Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's marathon T12

Women's marathon T12 at the XVI Paralympic Games
Venue	Tokyo National Stadium
Dates	5 September 2021
Competitors	10 from 7 nations
Medalists
Misato Michishita  Japan Elena Pautova  RPC Louzanne Coetzee  South Africa
←2016

Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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
4×100 m relay	mixed
Road events
Marathon	men	women
Field events
Long jump	men	women
High jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Club throw	men	women
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The women's marathon T12 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, took place on 5 September 2021.

The T12 category is for athletes with visual impairment. Athletes in this category will generally have some residual sight, the ability to recognise the shape of a hand at a distance of 2 metres and the ability to perceive clearly will be no more than 2/60. T12 athletes commonly run with guides.

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[1]

World Record	Misato Michishita (JPN)	2:54:13	Hōfu, Japan	20 December 2020
Paralympic Record	Vacant	'

Area	Time	Athlete	Nation
Africa	3:18:11	Record Mark
America	3:05:03	Record Mark
Asia	2:54:13 WR	Misato Michishita	Japan
Europe	2:58:23	Elena Pautova	Russia
Oceania	Vacant

Results[]

The race took place on 5 September 2021, at 6:50:^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	Time	Notes
	Misato Michishita	Japan	T12	3:00:50	GR
	Elena Pautova Grigoriy Andreev (guide)	RPC	T12	3:04:16	SB
	Louzanne Coetzee	South Africa	T11	3:11:13	WR (T11)
4	Edneusa de Jesus Santos (guide)	Brazil	T12	3:15:32	SB
5		Japan	T12	3:17:44	SB
6		Portugal	T11	3:20:45	SB
7		Brazil	T11	3:26:32	AR (T11)
8		Japan	T12	3:29:12	SB
9	(guide)	Spain	T12	3:37:44	SB
		Morocco	T12

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