# Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon

The Women's Marathon event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 24 September 2000 in the streets of Sydney, Australia.

## Medalists

| Gold | Naoko Takahashi Japan |
| Silver | Lidia Șimon Romania |
| Bronze | Joyce Chepchumba Kenya |

## Abbreviations

* All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| OR | olympic record |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics :
| World Record | Tegla Loroupe (KEN) | 2:20:43 | 26 September 1999 | Berlin, Germany |
| Olympic Record | Joan Benoit (USA) | 2:24:52 | 5 August 1984 | Los Angeles, United States |
| Season Best | Naoko Takahashi (JPN) | 2:22:19 | 12 March 2000 | Nagoya, Japan |
| Broken records at the 2000 Summer Olympics |||||
| Olympic Record | Naoko Takahashi (JPN) | 2:23:14 | 24 September 2000 | Sydney, Australia |

## Startlist

| Number | Athlete | Country | Birthdate | Personal Best |
| 2402 | Tegla Loroupe | Kenya | 1973/05/09 | 2:20:43 |
| 2338 | Naoko Takahashi | Japan | 1972/05/06 | 2:21:47 |
| 2341 | Eri Yamaguchi | Japan | 1973/01/14 | 2:22:12 |
| 2831 | Lidia Șimon | Romania | 1973/09/04 | 2:22:54 |
| 1673 | Fatuma Roba | Ethiopia | 1973/12/18 | 2:23:21 |
| 2397 | Joyce Chepchumba | Kenya | 1970/11/06 | 2:23:22 |
| 2405 | Esther Wanjiru | Kenya | 1977/03/27 | 2:23:31 |
| 2986 | Valentina Yegorova | Russia | 1964/02/16 | 2:23:33 |
| 1210 | Marleen Renders | Belgium | 1968/12/24 | 2:23:44 |
| 2248 | Maura Viceconte | Italy | 1967/10/03 | 2:23:47 |
| 2571 | Adriana Fernández | Mexico | 1971/04/04 | 2:24:06 |
| 2925 | Madina Biktagirova | Russia | 1964/09/20 | 2:24:46 |
| 1667 | Elfenesh Alemu | Ethiopia | 1975/06/10 | 2:24:47 |
| 2774 | Manuela Machado | Portugal | 1963/08/09 | 2:25:09 |
| 1388 | Ren Xiujuan | China | 1974/09/14 | 2:25:32 |
| 1101 | Nicole Carroll | Australia | 1972/01/14 | 2:25:52 |
| 1123 | Kerryn McCann | Australia | 1967/05/02 | 2:25:59 |
| 2411 | Irina Bogachova | Kyrgyzstan | 1961/04/30 | 2:26:27 |
| 2960 | Lyubov Morgunova | Russia | 1971/01/14 | 2:26:33 |
| 2860 | Colleen De Reuck | South Africa | 1964/04/13 | 2:26:35 |
| 1616 | Ana Isabel Alonso | Spain | 1963/08/16 | 2:26:51 |
| 2786 | Kim Chang-ok | North Korea | 1975/04/16 | 2:27:02 |
| 2330 | Ari Ichihashi | Japan | 1977/11/22 | 2:27:02 |
| 1920 | Sonja Oberem | Germany | 1973/02/24 | 2:27:25 |
| 2818 | Anuța Cătună | Romania | 1968/10/01 | 2:27:34 |
| 1903 | Claudia Dreher | Germany | 1971/05/02 | 2:27:55 |
| 1554 | Martha Tenorio | Ecuador | 1967/08/06 | 2:27:58 |
| 2232 | Ornella Ferrara | Italy | 1968/04/17 | 2:28:01 |
| 2821 | Alina Gherasim | Romania | 1971/11/10 | 2:28:18 |
| 1845 | Marian Sutton | Great Britain | 1963/10/07 | 2:28:42 |
| 2620 | Nadezhda Wijenberg | Netherlands | 1964/04/02 | 2:28:45 |
| 2070 | Judit Földing-Nagy | Hungary | 1965/12/09 | 2:28:50 |
| 1635 | María Luisa Muñoz | Spain | 1959/05/06 | 2:28:59 |
| 2784 | Ham Pong-Sil | North Korea | 1974/07/24 | 2:29:08 |
| 2427 | Oh Mi-Ja | South Korea | 1970/07/03 | 2:29:44 |
| 1669 | Gadissa Edato | Ethiopia | 1973/03/15 | 2:29:57 |
| 1625 | Griselda González | Spain | 1965/12/04 | 2:30:32 |
| 3182 | Serap Aktaş | Turkey | 1971/09/25 | 2:31:43 |
| 1367 | Érika Olivera | Chile | 1976/01/04 | 2:32:23 |
| 2785 | Jong Yong-Ok | North Korea | 1981/01/24 | 2:32:30 |
| 1116 | Susan Hobson | Australia | 1958/03/13 | 2:32:37 |
| 3078 | Daria Nauer | Switzerland | 1966/05/21 | 2:32:38 |
| 2551 | Valentina Enachi | Moldova | 1966/02/15 | 2:33:27 |
| 3334 | Christine Clark | United States | 1962/10/10 | 2:33:31 |
| 2167 | Martha Ernstdóttir | Iceland | 1964/12/22 | 2:35:15 |
| 1429 | Iglandini González | Colombia | 1965/02/05 | 2:35:19 |
| 2696 | María Portillo | Peru | 1972/04/10 | 2:35:24 |
| 2608 | Elizabeth Mongudhi | Namibia | 1970/06/15 | 2:36:44 |
| 2356 | Garifa Kuku | Kazakhstan | 1959/11/30 | 2:39:20 |
| 2025 | Rhonda Davidson-Alley | Guam | 1961/04/19 | 2:54:23 |
| 2038 | Gina Coello | Honduras | 1964/10/02 | 2:58:11 |
| 3145 | Gulsara Dadabayeva | Tajikistan | 1976/07/04 | 3:09:08 |
| 2120 | Aguida Amaral | Individual Olympic Athletes | 1972/05/27 | 3:10:00 |
| 2450 | Sirivanh Ketavong | Laos | 1970/09/01 | 3:25:16 |

## Intermediates

| Rank | Number | Athlete | Country | Time |
| 5 KILOMETRES ||||
| 1 | 1210 | Marleen Renders | Belgium | 16:42 |
| 10 KILOMETRES ||||
| 1 | 1210 | Marleen Renders | Belgium | 34:08 |
| 15 KILOMETRES ||||
| 1 | 1210 | Marleen Renders | Belgium | 51:19 |
| 20 KILOMETRES ||||
| 1 | 2831 | Lidia Șimon | Romania | 1:08:10 |
| HALF MARATHON ||||
| 1 | 2831 | Lidia Șimon | Romania | 1:11:45 |
| 25 KILOMETRES ||||
| 1 | 2831 | Lidia Șimon | Romania | 1:24:48 |
| 30 KILOMETRES ||||
| 1 | 2831 | Lidia Șimon | Romania | 1:41:39 |
| 35 KILOMETRES ||||
| 1 | 2338 | Naoko Takahashi | Japan | 1:58:26 |
| 40 KILOMETRES ||||
| 1 | 2338 | Naoko Takahashi | Japan | 2:15:19 |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
| | Naoko Takahashi | Japan | 2:23:14 | OR |
| | Lidia Șimon | Romania | 2:23:22 | |
| | Joyce Chepchumba | Kenya | 2:24:45 | SB |
| 4 | Esther Wanjiru | Kenya | 2:26:17 | |
| 5 | Madina Biktagirova | Russia | 2:26:33 | SB |
| 6 | Elfenesh Alemu | Ethiopia | 2:26:54 | |
| 7 | Eri Yamaguchi | Japan | 2:27:03 | SB |
| 8 | Ham Bong-Sil | North Korea | 2:27:07 | PB |
| 9 | Fatuma Roba | Ethiopia | 2:27:38 | |
| 10 | Ren Xiujuan | China | 2:27:55 | |
| 11 | Kerryn McCann | Australia | 2:28:37 | |
| 12 | Maura Viceconte | Italy | 2:29:26 | |
| 13 | Tegla Loroupe | Kenya | 2:29:45 | |
| 14 | Irina Bogachova | Kyrgyzstan | 2:29:55 | |
| 15 | Ari Ichihashi | Japan | 2:30:34 | |
| 16 | Adriana Fernández | Mexico | 2:30:51 | |
| 17 | Judit Földing-Nagy | Hungary | 2:30:54 | SB |
| 18 | Ornella Ferrara | Italy | 2:31:32 | |
| 19 | Christine Clark | United States | 2:31:35 | PB |
| 20 | Jong Yong-Ok | North Korea | 2:31:40 | PB |
| 21 | Manuela Machado | Portugal | 2:32:29 | |
| 22 | Nadezhda Wijenberg | Netherlands | 2:32:29 | SB |
| 23 | Lyubov Morgunova | Russia | 2:32:35 | |
| 24 | Sonja Oberem | Germany | 2:33:45 | |
| 25 | Martha Tenorio | Ecuador | 2:33:54 | |
| 26 | Marian Sutton | Great Britain | 2:34:33 | |
| 27 | Érika Olivera | Chile | 2:35:07 | SB |
| 28 | Kim Chang-ok | North Korea | 2:35:32 | SB |
| 29 | Alina Gherasim | Romania | 2:36:16 | |
| 30 | Ana Isabel Alonso | Spain | 2:36:45 | |
| 31 | Colleen De Reuck | South Africa | 2:36:48 | |
| 32 | María Portillo Cruz | Peru | 2:36:50 | |
| 33 | Griselda González | Spain | 2:38:28 | |
| 34 | Oh Mi-Ja | South Korea | 2:38:42 | |
| 35 | Susan Hobson | Australia | 2:38:44 | |
| 36 | Gadissie Edato | Ethiopia | 2:42:29 | |
| 37 | Serap Aktaş | Turkey | 2:42:40 | |
| 38 | Daria Nauer | Switzerland | 2:43:00 | |
| 39 | María Luisa Muñoz | Spain | 2:45:40 | |
| 40 | Iglandini González | Colombia | 2:47:26 | |
| 41 | Gulsara Dadabayeva | Tajikistan | 2:51:03 | NR |
| 42 | Gina Coello | Honduras | 3:02:32 | |
| 43 | Aguida Amaral | Individual Olympic Athletes | 3:10:55 | |
| 44 | Rhonda Davidson-Alley | Guam | 3:13:58 | |
| 45 | Sirivanh Ketavong | Laos | 3:34:27 | |
| DID NOT FINISH (DNF) ||||
| | Martha Ernstdóttir | Iceland | DNF | |
| | Valentina Enachi | Moldova | DNF | |
| | Marleen Renders | Belgium | DNF | |
| | Elizabeth Mongudhi | Namibia | DNF | |
| | Garifa Kuku | Kazakhstan | DNF | |
| | Nicole Carroll | Australia | DNF | |
| | Valentina Yegorova | Russia | DNF | |
| | Anuța Cătună | Romania | DNF | |
| DID NOT START (DNS) ||||
| | Claudia Dreher | Germany | DNS | |