2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's marathon

The women's marathon at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on the streets of Barcelona on 31 July. The event doubled as the European Team Marathon Cup 2010.

Doping

Živilė Balčiūnaitė of Lithuania originally won the marathon and was awarded the gold medal, but was disqualified for doping after she tested positive for testosterone.^[1]^[2] Nailiya Yulamanova of Russia originally came second, and was set to be upgraded to gold winner after Živilė Balčiūnaitė was disqualified. However, in July 2012, Yulamanova was also disqualified for doping, as her results from 20 August 2009 onwards were annulled due to abnormalities in her biological passport profile.^[3]

Anna Incerti (gold), Tetyana Filonyuk (silver) and Isabellah Andersson (bronze) received the medals by mail.

Medalists

Gold	Anna Incerti Italy (ITA)^[4]
Silver	Tetyana Filonyuk Ukraine (UKR)
Bronze	Isabellah Andersson Sweden (SWE)

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	2:15:25	London, United Kingdom	13 April 2003
European record	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	2:15:25	London, United Kingdom	13 April 2003
Championship record	Maria Guida (ITA)	2:26:05	Munich, Germany	10 August 2002
World Leading	Liliya Shobukhova (RUS)	2:22:00	London, United Kingdom	25 April 2010
European Leading	Liliya Shobukhova (RUS)	2:22:00	London, United Kingdom	25 April 2010

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
31 July 2010	10:05	Final

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
DQ	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania (LTU)	~~2:31:14~~	Doping
DQ	Nailya Yulamanova	Russia (RUS)	~~2:32:15~~	Doping
	Anna Incerti	Italy (ITA)	2:32:48
	Tetyana Filonyuk	Ukraine (UKR)	2:33:57
	Isabellah Andersson	Sweden (SWE)	2:34:43
4	Olivera Jevtić	Serbia (SRB)	2:34:56
5	Alessandra Aguilar	Spain (ESP)	2:35:04
6	Marisa Barros	Portugal (POR)	2:35:43
DQ	Irina Timofeyeva	Russia (RUS)	~~2:35:53~~	Doping
7	Rosaria Console	Italy (ITA)	2:36:20
8	Silviya Skvortsova	Russia (RUS)	2:36:31
9	Lidia Șimon	Romania (ROM)	2:36:52
10	Deborah Toniolo	Italy (ITA)	2:37:10
11	Michelle Ross-Cope	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:38:45
12	Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Lithuania (LTU)	2:38:55
13	Susan Partridge	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:39:07
14	Beatriz Ros	Spain (ESP)	2:40:10
15	Ana Dias	Portugal (POR)	2:41:02
16	Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu	Norway (NOR)	2:42:24
17	Holly Rush	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:42:44
18	Helen Decker	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:43:00
19	Svitlana Stanko-Klymenko	Ukraine (UKR)	2:43:35
20	Anna von Schenck	Sweden (SWE)	2:43:36
21	Rebecca Robinson	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:44:06
22	Jo Wilkinson	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:44:11
23	Kjersti Karoline Danielsen	Norway (NOR)	2:45:00
24	Maja Neuenschwander	Switzerland (SUI)	2:45:17
25	Yevgeniya Danilova	Russia (RUS)	2:46:21
26	Margarita Plaksina	Russia (RUS)	2:47:26
27	Christina Bus Holth	Norway (NOR)	2:48:15
28	Olena Biloshchuk	Ukraine (UKR)	2:51:21
29	Gezashign Šafářová	Azerbaijan (AZE)	2:51:59
30	Lena Gavelin	Sweden (SWE)	2:53:13
31	Remalda Kergytė	Lithuania (LTU)	2:55:12
32	Daneja Grandovec	Slovenia (SLO)	3:07:51
33	Vira Ovcharuk	Ukraine (UKR)	3:09:27
	Sladjana Perunović	Montenegro (MNE)	DNF
	Tatyana Pushkareva	Russia (RUS)	DNF
	Patricia Morceli	Switzerland (SUI)	DNF
	Mónica Rosa	Portugal (POR)	DNF
	Daniela Cârlan	Romania (ROM)	DNF
	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal (POR)	DNF
	Karolina Jarzyńska	Poland (POL)	DNF