# 1991 London Marathon

The 1991 London Marathon was the 11th running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 21 April. The elite men's race was won by Soviet athlete Yakov Tolstikov in a time of 2:09:17 hours and the women's race was won by Portugal's Rosa Mota in 2:26:14. Tolstikov's run was a Soviet record, which was never bettered as the country collapsed at the end of 1991.
The elite race featured high levels of international participation that year as it played host to the 1991 World Marathon Cup, where Great Britain won the men's team race and the Soviet Union won the women's team race.
In the wheelchair races, France's Farid Amarouche (1:52:52) and Denmark's Connie Hansen (2:04:40) set course records in the men's and women's divisions, respectively. This was the first time that the winning time in the women's wheelchair race surpassed that of both able-bodied races.
In the mass race, around 79,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 33,485 had their applications accepted and around 24,500 started the race. A total of 23,435 runners finished the race.

## Results
### Men

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Yakov Tolstikov | Soviet Union | 2:09:17 |
| | Manuel Matias | Portugal | 2:10:21 |
| | Jan Huruk | Poland | 2:10:21 |
| 4 | Dave Long | United Kingdom | 2:10:30 |
| 5 | Joaquim Pinheiro | Portugal | 2:10:38 |
| 6 | Alfredo Shahanga | Tanzania | 2:11:20 |
| 7 | Steve Brace | United Kingdom | 2:11:45 |
| 8 | Peter Maher | Ireland | 2:11:46 |
| 9 | Jean-Luc Assemat | France | 2:11:49 |
| 10 | Salvatore Bettiol | Italy | 2:11:53 |
| 11 | Konrad Dobler | Germany | 2:11:57 |
| 12 | José Esteban Montiel | Spain | 2:11:59 |
| 13 | Tekeye Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 2:12:05 |
| 14 | Alessio Faustini | Italy | 2:12:12 |
| 15 | Marco Gozzano | Italy | 2:12:26 |
| 16 | David Buzza | United Kingdom | 2:12:37 |
| 17 | Isidro Rico | Mexico | 2:12:38 |
| 18 | Slawomir Gurny | Poland | 2:12:39 |
| 19 | Marcelino Crisanto | Mexico | 2:12:42 |
| 20 | Hugh Jones | United Kingdom | 2:12:46 |
| 21 | Carlos Ayala | Mexico | 2:12:51 |
| 22 | Luis Soares | France | 2:12:53 |
| 23 | Diego García | Spain | 2:12:54 |
| 24 | Pascal Zilliox | France | 2:12:59 |
| 25 | Belayneh Tadesse | Ethiopia | 2:13:09 |
| 26 | Wiesław Perszke | Poland | 2:13:12 |
| 27 | Takeshi So | Japan | 2:13:15 |
| 28 | Peter Daenens | Belgium | 2:13:16 |
| 29 | Vicente Antón | Spain | 2:13:38 |
| 30 | Sam Carey | United Kingdom | 2:13:54 |
| 31 | José Carlos da Silva | Brazil | 2:14:11 |
| 32 | Allister Hutton | United Kingdom | 2:14:13 |
| 33 | Mohamed Kamel Selmi | Algeria | 2:14:20 |
| — | Gelindo Bordin | Italy | DNF |
| — | Bill Reifsnyder | United States | DNF |
| — | Carl Thackery | United Kingdom | DNF |
| — | Delmir Alves Dos Santos | Brazil | DNF |
| — | Suleiman Nyambui | Tanzania | DNF |

### Women

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Rosa Mota | Portugal | 2:26:14 |
| | Francie Larrieu Smith | United States | 2:27:35 |
| | Valentina Yegorova | Soviet Union | 2:28:18 |
| 4 | Katrin Dörre-Heinig | Germany | 2:28:57 |
| 5 | Maria Rebelo | France | 2:29:04 |
| 6 | Renata Kokowska | Poland | 2:30:12 |
| 7 | Ramilya Burangulova | Soviet Union | 2:30:41 |
| 8 | Naomi Watanabe | Japan | 2:31:23 |
| 9 | Tatyana Zuyeva | Soviet Union | 2:31:23 |
| 10 | Anna Villani | Italy | 2:31:26 |
| 11 | Irina Bogacheva | Soviet Union | 2:31:35 |
| 12 | Antonella Bizioli | Italy | 2:32:30 |
| 13 | Laura Fogli | Italy | 2:32:41 |
| 14 | Mari Tanigawa | Japan | 2:33:16 |
| 15 | Sissel Grottenberg | Norway | 2:33:21 |
| 16 | Christel Rogiers | Belgium | 2:33:41 |
| 17 | Ria Van Landeghem | Belgium | 2:33:49 |
| 18 | Joy Smith | United States | 2:34:20 |
| 19 | Mary O'Connor | New Zealand | 2:34:31 |
| 20 | Sally Ellis | United Kingdom | 2:34:42 |
| 21 | Véronique Marot | United Kingdom | 2:34:46 |
| 22 | Françoise Bonnet | France | 2:34:49 |
| 23 | Izabela Zatorska | Poland | 2:34:55 |
| 24 | Marie-Hélène Ohier | France | 2:34:59 |
| 25 | Kerstin Pressler | Germany | 2:35:09 |
| 26 | Sally Eastall | United Kingdom | 2:36:19 |
| 27 | Anna Rybicka | Poland | 2:36:41 |
| 28 | Birgit Jerschabek | Germany | 2:36:48 |
| 29 | Jocelyne Villeton | France | 2:37:04 |
| 30 | Dominique Rembert | France | 2:37:05 |
| 31 | Lidia Camberg | Poland | 2:37:13 |
| 32 | Terry Adams | Switzerland | 2:37:32 |
| 33 | Sylvie Laville | France | 2:37:51 |
| — | Dorthe Rasmussen | Denmark | DNF |
| — | Wendy Breed | New Zealand | DNF |

### Wheelchair men

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Farid Amarouche | France | 1:52:52 |
| | Bo Lindkvist | Sweden | 1:52:55 |
| | Jean-Francois Poitevin | France | 1:52:57 |
| 4 | Daniel Wesley | Canada | 1:52:59 |
| 5 | Håkan Ericsson | Sweden | 1:53:02 |
| 6 | David Holding | United Kingdom | 1:54:39 |
| 7 | Christian Pickernell | Australia | 2:04:11 |
| 8 | Doug Gray | United Kingdom | 2:04:51 |
| 9 | Ivan Newman | United Kingdom | 2:04:55 |
| 10 | Rob Wickham | Zimbabwe | 2:05:01 |

### Wheelchair women

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Connie Hansen | Denmark | 2:04:40 |
| | Rose Hill | United Kingdom | 2:21:49 |
| | Tanni Grey | United Kingdom | 2:38:42 |
| 4 | Tracy Lewis | United Kingdom | 2:45:33 |
| 5 | Yvonne Holloway | United Kingdom | 2:51:47 |