1985 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

none November 2019 The 1985 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the third edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by the United Kingdom on 3 November 1985, in Gateshead and featured one race only: a 15K run for women. This was the first time that the distance was contested at the championships, having previously been a 10K run, and this was a permanent change. 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 Portugal's Aurora Cunha in a time of 49:17 minutes, completing a successful defence of her title from 1984. Judi St. Hilaire of the United States finished eight seconds later in second place, while Great Britain's Carole Bradford came third for a second year running. As she had the year before, Bradford led the British women to the team title (alongside fifth place Paula Fudge and Wendy Sly in eleventh). The Soviet Union's team, featuring Lyudmila Matveyeva in fourth and two other top ten finishers in Mariya Vasilyuk and Yelena Sipatova, was just one point behind in the team race. St Hilaire helped the American women to the bronze medal team position (backed up by Nancy Ditz and Carol McLatchie). Results Individual RankAthleteCountryTime (m:s) Aurora Cunha POR 49:17 Judi St. Hilaire USA 49:25 Carole Bradford GBR 49:594 Lyudmila Matveyeva URS 50:285 Paula Fudge GBR 50:366 Donna Gould AUS 50:427 Mariya Vasilyuk URS 50:568 Anna Villani ITA 51:009 Yelena Sipatova URS 51:0810 Ellen Wessinghage FRG 51:2911 Wendy Sly GBR 51:4012 Dorthe Rasmussen DEN 51:4813 Tatyana Bultot URS 51:5114 Jill Rothwell GBR 51:5315 Christina Mai FRG 51:5416 Nancy Ditz USA 51:5717 Ann Ford GBR 52:0118 Elizabeth Franzis FRG 52:0619 Carol McLatchie USA 52:1320 Mami Fukao JPN 52:1821 Conceição Ferreira POR 52:2022 Danièle Kaber LUX 52:2323 Rosanna Munerotto ITA 52:3024 Elly van Hulst NED 52:3225 Antonella Bizioli ITA 52:3526 Yvonne Murray GBR 52:3827 Lucilia Soares POR 52:4028 Sinikka Keskitalo FIN 52:4329 Jiang Zhourong CHN 52:4530 Susan Schneider USA 52:5131 Jocelyne Villeton FRA 52:5232 Sheila Purves HKG 1959 53:0533 Xiao Hongyan CHN 53:0834 Maria Rebelo FRA 53:0935 Gabriela Górzyńska POL 53:1136 Ailish Smyth IRL 53:1537 Sirkku Kumpulainen FIN 53:1738 Megan-Louise Sloane AUS 53:1839 Françoise Bonnet FRA 53:3540 Kristiina Iisakkila FIN 53:3741 Ľudmila Melicherová TCH 53:4042 Sylviane Levesque FRA 53:4243 Christine Kennedy IRL 53:4544 Maria-Luisa Irizar ESP 53:5245 Kerstin Pressler FRG 54:0146 Mette Holm DEN 54:0447 Nikolina Shtereva BUL 54:0848 Aino-Maria Slej DEN 54:1149 Carolien Lucas NED 54:1350 Malgorzata Szuminska POL 54:1551 Jenny Lund AUS 54:2052 Deirdre Nagle IRL 54:2153 Albertina Dias POR 54:3154 Henrietta Fina AUT 54:3255 Maria-Esther Pedrosa ESP 54:3656 ? 57 Tuija Toivonen FIN 55:0258 Odette Lapierre CAN 55:1159 Ewa Wrzosek POL 55:1361 Anna Iskra POL 55:5362 ? 63 Gitte Karlshøj DEN 56:0065 Maryse Justin MRI 57:0166 ? 67 Consuelo Alonso ESP 57:11 Team Rank Team Points GBRCarole BradfordPaula FudgeWendy Sly 19 pts URSLyudmila MatveyevaMariya VasilyukYelena Sipatova 20 pts USAJudi St HilaireNancy DitzCarol McLatchie 36 pts References 1985 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships Category:Sport in Gateshead Category:International athletics competitions hosted by England Category:Women's sports competitions in England Category:Women's athletics competitions in the United Kingdom Category:20th century in Tyne and Wear