2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

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Women's Marathon
at the 2017 World Championships
Tower Bridge
VenueAlong the streets of London, starting and finishing on Tower Bridge
Date6 August 2017
Competitors91 from 46 nations
Winning time2:27:11
Medalists
gold medal Rose Chelimo   Bahrain
silver medal Edna Kiplagat   Kenya
bronze medal Amy Cragg   
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The women's marathon was one of the road events at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London. It took place on 6 August 2017 on the streets of London, and consisted of four laps of a roughly 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) course which passed several of London's landmarks. For the first time in World Championships history, the men's and women's marathons took place on the same day. The race was won by Rose Chelimo of Bahrain in 2:27:11, seven seconds ahead of Kenya's Edna Kiplagat in second. Amy Cragg of the United States finished in third, separated from Kiplagat by less than a second.

Flomena Cheyech Daniel
fought for third place. Ultimately, sprint finishes from Chelimo and Cragg secured them first and third respectively.

Qualification

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF, now known as World Athletics) announced the qualifying criteria for the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in March 2016. For the women's marathon, the entry standard was 2:45:00,[1] one minute slower than for the 2015 World Championships, and the same as for the 2016 Olympics. Entry criteria had to be met during the qualification period: 1 October 2016, and 23 July 2017, inclusive.[2]

Preview

In November 2016, the marathon route was announced; the course consisted of four laps of a roughly 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) route passing by some of London's historic landmarks.[3] The course started and finished on Tower Bridge, travelled along Victoria Embankment along the River Thames until it reached the Houses of Parliament, looped away from the river past St Paul's Cathedral, before heading back to the Tower of London. Niels de Vos, the tournament director, said that the route was designed to be as flat as possible to allow for the possibility of fast times, while also aiming to use well-known landmarks to provide "a stunning backdrop to a huge global TV audience".[4]

For the first time in the World Championships, the men's and women's marathons were scheduled to take place on the same day; the men's race at 10:55 and the women's at 14:00.[4] The weather was forecast to be between 14 and 21 °C (57 and 70 °F), with a 18-kilometre-per-hour (11 mph) southwesterly wind which LetsRun.com suggested could be particularly significant on the exposed parts of the route along the river.[5]

The race featured ten women who had previously completed sub-2:22 marathons, leading LetsRun.com to speculate that "You won’t find a deeper marathon on planet Earth this year than the women's race at the 2017 World Championships."

Mary Keitany, who had broken the women-only marathon world record earlier in the year,[7] did not take part in the World Championships, opting instead to prepare for the 2017 New York City Marathon.[5]

Summary

The race started at 14:00 on 6 August 2017, in temperatures of 19 °C (66 °F) and a humidity level of 56%.[8] In the opening stages of the race, Portugal's Catarina Ribeiro broke away and led the first ten kilometres (6.2 mi) of the race, before she was caught by Alyson Dixon of Great Britain.[9] Ribeiro ultimately dropped out of the race, and did not finish.[8] Dixon ran alone at the head of the field, and by the halfway stage she had established a 30-second gap to the pack behind.[9] During the second half of the race, the main group closed the gap on Dixon, narrowing it to 14 seconds by the 25-kilometre (16 mi) point, and catching her just before the 30-kilometre (19 mi) point.[10] Dixon, who stayed with the leading pack for another 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) before falling back to finish 18th,[10] said after "I never in my wildest dreams expected to be leading. If you can't enjoy running a World Championship in London with that support, what are you in the sport for?"[11]

After the pack caught Dixon, Kiplagat initially took on the lead, before Australia's

Jessica Trengove took over around the 35-kilometre (22 mi) mark.[10] By this stage, the leading group contained fourteen runners, but Chelimo soon increased the pace and split the pack up.[12] A group of four runners broke away at the front: Chelimo; Kiplagat; Amy Cragg of the United States; and Kenya's Flomena Cheyech Daniel.[13] Kiplagat made the next push,[10] and led with just over 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to go; Canadian Running's Sinead Mulhern compared the finish to that of the Boston Marathon earlier in the year, when Kiplagat had beaten Chelimo in a sprint finish.[9] On this occasion, Chelimo counter-attacked and moved back ahead of Kiplagat, who could not respond; and Chelimo held on to claim the gold medal by seven seconds, in 2:27:11. Behind the pair, Cragg managed a sprint finish to beat Daniel to third place, and almost caught Kiplagat; both runners were credited with a finish time of 2:27.18.[10] Dagmara Handzlik of Cyprus, who finished 35th in a time of 2:38:52, established a new national record.[8]

Results

Results[8]
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rose Chelimo  Bahrain (BHR) 2:27:11 SB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Edna Kiplagat  Kenya (KEN) 2:27:18 SB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Amy Cragg  United States (USA) 2:27:18 SB
4
Flomena Cheyech Daniel
  Kenya (KEN) 2:27:21
5 Shure Demise  Ethiopia (ETH) 2:27:58
6 Eunice Kirwa  Bahrain (BHR) 2:28:17
7 Helah Kiprop  Kenya (KEN) 2:28:19
8 Mare Dibaba  Ethiopia (ETH) 2:28:49 SB
9
Jessica Trengove
  Australia (AUS) 2:28:59
10
Berhane Dibaba
  Ethiopia (ETH) 2:29:01
11 Serena Burla  United States (USA) 2:29:32
12 Aselefech Mergia  Ethiopia (ETH) 2:29:43
13 Charlotte Purdue  
Great Britain & N.I.
 (GBR)		 2:29:48
14 Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová  Czech Republic (CZE) 2:29:56 PB
15 Kim Hye-gyong  North Korea (PRK) 2:30:29 SB
16 Mao Kiyota  Japan (JPN) 2:30:36
17 Yuka Ando  Japan (JPN) 2:31:31
18 Alyson Dixon  
Great Britain & N.I.
 (GBR)		 2:31:36
19 Helalia Johannes  Namibia (NAM) 2:32:01
20 Sinead Diver  Australia (AUS) 2:33:26
21 Marta Esteban  Spain (ESP) 2:33:37 SB
22 Fate Tola  Germany (GER) 2:33:39
23
Izabela Trzaskalska
  Poland (POL) 2:35:03
24 Milly Clark  Australia (AUS) 2:35:27 SB
25 Anne-Mari Hyryläinen  Finland (FIN) 2:35:33
26 Inés Melchor  Peru (PER) 2:35:34
27 Risa Shigetomo  Japan (JPN) 2:36:03
28 Filomena Costa  Portugal (POR) 2:36:42 SB
29 Jo Un-ok  North Korea (PRK) 2:36:46
30 Beata Naigambo  Namibia (NAM) 2:37:24 SB
31 Ilona Marhele  Latvia (LAT) 2:37:40 PB
32 Rosa Chacha  Ecuador (ECU) 2:37:50
33
Claire McCarthy
  Ireland (IRL) 2:38:26 SB
34 Lim Kyung-hee  South Korea (KOR) 2:38:38
35 Dagmara Handzlik  Cyprus (CYP) 2:38:52 NR
36 Katarzyna Kowalska  Poland (POL) 2:39:39
37 Lindsay Flanagan  United States (USA) 2:39:47 SB
38 Kim Seong-eun  South Korea (KOR) 2:39:52
39
Katharina Heinig
  Germany (GER) 2:39:59 SB
40 Mapaseka Makhanya  South Africa (RSA) 2:40:15 SB
41 [[Lonah Chemtai Salpeter {{{last}}}|Lonah Chemtai Salpeter {{{last}}}]]  Israel (ISR) 2:40:22 SB
42 Viktoriia Poliudina  Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) 2:40:28 PB
43
Tracy Barlow
  
Great Britain & N.I.
 (GBR)		 2:41:03
44 Darya Mykhaylova  Ukraine (UKR) 2:41:29
45 Vaida Žūsinaitė  Lithuania (LTU) 2:41:44 SB
46 Paula González Berodia  Spain (ESP) 2:42:47
47 Rutendo Nyahora  Zimbabwe (ZIM) 2:42:53 SB
48 Tetyana Vernyhor  Ukraine (UKR) 2:43:12
49 Wilma Arizapana  Peru (PER) 2:43:13
50 Lavinia Haitope  Namibia (NAM) 2:44:02
51 Tarah Korir  Canada (CAN) 2:44:30
52
Khishigsaikhan Galbadrakh
  Mongolia (MGL) 2:44:48
53
Anita Kažemaka
  Latvia (LAT) 2:44:49 SB
54 Choi Kyung-sun  South Korea (KOR) 2:45:46
55 Dailín Belmonte  Cuba (CUB) 2:46:15 SB
56 Sara Ramadhani  Tanzania (TAN) 2:46:23
57 Bojana Bjeljac  Croatia (CRO) 2:46:46
58
Munkhzaya Bayartsogt
  Mongolia (MGL) 2:46:59
59 Jenna Challenor  South Africa (RSA) 2:47:22 SB
60 Lisa Ring  Sweden (SWE) 2:48:39
61 Carmen Toaquiza  Ecuador (ECU) 2:48:45
62 Rosa Godoy  Argentina (ARG) 2:49:30 SB
63 Maor Tiyouri  Israel (ISR) 2:49:45 SB
64 Monika Athare  India (IND) 2:49:54
65 Liu Qinghong  China (CHN) 2:52:21 SB
66 Iuliia Andreeva  Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) 2:53:17 SB
67 Liliana Maria Dragomir  Romania (ROM) 2:53:30
68 Mayada Al-Sayad  Palestine (PLE) 2:54:58 SB
69 Matea Matošević  Croatia (CRO) 2:55:06 SB
70 Dayna Pidhoresky  Canada (CAN) 2:56:15
71 Gloria Privileggio  Greece (GRE) 2:57:06
72 Angela Brito  Ecuador (ECU) 2:58:21
73 Yelena Nanaziashvili  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 2:58:32
74
Fortunale Chidzivo
  Zimbabwe (ZIM) 2:58:51 SB
75 Teodora Simović  Serbia (SRB) 2:59:01
76 Nikolina Stepan  Croatia (CRO) 2:59:43
77 María Grazzia Bianchi  Venezuela (VEN) 3:04:11
78 Marisa Casanueva  Spain (ESP) 3:05:03
DNF Cao Mojie  China (CHN) DNF
Fadime Suna Çelik
  Turkey (TUR)
Kenza Dahmani  
Algeria
 (ALG)
Hsieh Chien-ho  Chinese Taipei (TPE)
Viktoria Khapilina  Ukraine (UKR)
Kim Hye-song  North Korea (PRK)
Yolimar Pineda  Venezuela (VEN)
Ourania Rebouli  Greece (GRE)
Catarina Ribeiro  Portugal (POR)
Magdalena Shauri  Tanzania (TAN)
Paula Todoran  Romania (ROM)
Hiruni Kesara Wijayaratne
  Sri Lanka (SRI)
Louise Wiker  Sweden (SWE)
DNS Yelena Dolinin  Israel (ISR) DNS

References

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