1997 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

Events at the 1997 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 1997 World Championships in Athens, Greece was held on Saturday August 9, 1997, with the start at 08:05h local time.

Medalists[]

Gold	Hiromi Suzuki Japan (JPN)
Silver	Manuela Machado Portugal (POR)
Bronze	Lidia Simon Romania (ROM)

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships
World record	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	2:21:06	April 21, 1985	London, United Kingdom
Championships record	Rosa Mota	Portugal	2:25:17	August 29, 1987	Rome, Italy
	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	2:22:07	April 20, 1997	Rotterdam, Netherlands

Final ranking[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
	Hiromi Suzuki	(JPN)	2:29:48
	Manuela Machado	(POR)	2:31:12
	Lidia Simon	(ROM)	2:31:55
4	Takako Tobise	(JPN)	2:32:18
5	Ornella Ferrara	Italy (ITA)	2:33:10
6	Iris Biba	(GER)	2:34:06
7	Sonja Krolik	(GER)	2:35:28
8	Franziska Rochat-Moser	(SUI)	2:36:16
9		(RUS)	2:36:37
10	Nobuko Fujimura	(JPN)	2:36:51
11	Anuța Cătună	(ROM)	2:38:38
12	Maria Polizou	Greece (GRE)	2:39:10
13	Franca Fiacconi	Italy (ITA)	2:39:53
14	Christine Mallo	(FRA)	2:40:55
15	Elfenesh Alemu	(ETH)	2:41:00
16	Grete Kirkeberg	(NOR)	2:41:05
17		(FRA)	2:41:08
18	Aurica Buia	(ROM)	2:41:45
19		(JPN)	2:42:00
20	Heather Turland	(AUS)	2:42:12
21	Rocío Ríos	(ESP)	2:42:18
22	Judit Földing-Nagy	(HUN)	2:42:21
23	Angharad Mair	(GBR)	2:42:31
24	Laura Fogli	Italy (ITA)	2:43:28
25		(USA)	2:43:42
26		(BLR)	2:43:47
27	Anna Villani	Italy (ITA)	2:43:58
28		(GBR)	2:44:20
29	Tomoe Abe	(JPN)	2:45:19
30	Nuţa Olaru	(ROM)	2:47:12
31	Elena Vinitskaya	(BLR)	2:47:57
32		(GER)	2:48:45
33		(ETH)	2:48:54
34		(FRA)	2:48:57
35		(GBR)	2:49:03
36		(USA)	2:49:43
37		(RUS)	2:50:29
38		(RSA)	2:50:36
39		(FRA)	2:50:38
40		(USA)	2:51:59
41	Irina Timofeyeva	(RUS)	2:53:01
42		Greece (GRE)	2:54:03
43	Lo Man Yi	(HKG)	2:54:59
44	Alemitu Bekele	(ETH)	2:55:06
45		Greece (GRE)	2:56:58
46		(MEX)	2:58:22
47	Carolyn Hunter-Rowe	(GBR)	3:01:01
48	May Allison	(CAN)	3:01:26
49	Danuta Bartoszek	(CAN)	3:01:30
50		(RSA)	3:04:05
51		(MEX)	3:12:55
52		(HON)	3:17:33
53		(ARU)	3:22:08
54	Gulsara Dadabayeva	(TJK)	3:30:45
—		(ETH)	DNF
—	Fatuma Roba	(ETH)	DNF
—	Jane Salumäe	(EST)	DNF
—	Alina Tecuta	(ROM)	DNF
—	Sonia Maccioni	Italy (ITA)	DNF
—	Birgit Jerschabek	(GER)	DNF
—		(POR)	DNF
—		(BLR)	DNF
—	Alena Mazouka	(BLR)	DNF
—	Alina Ivanova	(RUS)	DNF
—	Nicole Carroll	(AUS)	DNF
—	Anita Håkenstad	(NOR)	DNF
—		(FRA)	DNF
—		(USA)	DNF
—		(USA)	DNF
—		(MEX)	DNF
—		(MEX)	DNF
—		(CHI)	DNF
—		Greece (GRE)	DNF
—		Greece (GRE)	DNF

See also[]

• Women's Olympic Marathon (1996)
• 1997 World Marathon Cup

References[]

• todor66
• athletix