1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

Senior women's race at the 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	19th
Date	March 24
Host city	Antwerp, Antwerp Province, Belgium
Venue	Linkeroever Racecourse
Events	1
Distances	6.425 km – Senior women
Participation	126 athletes from 30 nations
← 1990 Aix-les-Bains 1992 Boston →

The Senior women's race at the 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Antwerp, Belgium, at the Linkeroever Racecourse on March 24, 1991. A report on the event was given in The New York Times . ^[1]

Complete results, ^[2] medallists, ^[3] and the results of British athletes ^[4] were published.

Race results

Senior women's race (6.425 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Lynn Jennings	United States	20:24
	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	20:27
	Liz McColgan	United Kingdom	20:28
4	Luchia Yeshak	Ethiopia	20:29
5	Jane Ngotho	Kenya	20:30
6	Albertina Dias	Portugal	20:40
7	Susan Sirma	Kenya	20:46
8	Yelena Romanova	Soviet Union	20:50
9	Margaret Ngotho	Kenya	20:55
10	Marcianne Mukamurenzi	Rwanda	20:57
11	Natalya Sorokivskaya	Soviet Union	20:57
12	Fatuma Roba	Ethiopia	21:01
13	Nadezhda Galyamova	Soviet Union	21:02
14	Jenny Lund	Australia	21:03
15	Pauline Konga	Kenya	21:03
16	Marina Rodchenkova	Soviet Union	21:03
17	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	21:05
18	Merima Denboba	Ethiopia	21:09
19	Annette Peters	United States	21:10
20	Tigist Moreda	Ethiopia	21:10
21	Susan Hobson	Australia	21:14
22	Izumi Maki	Japan	21:14
23	Olga Nazarkina	Soviet Union	21:15
24	Nadezhda Ilyina	Soviet Union	21:15
25	Viorica Ghican	Romania	21:16
26	Nadia Dandolo	Italy	21:17
27	Andrea Wallace	United Kingdom	21:17
28	Elaine van Blunk	United States	21:18
29	Gwynn Coogan	United States	21:19
30	Martine Fays	France	21:22
31	Silvana Pereira	Brazil	21:25
32	Estela Estévez	Spain	21:28
33	Véronique Collard	Belgium	21:29
34	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	21:30
35	Liève Slegers	Belgium	21:31
36	Alison Wyeth	United Kingdom	21:32
37	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	21:33
38	Sonia McGeorge	United Kingdom	21:33
39	Iulia Negura	Romania	21:33
40	Anuța Cătună	Romania	21:34
41	Angelines Rodriguez	Spain	21:36
42	Farida Fatès	France	21:37
43	Trina Painter	United States	21:38
44	Elena Fidatof	Romania	21:40
45	Marjan Freriks	Netherlands	21:41
46	Hellen Chepngeno	Kenya	21:41
47	Lucy Smith	Canada	21:41
48	Roberta Brunet	Italy	21:42
49	Maria Guida	Italy	21:42
50	Rosario Murcia	France	21:42
51	Shelly Steely	United States	21:44
52	Rita de Jesús	Brazil	21:45
53	Odile Ohier	France	21:45
54	Irena Czuta	Poland	21:46
55	Tsugumi Fukuyama	Japan	21:46
56	Paola Cabrera	Mexico	21:47
57	Benita Perez	Mexico	21:48
58	Ana Moreira	Portugal	21:49
59	Lunuta Alungulesei	Romania	21:49
60	Daria Nauer	Switzerland	21:50
61	Megumi Fujiwara	Japan	21:50
62	Lisa Harvey	Canada	21:51
63	Nives Curti	Italy	21:52
64	Aurora Cunha	Portugal	21:52
65	Catherina McKiernan	Ireland	21:56
66	Tanja Kalinowski	Germany	21:57
67	Carmen Fuentes	Spain	21:59
68	Annick de Gooyer	Canada	22:01
69	Anne Cross	Australia	22:02
70	Claudia Borgschulze	Germany	22:03
71	Mikiko Oguni	Japan	22:03
72	Sally Ellis †	United Kingdom	22:03
73	Valerie Chauvel	France	22:04
74	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	22:05
75	Rika Ota	Japan	22:06
76	Lisa York	United Kingdom	22:07
77	Ria van Landeghem	Belgium	22:08
78	Lesley Graham	New Zealand	22:09
79	Ingrid Delagrange	Belgium	22:10
80	Lucía Rendón	Mexico	22:10
81	May Allison	Canada	22:11
82	Linden Wilde	New Zealand	22:12
83	Julia Vaquero	Spain	22:13
84	Mary O'Connor	New Zealand	22:13
85	Rizoneide Vanderley	Brazil	22:13
86	Mariana Stanescu	Romania	22:14
87	Krishna Stanton	Australia	22:15
88	Hitomi Inoue	Japan	22:16
89	Orietta Mancia	Italy	22:17
90	Alena Mocariová	Czechoslovakia	22:18
91	Maria van Gestel	Belgium	22:19
92	Anja de Brabant	Belgium	22:19
93	Sharon Ann Hayes	New Zealand	22:19
94	Isabella Moretti	Switzerland	22:20
95	Louise Cavanagh	Ireland	22:27
96	Tamara Salomon	Canada	22:29
97	Maria Luisa Lárraga	Spain	22:32
98	Maree Turner	New Zealand	22:36
99	Celine Martin	France	22:39
100	Laura Faccio	Italy	22:40
101	Cleuza Irineu	Brazil	22:40
102	Leticia Martinez	Mexico	22:42
103	Yvonne van der Kolk	Netherlands	22:42
104	Andrea Whitcombe	United Kingdom	22:44
105	Valerie Vaughan	Ireland	22:51
106	Anne Keenan-Buckley	Ireland	22:51
107	Inés Rodríguez	Argentina	22:52
108	Lesley Morton	New Zealand	22:54
109	Marianne van de Linde	Netherlands	22:55
110	Nanda Shaner Yadav	India	23:10
111	Roisin Smyth	Ireland	23:13
112	Annie van Stiphout	Netherlands	23:14
113	Jolanda Holdener	Switzerland	23:23
114	Poonam Taneja	India	23:31
115	Yvonne Kramer	Netherlands	23:35
116	Angelina Tellez	Mexico	23:39
117	Lukose Leelamma	India	23:40
118	Maryse Pyndiah	Mauritius	23:44
119	Vally Satayabhama	India	23:49
120	Teresa McKenna	Ireland	23:51
121	Suresh Bala	India	24:06
122	Cornelia Melis	Aruba	24:30
123	Sheila Seebaluck	Mauritius	24:35
124	Ana Gutiérrez	U.S. Virgin Islands	24:38
—	Fernanda Marques	Portugal	DNF
—	Dolores Rizo	Spain	DNF

^†: Athlete marked in the results list ^[2] as nonscorer.

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya Jane Ngotho 5 Susan Sirma 7 Margaret Ngotho 9 Pauline Konga 15 (Hellen Chepngeno) (46)	36
	Ethiopia Derartu Tulu 2 Luchia Yeshak 4 Fatuma Roba 12 Merima Denboba 18 (Tigist Moreda) (20) (Berhane Adere) (34)	36
	Soviet Union Yelena Romanova 8 Natalya Sorokivskaya 11 Nadezhda Galyamova 13 Marina Rodchenkova 16 (Olga Nazarkina) (23) (Nadezhda Ilyina) (24)	48
4	United States Lynn Jennings 1 Annette Peters 19 Elaine van Blunk 28 Gwynn Coogan 29 (Trina Painter) (43) (Shelly Steely) (51)	77
5	United Kingdom Liz McColgan 3 Andrea Wallace 27 Alison Wyeth 36 Sonia McGeorge 38 (Lisa York) (76) (Andrea Whitcombe) (104)	104
6	Portugal Albertina Dias 6 Conceição Ferreira 17 Ana Moreira 58 Aurora Cunha 64 (Fernanda Ribeiro) (74) (Fernanda Marques) (DNF)	145
7	Romania Viorica Ghican 25 Iulia Negura 39 Anuța Cătună 40 Elena Fidatof 44 (Lunuta Alungulesei) (59) (Mariana Stanescu) (86)	148
8	France Martine Fays 30 Farida Fatès 42 Rosario Murcia 50 Odile Ohier 53 (Valerie Chauvel) (73) (Celine Martin) (99)	175
9	Italy Nadia Dandolo 26 Roberta Brunet 48 Maria Guida 49 Nives Curti 63 (Orietta Mancia) (89) (Laura Faccio) (100)	186
10	Australia Jenny Lund 14 Susan Hobson 21 Anne Cross 69 Krishna Stanton 87	191
11	Japan Izumi Maki 22 Tsugumi Fukuyama 55 Megumi Fujiwara 61 Mikiko Oguni 71 (Rika Ota) (75) (Hitomi Inoue) (88)	209
12	Spain Estela Estévez 32 Angelines Rodriguez 41 Carmen Fuentes 67 Julia Vaquero 83 (Maria Luisa Lárraga) (97) (Dolores Rizo) (DNF)	223
13	Belgium Véronique Collard 33 Liève Slegers 35 Ria van Landeghem 77 Ingrid Delagrange 79 (Maria van Gestel) (91) (Anja de Brabant) (92)	224
14	Canada Lucy Smith 47 Lisa Harvey 62 Annick de Gooyer 68 May Allison 81 (Tamara Salomon) (96)	258
15	Brazil Silvana Pereira 31 Rita de Jesús 52 Rizoneide Vanderley 85 Cleuza Irineu 101	269
16	Mexico Paola Cabrera 56 Benita Perez 57 Lucía Rendón 80 Leticia Martinez 102 (Angelina Tellez) (116)	295
17	New Zealand Lesley Graham 78 Linden Wilde 82 Mary O'Connor 84 Sharon Ann Hayes 93 (Maree Turner) (98) (Lesley Morton) (108)	337
18	Netherlands Marjan Freriks 45 Yvonne van der Kolk 103 Marianne van de Linde 109 Annie van Stiphout 112 (Yvonne Kramer) (115)	369
19	Ireland Catherina McKiernan 65 Louise Cavanagh 95 Valerie Vaughan 105 Anne Keenan-Buckley 106 (Roisin Smyth) (111) (Teresa McKenna) (120)	371
20	India Nanda Shaner Yadav 110 Poonam Taneja 114 Lukose Leelamma 117 Vally Satayabhama 119 (Suresh Bala) (121)	460

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 126 athletes from 30 countries in the Senior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[4]

•   Argentina (1)
•   Aruba (1)
•   Australia (4)
•   Belgium (6)
•   Brazil (4)
•   Canada (5)
•   Czechoslovakia (1)
•   Denmark (1)
•   Ethiopia (6)
•   France (6)
•   Germany (2)
•   India (5)
•   Ireland (6)
•   Italy (6)
•   Japan (6)
•   Kenya (5)
•   Mauritius (2)
•   Mexico (5)
•   Netherlands (5)
•   New Zealand (6)
•   Poland (1)
•   Portugal (6)
•   Romania (6)
•   Rwanda (1)
•   Soviet Union (6)
•   Spain (6)
•    Switzerland (3)
•   United Kingdom (7)
•   United States (6)
•   U.S. Virgin Islands (1)

See also

• 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

References

1. Bloom, Marc (March 25, 1991), "CROSS COUNTRY; Jennings Retains World Title", The New York Times , retrieved October 16, 2013
2. Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 6.4km CC Women - Antwerpen Linkerover Date: Sunday, March 24, 1991, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 24, 2013
3. IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
4. 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013