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The race was won by Wang Xiuting of China, who had been runner-up to Ingrid Kristiansen the previous year. She ran 49:34 minutes to finish ten seconds ahead of the runner-up, teammate Zhong Huandi, with former champion Aurora Cunha of Portugal in third place. With Wang Huabi in seventh, the Chinese team achieved a championship record-low score of ten points. The Portuguese women achieved the lowest non-winning score in championship history, with 15 points, with Cunha being followed home by fourth placed Albertina Machado and Albertina Dias in eighth. Showing the dominance of the race by a handful of nations, a Yekaterina Khramenkova-led Soviet Union also achieved the lowest ever score for third place on 24 points. [2]
| Rank | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
 |  China (CHN)Wang Xiuting Zhong Huandi Wang Huabi | 10 pts |
 |  Portugal (POR)Aurora Cunha Albertina Machado Albertina Dias | 15 pts |
 |  Soviet Union (URS)Yekaterina Khramenkova Nadezhda Stepanova Irina Yagodina | 24 pts |
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