2025 World Athletics Championships – Women's marathon

Women's marathon at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
Venue	National Stadium
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	14 September
Competitors	73 from 42 nations
Winning time	2:24:43
Medalists
Peres Jepchirchir    Kenya   Tigst Assefa    Ethiopia   Julia Paternain    Uruguay
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The women's marathon at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 14 September 2025. ^[1]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[2]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World Record	Ruth Chepng'etich  (KEN)	2:09:56	Chicago, United States	13 October 2024
Championship record	Gotytom Gebreslase  (ETH)	2:18:11	Eugene, United States	18 July 2022
World Leading	Tigst Assefa  (ETH)	2:15:50	London, United Kingdom	27 April 2025
African Record	Ruth Chepng'etich  (KEN)	2:09:56	Chicago, United States	13 October 2024
Asian Record	Honami Maeda  (JPN)	2:18:59	Osaka, Japan	28 January 2024
European Record	Sifan Hassan  (NED)	2:13:44	Chicago, United States	8 October 2003
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Emily Sisson  (USA)	2:18:29	Chicago, United States	9 October 2022
Oceanian record	Sinead Diver  (AUS)	2:21:34	Valencia, Spain	4 December 2022
South American Record	Florencia Borelli  (ARG)	2:24:18	Seville, Spain	18 February 2022

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2:23:30. ^[3] Three athletes per country, maximum, plus any wild card.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows: ^[1]

Date	Time	Round
14 September	07:30	Final

Results

The race was started on 14 September at 7:30.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Peres Jepchirchir	Kenya	2:24:43	SB
	Tigst Assefa	Ethiopia	2:24:45
	Julia Paternain	Uruguay	2:27:23
4	Susanna Sullivan	United States	2:28:17	SB
5	Alisa Vainio	Finland	2:28:32	SB
6	Shitaye Eshete	Bahrain	2:28:41
7	Kana Kobayashi  [ ja ]	Japan	2:28:50
8	Jessica McClain	United States	2:29:20	SB
9	Fionnuala McCormack	Ireland	2:30:16	SB
10	Dolshi Tesfu	Eritrea	2:30:41
11	Laura Luengo  [ de ]	Spain	2:30:55	SB
12	Stella Chesang	Uganda	2:31:13
13	Sayaka Sato  [ ja ]	Japan	2:31:15
14	Ciren Cuomu	China	2:31:38
15	Nóra Szabó	Hungary	2:31:41
16	Eunice Chumba	Bahrain	2:32:22
17	Anne Luijten	Netherlands	2:32:27
18	Jackline Cherono	Kenya	2:33:17
19	Solange Jesus  [ de ]	Portugal	2:33:24
20	Rebecca Lonedo  [ it ]	Italy	2:33:40
21	Sheyla Eulogio  [ de ]	Peru	2:33:42
22	Li Zhixuan	China	2:34:03
23	Maor Tiyouri	Israel	2:34:28
24	Fatima Ouhaddou	Spain	2:35:05
25	Galbadrakhyn Khishigsaikhan	Mongolia	2:35:05
26	Susana Santos	Portugal	2:35:06	SB
27	Sutume Kebede	Ethiopia	2:35:30
28	Yuka Ando	Japan	2:35:37
29	Choi Kyung-sun	South Korea	2:35:42
30	Zhang Deshun	China	2:35:58
31	Natasha Wodak	Canada	2:36:02	SB
32	Manon Trapp	France	2:36:09
33	Julia Mayer  [ de ]	Austria	2:36:20	SB
34	Alina Armas	Namibia	2:36:33
35	Silvia Ortiz  [ fr ]	Ecuador	2:37:22	SB
36	Atalena Loliha	South Sudan	2:38:18
37	Lim Ye-jin	South Korea	2:38:31
38	Vanessa Wilson	Australia	2:39:17	SB
39	Aleksandra Brzezińska  [ de; pl ]	Poland	2:39:46
40	Marcella Herzog	Netherlands	2:39:57	SB
41	Neheng Khatala	Lesotho	2:41:16	SB
42	Sarah Klein	Australia	2:41:46	SB
43	Sara Schou Kristensen	Denmark	2:42:34	SB
44	Nina Usubyan	Armenia	2:42:37
45	Bayartsogtyn Mönkhzayaa	Mongolia	2:42:43	SB
46	Mary Zenaida Granja  [ no ]	Ecuador	2:43:02
47	Isabel Oropeza	Mexico	2:43:53	SB
48	Tara Palm	Australia	2:44:51
49	Mercyline Chelangat	Uganda	2:45:36	SB
50	Chiara Milena Mainetti	Argentina	2:46:27
51	Aydee Loayza	Peru	2:48:00
52	Erika Kemp	United States	2:50:35
53	Fortunate Chidzivo	Zimbabwe	2:51:24
54	Rahma Tahiri	Morocco	2:51:30
55	Diana Bogantes	Costa Rica	2:54:02	SB
56	Hanne Andersen Maridal	Norway	2:55:04	SB
57	Karen Ehrenreich	Denmark	2:57:07
58	Clementine Mukandanga	Rwanda	2:58:00	SB
59	Nicole Urra	Chile	2:58:05
60	Magaly García	Venezuela	2:58:51
61	Anja Fink	Slovenia	2:59:31	SB
62	Adrijana Pop Arsova Rashikj	North Macedonia	3:01:48	SB
63	Margarita Hernández	Mexico	3:02:26
	Juliet Chekwel	Uganda	DNF
	Kaoutar Farkoussi	Morocco
	Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi	Morocco
	Tigist Gashaw	Bahrain
	Tigist Ketema	Ethiopia
	Magdalyne Masai	Kenya
	Izabela Paszkiewicz	Poland
	Zaida Ramos	Peru
	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	Israel
	Moira Stewartová	Czech Republic
[4]

References

1. "Timetable - Tokyo 25 - World Athletics Championship - women Marathon". World Athletics. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
2. "Marathon Women − Records". World Athletics. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
3. "World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 – Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
4. "Results Marathon Women - Final" (PDF). World Athletics . 14 September 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2025.