1991 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

none 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.IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-09. 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.1991 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-02-11. 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 RankAthleteCountryTime (m:s) Iulia Negură ROM 48:42 Andrea Wallace GBR 48:43 Uta Pippig GER 48:444 Nadezhda Ilyina URS 48:445 Rosanna Munerotto ITA 48:476 Kerstin Pressler GER 49:197 Georgeta State ROM 49:218 Lidia Camberg POL 49:249 Conceição Ferreira POR 49:2710 Marina Rodchenkova URS 49:3711 Annick Clouvel FRA 49:3812 Manuela Dias POR 49:3813 Iris Biba GER 49:4014 Odile Ohier FRA 49:4615 Wendy Ticehurst AUS 49:5516 Nuța Olaru ROM 50:1317 Yelena Zhupiyeva URS 50:1418 Heléna Barócsi HUN 50:2019 Fatuma Roba ETH 50:2120 Rosario Gangloff FRA 50:2421 Gitte Karlshøj DEN 50:2622 Birgit Jerschabek GER 50:3023 Isabella Moretti SUI 50:3324 Felicidade Sena POR 50:3425 Allison Rabour ITA 50:3726 Olga Appell MEX 50:4127 Marian Sutton GBR 50:4228 Silvana Pereira BRA 50:4529 Wilma van Onna NED 50:4830 Rizoneide Vanderlei BRA 50:5031 María Luisa Servín MEX 50:5432 Joy Smith USA 51:0033 Bettina Sabatini ITA 51:0634 Annette Bell GBR 51:2135 Lucilia Soares POR 51:2836 Ceri Pritchard GBR 51:2937 Rita de Jesus BRA 51:3038 Margareta Florea ROM 51:3139 Tigist Moreda ETH 51:3240 Christine Toonstra NED 51:3741 Paola Cabrera MEX 51:4042 Benita Perez MEX 51:4043 Laura LaMena USA 51:4244 Maria Rebelo FRA 51:4945 Lynn Clayton AUS 51:5046 Maria-del Carmen Brunet ESP 51:5247 Aino-Maria Slej DEN 52:0448 Rocío Ríos ESP 52:1049 Anita Palshøj DEN 52:1950 Maria-Esther Pedrosa ESP 52:2251 Tanya Turney AUS 52:2252 Kelly dos Santos BRA 52:2553 Jennifer MartinUSA 52:4554 Marjan Freriks NED 52:4655 Joke Kleijweg NED 52:5356 Berhane Adere ETH 53:1157 Lynn Deninno USA 53:4058 Lyudmila Matveyeva URS 53:4859 Nelly Glauser SUI 53:5660 Vally Sathyabhama IND 54:1961 Vilma Sanchez CRC 54:2062 Anne Lord AUS 54:3363 Ursula Jeitziner SUI 55:0564 Carmen Fuentes ESP 55:0865 Maryse Justin MRI 55:5466 Sunita Godara IND 56:07 Team Rank Team Points GERUta PippigKerstin PresslerIris Biba 22 pts ROMIulia OlteanuGeorgeta StateNuța Olaru 23 pts URSNadezhda IlyinaMarina RodchenkovaYelena Zhupiyeva 31 pts References 1991 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships Category:International athletics competitions hosted by the Netherlands Category:Sports competitions in Utrecht (province) Category:Sport in Nieuwegein Category:Women's athletics competitions in the Netherlands Category:1991 in women's international sport