2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 82 athletes from 46 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Marathon - Athens | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 22, 2004 | ||||||||
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The women's marathon at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 22, 2004 on a course from the Marathon site to the Panathinaic Stadium in Athens. Of the 82 athletes who started, 66 reached the finish.
The Japanese Mizuki Noguchi became the Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Kenyan Catherine Ndereba and the American Deena Kastor .
By Ulrike Maisch and Luminita Zaituc two German participated. Maisch couldn't finish the race, Zaituc finished in eighteenth place.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
| Olympic champion 2000 |
Naoko Takahashi ( Japan )
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2:23:14 h | Sydney 2000 |
| World Champion 2003 |
Catherine Ndereba ( Kenya )
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2:23:55 h | Paris 2003 |
| European Champion 2002 |
Maria Guida ( Italy )
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2:26:05 h | Munich 2002 |
| Pan American Champion 2003 |
Márcia Narloch ( Brazil )
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2:39:54 h | Santo Domingo 2003 |
| Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003 | Competition not in the championship program | St. George’s 2003 | |
| South America Champion 2002 | Maria Baldaia ( Brazil )
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2:36:07 h | São Paulo 2002 |
| Asian Champion 2002 |
Zhang Shujing ( People's Republic of China )
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2:36:27 h | Hong Kong 2002 |
| African champion 2004 | Competition not in the championship program | Brazzaville 2004 | |
| Oceania Champion 2002 | Christchurch 2002 | ||
Existing records
| World record | 2:15:25 h |
Paula Radcliffe ( Great Britain )
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London , UK | April 13, 2003 |
| Olympic record | 2:23:14 h |
Naoko Takahashi ( Japan )
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Sydney Marathon , Australia | September 24, 2000 |
Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
Routing
The route began in the town of Marathon and led south along national road 83, circling the burial mound of the Athenians who fell in the battle of Marathon . The course then crossed the city of Nea Makri. After ten flat kilometers the first climbs came. At Rafina , the route turned west onto National Road 54. Via Rafina-Pikermi , Pallini and Gerakas you reached Agia Paraskevi at km 32 , where the highest point of the route was reached at 240 meters above sea level. From there it went downhill through Chalandri , Cholargos and Goudi to the core city of Athens . The finish line was in the Panathinaiko Stadium , where the runners still had to complete one lap.
initial situation
The British Paula Radcliffe had set a world record last year that was more than three minutes better than the time of the Kenyan Catherine Ndereba, who was placed behind her in the world rankings. In addition, only Radcliffe himself had achieved a time in 2002 that was only two minutes slower than her world record. However, in the Olympic year of all things, the Briton was not at the height of her actual skills due to an injury-related training deficit and it was astonishing that with these conditions she even managed the double start over 10,000 meters and in the marathon . The favorite was now Ndereba as number two in the world rankings and reigning world champion . Further clear contenders for medals after their success at the last world championships were the two Japanese Mizuki Noguchi as vice world champion and Naoko Sakamoto as world championship fourth. The place of the WM -third Masako Chiba nominated Japan Vice World Champion 2001 Reiko Tosa belonged to the circle of the favorites, as well as the Romanian world champion in 2001 and silver medalist from 2000 Lidia Şimon.
Race course
August 22, 2004, 6:00 p.m. - Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ) / temperatures around 35 ° C
The race was not approached very quickly due to the weather conditions. So the field of participants stayed together for the time being. After fifteen kilometers, a first nine-man top group had formed, which had shrunk to seven runners by 25 kilometers. The group was led by Noguchi. The Ethiopian Elfenesh Alemu, Radcliffe, Tosa, Ndereba, Sakamoto and Olivera Jevtić from Serbia and Montenegro were also there. Now the leading vice world champion accelerated the pace significantly and the top group fell apart completely. At thirty kilometers, Alemu was second, 28 seconds back, followed by Radcliffe - 31 seconds back - and Ndereba - 37 seconds back.
But the decision had not yet been made. Alemu and Radcliffe, who gave up the race six kilometers from the finish, fell further behind, but Ndereba's gap to Noguchi narrowed noticeably. At 35 km, Ndereba was only 28 seconds behind, at 40 km it was only twelve seconds. The US runner Deena Kastor was working her way up from behind. The decision about the bronze medal fell between her and Alemu. Eighteen seconds behind, Kastor still had to make up for Alemu at forty kilometers. At the front, Mizuki Noguchi defended her lead of twelve seconds over the last two kilometers and became Olympic champion ahead of Catherine Ndereba. Behind it, Kastor clearly passed Alemu. Deena Kastor won the bronze medal exactly one minute behind the Olympic champion and ended up being 55 seconds ahead of Elfenesh Alemu. Reiko Tosa came in fifth, Olivera Jevtić in sixth and Naoko Sakamoto in seventh place. Eighth was the Russian Lyudmila Petrowa.
Mizuki Noguchi won the fourth Japanese medal in the women's marathon and the second consecutive gold medal for Japan.
Agueda Amaral was the first Olympian to start for East Timor . In 2000 she started as an Independent Olympian .
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 17:09 min | Kenza Wahbi with a large group | 17:09 min |
| 10 km | 34:25 min | Paula Radcliffe with a large leading group | 17:16 min |
| 15 km | 52:11 min | Mizuki Noguchi with a top group of nine | 17:46 min |
| 20 km | 1:09:57 h | Elfenesh Alemu with a top group of nine | 17:45 min |
| 25 km | 1:28:05 h | Mizuki Noguchi with a top group of 7 | 18:08 min |
| 30 km | 1:45:02 h | Mizuki Noguchi / Alemu - 28 s back / Radcliffe - 31 s back / Ndereba - 37 s back | 16:57 min |
| 35 km | 2:02:04 h | Mizuki Noguchi / Ndereba - 28 s back / Radcliffe - 1 min back | 17:02 min |
| 40 km | 2:19:00 h | Mizuki Noguchi / Ndereba - 12 s back / Alemu - 1:17 min back / Kastor - 1:35 min back | 16:56 min |
Result
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Silver medalist Catherine Ndereba from Kenya
Bronze medalist Deena Kastor, USA
The Japanese Olympic Fifth Reiko Tosa
Olivera Jevtić from Serbia and Montenegro finished sixth
The Italian Bruna Genovese came in tenth place
The Olympic eleventh Alice Chelangat from Kenya
The Romanian Nuța Olaru came in thirteenth
Živilė Balčiūnaitė from Lithuania was fourteenth
The Italian Rosaria Console came in sixteen
The Romanian Constantina Tomescu was twentieth
Brit Liz Yelling came in 25th
The Australian Kerryn McCann finished 31st
The Chinese Zhou Chunxiu took 33rd place
Sandra Ruales from Ecuador turned 36.
The Chilean Érika Olivera took 58th place
The Portuguese Ana Dias came in 62nd place
The Kenyan Margaret Okayo did not reach the goal
The German Ulrike Maisch gave up the race
The British Paula Radcliffe did not finish either
The Romania Lidia Șimon also gave up the race
Nadia Ejjafini from Bahrain was also one of the runners who did not finish
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Web links and sources
- marathoninfo.free.fr , accessed May 10, 2018
- 2004 Summer Olympics women's marathon from Sports-Reference.com database , accessed May 10, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed May 10, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 kB), accessed on May 10, 2018
Videos
- 2004 Olympics. Women's Marathon , published March 17, 2018 on youtube.com, accessed May 10, 2018
- DEENA KASTOR grabs Bronze @ 2004 ATHENS OLYMPIC MARATHON , published August 4, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on May 10, 2018
- PAULA RADCLIFFE Drops Out @ 2004 ATHENS OLYMPIC MARATHON , published August 3, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed May 10, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 807 , accessed on May 10, 2018
- ↑ Description of the route on Runscore.com (fr.) , Accessed on May 10, 2018
Men: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 110 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 3000 m obstacle | 4 × 100 m | 4 × 400 m | 20 km walking | 50 km walking | High jump | Pole vault | Long jump | Triple jump | Shot put | Discus throw | Hammer throw | Javelin throw | Decathlon
Women: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 100 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 4 × 100 m | 4 × 400 m | 20 km walking | High jump | Pole vault | Long jump | Triple jump | Shot put | Discus throw | Hammer throw | Javelin throw | Heptathlon