# 1985 World Marathon Cup

The 1985 World Marathon Cup was the first edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Hiroshima, Japan, on 13 and 14 April.

## Results
### Men

Team men :
| # | Nations | Time |
| 1 | Djibouti Hussein Ahmed Salah Djama Robleh Omar Abdillahi Charmarke | 6:27:08 |
| 2 | Japan Takeyuki Nakayama Takeshi So Shigeru So | 6:31:43 |
| 3 | Ethiopia Abebe Mekonnen Kebede Balcha Dereje Nedi | 6:32:46 |
Individual men :
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (h:m:s) |
| 1 | Hussein Ahmed Salah | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:08:09 |
| 2 | Takeyuki Nakayama | Japan (JPN) | 2:08:15 |
| 3 | Djama Robleh | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:08:26 |
| 4 | Michael Heilmann | East Germany (GDR) | 2:09:03 |
| 5 | Abebe Mekonnen | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:09:05 |
| 6 | Orlando Pizzolato | Italy (ITA) | 2:10:23 |
| 7 | Omar Abdillahi Charmarke | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:10:33 |
| 8 | Takeshi So | Japan (JPN) | 2:11:01 |
| 9 | Massimo Magnani | Italy (ITA) | 2:11:02 |
| 10 | Juma Ikangaa | Tanzania (TAN) | 2:11:06 |
| 11 | Kebede Balcha | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:11:19 |
| 12 | Gelindo Bordin | Italy (ITA) | 2:11:29 |
| 13 | Dean Matthews | United States (USA) | 2:11:48 |
| 14 | Herbert Steffny | West Germany (FRG) | 2:11:49 |
| 15 | Aldo Fantoni | Italy (ITA) | 2:12:09 |
| 16 | Dereje Nedi | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:12:22 |
| 17 | Shigeru So | Japan (JPN) | 2:12:27 |
| 18 | Peter Pfitzinger | United States (USA) | 2:12:28 |
| 19 | Alain Lazare | France (FRA) | 2:12:53 |
| 20 | Daniel Nzioka | Kenya (KEN) | 2:13:26 |
| 21 | Dick Hooper | Ireland (IRL) | 2:13:34 |
| 22 | Luc Waegeman | Belgium (BEL) | 2:13:49 |
| 23 | Alessio Faustini | Italy (ITA) | 2:13:55 |
| 24 | Jong-Hyong Lee | North Korea (PRK) | 2:13:56 |
| 25 | Viktor Semyenov | Ukraine (UKR) | 2:14:07 |
| 26 | Eberhardt Weyel | West Germany (FRG) | 2:14:22 |
| 27 | Antoni Niemczak | Poland (POL) | 2:14:30 |
| 28 | Alfonso Abellán | Spain (ESP) | 2:14:31 |
| 29 | Istvan Kerekjarto | Hungary (HUN) | 2:14:33 |
| 30 | Yevgeniy Okorokov | Ukraine (UKR) | 2:14:35 |
| 31 | Mervyn Brameld | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:14:36 |
| 32 | Roy Dooney | Ireland (IRL) | 2:14:38 |
| 33 | Hugo Rey | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:14:39 |
| 34 | Paul Ballinger | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:14:42 |
| 35 | Franz Homberger | West Germany (FRG) | 2:14:56 |
| 36 | Jörg Peter | East Germany (GDR) | 2:15:04 |
| 37 | Zoltan Koszegi | Hungary (HUN) | 2:15:17 |
| 38 | Derek Froude | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:15:32 |
| 39 | Honorato Hernández | Spain (ESP) | 2:15:48 |
| 40 | Frantisek Visnicky | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2:15:53 |
| 41 | John Burra | Tanzania (TAN) | 2:15:59 |
| 42 | Sergey Rudenko | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:16:00 |
| 43 | Jae-Song Yoo | South Korea (KOR) | 2:16:04 |
| 44 | Frank Konzack | East Germany (GDR) | 2:16:07 |
| 45 | Jean-Yves Madelon | France (FRA) | 2:16:09 |
| 46 | Stephen-Glenn Forster | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:16:14 |
| 47 | Graham Macky | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:16:17 |
| 48 | Fraser Clyne | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:16:20 |
| 49 | Mojmir Lanicek | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2:16:36 |
| 50 | Willem Zegers | Netherlands (NED) | 2:16:39 |
| 51 | Elói Schleder | Brazil (BRA) | 2:16:46 |
| 52 | Taisuke Kodama | Japan (JPN) | 2:16:51 |
| 53 | Tommy Persson | Sweden (SWE) | 2:16:54 |
| 54 | Youssef Doukal | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:16:57 |
| 55 | Peter Lyrenmann | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:17:18 |
| 56 | Gino Braeckevelt | Belgium (BEL) | 2:17:20 |
| 57 | Herminio Martins | Portugal (POR) | 2:17:21 |
| 58 | Juan Zetina | Mexico (MEX) | 2:17:27 |
| 59 | Steven Poulton | Australia (AUS) | 2:17:30 |
| 60 | Xu Liang | China (CHN) | 2:17:33 |
| 61 | Victor Mudehwe | Zimbabwe (ZIM) | 2:17:50 |
| 62 | Georgios Afordakos | Greece (GRE) | 2:17:56 |
| 63 | Robert Wallace | Australia (AUS) | 2:18:03 |
| 64 | Klevestostenes Albuquerque | Brazil (BRA) | 2:18:04 |
| 65 | Jean-Jacques Padel | France (FRA) | 2:18:06 |
| 66 | Jose-Oscar Santos | Portugal (POR) | 2:18:10 |
| 67 | Jerzy Skarżyński | Poland (POL) | 2:18:12 |
| 68 | Luis Bautista | Venezuela (VEN) | 2:18:18 |
| 69 | Per Hoffmann | Denmark (DEN) | 2:18:38 |
| 70 | Dong-Myong Lee | North Korea (PRK) | 2:18:41 |
| 71 | Muya Wachira | Canada (CAN) | 2:18:43 |
| 72 | Michael Dyon | Canada (CAN) | 2:19:00 |
| 73 | James Fallon | Ireland (IRL) | 2:19:00 |
| 74 | Mergessa Tula | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:19:03 |
| 75 | Richard Umberg | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:19:09 |
| 76 | Jeffrey Martin | Canada (CAN) | 2:19:13 |
| 77 | Kunimitsu Itō | Japan (JPN) | 2:19:14 |
| 78 | Jean-Michel Charbonnel | France (FRA) | 2:19:18 |
| 79 | Jürgen Eberding | East Germany (GDR) | 2:19:25 |
| 80 | Andras Mozes | Hungary (HUN) | 2:19:28 |
| 81 | Juan Camacho | Bolivia (BOL) | 2:19:36 |
| 82 | Paul Craig | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:19:40 |
| 83 | Wiktor Sawicki | Poland (POL) | 2:19:57 |
| 84 | Henryk Lupa | Poland (POL) | 2:20:07 |
| 116 | Wojciech Ratkowski | Poland (POL) | 2:24:55 |
| — | Mark Finucane | United States (USA) | DNF |
| — | Michael Pinocci | United States (USA) | DNF |
| — | Fred Torneden | United States (USA) | DNF |

### Women

Team women :
| # | Nations | Time |
| 1 | Italy Laura Fogli Rita Marchisio Emma Scaunich | 7:51:27 |
| 2 | Soviet Union Zoya Ivanova Raisa Smekhnova Nadezhda Usmanova | 7:53:22 |
| 3 | East Germany Katrin Dörre Birgit Stephan Gabriele Riemann | 8:00:02 |
Individual women :
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (h:m:s) |
| 1 | Katrin Dörre | East Germany (GDR) | 2:33:30 |
| 2 | Zoya Ivanova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:34:17 |
| 3 | Karolina Szabó | Hungary (HUN) | 2:34:57 |
| 4 | Laura Fogli | Italy (ITA) | 2:35:45 |
| 5 | Kersti Jakobsen | Denmark (DEN) | 2:35:56 |
| 6 | Rita Marchisio | Italy (ITA) | 2:35:59 |
| 7 | Ľudmila Melicherová | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2:36:26 |
| 8 | Véronique Marot | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:37:04 |
| 9 | Eriko Asai | Japan (JPN) | 2:37:18 |
| 10 | Raisa Smekhnova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:37:31 |
| 11 | Emma Scaunich | Italy (ITA) | 2:39:41 |
| 12 | Maria Curatolo | Italy (ITA) | 2:40:09 |
| 13 | Françoise Bonnet | France (FRA) | 2:40:18 |
| 14 | Sylvie Bornet | France (FRA) | 2:40:31 |
| 15 | Solweig Harrysson | Sweden (SWE) | 2:41:05 |
| 16 | Nadezhda Usmanova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:41:32 |
| 17 | Chie Matsuda | Japan (JPN) | 2:41:47 |
| 18 | Xiao Hongyan | China (CHN) | 2:41:56 |
| 19 | Birgit Stephan | East Germany (GDR) | 2:42:49 |
| 20 | Magda Ilands | Belgium (BEL) | 2:43:13 |
| 21 | Mercedes Calleja | Spain (ESP) | 2:43:39 |
| 22 | Gabriele Riemann | East Germany (GDR) | 2:43:43 |
| 23 | Sylviane Levesque | France (FRA) | 2:43:48 |
| 24 | Dorothy Goertzen | Canada (CAN) | 2:44:10 |
| 25 | Barbara McKerrow | Australia (AUS) | 2:44:23 |
| 26 | Birgit Lennartz | East Germany (GDR) | 2:44:41 |
| 27 | Maria-Luisa Irizar | Spain (ESP) | 2:45:28 |
| 28 | Yuko Gordon | Hong Kong (HKG) | 2:45:29 |
| 29 | Nancy Ditz | United States (USA) | 2:45:52 |
| 30 | Denise Verhaert | Belgium (BEL) | 2:46:07 |
| 31 | Deborah Raunig | United States (USA) | 2:46:12 |
| 32 | Alba Milana | Italy (ITA) | 2:46:21 |
| 33 | Evy Palm | Sweden (SWE) | 2:46:50 |
| 34 | Grazyna Mierzejewska | Poland (POL) | 2:47:05 |
| 35 | Margaret Lockley | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:47:15 |
| 36 | Ma Liqin | China (CHN) | 2:48:17 |
| 37 | Consuelo Alonso | Spain (ESP) | 2:48:28 |
| 38 | Desiree Letherby | Australia (AUS) | 2:48:43 |
| 39 | Tracy Robinson | Canada (CAN) | 2:49:06 |
| 40 | Yoshiko Hirohama | Japan (JPN) | 2:49:17 |
| 41 | Gillian Castka | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:49:36 |
| 42 | Lutsia Belyayeva | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:49:48 |
| 43 | Mora Main | Australia (AUS) | 2:50:25 |
| 44 | Gillian Horovitz | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:50:36 |
| 45 | Angélica de Almeida | Brazil (BRA) | 2:50:43 |
| 46 | Susan Kainulainen | Canada (CAN) | 2:51:15 |
| 47 | Tina Wild | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:51:20 |
| 48 | Margaret Reddan | Australia (AUS) | 2:52:30 |
| 49 | Maria Rebelo | France (FRA) | 2:52:47 |
| 50 | Angelika Dunke | East Germany (GDR) | 2:53:27 |
| 51 | Sachiko Ishida | Japan (JPN) | 2:53:46 |
| 52 | Deirdre Nagle | Ireland (IRL) | 2:53:52 |
| 53 | Antonia Ladanyine | Hungary (HUN) | 2:54:08 |
| 54 | Winnie Lai-chu Ng | Hong Kong (HKG) | 2:54:42 |
| 55 | ? | ? | |
| 56 | ? | ? | |
| 57 | Kathy Ricica | Canada (CAN) | 2:55:20 |
| 60? | Christine Kennedy | Ireland (IRL) | 2:56:04 |
| 65? | Ailish Smyth | Ireland (IRL) | 3:01:04 |
| 73 | Elena Murgoci | Romania (ROM) | 3:04:12 |
| 75? | Czeslawa Mentlewicz | Poland (POL) | 3:05:09 |
| — | Carol McLatchie | United States (USA) | DNF |
| — | Lorraine Moller | New Zealand (NZL) | DNF |
| — | Gabriela Gorzynska | Poland (POL) | DNF |
| — | Renata Walendziak | Poland (POL) | DNF |
| — | Ewa Wrzosek | Poland (POL) | DNF |