2003 World Athletics Championships / Women's marathon

The women's marathon at the 2003 World Athletics Championships was held on August 31, 2003 at 2:20 pm local time in Paris , France .

Catherine Ndereba won the run in 2:23:55 h.

Records

World record	Paula Radcliffe	2:15:25 h	April 13th 2003, London Marathon
Championship record	Pink Mota	2:25:17 h	August 29, 1987, World Cup in Rome

Result

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	2:23:55 CR
	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan	2:24:14
	Masako Chiba	Japan	2:25:09
04th	Naoko Sakamoto	Japan	2:25:25
05	Ham Bong-Sil	North Korea	2:25:31 NO
06th	Elfenesh Alemu	Ethiopia	2:26:29
07th	Joyce Chepchumba	Kenya	2:26:33 SB
08th	Olivera Jevtić	Serbia and Montenegro	2:26:49
09	Svetlana Sakharova	Russia	2:26:53
10	Shitaye Gemechu	Ethiopia	2:27:26 SB
11	Nuța Olaru	Romania	2:28:24 SB
12	Zhang Shujing	People's Republic of China	2:29:24
13	Beatriz Ros	Spain	2:29:25 PB
14th	Li Helan	People's Republic of China	2:29:46 SB
15th	Maria Abel	Spain	2:30:15 SB
16	Lena Gavelin	Sweden	2:30:39 NO
17th	Stine Larsen	Norway	2:30:44
18th	Luminița Talpoș	Romania	2:30:49
19th	Asha Gigi	Ethiopia	2:31:01 PB
20th	Ulrike Maisch	Germany	2:31:21 PB
21st	Rakiya Maraoui	France	2:31:23 SB
22nd	Viktoriya Klimina	Russia	2:31:45 SB
23	Annemette Jensen	Denmark	2:31:55 PB
24	Ri Kum-Sil	North Korea	2:32:08 PB
25th	Larissa Sjusko	Russia	2:32:26
26th	Marie Söderström	Sweden	2:32:27 SB
27	Takami Ōminami	Japan	2:32:31
28	Sandy Jacobson	Canada	2:33:51 PB
29	Kim Jong-Sun	North Korea	2:34:12
30th	Meseret Kotu	Ethiopia	2:34:19 SB
31	Maria Teresa Pulido	Spain	2:34:37
32	Simona Staicu	Hungary	2:34:51
33	Jill Boaz	United States	2:34:54 PB
34	Fatima Yvelain	France	2:36:20
35	Kenza Wahbi	Morocco	2:36:29 PB
36	Jin Li	People's Republic of China	2:37:10 SB
37	Linda Somers Smith	United States	2:37:14 SB
38	Svetlana Demidenko	Russia	2:37:19 SB
39	Joanna Lodge	United Kingdom	2:37:56 SB
40	Irina Timofeeva	Russia	2:38:06 SB
41	Lucilla Andreucci	Italy	2:38:22
42	Gloria Marconi	Italy	2:38:26
43	Giovanna Volpato	Italy	2:38:38
44	Nadia Ejjafini	Bahrain	2:38:39 PB
45	Aurica Buia	Romania	2:39:04
46	Workenesh Tola	Ethiopia	2:39:25
47	Jane Salumäe	Estonia	2:39:36 SB
48	Zahia Dahmani	France	2:40:34
49	Banuelia Katesigwa	Tanzania	2:40:45
50	Fatima Silva	Portugal	2:40:59
51	Mihaela Botezan	Romania	2:41:13
52	Hanan Fahroun	Morocco	2:42:56 PB
53	Choi Kyung-hee	South Korea	2:43:38
54	Hafida Gadi	France	2:45:53
55	Tamara Lave	United States	2:46:22 PB
56	Jong Yong-Ok	North Korea	2:50:21
57	Epiphany Nyirabarame	Rwanda	2:54:16 PB
58	Simona Viola	Italy	2:54:27
59	Kelly Keane	United States	2:55:26 SB
60	Sophie Gordon	French Polynesia	3:00:53
61	Priscilla Mamba	Swaziland	3:18:35 SB
62	Sonia Lopes	Cape Verde	3:21:59
	Fatima Hajjami	France	DNF
	Sylvia Mosqueda	United States
	Beatrice Omwanza	Kenya
	Rie Matsuoka	Japan
	Constantina Diță	Romania
	Rosaria Console	Italy
	Anna Pichrtová	Czech Republic	DNS

Web links and sources

Commons : World Athletics Championships 2003  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Home to the World Cup in 2003 on the website of the IAAF (Engl.)