Houston Marathon Winners
Year Female / Name Time
2024 Rhama Tusa 2:19:33
2023 Hitomi Niiya 2:19:24
2022 Keira D’Amato 2:19:12*
2020 Askale Merachi 2:23:29
2019 Biruktayit Degefa 2:23:28
2018 Biruktayit Degefa 2:24:51
2017 Meskerem Assefa 2:30:18
2016 Biruktayit Degefa 2:26:07
2015 Yebrgual Arage 2:23:23
2014 Abebech Bekele 2:25:52
2013 Merima Mohammed 2:23:37
2012 Alemitu Abera 2:23:14
2011 Mamitu Daska 2:26:33
2010 Teyba Erkesso 2:23:53
2009 Teyba Erkesso 2:24:18
2008 Dire Tune 2:24:40
2007 Dire Tune 2:26:52
2006 Firaya Sultanova-Zhdanova 2:32:25
2005 Kelly Keane 2:32:27
2004 Margarita Tapia 2:28:36
2003 Albina Gallyamova 2:42:37
2002 Becky Sondag 2:50:49
2001 Stacie Alboucrek 2:43:41
2000 Tatyana Pozdnyakova 2:32:24
1999 Tatyana Pozdnyakova 2:33:23
1998 Gwynneth Coogan 2:33:37•
1997 Claudia Dreher 2:36:13
1996 Adriana Fernandez 2:31:59
1995 Tatyana Pozdnyakova 2:29:57
1994 Alevtina Naoumova 2:34:47
1993 Kristy Johnston 2:29:05
1992 Kimberley Webb 2:50:17+
1991 Veronique Marot 2:30:55
1990 Maria Trujillo 2:32:55
1989 Veronique Marot 2:30:16
1988 Linda Zeman 2:34:52
1987 Bente Moe 2:32:37
1986 Veronique Marot 2:31:33
1985 Sylvia Ruegger 2:28:36
1984 Ingrid Kristiansen 2:27:51
1983 Ingrid Kristiansen 2:33:27
1982 Laurie Binder 2:40:57
1981 Patti Catalano 2:35:27
1980 Vanessa Vajdos 2:44:45
1979 Sue Peterson 2:46:17
1978 Peggy Kokernot 3:01:54
1977 Dorothy Doolitte 3:00:34
1976 Marsha Johnson 3:37:04
1975 Dorothy Doolittle 3:31:24
1973 Nancy Laird 4:29:09
1972 Tanya Trantham 5:11:55
Key:
* Course Record
+ Year of U.S. Women’s Olympic Trials Marathon, qualifying top three U.S. women for the 1992 Olympic Team.
Top three were Janis Klecker, 2:30:12, Cathy O’Brien, 2:30:26, and Francie Larrieu Smith, 2:30:39.
- Year of the 1998 U.S. Women’s Marathon Championship