# IAAF World Marathon Cup

The IAAF World Marathon Cup was an international event organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations every two years.
From 1997 until 2011 (its final year) it was incorporated with IAAF World Championships in Athletics. The competition is defunct, Daegu 2011 was the last edition.

## Editions

| Year | Venue | Country | Date |
| 1985 | Hiroshima | Japan | 13–14 April |
| 1987 | Seoul | South Korea | 11–12 April |
| 1989 | Milan | Italy | 15–16 April |
| 1991 | London | United Kingdom | 21 April |
| 1993 | San Sebastián | Spain | 31 October |
| 1995 | Athens | Greece | 9 April |
| 1997 | Athens | Greece | 9–10 August |
| 1999 | Seville | Spain | 28–29 August |
| 2001 | Edmonton | Canada | 3–12 August |
| 2003 | Paris | France | 30–31 August |
| 2005 | Helsinki | Finland | 13–14 August |
| 2007 | Osaka | Japan | 25 August & 2 September |
| 2009 | Berlin | Germany | 22–23 August |
| 2011 | Daegu | South Korea | 27 August & 4 September |

## Medalists
### Men

| Year | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 1985 | Djibouti Hussein Ahmed Salah Djama Robleh Omar Abdillahi Charmarke | 6:27:08 | Japan Takeyuki Nakayama Takeshi So Shigeru So | 6:31:43 | Ethiopia Abebe Mekonnen Kebede Balcha Dereje Nedi | 6:32:46 |
| 1987 | Italy 3. Salvatore Bettiol 4. Salvatore Nicosia 5. Osvaldo Faustini | 6:36:38 | Japan Taisuke Kodama Kazuyoshi Kudo Yoshihiro Nishimura | 6:39:23 | France Alain Lazare Jacques Marechet Alexandre Gonzalez | 6:43:46 |
| 1989 | Ethiopia Metaferia Zeleke Dereje Nedi Wami Alemayehu | 6:37:20 | Italy 3. Gianni Poli 7. Salvatore Bettiol 14. Osvaldo Faustini | 6:37:51 | France Dominique Chauvelier Bertrand Itsweire Alexandre Gonzalez | 6:38:51 |
| 1991 | United Kingdom David Long Stephen Brace David Buzza | 6:34:59 | Portugal Manuel Matias Joaquim Pinheiro Antonio Godinho | 6:35:55 | Poland Jan Huruk Sławomir Gurny Wiesław Perszke | 6:36:12 |
| 1993 | Ethiopia Gemechu Kebede Becho Tadesse Tumo Turbo | 6:31:17 | Italy 2. Severino Bernardini 8. Luca Barzaghi 13. Walter Durbano | 6:32:41 | United Kingdom Richard Nerurkar David Buzza Andrew Green | 6:34:06 |
| 1995 | Italy 3. Davide Milesi 6. Marco Gozzano 7. Roberto Crosio | 6:43:42 | France Jean-Marie Gehin Dominique Chauvelier Pascal Fetizon | 6:48:47 | Spain José Ramón Torres Bartolomé Serrano ? | 6:51:05 |
| 1997 | Spain Abel Antón Martín Fiz Fabián Roncero | 6:43:30 | Italy 4. Danilo Goffi 6. Giacomo Leone 30. Francesco Ingargiola | 6:55:33 | Brazil Luíz Antônio dos Santos Vanderlei de Lima Osmiro Silva | 7:02:56 |
| 1999 | Italy 2. Vincenzo Modica 5. Danilo Goffi 10. Daniele Caimmi | 6:45:16 | Japan | 6:45:42 | Ethiopia | 6:50:11 |
| 2001 | Ethiopia | 6:43:32 | Japan | 6:48:36 | Italy 3. Stefano Baldini 11. Giacomo Leone 17. Alberico Di Cecco | 6:51:56 |
| 2003 | Japan | 6:30:43 | Italy 3. Stefano Baldini 6. Daniele Caimmi 22. Alberico Di Cecco | 6:32:19 | South Africa | 6:35:54 |
| 2005 | Japan | 6:38:39 | Kenya | 6:46:38 | Ethiopia | 6:52:14 |
| 2007 | Japan | 6:54:23 | South Korea | 7:12:08 | Kenya | 7:12:33 |
| 2009 | Kenya | 6:25:28 | Ethiopia | 6:32:06 | Japan | 6:41:05 |
| 2011 | Kenya | 6:29:23 | Japan | 6:41:13 | Morocco | 6:42:18 |

### Women

| Year | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 1985 | Italy 4. Laura Fogli 6. Rita Marchisio 11. Emma Scaunich | 7:51:27 | Soviet Union 2. Zoya Ivanova 10. Raisa Smekhnova Nadia Ushanova | 7:53:22 | East Germany 1. Katrin Dörre 19. Birgit Weinhold 22. Gabriele Martins | 8:00:02 |
| 1987 | Soviet Union Zoya Ivanova Tatyana Gridnyeva Yekaterina Khramenkova | 7:34:39 | East Germany Katrin Dörre Uta Pippig Annette Fincke | 7:42:10 | France Maria Rebelo Françoise Bonnet Jocelyne Villeton | 7:46:41 |
| 1989 | Soviet Union Yekaterina Khramenkova Irina Yagodina Valentina Yegorova | 7:51:29 | United States Susan Marchiano Gordon Bakoulis Charlotte Thomas | 7:56:17 | China Li Juan Li Yemei Xie Lihua | 7:57:07 |
| 1991 | Soviet Union Valentina Yegorova Ramilya Burangulova Tatyana Zuyeva | 7:30:21 | Italy 10. Anna Villani 11. Antonella Bizioli 13. Laura Fogli | 7:36:37 | France Maria Rebelo Françoise Bonnet Marie-Helene Ohier | 7:38:51 |
| 1993 | China Wang Junxia Zhang Linli Zhang Lirong | 7:27:43 | Spain Maria-Luisa Muñoz Monica Pont Rocio Rios | 7:33:55 | Russia Firiya Sultanova Olga Michurina Tatyana Pentukova | 7:44:07 |
| 1995 | Romania Anuța Catuna Lidia Șimon Cristina Pomacu | 7:35:05 | Russia Larisa Zyusko Nadezhda Wijenberg Marina Belyayeva | 7:47:39 | Italy 4. Ornella Ferrara 15. Maura Viceconte 16. Antonella Bizioli | 7:50:46 |
| 1997 | Japan Hiromi Suzuki Takako Tobise Nobuko Fujimura | 7:38:57 | Romania Lidia Șimon Anuța Cătună Aurica Buia | 7:52:18 | Italy 3. Ornella Ferrara 13. Franca Fiacconi 24. Laura Fogli | 7:56:31 |
| 1999 | Japan | 7:27:52 | Romania | 7:34:37 | Germany | 7:35:41 |
| 2001 | Japan | 7:22:36 | Russia | 7:26:00 | Romania | 7:29:44 |
| 2003 | Japan | 7:14:48 | Ethiopia | 7:24:56 | Russia | 7:31:04 |
| 2005 | Kenya | 7:12:37 | Japan | 7:16:35 | United Kingdom | 7:27:04 |
| 2007 | Kenya | 7:35:02 | China | 7:35:52 | Japan | 7:37:39 |
| 2009 | China | 7:17:02 | Japan | 7:22:15 | Russia | 7:24:42 |
| 2011 | Kenya | 7:26:57 | China | 7:31:34 | Ethiopia | 7:32:20 |

## Medal table
### Men

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 3 | Ethiopia (ETH) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Kenya (KEN) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Djibouti (DJI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Brazil (BRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |

### Women

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Kenya (KEN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | China (CHN) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Ethiopia (ETH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |