World Athletics Championships 1991 / 10,000 m women

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	49 athletes from 27 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 30th (final)
Medalists Liz McColgan ( GBR )   Zhong Huandi ( CHN )   Wang Xiuting ( CHN )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The women's 10,000-meter run at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 30, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

With silver and bronze, the Chinese long distance athletes won two medals in this competition. World champion was the British Olympic runner-up from 1988 Liz McColgan . Silver went to the Asian champion from 1989 over 3000 meters and two-time winner of the Asian Games 1990 (3000 / 10,000 meters ) Zhong Huandi . Wang Xiuting , winner of the Asian Games over 10,000 meters in 1986 and second in 1990, won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	30: 13.74 min	Ingrid Kristiansen	Oslo , Norway	5th July 1986
World championship record	31: 05.85 min		World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	4th September 1987

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

Preliminary round

August 27, 1991

The large number of 49 participants made it necessary to schedule preliminary runs. The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first ten athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the five fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final three days later.

Forward 1

Eighteenth place was not enough for Claudia Dreher (here in 2009) to take part in the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
01	Julia Negura	Romania	31: 52.58
02	Wang Xiuting	People's Republic of China	31: 53.13
03	Kathrin Ullrich	Germany	31: 54.05
04th	Jill Hunter	Great Britain	31: 55.55
05	Annette Sergent-Palluy	France	31: 55.97
06th	Luchia Yishak	Ethiopia	31: 56.42
07th	Lynn Jennings	United States	31: 56.52
08th	Carole Rouillard	Canada	31: 56.74
09	Izumi Maki	Japan	31: 57.23
10	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	31: 59.13
11	Tetiana Posdnyakova	Soviet Union	32: 00.24
12	Wang Yongmei	People's Republic of China	32: 00.27
13	Delilah Asiago	Kenya	32: 04.53
14th	Rosanna Munerotto	Italy	32: 05.75
15th	Suzana Ćirić	Yugoslavia	32: 28.09
16	Liève Slegers	Belgium	32: 31.55
17th	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	32: 36.44
18th	Claudia Dreher	Germany	32: 44.94
19th	Olga Nazarkina	Soviet Union	32: 55.65
20th	Zita Agoston	Hungary	33: 07.19
21st	Martha Ernstdóttír	Iceland	33: 10.93
22nd	Maria-Luisa Servin	Mexico	33: 13.70
23	Jenny Lund	Australia	33: 15.18
24	Valerie McGovern	Ireland	35: 08.40

Forward 2

Lisa Harvey (Photo: 2009) was eliminated in fourteenth of her preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
01	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	31: 45.95
02	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	31: 50.36
03	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	31: 54.67
04th	Zhong Huandi	People's Republic of China	31: 58.82
05	Uta Pippig	Germany	32: 00.76
06th	Miki Igarashi	Japan	32: 01.04
07th	Albertina slides	Portugal	32: 03.76
08th	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	32: 06.67
09	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	32: 06.73
10	Jane Ngotho	Kenya	32: 09.38
11	Anne Marie Letko	United States	32: 26.75
12	Akemi Matsuno	Japan	32: 31.18
13	Marciane Mukamurenzi	Rwanda	32: 33.27
14th	Lisa Harvey	Canada	32: 41.87
15th	Rosario Murcia	France	32: 49.75
16	Olga appeal	Mexico	32: 54.63
17th	Susan Hobson	Australia	33: 21.20
18th	Odile Ohier	France	33: 22.66
19th	Lesley Morton	New Zealand	33: 23.17
20th	María del Carmen Díaz	Mexico	33: 46.24
21st	Anuța Cătună	Romania	34: 12.44
22nd	Griselda González	Argentina	34: 16.26
23	Vilma Peña	Costa Rica	35: 06.98
DNF	Fernanda Marques	Portugal
	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States

final

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  The Vice European Champion from 1990 Kathrin Ullrich, later Kathrin Weßel, came in fourth

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  Uta Pippig finished sixth

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  The defending champion, European champion of 1986 and world record holder of Ingrid Kristiansen, already in 1980 World Cup -Third over 3000 meters and 1982 European Championship -Third the marathon , reached number seven

August 30, 1991, 7:05 pm

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	31: 14.31
	Zhong Huandi	People's Republic of China	31: 35.08
	Wang Xiuting	People's Republic of China	31: 35.99
04th	Kathrin Ullrich	Germany	31: 38.96
05	Lynn Jennings	United States	31: 54.44
06th	Uta Pippig	Germany	31: 55.68
07th	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	32: 10.75
08th	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	32: 15.55
09	Jill Hunter	Great Britain	32: 24.55
10	Luchia Yishak	Ethiopia	32: 27.61
11	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	32: 29.12
12	Delilah Asiago	Kenya	32: 33.71
13	Tetiana Posdnyakova	Soviet Union	32: 35.17
14th	Wang Yongmei	People's Republic of China	32: 40.22
15th	Rosanna Munerotto	Italy	32: 44.43
16	Miki Igarashi	Japan	32: 44.62
17th	Julia Negura	Romania	32: 53.57
18th	Carole Rouillard	Canada	32: 58.77
19th	Annette Sergent-Palluy	France	33: 01.92
20th	Izumi Maki	Japan	33: 27.84
21st	Jane Ngotho	Kenya	33: 36.91
DNF	Albertina slides	Portugal
	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union
	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland
	Anne Marie Letko	United States

Video

• Women's 10,000m. World Championships Tokyo 1991 from youtube.com, accessed April 30, 2020

Web links

• Homepage for the 1991 World Cup on the IAAF website , accessed on April 30, 2020
• Women 10000m Athletics III World Championship Tokyo (JPN) 1991 from todor66.com, accessed April 30, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 10000 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 286 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed April 30, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 30, 2020