World Best Performance							MARATHON
	Performance					Athlete	Nat	Place	Date
	2:18:47					Catherine Ndereba	KEN	Chicago	07 10 2001
Area Records							MARATHON
Area	Performance					Athlete	Nat	Place	Date
AFRICA	2:18:47					Catherine Ndereba	KEN	Chicago	07 10 2001
ASIA	2:19:46					Naoko Takahashi	JPN	Berlin	30 09 2001
EUROPE	2:18:56					Paula Radcliffe	GBR	London	14 04 2002
NORTH,CENTRAL AMERICA&C.	2:21:21					Joan Samuelson	USA	Chicago	20 10 1985
OCEANIA	2:23:51					Lisa Martin-Ondieki	AUS	Osaka	31 01 1988
SOUTH AMERICA	2:27:41					Carmen Souza Oliveira	BRA	Boston, MA	18 04 1994
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