1999 World Athletics Championships / Women's marathon

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Women
Attendees	51 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Seville
place	Seville circuit
Competition phase	29th August
Medalists
gold	Jong Song-ok ( PRK )
silver	Ari Ichihashi ( JPN )
bronze	Lidia Șimon ( ROM )
Marathon Cup (team ranking) without counting in the medal table
Rank 1	Japan
Rank 2	Romania
Rank 3	Germany

Plaza de España , Seville , in 1999

The women's marathon at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 29, 1999 in the streets of the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The North Korean Jong Song-ok became world champion . She won ahead of the Japanese Ari Ichihashi . As at the World Championships two years earlier, bronze went to Romanian Lidia Șimon , who was third in the 1998 European Championship over 10,000 meters .

As with the previous World Championships , there was a team classification, the so-called Marathon Cup. The number of participants was correspondingly high. Five runners per nation were allowed, of which the times of the best three were added together for the evaluation. However, this competition was not part of the official medal table. The team from Japan won ahead of Romania and Germany .

Existing best times / records

World record	2:20:47 h	Tegla Loroupe	Rotterdam Marathon , Netherlands	April 19, 1998
World championship record	2:25:17 h	Pink Mota	World Cup 1987 in Rome	August 29, 1987

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

There were two national bests.

• 2:26:59 h - Jong Song-ok , North Korea
• 2:48:11 h - Gina Coello , Honduras

Result

World champion Jong Song Ok during an interview in 2014

Lidia Şimon won as already in 1997 World Cup -Bronze - the future brought her numerous high-profile successes

Claudia Dreher came in ninth place

Constantina Diță finished nineteen

Kerryn McCann turned 23.

Irina Timofejewa did not finish in this race

August 29, 1999, 9:05 a.m.

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
	Jong Song-ok	North Korea	2:26:59 NB
	Ari Ichihashi	Japan	2:27:02
	Lidia Șimon	Romania	2:27:41
04th	Fatuma Roba	Ethiopia	2:28:04
05	Elfenesh Alemu	Ethiopia	2:28:52
06th	Sonja Oberem	Germany	2:28:55
07th	Maria Manuela Machado	Portugal	2:29:11
08th	Kayoko Obata	Japan	2:29:11
09	Claudia Dreher	Germany	2:29:22
10	Kim Chang-ok	North Korea	2:29:26
11	Esther Wanjiru Maina	Kenya	2:29:36
12	Sun Yingjie	People's Republic of China	2:30:12
13	Florina Pană	Romania	2:30:28
14th	Firaya Zhdanova	Russia	2:30:45
15th	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain	2:31:38
16	Junko Asari	Japan	2:31:39
17th	Mayumi Ichikawa	Japan	2:32:01
18th	Marie Söderström-Lundberg	Sweden	2:35:25
19th	Constantina Diță	Romania	2:36:28
20th	Silvana Trampuz	Australia	2:36:49
21st	Mónica Pont	Spain	2:36:57
22nd	Manuela Veith	Germany	2:37:24
23	Kerryn McCann	Australia	2:38:31
24	Anke Laws	Germany	2:38:57
25th	Alina Gherasim	Romania	2:39:29
26th	Gadissie Edatto	Ethiopia	2:40:03
27	Elizabeth Mongudhi	Namibia	2:40:07
28	Angelines Rodríguez	Spain	2:40:10
29	Zinaida Semyonova	Russia	2:41:33
30th	Jane Salumäe	Estonia	2:41:50
31	Fatima Silva	Portugal	2:42:55
32	Marie Boyd	United States	2:44:16
33	Maria Luisa Muñoz	Spain	2:45:00
34	Let Yesus repent	Ethiopia	2:45:28
35	Maria Trujillo	United States	2:46:36
36	Mary Lynn Currier	United States	2:48:05
37	Mimi Corcoran	United States	2:49:21
38	Cindy Keeler	United States	2:53:04
39	Sarah Mahlangu	South Africa	2:54:12
40	Anna Markelova	Turkmenistan	2:58:04
41	Gina Coello	Honduras	2:58:11 NB
42	Gulsara Dadabayeva	Tajikistan	3:23:01
DNF	Anuța Cătună	Romania
	Yelena Gundelakh	Russia
	Nicole Carroll	Australia
	Maria Polizou	Greece
	Elizabeth McCaul	South Africa
	Ababa Tola	Ethiopia
	Christine Mallo	France
	Heather Turland	Australia
	Irina Timofeeva	Russia
DNS	Franca Fiacconi	Italy
	Colleen De Reuck	South Africa
	Naoko Takahashi	Japan

Marathon cup

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Japan	Ari Ichihashi Kayoko Obata Junko Asari	7:27:52
2	Romania	Lidia Șimon Florina Pană Constantina Diță	7:34:37
3	Germany	Sonja Krolik Claudia Dreher Manuela Veith	7:45:41
4th	Ethiopia	Fatuma Roba Elfenesh Alemu Gadissie Edatto	7:36:59
5	Spain	Ana Isabel Alonso Mónica Pont Angelines Rodríguez	7:48:45
6th	United States	Marie Boyd Maria Trujillo Mary Lynn Currier	8:18:57

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
• Women Marathon Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 24, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Marathon, Seville 1999, p. 287 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 24, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 24, 2020