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Sports > Olympics > Summer Olympics Through The Years > Event-by-Event > Track & Field > Women's Olympic Track & Field

Marathon

Year		Time
1984	Joan Benoit, USA	2:24:52
1988	Rosa Mota, POR	2:25:40
1992	Valentina Yegorova, UT	2:32:41
1996	Fatuma Roba, ETH	2:26:05
2000	Naoko Takahashi, JPN	2:23:14
2004	Mizuki Noguchi, JPN	2:26:20

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