2007 World Athletics Championships / Women's marathon

The women's marathon at the 2007 World Athletics Championships was held on September 2, 2007 at 7:00 am local time in the Japanese city ​​of Osaka and was the third run of the World Marathon Major of the year.

Catherine Ndereba won the run in 2:30:37 h.

Records

World record	Paula Radcliffe	2:15:25 h	April 13th 2003, London Marathon
Championship record	Paula Radcliffe	2:20:57 h	August 14, 2005, World Cup in Helsinki

Result

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	2:30:37 SB
	Zhou Chunxiu	People's Republic of China	2:30:45
	Reiko Tosa	Japan	2:30:55 SB
04th	Zhu Xiaolin	People's Republic of China	2:31:21
05	Lidia Șimon	Romania	2:31:26 SB
06th	Kiyoko Shimahara	Japan	2:31:40 SB
07th	Rita Jeptoo Sitienei	Kenya	2:32:03 SB
08th	Edith Masai	Kenya	2:32:22
09	Mara Yamauchi	United Kingdom	2:32:55
10	Lyubov Morgunova	Russia	2:33:41
11	Zhang Shujing	People's Republic of China	2:33:46
12	Gulnara Vygovskaya	Russia	2:33:57
13	Nina Rillstone	New Zealand	2:33:58 SB
14th	Mari Ozaki	Japan	2:35:04
15th	Madaí Pérez	Mexico	2:35:17
16	Souad Ait Salem	Algeria	2:35:29
17th	Anna Incerti	Italy	2:36:36 SB
18th	Yumiko Hara	Japan	2:36:40
19th	Tracey Morris	United Kingdom	2:36:40 SB
20th	Melanie Kraus	Germany	2:37:20
21st	Sun Weiwei	People's Republic of China	2:37:53
22nd	Askale Tafa	Ethiopia	2:38:01
23	Yasuko Hashimoto	Japan	2:38:36
24	Rose Cheruiyot	Kenya	2:38:56
25th	Bright Jemaiyo Kimutai	Kenya	2:39:14
26th	Deborah Toniolo	Italy	2:39:46 SB
27	Anna Rahm	Sweden	2:41:15
28	Alina Gherasim	Romania	2:41:40
29	Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu	Norway	2:41:57
30th	Helena Javornik	Slovenia	2:42:03
31	Ann Alyanak	United States	2:42:23
32	Nailya Julamanova	Russia	2:42:56
33	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	2:43:28
34	Tabitha Tsatsa	Zimbabwe	2:44:20
35	Zoila Gomez	United States	2:44:49
36	Analía Rosa	Portugal	2:45:38 SB
37	Wei Yanan	People's Republic of China	2:45:50
38	Dana Coons	United States	2:46:12 SB
39	Annemette Aagaard	Denmark	2:45:22
40	Bahar Dogan	Turkey	2:46:25
41	Nili Abramski	Israel	2:46:27
42	Mary Akor	United States	2:47:06
43	Susanne Hahn	Germany	2:47:29
44	Lim Kyung-hee	South Korea	2:49:30 SB
45	Chae Eun-hee	South Korea	2:50:26
46	Eleni Donta	Greece	2:50:59
47	Zekiros Adanech	Ethiopia	2:54:00
48	Lucilla Andreucci	Italy	2:56:19
49	Samia Akbar	United States	2:56:27 SB
50	Yeoryia Abatzidou	Greece	2:59:22 SB
51	Patricia Gauquelin	French Polynesia	3:03:08 SB
52	Luwsanlchündegiin Otgonbajar	Mongolia	3:04:59 SB
53	Kerstin Metzler-Mennenga	Liechtenstein	3:11:45
54	Tanith Maxwell	South Africa	3:14:56
55	Poppy Mlambo	South Africa	3:23:55
56	Robe Tola	Ethiopia	3:26:45
57	Melissa Henderson	Belize	3:52:35
	Luciah Kimani	Bosnia and Herzegovina	DNF
	Domingas Embana Togna	Guinea-Bissau
	Lioudmila Kortchaguina	Russia
	Angélica Sánchez	Mexico
	Dire Tune	Ethiopia
	Luminița Talpoș	Russia
	Galina Bogomolova	Russia
	Nuța Olaru	Romania
	Giovanna Volpato	Italy
	Shitaye Gemechu	Ethiopia	DNS

Web links and sources

Commons : World Athletics Championships 2007  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage for World Cup 2007 on the website of the IAAF (Engl.)