# 1991 World Marathon Cup

The 1991 World Marathon Cup was the fourth edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in London, United Kingdom. The competition was held jointly with the annual London Marathon on 21 April.

## Results

Team men :
| # | Nations | Time |
| 1 | Great Britain David Long Stephen Brace David Buzza | 6:34:59 |
| 2 | Portugal Manuel Matias Joaquim Pinheiro Antonio Godinho | 6:35:55 |
| 3 | Poland Jan Huruk Sławomir Gurny Wiesław Perszke | 6:36:12 |
Team women :
| # | Nations | Time |
| 1 | Soviet Union Valentina Yegorova Ramilya Burangulova Tatyana Zuyeva | 7:30:21 |
| 2 | Italy Anna Villani Antonella Bizioli Laura Fogli | 7:36:37 |
| 3 | France Maria Rebelo Françoise Bonnet Marie-Helene Ohier | 7:38:51 |

### Individual men

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (h:m:s) |
| 1 | Yakov Tolstikov | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:09:17 |
| 2 | Manuel Matias | Portugal (POR) | 2:10:21 |
| 3 | Jan Huruk | Poland (POL) | 2:10:21 |
| 4 | David Long | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:10:30 |
| 5 | Joaquim Pinheiro | Portugal (POR) | 2:10:38 |
| 6 | Alfredo Shahanga | Tanzania (TAN) | 2:11:20 |
| 7 | Stephen Brace | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:11:45 |
| 8 | Peter Maher | Canada (CAN) | 2:11:46 |
| 9 | Jean-Luc Assemat | France (FRA) | 2:11:49 |
| 10 | Salvatore Bettiol | Italy (ITA) | 2:11:53 |
| 11 | Konrad Dobler | Germany (GER) | 2:11:57 |
| 12 | José Esteban Montiel | Spain (ESP) | 2:11:59 |
| 13 | Tekeye Gebreselasie | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:12:05 |
| 14 | Alessio Faustini | Italy (ITA) | 2:12:12 |
| 15 | Marco Gozzano | Italy (ITA) | 2:12:26 |
| 16 | David Buzza | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:12:37 |
| 17 | Isidro Rico | Mexico (MEX) | 2:12:38 |
| 18 | Sławomir Gurny | Poland (POL) | 2:12:39 |
| 19 | Marcelino Crisanto | Mexico (MEX) | 2:12:42 |
| 20 | Hugh Jones | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:12:46 |
| 21 | Carlos Ayala | Mexico (MEX) | 2:12:51 |
| 22 | Luis Soares | France (FRA) | 2:12:53 |
| 23 | Diego Garcia | Spain (ESP) | 2:12:54 |
| 24 | Pascal Zilliox | France (FRA) | 2:12:59 |
| 25 | Belayneh Tadesse | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:13:09 |
| 26 | Wiesław Perszke | Poland (POL) | 2:13:12 |
| 27 | Takeshi So | Japan (JPN) | 2:13:15 |
| 28 | Peter Daenens | Belgium (BEL) | 2:13:16 |
| 29 | Vicente Anton | Spain (ESP) | 2:13:38 |
| 30 | Sam Carey | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:13:54 |
| 31 | Jose Carlos da Silva | Brazil (BRA) | 2:14:11 |
| 32 | Allister Hutton | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:14:13 |
| 33 | Mohamed Salmi | Morocco (MAR) | 2:14:20 |
| 34 | Giuseppe Miccoli | Italy (ITA) | 2:14:30 |
| 35 | Kennedy Manyisa | Kenya (KEN) | 2:14:31 |
| 36 | Walter Durbano | Italy (ITA) | 2:14:39 |
| 37 | John Griffin | Ireland (IRL) | 2:14:42 |
| 38 | Rodrigo Gavela | Spain (ESP) | 2:14:48 |
| 39 | Roy Dooney | Ireland (IRL) | 2:14:50 |
| 40 | Peter DeVocht | Belgium (BEL) | 2:14:54 |
| 41 | Juan-Antonio Crespo | Spain (ESP) | 2:14:54 |
| 42 | Steve Taylor | United States (USA) | 2:14:56 |
| 43 | Antonio Godinho | Portugal (POR) | 2:14:56 |
| 44 | Anthony Milovsorov | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:14:57 |
| 45 | Jean-Jacques Padel | France (FRA) | 2:14:59 |
| 46 | Pawel Tarasiuk | Poland (POL) | 2:14:59 |
| 47 | Gumercindo Olmedo | Mexico (MEX) | 2:15:00 |
| 48 | Ignacio-Alberto Cuba | Cuba (CUB) | 2:15:00 |
| 49 | Zerihun Gizaw | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:15:08 |
| 50 | Peter Dall | Denmark (DEN) | 2:15:11 |
| 51 | Nikolay Tabak | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:15:20 |
| 52 | Negash Dube | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:15:22 |
| 53 | Rustam Shagiev | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:15:33 |
| 54 | Mario Sousa | Portugal (POR) | 2:15:39 |
| 55 | Christopher Buckley | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:15:48 |
| 56 | Ronny Ligneel | Belgium (BEL) | 2:16:05 |
| 57 | Andres Espinosa | Mexico (MEX) | 2:16:07 |
| 58 | Allaoua Khellil | Algeria (ALG) | 2:16:16 |
| 59 | Taieb Tounsi | Tunisia (TUN) | 2:16:24 |
| 60 | Didier Bernard | France (FRA) | 2:16:28 |
| 61 | Kazuyoshi Kudo | Japan (JPN) | 2:16:31 |
| 62 | Rich McCandless | United States (USA) | 2:16:36 |
| 63 | Robin Nash | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:16:42 |
| 64 | David-Robert Clarke | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:16:57 |
| 65 | Gareth Spring | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:16:59 |
| 66 | Michel Deleze | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:17:00 |
| 67 | Ricardo Jose Castano | Spain (ESP) | 2:17:11 |
| 68 | Giacomo Tagliaferri | Italy (ITA) | 2:17:11 |
| 69 | José Luis Adsuara | Spain (ESP) | 2:17:17 |
| 70 | Takashi Kaneko | Japan (JPN) | 2:17:18 |
| 71 | William Bedell | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:17:21 |
| 72 | John Campbell | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:17:22 |
| 73 | Mohamed Abdi-Said | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:17:25 |
| 74 | Won-Tak Kim | South Korea (KOR) | 2:17:27 |
| 75 | Andrew Symonds | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:17:27 |
| 76 | Joseildo Rocha | Brazil (BRA) | 2:17:27 |
| 77 | Kuruppu Karunaratne | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 2:17:45 |
| 78 | Jean-Baptiste Protais | France (FRA) | 2:17:45 |
| 79 | Jeremy Watson | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:17:49 |
| 80 | Bruno Leger | France (FRA) | 2:17:54 |
| 81 | Jose Cesar deSouza | Brazil (BRA) | 2:17:58 |
| 82 | Mervyn Johnstone | Australia (AUS) | 2:17:59 |
| 83 | Werner Grommisch | Germany (GER) | 2:18:01 |
| 84 | Greg Newhams | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:18:08 |
| 85 | Heinz-Bernhardt Bürger | Germany (GER) | 2:18:09 |
| 86 | Henrik Jørgensen | Denmark (DEN) | 2:18:15 |
| 87 | Toribio Gutierrez | Argentina (ARG) | 2:18:20 |
| 88 | Osvaldo Faustini | Italy (ITA) | 2:18:30 |
| 89 | Ian Bloomfield | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:18:32 |
| 90 | Youssef Doukal | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:18:42 |
| 91 | Spyridon Andriopoulos | Greece (GRE) | 2:18:42 |
| 92 | Michel Brochu | Canada (CAN) | 2:18:47 |
| 93 | Enrique Cortinas | Spain (ESP) | 2:18:48 |
| 94 | Geert Muylaert | Belgium (BEL) | 2:18:50 |
| 95 | Russell Foley | Australia (AUS) | 2:18:53 |
| 96 | William Foster | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:19:03 |
| 97 | Ahmet Altun | Turkey (TUR) | 2:19:03 |
| 98 | Julius Sumawe | Tanzania (TAN) | 2:19:19 |
| 99 | Toshihiro Shibutani | Japan (JPN) | 2:19:28 |
| 100 | Peter Fonseca | Canada (CAN) | 2:19:31 |
| 101 | Luis Lopez | Costa Rica (CRC) | 2:19:31 |
| 102 | Othmar Schoop | Germany (GER) | 2:19:47 |
| 103 | Mikhail Tomasek | France (FRA) | 2:19:52 |
| 104 | Ali Hadj | Algeria (ALG) | 2:19:54 |
| 105 | Maurice Cowman | Ireland (IRL) | 2:19:56 |
| 107 | Philippe Plancke | France (FRA) | 2:20:10 |
| 117 | Martin Grüning | Germany (GER) | 2:21:11 |
| 119? | Ronald Johnson | United States (USA) | 2:21:20 |
| 126 | Ravil Kashapov | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:21:52 |
| 130? | Ciarán O'Flaherty | Ireland (IRL) | 2:22:20 |
| 141 | John Wheway | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:23:46 |
| 161 | Viktor Mosgovoy | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:25:35 |
| 164 | Tony Power | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:25:37 |
| 175 | Darrell General | United States (USA) | 2:26:54 |
| 177? | Jozef Kazanecki | Poland (POL) | 2:27:12 |
| 192? | Per-Gunnar Overland | Norway (NOR) | 2:28:18 |
| — | Gelindo Bordin | Italy (ITA) | DNF |
| — | Bill Reifsnyder | United States (USA) | DNF |
| — | Carl Thackery | Great Britain (GBR) | DNF |
| — | Delmir-Alves dos Santos | Brazil (BRA) | DNF |
| — | Suleiman Nyambui | Tanzania (TAN) | DNF |

### Individual women

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (h:m:s) |
| 1 | Rosa Mota | Portugal (POR) | 2:26:14 |
| 2 | Francie Larrieu | United States (USA) | 2:27:35 |
| 3 | Valentina Yegorova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:28:18 |
| 4 | Katrin Dörre | Germany (GER) | 2:28:57 |
| 5 | Maria Rebelo | France (FRA) | 2:29:04 |
| 6 | Renata Kokowska | Poland (POL) | 2:30:12 |
| 7 | Ramilya Burangulova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:30:41 |
| 8 | Naomi Watanabe | Japan (JPN) | 2:31:23 |
| 9 | Tatyana Zuyeva | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:31:23 |
| 10 | Anna Villani | Italy (ITA) | 2:31:26 |
| 11 | Irina Bogacheva | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:31:35 |
| 12 | Antonella Bizioli | Italy (ITA) | 2:32:30 |
| 13 | Laura Fogli | Italy (ITA) | 2:32:41 |
| 14 | Mari Tanigawa | Japan (JPN) | 2:33:16 |
| 15 | Sissel Grottenberg | Norway (NOR) | 2:33:21 |
| 16 | Christel Rogiers | Belgium (BEL) | 2:33:41 |
| 17 | Ria Van Landeghem | Belgium (BEL) | 2:33:49 |
| 18 | Joy Smith | United States (USA) | 2:34:20 |
| 19 | Mary O'Connor | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:34:31 |
| 20 | Sally Ellis | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:34:42 |
| 21 | Veronique Marot | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:34:46 |
| 22 | Françoise Bonnet | France (FRA) | 2:34:49 |
| 23 | Izabela Zatorska | Poland (POL) | 2:34:55 |
| 24 | Marie-Helene Ohier | France (FRA) | 2:34:59 |
| 25 | Kerstin Pressler | Germany (GER) | 2:35:09 |
| 26 | Sally Eastall | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:36:19 |
| 27 | Birgit Jerschabek | Germany (GER) | 2:36:38 |
| 28 | Anna Rybicka | Poland (POL) | 2:36:41 |
| 29 | Jocelyne Villeton | France (FRA) | 2:37:04 |
| 30 | Dominique Rembert | France (FRA) | 2:37:05 |
| 31 | Lidia Camberg | Poland (POL) | 2:37:13 |
| 32 | Terry Adams | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:37:32 |
| 33 | Sylvie Laville | France (FRA) | 2:37:51 |
| 34 | Julie Peterson | United States (USA) | 2:38:10 |
| 35 | Sylviane Levesque | France (FRA) | 2:38:56 |
| 36 | Zina Marchant | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:39:26 |
| 37 | Pascaline Wangui | Kenya (KEN) | 2:39:39 |
| 38 | Marian Sutton | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:40:03 |
| 39 | Ursula Noctor | Ireland (IRL) | 2:40:18 |
| 40 | Martine Laurent | France (FRA) | 2:40:52 |
| 41 | Linda Rushmere | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:41:17 |
| 42 | Rosemary Ellis | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:41:21 |
| 43 | Anne Roden | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:41:22 |
| 44 | Karen Scholte | United States (USA) | 2:41:54 |
| 45 | Connie Kelly | Ireland (IRL) | 2:42:18 |
| 46 | Tatyana Polovinskaya | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:42:27 |
| 47 | Elisenda Pucurull | Spain (ESP) | 2:42:31 |
| 48 | Hiroko Tanaka | Japan (JPN) | 2:42:40 |
| 49 | Sandra Bentley | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:42:54 |
| 50 | Yekaterina Khramenkova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:43:12 |
| 51 | Krystyna Chylińska | Poland (POL) | 2:43:30 |
| 52 | Carmen Mingorance | Spain (ESP) | 2:43:42 |
| 53 | Sheila Catford | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:43:50 |
| 54 | Patricia Griffin | Ireland (IRL) | 2:43:56 |
| 55 | Maryse Le Gallo | France (FRA) | 2:44:31 |
| 56 | Jacqueline Davis | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:44:33 |
| 57 | Bernadette Stankart | Ireland (IRL) | 2:45:04 |
| 58 | Viviene Van Buggenhout | Belgium (BEL) | 2:45:34 |
| 59 | Jacqueline Casey | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:45:39 |
| 60 | Catherina Smyth | Ireland (IRL) | 2:45:49 |
| 61 | Aurelia de Jesus | Mexico (MEX) | 2:45:57 |
| 62 | Elena Cobos | Spain (ESP) | 2:45:58 |
| 63 | Pauline Nolan | Ireland (IRL) | 2:46:16 |
| 64 | Christine Van Put | Belgium (BEL) | 2:46:36 |
| 65 | Carol McLatchie | United States (USA) | 2:46:53 |
| 66 | Maribel Durruty | Cuba (CUB) | 2:47:05 |
| 67 | Maria-Elena Reyna | Mexico (MEX) | 2:47:16 |
| 68 | Consuelo Casanovas | Spain (ESP) | 2:47:27 |
| 69 | Bridget Murphy | Ireland (IRL) | 2:47:41 |
| 70 | Elizabeth Hughes | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:47:49 |
| 71 | Kathryn Drake | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:48:02 |
| 72 | Janet Kelly | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:48:03 |
| 73 | Janice Moorekite | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:48:27 |
| 74 | Elizabeth Staig | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:49:16 |
| 75 | Marianne Fløymo | Norway (NOR) | 2:49:29 |
| 76 | Sigrid Renna | Norway (NOR) | 2:49:32 |
| 77 | Anette Hansen | Denmark (DEN) | 2:49:33 |
| 78 | Eleanor Hill | Ireland (IRL) | 2:49:35 |
| 79 | Suk-Song Kim | South Korea (KOR) | 2:49:46 |
| 80 | Zoe Lowe | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:50:16 |
| 81 | Vilma Sanchez | Costa Rica (CRC) | 2:50:48 |
| 84 | Susan Shield | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:51:33 |
| 86 | Susan Clarke | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:52:01 |
| 89 | Lidia Șimon | Romania (ROM) | 2:52:48 |
| 90 | Marina Prat | Spain (ESP) | 2:52:49 |
| 91 | Kathleen Howe | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:53:29 |
| 92 | Mary Ryzner | United States (USA) | 2:53:57 |
| — | Dorthe Rasmussen | Denmark (DEN) | DNF |
| — | Wendy Breed | New Zealand (NZL) | DNF |