Road relay 42.195 km, women

What to remember

In Beijing on February 28, 1998, a Chinese team of six women covered the marathon distance as a relay in 2 h 11 min 41.00 s, an average of 19.226 km/h. Jiang Bo, Dong Yanmei, Zhao Fengting, Ma Zaijie, Lan Lixin and Li Na shared the 42.195 km.

The format has a Japanese name: ekiden. The word first referred to the old courier system in which messengers or horses took over from one station to the next, and it can be loosely translated as "station to station". Each runner hands over a sash, the tasuki, to the next one at the end of her stage. Usually the six legs measure 5 km, 10 km, 5 km, 10 km, 5 km and 7.195 km.

Jiang Bo, born in Wafangdian in 1977, was a middle-distance runner coached by Ma Junren from 1994. On October 18, 1997 in Shanghai she had run the 1500 m in 3:50.98.