2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 53 athletes from 36 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia (destination) | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 24, 2000 | ||||||||
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The women's marathon at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was held in Sydney on September 24, 2000. 53 athletes took part, 45 of them reached the finish.
The Japanese Naoko Takahashi became the Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Romanian Lidia Șimon and the Kenyan Joyce Chepchumba .
Sonja Oberem started for Germany and finished in 24th place.
The Swiss Daria Nauer came in 38th.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1996 | Fatuma Roba ( Ethiopia ) | 2:26:05 h | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Jong Song-ok ( North Korea ) | 2:26:59 h | Seville 1999 |
European Champion 1998 | Maria Manuela Machado ( Portugal ) | 2:27:10 h | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Érika Olivera ( Chile ) | 2:37:41 h | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999 | Marathon run not in the championship program | ||
South American Champion 2000 | Márcia Narloch ( Brazil ) | 2:40:15 h | São Paulo 2000 |
Asian Champion 2000 | Sunisa Sailomyen ( Thailand ) | 2: 58.14 h | Pattaya 2000 |
African champion 2000 | Marathon run not in the championship program | ||
Oceania Champion 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 2:20:43 h | Tegla Loroupe ( Kenya ) | Berlin , Germany | September 26, 1999 |
Olympic record | 2:24:52 h | Joan Benoit ( USA ) | Los Angeles Marathon , USA | 5th August 1984 |
Note: World records were not set in the marathon because of the different track conditions.
Routing
The start was in the North Sydney district on Miller Street at the level of the North Sydney Oval , a stadium for rugby, soccer, cricket and Australian football. The route ran south to the Pacific Highway . This freeway continued to the Bradfield Highway and over the Sydney Harbor Bridge . Via the Cahill Expressway , the route then headed east to Bridge Street , then south again, following Macquarie Street . It went past the State Library of New South Wales and the State Parliament Building to Hyde Park . Here the path led along the east side, at the south end of the park it was first left into Oxford Street , then right into Flinders Street , which merges into the ANZAC Parade . The route continued to the left into Lang Road to Centennial Park , which was circled on the Old Grand Drive . Then we went back to the ANZAC Parade via Lang Road , where the path turned left.
Again the route ran south, past the University of New South Wales in the Kingsford district. There was a turning point at Broadbent Street . The ANZAC Parade went back to Flinders Street , but this time the loop through Centennial Park was skipped. The path now led to the left into Oxford Street , following Liverpool Street , which ran along the south end of Hyde Park . At the corner of the park, it turned right onto Elizabeth Street on the west edge of the park. Halfway down the route turned left west onto Bathurst Street , which led to the Western Distributor . Here the ANZAC Bridge was crossed and the Lilyfield district reached. The route followed Victoria Road , City-West Link Road and Dobroyd Parade to the west. On Ramsay Street there was an arch to the right in the direction of the Five Rock district before it turned left onto Fairlight Street , which shortly afterwards becomes Queens Road and merges into Gipps Road in the Canada Bay district . In the district of Strathfield, the route continued on the Western Motorway , which passed the Stadium Australia south . The motorway was left and immediately afterwards the stadium was reached, in which one more lap had to be covered.
initial situation
With Valentina Jegorowa from Russia and Fatuma Roba from Ethiopia, the Olympic champions from 1992 and 1996 competed. The Japanese were rated highly in addition, vice world champion Ari Ichihashi, the World Cup -Vierte Elfenesh Alemu of Ethiopia, the Portuguese European Champion and Vice World Champion 1997 Maria Machado and Lidia Şimon from Romania, in 1997 and 1999 respectively WM was -Third become.
Race course
Date: September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m. , Sydney time ( UTC + 10 )
At the beginning, the race was determined by the Belgian Marleen Renders. After five kilometers she was eighteen seconds ahead of her rivals, but at ten kilometers it had shrunk to three seconds before Renders fell further and further and finally gave up. Then there were changing tours at high speed, at fifteen kilometers the Italian Maura Viceconte was ahead. Little by little the field of runners fell apart and a group of five with the Japanese Naoko Takahashi, Esther Wanjiru from Kenya, the North Korean Kim Chang-ok, Șimon and Ichihashi pulled away. The pace remained high and Wanjiru and Chang-ok had to let go. At 25 km Ichihashi also lost contact, so that Takahashi and Șimon were now alone in front. The Japanese and Romanians ran many kilometers together, the runners behind them had no chance of getting close to the leaders again as the race continued to be fast. With eight kilometers to go, the Japanese woman was able to break away from Șimon decisively. Naoko Takahashi won the marathon in a new Olympic record time . Her lead over Lidia Șimon was eight seconds, making it the smallest lead in the Olympic history of the women's marathon. Bronze won the Kenyan Joyce Chepchumba ahead of Esther Wanjiru and the Russian Madina Biktagirowa. Elfenesh Alemu came in sixth ahead of Eri Yamaguchi from Japan and Ham Bong-sil from North Korea. Fatuma Roba finished ninth, 4:24 minutes behind Takahashi, while Valentina Yegorowa had given up the race after fifteen kilometers.
Lidia Șimon won the first Olympic medal for Romania in the women's marathon.
Split times | |||
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Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
5 km | 16:42 min | Marleen Renders 18 s in front of a large group | 16:42 min |
10 km | 34:08 min | Marleen Renders 3 s in front of a large group | 17:16 min |
15 km | 51:19 min | Maura Viceconte with a large group | 17:11 min |
20 km | 1:08:10 h | Takahashi / Șimon / Wanjiru / Ichihashi / Chang-ok | 16:51 min |
25 km | 1:24:48 h | Naoko Takahashi / Lidia Șimon 1 s before Ari Ichihashi | 16:38 min |
30 km | 1:41:39 h | Naoko Takahashi / Lidia Șimon | 16:51 min |
35 km | 1:58:26 h | Naoko Takahashi | 16:47 min |
40 km | 2:15:19 h | Naoko Takahashi | 16:53 min |
Result
Web links and sources
- marathoninfo.free.fr , accessed April 12, 2018
- SportsReference Marathon , accessed April 12, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 12, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 12, 2018
Video
- 2000 Olympics Sydney Ladies Marathon Component 1 & 2 , published November 10, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed April 12, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 807 , accessed on April 12, 2018
- ↑ (Engl.) Route description Runscore.com ( Memento of the original December 10, 2016 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 12, 2018