The women's marathon at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium and Moscow streets on 10 August.Start list
The first event of these World Championships started under hot and humid conditions at 2 in the afternoon. The race was dominated by the front running of 37-year-old Italian Valeria Straneo, leading at every split point. Like the 2012 Olympics, this did not look like the day for defending champion Edna Kiplagat, by 10K she had already dropped almost 30 seconds off the pace set by a large pack of leaders. By 15K, Kiplagat had joined the pack of 7 leaders, which also included Jia Chaofeng, Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Valentine Jepkorir Kipketer, Meselech Melkamu, Feyse Tadese and Kayoko Fukushi with the rest of the field being single or double marathoners, without any chase group. The pack lost individuals, Jia was the first to exit, followed by Tadese, Kipketer and Kabuu. By the time Fukushi lost some ground, the closest remaining chaser was her teammate Ryoko Kizaki over a minute back. When Melkamu left, she left quickly leaving a two-woman race to the finish. In the shadow of the stadium, Kiplagat pulled away from Straneo through the Olympic Park to a 14-second victory, Fukushi about 2 minutes back to get the bronze. Kiplagat is the first woman to repeat as champion in the marathon.
Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record2:15:25London, United Kingdom13 April 2003Championship record2:20:57Helsinki, Finland14 August 2005World leading2:20:15London, United Kingdom21 April 2013African record2:18:37London, United Kingdom22 April 2012Asian record2:19:12Berlin, Germany25 September 2005NACAC record2:19:36London, United Kingdom23 April 2006South American record2:28:54London, United Kingdom5 August 2012European record2:15:25London, United Kingdom13 April 2003Oceanian record2:22:36Chicago, United States22 October 2006
Qualification standards
Time 2:43:00
Schedule Date Time Round10 August 2013 14:00 Final
Results KEY:NRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Final The race was started at 14:00.Final Results
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Edna Kiplagat 2:25:44 Valeria Straneo 2:25:58 SB Kayoko Fukushi 2:27:45 Ryoko Kizaki 2:31:28 Alessandra Aguilar 2:32:38 Emma Quaglia 2:34:16 SB Madaí Pérez 2:34:23 SB Kim Hye-Gyong 2:35:49 Deena Kastor 2:36:12 SB 10 Susan Partridge 2:36:24 11 Jessica Trengove 2:37:11 SB 12 Diana Lobačevskė 2:37:48 13 Aberu Kebede 2:38:04 14 Kim Hye-Song 2:38:28 15 Lishan Dula 2:38:47 SB 16 Sonia Samuels 2:38:47 SB 17 Sin Yong-Sun 2:39:22 18 Dorothy McMahan 2:39:52 SB 19 Ding Changqin 2:40:13 20 Živilė Balčiūnaitė 2:41:09 SB 21 Albina Mayorova 2:41:19 22 Nadezhda Leonteva 2:42:49 23 Jeannette Faber 2:44:03 SB 24 Lucy Wangui Kabuu 2:44:06 SB 25 Alina Armas 2:45:09 26 Alevtina Biktimirova 2:45:11 27 Tatyana Aryasova 2:45:27 28 Wei Xiaojie 2:46:46 29 Kalliopi Astropekaki 2:47:12 30 Remalda Kergytė 2:47:30 31 Kateryna Karmanenko 2:48:18 SB 32 Kim Seong-Eun 2:48:46 33 Carmen Oliveras 2:48:58 34 Cao Mojie 2:49:15 35 Renate Wyss 2:50:41 36 Karina Córdoba 2:51:07 SB 37 Mary Davies 2:51:24 38 Iuliia Andreeva 2:53:16 39 Erika Abril 2:55:13 40 Lauren Shelley 2:55:40 SB 41 Karina Neipán 2:56:02 SB 42 Tanith Maxwell 2:56:37 SB 43 Zuleima Amaya 2:58:22 44 Lanni Marchant 3:01:54 SB 45 Nicole Chapple 3:05:49 46 Daneja Grandovec 3:10:46 SB Nebiat Habtemariam Taking refreshment out of official station Érika Olivera Chen Yu-Hsuan He Yinli Jia Chaofeng Jane Fardell Yolymar Pineda Valentine Jepkorir Kipketer María Peralta Leena Ekandjo Feyse Tadese Kim Mi-Gyong Meselech Melkamu Tiki Gelana Mizuki Noguchi Meseret Hailu Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar Sultan Haydar Ümmü Kiraz Helalia Johannes Slađana Perunović Krista DuChene Beata Naigambo Maria McCambridge Patricia Morceli Bühler Rosa Chacha
References
External links
Marathon results at IAAF website