2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

Events at the 2007 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	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's marathon event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on 2 September 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

Medallists[]

Gold	Catherine Ndereba  Kenya (KEN)
Silver	Zhou Chunxiu  China (CHN)
Bronze	Reiko Tosa   (JPN)

Abbreviations[]

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records[]

Results[]

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya (KEN)	2:30:37	SB
	Zhou Chunxiu	China (CHN)	2:30:45
	Reiko Tosa	(JPN)	2:30:55	SB
4	Zhu Xiaolin	China (CHN)	2:31:21
5	Lidia Simon	(ROM)	2:31:26	SB
6	Kiyoko Shimahara	(JPN)	2:31:40	SB
7	Rita Jeptoo	Kenya (KEN)	2:32:03	SB
8	Edith Masai	Kenya (KEN)	2:32:22
9	Mara Yamauchi	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:32:55
10	Lyubov Morgunova	(RUS)	2:33:41
11	Zhang Shujing	China (CHN)	2:33:46
12	Gulnara Vygovskaya	(RUS)	2:33:57
13	Nina Rillstone	New Zealand (NZL)	2:33:58	SB
14	Mari Ozaki	(JPN)	2:35:04
15	Madaí Pérez	(MEX)	2:35:17
16	Souad Aït Salem	Algeria (ALG)	2:35:29
17	Anna Incerti	Italy (ITA)	2:36:36	SB
18	Yumiko Hara	(JPN)	2:36:40
19	Tracey Morris	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:36:40	SB
20	Melanie Kraus	(GER)	2:37:20
21		China (CHN)	2:37:53
22	Askale Tafa	(ETH)	2:38:01
23	Yasuko Hashimoto	(JPN)	2:38:36
24	Rose Cheruiyot	Kenya (KEN)	2:38:56
25	Hellen Jemaiyo Kimutai	Kenya (KEN)	2:39:14
26	Deborah Toniolo	Italy (ITA)	2:39:46	SB
27		(SWE)	2:41:15
28	Alina Gherasim	(ROM)	2:41:40
29	Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu	(NOR)	2:41:57
30	Helena Javornik	Slovenia (SLO)	2:42:03
31		United States (USA)	2:42:23
32	Nailiya Yulamanova	(RUS)	2:42:56
33	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	(LTU)	2:43:28
34	Tabitha Tsatsa	(ZIM)	2:44:20
35		United States (USA)	2:44:49
36	Anália Rosa	(POR)	2:45:38	SB
37	Wei Yanan	China (CHN)	2:45:50
38	Dana Coons	United States (USA)	2:46:12	SB
39		Denmark (DEN)	2:46:22
40	Bahar Doğan	(TUR)	2:46:25
41	Nili Abramski	Israel (ISR)	2:46:27
42		United States (USA)	2:47:06
43	Susanne Hahn	(GER)	2:47:29
44	Lim Kyung-Hee	South Korea (KOR)	2:49:30	SB
45	Chae Eun-Hee	South Korea (KOR)	2:50:26
46	Eleni Donta	Greece (GRE)	2:50:59
47	Zekiros Adanech	(ETH)	2:54:00
48	Lucilla Andreucci	Italy (ITA)	2:56:19
49		United States (USA)	2:56:27	SB
50	Georgia Abatzidou	Greece (GRE)	2:59:22	SB
51		(PYF)	3:03:08	SB
52	Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar	(MGL)	3:04:59	SB
53		(LIE)	3:11:45
54	Tanith Maxwell	South Africa (RSA)	3:14:56
55		South Africa (RSA)	3:23:55
56		(ETH)	3:26:45
57	Melissa Henderson	(BIZ)	3:52:35
	Luciah Kimani	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	DNF
	Domingas Embana Togna	(GBS)	DNF
	Lioudmila Kortchaguina	(RUS)	DNF
	Angélica Sánchez	(MEX)	DNF
	Dire Tune	(ETH)	DNF
	Luminița Talpoș	(ROM)	DNF
	Galina Bogomolova	(RUS)	DNF
	Nuţa Olaru	(ROM)	DNF
	Giovanna Volpato	Italy (ITA)	DNF
	Shitaye Gemechu	(ETH)	DNS

Team[]

Place	Country	Mark
1	Kenya	7:35:02
2	China	7:35:52
3	Japan	7:37:39
4	Russia	7:50:34
5	Italy	8:12:41
6	United States	8:13:24
7	Ethiopia	8:58:46

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See also[]

• 2007 World Marathon Cup

References[]

External links[]

• Full results - IAAF.org
• Event report - IAAF.org