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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]

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

Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Iulia Negură  Romania (ROM) 48:42
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Andrea Wallace  Great Britain (GBR) 48:43
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Uta Pippig  Germany (GER) 48:44
4 Nadezhda Ilyina  Soviet Union (URS) 48:44
5 Rosanna Munerotto  Italy (ITA) 48:47
6 Kerstin Pressler  Germany (GER) 49:19
7 Georgeta State  Romania (ROM) 49:21
8 Lidia Camberg  Poland (POL) 49:24
9 Conceição Ferreira  Portugal (POR) 49:27
10 Marina Rodchenkova  Soviet Union (URS) 49:37
11 Annick Clouvel  France (FRA) 49:38
12 Manuela Dias  Portugal (POR) 49:38
13 Iris Biba  Germany (GER) 49:40
14 Odile Ohier  France (FRA) 49:46
15 Wendy Ticehurst  Australia (AUS) 49:55
16 Nuța Olaru  Romania (ROM) 50:13
17 Yelena Zhupiyeva  Soviet Union (URS) 50:14
18 Heléna Barócsi  Hungary (HUN) 50:20
19 Fatuma Roba  Ethiopia (ETH) 50:21
20 Rosario Gangloff  France (FRA) 50:24
21 Gitte Karlshøj  Denmark (DEN) 50:26
22 Birgit Jerschabek  Germany (GER) 50:30
23 Isabella Moretti   Switzerland (SUI) 50:33
24 Felicidade Sena  Portugal (POR) 50:34
25 Allison Rabour  Italy (ITA) 50:37
26 Olga Appell  Mexico (MEX) 50:41
27 Marian Sutton  Great Britain (GBR) 50:42
28 Silvana Pereira  Brazil (BRA) 50:45
29 Wilma van Onna  Netherlands (NED) 50:48
30 Rizoneide Vanderlei  Brazil (BRA) 50:50
31 María Luisa Servín  Mexico (MEX) 50:54
32 Joy Smith  United States (USA) 51:00
33 Bettina Sabatini  Italy (ITA) 51:06
34 Annette Bell  Great Britain (GBR) 51:21
35 Lucilia Soares  Portugal (POR) 51:28
36 Ceri Pritchard  Great Britain (GBR) 51:29
37 Rita de Jesus  Brazil (BRA) 51:30
38 Margareta Florea  Romania (ROM) 51:31
39 Tigist Moreda  Ethiopia (ETH) 51:32
40 Christine Toonstra  Netherlands (NED) 51:37
41 Paola Cabrera  Mexico (MEX) 51:40
42 Benita Perez  Mexico (MEX) 51:40
43 Laura LaMena  United States (USA) 51:42
44 Maria Rebelo  France (FRA) 51:49
45 Lynn Clayton  Australia (AUS) 51:50
46 Maria-del Carmen Brunet  Spain (ESP) 51:52
47 Aino-Maria Slej  Denmark (DEN) 52:04
48 Rocío Ríos  Spain (ESP) 52:10
49 Anita Palshøj  Denmark (DEN) 52:19
50 Maria-Esther Pedrosa  Spain (ESP) 52:22
51 Tanya Turney  Australia (AUS) 52:22
52 Kelly dos roSantos  Brazil (BRA) 52:25
53 Jennifer Martin  United States (USA) 52:45
54 Marjan Freriks  Netherlands (NED) 52:46
55 Joke Kleijweg  Netherlands (NED) 52:53
56 Berhane Adere  Ethiopia (ETH) 53:11
57 Lynn Deninno  United States (USA) 53:40
58 Lyudmila Matveyeva  Soviet Union (URS) 53:48
59 Nelly Glauser   Switzerland (SUI) 53:56
60 Vally Sathyabhama  India (IND) 54:19
61 Vilma Sanchez  Costa Rica (CRC) 54:20
62 Anne Lord  Australia (AUS) 54:33
63 Ursula Jeitziner   Switzerland (SUI) 55:05
64 Carmen Fuentes  Spain (ESP) 55:08
65 Maryse Justin  Mauritius (MRI) 55:54
66 Sunita Godara  India (IND) 56:07

Team

Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Germany (GER)
Uta Pippig
Kerstin Pressler
Iris Biba
22 pts
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Romania (ROM)
Iulia Olteanu
Georgeta State
Nuța Olaru
23 pts
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Soviet Union (URS)
Nadezhda Ilyina
Marina Rodchenkova
Yelena Zhupiyeva
31 pts

References