The women's marathon event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 14 August on the Sambadrome.

Summary At 9:30 in the morning, the race started with temperatures around . The pack stayed bunched, with Mare Dibaba, Visiline Jepkesho, Rose Chelimo, Volha Mazuronak and Tirfi Tsegaye each taking their turns in the spotlight. The racing got serious, the pack was down to seven at 30 kilometres with American Desiree Linden the closest pursuer but unable to get back with the group. Shalane Flanagan was consistently toward the back of the group, then she began to fall off. As Flanagan and Mazuronak struggled with the group, the remaining five African runners surged, the gap grew. Chelimo was the next to drop off the group.

Eunice Kirwa never held the lead and Jemima Sumgong only asserted herself in the last 5 kilometers. When she did the pack strung out to a straight line, former race walker Mazuronak and Tsegaye falling off the back. At a water station, Dibaba was the last to fall off, and then there were two. World Championship bronze medalist and Nagoya Champion Kirwa shadowing London Champion Sumgong until the final kilometer. Then Sumgong expanded the gap in the long final straight into the finish. By the finish of the race, the temperature had risen to .

Three sets of twins finished the marathon; two of the Luik triplets from Estonia, the Hahner twins from Germany and the Kim sisters from North Korea.

The medals were presented by Nawal El Moutawakel, IOC member, Morocco and Hiroshi Yokokawa, Council Member of the IAAF.

Records , the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record2:15:25London, United Kingdom13 April 2003Olympic record2:23:07London, United Kingdom5 August 20122016 World leading2:19:41Dubai, UAE22 January 2016

Schedule All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3).

Date Time RoundSunday, 14 August 2016 9:30Finals

Results Rank Name Nationality/region Time Notes Jemima Sumgong 2:24:04 Eunice Kirwa 2:24:13 Mare Dibaba 2:24:30 4 Tirfi Tsegaye 2:24:47 5 Volha Mazuronak 2:24:48 6 Shalane Flanagan 2:25:26 7 Desiree Linden 2:26:08 8 Rose Chelimo 2:27:36 9 Amy Cragg 2:28:25 10 Kim Hye-song 2:28:36 11 Kim Hye-gyong 2:28:36 12 Jeļena Prokopčuka 2:29:32 13 Valeria Straneo 2:29:44 14 Kayoko Fukushi 2:29:53 15 Gladys Tejeda 2:29:55 16 Ana Dulce Félix 2:30:39 17 Diana Lobačevskė 2:30:48 18 Milly Clark 2:30:53 19 Tomomi Tanaka 2:31:12 20 Fionnuala McCormack 2:31:22 21 Iwona Lewandowska 2:31:41 22 Jessica Trengove 2:31:44 23 Monika Stefanowicz 2:32:49 24 Lanni Marchant 2:33:08 25 Catherine Bertone 2:33:29 26 Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová 2:33:51 27 Lilia Fisikowici 2:34:05 28 Alyson Dixon 2:34:11 29 Maja Neuenschwander 2:34:27 30 Sonia Samuels 2:34:36 31 Lisa Jane Weightman 2:34:41 32 Madaí Pérez 2:34:42 33 Olha Kotovska 2:34:57 34 Azucena Díaz 2:35:02 35 Krista DuChene 2:35:29 36 Jovana de la Cruz 2:35:49 37 Rasa Drazdauskaitė 2:35:50 38 Vaida Žūsinaitė 2:35:53 39 Yiu Kit Ching 2:36:11 40 Jessica Draskau-Petersson 2:36:14 41 Beata Naigambo 2:36:32 42 Ahn Seul-ki 2:36:50 43 Angie Orjuela 2:37:05 44 Anja Scherl 2:37:23 45 Maryna Damantsevich 2:37:34 46 Mai Ito 2:37:37 47 Veerle Dejaeghere 2:37:39 48 Margarita Hernández 2:38:15 49 Kim Kum-ok 2:38:24 50 Kenza Dahmani 2:38:37 51 Anne-Mari Hyryläinen 2:39:02 52 Zsófia Erdélyi 2:39:04 53 Yue Chao 2:39:09 54 Sitora Hamidova 2:39:45 55 Anne Holm Baumeister 2:39:49 56 Helalia Johannes 2:39:55 57 Lizzie Lee 2:39:57 58 Esma Aydemir 2:39:59 59 Iuliia Andreeva 2:40:34 60 Andrea Deelstra 2:40:49 61 Ilona Marhele 2:41:02 62 Viktoriia Poliudina 2:41:37 63 Dina Lebo Phalula 2:41:46 64 Andrea Mayr 2:41:52 65 Krisztina Papp 2:42:03 66 Svitlana Stanko-Klymenko 2:42:26 67 Mayada Al-Sayad 2:42:28 68 Nyakisi Adero 2:42:39 69 Adriana Aparecida da Silva 2:43:22 70 Lim Kyung-hee 2:43:31 71 Beverly Ramos 2:43:52 72 Munkhzaya Bayartsogt 2:43:55 73 Erika Abril 2:44:05 74 Manuela Soccol 2:44:18 75 Alina Armas 2:44:20 76 Breege Connolly 2:44:41 77 Marina Khmelevskaya 2:45:06 78 Marily dos Santos 2:45:08 79 Hua Shaoqing 2:45:09 80 Nebiat Habtemariam 2:45:21 81 Anna Hahner 2:45:32 82 Lisa Hahner 2:45:33 83 Tünde Szabó 2:45:37 84 Els Rens 2:45:52 85 Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar 2:45:55 86 Visiline Jepkesho 2:46:05 87 Nataliya Lehonkova 2:46:08 88 Ourania Rebouli 2:46:32 89 O. P. Jaisha 2:47:19 90 Maor Tiyouri 2:47:27 91 Jane Vongvorachoti 2:47:27 92 Rutendo Nyahora 2:47:32 93 Yolimar Pineda 2:47:34 94 Mariya Korobitskaya 2:47:53 95 Silvia Paredes 2:48:01 96 Christine Kalmer 2:48:24 97 Lily Luik 2:48:29 98 Tereza Master 2:48:34 99 María Elena Calle 2:48:39 100 Rosa Chacha 2:48:52 101 Paula Todoran 2:48:54 102 Dailín Belmonte 2:48:58 103 Sofia Riga 2:49:07 104 Matea Matošević 2:50:00 105 Érika Olivera 2:50:29 106 Ariana Hilborn 2:50:51 107 Katarína Berešová 2:50:54 108 Militsa Mircheva 2:51:06 109 Chirine Njeim 2:51:08 110 Rosa Godoy 2:52:31 111 Sultan Haydar 2:53:57 112 Meryem Erdoğan 2:54:04 113 Hsieh Chien-ho 2:54:18 114 Leila Luik 2:54:38 115 Carmen Martínez 2:56:43 116 Lucia Kimani 2:58:22 117 Rosemary Quispe 2:58:32 118 Panayiota Vlahaki 2:59:12 119 Marija Vrajić 2:59:24 120 Kavita Tungar 2:59:29 121 Sara Ramadhani 3:00:03 122 Irina Smolnikova 3:00:31 123 Natalia Romero 3:01:29 124 Mary Joy Tabal 3:02:27 125 Viviana Chavez 3:03:23 126 Claudette Mukasakindi 3:05:57 127 Chen Yu-hsuan 3:09:13 128 Graciete Santana 3:09:15 129 Niluka Geethani Rajasekara 3:11:05 130 Natthaya Thanaronnawat 3:11:31 131 Neo Jie Shi 3:15:18 132 Sarah Attar 3:16:11 133 Nary Ly 3:20:20 Katarzyna Kowalska Helah Kiprop Lonah Chemtai Salpeter Anna Incerti Christelle Daunay Alessandra Aguilar Souad Aït Salem Inés Melchor Kellys Arias Olivera Jevtić Estela Navascués Liina Luik María Peralta Tigist Tufa Jéssica Augusto Nastassia Ivanova Shitaye Eshete Gulzhanat Zhanatbek Daniela Cârlan Slađana Perunović Sara Moreira Koutar Boulaid Daneja Grandovec Irvette van Zyl

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