Olympic Marathon women

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The Women's Olympic Marathon is a 26.2 mile road race, which was added to the games in 1984 over the opposition of traditionalists.

Main article: Marathon

2008 Olympic Trials

The 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials—Women's Marathon was awarded to the Boston Athletic Assocation on June 22, 2006. The event was held in downtown Boston and Cambridge, MA, on April 20, 2008.^[1]

Lewy Boulet took an early lead, but was passed by Deena Drossin Kastor at mile 23.5 and held on to second place in 2:30:19, with Russell fighting to a brave third place in 2:32:40. Tera Moody and Zoila Gomez battled toe to toe for the fourth Alternate position, the latter getting the decision by a single stride, 2:33:53 to 2:33:54.

The first three earned $50,000, $40,000 and $30,000. Each will receive another $10,000, contingent upon their toeing the line in Beijing.^[2]

2008 Olympics

Medalists

Gold - Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu (ROU)
Silver - Catherine Ndereba (KEN)
Bronze- Chunxiu Zhou (CHN)

Full results

August 17, 2008

Position	Athlete/Country	Mark	Remarks^[3]
1	Constantina Diṭă-Tomescu (ROU)	2:26:44	(SB)
2	Catherine Ndereba (KEN)	2:27:06
3	Chunxiu Zhou (CHN)	2:27:07	(SB)
4	Xiaolin Zhu (CHN)	2:27:16	(SB)
5	Martha Komu (KEN)	2:27:23
6	Mara Yamauchi (GBR)	2:27:29
7	Irina Timofeyeva (RUS)	2:27:31
8	Lidia Simon (ROU)	2:27:51
9	Souad Aït Salem (ALG)	2:28:29
10	Salina Jebet Kosgei (KEN)	2:29:28
11	Zivilé Balciünaité (LTU)	2:29:33
12	Kum-Ok Kim (PRK)	2:30:01	(SB)
13	Yurika Nakamura (JPN)	2:30:19
14	Anna Incerti (ITA)	2:30:55	(PB)
15	Dire Tune (ETH)	2:31:16
16	Nina Rillstone (NZL)	2:31:16
17	Bruna Genovese (ITA)	2:31:31
18	Luminita Talpos (ROU)	2:31:41
19	Madaí Pérez (MEX)	2:31:47
20	Christelle Daunay (FRA)	2:31:48
21	Benita Johnson (AUS)	2:32:06
22	Svetlana Zakharova (RUS)	2:32:16
23	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	2:32:38
24	Monika Drybulska (POL)	2:32:39	(SB)
25	Eun-jung Lee (KOR)	2:33:07
26	Liz Yelling (GBR)	2:33:12
27	Blake Russell (USA)	2:33:13
28	Beata Naigambo (NAM)	2:33:29
29	Vincenza Sicari (ITA)	2:33:31
30	Dorota Gruca (POL)	2:33:32
31	Tetyana Filonyuk (UKR)	2:33:35
32	Marisa Barros (POR)	2:34:08
33	Lisa Jane Weightman (AUS)	2:34:16
34	Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu (NOR)	2:34:35
35	Liza Hunter-Galvan (NZL)	2:34:51
36	Yong-Ok Jong (PRK)	2:34:52
37	Rasa Drazdauskaité (LTU)	2:35:09
38	Melanie Kraus (GER)	2:35:17
39	María Portillo (PER)	2:35:19	(NR)
40	Helalia Johannes (NAM)	2:35:22
41	Shujing Zhang (CHN)	2:35:35
42	Lucia Kimani (BIH)	2:35:47	(NR)
43	Sandra Ruales (ECU)	2:35:53	(PB)
44	Kate Smyth (AUS)	2:36:10
45	Yesenia Centeno (ESP)	2:36:25
46	Ana Dias (POR)	2:36:25
47	Nebiat Habtemariam (ERI)	2:37:03
48	Bun-Hui Jo (PRK)	2:37:04
49	Tabitha Tsatsa (ZIM)	2:37:10
50	Bahar Dogan (TUR)	2:37:12	(PB)
51	Marily dos Santos (BRA)	2:38:10
52	Susanne Hahn (GER)	2:38:31
53	Eun-hee Chae (KOR)	2:38:52
54	Alessandra Aguilar (ESP)	2:39:29
55	Patricia Rétiz (MEX)	2:39:34
56	Sun-young Lee (KOR)	2:43:23
57	Eva-Maria Gradwohl (AUT)	2:44:24
58	Yuliya Arzipova (KGZ)	2:44:41
59	Sonia Calizaya (BOL)	2:45:53
60	Eléni Dónta (GRE)	2:46:44
61	Karina Pérez (MEX)	2:47:02
62	Bertha Sánchez (COL)	2:47:02
63	Pauline Curley (IRL)	2:47:16
64	Maria José Pueyo (ESP)	2:48:01
65	Petra Teveli (HUN)	2:48:32
66	Epiphanie Nyirabarame (RWA)	2:49:32
67	Zuzana Šaríková (SVK)	2:49:39
68	Gabriela Traña (CRC)	2:53:45
69	Oksana Sklyarenko (UKR)	2:55:39
	Mamorallo Tjoka (LES)	DNF
.	Magdalena Lewy-Boulet (USA)	DNF
.	Valentina Delion (MDA)	DNF
.	Deena Drossin Kastor (USA)	DNF
.	Olivera Jevtic (SRB)	DNF
.	Gete Wami (ETH)	DNF
.	Berhane Adere (ETH)	DNF
.	Beáta Rakonczai (HUN)	DNF
.	Reiko Tosa (JPN)	DNF
.	Galina Bogomolova (RUS)	DNF
.	Inês Monteiro (POR)	DNF
	Mariana Dias Ximenes (TLS)	DNF
.	Nadia Ejjafini (BRN)	DNS