World Athletics Championships 1991/10 km women's walking

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	10 km walk
gender	Women
Attendees	42 walkers from 20 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Round trip through Tokyo
Competition phase	August 24th
Medalists Alina Ivanova ( URS )   Madelein Svensson ( SWE )   Sari Essayah ( FIN )

Panoramic view of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo

Bronze medalist
Sari Essayah (here in 2009) - in 1993 she became world champion

Beate Anders, later Beate Gummelt, took tenth place

Susana Feitor came in seventeenth

28th place for María Reyes Sobrino (Photo: 2015)

The women's 10 km walk at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 24, 1991 in the streets of the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

Alina Ivanova from the Soviet Union became world champion . She won ahead of the Swede Madelein Svensson . Bronze went to the narrowly defeated Finn Sari Essayah .

Records / best performances

Existing records

World record	42:52 min	Kerry Saxby	Melbourne , Australia	May 4th 1987
World championship record	44:12 min	Irina Strachova	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987

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 Soviet world champion Alina Iwanowa improved the existing world championship record by 1:15 min to 42:57 min.

execution

There was no preliminary round here, all 42 walkers went to the final together.

Result

August 24, 1991, 10:25 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Alina Ivanova	Soviet Union	42:57 CR
2	Madelein Svensson	Sweden	43:13
3	Sari essayah	Finland	43:13
4th	Irina Strachova	Soviet Union	43:40
5	Kerry Saxby	Australia	44:02
6th	María Graciela Mendoza	Mexico	44:03
7th	Ileana Salvador	Italy	44:09
8th	Chen Yueling	People's Republic of China	44:11
9	Anna-Rita Sidoti	Italy	44:18
10	Beate Anders	Germany	44:35
11	Katrin Born	Germany	44:39
12	Katarzyna Radtke	Poland	44:42
13	Maria Rósza	Hungary	45:00
14th	Andrea Alfoldi	Hungary	45:22
15th	Mari Cruz Díaz	Spain	45:23
16	Emilia Caño	Spain	45:32
17th	Susana Feitor	Portugal	45:37
18th	Maricela Chavez	Mexico	45:54
19th	Debbi Lawrence	United States	45:58
20th	Betty Sworowski	Great Britain	45:59
21st	Pascale Grand	Canada	46:17
22nd	Sun Yan	People's Republic of China	46:21
23	Andrea Brückmann	Germany	46:23
24	Janice McCaffrey	Canada	46:33
25th	Lynn Weik	United States	46:49
26th	Ivana Brozmanová	Czechoslovakia	46:59
27	Victoria Herazo	United States	47:10
28	Tina Poitras	Canada	47:22
29	María Reyes Sobrino	Spain	47:31
30th	Yūko Satō	Japan	47:37
31	Zuzana Zemková	Czechoslovakia	47:41
32	Kamila Holpuchová	Czechoslovakia	48:06
33	María Luz Colin	Mexico	48:27
34	Viera Toporek	Austria	48:31
35	Hideko Hirayama	Japan	48:35
36	Isilda Gonçalves	Portugal	48:35
37	Fusako Masuda	Japan	48:52
38	Helen Elleker	Great Britain	48:56
39	Julie Drake	Great Britain	49:47
40	Hasiati Lawole	Indonesia	50:26
41	Magdalena Guzmán	El Salvador	53:44
DSQ	Jelena Saiko	Soviet Union

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 3, 2020
• Women 10km Walk Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed May 3, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 10km Walk, Tokyo 1991, p. 360 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 3, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ Track and Field Statistics Records Progression - World Records. Women, 10 km Road Walk on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 3, 2020