# 1990 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

The 1990 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the eighth, and penultimate, edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by Ireland on 14 October 1990 in Dublin 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.
Romania's Iulia Olteanu won the race in a time of 50:11.8 – the slowest winning time recorded at the competition's history. Francie Larrieu Smith of the United States was the silver medallist and Chinese runner Zhong Huandi took bronze to feature on the podium for a second year running. Aurora Cunha led Portugal to the team title, as she had in 1987, with support from Conceição Ferreira and Lucilia Soares. The Soviet Union reached the team podium for a fifth time in as many years through the efforts of Nadezhda Stepanova, Valentina Yegorova and Lyudmila Matveyeva. A unified German team entered for the first time and former East German Katrin Dörre led the team to third place in the team rankings with former West Germans Kerstin Pressler and Christina Mai.

## Results
### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (m:s) |
| | Iulia Negură | Romania (ROM) | 50:11.8 |
| | Francie Larrieu-Smith | United States (USA) | 50:14.2 |
| | Zhong Huandi | China (CHN) | 50:19.0 |
| 4 | Andrea Wallace | Great Britain (GBR) | 50:19.5 |
| 5 | Aurora Cunha | Portugal (POR) | 50:26.8 |
| 6 | Katrin Dörre | Germany (GER) | 50:29.3 |
| 7 | Nadezhda Stepanova | Soviet Union (URS) | 50:31.6 |
| 8 | Kerstin Pressler | Germany (GER) | 50:36.4 |
| 9 | Conceição Ferreira | Portugal (POR) | 50:59.3 |
| 10 | Valentina Yegorova | Soviet Union (URS) | 51:05.6 |
| 11 | Rosario Gangloff | France (FRA) | 51:08.4 |
| 12 | Evy Palm | Sweden (SWE) | 51:24.6 |
| 13 | Lucilia Soares | Portugal (POR) | 51:33.5 |
| 14 | Fatuma Roba | Ethiopia (ETH) | 51:48.8 |
| 15 | Tigist Moreda | Ethiopia (ETH) | 51:49.8 |
| 16 | Christina Mai | Germany (GER) | 51:50.3 |
| 17 | Joke Kleijweg | Netherlands (NED) | 51:50.7 |
| 18 | Tani Ruckle | Australia (AUS) | 51:55.5 |
| 19 | Iva Jurkova | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 51:57.4 |
| 20 | Franziska Moser | Switzerland (SUI) | 52:06.7 |
| 21 | Isabella Moretti | Switzerland (SUI) | 52:14.0 |
| 22 | Maria-del Carmen Brunet | Spain (ESP) | 52:16.8 |
| 23 | Zina Marchant | Great Britain (GBR) | 52:19.5 |
| 24 | Anna Villani | Italy (ITA) | 52:20.2 |
| 25 | Maria Guida | Italy (ITA) | 52:24.7 |
| 26 | Georgeta State | Romania (ROM) | 52:27.8 |
| 27 | Ursula Noctor | Ireland (IRL) | 52:29.1 |
| 28 | Wang Huabi | China (CHN) | 52:34.7 |
| 29 | Carmen de Oliveira | Brazil (BRA) | 52:39.5 |
| 30 | Lyudmila Matveyeva | Soviet Union (URS) | 52:39.8 |
| 31 | Larisa Alekseyeva | Soviet Union (URS) | 52:42.9 |
| 32 | Lynn Deninno | United States (USA) | 52:44.7 |
| 33 | Laura LaMena | United States (USA) | 52:46.0 |
| 34 | Carlien Harms | Netherlands (NED) | 52:56.5 |
| 35 | Izabela Zatorska | Poland (POL) | 53:01.6 |
| 36 | Annalisa Scurti | Italy (ITA) | 53:04.9 |
| 37 | Anne van Schuppen | Netherlands (NED) | 53:05.9 |
| 38 | Tanja Kalinowski | Germany (GER) | 53:09.2 |
| 39 | Marjan Freriks | Netherlands (NED) | 53:10.2 |
| 40 | Jocelyne Villeton | France (FRA) | 53:10.9 |
| 41 | Carmen Fuentes | Spain (ESP) | 53:13.0 |
| 42 | Lesley Morton | New Zealand (NZL) | 53:14.1 |
| 43 | Marie-Hélène Ohier | France (FRA) | 53:15.4 |
| 44 | Andrea Fleischer | Germany (GER) | 53:18.9 |
| 45 | Wang Yongmei | China (CHN) | 53:28.3 |
| 46 | Mariana Chirila | Romania (ROM) | 53:39.1 |
| 47 | Bożena Dziubińska | Poland (POL) | 53:45.1 |
| 48 | Kamila Gradus | Poland (POL) | 53:49.6 |
| 49 | Catherine Newman | Great Britain (GBR) | 53:55.5 |
| 50 | María Trujillo | United States (USA) | 54:07.0 |
| 51 | Myriam Dumont | Belgium (BEL) | 54:17.7 |
| 52 | Addis Gezahegne | Ethiopia (ETH) | 54:20.7 |
| 53 | Rose Lambe | Ireland (IRL) | 54:22.4 |
| 54 | Angelines Rodríguez | Spain (ESP) | 54:24.6 |
| 55 | Anuța Cătună | Romania (ROM) | 54:41.6 |
| 56 | Patricia Griffin | Ireland (IRL) | 54:44.0 |
| 57 | Silvana Pereira | Brazil (BRA) | 54:49.5 |
| 58 | Solange de Souza | Brazil (BRA) | 54:59.3 |
| 59 | Ľudmila Melicherová | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 55:00.5 |
| 60 | Suzanne Malaxos | Australia (AUS) | 55:05.0 |
| 61 | Kelly dos Santos | Brazil (BRA) | 55:13.1 |
| 62 | Susan Mahoney | Australia (AUS) | 55:21.5 |
| 63 | Marina Prat | Spain (ESP) | 55:39.4 |
| 64 | Susan Tooby | Great Britain (GBR) | 55:44.0 |
| 65 | Connie Kelly | Ireland (IRL) | 55:46.9 |
| 66 | Viviene Van Buggenhout | Belgium (BEL) | 55:59.1 |
| 67 | Marisol Cossio | Bolivia (BOL) | 56:04.1 |
| 68 | Julie McKie | Australia (AUS) | 56:52.1 |
| 69 | Julia Sakala | Zimbabwe (ZIM) | 57:34.5 |
| — | Albertina Dias | Portugal (POR) | DNF |
| — | Jana Bauckmannova | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | DNF |
| — | Alena Mocariova | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | DNF |
| — | Agnes Pardaens | Belgium (BEL) | DNF |

### Team

| Team | Points |
| Portugal (POR) Aurora Cunha Conceição Ferreira Lucilia Soares | 27 pts |
| Soviet Union (URS) Nadezhda Stepanova Valentina Yegorova Lyudmila Matveyeva | 47 pts |
| Germany (GER) Katrin Dörre Kerstin Pressler Christina Mai | 62 pts |