LRC Note: Here is Race Results Weekly article: "The best USA women over the marathon distance, including all six members of the 2024 Olympic and 2025 World Championships teams, plan to line up for the 2026 Boston Marathon on Monday, April 20, Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) officials announced today. So strong is Boston's allure that a total of 13 American women with personal bests under 2:26:00 have decided to make Boston their spring marathon for 2026."
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PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S DIVISION –
Sharon Lokedi, KEN, 2:17:22 (Boston, 2025) CR
Irine Cheptai, KEN, 2:17:51 (Chicago, 2024)
Workenesh Edesa, ETH, 2:17:55 (Hamburg, 2025)
Magdalena Shauri, TAN, 2:18:03 (Chicago, 2025) NR
Joan Melly, ROU, 2:18:04 (Seoul, 2022)
Loice Chemnung, KEN, 2:18:24 (Chicago, 2025)
Bedatu Hirpa, ETH, 2:18:27 (Dubai, 2025)
Emily Sisson, USA, 2:18:29 (Chicago, 2022) AR/NR
Vivian Cheruiyot (40+), KEN, 2:18:31 (London, 2018)
Keira D’Amato (40+), USA, 2:19:12 (Houston, 2022)
Mary Ngugi-Cooper, KEN, 2:19:26 (Chicago, 2025)
Sara Hall (40+), USA, 2:20:32 (Chandler, 2020)
Gadise Mulu, ETH, 2:20:59 (Ljubljana, 2024)
Calli Hauger-Thackery, GBR, 2:21:24 (Berlin, 2024)
Fikrte Wereta, ETH, 2:21:32 (Seoul, 2024)
Susanna Sullivan, USA, 2:21:56 (Chicago, 2024)
Fiona O‘Keeffe, USA, 2:22:10 (Orlando, 2024)
Mao Uesugi, JPN, 2:22:11 (Nagoya, 2025)
Jess McClain, USA, 2:22:43 (Boston, 2025)
Erika Kemp, USA, 2:22:56 (Houston, 2025)
Isobel Batt-Doyle, AUS, 2:22:59 (Valencia, 2024)
Lisa Weightman (40+), AUS, 2:23:15 (Osaka, 2023)
Annie Frisbie, USA, 2:23:21 (Boston, 2025)
Natosha Rogers, USA, 2:23:28 (Chicago, 2025)
Mercy Chelangat, KEN, 2:23:33 (Ottawa, 2025)
Dakotah Popehn, USA, 2:24:20 (Chicago, 2025)
Gabi Rooker, USA, 2:24:29 (Chicago, 2024)
Leanne Pompeani, AUS, 2:24:53 (Nagoya, 2025)
Megan Sailor, USA, 2:25:17 (Sacramento, 2025)
Amanda Vestri, USA, 2:25:40 (NYC, 2025)
Paige Wood, USA, 2:26:02 (Sacramento, 2022)
Stephanie Bruce, USA, 2:27:47 (Chicago, 2019)
Madey Dickson, USA, 2:28:57 (Sacramento, 2025)
Kodi Kleven, USA, 2:29:18 (Sacramento, 2025)
Zaida Ramos, PER, 2:29:49 (Seville, 2024)
Elena Hayday, USA, 2:30:51 (Duluth, 2023)
Carrie Ellwood, USA, 2:31:51 (Chicago, 2021)
Diana Bogantes, CRC, 2:32:08 (Valencia) NR
Katie Florio, USA, 2:32:44 (Philadelphia, 2024)
Katie Kellner, USA, 2:32:48 (Berlin, 2023)
Breanna Sieracki, USA, 2:32:53 (Sacramento, 2025)
Carolyn Buchanan, CAN, 2:32:54 (Sacramento, 2025)
Marybeth Chelanga, USA, 2:33:33 (Orlando, 2024)
Elizabeth Chikotas, USA, 2:33:57 (Sacramento, 2025)
Ava Crean, IRL, 2:34:12 (Dublin, 2025)
Abbie McNulty Bennie, USA, 2:34:53 (Boston, 2025)
Marte Maehlum-Johansen, NOR, 2:34:54 (Hamburg, 2025)
Megan O‘Neil, USA, 2:34:55 (Duluth, 2024)
Maria Lindberg (40+), USA, 2:34:59 (Chicago, 2025)
Felicia Pasadyn, USA, 2:35:17 (NYC, 2025)
Madeline Block, USA, 2:36:28 (Sacramento, 2025)
Caitlin McGinley, USA, 2:37:12 (Lowell, 2025)
Katie McMenamin, USA, 2:37:20 (Jersey City, 2025)
Erin Del Giudice, USA, 2:37:36 (Duluth, 2025)
Teagan Robertson, CAN, 2:37:51 (Sacramento, 2024)
Emilee Risteen, USA, 2:38:46 (Duluth, 2023)
Elizabeth Reichert, USA, 2:38:49 (Sacramento, 2024)
Marissa Lenger, USA, 2:38:51 (Valley Cottage, 2023)
Molly D Colwell, USA, 2:39:27 (Sacramento, 2024)
Cassandra de Winter, CAN, 2:39:52 (Victoria, 2025)
Hannah Olde Loohuis, NED, 2:40:39 (Amsterdam, 2025)
Leanne Klassen, CAN, 2:40:56 (Houston, 2025)
Karen Bertasso (40+), USA, 2:41:15 (Sacramento, 2025
Polly Cunes (40+), CAN, 2:41:27 (Chicago, 2025)
Marije Geurtsen (40+), NED, 2:42:45 (Berlin, 2019)