2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon
The Women's Marathon event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 23, 2009 in the streets of Berlin, Germany. The race started at 11:15h local time.
Medalists
Abbreviations
- All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |
Records
Qualification standards
Schedule
Intermediates
Results
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Bai Xue | 2:25:15 | SB | ||
| Yoshimi Ozaki | 2:25:25 | SB | ||
| Aselefech Mergia | 2:25:32 | |||
| Zhou Chunxiu | 2:25:39 | SB | ||
| Zhu Xiaolin | 2:26:08 | SB | ||
| Marisa Barros | 2:26:50 | |||
| Yuri Kano | 2:26:57 | SB | ||
| Alevtina Biktimirova | 2:27:39 | SB | ||
| Kara Goucher | 2:27:48 | SB | ||
| 10 | Desireé Davila | 2:27:53 | PB | |
| 11 | Julia Mumbi Muraga | 2:28:59 | SB | |
| 12 | Sun Weiwei | 2:29:39 | SB | |
| 13 | Yoshiko Fujinaga | 2:29:53 | ||
| 14 | Svetlana Zakharova | 2:29:55 | ||
| 15 | Bezunesh Bekele | 2:30:03 | ||
| 16 | Sabrina Mockenhaupt | 2:30:07 | SB | |
| 17 | Lisa Jane Weightman | 2:30:42 | PB | |
| 18 | Živilė Balčiūnaitė | 2:31:06 | SB | |
| 19 | Kim Kum-Ok | 2:31:24 | ||
| 20 | Irene Limika | 2:31:29 | ||
| 21 | Lidia Simon | 2:32:03 | ||
| 22 | Dire Tune | 2:32:42 | ||
| 23 | Beata Naigambo | 2:33:05 | PB | |
| 24 | Alessandra Aguilar | 2:33:38 | ||
| 25 | Epiphanie Nyirabarame | 2:33:59 | NR | |
| 26 | Atsede Baysa | 2:36:04 | ||
| 27 | Tera Moody | 2:36:39 | SB | |
| 28 | Olga Glok | 2:36:57 | ||
| 29 | Paige Higgins | 2:37:11 | SB | |
| 30 | Yukiko Akaba | 2:37:43 | ||
| 31 | Lyubov Morgunova | 2:38:23 | ||
| 32 | Jong Yong-Ok | 2:38:29 | ||
| 33 | Susanne Hahn | 2:38:39 | ||
| 34 | Mary Davis | 2:38:48 | PB | |
| 35 | Tara Quinn-Smith | 2:39:19 | SB | |
| 36 | Risper Jemeli Kimaiyo | 2:39:23 | ||
| 37 | Patrizia Morceli | 2:39:37 | ||
| 38 | Sun Suk Yun | 2:39:56 | ||
| 39 | Judith Ramírez | 2:40:18 | ||
| 40 | Fiona Docherty | 2:40:18 | PB | |
| 41 | Un Suk Phyo | 2:40:39 | ||
| 42 | Adriana Aparecida da Silva | 2:40:54 | PB | |
| 43 | Shireen Crumpton | 2:41:31 | SB | |
| 44 | Tanith Maxwell | 2:41:48 | SB | |
| 45 | Annemette Aagaard | 2:42:03 | SB | |
| 46 | Martha Komu | 2:42:14 | SB | |
| 47 | Chol Sun Kim | 2:42:18 | ||
| 48 | Patricia Lossouarn | 2:42:40 | ||
| 49 | Laurence Klein | 2:42:47 | ||
| 50 | Zoila Gómez | 2:42:49 | SB | |
| 51 | Remalda Kergyte | 2:45:28 | SB | |
| 52 | Park Ho-sun | 2:47:16 | ||
| 53 | Stephanie Briand | 2:48:16 | ||
| 54 | Yamna Oubouhou | 2:50:02 | SB | |
| 55 | Hilaria Johannes | 2:50:19 | SB | |
| 56 | Sandra Ruales | 2:50:36 | ||
| 57 | Jane Suuto | 2:52:44 | ||
| 58 | Cécile Moynot | 2:54:21 | ||
| 59 | Nuţa Olaru | 3:00:59 | ||
| Nailiya Yulamanova | DQ | |||
| Magdaliní Gazéa | DQ | |||
| Maria Zeferina Baldaia | DNF | |||
| Robe Guta | DNF | |||
| Ulrike Maisch | DNF | |||
| Luminita Zaituc | DNF | |||
| Yeoryía Abatzídou | DNF | |||
| Helena Loshanyang Kirop | DNF | |||
| Victoria Poludina | DNF | |||
| Lee Sun-Young | DNF | |||
| Dulce María Rodríguez | DNF | |||
| Luvsanlkhundeg Otgonbayar | DNF | |||
| Clara Morales | DNS | |||
| Luminiţa Talpoş | DNS |