A standard) and 2:42.00 (B standard).^[2] There were a total number of 82 competitors from 42 nations.

The winner was Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu of Romania who at one point took a lead of over a minute and maintained it ahead of the chasing pack all the way into the stadium. She completed the marathon in a time of 2:26:44. In second place was Catherine Ndereba of Kenya who completed the race in 2:27:06, closely followed by bronze medalist Zhou Chunxiu of China who finished in a time of 2:27:07.

World record holder Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain took part in the race despite injury problems that bothered her throughout the previous year. However, she did not feature for much of the race and had to pause and do some exercises to rid herself of cramps at one point. She then proceeded to finish the marathon in 23rd place in a time of 2:32:38.^[3]

1 Medalists
2 Abbreviations
3 Records
4 Startlist
- 4.1 Intermediates
5 Results
6 References
7 External links

Medalists

Gold	Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu Romania (ROM)
Silver	Catherine Ndereba Kenya (KEN)
Bronze	Zhou Chunxiu China (CHN)

Abbreviations

All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics
World Record	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	2:15:25	April 13, 2003	London, United Kingdom
Olympic Record	Naoko Takahashi (JPN)	2:23:14	September 24, 2000	Sydney, Australia
Season Best	Zhang Yingying (CHN)	2:22:38	January 5, 2008	Xiamen, PR China

Startlist

Intermediates

Intermediate	Athlete	Country	Mark
10 KM	1. Liz Yelling	United Kingdom	36:10
	2. Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	+0:01
	3. Constantina Tomescu	Romania	s.t.
	4. Zhou Chunxiu	China	s.t.
	5. Souad Aït Salem	Algeria	s.t.
20 KM	1. Constantina Tomescu	Romania	1:11:27
	2. Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	+0:01
	3. Paula Radcliffe	United Kingdom	s.t.
	4. Souad Aït Salem	Algeria	s.t.
	5. Zhou Chunxiu	China	s.t.
30 KM	1. Constantina Tomescu	Romania	1:45:04
	2. Martha Komu	Kenya	+0:57
	3. Zhou Chunxiu	China	s.t.
	4. Irina Timofeyeva	Russia	s.t.
	5. Zhu Xiaolin	China	s.t.
40 KM	1. Constantina Tomescu	Romania	2:19:07
	2. Zhou Chunxiu	China	+1:00
	3. Zhu Xiaolin	China	s.t.
	4. Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	+1:01
	5. Martha Komu	Kenya	s.t.

s.t. - same time.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes^[4]
01 !	Constantina Tomescu	Romania	2:26:44	SB
02 !	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	2:27:06
03 !	Zhou Chunxiu	China	2:27:07	SB
04 !4	Zhu Xiaolin	China	2:27:16	SB
05 !5	Martha Komu	Kenya	2:27:23
06 !6	Mara Yamauchi	Great Britain	2:27:29
07 !7	Irina Timofeyeva	Russia	2:27:31
08 !8	Lidia Simon	Romania	2:27:51
09 !9	Souad Aït Salem	Algeria	2:28:29
10	Salina Jebet Kosgei	Kenya	2:29:28
11	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	2:29:33
12	Kim Kum-Ok	North Korea	2:30:01	SB
13	Yurika Nakamura	Japan	2:30:19
14	Anna Incerti	Italy	2:30:55	PB
15	Dire Tune	Ethiopia	2:31:16
16	Nina Rillstone	New Zealand	2:31:16
17	Bruna Genovese	Italy	2:31:31
18	Luminiţa Talpoş	Romania	2:31:41
19	Madaí Pérez	Mexico	2:31:47
20	Christelle Daunay	France	2:31:48
21	Benita Johnson	Australia	2:32:06
22	Svetlana Zakharova	Russia	2:32:16
23	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	2:32:38
24	Monika Drybulska	Poland	2:32:39	SB
25	Lee Eun-Jung	South Korea	2:33:07
26	Liz Yelling	Great Britain	2:33:12
27	Blake Russell	United States	2:33:13
28	Beata Naigambo	Namibia	2:33:29
29	Vincenza Sicari	Italy	2:33:31
30	Dorota Gruca	Poland	2:33:32
31	Tetyana Filonyuk	Ukraine	2:33:35
32	Marisa Barros	Portugal	2:34:08
33	Lisa Jane Weightman	Australia	2:34:16
34	Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu	Norway	2:34:35
35	Liza Hunter-Galvan	New Zealand	2:34:51
36	Jong Yong-Ok	North Korea	2:34:52
37	Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Lithuania	2:35:09
38	Melanie Kraus	Germany	2:35:17
39	María Portillo	Peru	2:35:19	NR
40	Helalia Johannes	Namibia	2:35:22
41	Shujing Zhang	China	2:35:35
42	Lucia Kimani	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:35:47	NR
43	Sandra Ruales	Ecuador	2:35:53	PB
44	Kate Smyth	Australia	2:36:10
45	Yesenia Centeno	Spain	2:36:25
46	Ana Dias	Portugal	2:36:25
47	Nebiat Habtemariam	Eritrea	2:37:03
48	Jo Bun-Hui	North Korea	2:37:04
49	Tabitha Tsatsa	Zimbabwe	2:37:10
50	Bahar Doğan	Turkey	2:37:12	PB
51	Marily dos Santos	Brazil	2:38:10
52	Susanne Hahn	Germany	2:38:31
53	Chae Eun-Hee	South Korea	2:38:52
54	Alessandra Aguilar	Spain	2:39:29
55	Patricia Rétiz	Mexico	2:39:34
56	Lee Sun-Young	South Korea	2:43:23
57	Eva-Maria Gradwohl	Austria	2:44:24
58	Yuliya Arzipova	Kyrgyzstan	2:44:41
59	Sonia Calizaya	Bolivia	2:45:53
60	Eléni Dónta	Greece	2:46:44
61	Karina Pérez	Mexico	2:47:02
62	Bertha Sánchez	Colombia	2:47:02
63	Pauline Curley	Ireland	2:47:16
64	Maria José Pueyo	Spain	2:48:01
65	Petra Teveli	Hungary	2:48:32
66	Epiphanie Nyirabarame	Rwanda	2:49:32
67	Zuzana Šaríková	Slovakia	2:49:39
68	Gabriela Traña	Costa Rica	2:53:45
69	Oksana Sklyarenko	Ukraine	2:55:39
70 !–	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	9:99:99 !DNF
71 !–	Gete Wami	Ethiopia	9:99:99 !DNF
72 !–	Inês Monteiro	Portugal	9:99:99 !DNF
73 !–	Valentina Delion	Moldova	9:99:99 !DNF
74 !–	Reiko Tosa	Japan	9:99:99 !DNF
75 !–	Olivera Jevtic	Serbia	9:99:99 !DNF
76 !–	Galina Bogomolova	Russia	9:99:99 !DNF
77 !–	Mariana Dias Ximenes	Timor-Leste	9:99:99 !DNF
78 !–	Beáta Rakonczai	Hungary	9:99:99 !DNF
79 !–	Mamorallo Tjoka	Lesotho	9:99:99 !DNF
80 !–	Magdalena Lewy-Boulet	United States	9:99:99 !DNF
81 !–	Deena Kastor	United States	9:99:99 !DNF
82 !–	Nadia Ejjafini	Bahrain	9:99:99 !DNS

Key: NR = National Record, SB = Season Best, PB = Personal Best, 9:99:99 !DNF = Did Not Finish, 9:99:99 !DNS = Did Not Start

References

^ "Olympic Athletics Competition Schedule". IAAF. http://www.iaaf.org/OLY08/results/eventCode=3659/bydiscipline/index.html. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
^ "Entry Standards - The XXIX Olympic Games - Beijing, China - 8/24 August 2008". IAAF. http://www.iaaf.org/OLY08/standards/index.html. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
^ Lewis, Richard (2008-08-17). "Paula Radcliffe fails in Olympic marathon bid". London: The Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4549330.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=4225373. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
^ http://www.iaaf.org/oly08/results/eventCode=3659/racedate=08-17-2008/sex=W/discCode=MAR/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det

External links

Marathon at the Olympics

Men's	1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008

Women's	1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008