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Host City: Sydney, Australia

Format: 42,195 metres (26 miles, 385 yards) point-to-point.

Date Started: September 24, 2000

Date Finished: September 24, 2000

(Competitors: 53; Countries: 28)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales

Overview by IAAF

Marleen Renders of Belgium was the early leader, with a margin of 80m at one point. The pack caught up at 12Km, and Takahashi and her teammate Ari Ichihashi moved to the front at the 20Km point, with only Lidia Simon taking up the challenge. The three passed halfway in 71:45, but Ichihashi was dropped by 25Km. Takahasi and Simon ran together until 35Km when Takahashi opened up a gap of 30m. The gap widened, and though Simon closed slightly in the last 2Km, Takahashi was never threatened. Chepchumba moved into third place after 30k, finishing 92 seconds ahead of fourth place. Tegla Loroupe held the world best (2:20:43) was the favourite, but a bout of food poisoning relegated the Kenyan to 13th place (2:29:45). In all, 14 ran quicker than 0.104166666666667

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The dominant women marathoners were the Japanese and the Africans, notably those from Kenya and Ethiopia. The champions from 1992 and 1996, Valentina Yegorova and Fatuma Roba, were back though they did not figure in the race for medals. Yegorova did not finish while Roba placed ninth. No favorite could be chosen as the major women’s marathons since 1996 had been spread out among several different victors.

The point-to-point race began at 9 AM near the North Sydney Oval. The race came down to the closest finish in the women’s Olympic marathon, with Japan’s Naoko Takahashi winning by eight seconds from Romania’s Lidia Şimon. The time of 2-23:14 was an Olympic record, better than the mark of 2-24:52 set by Joan Benoit in winning the inaugural Olympic marathon for women in 1984.

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	2:20:43	26 September 1999	Berlin, Germany
Olympic Record	Joan Benoit (USA)	2:24:52	5 August 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Season Best	Naoko Takahashi (JPN)	2:22:19	12 March 2000	Nagoya, Japan
Broken records at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Naoko Takahashi (JPN)	2:23:14	24 September 2000	Sydney, Australia

		Results

*Marathon*	Women	Final	24 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	2.23.14	Naoko Takahashi	Japan	JPN	6 May 72
2	2.23.22	Lidia Simon	Romania	ROU	4 Sep 73
3	2.24.45	Joyce Chepchumba	Kenya	KEN	6 Nov 70
4	2.26.17	Esther Wanjiru-Maina	Kenya	KEN	27 Mar 77
5	2.26.33	Madina Biktagirova	Russia	RUS	20 Sep 64
7	2.27.03	Eri Yamaguchi	Japan	JPN	14 Jan 73
8	2.27.07	Ham Bong Sil	North Korea	PRK	8 Jul 74
9	2.27.38	Fatuma Roba	Ethiopia	ETH	18 Dec 70
10	2.27.55	Ren Xiujuan	China	CHN	14 Sep 74
11	2.28.37	Kerryn McCann	Australia	AUS	2 May 67
12	2.29.26	Maura Viceconte	Italy	ITA	3 Oct 67
13	2.29.45	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	KEN	9 May 73
14	2.29.55	Irina Bogachova	Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	30 May 61
15	2.30.34	Ari Ichihashi	Japan	JPN	22 Nov 77
16	2.30.51	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	MEX	4 Apr 71
17	2.30.54	Judit Földing-Nagy	Hungary	HUN	9 Dec 65
18	2.31.32	Ornella Ferrara	Italy	ITA	17 Apr 68
19	2.31.35	Chris Clark	United States	USA	10 Oct 62
20	2.31.40	Jong Yong Ok	North Korea	PRK	24 Jan 81
21	2.32.29	Manuela Machado	Portugal	POR	9 Aug 63
22	2.32.29	Nadezhda Wijenberg	Netherlands	NED	2 Apr 64
23	2.32.35	Lyubov Morgunova	Russia	RUS	14 Jan 71
24	2.33.45	Sonja Oberem	Germany	GER	24 Feb 73
25	2.33.54	Martha Tenorio	Ecuador	ECU	6 Aug 67
26	2.34.33	Marian Sutton	Great Britain	GBR	7 Oct 63
27	2.35.07	Erika Olivera	Chile	CHI	14 Jan 76
28	2.35.32	Kim Chang Ok	North Korea	PRK	16 Apr 75
29	2.36.16	Alina Gherasim	Romania	ROU	10 Nov 71
30	2.36.45	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain	ESP	16 Aug 63
31	2.36.48	Colleen de Reuck	South Africa	RSA	13 Apr 64
32	2.36.50	María Portillo	Peru	PER	10 Apr 72
33	2.38.28	Griselda González	Spain	ESP	4 Dec 65
34	2.38.42	Oh Mi-Ja	South Korea	KOR	3 Jul 70
35	2.38.44	Sue Hobson	Australia	AUS	13 Mar 58
36	2.42.29	Gadisse Edato	Ethiopia	ETH	15 Mar 73
37	2.42.40	Serap Aktas	Turkey	TUR	25 Sep 71
38	2.43.00	Daria Nauer	Switzerland	SUI	21 May 66
39	2.45.40	Maria Luisa Muñoz	Spain	ESP	6 May 59
40	2.47.26	Iglandini González	Colombia	COL	5 Feb 65
41	2.51.03	Gulsara Dadabayeva	Tajikistan	TJK	4 Jul 76
42	3.02.32	Gina Coelho	Honduras	HON	2 Oct 64
43	3.10.55	Agueda Fatima Amaral	Timor-Leste	TLS	27 May 72
44	3.13.58	Rhonda Davidson-Alley	Guam	GUM	19 Apr 61
45	3.34.27	Sirivanh Ketavong	Laos	LAO	1 Sep 70
	DNS	Claudia Dreher	Germany	GER	2 May 71
	DNF	Valentina Yegorova	Russia	RUS	16 Feb 64
	DNF	Marleen Renders	Belgium	BEL	24 Dec 68
	DNF	Elisabeth Mongudhi	Namibia	NAM	15 Jun 70
	DNF	Garifa Kuku	Kazakhstan	KAZ	30 Nov 59
	DNF	Martha Ernstsdóttir	Iceland	ISL	22 Dec 64
	DNF	Valentina Yenaki	Moldova	MDA	15 Feb 66
	DNF	Anuta Catuna	Romania	ROU	1 Oct 68
	DNF	Nicole Carroll	Australia	AUS	14 Jan 72

More Details by Marathoninfo

2000 SYDNEY: Takahashi finally brings a gold medal in Japan.

DATED	FEMALE WINNER	AGE	STARTERS	WITHDRAWALS
Sunday, September 24 at 9 am	Naoko Takahashi (Japan)	28 years	53 of 36 countries	8 (15.09%)

Japan is a marathon earth as it exists no other, the marathon is quite the culture of this country, the endurance and self-sacrifice that requires match people's mentality the country of the rising sun, in short the marathon is another religion; Yet, except for the victory Kitei Son (but it is the same Korean truth he ran under the shirt Japanese by force ..) they have never won a gold medal at the Olympic Games, cruel injustice !! Naoko Takahashi will manage to please all the people by winning the gold medal at the Sydney Games, finally !!

Takahashi ran his first marathon in Osaka in 1997 2h31h32 "at 25, the following year it was the Japan record in 2h25h48" always in Osaka before winning the Asian Games in Bangkok in 2:21:46, flying truly tested. This was the 5th best performance and the best performed in an exclusively women's race. The year 1999 marked an apparent obstacle to its progress because of an injury that forces him to give up the world championships in Seville.

It addresses the Olympic year and are reassured by achieving 2:22:19 in Nagoya on March 12, winning the race with more than two minutes ahead. The marathon that seemed able to counter it were primarily including Kenyan Tegla Loroupe who had the best performance of the year in 1998 in 2:20:47 in Rotterdam and Berlin in 1999 in 2:20:43. With such Loroupe results should have been the favorite, but unlike Takahashi, it has multiplied the race, indeed Wolker Wagner, coach doubled manager who had taken her under his control in Germany in the early 1990s did not give him the opportunity to recover well by linking the races. During the 1999 season that preceded the games, she thirty eight races including 10,000m, five and three half marathons !! While aligning the three national records and a world best, it will pay for the Olympics. Also in the morning the Olympic marathon, she suffered from food poisoning, vomiting before taking the road, and courageously finished in 23th position in 2:29:45, then placed on a drip.

The marathon of Sydney was not the most obvious, the most eventful part is between the 25th and 37th km, not the most obvious part for marathoners. The Belgian Marleen Renders, winner in Paris in Paris took 2:23:43 to leave fairly quickly, passing the tenth in 34'08 ".

At the midpoint spent in 1h11'45 "there was no question of Renders, joined at the 12th kilometer and doomed to abandonment. Then we find in both Japanese and head Takahashi Ichihashi accompanied Romanian Lidia Simon 6th in Atlanta and therefore very serious opponent. Takahashi say after the race "with my coach, we planned that I would leave between the 32th and 35th kilometers, or there ups and downs follow each other and make legs hurt. I love this kind of course and I know Lidia does not like. "This was actually there that the Japanese brought his first attack failed, then a second that this time assured him twenty meters ahead on the fortieth kilometer past in 2:15:19. Taking cramps towards the end, the Romanian came back in the last 600 meters but Takahashi managed to keep eight seconds ahead of the line !! phew, Japan finally had its first gold medal. the defending champion Fatuma Roba ended when her 9th in 2:27:38. the following year Naoko Takahashi became the first female athlete to go under 2:20 in winning the Berlin marathon in 2:19:46. she still win in Berlin in 2002, then was injured and was not able to select for the Athens Olympics despite a time of 2:27:21 in Tokyo, but despite the controversy over his non-selection and Japan cut in half, logic of the time of the selection tests prevailed over the choice of confidence in this exceptional athlete, unsure she can return to his best before the Olympics.