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

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