Athletics, IAAF Athletics World Championships, Marathon - Marathon World Champions, women

1983 Grete Waitz
1987 Rosa Mota
1991 Wanda Panfil
1993 Junko Asari
1995 Manuela Machado
1997 Hiromi Suzuki
1999 Jong Song-Ok
2001 Lidia Simon
2003 Catherine Ndereba
2005 Paula Radcliffe
2007 Catherine Ndereba
2009 Xue Bai
2011 Edna Kiplagat