IAAF World Cup marathon

The World Marathon Cup (IAAF World Marathon Cup) was one of the IAAF oriented Marathon , which took place from 1985 to 1995 in odd years as an individual and a team competition and then the part to 2011 World Athletics Championships was.

history

The most successful German athlete was Katrin Dörre , who won gold in 1985 and bronze in 1987 and bronze with the GDR team in 1985 (together with Birgit Weinhold in 19th place and Gabriele Martins in 22nd) and silver in 1987 (together with Uta Pippig in 8th and Annette Fincke in 11th place). In 1989 Uta Pippig won bronze in the individual competition.

In 1997 the cup was integrated into the marathon of the World Athletics Championships and held as a team competition. In 2012 the IAAF decided not to hold the Cup any more.

statistics

Winners list

year	Men	time	Women	time
1995	Douglas Wakiihuri ( KEN )	2:12:01	Anuța Cătună ( ROU )	2:31:10
1993	Richard Nerurkar ( GBR )	2:10:03	Wang Junxia ( CHN )	2:28:16
1991	Jakow Tolstikow ( URS )	2:09:17	Rosa Mota ( POR )	2:26:14
1989	Zeleke Metaferia ( ETH )	2:10:28	Susan Marchiano ( USA )	2:30:48
1987	Ahmed Salah -2-	2:10:55	Soy Ivanova ( URS )	2:30:39
1985	Ahmed Salah ( DJI )	2:08:09	Katrin Dörre ( GDR )	2:33:30

Medal ranks

World Cup 1985

• Venue: Hiroshima , Japan
• Date: April 13th and 14th

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men	Ahmed Salah ( DJI )	Takeyuki Nakayama ( JPN )	Djama Robleh ( DJI )
Men (team)	Djibouti	Japan	Ethiopia
Women	Katrin Dörre ( GDR )	Soy Ivanova ( URS )	Karolina Szabó ( HUN )
Women (team)	Italy	Soviet Union	German Democratic Republic

World Cup 1987

• Venue: Seoul , South Korea
• Date: April 11th and 12th

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men	Ahmed Salah ( DJI )	Taisuke Kodama ( JPN )	Salvatore Bettiol ( ITA )
Men (team)	Italy	Japan	France
Women	Soy Ivanova ( URS )	Maria Rebelo-Lelut ( FRA )	Katrin Dörre ( GDR )
Women (team)	Soviet Union	German Democratic Republic	France

World Cup 1989

• Venue: Milan , Italy
• Date: April 15th and 16th

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men	Zeleke Metaferia ( ETH )	Dereje Nedi ( ETH )	Gianni Poli ( ITA )
Men (team)	Ethiopia	Italy	France
Women	Susan Marchiano ( USA )	Misako Miyahara ( JPN )	Uta Pippig ( GDR )
Women (team)	Soviet Union	United States	People's Republic of China

World Cup 1991

• Venue: London
• Date: April 21
• Special feature: World Cup took place as part of the London Marathon .

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men	Jakow Tolstikow ( URS )	Manuel Matias ( POR )	Jan Huruk ( POL )
Men (team)	United Kingdom	Portugal	Poland
Women	Rosa Mota ( POR )	Francie Larrieu Smith ( USA )	Valentina Yegorova ( URS )
Women (team)	Soviet Union	Italy	France

World Cup 1993

• Venue: Donostia-San Sebastián , Spain
• Date: October 31
• Special feature: The World Cup took place as part of the San-Sebastián Marathon .

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men	Richard Nerurkar ( GBR )	Severino Bernardini ( ITA )	Gemechu Kebede ( ETH )
Men (team)	Ethiopia	Italy	United Kingdom
Women	Wang Junxia ( CHN )	Zhang Linli ( CHN )	Zhang Lirong ( CHN )
Women (team)	People's Republic of China	Spain	Russia

World Cup 1995

• Venue: Marathon - Athens , Greece
• Date: April 9th
• Course: Course of the Athens Marathon

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men	Douglas Wakiihuri ( KEN )	Takahiro Sunada ( JPN )	Davide Milesi ( ITA )
Men (team)	Italy	France	Spain
Women	Anuța Cătună ( ROU )	Lidia Șimon ( ROU )	Cristina Pomacu ( ROU )
Women (team)	Romania	Russia	Italy

World Cup 1997

• Venue: Athens , Greece
• Special: World Cup took place at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics held

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men (team)	Spain	Italy	Brazil
Women (team)	Japan	Italy	Romania

World Cup 1999

• Venue: Seville , Spain
• Special: World Cup took place at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics held

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men (team)	Italy	Japan	Ethiopia
Women (team)	Japan	Romania	Germany

World Cup 2001

• Venue: Edmonton , Canada
• Special: World Cup took place at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics held

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men (team)	Ethiopia	Japan	Italy
Women (team)	Japan	Russia	Romania

World Cup 2003

• Venue: Paris , France
• Special: World Cup took place at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics held

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men (team)	Japan	Italy	South Africa
Women (team)	Japan	Ethiopia	Russia

World Cup 2005

• Venue: Helsinki , Finland
• Special: World Cup took place at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics held

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men (team)	Japan	Kenya	Ethiopia
Women (team)	Kenya	Japan	United Kingdom

World Cup 2007

• Venue: Osaka , Japan
• Special: World Cup took place at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics held

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men (team)	Japan	South Korea	Kenya
Women (team)	Kenya	China	Japan

World Cup 2009

• Venue: Berlin , Germany
• Special: World Cup took place at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics held

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men (team)	Kenya	Ethiopia	Japan
Women (team)	China	Japan	Russia

World Cup 2011

• Venue: Daegu , South Korea
• Special: World Cup took place at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics held

Rating	gold	silver	bronze
Men (team)	Kenya	Japan	Morocco
Women (team)	Kenya	China	Ethiopia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Wenig: World Association IAAF confirms the end of the Marathon World Cup ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.laufen.de November 23, 2012  

Web links

• IAAF World Cup Marathon on arrs.run
• World and Continental Road Race Championships and Cups on gbrathletics
• Results for men and women on marathonspiegel.de