Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's marathon

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Medalists

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World Olympic Record
world_athlete = flagicon|GBR Paula Radcliffe (GBR)
world_mark = 2:15:25
world_place = London, United Kingdom
world_date = 13 April 2003
olympic_athlete = flagIOCathlete|Naoko Takahashi|JPN|2000 Summer
olympic_mark = 2:23:14
olympic_place = Sydney, Australia
olympic_date = 9 September 2000

Neither record was broken.

Results

Key: NR = National Record, SB = Season Best, PB = Personal Best, sort|9:99:99|DNF = Did Not Finish, sort|9:99:99|DNS = Did Not Start

References

External links

* [http://www.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATW099100/standings.html Official list of participants, and their results]