1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

Medalists

Gold	Junko Asari Japan (JPN)
Silver	Manuela Machado Portugal (POR)
Bronze	Tomoe Abe Japan (JPN)

Standing records prior to the 1993 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR)	2:21:06	April 21, 1985	London, United Kingdom
Event Record	Rosa Mota (POR)	2:25:17	August 29, 1987	Rome, Italy
Season Best	Wang Junxia (CHN)	2:24:07	April 4, 1993	Tianjin, PR China

Rank	Athlete	Time
	Junko Asari (JPN)	2:30:03
	Manuela Machado (POR)	2:30:54
	Tomoe Abe (JPN)	2:31:01
4	Ramilya Burangulova (RUS)	2:33:03
5	Madina Biktagirova (BLR)	2:34:36
6	Katrin Dörre-Heinig (GER)	2:35:20
7	Frith van der Merwe (RSA)	2:35:56
8	Kimberly Rosenquist-Jones (USA)	2:36:33
9	Kamila Gradus (POL)	2:36:48
10	Firiya Zhdanova (RUS)	2:37:59
11	Akemi Matsuno (JPN)	2:38:04
12	Maria Rebelo (FRA)	2:38:33
13	Anna Rybicka (POL)	2:39:44
14	Marian Sutton (GBR)	2:39:45
15	Judit Földing-Nagy (HUN)	2:41:06
16	Karen MacLeod (GBR)	2:41:46
17	Ana Isabel Alonso (ESP)	2:42:53
18	Ritva Lemettinen (FIN)	2:45:05
19	Jane Welzel (USA)	2:46:08
20	Helena Javornik (SLO)	2:51:06
21	Emperatriz Wilson (CUB)	2:54:11
22	Su Tzu-Ning (TPE)	2:58:37
23	Chu Winnie Ng Lai (HKG)	2:58:41
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Danuta Bartoszek (CAN)	DNF
—	Gabrielle O'Rourke (NZL)	DNF
—	Anne van Schuppen (NED)	DNF
—	Claudia Metzner (GER)	DNF
—	Birgit Jerschabek (GER)	DNF
—	Bettina Sabatini (ITA)	DNF
—	Rosanna Munerotto (ITA)	DNF
—	Rakiya Maraoui-Quetier (MAR)	DNF
—	Ma Liyan (CHN)	DNF
—	Sally Eastall (GBR)	DNS

^ Moorcroft, Dave; Foster, Brendan (15 August 1993). "1993 World Championships". BBC. 27 minutes 50 seconds. London, England: posted by Basil Sage as '4230 World Track & Field 1993 Marathon Women' as first in a series of digitized (from VHS) videos for the full marathon (published 14 September 2017). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023 – via YouTube.
^ Moorcroft, Dave; Foster, Brendan (15 August 1993). "1993 World Championships". BBC. 7 minutes 20 seconds. London, England: posted by Basil Sage as '4253 World Track & Field 1993 Marathon Women' as last in a series of digitized (from VHS) videos for the full marathon (published 11 October 2017). Archived from the original on 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023 – via YouTube.
^ "4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics—Marathon Women". Monaco: World Athletics. 13 August 1993. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2023.