2016 Summer Olympics Results - Athletics
| Women's Marathon | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 14 - Final | |||
KENKenya | Jemima Sumgong | 2:24:04 | |
BRNBahrain | Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa | 2:24:13 | |
ETHEthiopia | Mare Dibaba | 2:24:30 | |
| 4 | ETHEthiopia | Tirfi Tsegaye | 2:24:47 |
| 5 | BLRBelarus | Volha Mazuronak | 2:24:48 |
| 6 | USAUnited States | Shalane Flanagan | 2:25:26 |
| 7 | USAUnited States | Desireé Linden | 2:26:08 |
| 8 | BRNBahrain | Rose Chelimo | 2:27:36 |
| 9 | USAUnited States | Amy Cragg | 2:28:25 |
| 10 | PRKNorth Korea | Kim Hye Song | 2:28:36 |
| 11 | PRKNorth Korea | Kim Hye Gyong | 2:28:36 |
| 12 | LATLatvia | Jelena Prokopcuka | 2:29:32 |
| 13 | ITAItaly | Valeria Straneo | 2:29:44 |
| 14 | JPNJapan | Kayoko Fukushi | 2:29:53 |
| 15 | PERPeru | Gladys Tejeda | 2:29:55 |
| 16 | PORPortugal | Ana Dulce Félix | 2:30:39 |
| 17 | LTULithuania | Diana Lobacevske | 2:30:48 |
| 18 | AUSAustralia | Milly Clark | 2:30:53 |
| 19 | JPNJapan | Tomomi Tanaka | 2:31:12 |
| 20 | IRLIreland | Fionnuala McCormack | 2:31:22 |
| 21 | POLPoland | Iwona Lewandowska | 2:31:41 |
| 22 | AUSAustralia | Jessica Trengove | 2:31:44 |
| 23 | POLPoland | Monika Stefanowicz | 2:32:49 |
| 24 | CANCanada | Lanni Marchant | 2:33:08 |
| 25 | ITAItaly | Catherine Bertone | 2:33:29 |
| 26 | CZECzechia | Eva Vrabcová Nývltová | 2:33:51 |
| 27 | MDAMoldova | Lilia Fiscovici | 2:34:05 |
| 28 | GBRGreat Britain | Aly Dixon | 2:34:11 |
| 29 | SUISwitzerland | Maja Neuenschwander | 2:34:27 |
| 30 | GBRGreat Britain | Sonia Samuels | 2:34:36 |
| 31 | AUSAustralia | Lisa Jane Weightman | 2:34:41 |
| 32 | MEXMexico | Madaí Pérez | 2:34:42 |
| 33 | UKRUkraine | Olha Kotovska | 2:34:57 |
| 34 | ESPSpain | Azucena Díaz | 2:35:02 |
| 35 | CANCanada | Krista Duchene | 2:35:29 |
| 36 | PERPeru | Jovana De La Cruz | 2:35:49 |
| 37 | LTULithuania | Rasa Drazdauskaite | 2:35:50 |
| 38 | LTULithuania | Vaida Zusinaite | 2:35:53 |
| 39 | HKGHong Kong | Kit Ching Yiu | 2:36:11 |
| 40 | DENDenmark | Jess Draskau-Petersson | 2:36:14 |
| 41 | NAMNamibia | Beata Naigambo | 2:36:32 |
| 42 | KORSouth Korea | Ahn Seul-ki | 2:36:50 |
| 43 | COLColombia | Angie Orjuela | 2:37:05 |
| 44 | GERGermany | Anja Scherl | 2:37:23 |
| 45 | BLRBelarus | Maryna Damantsevich | 2:37:34 |
| 46 | JPNJapan | Mai Ito | 2:37:37 |
| 47 | BELBelgium | Veerle Dejaeghere | 2:37:39 |
| 48 | MEXMexico | Margarita Hernández | 2:38:15 |
| 49 | PRKNorth Korea | Kim Kum-Ok | 2:38:24 |
| 50 | ALGAlgeria | Kenza Dahmani | 2:38:37 |
| 51 | FINFinland | Anne-Mari Hyryläinen | 2:39:02 |
| 52 | HUNHungary | Zsófia Erdélyi | 2:39:04 |
| 53 | CHNChina | Yue Chao | 2:39:09 |
| 54 | UZBUzbekistan | Sitora Hamidova | 2:39:45 |
| 55 | DENDenmark | Anna Holm Baumeister | 2:39:49 |
| 56 | NAMNamibia | Helalia Johannes | 2:39:55 |
| 57 | IRLIreland | Lizzie Lee | 2:39:57 |
| 58 | TURTürkiye | Esma Aydemir | 2:39:59 |
| 59 | KGZKyrgyzstan | Yulia Andreeva | 2:40:34 |
| 60 | NEDNetherlands | Andrea Deelstra | 2:40:49 |
| 61 | LATLatvia | Ilona Marhele | 2:41:02 |
| 62 | KGZKyrgyzstan | Victoria Poludina | 2:41:37 |
| 63 | RSASouth Africa | Dina Lebo Phalula | 2:41:46 |
| 64 | AUTAustria | Andrea Mayr | 2:41:52 |
| 65 | HUNHungary | Krisztina Papp | 2:42:03 |
| 66 | UKRUkraine | Svitlana Stanko-Klymenko | 2:42:26 |
| 67 | PLEPalestine | Mayada Al-Sayed | 2:42:28 |
| 68 | UGAUganda | Nyakisi Adero | 2:42:39 |
| 69 | BRABrazil | Adriana Aparecida Da Silva | 2:43:22 |
| 70 | KORSouth Korea | Lim Kyung-Hee | 2:43:31 |
| 71 | PURPuerto Rico | Beverly Ramos | 2:43:52 |
| 72 | MGLMongolia | Munkhzaya Bayartsogt | 2:43:55 |
| 73 | COLColombia | Erika Abril | 2:44:05 |
| 74 | BELBelgium | Manuela Soccol | 2:44:18 |
| 75 | NAMNamibia | Alina Armas | 2:44:20 |
| 76 | IRLIreland | Breege Connolly | 2:44:41 |
| 77 | UZBUzbekistan | Marina Hmelevskaya | 2:45:06 |
| 78 | BRABrazil | Marily Dos Santos | 2:45:08 |
| 79 | CHNChina | Hua Shaoqing | 2:45:09 |
| 80 | ERIEritrea | Nebiat Habtemariam | 2:45:21 |
| 81 | GERGermany | Anna Hahner | 2:45:32 |
| 82 | GERGermany | Lisa Hahner | 2:45:33 |
| 83 | HUNHungary | Tünde Szabó | 2:45:37 |
| 84 | BELBelgium | Els Rens | 2:45:52 |
| 85 | MGLMongolia | Otgonbayar Luvsanlundeg | 2:45:55 |
| 86 | KENKenya | Visiline Jepkesho | 2:46:05 |
| 87 | UKRUkraine | Nataliya Lehonkova | 2:46:08 |
| 88 | GREGreece | Ourania Rebouli | 2:46:32 |
| 89 | INDIndia | Orchatteri Jaisha | 2:47:19 |
| 90 | ISRIsrael | Maor Tiyouri | 2:47:27 |
| 91 | THAThailand | Jane Vongvorachoti | 2:47:27 |
| 92 | ZIMZimbabwe | Rutendo Nyahora | 2:47:32 |
| 93 | VENVenezuela | Yolimar Pineda | 2:47:34 |
| 94 | KGZKyrgyzstan | Mariya Korobitskaya | 2:47:53 |
| 95 | ECUEcuador | Silvia Paredes | 2:48:01 |
| 96 | RSASouth Africa | Christine Kalmer | 2:48:24 |
| 97 | ESTEstonia | Lily Luik | 2:48:29 |
| 98 | MAWMalawi | Tereza Master | 2:48:34 |
| 99 | ECUEcuador | María Elena Calle | 2:48:39 |
| 100 | ECUEcuador | Rosa Chacha | 2:48:52 |
| 101 | ROURomania | Paula Todoran | 2:48:54 |
| 102 | CUBCuba | Dailin Belmonte | 2:48:58 |
| 103 | GREGreece | Sofía Ríga | 2:49:07 |
| 104 | CROCroatia | Matea Matosevic | 2:50:00 |
| 105 | CHIChile | Erika Olivera | 2:50:29 |
| 106 | LATLatvia | Ariana Hilborn | 2:50:51 |
| 107 | SVKSlovakia | Katarína Beresová | 2:50:54 |
| 108 | BULBulgaria | Militsa Mircheva | 2:51:06 |
| 109 | LIBLebanon | Chirine Njeim | 2:51:08 |
| 110 | ARGArgentina | Rosa Godoy | 2:52:31 |
| 111 | TURTürkiye | Sultan Haydar | 2:53:57 |
| 112 | TURTürkiye | Meryem Erdogan | 2:54:04 |
| 113 | TPETaiwan (Chinese Taipei) | Hsieh Chien-Ho | 2:54:18 |
| 114 | ESTEstonia | Leila Luik | 2:54:38 |
| 115 | PARParaguay | Carmen Martínez | 2:56:43 |
| 116 | BIHBosnia and Herzegovina | Lucia Kimani | 2:58:22 |
| 117 | BOLBolivia | Rosemary Quispe | 2:58:32 |
| 118 | GREGreece | Panayiota Vlahaki | 2:59:12 |
| 119 | CROCroatia | Marija Vrajic | 2:59:24 |
| 120 | INDIndia | Kavita Tungar | 2:59:29 |
| 121 | TANTanzania | Sarah Ramadhan | 3:00:03 |
| 122 | KAZKazakhstan | Irina Smolnikova | 3:00:31 |
| 123 | CHIChile | Natalia Romero | 3:01:29 |
| 124 | PHIPhilippines | Mary Joy Tabal | 3:02:27 |
| 125 | ARGArgentina | Viviana Chavez | 3:03:23 |
| 126 | RWARwanda | Claudette Mukasakindi | 3:05:57 |
| 127 | TPETaiwan (Chinese Taipei) | Chen Yu-Hsuan | 3:09:13 |
| 128 | BRABrazil | Graciete Carneiro Santana | 3:09:15 |
| 129 | SRISri Lanka | Niluka Geethani Rajasekara | 3:11:05 |
| 130 | THAThailand | Natthaya Thanaronnawat | 3:11:31 |
| 131 | SGPSingapore | Neo Jie Shi | 3:15:18 |
| 132 | KSASaudi Arabia | Sarah Attar | 3:16:11 |
| 133 | CAMCambodia | Nary Ly | 3:20:20 |
ALGAlgeria | Souad Aït Salem | DNF | |
ARGArgentina | María Peralta | DNF | |
BLRBelarus | Nastassia Ivanova | DNF | |
BRNBahrain | Shitaye Eshete | DNF | |
COLColombia | Kellys Arias | DNF | |
ESPSpain | Alessandra Aguilar | DNF | |
ESPSpain | Estela Navascués | DNF | |
ESTEstonia | Liina Luik | DNF | |
ETHEthiopia | Tigist Tufa | DNF | |
FRAFrance | Christelle Daunay | DNF | |
ISRIsrael | Korlima Chemtai | DNF | |
ITAItaly | Anna Incerti | DNF | |
KAZKazakhstan | Gulzhanat Zhanatbek | DNF | |
KENKenya | Helah Kiprop | DNF | |
MARMorocco | Kawtar Boulaid | DNF | |
MNEMontenegro | Sladjana Perunovic | DNF | |
PERPeru | Inés Melchor | DNF | |
POLPoland | Katarzyna Kowalska | DNF | |
PORPortugal | Jéssica Augusto | DNF | |
PORPortugal | Sara Moreira | DNF | |
ROURomania | Daniela Cîrlan | DNF | |
RSASouth Africa | Irvette van Zyl | DNS | |
SLOSlovenia | Daneja Grandovec | DNF | |
SRBSerbia Republic | Olivera Jevtic | DNF | |
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