List of marathoners

Legend

Men

Name	Country	Olympics	IAAF WC	WMM	1s	Career Best	Other	Ref
Gezahegne Abera		Athletics at the [2000 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon|2000]	2001 [World Championships in Athletics – Men's Marathon|2001]		5	2:07:54	First to win gold at Olympics and World Championships
Abel Antón			1997 1999		2	2:07:54	First to win two golds at World Championships
Stefano Baldini		Athletics at the [2004 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon|2004] 2008	2001 2003		3		Two time European champion
Dick Beardsley					3		The "Duel in the Sun" with Alberto Salazar at the 1982 Boston Marathon.
Abebe Bikila		1960 1964					First black African gold medalist by winning in Rome barefoot, previous world record holder
Gelindo Bordin		1988	1987		6		Two time European champion
Amby Burfoot					1	2:14:28	Boston Marathon winner
Dionicio Cerón					7	2:12:13
Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot				2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009	7	2:07:14
Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot					2	2:05:52
Waldemar Cierpinski		1976 1980	1983
Andrea Cionna						2:31:59	World record holder for the fastest marathon run by a totally blind man
Derek Clayton						2:08:34	The first to run a world record under 02:10:00
Robert de Castella			1983		4	2:07:51	Former marathon world record holder; holds Australian national record
Belayneh Densamo					7	2:06:50	Held the world record for the span of 10 years.
Leonard Edelen		1964				2:14:28	In 1963, he became the first American to hold the world record since 1925.
Steve Edwards							First person to complete 500 sub 3:30:00 marathons
Stefaan Engels							First person to complete 365 marathons in 365 days
Martín Fiz		1996	1995 1997		3
Haile Gebrselassie				2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009	9	2:03:59	Winner of many distance racing championships and holder of 27 world records
Jaouad Gharib		2008	2003 2005			2:05:27
Rodolfo Gómez		1976 1980			3	2:09:33
Ryan Hall		2008 2012				2:04:58
Hal Higdon							Freelance writer for Runner's World; a founder of Road Runners Club of America
Ron Hill		1964 1972				2:09:28
Hwang Young-Cho		1992			3	2:08:09
Juma Ikangaa		1984 1988 1992
Steve Jones					4	2:07:13	Former marathon world record holder
Veikko Karvonen		1952
Yuki Kawauchi			2011, 2013		10	2:07:27	More than 100 sub 2:20 marathons
Tsegaye Kebede		2008	2009	2008/2009 2009/2010	4	2:05:18
Meb Keflezighi		2004			1	2:08:37
Khalid Khannouchi	'				5	2:05:42	Former marathon world record holder
Dennis Kipruto Kimetto						2:02:57	Former marathon world record holder
Eliud Kipchoge'''		2016				2:01:39	Current marathon world record holder
Stephen Kiprotich		2012	2013			2:07:20
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich		2012				2:03:42	Former marathon world record holder
Abel Kirui		2012	2009 2011			2:06:51
Hannes Kolehmainen		1920
Lee Bong-Ju		1996				2:07:20	Winner of the Boston Marathon in 2001
Martin Lel				2007/2008 2006/2007	5	2:05:15
Vanderlei de Lima		2004
Tom Longboat	Canada|1868PORUSA Women Name Country Olympics IAAF WC WMM 1st Career Best Other Ref Tomoe Abe 1993 3 2:26:09 Holder of IAAF 100 km Road Women's World Record Yukiko Akaba 2011 2:24:08 Elfenesh Alemu 2000 2004 3 2:24:29 Yuko Arimori 1992 1996 2 2:26:39 Junko Asari 1993 3 2:26:10 Joan Benoit 1984 3 2:21:21 First female gold medalist in women's marathon Carla Beurskens 1984 1988 1987 14 2:28:27 Joyce Chepchumba 2000 2:23:22 Masako Chiba 2003 4 2:21:45 Zhou Chunxiu 2008 2:19:51 Constantina Diţă-Tomescu 2008 1 2:21:30 Adriana Fernández 1 2:24:06 First Mexican woman to win the New York City Marathon, in a time of 2:25:06 Franca Fiacconi 1997 1 2:25:17 Katrin Dörre-Heinig 1988 1992 1996 1991 1993 17 2:24:35 Kayoko Fukushi 2013 2:24:21 Jacqueline Gareau 1983 3 2:30:58 Tiki Gelana 2012 1 2:18:58 Bobbi Gibb 3 First woman to run the entire Boston Marathon Kara Goucher 2009 2:25:53 Lidiya Grigoryeva 4 2:25:10 Ari Ichihashi 1999 2:27:02 Helena Javornik 3 2:27:33 Priscah Jeptoo 2012 2011 2:20:14 Olivera Jevtić 4 2:25:23 Deena Kastor 2004 2:19:36 Mary Keitany 2010/2011 2:18:37 Edna Kiplagat 2010/2011 2:19:50 Lornah Kiplagat 4 2:22:22 Renata Kokowska 3 2:26:20 Brigid Kosgei