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Tiki Gelana from Ethiopia won the gold medal, completing the course in an Olympic record-breaking time of 2 hours 23 minutes 7 seconds. Kenya 's Priscah Jeptoo finished second to win silver and Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova , representing Russia , took bronze.
A. Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon; Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon; Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon; Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon; Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's marathon; Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's marathon
Pages in category "2012 Olympic Marathon" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon
As the 2024 Paris Olympics approach, the world’s top athletes are arriving at the Olympic Village in France, built to house the more than 10,500 people competing for gold.. The 134-acre village ...
The marathon at the Summer Olympics is the only road running event held at the multi-sport event. The men's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first modern Olympics in 1896. Nearly ninety years later, the women's event was added to the programme at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Since 1984, the number of Summer Olympic events for women has nearly tripled, to 151, while last summer’s Paris Games was the first to reach gender parity, with women accounting for half of the ...
[38] [39] Further women's Olympic records were set by Ethiopia's Tiki Gelana in the marathon and Sally Pearson in the 100 metres hurdles. David Rudisha improved his own 800 metres world record to 1:40.91 minutes, becoming the first man to break that record at the Olympics since Ralph Doubell did so at the 1968 Games . [ 40 ]