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Women's marathon
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Women's marathon; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
	Rose Harvey of Great Britain runs past the Palace of Versailles, retracing the route of the Women's March on Versailles.
Venue	Paris
Date	11 August 2024;
Winning time	2:22:55 OR
Medalists
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The women's marathon at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 11 August 2024, the 11th time that the women's marathon has been contested at the Summer Olympics.

Summary

The temperatures for the women's marathon were a little warmer than for the men the day before, at 67 degrees Fahrenheit at the start.^[2] As is typical for championship marathons, a giant lead pack congealed and reduced in size as individuals fell off the back. By 15 kilometers, 21 runners remained. There was a 428-metre (1,400 feet) hill climb over the next 3K. Mélody Julien of host France used the home field advantage to break away to a 15-meter lead toward the Palace of Versailles. An hour in, Jessica Stenson then took the lead. At the halfway point, following the major portion of the hill, Julien, Stenson and Dakotah Lindwurm were the top three.

After passing a water station near the Palace, Lindwurm emerged off the front, but Lonah Chemtai Salpeter and Sardana Trofimova, caught up at 24K. Salpeter continued on the front but in less than a kilometre, Tigst Assefa and Peres Jepchirchir closed in. Over the next 5K, the pack whittled down to 12. At about 28K, the race had its steepest climb, some of it up to a 13.5% grade—more than one and a half times the Hors catégorie in the Tour de France. Amane Beriso Shankule took the lead there, followed by a smaller pack including Assefa, Hellen Obiri, Salpeter, Jepchirchir, Sharon Lokedi, Eunice Chumba, Delvine Relin Meringor, and Yuka Suzuki.

On the downhill, though, in less than a kilometre, Sifan Hassan, known for her fast finishing kick, caught up to the pack. Over the next 5K, the pack had reduced to Shankule, Assefa, Obiri, Lokedi, Meringor, Suzuki and Hassan. Meringor and Suzuki fell off over the next 5 kilometres. Going into the final 2K, Shankule was the first to go as Obiri and Assefa battled at the front. Lokedi was behind the two with Hassan. But then Lokedi, followed by Obiri began to struggle, and as they fell back, Hassan accelerated. Assefa also accelerated around one turn, but Hassan switched sides sprinting the tangent to pass on the inside of the next turn. Assefa dipped her shoulder to cut off space between her body and the barricade. But Hassan pushed Assefa away to make the pass just as they passed the 42 km marker. Over the final 195 metre sprint, Hassan took the lead, hitting the finish banner for the gold medal three seconds ahead of silver medalist Assefa. Obiri won the bronze, 12 seconds further back.^[3]

Hassan's winning margin of three seconds over a distance of greater than 26 miles (42 km) was the narrowest of any women's marathon at the Olympics. After the race, the Ethiopian team filed a protest to disqualify Hassan due to obstruction, which was rejected by the Jury of Appeal. At the post-race news conference, Tigst remarked (through a translator) "I didn’t expect at that moment it would happen. Maybe at that moment, if she didn’t push me I would have the gold."^[4]^[5]

Background

The women's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1984.

In its four-decade-long Olympic history since the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the women's marathon occurred on the last day of the athletics program for the first time, with the men's race scheduled a day before. According to Tony Estanguet, a triple Olympic slalom canoeing champion and president of the Paris 2024 organising committee, "We wanted to reverse the order in an ambition to more gender equality and bring women to the fore for the first time so the women's marathon will enjoy major visibility on 11 August to cap off the athletics program."^[6]

Course

The marathon course began at the Hôtel de Ville and traversed many of the host city's most iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre before concluding at the Les Invalides. Paris officials have stated the route has taken inspiration from la marche de femmes. Due to the elevation profile, the course has been discussed as one of the more challenging Olympic marathons.^[7]^[8]

Records

Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics
Record	Athlete (Nation)	Time	Location	Date
World record	Tigst Assefa (ETH)	2:11:53^[9]	Berlin, Germany	24 September 2023
Olympic record	Tiki Gelana (ETH)	2:23:07	London, Great Britain	5 August 2012
World leading	Sutume Kebede (ETH)	2:15:55^[10]	Tokyo, Japan	3 March 2024

Area records before the 2024 Summer Olympics^[11]
Area Record	Athlete (Nation)	Time
*Africa (records)*	Tigst Assefa (ETH)	2:11:53 WR
*Asia (records)*	Honami Maeda (JPN)	2:18:59
*Europe (records)*	Sifan Hassan (NED)	2:13:44
North, Central America *and Caribbean (records)*	Emily Sisson (USA)	2:18:29
*Oceania (records)*	Sinead Diver (AUS)	2:21:34
*South America (records)*	Florencia Borelli (ARG)	2:24:18

Qualification

For the women's marathon event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 95 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by running the entry standard of 2:26.50 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.^[12]

Results

The event was held on 11 August 2024 starting at 08:00 (UTC+2) in the morning with 91 athletes taking part.^[1] Sifan Hassan placed first in an Olympic record of 2:22:55.^[13]^[14]^[15]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Time Behind	Notes
	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	2:22:55	–	OR
	Tigst Assefa	Ethiopia	2:22:58	+0:03
	Hellen Obiri	Kenya	2:23:10	+0:15	PB
4	Sharon Lokedi	Kenya	2:23:14	+0:19	PB
5	Amane Beriso Shankule	Ethiopia	2:23:57	+1:02
6	Yuka Suzuki	Japan	2:24:02	+1:07	PB
7	Delvine Relin Meringor	Romania	2:24:56	+2:01	SB
8	Stella Chesang	Uganda	2:26:01	+3:06
9	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	Israel	2:26:08	+3:13	SB
10	Eunice Chebichii Chumba	Bahrain	2:26:10	+3:15
11	Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi	Morocco	2:26:30	+3:35
12	Dakotah Lindwurm	United States	2:26:44	+3:49
13	Jessica Stenson	Australia	2:26:45	+3:50
14	Sardana Trofimova	Kyrgyzstan	2:26:47	+3:52	NR
15	Peres Jepchirchir	Kenya	2:26:51	+3:56
16	Fabienne Schlumpf	Switzerland	2:28:10	+5:15	SB
17	Majida Maayouf	Spain	2:28:35	+5:40	SB
18	Thalia Valdivia	Peru	2:29:01	+6:06
19	Hanne Verbruggen	Belgium	2:29:03	+6:08	SB
20	Mekdes Woldu [fr]	France	2:29:20	+6:25	SB
21	Florencia Borelli	Argentina	2:29:29	+6:34
22	Helen Bekele	Switzerland	2:29:43	+6:48
23	Emily Sisson	United States	2:29:53	+6:58
24	Genevieve Gregson	Australia	2:29:56	+7:01	SB
25	Meritxell Soler [ca]	Spain	2:29:56	+7:01
26	Tereza Hrochová	Czech Republic	2:30:00	+7:05
27	Citlali Cristian	Mexico	2:30:03	+7:08	SB
28	Fionnuala McCormack	Ireland	2:30:12	+7:17	SB
29	Domenika Mayer [de]	Germany	2:30:14	+7:19
30	Sofiia Yaremchuk	Italy	2:30:20	+7:25	SB
31	Mokulubete Blandina Makatisi	Lesotho	2:30:20	+7:25	PB
32	Cian Oldknow [Wikidata]	South Africa	2:30:29	+7:34
33	Zhanna Mamazhanova	Kazakhstan	2:30:51	+7:56
34	Tigist Gashaw	Bahrain	2:30:53	+7:58
35	Malindi Elmore	Canada	2:31:08	+8:13	SB
36	Aleksandra Lisowska	Poland	2:31:10	+8:15	SB
37	Irvette van Zyl	South Africa	2:31:14	+8:19	SB
38	Laura Hottenrott	Germany	2:31:19	+8:24	SB
39	Kaoutar Farkoussi	Morocco	2:31:34	+8:39
40	Magdalena Shauri	Tanzania	2:31:58	+9:03	SB
41	Daiana Ocampo	Argentina	2:32:02	+9:07
42	Esther Navarrete [gl]	Spain	2:32:07	+9:12
43	Rose Chelimo	Bahrain	2:32:08	+9:13
44	Rebecca Cheptegei	Uganda	2:32:14	+9:19	SB
45	Gerda Steyn	South Africa	2:32:51	+9:56	SB
46	Clara Evans	Great Britain	2:33:01	+10:06	SB
47	Galbadrakhyn Khishigsaikhan	Mongolia	2:33:26	+10:31
48	Bayartsogtyn Mönkhzayaa	Mongolia	2:33:27	+10:32
49	Maor Tiyouri	Israel	2:33:37	+10:42
50	Anne Luijten [nl]	Netherlands	2:33:42	+10:47
51	Mao Ichiyama	Japan	2:34:13	+11:18	SB
52	Carolina Wikström	Sweden	2:34:20	+11:25
53	Mary Zenaida Granja	Ecuador	2:34:34	+11:39
54	Marie Perrier [fr]	Mauritius	2:34:56	+12:01	SB
55	Julia Mayer [de]	Austria	2:35:14	+12:19
56	Gladys Tejeda	Peru	2:35:36	+12:41	SB
57	Susana Santos	Portugal	2:35:57	+13:02	SB
58	Dolshi Tesfu	Eritrea	2:36:30	+13:35	SB
59	Zhang Deshun	China	2:36:47	+13:52
60	Camille French	New Zealand	2:37:21	+14:26
61	Silvia Ortiz	Ecuador	2:37:23	+14:28	SB
62	Luz Mery Rojas	Peru	2:37:24	+14:29
63	Margarita Hernández	Mexico	2:37:24	+14:29	SB
64	Angelika Mach	Poland	2:37:56	+15:01	SB
65	Camilla Richardsson	Finland	2:38:02	+15:07	SB
66	Moira Stewartová	Czech Republic	2:38:07	+15:12	SB
67	Giovanna Epis	Italy	2:38:26	+15:31
68	Helalia Johannes	Namibia	2:38:36	+15:41
69	Mercyline Chelangat	Uganda	2:39:40	+16:45	SB
70	Méline Rollin	France	2:40:17	+17:22
71	Bojana Bjeljac	Croatia	2:41:13	+18:18	SB
72	Xia Yuyu	China	2:42:10	+19:15
73	Rosa Chacha	Ecuador	2:42:14	+19:19
74	Mélody Julien	France	2:42:32	+19:37	SB
75	Angie Orjuela	Colombia	2:42:57	+20:02	SB
76	Bai Li	China	2:44:44	+21:49
77	Clementine Mukandanga	Rwanda	2:45:40	+22:45	SB
78	Rose Harvey	Great Britain	2:51:03	+28:08	SB
79	Santoshi Shrestha	Nepal	2:55:06	+32:11	PB
80	Kinzang Lhamo	Bhutan	3:52:59	+1:30:04
—	Matea Parlov Koštro	Croatia	–	35 km	DNF
	Rahma Tahiri	Morocco	–	35 km	DNF
	Alemu Megertu	Ethiopia	–	25 km	DNF
	Chloé Herbiet	Belgium	–	25 km	DNF
	Calli Thackery	Great Britain	–	25 km	DNF
	Rutendo Joan Nyahora	Zimbabwe	–	Half	DNF
	Melat Yisak Kejeta	Germany	–	15 km	DNF
	Jackline Sakilu	Tanzania	–	15 km	DNF
	Joan Chelimo Melly	Romania	–	10 km	DNF
	Sinead Diver	Australia	–	Start	DNF
	Fiona O'Keeffe	United States	–	Start	DNF