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Athletics — Marathon, Women

Times held 10
Total participants 640
Total countries 119

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1984 Marathon, Women Olympic 50 28
1988 Marathon, Women Olympic 70 39
1992 Marathon, Women Olympic 47 31
1996 Marathon, Women Olympic 88 53
2000 Marathon, Women Olympic 53 36
2004 Marathon, Women Olympic 82 47
2008 Marathon, Women Olympic 81 45
2012 Marathon, Women Olympic 118 67
2016 Marathon, Women Olympic 156 80
2020 Marathon, Women Olympic 88 44

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1984 Joan BenoitUSA Grete WaitzNOR Rosa MotaPOR
1988 Rosa MotaPOR Lisa MartinAUS Katrin DörreGDR
1992 Valentina YegorovaEUN Yuko ArimoriJPN Lorraine MollerNZL
1996 Fatuma RobaETH Valentina YegorovaRUS Yuko ArimoriJPN
2000 Naoko TakahashiJPN Lidia ȘimonROU Joyce ChepchumbaKEN
2004 Mizuki NoguchiJPN Catherine NderebaKEN Deena KastorUSA
2008 Constantina TomescuROU Catherine NderebaKEN Zhou ChunxiuCHN
2012 Tiki GelanaETH Priscah JeptooKEN Tatyana Petrova-ArkhipovaRUS
2016 Jemima SumgongKEN Eunice KirwaBRN Mare DibabaETH
2020 Peres JepchirchirKEN Brigid KosgeiKEN Molly SeidelUSA

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Kenya KEN 2 4 1 7
Japan JPN 2 1 1 4
Ethiopia ETH 2 0 1 3
Romania ROU 1 1 0 2
United States USA 1 0 2 3
Portugal POR 1 0 1 2
Unified Team EUN 1 0 0 1
Russian Federation RUS 0 1 1 2
Australia AUS 0 1 0 1
Bahrain BRN 0 1 0 1
Norway NOR 0 1 0 1
East Germany GDR 0 0 1 1
New Zealand NZL 0 0 1 1
People's Republic of China CHN 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Valentina Yegorova RUS
EUN		 1 1 0 2
Rosa Mota POR 1 0 1 2
Fatuma Roba ETH 1 0 0 1
Joan Benoit USA 1 0 0 1
Naoko Takahashi JPN 1 0 0 1
Mizuki Noguchi JPN 1 0 0 1
Constantina Diță-Tomescu ROU 1 0 0 1
Tiki Gelana ETH 1 0 0 1
Jemima Sumgong KEN 1 0 0 1
Peres Jepchirchir KEN 1 0 0 1