2015 World Athletics Championships / Women's marathon
| World Athletics Championships 2015 | |
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| discipline | Women's marathon |
| city |
 Beijing
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| place | Circuit through Beijing Start and finish: National Stadium |
| Participants | 67 athletes from 39 countries |
| Competition phase | August 30, 2015 |
| Medalists | |
|---|---|
 gold |
Mare Dibaba ( ETH )
 |
 silver |
Helah Kiprop ( KEN )
 |
 bronze |
Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa ( BHR )
 |
The women's marathon at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 30, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China , and was the fourth run of the 2015/16 World Marathon Major .
The Ethiopian Mare Dibaba became world champion . She won ahead of the Kenyan Helah Kiprop . Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa from Bahrain won the bronze medal.
route
The run started at the Yongding Gate . The route then led past sights such as the Temple of Heaven , Zhengyangmen , the Forbidden City , the Chinese National Museum and the Diaoyutai State Guest House . When Haidian Park , the half of the course was. Past the various universities in Beijing and the China National Tennis Center , it was finally back to the national stadium , where the last few meters had to be run.
Records
| World record |
 Paula Radcliffe
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2:15:25 h | London Marathon , UK | April 13, 2003 |
| Championship record | 2:20:57 h | World Cup in Helsinki , Finland | August 14, 2005 |
initial situation
As is almost always the case with such large championships, it was not easy for the marathon to find favorite positions. Too seldom can the athletes run this distance because otherwise the form is lost. In addition, the focus for the season highlight is not for all marathon stars on the world championships, but often also on the major city marathons such as London, Berlin, New York, etc. The favorites here in Beijing were definitely the Kenyan world champion from 2011 and 2013 Edna Kiplagat and the Ethiopian Mare Dibaba as second of this year's world best list. Above all, other strong runners from Ethiopia and Kenya were to be expected here.
Race course
August 30, 2015, 7:30 a.m. local time (1:30 a.m. CEST )
The difficult climatic conditions of Beijing with a high level of air pollution made a fast race impossible. For a long time, the Japanese led the field with Mai Itō and Risa Shigetomo, the pace remained within the expected limits with individual 5 km sections in the range of well over seventeen minutes. However, the first gaps soon appeared. After five kilometers there were still twenty runners at the front, while halfway through the course there were sixteen of them left. After thirty kilometers, defending champion Kiplagat had taken the lead in a top group of twelve. Now it got a little faster, a six-man leadership group was formed with the two Ethiopians Dibaba and Tigist Tufa, the Kenyans Kiplagat, Jemima Sumgong and Helah Kiprop and Eunice Kirwa from Bahrain. Itō and the North Korean Kim Hey-song were nineteen seconds back, followed by the American Serena Burla - 23 seconds behind - and Shigetomo - 25 seconds behind.
From kilometer 35, Dibaba took the lead and accelerated considerably. As the first runner, Tufa fell victim to acceleration, she had to let go and was soon just under a minute behind. Next, Kiplagat couldn't quite follow the pace and fell behind. Two kilometers from the finish line, Dibaba, Sumgong, Kiprop and Kirwa were still four runners in the fight for victory and medals.
Upon arriving at the stadium, Dibaba was leading, Kiprop on their heels. Kirwa followed with a small gap, followed by Sumgong with a little more distance. There was a real finish sprint - a very rare case in a marathon. Kiprop attacked again, but Mare Dibaba countered and won the world title. Helah Kiprop won the silver medal ahead of Eunice Kirwa. Jemima Sumgong in fourth place was three seconds short of bronze in the end. Edna Kiplagat finished fifth, 36 seconds after Sumgong. Behind it the residues were bigger. Tigist Tufa came in sixth place, Mai Itō was seventh ahead of the Ethiopian Tirfi Tsegaye.
| Split times | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 17:51 min | Mai Itō with a group of 20 | 17:51 min |
| 10 km | 35:32 min | Mai Itō with a group of 18 | 17:41 min |
| 15 km | 53:21 min | Risa Shigetomo with a group of 19 | 17:49 min |
| 20 km | 1:11:19 h | Mare Dibaba with a group of 16 | 17:58 min |
| Half of the route | 1:15:16 h | Risa Shigetomo with a group of 16 | |
| 30 km | 1:46:50 h | Kiplagat with a group of 12 | 2 × approx. 17:45 min |
| 35 km | 2:04:04 h | Dibaba, Sumgong, Kirwa, Kiprop, Kiplagat, Tufa - 19 s before Itō, Kim Hey-song, Tsegaye - 23 s before Burla - 25 s before Shigetomo | 17:14 min |
| 40 km | 2:20:38 h | Dibaba, Sumgong, Kiprop, Kirwa - 2 s before Kiplagat - 48 s before Tufa - 1:21 min before Itō - 2:05 min before Tsegaye | 16:34 min |
Result
Tigist Tufa, Ethiopia - Sixth
Mai Itō, Japan - Seventh
Tirfi Tsegaye, Ethiopia - Eighth
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Kim Hye-gyong, North Korea - Ninth
Rasa Drazdauskaitė, Lithuania - eleventh
Risa Shigemoto, Japan - Fourteenth
Alessandra Aguilar, Spain - Seventeenth
Jaisha Orchatteri, India - Eighteenth
Sudha Singh, India - Nineteenth
Visiline Jepkesho, Kenya - Twentieth
Katarina Bérešová, Slovakia - 22.
Lishan Dula, Bahrain.
Wang Xueqin, People's Republic of China.
Anne-Mari Hyryläinen, Finland.
Kateryna Karmanenko, Ukraine.
Ching Yiu-Kit, People's Republic of China - 32.
Nebiat Habtemariam, Eritrea - 34.
He Yinli, People's Republic of China - 37.
Lily Luik, Estonia - 38.
Hsu Yu-Fang, Chinese Taipei - 45.
Paula Todoran, Romania - gave up the race
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Web links and sources
- Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, Women's Marathon on the IAAF website , accessed on November 8, 2018
- Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 8, 2018
- Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 8, 2018
Video
- IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 - Day 9 Highlights on youtube.com, from the live broadcast on August 30, 2015, range: 0:00 min to 9:36 min, accessed on November 8, 2018
- Mare Dibaba 2015 / Womens marathon - Track & Field IAAF - IAAF world championships 2015 on youtube.com, published on August 31, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marathon Course. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 24, 2015 ; accessed on October 26, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
