European Athletics Championships 2002 / women's marathon

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's marathon
city	Munich
place	Circuit through Munich
Participants	26 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2002
Medalists
gold	Maria Guida ( ITA )
silver	Luminita Zaituc ( GER )
bronze	Sonja Oberem ( GER )
Marathon Cup (team ranking) without counting in the medal table
Rank 1	Germany
Rank 2	Italy
Rank 3	Russia

Isartor

The women's marathon at the 2002 European Athletics Championships took place on August 10, 2002 in Munich , Germany .

The Italian Maria Guida won the race with a new championship record of 2:26:05 h. The Germans Luminita Zaituc and Sonja Oberem took second and third place .

As already twice at European Championships, there was a team classification, the so-called Marathon Cup. For this, the times of the three best runners per nation were added up. However, the evaluation was not part of the official medal table. The team from Germany won ahead of Italy and Russia.

Existing records

Before the EM, the following records were in place:

World record	Tegla Loroupe	2:20:47 h	Rotterdam marathon	April 19, 1998
European record	Ingrid Kristiansen	2:21:06 h	London marathon	April 21, 1985
Championship record	Maria Manuela Machado	2:27:10 h	EM in Budapest	August 23, 1998

Route

The race took place on a circuit that had to be run three times through the city center. The starting point was the residence . The course ran over Odeonsplatz - Giselastraße - Englischer Garten - Maximilianeum - Prinzregentenstraße - Isartor - Viktualienmarkt - Odeonsplatz and ended with the finish in the Olympic Stadium .

Result

Rosario Console, Italy - fifth place

Ulrike Maisch, Germany - eighth place

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
	Maria Guida	Italy	2:26:05 SB
	Luminita Zaituc	Germany	2:26:58 SB
	Sonja Oberem	Germany	2:28:45
04th	Jane Salumäe	Estonia	2:33:46 SB
05	Rosaria Console	Italy	2:35:23
06th	Nadezhda Wijenberg	Netherlands	2:36:06 SB
07th	Marie Söderström-Lundberg	Sweden	2:36:13 SB
08th	Ulrike Maisch	Germany	2:36:41
09	Annemette Jensen	Denmark	2:37:27 SB
10	Judit Földing-Nagy	Hungary	2:37:33
11	Anna Pichrtová	Czech Republic	2:37:39
12	Giovanna Volpato	Italy	2:38:15
13	Irina Timofeeva	Russia	2:40:11
14th	Tatyana Zolotaryova	Russia	2:41:29
15th	Dagmar Rabensteiner	Austria	2:41:39
16	Lidija Vasilevskaya	Russia	2:44:28
17th	Melanie Kraus	Germany	2:44:56 SB
18th	Susanne Johansson	Sweden	2:47:11 SB
19th	Fatima Silva	Portugal	2:47:28
20th	Irina Safarova	Russia	2:49:21
21st	Karin Schon	Sweden	2:49:57
DNF	Marleen Renders	Belgium
	Valentina Delion	Moldova
	Nuța Olaru	Romania
	Alina Ivanova	Russia
DSQ	Chantal Dällenbach	France	Food supply outside the permitted zone

Result marathon cup

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  Melanie Kraus, Germany - seventeenth place

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  Nuța Olaru, Romania - race not finished

(only four teams in the rating)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Germany	Luminita Zaituc Sonja Oberem Ulrike Maisch	7:32:24
2	Italy	Maria Guida Rosaria Console Giovanna Volpato	7:39:43
3	Russia	Irina Timofejewa Tatiana Solotarjewa Lidija Wassilewskaja	8:06:08
4th	Sweden	Marie Söderström-Lundberg Susanne Johansson Karin Schön	8:13:21

Web links and sources

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 14, 2019
• Women Marathon Athletics XVIII European Championships 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on February 14, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Women's marathon , accessed February 14, 2019
2. ↑ Eternal European leaderboard marathon. Retrieved September 13, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Munich 2002: Chantal Dallenbach - Marathon, Disqualifiée (ravitaillement hors zone a priori) on athle.fr, Fédération Française d'Athléthisme (French), accessed on September 13, 2015