| Final | time | | 1. Rosa Mota |  Portugal | 2:25:40 | | 2. Lisa Martin |  Australia | 2:25:53 | | 3. Kathrin Dörre |  East Germany | 2:26:21 | | 4. Tatiana Polovinskaia |  Soviet Union | 2:27:05 | | 5. Youfeng Zhao |  China | 2:27:06 | | 6. Laura Fogli |  Italy | 2:27:49 | | 7. Daniele Kaber |  Luxembourg | 2:29:23 | | 8. Maria Curatolo | Italy | 2:30:14 | | 9. Zoia Ivanova | Soviet Union | 2:30:25 | | 10.Angela Pain |  Great Britain | 2:30:51 | | 11.Odette Lapierre |  Canada | 2:30:56 | | 12.Susan Tooby | Great Britain | 2:31:33 | | 13.Karolina Szabo |  Hungary | 2:32:26 | | 14.Francoise Bonnet |  France | 2:32:36 | | 15.Mi-Ok Lee |  South Korea | 2:32:51 | | 16.Raissa Smekhnova | Soviet Union | 2:33:19 | | 17.Nancy Ditz |  United States | 2:33:42 | | 18.Maria Lelut | France | 2:33:47 | | 19.Jocelyne Villeton | France | 2:34:02 | | 20.Conoeicao Ferreira | Portugal | 2:34:23 | | 21.Kerstin Pressler |  West Germany | 2:34:26 | | 22.Marianna Panfil |  Poland | 2:34:35 | | 23.Antonella Bizioli | Italy | 2:34:38 | | 24.Evy Palm |  Sweden | 2:34:41 | | 25.Eriko Asai |  Japan | 2:34:41 | | 26.Lizanne Bussieres | Canada | 2:35:03 | | 27.Gabriela Wolf | West Germany | 2:35:11 | | 28.Kumi Araki | Japan | 2:35:15 | | 29.Misako Miyahara | Japan | 2:35:26 | | 30.Huandi Zhong | China | 2:36:02 | | 31.Ellen Rochefort | Canada | 2:36:44 | | 32.Susan Crehan | Great Britain | 2:36:57 | | 33.Lorraine Moller |  New Zealand | 2:37:52 | | 34.Carolina Beurskens |  HOL | 2:37:52 | | 35.Magda Hands |  Belgium | 2:38:02 | | 36.Sissel Grottenberg |  Norway | 2:38:17 | | 37.Eun-Joo Lim | South Korea | 2:38:21 | | 38.Marcianne Mukamurenzi |  Rwanda | 2:40:12 | | 39.Margaret Groos | United States | 2:40:59 | | 40.Cathy O'Brien | United States | 2:41:04 | | 41.Tuija Jousimaa |  Finland | 2:43:00 | | 42.Sinikka Keskitalo | Finland | 2:43:00 | | 43.Blanca Jaime |  Mexico | 2:43:00 | | 44.Angelica Almeida |  Brazil | 2:43:40 | | 45.Ludmila Melicherova |  Czechoslovakia | 2:43:56 | | 46.Ailish Smyth |  Ireland | 2:44:17 | | 47.Genoveva Eichenmann |  Switzerland | 2:44:37 | | 48.Rosmarie Mueller | Switzerland | 2:47:31 | | 49.Pascaline Wangui |  Kenya | 2:47:42 | | 50.Apollinarie Nyinawabera | Rwanda | 2:49:18 | | 51.Maryse Justin |  Mauritius | 2:50:00 | | 52.Michelle Bush |  Cayman Islands | 2:51:30 | | 53.Maria Pilar Menendez De Cox |  Guatemala | 2:51:33 | | 54.Juan Li | China | 2:53:08 | | 55.Linda Elizabeth Hunter |  Zimbabwe | 2:53:17 | | 56.Cornelia Melis |  Aruba | 2:54:37 | | 57.Marie Murphy-Rollins | Ireland | 3:04:21 | | 58.Kriscia Garcia |  El Salvador | 3:06:05 | | 59.Julie Ogborn |  Guam | 3:10:31 | | 60.Rajkumari Pandey |  Nepal | 3:11:17 | | 61.Menuka Rawat | Nepal | 3:23:56 | | 62.Arlene Vincent Mark |  Grenada | 3:25:32 | | 63.Lourdes Klitzkie | Guam | 3:42:23 | | -. Birgit Stephan | East Germany | DNF | | -. Grete Waitz | Norway | DNF | | -. Agnes Pardaens | Belgium | DNF | | -. Aurora Cunha | Portugal | DNF | | -. Mariana Ysrael | Guam | DNS | | -. Katerina Pratsi |  Cyprus | DNF | | -. Mi-Kyong Kim | South Korea | DNS | | -. Bente Moe | Norway | DNS |
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| | | Finish: Olympic Stadium, Seoul. Capp.: 69,950. | | 69 competitors from 39 nations. |
This was expected to be a four-way battle between Mota, Waitz, Dörre
and Martin. A pack of nine runners were together past halfway
(1:12:20), and the biggest shock of the race came when Waitz retired at
30km, due to slow recovery from knee surgery the previous month. By
35km the top three were accompanied only by Polovinskaya, and the
Ukrainian started to drop back just after 36km. Mota made her break
with 4km to go, and won by 60m from Martin, with Dörre 150m further
back.
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