2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

The Women's Marathon race at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held on 14 August in the streets of Helsinki with the goal line situated in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Paula Radcliffe set the pace of the race, leading all the way from start to finish. Constantina Tomescu was able to keep up with Radcliffe the longest, but began to fall behind after the 25 km mark and at the end found herself overtaken by the defending champion Catherine Ndereba.

Medalists Gold Paula RadcliffeGreat Britain (GBR)Silver Catherine NderebaKenya (KEN)Bronze Constantina TomescuRomania (ROM)

Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best

Intermediates RankNumberAthleteTime5 KILOMETRES 1 281 16:47 2 423 16:47 3 207 16:47 4 456 16:50 5 214 16:5010 KILOMETRES 1 281 33:23 2 423 33:23 3 207 33:23 4 601 33:26 5 456 33:2615 KILOMETRES 1 281 49:53 2 423 49:54 3 207 49:54 4 601 49:54 5 456 49:5620 KILOMETRES 1 281 1:06:16 2 601 1:06:17 3 450 1:06:18 4 456 1:06:18 5 125 1:06:39HALF MARATHON 1 281 1:09:49 2 456 1:09:52 3 450 1:09:52 4 601 1:09:53 5 125 1:10:1925 KILOMETRES 1 281 1:22:47 2 601 1:22:48 3 456 1:22:50 4 450 1:23:00 5 125 1:23:4230 KILOMETRES 1 281 1:39:22 2 601 1:39:33 3 456 1:39:38 4 450 1:40:30 5 125 1:41:0335 KILOMETRES 1 281 1:56:14 2 456 1:56:42 3 601 1:56:59 4 450 1:58:29 5 125 1:58:3540 KILOMETRES 1 281 2:13:22 2 456 2:14:09 3 601 2:15:16 4 214 2:16:06 5 125 2:16:33

Final ranking RankAthleteTimeNote 2:20:57 CR 2:22:01 SB 2:23:19 4 2:23:30 PB 5 2:24:12 6 2:24:20 7 2:24:22 PB 8 2:25:46 9 2:26:14 SB 10 2:26:29 11 2:26:50 PB 12 2:27:14 PB 13 2:27:46 PB 14 2:29:43 PB 15 2:30:28 16 2:30:38 17 2:31:16 18 2:31:26 PB 19 2:32:47 20 2:32:53 21 2:33:20 PB 22 2:34:01 23 2:34:07 24 2:34:35 25 2:34:41 PB 26 2:34:43 PB 27 2:34:45 28 2:35:08 29 2:35:48 30 2:36:29 SB 31 2:36:41 32 2:36:50 33 2:37:03 PB 34 2:38:16 35 2:38:32 PB 36 2:39:02 SB 37 2:39:13 38 2:39:36 SB 39 2:39:47 40 2:39:58 41 2:41:51 SB 42 2:43:31 SB 43 2:43:58 SB 44 2:47:42 45 2:50:36 46 2:52:11 47 2:52:41 48 2:53:08 49 2:54:08 50 2:57:18 51 3:03:26 SBDID NOT FINISH (DNF)— DNF— DNF— DNF— DNF— DNF— DNFDID NOT START (DNS)— DNS— DNS

See also 2005 World Marathon Cup

External links IAAF results