1991 World Athletics Championships / Women's marathon
| 3rd World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | Marathon run | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 39 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Tokyo
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| Competition location | Round trip through Tokyo | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 25 | ||||||||
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The women's marathon at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 25, 1991 in the streets of the Japanese capital, Tokyo .
World champion was the Polish Wanda Panfil . She won ahead of the Japanese Sachiko Yamashita . Bronze went to the German Katrin Dörre , who had won the Olympic bronze three years earlier - at that time still starting for the GDR .
Existing records / best performances
| World best | 2:21:06 h |
 Ingrid Kristiansen
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London Marathon , UK | April 21, 1985 |
| World championship record | 2:25:17 h |
 Pink Mota
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World Cup 1987 in Rome | August 29, 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.
The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.
Result
August 25, 1991, 7:00 a.m.
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Video links
- 3288 World Track & Field 1991 Marathon Women Part 1 on youtube.com, accessed April 30, 2020
- 3289 World Track & Field 1991 Marathon Women Part 2 on youtube.com, accessed April 30, 2020
- 3290 World Track & Field 1991 Marathon Women Part 3 on youtube.com, accessed April 30, 2020
Web links and sources
- Homepage for the 1991 World Cup on the IAAF website , accessed on April 30, 2020
- Women Marathon 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 Marathon, Tokyo 1991, p. 291 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 30, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Marathon women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 30, 2020