2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

The Women's Marathon event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on 2 September 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Gold	Catherine Ndereba (KEN)
Silver	Zhou Chunxiu (CHN)
Bronze	Reiko Tosa (JPN)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

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

Records

World Record	2:15:25	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	London, Great Britain	13 April 2003
Championship Record	2:20:57	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	Helsinki, Finland	2005

Results

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Catherine Ndereba (KEN)	2:30:37	SB
2	Zhou Chunxiu (CHN)	2:30:45
3	Reiko Tosa (JPN)	2:30:55	SB
4	Zhu Xiaolin (CHN)	2:31:21
5	Lidia Simon (ROM)	2:31:26	SB
6	Kiyoko Shimahara (JPN)	2:31:40	SB
7	Rita Jeptoo (KEN)	2:32:03	SB
8	Edith Masai (KEN)	2:32:22
9	Mara Yamauchi (GBR)	2:32:55
10	Lyubov Morgunova (RUS)	2:33:41
11	Zhang Shujing (CHN)	2:33:46
12	Gulnara Vygovskaya (RUS)	2:33:57
13	Nina Rillstone (NZL)	2:33:58	SB
14	Mari Ozaki (JPN)	2:35:04
15	Madaí Pérez (MEX)	2:35:17
16	Souad Aït Salem (ALG)	2:35:29
17	Anna Incerti (ITA)	2:36:36	SB
18	Yumiko Hara (JPN)	2:36:40
19	Tracey Morris (GBR)	2:36:40	SB
20	Melanie Kraus (GER)	2:37:20
21	Sun Weiwei (CHN)	2:37:53
22	Askale Tafa (ETH)	2:38:01
23	Yasuko Hashimoto (JPN)	2:38:36
24	Rose Cheruiyot (KEN)	2:38:56
25	Hellen Jemaiyo Kimutai (KEN)	2:39:14
26	Deborah Toniolo (ITA)	2:39:46	SB
27	Anna Rahm (SWE)	2:41:15
28	Alina Gherasim (ROM)	2:41:40
29	Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu (NOR)	2:41:57
30	Helena Javornik (SLO)	2:42:03
31	Ann Alyanak (USA)	2:42:23
32	Nailiya Yulamanova (RUS)	2:42:56
33	Živilė Balčiūnaitė (LTU)	2:43:28
34	Tabitha Tsatsa (ZIM)	2:44:20
35	Zoila Gómez (USA)	2:44:49
36	Anália Rosa (POR)	2:45:38	SB
37	Wei Yanan (CHN)	2:45:50
38	Dana Coons (USA)	2:46:12	SB
39	Annemette Aagaard (DEN)	2:46:22
40	Bahar Doğan (TUR)	2:46:25
41	Nili Abramski (ISR)	2:46:27
42	Mary Akor (USA)	2:47:06
43	Susanne Hahn (GER)	2:47:29
44	Lim Kyung-Hee (KOR)	2:49:30	SB
45	Chae Eun-Hee (KOR)	2:50:26
46	Eleni Donta (GRE)	2:50:59
47	Zekiros Adanech (ETH)	2:54:00
48	Lucilla Andreucci (ITA)	2:56:19
49	Samia Akbar (USA)	2:56:27	SB
50	Yeoryia Abatzidou (GRE)	2:59:22	SB
51	Patricia Gauquelin (PYF)	3:03:08	SB
52	Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar (MGL)	3:04:59	SB
53	Kerstin Mennenga-Metzler (LIE)	3:11:45
54	Tanith Maxwell (RSA)	3:14:56
55	Poppy Mlambo (RSA)	3:23:55
56	Robe Tola (ETH)	3:26:45
57	Melissa Henderson (BIZ)	3:52:35
	Luciah Kimani (BIH)	DNF
	Domingas Embana Togna (GBS)	DNF
	Lioudmila Kortchaguina (RUS)	DNF
	Angélica Sánchez (MEX)	DNF
	Dire Tune (ETH)	DNF
	Luminița Talpoș (ROM)	DNF
	Galina Bogomolova (RUS)	DNF
	Nuţa Olaru (ROM)	DNF
	Giovanna Volpato (ITA)	DNF
	Shitaye Gemechu (ETH)	DNS

Team

Place	Country	Mark
1	Kenya	7:35:02
2	China	7:35:52
3	Japan	7:37:39
4	Russia	7:50:34
5	Italy	8:12:41
6	United States	8:13:24
7	Ethiopia	8:58:46

See also

• 2007 World Marathon Cup

External links

• Full results - IAAF.org
• Event report - IAAF.org