2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Marathon (Women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 156 athletes from 7) countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 14, 2016 | ||||||||
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The women's marathon at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on August 14, 2016. The start and finish were at the Sambodromo in central Rio de Janeiro . 156 athletes started, 133 finished the race.
The Kenyan Jemima Jelagat , who won ahead of Eunice Kirwa , who started for Bahrain, became Olympic champion . The Ethiopian Mare Dibaba won the bronze medal.
The German Anja Scherl crossed the finish line in 44th, Anna Hahner in 81st and her twin sister Lisa in 82nd.
The Swiss Maja Neuenschwander was 29th, the Austrian Andrea Mayr 64th.
Runners from Liechtenstein did not take part.
In April 2015, the IAAF set 2:42:00 h as the qualifying time that had to be achieved in a competition between January 1, 2015 and July 11, 2016.
Current titleholders
| Olympic Champion |
Tiki Gelana ( Ethiopia )
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2:23:07 h | London 2012 |
| world champion |
Mare Dibaba ( Ethiopia )
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2:27:35 h | Beijing 2015 |
| European champion |
Sara Moreira ( Portugal )
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1:10:19 h - half marathon | Amsterdam 2016 |
| North / Central America / Caribbean Champion | Competition not in the championship program | San José 2015 | |
| South America Champion |
Wilma Arizapana ( Peru )
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2:50:39 h | Asunción 2015 |
| Asian champion |
Kim Hye-gyong ( North Korea )
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2:31:46 h | Hong Kong 2015 |
| African champion | Competition not in the championship program | Durban 2016 | |
| Oceania Champion | Tarli Bird ( Australia )
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2:43:58 h | Gold Coast 2014 |
Existing records
| World record |
Paula Radcliffe ( Great Britain )
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2:15:25 h | London , UK | April 13, 2003 |
| Olympic record |
Tiki Gelana ( Ethiopia )
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2:23:07 h | London Marathon , UK | 5th August 2012 |
Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
Route
The race started on the Sambódromo , a grandstand street in the Cidade Nova district . After about seven hundred meters, the route turned right into Avenida Presidente Vargas and followed the course of the road to Avenida Rio Bravo . Here began a ten km long circuit that had to be completed three times. The route turned left to the northwest onto Avenida Rio Bravo . On Avenida Rodrigues Alves we went north, there the Museu do Amanhã located on a peninsula was circled. Back on Avenida Rodrigues Alves , the path ran eastwards along the shore to Rua Primeiro de Março , then further south to Lago do Praço . There was a left arch leading to Praça Mal. Âncora . Now it went back east along the bank to Avenida General Justo . There the route ran in a southerly direction to Avenida Marechal Câmara , from where the course turned north-west. Then the route led back to the starting point of the circuit with several curves.
After completing the three rounds, we continued on Avenida Dom Henrique back to the Botafogo district . At the height of Rua Marquês de Olinda was the turning point from which the route led back to the junction of the circular route. Here the route led to the left into Avenida Presidente Vargas , on which it went back to the Sambódromo .
Starting position
The circle of favorites consisted almost exclusively of African runners. The athletes who had been ahead at the last World Championships started with very good prospects . These were World Champion Mare Dibaba of Ethiopia, Vice World Champion helah kiprop from Kenya, the launching of Bahrain-born Kenyan Eunice Kirwa as WM -Third and the World Cup -Vierte Jemima Sumgong of Kenya. The two other Ethiopians Tigist Tufa and Tirfi Tsegaye were also rated highly. In addition, there was the Japanese World Cup seventh Mai Itō. The Chinese women, who were still very successful at the 2012 games, were no longer among the favorites.
Summary of the race
The runners stayed together for a long time after the start. At ten kilometer a first thirteen leading group was able to break away, which initially had only a small lead, in the meantime grew again, but then shrank back to thirteen runners. On the first half of the route, the Kenyan Visiline Jepkesho and the native Kenyan Rose Chelimo, who started for Bahrain, took the lead. At thirty kilometers, Chelimo, the two Ethiopians Dibaba and Tsegaye, the Kenyan Sumgong, the native Kenyan Kirwa, who also competed for Bahrain, the Belarusian Volha Masuronak and the American Shalane Flanagan were seven runners together at the top.
After 35 kilometers, Flanagan could no longer keep in touch with the leaders. As the next runner Chelimo had to tear down. The pace was kept fairly steady from the beginning up to this point , and the runners were very quick for the difficult external conditions in Rio . A few kilometers from the finish, Sumgong took the initiative, the former walker Masuronak and Tesfaye fell behind. Dibaba was also soon unable to keep up with the pace, but stayed ahead of Tsegaye and Masuronak.
Until the final kilometer, only Sumgong and Kirwa fought for the Olympic victory, Dibaba was the sole third, followed by a group of three with Tsegaye Masuronak and Chelimo in front of Flanagan. Jemima Sumgong also shook off her last rival by stepping up the pace one last time and secured the gold medal from Eunice Kirwa, who crossed the finish line nine seconds later. Mare Dibaba was third, Tirfi Tsegaye fourth and Wolha Masuronak fifth in front of the two Americans Shalane Flanagan and Desiree Linden. Rose Chelimo finished eighth in the end.
What was striking about the race was that two pairs of twins and a group of triples started. The twins came with Anna and Lisa Hahner from Germany as well as with Kim Hye-song and Kim Hye-gyong from North Korea, the triplets from Estonia - Leila, Liina and Lily Luik.
The Olympic marathon in Rio had the largest field of runners to date with 156 starters. The 133 athletes who crossed the finish line also set a new record.
Jemima Sumgong won the first Kenyan Olympic victory in the women's marathon . It was also the fifth medal for Kenya overall in this discipline. That made Kenya the most successful nation here.
| Split times | |||
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| Intermediate mark |
Meanwhile | Leading | 5 km time |
| 5 km | 17:23 min | Mare Dibaba with a large group | 17:23 min |
| 10 km | 34:22 min | Visiline Jepkesho with a group of 13 | 16:59 min |
| 15 km | 51:43 min | Rose Chelimo with a group of 16 | 17:21 min |
| 20 km | 1:09:07 h | Visiline Jepkesho with a group of 13 | 17:24 min |
| 25 km | 1:26:07 h | Rose Chelimo with a group of 9 | 17:00 min |
| 30 km | 1:43:21 h | Tsegaye / Dibaba / Chelimo / Kirwa / Sumgong / Masuronak / Flanagan | 17:14 min |
| 35 km | 2:00:31 h | Dibaba / Tsegaye / Chelimo / Masuronak / Kirwa / Sumgong / Flanagan | 17:10 min |
| 40 km | 2:17:02 h | Sumgong / Kirwa - Dibaba 3 s back - Tsegaye / Chelimo / Masuronak 30 s back - Flanagan 49 s back | 16:39 min |
Result
August 14, 2016, 9:30 a.m.
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Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 12, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF Women's Marathon World Association , accessed on October 12, 2018
- Sports-Reference, Result of the Women's Marathon , accessed on October 12, 2018
Video
- Rio Replay: Women's Marathon Final Race on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 12, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 807 , accessed on October 12, 2018
- ↑ Course overview on Runner's World (English) , accessed on October 12, 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 | 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