1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

None The 1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the seventh edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by Brazil on 24 September 1989 in Rio de Janeiro 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.IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-09. The race was won by Wang Xiuting of China, who had been runner-up to Ingrid Kristiansen the previous year. She ran 49:34 minutes to finish ten seconds ahead of the runner-up, teammate Zhong Huandi, with former champion Aurora Cunha of Portugal in third place. With Wang Huabi in seventh, the Chinese team achieved a championship record-low score of ten points. The Portuguese women achieved the lowest non-winning score in championship history, with 15 points, with Cunha being followed home by fourth placed Albertina Machado and Albertina Dias in eighth. Showing the dominance of the race by a handful of nations, a Yekaterina Khramenkova-led Soviet Union also achieved the lowest ever score for third place on 24 points.1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships https://web.archive.org/web/20181110144446/https://more.arrs.run/race/6821 2018-11-10 . Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-02-11. Results Individual RankAthleteCountryTime (m:s) Wang Xiuting CHN 49:34 Zhong Huandi CHN 49:44 Aurora Cunha POR 50:064 Albertina Machado POR 50:165 Yekaterina Khramenkova URS 50:216 Jill Hunter GBR 50:347 Wang Huabi CHN 50:428 Albertina Dias POR 50:599 Nadezhda Stepanova URS 51:0510 Irina Yagodina URS 51:0611 Judy Chamberlin USA 51:2812 Anna Villani ITA 51:3213 Angie Pain GBR 51:3514 Allison Rabour ITA 52:0215 Elena Tolstogouzova URS 52:1716 Anni Müller AUT 52:3617 Jane Welzel USA 52:4418 Nives Curti ITA 52:5219 María Luisa Servín MEX 53:0720 Janeth Mayal BRA 53:1821 Márcia Narloch BRA 53:2022 Yolanda Quimbita ECU 53:2823 Susan Dilnot GBR 53:3524 Tani Ruckle AUS 53:4225 Carole Connelly AUS 53:5226 Marina Prat ESP 53:5327 Carmen Brunet ESP 53:5429 Debbie Elsmore NZL 54:0630 Monica O'Reilly USA 54:0831 Carmem de Oliveira BRA 54:1732 Lesley Graham NZL 54:1933 Griselda González ARG 54:1934 Patricia Griffin IRL 54:2436 Lynn Harding GBR 54:3037 Kimball Dryden USA 54:4538 Santa Velasquez MEX 54:4939 Leslie Lewis USA 54:5440 Marta Jimenez MEX 55:1541 Wilma Guerra ECU 55:1943 Mary Brayley IRL 55:4344 Carmen Díaz ESP 56:2045 Elsa Calderon CHI 56:3246 Marisol Cossio BOL 56:4550 Silvana Pereira BRA 58:0751 Janeth Alder ECU 58:1461 Trudy Fenton AUS 60:0163 Julia Sakala ZIM 61:47 Team Rank Team Points CHNWang XiutingZhong HuandiWang Huabi10 pts PORAurora CunhaAlbertina MachadoAlbertina Dias 15 pts URSYekaterina KhramenkovaNadezhda StepanovaIrina Yagodina 24 pts References 1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships Category:International sports competitions in Rio de Janeiro (city) Category:International athletics competitions hosted by Brazil Category:Athletics in Rio de Janeiro (city) Category:Women's sport in Rio de Janeiro (city) Category:September 1989 sports events in South America Category:1989 in women's international sport Category:Women's athletics competitions in Brazil Category:1980s in Brazilian women's sport