2009 World Athletics Championships / Women's marathon

Bai Xue 2009 at the finish line

The women's marathon at the 2009 World Athletics Championships took place on August 23, 2009 at 11:15 am local time in Berlin , Germany and was the third run of the World Marathon Major of the year.

Bai Xue won the run in 2:25:15 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)
	Bai Xue	People's Republic of China	2:25:15 SB
	Yoshimi Ozaki	Japan	2:25:25 SB
	Aselefech Mergia	Ethiopia	2:25:32
04th	Zhou Chunxiu	People's Republic of China	2:25:39 SB
05	Zhu Xiaolin	People's Republic of China	2:26:08 SB
06th	Marisa Barros	Portugal	2:26:50
07th	Yuri Kanō	Japan	2:26:57 SB
08th	Alevtina Biktimirova	Russia	2:27:39 SB
09	Kara Goucher	United States	2:27:48 SB
10	Desiree Davila	United States	2:27:53 PB
11	Julia Mumbi Muraga	Kenya	2:28:59 SB
12	Sun Weiwei	People's Republic of China	2:29:39 SB
13	Yoshiko Fujinaga	Japan	2:29:53
14th	Svetlana Sakharova	Russia	2:29:55
15th	Bezunesh Bekele	Ethiopia	2:30:03
16	Sabrina Mockenhaupt	Germany	2:30:07 SB
17th	Lisa Jane Weightman	Australia	2:30:42 PB
18th	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	2:31:06 SB
19th	Kim Kum-ok	North Korea	2:31:24
20th	Irene Limika	Kenya	2:31:29
21st	Lidia Șimon	Romania	2:32:03
22nd	Dire Tune	Ethiopia	2:32:42
23	Beata Naigambo	Namibia	2:33:05 PB
24	Alessandra Aguilar	Spain	2:33:38
25th	Epiphany Nyirabaramé	Rwanda	2:33:59 NO
26th	Atsede Baysa	Ethiopia	2:36:04
27	Tera Moody	United States	2:36:39 SB
28	Olga Glock	Russia	2:36:57
29	Paige Higgins	United States	2:37:11 SB
30th	Yukiko Akaba	Japan	2:37:43
31	Lyubov Morgunova	Russia	2:38:23
32	Jong Yong-ok	North Korea	2:38:29
33	Susanne Hahn	Germany	2:38:39
34	Mary Davis	New Zealand	2:38:48 PB
35	Tara Quinn-Smith	Canada	2:39:19 SB
36	Risper Jemeli Kimaiyo	Kenya	2:39:23
37	Patrizia Morceli	Switzerland	2:39:37
38	Sun Suk-yun	South Korea	2:39:56
39	Judith Ramírez	Mexico	2:40:18
40	Fiona Docherty	New Zealand	2:40:18 PB
41	Un Suk-phyo	North Korea	2:40:39
42	Adriana Aparecida da Silva	Brazil	2:40:54 PB
43	Shireen Crumpton	New Zealand	2:41:31 SB
44	Tanith Maxwell	South Africa	2:41:48 SB
45	Annemette Aagaard	Denmark	2:42:03 SB
46	Martha Komu	Kenya	2:42:14 SB
47	Chol Sun-kim	North Korea	2:41:18
48	Patricia Lossouarn	France	2:42:40
49	Laurene Klein	France	2:42:47
50	Zolla Gomez	United States	2:42:49 SB
51	Remnalda Kergyte	Lithuania	2:45:28 SB
52	Park Ho-sun	South Korea	2:47:16
53	Stephanie Briand	France	2:48:16
54	Yamna Oubouhou	France	2:50:02 SB
55	Hilaria Johannes	Namibia	2:50:19 SB
56	Sandra Ruales	Ecuador	2:50:36
57	Jane Suuto	Uganda	2:52:44
58	Cecile Moynot	France	2:54:21
59	Nuța Olaru	Romania	3:00:59
DSQ	Nailya Julamanova	Russia	2:27:08
	Magdaliní Gazéa	Greece	DSQ
	Maria Zeferina Baldaia	Brazil	DNF
	Robe Guta	Ethiopia
	Ulrike Maisch	Germany
	Luminita Zaituc	Germany
	Yeoryía Abatzídou	Greece
	Helena Loshanyang Kirop	Kenya
	Victoria Poludina	Kyrgyzstan
	Lee Sun-young	South Korea
	Dulce María Rodríguez	Mexico
	Luwsanlchündegiin Otgonbajar	Mongolia
	Clara Morales	Chile	DNS
	Luminița Talpoș	Romania

Web links and sources

Commons : World Athletics Championships 2009  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Home to the World Cup in 2009 on the website of the IAAF (Engl.)