Final 11:00 time   bib.   1. Tiki Gelana   Ethiopia2:23:07 OR 1708  Times 2. Priscah Jeptoo   Kenya2:23:12   2330  Times 3. Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova   Russia2:23:29 PB 2884  Times 4. Mary Jepkosgei Keitany   Kenya2:23:56   2331  Times 5. Tetyana Gamera-Shmyrko   Ukraine2:24:32 NR 3161  Times 6. Xiaolin Zhu   China2:24:48   1399  Times 7. Jessica Augusto   Portugal2:25:11   2719  Times 8. Valeria Straneo   Italy2:25:27   2163  Times 9. Albina Mayorova   Russia2:25:38   2879  Times 10.Shalane Flanagan   United States2:25:51   3288  Times 11.Kara Goucher   United States2:26:07   3292  Times 12.Helalia Johannes   Namibia2:26:09 NR 2537  Times 13.Marisa Barros   Portugal2:26:13   2721  Times 14.Irina Mikitenko   Germany2:26:44   1949  Times 15.Kimberley Smith   New Zealand2:26:59   2615  Times 16.Ryoko Kizaki   Japan2:27:16   2255  Times 17.Lisa Jane Weightman   Australia2:27:32 PB 1083  Times 18.Isabellah Andersson   Sweden2:27:36   3003  Times 19.Yoshimi Ozaki   Japan2:27:43   2259  Times 20.Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat   Kenya2:27:52   2334  Times 21.Ana Dulce Felix   Portugal2:28:12   2725  Times 22.Xueqin Wang   China2:28:21   1391  Times 23.Mare Dibaba   Ethiopia2:28:48   1705  Times 24.Hilda Kibet   Netherlands2:28:52 24 2557  Times 25.Ines Melchor   Peru2:28:54 NR 2631  Times 26.Alessandra Aguilar   Spain2:29:19   1640  Times 27.Rasa Drazdauskaite   Lithuania2:29:29 PB 2432  Times 28.Diana Lobacevske   Lithuania2:29:32 PB 2436  Times 29.Anna Incerti   Italy2:29:38   2156  Times 30.Rosaria Console   Italy2:30:09   2150  Times 31.Diane Nukuri   Burundi2:30:13 NR 1131  Times 32.Susanne Hahn   Germany2:30:22   1937  Times 33.Nastassia Staravoitava   Belarus2:30:25   1200  Times 34.Sviatlana Kouhan   Belarus2:30:26   1184  Times 35.Rene Kalmer   South Africa2:30:51   2792  Times 36.Karolina Jarzynska   Poland2:30:57   2686  Times 37.Souad Ait Salem   Algeria2:31:15   1010  Times 38.Beata Naigambo   Namibia2:31:16   2538  Times 39.Jessica Trengove   Australia2:31:17   1082  Times 40.Jessica Draskau-Petersson   Denmark2:31:43 PB 1549  Times 41.Yunhee Chung   South Korea2:31:58   2362  Times 42.Aselefech Mergia   Ethiopia2:32:03   1712  Times 43.Gladys Tejeda   Peru2:32:07 PB 2632  Times 44.Freya Murray   Great Britain2:32:14   1865  Times 45.Lidia Simon   Romania2:32:46 SB 2773  Times 46.Marisol Romero   Mexico2:33:08   2513  Times 47.Adriana Aparecida Da Silva   Brazil2:33:15   1236  Times 48.Olena Burkovska   Ukraine2:33:26   3155  Times 49.Kum-ok Kim   North Korea2:33:30   2738  Times 50.Karina Perez   Mexico2:33:30   2511  Times 51.Erika Abril   Colombia2:33:33 NR 1422  Times 52.Lisa Christina Stublic   Croatia2:34:03   1460  Times 53.Maja Neuenschwander   Switzerland2:34:50   2978  Times 54.Andrea Mayr   Austria2:34:51   1092  Times 55.Wilma Arizapana   Peru2:35:09   2630  Times 56.Kyong-hui Jon   North Korea2:35:17   2737  Times 57.Claire Hallissey   Great Britain2:35:39   1857  Times 58.Jiali Wang   China2:35:46   1390  Times 59.Rehaset Mehari   Eritrea2:35:49   1605  Times 60.Iuliia Andreeva   Kyrgyzstan2:36:01   2347  Times 61.Maria Elena Espeso   Spain2:36:12   1647  Times 62.Lishan Dula   Bahrain2:36:20   1257  Times 63.Bahar Dogan   Turkey2:36:35   3085  Times 64.Erika Olivera   Chile2:36:41 SB 1339  Times 65.Natalia Cerches   Moldova2:37:13 PB 2487  Times 66.Linda Byrne   Ireland2:37:13   2101  Times 67.Ivana Sekyrova   Czechia2:37:14   1542  Times 68.Ava Hutchinson   Ireland2:37:17   2106  Times 69.Natalia Romero   Chile2:37:47   1340  Times 70.Dailin Belmonte   Cuba2:38:08 PB 1488  Times 71.Ana Subotic   Serbia2:38:22   2958  Times 72.Sultan Haydar   Turkey2:38:26   3087  Times 73.Samira Raif   Marocco2:38:31 SB 2476  Times 74.Mi-gyong Kim   North Korea2:38:33   2739  Times 75.Remalda Kergyte   Lithuania2:39:01   2435  Times 76.Kyung-hee Lim   South Korea2:39:03   2366  Times 77.Sladana Perunovic   Montenegro2:39:07 NR 2526  Times 78.Olga Dubovskaya   Belarus2:39:12   1178  Times 79.Risa Shigetomo   Japan2:40:06   2261  Times 80.Amira Ben Amor   Tunisia2:40:13 NR 3068  Times 81.Tanith Maxwell   South Africa2:40:27   2793  Times 82.Maria Peralta   Argentina2:40:50   1027  Times 83.Rosa Chacha   Ecuador2:40:57 SB 1578  Times 84.H Triyaningsi   Indonesia2:41:15   2062  Times 85.Beata Rakonczai   Hungary2:41:20   2059  Times 86.Constantina Dita   Romania2:41:34   2765  Times 87.Leena Puotiniemi   Finland2:42:01   1736  Times 88.Zana Jereb   Slovenia2:42:50   2934  Times 89.Ummu Kiraz   Turkey2:43:07   3094  Times 90.Mamorallo Tjoka   Lesotho2:43:15 SB 2420  Times 91.Gabriela Trana   Costa Rica2:43:17   1451  Times 92.Zsofia Erdelyi   Hungary2:44:45   2051  Times 93.Jane Suuto   Uganda2:44:46   3120  Times 94.Yolimar Pineda   Venezuela2:45:16   3353  Times 95.Aniko Kalovics   Hungary2:45:55   2055  Times 96.Seongeun Kim   South Korea2:46:38   2365  Times 97.Vanessa Veiga   Spain2:46:53   1661  Times 98.Dace Lina   Latvia2:47:47   2402  Times 99.Katarina Beresova   Slovakia2:48:11   2992  Times 100.Benita Willis   Australia2:49:38   1085  Times 101.Claudette Mukasakindi   Rwanda2:51:07   2906  Times 102.Otgonbayar Luvsanlundeg   Mongolia2:52:15   2516  Times 103.Evelin Talts   Estonia2:54:15   1674  Times 104.Konstadina Kefala   Greece3:01:18   1992  Times 105.Ni Lar San   Myanmar3:04:27   2535  Times 106.Juventina Napoleao   Timor-Leste3:05:07 PB 3027  Times 107.Caitriona Jennings   Ireland3:22:11   2107  Times -. Yolanda Caballero   ColombiaDNF   1424  Times -. Tetyana Filonyuk   UkraineDNF   3159  Times -. Olivera Jevtic  SRBDNF   2955  Times -. Lucia Kimani   Bosnia HerzegovinaDNF   1154  Times -. Lornah Kiplagat   NetherlandsDNF   2558  Times -. Soumiya Labani   MaroccoDNF   2471  Times -. Liliya Shobukhova   RussiaDNF   2895  Times -. Sharon Tavengwa   ZimbabweDNF   3369  Times -. Irvette Van Blerk   South AfricaDNF   2795  Times -. Mara Yamauchi   Great BritainDNF   1880  Times 
 
(Competitors: 116; Countries 67; Finishers 107)                             
All three medalists in the 2011 World Championships had been                
Kenyans, and two of them – Kiplagat and Jeptoo – were in London         
along with Keitany, winner of the regular London marathon in April.         
Others highly regarded included the 2:18:20 performer Lidia                 
Shobukhova (RUS) and the three Ethiopians. The race began in tem-           
perate (14°C) wet conditions, and the pace was cautious with four ini-      
tial 5km splits averaging 17:22 (2:26 pace). Halfway was reached in         
73:13 with Shobukhova (73:37) the principal absentee from the leading       
pack. The tempo was only forced from the 25km mark by which time            
the six Kenyans or Ethiopians had broken clear. Of that sextet by 30km      
(1:42:44), Aselefech Mergia (ETH) had dropped back while Arkhipova          
was closing on the leading Africans.                                        
The surprising Russian went all the way to the front, and at 40km           
she led with Gelana, Jeptoo and Keitany. Improbably, it was 2:18:37         
performer Keitany who was dropped first. Gelana proved the strongest        
at the finish as the rain fell, winning by the smallest margin in Olympic   
history with an Olympic record. Jeptoo took silver with Arkhipova           
third. Improving from 13th at 35km to fifth was Tetyana Gamera-             
Shmyrko (UKR).                                                              
A record 29 women broke 2:30, though this became 28 when                    
Gamera-Shmyrko (2:24:32) was ultimately disqualified for a doping           
violation, as were non-finisher Shobukhova and four other women.            
                                                                        
 
 
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