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The women's marathon at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on the Olympic marathon street course on 5 August. [1]The course started and finished on The Mall in central London.
The 2012 Olympic Marathon Course is that of both the men's and women's marathon races at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. The 42.195-kilometre (26.219-mile) route consists of one short circuit of 3.571 kilometres (2.219 miles) followed by three circuits of 12.875 kilometres (8.0 miles).
[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 ]
The women's marathon swimming over a distance of 10 kilometres at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on 9 August in the Serpentine at Hyde Park in London, United Kingdom. [ 1 ] Hungary's Éva Risztov ended her eight-year absence from Olympic action to capture the women's 10 km marathon title in open water swimming.
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.
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
The 2012 season was a career breakthrough for Gamera. She broke the Ukrainian record at the Osaka Women's Marathon with a run of 2:24:46, ending the race as runner-up to Risa Shigetomo . [ 5 ] After that, she ran a series of personal bests: she ran 33:25 at the World's Best 10K , 1:12:15 at the Prague Half Marathon , and 32:50.13 for the 10,000 ...
Evan Kim, 12, front, runs with family members and a running group to train for marathons on March 10, 2024 in Irvine, California.She ran a 2:58 in the Ventura marathon recently, making her the ...