1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

Events at the 1995 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The Women's Marathon at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden was held on Sunday August 5, 1995. Due to judges' error the marathon course was 400 metres short of the normal distance as at the start the women left the stadium one lap too early.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Manuela Machado Portugal (POR)
Silver	Anuța Cătună Romania (ROM)
Bronze	Ornella Ferrara Italy (ITA)

Abbreviations[]

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 1995 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)	2:21:06	April 21, 1985	London, United Kingdom
Event Record	Rosa Mota (POR)	2:25:17	August 29, 1987	Rome, Italy
	Uta Pippig (GER)	2:25:11	April 17, 1995	Boston, United States

Intermediates[]

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Final ranking[]

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Manuela Machado (POR)	2:25:39
	Anuța Cătună (ROM)	2:26:25
	Ornella Ferrara (ITA)	2:30:11
4	Małgorzata Sobańska (POL)	2:31:10
5	Ritva Lemettinen (FIN)	2:31:19
6	Mónica Pont (ESP)	2:31:53
7	Linda Somers (USA)	2:32:12
8	Sonja Krolik (GER)	2:32:17
9	(JPN)	2:33:07
10	Lidia Șimon (ROM)	2:33:18
11	Miki Igarashi (JPN)	2:34:34
12	(JPN)	2:35:33
13	Kirsi Rauta (FIN)	2:35:39
14	Jane Salumäe (EST)	2:35:53
15	Kerryn McCann (AUS)	2:36:29
16	Kimberly Rosenquist-Jones (USA)	2:37:06
17	(SWE)	2:37:17
18	(AUS)	2:37:38
19	Fatuma Roba (ETH)	2:39:27
20	Nelly Glauser (SUI)	2:40:42
21	Maria Luisa Muñoz (ESP)	2:41:37
22	Trudi Thomson (GBR)	2:41:42
23	Judit Földing-Nagy (HUN)	2:42:03
24	(RUS)	2:42:12
25	(IRL)	2:43:20
26	(TUR)	2:44:36
27	Aura Buia (ROM)	2:45:13
28	(GBR)	2:45:52
29	Nyla Carroll (NZL)	2:50:25
30	Chu Winnie Ng Lai (HKG)	3:01:08
31	(GUA)	3:02:02
32	(PAN)	3:05:00
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	(MEX)	DNF
—	Dorthe Rasmussen (DEN)	DNF
—	Birgit Jerschabek (GER)	DNF
—	Nadia Prasad (FRA)	DNF
—	Carole Rouillard (CAN)	DNF
—	Angelina Kanana (KEN)	DNF
—	Anita Håkenstad (NOR)	DNF
—	Rocío Ríos (ESP)	DNF
—	(RUS)	DNF
—	Elaine Van Blunk (USA)	DNF
—	Nadezhda Ilyina (RUS)	DNF
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	(BRA)	DNS

See also[]

• Women's Olympic Marathon (1996)

References[]

• Results