1991 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

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The 1991 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the ninth and final edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by the Netherlands on 13 October 1991 in Nieuwegein and featured one race only: a 15K run for women. There were individual and team awards available, with the national team rankings being decided by the combined finishing positions of a team's top three runners. Countries with fewer than three finishers were not ranked. [1]

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Romania's Iulia Olteanu defended her title from the 1990 race with a winning time of 48:42 minutes. In the tightest ever finish seen in the competition's history, four women finished within the space of three seconds. Andrea Wallace of Great Britain took the runner-up spot while Germany's Uta Pippig edged out Soviet athlete Nadezhda Ilyina for third place by a fraction of a second. Pippig led Germany to its first team title at the competition with the former East German being backed up by former West German teammates Kerstin Pressler and Iris Biba. The Romanian women, headed by Olteanu, were two points adrift in second, with Georgeta State in seventh and Nuța Olaru in 16th place. In third, the Soviet Union took a sixth consecutive team medal (having reached the podium on every occasion it entered a team) through the performances of Ilyina, Marina Rodchenkova and Yelena Zhupiyeva. [2]

The ending of this championships series coincided with the IAAF launching the 1992 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships a year later, thus a women's road world championship remained in the form of the half marathon distance.

Results

Individual

RankAthleteCountryTime (m:s)
Gold medal icon.svg Iulia Negură Flag of Romania.svg  Romania  (ROM)48:42
Silver medal icon.svg Andrea Wallace Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)48:43
Bronze medal icon.svg Uta Pippig Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)48:44
4 Nadezhda Ilyina Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)48:44
5 Rosanna Munerotto Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)48:47
6 Kerstin Pressler Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)49:19
7 Georgeta State Flag of Romania.svg  Romania  (ROM)49:21
8 Lidia Camberg Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)49:24
9 Conceição Ferreira Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal  (POR)49:27
10 Marina Rodchenkova Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)49:37
11 Annick Clouvel Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)49:38
12 Manuela Dias Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal  (POR)49:38
13 Iris Biba Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)49:40
14 Odile Ohier Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)49:46
15 Wendy Ticehurst Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia  (AUS)49:55
16 Nuța Olaru Flag of Romania.svg  Romania  (ROM)50:13
17 Yelena Zhupiyeva Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)50:14
18 Heléna Barócsi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)50:20
19 Fatuma Roba Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia  (ETH)50:21
20 Rosario Gangloff Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)50:24
21 Gitte Karlshøj Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark  (DEN)50:26
22 Birgit Jerschabek Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)50:30
23 Isabella Moretti Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland  (SUI)50:33
24 Felicidade Sena Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal  (POR)50:34
25 Allison Rabour Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)50:37
26 Olga Appell Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico  (MEX)50:41
27 Marian Sutton Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)50:42
28 Silvana Pereira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil  (BRA)50:45
29 Wilma van Onna Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)50:48
30 Rizoneide Vanderlei Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil  (BRA)50:50
31 María Luisa Servín Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico  (MEX)50:54
32 Joy Smith Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)51:00
33 Bettina Sabatini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)51:06
34 Annette Bell Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)51:21
35 Lucilia Soares Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal  (POR)51:28
36 Ceri Pritchard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)51:29
37 Rita de Jesus Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil  (BRA)51:30
38 Margareta Florea Flag of Romania.svg  Romania  (ROM)51:31
39 Tigist Moreda Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia  (ETH)51:32
40 Christine Toonstra Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)51:37
41 Paola Cabrera Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico  (MEX)51:40
42 Benita Perez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico  (MEX)51:40
43 Laura LaMena Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)51:42
44 Maria Rebelo Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)51:49
45 Lynn Clayton Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia  (AUS)51:50
46 Maria-del Carmen Brunet Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)51:52
47 Aino-Maria Slej Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark  (DEN)52:04
48 Rocío Ríos Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)52:10
49 Anita Palshøj Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark  (DEN)52:19
50 Maria-Esther Pedrosa Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)52:22
51 Tanya Turney Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia  (AUS)52:22
52 Kelly dos Santos Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil  (BRA)52:25
53 Jennifer Martin Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)52:45
54 Marjan Freriks Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)52:46
55 Joke Kleijweg Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)52:53
56 Berhane Adere Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia  (ETH)53:11
57 Lynn Deninno Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)53:40
58 Lyudmila Matveyeva Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)53:48
59 Nelly Glauser Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland  (SUI)53:56
60 Vally Sathyabhama Flag of India.svg  India  (IND)54:19
61 Vilma Sanchez Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica  (CRC)54:20
62 Anne Lord Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia  (AUS)54:33
63 Ursula Jeitziner Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland  (SUI)55:05
64 Carmen Fuentes Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)55:08
65 Maryse Justin Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius  (MRI)55:54
66 Sunita Godara Flag of India.svg  India  (IND)56:07

Team

RankTeamPoints
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)
Uta Pippig
Kerstin Pressler
Iris Biba
22 pts
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Romania.svg  Romania  (ROM)
Iulia Olteanu
Georgeta State
Nuța Olaru
23 pts
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)
Nadezhda Ilyina
Marina Rodchenkova
Yelena Zhupiyeva
31 pts

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