2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's marathon explained

Event:	Women's marathon
Competition:	2023 World Championships
Venue:	National Athletics Centre
Dates:	26 August
Competitors:	78
Nations:	47
Win Value:	2:24:23
Gold:	Amane Beriso Shankule
Goldnoc:	ETH
Silver:	Gotytom Gebreslase
Silvernoc:	ETH
Bronze:	Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi
Bronzenoc:	MAR
Prev:	2022
Next:	2025

The women's marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held in Budapest on 26 August 2023.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[1]

width=25% align=center	Record	width=25% align=center	Athlete &	width=10% align=center		width=25% align=center	Location	width=15% align=center	Date
World record		2:14:04	Chicago, United States	13 October 2019
Championship record		2:18:11	Eugene, United States	18 July 2022
World Leading		2:16:28	Tokyo, Japan	5 March 2023
African Record		2:14:04	Chicago, United States	13 October 2019
Asian Record		2:19:12	Berlin, Germany	25 September 2005
North, Central American and Caribbean record		2:18:29	Chicago, United States	09 October 2022
South American Record		2:25:57	Seville, Spain	20 February 2022
European Record		2:15:25	London, Great Britain	13 April 2003
Oceanian record		2:21:34	Valencia, Spain	04 December 2022

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2:28:00.^[2]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Results

The final was started on 26 August at 06:59.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Note
			2:24:23	SB
			2:24:34	SB
			2:25:17
4			2:25:38	SB
5			2:26:13
6			2:26:42
7			2:27:09
8			2:27:23	SB
9			2:27:47
10			2:28:54
11			2:29:04
12			2:29:10
13			2:29:15
14			2:29:34	SB
15			2:30:09	SB
16			2:30:50
17			2:31:35	SB
18			2:31:40
19			2:31:53	SB
20			2:31:57	SB
21			2:32:11
22			2:32:14
23			2:33:23	PB
24			2:33:28
25			2:33:54
26			2:34:02
27			2:34:38
28			2:35:06	SB
29			2:35:09
30			2:35:34	SB
31			2:35:38	SB
32			2:35:48
33			2:35:49	SB
34			2:36:03
35			2:36:23
36			2:36:45	SB
37			2:37:09	SB
38			2:37:10	SB
39			2:37:15
40			2:37:18
41			2:37:31
42			2:37:49	SB
43			2:37:53
44			2:38:29
45			2:38:32	SB
46			2:38:52
47			2:39:58
48			2:40:17
49			2:40:49	SB
50			2:41:54
51			2:42:00
52			2:42:23	SB
53			2:42:25
54			2:42:36
55			2:43:28
56			2:43:35
57			2:44:02
58			2:44:24
59			2:44:46
60			2:45:08
61			2:45:09	SB
62			2:45:40
63			2:46:55	SB
64			2:47:29
65			2:55:33
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Notes and References

1. Web site: Marathon Women − Records . 26 August 2023 . World Athletics.
2. Web site: 19 August 2022 . Qualification System and Entry Standards . . 26 August 2023 . 19 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819191514/https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/62ff627cef4200119b5555be.pdf . live .
3. Web site: 26 August 2023 . Marathon Women − Final − Results . 26 August 2023 . . 26 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230826081651/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138987/AT-MAR-W-f----.RS6.pdf . live .