2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Women)
 
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| sport | athletics |
| discipline | Marathon run |
| gender | Women |
| place |
Tian'anmen Square (start) Beijing National Stadium (finish) |
| Attendees | 81 athletes from 48 countries |
| Competition phase | August 17, 2008 |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Constantina Diță ( ROM )
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 silver |
Catherine Ndereba ( KEN )
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 bronze |
Zhou Chunxiu ( CHN )
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The women's marathon at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , China's capital , was held on August 17th.
The course ran through the Olympic city of Beijing to the finish in the national stadium . 81 athletes started, 69 of them reached the finish. The Olympic champion was the Romanian Constantina Diță , silver went to Catherine Ndereba from Kenya, bronze went to the Chinese Zhou Chunxiu .
This competition was also the third run of the World Marathon Majors of the year.
Current titleholders
| Olympic Champion 2004 |
Mizuki Noguchi ( Japan )
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2:26:20 h | Athens 2004 |
| World Champion 2007 |
Catherine Ndereba ( Kenya )
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2:30:37 h | Osaka 2007 |
| European Champion 2006 |
Ulrike Maisch ( Germany )
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2:30:01 h | Gothenburg 2006 |
| Pan American Champion 2007 |
Mariela González ( Cuba )
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2:43:11 h | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion 2008 | Marathon run not in the championship program | Cali 2008 | |
| South American Champion 2007 | São Paulo 2007 | ||
| Asian Champion 2007 | Amman 2007 | ||
| Africa Champion 2008 | Addis Ababa 2008 | ||
| Oceania Champion 2008 | Marie Benito ( Guam )
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1: 35: 20.83 h - half marathon | Saipan 2008 |
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 |
Starting position
The Kenyan world champion from 2007 , vice world champion from 2005 and Olympic runner-up in 2004 Catherine Ndereba started as a particular favorite . In addition, there was a larger group of medal contenders. Among them were the Chinese vice world champion from 2007 and World Cup fifth from 2005 Zhou Chunxiu, the Japanese World Cup third from 2007 and Olympic fifth from 2004 Reiko Tosa, the Chinese World Cup fourth from 2007 Zhu Xiaolin and also the two Romanians Lidia Șimon as World Cup - Fifth in 2007 and Constantina Diță-Tomescu in third place in the World Cup in 2005. The British world record holder and world champion from 2005 Paula Radcliffe also competed after an injury break, but under these circumstances was not in the great shape of previous years.
Course of competition
August 17, 2008 , 7:30 a.m.
The feared conditions with extreme heat did not prevail. There was light rain and temperatures a little over 20 ° Celsius. Nevertheless, the runners approached the race very cautiously with a 5 km run time of 18:24 minutes. A larger field remained together up to half of the route, the 5 km sections were now run in about 17:40 minutes. Then Diță-Tomescu accelerated the pace considerably and set himself apart from her opponents all alone. She gradually extended her lead to over a minute. At kilometer 35 an eight-man chase group had formed, in which the Kenyans Martha Komu and Ndereba, the Chinese Zhou and Zhu, the British Mara Yamauchi, the Russian Irina Timofejewa, Șimon and the Algerian Souad Ait Salem ran.
Diță-Tomescu kept her lead over the next five kilometers as well, she continued her consistently high pace. Six runners were still eligible for the medals behind the Romanian at forty kilometers. The two Chinese women and the two Kenyans ran together. Yamauchi and Timofejewa followed, four seconds behind. In the last few kilometers, Diță-Tomescu no longer had to give everything. The distance to the pursuers was big enough and with a 22 second lead Constantina Diță-Tomescu became Olympic champion. In the battle for the silver medal, Ndereba and Zhou had set themselves apart from their competitors by just under ten seconds. There was a real spurt on the home straight, which Catherine Ndereba won. Zhou Chunxiu won the bronze medal a second behind her, ahead of her compatriot Zhu Xiaolin and Martha Komu. Mara Yamauchi was sixth, Irina Timofejewa was seventh ahead of Lidia Șimon.
Constantina Diță-Tomescu won after Lidia Șimon's silver in 2004 the first gold medal for Romania in the marathon and the second for her country in this discipline.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 18:24 min | Liz Yelling with a large group | 18:24 min |
| 10 km | 36:10 min | Liz Yelling with a large group | 17:46 min |
| 15 km | 53:52 min | Souad Aït Salem with a large group | 17:42 min |
| 20 km | 1:11:27 h | Constantina Diță-Tomescu with a large group | 17:35 min |
| 25 km | 1:28:16 h | Constantina Diță-Tomescu 34 s in front of a larger group of pursuers | 16:49 min |
| 30 km | 1:45:04 h | Constantina Diță-Tomescu 57 s ahead of a larger group of pursuers | 16:48 min |
| 35 km | 2:02:00 h | Constantina Diță-Tomescu 1:10 min in front of a group of 8 pursuers | 16:56 min |
| 40 km | 2:19:07 h | Constantina Diță-Tomescu 1:00 min ahead of a group of four chasing packs | 17:07 min |
result
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Olympic champion Constantina Diță-Tomescu, Romania
Silver medal for the Kenyan Catherine Ndereba
Bronze medalist Zhou Chunxiu from China
The Chinese Olympic champion Zhu Xiaolin
The British Mara Yamauchi is sixth
The Romanian Lidia Șimon comes in eighth place
Ninth place for the Algerian Souad Ali Salem
The Olympic tenth Salina Kosgei from Kenya
Živilė Balčiūnaitė from Lithuania came in eleventh
The Italian Anna Incerti is tenth in the Olympic Games
The Mexican Madaí Pérez comes in nineteenth
Web links
- Detailed Results Women's Marathon on web.archive.org, accessed June 24, 2018
- 2008 Summer Olympics women's marathon from Sports-Reference.com database , accessed June 24, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 kB), accessed on June 24, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Women's Marathon - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 16, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 24, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 5, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 5, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 kB), accessed June 5, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 kB), accessed on June 5, 2018
- ↑ IAAF World Records, Women's Marathon , accessed on June 24, 2018
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Women: 100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Marathon | 100 m hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 3000 m obstacle | 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