# 1987 World Marathon Cup

The 1987 World Marathon Cup was the second edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Seoul, South Korea on 12 April.

## Results

Team men :
| # | Nations | Time |
| 1 | Italy Salvatore Bettiol Salvatore Nicosia Osvaldo Faustini | 6:36:38 |
| 2 | Japan Taisuke Kodama Kazuyoshi Kudo Yoshihiro Nishimura | 6:39:23 |
| 3 | France Alain Lazare Jacques Marechet Alexandre Gonzalez | 6:43:46 |
Team women :
| # | Nations | Time |
| 1 | Soviet Union Zoya Ivanova Tatyana Gridnyeva Yekaterina Khramenkova | 7:34:39 |
| 2 | East Germany Katrin Dörre Uta Pippig Annette Fincke | 7:42:10 |
| 3 | France Maria Rebelo Françoise Bonnet Jocelyne Villeton | 7:46:41 |

### Individual men

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (h:m:s) |
| 1 | Hussein Ahmed Saleh | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:10:55 |
| 2 | Taisuke Kodama | Japan (JPN) | 2:11:23 |
| 3 | Salvatore Bettiol | Italy (ITA) | 2:11:28 |
| 4 | Salvatore Nicosia | Italy (ITA) | 2:12:13 |
| 5 | Osvaldo Faustini | Italy (ITA) | 2:12:57 |
| 6 | Sid-Ali Sakhri | Algeria (ALG) | 2:13:29 |
| 7 | Kazuyoshi Kudo | Japan (JPN) | 2:13:34 |
| 8 | Honorato Hernandez | Spain (ESP) | 2:13:40 |
| 9 | Alain Lazare | France (FRA) | 2:13:43 |
| 10 | Jacques Marechet | France (FRA) | 2:13:47 |
| 11 | Mirko Vindis | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 2:13:47 |
| 12 | Spyridon Andriopoulos | Greece (GRE) | 2:14:19 |
| 13 | Yoshihiro Nishimura | Japan (JPN) | 2:14:26 |
| 14 | John Vermeule | Netherlands (NED) | 2:14:32 |
| 15 | Thomas Ratcliffe | United States (USA) | 2:14:44 |
| 16 | Michael Heilmann | East Germany (GDR) | 2:14:51 |
| 17 | Aldo Fantoni | Italy (ITA) | 2:14:54 |
| 18 | Jürgen Eberding | East Germany (GDR) | 2:14:59 |
| 19 | Alfonso Abellan | Spain (ESP) | 2:15:03 |
| 20 | David Long | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:15:04 |
| 21 | Juan-Antonio Balsera | Spain (ESP) | 2:15:06 |
| 22 | Lindsay Robertson | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:15:07 |
| 23 | Christos Papachristos | Greece (GRE) | 2:15:22 |
| 24 | Peter Lyrenmann | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:15:30 |
| 25 | Hugo Rey | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:15:30 |
| 26 | Paul Herlihy | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:15:51 |
| 27 | Anastassios Psathas | Greece (GRE) | 2:15:53 |
| 28 | Brad Hawthorne | United States (USA) | 2:15:57 |
| 29 | Peter Gschwend | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:15:57 |
| 30 | Janos Papp | Hungary (HUN) | 2:16:00 |
| 31 | Alexandre Gonzalez | France (FRA) | 2:16:16 |
| 32 | Veselin Vasilev | Bulgaria (BUL) | 2:16:18 |
| 33 | Lee Chun-keun | South Korea (KOR) | 2:16:19 |
| 34 | Peter Dall | Denmark (DEN) | 2:16:21 |
| 35 | Thomas Eickmann | West Germany (FRG) | 2:16:26 |
| 36 | Hans Pfisterer | West Germany (FRG) | 2:16:28 |
| 37 | Justin Gloden | Luxembourg (LUX) | 2:16:39 |
| 38 | Stanimir Nenov | Bulgaria (BUL) | 2:17:00 |
| 39 | Gideon Buthana | Eswatini (SWZ) | 2:17:08 |
| 40 | Loris Pimazzoni | Italy (ITA) | 2:17:12 |
| 41 | Zoltan Kiss | Hungary (HUN) | 2:17:21 |
| 42 | Stephan Seidemann | East Germany (GDR) | 2:17:34 |
| 43 | Graham Macky | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:17:35 |
| 44 | Kim Reijnierse | Netherlands (NED) | 2:17:37 |
| 45 | Patrick Carroll | Australia (AUS) | 2:17:39 |
| 46 | Paul Pieters | Belgium (BEL) | 2:17:41 |
| 47 | Fraser Clyne | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:17:43 |
| 48 | Osmiro da Silva | Brazil (BRA) | 2:17:48 |
| 49 | Dragan Isailovic | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 2:17:49 |
| 50 | Peter Mitchell | Australia (AUS) | 2:18:02 |
| 51 | Andy Jones | Canada (CAN) | 2:18:15 |
| 52 | Semir Berber | Turkey (TUR) | 2:18:22 |
| 53 | Hanifi Atmaca | Turkey (TUR) | 2:18:24 |
| 54 | Derek Froude | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:18:28 |
| 55 | Richard Vollenbroek | Netherlands (NED) | 2:18:32 |
| 56 | Johan Geirnaert | Belgium (BEL) | 2:18:40 |
| 57 | Richard Mannen | Canada (CAN) | 2:19:00 |
| 58 | Steven Poulton | Australia (AUS) | 2:19:22 |
| 59 | Manuel de Oliviera | Portugal (POR) | 2:19:40 |
| 60 | Marc Agosta | Luxembourg (LUX) | 2:19:44 |
| 61 | Farid Belhmadi | Algeria (ALG) | 2:19:51 |
| 62 | Pierre Levisse | France (FRA) | 2:19:59 |
| 66 | Bigboy Matlapeng | Botswana (BOT) | 2:20:48 |
| 79 | Angel Zanev | Bulgaria (BUL) | 2:23:24 |
| 86 | Fernando Zuluaga | Spain (ESP) | 2:24:23 |
| 87 | Frank Plasso | United States (USA) | 2:24:30 |
| 91 | Colin Neave | Australia (AUS) | 2:25:16 |
| 100 | Daniel Gonzalez | United States (USA) | 2:27:11 |
| 101 | Youssef Doukal | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:27:14 |
| 109 | John Guerin | Australia (AUS) | 2:29:06 |
| 116 | Thomas Dlamini | Eswatini (SWZ) | 2:30:39 |
| — | Juan Antonio Garcia | Spain (ESP) | DNF |

### Individual women

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (h:m:s) |
| 1 | Zoya Ivanova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:30:39 |
| 2 | Maria Rebelo | France (FRA) | 2:31:27 |
| 3 | Katrin Dörre | East Germany (GDR) | 2:31:30 |
| 4 | Tatyana Gridnyeva | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:31:56 |
| 5 | Yekaterina Khramenkova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:32:04 |
| 6 | Kim Mi-gyeong | South Korea (KOR) | 2:32:40 |
| 7 | Irina Bogacheva | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:33:50 |
| 8 | Uta Pippig | East Germany (GDR) | 2:34:48 |
| 9 | Gabriela Wolf | West Germany (FRG) | 2:35:12 |
| 10 | Genoveva Eichenmann | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:35:40 |
| 11 | Annette Fincke | East Germany (GDR) | 2:35:52 |
| 12 | Rita Marchisio | Italy (ITA) | 2:36:12 |
| 13 | Antonella Bizioli | Italy (ITA) | 2:36:39 |
| 14 | Janice Ettle | United States (USA) | 2:37:02 |
| 15 | Im Eun-ju | South Korea (KOR) | 2:37:06 |
| 16 | Mercedes Calleja | Spain (ESP) | 2:37:13 |
| 17 | Françoise Bonnet | France (FRA) | 2:37:34 |
| 18 | Sally Ellis | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:37:39 |
| 19 | Jocelyne Villeton | France (FRA) | 2:37:40 |
| 20 | Carolyn Naisby | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:38:04 |
| 21 | Irina Ruban | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:38:07 |
| 22 | Maria Curatolo | Italy (ITA) | 2:38:30 |
| 23 | Emma Scaunich | Italy (ITA) | 2:39:26 |
| 24 | Carol McLatchie | United States (USA) | 2:39:39 |
| 25 | Paola Moro | Italy (ITA) | 2:40:18 |
| 26 | Sandra Branney | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:40:44 |
| 27 | Kristina Garlipp | East Germany (GDR) | 2:42:37 |
| 28 | Maria-Luisa Irizar | Spain (ESP) | 2:42:49 |
| 29 | Anne Corneliussen | Norway (NOR) | 2:43:34 |
| 30 | Laura de Wald | United States (USA) | 2:43:56 |
| 31 | Margaret Reddan | Australia (AUS) | 2:44:05 |
| 32 | Patricia Rapet | France (FRA) | 2:44:39 |
| 33 | Gizela Molnar | Hungary (HUN) | 2:45:31 |
| 34 | Hanne Jensen | Denmark (DEN) | 2:45:46 |
| 35 | Denise Verhaert | Belgium (BEL) | 2:45:55 |
| 36 | Viviene Van Buggenhout | Belgium (BEL) | 2:46:08 |
| 37 | Bernadette Hudy | West Germany (FRG) | 2:46:17 |
| 38 | Petrina Trowbridge | Australia (AUS) | 2:46:48 |
| 39 | Consuelo Alonso | Spain (ESP) | 2:46:52 |
| 40 | Maria-Esther Pedrosa | Spain (ESP) | 2:47:05 |
| 41 | Joan Carstensen | Denmark (DEN) | 2:47:26 |
| 42 | Oddrun Hovsengen | Norway (NOR) | 2:48:25 |
| 43 | Ellinor Ljungros | Sweden (SWE) | 2:48:37 |
| 44 | Carmen Mingorance | Spain (ESP) | 2:49:10 |
| 45 | Margarita Galicia | Mexico (MEX) | 2:49:48 |
| 46 | Eva Isaacs | Sweden (SWE) | 2:49:55 |
| 47 | Ilona Zsilak | Hungary (HUN) | 2:50:36 |
| 48 | Barbara Filutze | United States (USA) | 2:51:06 |
| 49 | Jillian Costley | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:51:13 |
| 50 | Helle Dossing | Denmark (DEN) | 2:51:23 |
| 51 | Teresa Kidd | Ireland (IRL) | 2:51:29 |
| 53 | May-Britt Aastad | Sweden (SWE) | 2:52:52 |
| 54 | Tove Lorentzen | Denmark (DEN) | 2:53:23 |
| 67 | Cheryl Harper | United States (USA) | 3:06:38 |