2005 World Athletics Championships / Women's marathon

Catherine Ndereba

The women's marathon at the 2005 World Athletics Championships took place on August 14, 2005 at 2:20 pm local time in Helsinki , Finland .

Paula Radcliffe won the race with a new championship record in 2:20:57 h.

Records

World record	Paula Radcliffe	2:15:25 h	April 13th 2003, London Marathon
Championship record	Catherine Ndereba	2:23:55 h	August 31, 2003, World Cup in Paris

Result

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
	Paula Radcliffe	United Kingdom	2:20:57 CR
	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	2:22:01 SB
	Constantina Tomescu	Romania	2:23:19
04th	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	2:23:30 PB
05	Zhou Chunxiu	People's Republic of China	2:24:12
06th	Yumiko Hara	Japan	2:24:20
07th	Rita Jeptoo	Kenya	2:24:22 PB
08th	Harumi Hiroyama	Japan	2:25:46 SB
09	Bright Jemaiyo Kimutai	Kenya	2:26:14 SB
10	Megumi Oshima	Japan	2:26:29
11	Madaí Pérez	Mexico	2:26:50 PB
12	Halina Karnazewitsch	Belarus	2:27:14 PB
13	Dorota Gruca	Poland	2:27:46 PB
14th	Jong Yong-ok	North Korea	2:29:43 SB
15th	Mari Ozaki	Japan	2:30:28
16	Asha Gigi	Ethiopia	2:30:38
17th	Ryoko Eda	Japan	2:31:16
18th	Mara Yamauchi	United Kingdom	2:31:26 PB
19th	Rosaria Console	Italy	2:32:47
20th	Alina Ivanova	Russia	2:32:53
21st	Aurica Buia	Romania	2:33:20 SB
22nd	Shitaye Gemechu	Ethiopia	2:34:01
23	Oh song-suk	North Korea	2:34:07
24	Ryang Gum-hwa	North Korea	2:34:35
25th	Hayley Haining	United Kingdom	2:34:41 PB
26th	Turena Johnson Lane	United States	2:34:43 PB
27	Anna Pichrtová	Czech Republic	2:34:45
28	Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu	Norway	2:35:08
29	Beatrice Omwanza	Kenya	2:35:48
30th	Jill Boaz	United States	2:36:29 SB
31	Isabel Eizmendi	Spain	2:36:41
32	Ana Dias	Portugal	2:36:50
33	Shireen Crumpton	New Zealand	2:37:03 PB
34	Irina Permitina	Russia	2:38:16
35	Emily Levan	United States	2:38:32 PB
36	Jennifer Crain	United States	2:39:02 SB
37	Dire Tune	Ethiopia	2:39:13
38	Nadezhda Wijenberg	Netherlands	2:39:36 SB
39	Liza Hunter-Galvan	New Zealand	2:39:47
40	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	2:39:58
41	Nadia Ejjafini	Brunei	2:41:51 SB
42	Maija Oravamäki	Finland	2:43:31 SB
43	Clarisse Rasoarizay	Madagascar	2:43:58 SB
44	Oh boy-hee	South Korea	2:47:42
45	Rebecca Moore	New Zealand	2:50:36
46	Epiphany Nyirabarame	Rwanda	2:52:11
47	Hafida Narmouch	Morocco	2:52:41
48	Mulu Seboka	Ethiopia	2:53:08
49	Nili Abramski	Israel	2:54:08
50	Mary Akor	United States	2:57:18
51	Mamokete Lechela	Lesotho	3:03:26 SB
	Debbie Mason	United Kingdom	DNF
	Kenza Wahbi	Morocco
	Fabiola William John	Tanzania
	Kay Ulrich	New Zealand
	Nuța Olaru	Romania
	Zhor El Kamch	Morocco
	Sandra Ruales	Ecuador	DNS
	Agueda Amaral	East Timor

Web links and sources

Commons : World Athletics Championships 2005  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Home to the World Cup in 2005 on the website of the IAAF (Engl.)