Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's marathon T12

Women's marathon T12
at the XVI Paralympic Games
Women's marathon T12; at the XVI Paralympic Games
Venue	Tokyo National Stadium
Dates	5 September 2021
Competitors	10 from 7 nations
Medalists

The women's marathon T12 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, took place on 5 September 2021.

The T12 category is for athletes with visual impairment. Athletes in this category will generally have some residual sight, the ability to recognise the shape of a hand at a distance of 2 metres and the ability to perceive clearly will be no more than 2/60. T12 athletes commonly run with guides.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[1]

World Record	Misato Michishita (JPN)	2:54:13	Hōfu, Japan	20 December 2020
Paralympic Record	Vacant	–

Area	Time	Athlete	Nation
Africa	3:18:11	Record Mark
America	3:05:03	Record Mark
Asia	2:54:13 WR	Misato Michishita	Japan
Europe	2:58:23	Elena Pautova	Russia
Oceania	Vacant

Results

The race took place on 5 September 2021, at 6:50:^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Class	Time	Notes
	Misato Michishita	Japan	T12	3:00:50	GR
	Elena Pautova Grigoriy Andreev (guide)	RPC	T12	3:04:16	SB
	Louzanne Coetzee	South Africa	T11	3:11:13	WR (T11)
4	Edneusa de Jesus Santos Vilmar Roberto Dias (guide)	Brazil	T12	3:15:32	SB
5	Yumiko Fujii	Japan	T12	3:17:44	SB
6	Maria Fiuza	Portugal	T11	3:20:45	SB
7	Edilene Teixeira Boaventura	Brazil	T11	3:26:32	AR (T11)
8	Mihoko Nishijima	Japan	T12	3:29:12	SB
9	María del Carmen Paredes Rodríguez Lorenzo Snachez Martin (guide)	Spain	T12	3:37:44	SB
	Meryem En-Nourhi	Morocco	T12

References

^ "Records – World Para Athletics". Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^ "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[1] "Records – World Para Athletics". Retrieved 26 August 2021.

[2] "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

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