1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

The men's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan was held on September 1, 1991. The race started at 18:00 local time.

Medalists

Gold	Hiromi Taniguchi   Japan
Silver	Hussein Ahmed Salah   Djibouti
Bronze	Steve Spence   United States

Records

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Belayneh Dinsamo	Ethiopia  (ETH)	2:06:50	April 17, 1988	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Championships tecord	Robert de Castella	Australia  (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season best	Kōichi Morishita	Japan  (JPN)	2:08:53	February 3, 1991	Ōita, Japan

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result
	Hiromi Taniguchi	Japan	2:14:57
	Hussein Ahmed Salah	Djibouti	2:15:26
	Steve Spence	United States	2:15:36
4	Jan Huruk	Poland	2:15:47
5	Futoshi Shinohara	Japan	2:15:52
6	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	2:15:58
7	Maurilio Castillo	Mexico	2:16:15
8	Gelindo Bordin	Italy	2:17:03
9	Tekeye Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	2:18:37
10	Konrad Dobler	Germany	2:19:01
11	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	2:19:18
12	Sam Carey	Great Britain & N.I.	2:20:02
13	Peter Maher	Canada	2:20:31
14	Diego García	Spain	2:21:16
15	Dominique Chauvelier	France	2:21:37
16	Tonnie Dirks	Netherlands	2:22:17
17	Elphas Ginindza	Eswatini	2:22:43
18	Stephan Freigang	Germany	2:23:13
19	Kim Won-tak	South Korea	2:23:14
20	Dave Buzza	Great Britain & N.I.	2:23:24
21	Vladimir Bukhanov	Soviet Union	2:24:26
22	Motsemme Kgaotsang	Botswana	2:25:28
23	Kim Reynierse	Aruba	2:26:50
24	Martin Vrábeľ	Czechoslovakia	2:26:56
25	Gian Luigi Macina	San Marino	2:28:40
26	Steve Taylor	United States	2:29:09
27	Myint Kan	Myanmar	2:29:14
28	William Aguirre	Nicaragua	2:29:35
29	Aleksandr Vychuzhanin	Soviet Union	2:32:37
30	Alberto Cuba	Cuba	2:32:57
31	Krishna Bahadur Basnet	Nepal	2:33:13
32	Fai Yeung Ng	Hong Kong	2:34:26
33	Freddy Lujan	Bolivia	2:36:54
34	Hsu Gi-sheng	Chinese Taipei	2:37:20
35	Roland Wille	Liechtenstein	2:48:12
36	Abdillah Soilihi	Comoros	2:56:36
—	Faasalele Fuauli	Western Samoa  (WSM)	DNF
—	Alessio Faustini	Italy	DNF
—	Manuel Matias	Portugal	DNF
—	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Takeyuki Nakayama	Japan	DNF
—	Antoni Niemczak	Poland	DNF
—	Jörg Peter	Germany	DNF
—	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal	DNF
—	Francisco Romera	Spain	DNF
—	Yakov Tolstikov	Soviet Union	DNF
—	Carlos Ayala	Mexico	DNF
—	Alfredo Shahanga	Tanzania	DNF
—	Nivaldo Vieira	Brazil	DNF
—	Åke Eriksson	Sweden	DNF
—	Brad Hudson	United States	DNF
—	Mohamed Kamel Selmi	Algeria	DNF
—	Ahmed Al Hamshani	Jordan	DNF
—	Simon Mrashani	Tanzania	DNF
—	Kim Wan-ki	South Korea	DNF
—	Laurenio Beserra	Brazil	DNF
—	Jean-Luc Assemat	France	DNF
—	Tesfaye Dadi	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Daniel Böltz	Switzerland	DNF
—	Manny Lolin	Malaysia	DNF

See also

• 1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon
• Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

References

• Results
• IAAF Results ^{[ permanent dead link ]}