1991 World Athletics Championships / men's marathon

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Marathon run
gender	Men
Attendees	60 athletes from 39 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Round trip through Tokyo
Competition phase	September 1
Medalist Hiromi Taniguchi ( USA )   Ahmed Salah ( DJI )   Steve Spence ( USA )

Panoramic view of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo

The men's marathon at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on September 1, 1991 in the streets of the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The Japanese Hiromi Taniguchi became world champion . As in the 1987 World Championships , Ahmed Salah from Djibouti won the silver medal in the 1988 Olympic third and 1985 African champion . Bronze went to the American Steve Spence .

Records / best performances

Existing records

World record	2:06:50 h	Belayneh Dinsamo	Rotterdam marathon	April 17, 1988
World championship record	2:10:03 h	Robert de Castella	World Cup in Helsinki	August 14, 1983

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Record improvement

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Result

For the World Cup -third of 1987 Steve Moneghetti it was enough time to eleventh place

Tonnie Dirks came in sixteen

Jörg Peter did not finish the race

September 1, 1991, 6:00 a.m.

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Hiromi Taniguchi	Japan	2:14:57
	Ahmed Salah	Djibouti	2:15:26
	Steve Spence	United States	2:15:36
04th	Jan Huruk	Poland	2:15:47
05	Futoshi Shinohara	Japan	2:15:52
06th	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	2:15:58
07th	Maurilio Castillo	Mexico	2:16:15
08th	Gelindo Bordin	Italy	2:17:03
09	Tekeye Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	2:18:37
10	Konrad Dobler	Germany	2:19:01
11	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	2:19:18
12	Sam Carey	Great Britain	2:20:02
13	Peter Maher	Canada	2:20:31
14th	Diego García	Spain	2:21:16
15th	Dominique Chauvelier	France	2:21:37
16	Tonnie Dirks	Netherlands	2:22:17
17th	Elphas Ginindza	Swaziland	2:22:43
18th	Stephan Freilang	Germany	2:23:13
19th	Kim won-tak	South Korea	2:23:14
20th	Dave Buzza	Great Britain	2:23:24
21st	Vladimir Bukhanov	Soviet Union	2:24:26
22nd	Motsemme Kgaotsang	Botswana	2:25:28
23	Kim Reynierse	Aruba	2:26:50
24	Martin Vrábel	Czechoslovakia	2:26:56
25th	Gian Luigi Macina	San Marino	2:28:40
26th	Steve Taylor	United States	2:29:09
27	Myint Kan	Myanmar	2:29:14
28	William Aguirre	Nicaragua	2:29:35
29	Aleksandr Vychuzhanin	Soviet Union	2:32:37
30th	Alberto Cuba	Cuba	2:32:57
31	Krishna Bahadur Basnet	Nepal	2:33:13
32	Fai Yeung Ng	Hong Kong	2:34:26
33	Freddy Lujan	Bolivia	2:36:54
34	Gi-Sheng Hsu	Chinese Taipei	2:37:20
35	Roland Wille	Liechtenstein	2:48:12
36	Abdillah Soilihi	Comoros	2:56:36
DNF	Faasalele Fuauli	Western Samoa
	Alessio Faustini	Italy
	Manuel Matias	Portugal
	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia
	Takeyuki Nakayama	Japan
	Antoni Niemczak	Poland
	Jörg Peter	Germany
	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal
	Francisco Romera	Spain
	Jakow Tolstikov	Soviet Union
	Carlos Ayala	Mexico
	Alfredo Shahanga	Tanzania
	Nivaldo Vieira	Brazil
	Åke Eriksson	Sweden
	Brad Hudson	United States
	Mohamed Kamel Selmi	Algeria
	Ahmed Al Hamshani	Jordan
	Simon Mrashani	Tanzania
	Kim Wan-ki	South Korea
	Laurenio Beserra	Brazil
	Jean-Luc Assemat	France
	Tesfaye Dadi	Ethiopia
	Daniel Böltz	Switzerland
	Manny Lolin	Marshall Islands

Video

• 1991 Tokyo World Championships Men's Marathon on youtube.com, accessed April 19, 2020

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 1991 World Cup on the IAAF website , accessed on April 19, 2020
• Men Marathon Athletics III World Championship Tokyo (JPN) 1991 from todor66.com, accessed April 19, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Marathon, Tokyo 1991, p. 135 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 9, 2020