# 1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

The 1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the seventh edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by Brazil on 24 September 1989 in Rio de Janeiro and featured one race only: a 15K run for women. There were individual and team awards available, with the national team rankings being decided by the combined finishing positions of a team's top three runners. Countries with fewer than three finishers were not ranked.
The race was won by Wang Xiuting of China, who had been runner-up to Ingrid Kristiansen the previous year. She ran 49:34 minutes to finish ten seconds ahead of the runner-up, teammate Zhong Huandi, with former champion Aurora Cunha of Portugal in third place. With Wang Huabi in seventh, the Chinese team achieved a championship record-low score of ten points. The Portuguese women achieved the lowest non-winning score in championship history, with 15 points, with Cunha being followed home by fourth placed Albertina Machado and Albertina Dias in eighth. Showing the dominance of the race by a handful of nations, a Yekaterina Khramenkova-led Soviet Union also achieved the lowest ever score for third place on 24 points.

## Results
### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (m:s) |
| | Wang Xiuting | China (CHN) | 49:34 |
| | Zhong Huandi | China (CHN) | 49:44 |
| | Aurora Cunha | Portugal (POR) | 50:06 |
| 4 | Albertina Machado | Portugal (POR) | 50:16 |
| 5 | Yekaterina Khramenkova | Soviet Union (URS) | 50:21 |
| 6 | Jill Hunter | Great Britain (GBR) | 50:34 |
| 7 | Wang Huabi | China (CHN) | 50:42 |
| 8 | Albertina Dias | Portugal (POR) | 50:59 |
| 9 | Nadezhda Stepanova | Soviet Union (URS) | 51:05 |
| 10 | Irina Yagodina | Soviet Union (URS) | 51:06 |
| 11 | Judy Chamberlin | United States (USA) | 51:28 |
| 12 | Anna Villani | Italy (ITA) | 51:32 |
| 13 | Angie Pain | Great Britain (GBR) | 51:35 |
| 14 | Allison Rabour | Italy (ITA) | 52:02 |
| 15 | Elena Tolstogouzova | Soviet Union (URS) | 52:17 |
| 16 | Anni Müller | Austria (AUT) | 52:36 |
| 17 | Jane Welzel | United States (USA) | 52:44 |
| 18 | Nives Curti | Italy (ITA) | 52:52 |
| 19 | María Luisa Servín | Mexico (MEX) | 53:07 |
| 20 | Janeth Mayal | Brazil (BRA) | 53:18 |
| 21 | Márcia Narloch | Brazil (BRA) | 53:20 |
| 22 | Yolanda Quimbita | Ecuador (ECU) | 53:28 |
| 23 | Susan Dilnot | Great Britain (GBR) | 53:35 |
| 24 | Tani Ruckle | Australia (AUS) | 53:42 |
| 25 | Carole Connelly | Australia (AUS) | 53:52 |
| 26 | Marina Prat | Spain (ESP) | 53:53 |
| 27 | Carmen Brunet | Spain (ESP) | 53:54 |
| 29 | Debbie Elsmore | New Zealand (NZL) | 54:06 |
| 30 | Monica O'Reilly | United States (USA) | 54:08 |
| 31 | Carmem de Oliveira | Brazil (BRA) | 54:17 |
| 32 | Lesley Graham | New Zealand (NZL) | 54:19 |
| 33 | Griselda González | Argentina (ARG) | 54:19 |
| 34 | Patricia Griffin | Ireland (IRL) | 54:24 |
| 36 | Lynn Harding | Great Britain (GBR) | 54:30 |
| 37 | Kimball Dryden | United States (USA) | 54:45 |
| 38 | Santa Velasquez | Mexico (MEX) | 54:49 |
| 39 | Leslie Lewis | United States (USA) | 54:54 |
| 40 | Marta Jimenez | Mexico (MEX) | 55:15 |
| 41 | Wilma Guerra | Ecuador (ECU) | 55:19 |
| 43 | Mary Brayley | Ireland (IRL) | 55:43 |
| 44 | Carmen Díaz | Spain (ESP) | 56:20 |
| 45 | Elsa Calderon | Chile (CHI) | 56:32 |
| 46 | Marisol Cossio | Bolivia (BOL) | 56:45 |
| 50 | Silvana Pereira | Brazil (BRA) | 58:07 |
| 51 | Janeth Alder | Ecuador (ECU) | 58:14 |
| 61 | Trudy Fenton | Australia (AUS) | 60:01 |
| 63 | Julia Sakala | Zimbabwe (ZIM) | 61:47 |

### Team

| Team | Points |
| China (CHN) Wang Xiuting Zhong Huandi Wang Huabi | 10 pts |
| Portugal (POR) Aurora Cunha Albertina Machado Albertina Dias | 15 pts |
| Soviet Union (URS) Yekaterina Khramenkova Nadezhda Stepanova Irina Yagodina | 24 pts |