# 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

The Senior women's race at the 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Antwerp, Belgium, at the Linkeroever Racecourse on March 24, 1991. A report on the event was given in The New York Times.
Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

## Race results
### Senior women's race (6.425 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Lynn Jennings | United States | 20:24 |
| | Derartu Tulu | Ethiopia | 20:27 |
| | Liz McColgan | United Kingdom | 20:28 |
| 4 | Luchia Yeshak | Ethiopia | 20:29 |
| 5 | Jane Ngotho | Kenya | 20:30 |
| 6 | Albertina Dias | Portugal | 20:40 |
| 7 | Susan Sirma | Kenya | 20:46 |
| 8 | Yelena Romanova | Soviet Union | 20:50 |
| 9 | Margaret Ngotho | Kenya | 20:55 |
| 10 | Marcianne Mukamurenzi | Rwanda | 20:57 |
| 11 | Natalya Sorokivskaya | Soviet Union | 20:57 |
| 12 | Fatuma Roba | Ethiopia | 21:01 |
| 13 | Nadezhda Galyamova | Soviet Union | 21:02 |
| 14 | Jenny Lund | Australia | 21:03 |
| 15 | Pauline Konga | Kenya | 21:03 |
| 16 | Marina Rodchenkova | Soviet Union | 21:03 |
| 17 | Conceição Ferreira | Portugal | 21:05 |
| 18 | Merima Denboba | Ethiopia | 21:09 |
| 19 | Annette Peters | United States | 21:10 |
| 20 | Tigist Moreda | Ethiopia | 21:10 |
| 21 | Susan Hobson | Australia | 21:14 |
| 22 | Izumi Maki | Japan | 21:14 |
| 23 | Olga Nazarkina | Soviet Union | 21:15 |
| 24 | Nadezhda Ilyina | Soviet Union | 21:15 |
| 25 | Viorica Ghican | Romania | 21:16 |
| 26 | Nadia Dandolo | Italy | 21:17 |
| 27 | Andrea Wallace | United Kingdom | 21:17 |
| 28 | Elaine van Blunk | United States | 21:18 |
| 29 | Gwynn Coogan | United States | 21:19 |
| 30 | Martine Fays | France | 21:22 |
| 31 | Silvana Pereira | Brazil | 21:25 |
| 32 | Estela Estévez | Spain | 21:28 |
| 33 | Véronique Collard | Belgium | 21:29 |
| 34 | Berhane Adere | Ethiopia | 21:30 |
| 35 | Liève Slegers | Belgium | 21:31 |
| 36 | Alison Wyeth | United Kingdom | 21:32 |
| 37 | Gitte Karlshøj | Denmark | 21:33 |
| 38 | Sonia McGeorge | United Kingdom | 21:33 |
| 39 | Iulia Negura | Romania | 21:33 |
| 40 | Anuța Cătună | Romania | 21:34 |
| 41 | Angelines Rodriguez | Spain | 21:36 |
| 42 | Farida Fatès | France | 21:37 |
| 43 | Trina Painter | United States | 21:38 |
| 44 | Elena Fidatof | Romania | 21:40 |
| 45 | Marjan Freriks | Netherlands | 21:41 |
| 46 | Hellen Chepngeno | Kenya | 21:41 |
| 47 | Lucy Smith | Canada | 21:41 |
| 48 | Roberta Brunet | Italy | 21:42 |
| 49 | Maria Guida | Italy | 21:42 |
| 50 | Rosario Murcia | France | 21:42 |
| 51 | Shelly Steely | United States | 21:44 |
| 52 | Rita de Jesús | Brazil | 21:45 |
| 53 | Odile Ohier | France | 21:45 |
| 54 | Irena Czuta | Poland | 21:46 |
| 55 | Tsugumi Fukuyama | Japan | 21:46 |
| 56 | Paola Cabrera | Mexico | 21:47 |
| 57 | Benita Perez | Mexico | 21:48 |
| 58 | Ana Moreira | Portugal | 21:49 |
| 59 | Lunuta Alungulesei | Romania | 21:49 |
| 60 | Daria Nauer | Switzerland | 21:50 |
| 61 | Megumi Fujiwara | Japan | 21:50 |
| 62 | Lisa Harvey | Canada | 21:51 |
| 63 | Nives Curti | Italy | 21:52 |
| 64 | Aurora Cunha | Portugal | 21:52 |
| 65 | Catherina McKiernan | Ireland | 21:56 |
| 66 | Tanja Kalinowski | Germany | 21:57 |
| 67 | Carmen Fuentes | Spain | 21:59 |
| 68 | Annick de Gooyer | Canada | 22:01 |
| 69 | Anne Cross | Australia | 22:02 |
| 70 | Claudia Borgschulze | Germany | 22:03 |
| 71 | Mikiko Oguni | Japan | 22:03 |
| 72 | Sally Ellis$^†$ | United Kingdom | 22:03 |
| 73 | Valerie Chauvel | France | 22:04 |
| 74 | Fernanda Ribeiro | Portugal | 22:05 |
| 75 | Rika Ota | Japan | 22:06 |
| 76 | Lisa York | United Kingdom | 22:07 |
| 77 | Ria van Landeghem | Belgium | 22:08 |
| 78 | Lesley Graham | New Zealand | 22:09 |
| 79 | Ingrid Delagrange | Belgium | 22:10 |
| 80 | Lucía Rendón | Mexico | 22:10 |
| 81 | May Allison | Canada | 22:11 |
| 82 | Linden Wilde | New Zealand | 22:12 |
| 83 | Julia Vaquero | Spain | 22:13 |
| 84 | Mary O'Connor | New Zealand | 22:13 |
| 85 | Rizoneide Vanderley | Brazil | 22:13 |
| 86 | Mariana Stanescu | Romania | 22:14 |
| 87 | Krishna Stanton | Australia | 22:15 |
| 88 | Hitomi Inoue | Japan | 22:16 |
| 89 | Orietta Mancia | Italy | 22:17 |
| 90 | Alena Mocariová | Czechoslovakia | 22:18 |
| 91 | Maria van Gestel | Belgium | 22:19 |
| 92 | Anja de Brabant | Belgium | 22:19 |
| 93 | Sharon Ann Hayes | New Zealand | 22:19 |
| 94 | Isabella Moretti | Switzerland | 22:20 |
| 95 | Louise Cavanagh | Ireland | 22:27 |
| 96 | Tamara Salomon | Canada | 22:29 |
| 97 | Maria Luisa Lárraga | Spain | 22:32 |
| 98 | Maree Turner | New Zealand | 22:36 |
| 99 | Celine Martin | France | 22:39 |
| 100 | Laura Faccio | Italy | 22:40 |
| 101 | Cleuza Irineu | Brazil | 22:40 |
| 102 | Leticia Martinez | Mexico | 22:42 |
| 103 | Yvonne van der Kolk | Netherlands | 22:42 |
| 104 | Andrea Whitcombe | United Kingdom | 22:44 |
| 105 | Valerie Vaughan | Ireland | 22:51 |
| 106 | Anne Keenan-Buckley | Ireland | 22:51 |
| 107 | Inés Rodríguez | Argentina | 22:52 |
| 108 | Lesley Morton | New Zealand | 22:54 |
| 109 | Marianne van de Linde | Netherlands | 22:55 |
| 110 | Nanda Shaner Yadav | India | 23:10 |
| 111 | Roisin Smyth | Ireland | 23:13 |
| 112 | Annie van Stiphout | Netherlands | 23:14 |
| 113 | Jolanda Holdener | Switzerland | 23:23 |
| 114 | Poonam Taneja | India | 23:31 |
| 115 | Yvonne Kramer | Netherlands | 23:35 |
| 116 | Angelina Tellez | Mexico | 23:39 |
| 117 | Lukose Leelamma | India | 23:40 |
| 118 | Maryse Pyndiah | Mauritius | 23:44 |
| 119 | Vally Satayabhama | India | 23:49 |
| 120 | Teresa McKenna | Ireland | 23:51 |
| 121 | Suresh Bala | India | 24:06 |
| 122 | Cornelia Melis | Aruba | 24:30 |
| 123 | Sheila Seebaluck | Mauritius | 24:35 |
| 124 | Ana Gutiérrez | U.S. Virgin Islands | 24:38 |
| — | Fernanda Marques | Portugal | DNF |
| — | Dolores Rizo | Spain | DNF |
$^†$: Athlete marked in the results list as nonscorer.

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya Jane Ngotho5 Susan Sirma7 Margaret Ngotho9 Pauline Konga15 (Hellen Chepngeno)(46) | 36 |
| | Ethiopia Derartu Tulu2 Luchia Yeshak4 Fatuma Roba12 Merima Denboba18 (Tigist Moreda)(20) (Berhane Adere)(34) | 36 |
| | Soviet Union Yelena Romanova8 Natalya Sorokivskaya11 Nadezhda Galyamova13 Marina Rodchenkova16 (Olga Nazarkina)(23) (Nadezhda Ilyina)(24) | 48 |
| 4 | United States Lynn Jennings1 Annette Peters19 Elaine van Blunk28 Gwynn Coogan29 (Trina Painter)(43) (Shelly Steely)(51) | 77 |
| 5 | United Kingdom Liz McColgan3 Andrea Wallace27 Alison Wyeth36 Sonia McGeorge38 (Lisa York)(76) (Andrea Whitcombe)(104) | 104 |
| 6 | Portugal Albertina Dias6 Conceição Ferreira17 Ana Moreira58 Aurora Cunha64 (Fernanda Ribeiro)(74) (Fernanda Marques)(DNF) | 145 |
| 7 | Romania Viorica Ghican25 Iulia Negura39 Anuța Cătună40 Elena Fidatof44 (Lunuta Alungulesei)(59) (Mariana Stanescu)(86) | 148 |
| 8 | France Martine Fays30 Farida Fatès42 Rosario Murcia50 Odile Ohier53 (Valerie Chauvel)(73) (Celine Martin)(99) | 175 |
| 9 | Italy Nadia Dandolo26 Roberta Brunet48 Maria Guida49 Nives Curti63 (Orietta Mancia)(89) (Laura Faccio)(100) | 186 |
| 10 | Australia Jenny Lund14 Susan Hobson21 Anne Cross69 Krishna Stanton87 | 191 |
| 11 | Japan Izumi Maki22 Tsugumi Fukuyama55 Megumi Fujiwara61 Mikiko Oguni71 (Rika Ota)(75) (Hitomi Inoue)(88) | 209 |
| 12 | Spain Estela Estévez32 Angelines Rodriguez41 Carmen Fuentes67 Julia Vaquero83 (Maria Luisa Lárraga)(97) (Dolores Rizo)(DNF) | 223 |
| 13 | Belgium Véronique Collard33 Liève Slegers35 Ria van Landeghem77 Ingrid Delagrange79 (Maria van Gestel)(91) (Anja de Brabant)(92) | 224 |
| 14 | Canada Lucy Smith47 Lisa Harvey62 Annick de Gooyer68 May Allison81 (Tamara Salomon)(96) | 258 |
| 15 | Brazil Silvana Pereira31 Rita de Jesús52 Rizoneide Vanderley85 Cleuza Irineu101 | 269 |
| 16 | Mexico Paola Cabrera56 Benita Perez57 Lucía Rendón80 Leticia Martinez102 (Angelina Tellez)(116) | 295 |
| 17 | New Zealand Lesley Graham78 Linden Wilde82 Mary O'Connor84 Sharon Ann Hayes93 (Maree Turner)(98) (Lesley Morton)(108) | 337 |
| 18 | Netherlands Marjan Freriks45 Yvonne van der Kolk103 Marianne van de Linde109 Annie van Stiphout112 (Yvonne Kramer)(115) | 369 |
| 19 | Ireland Catherina McKiernan65 Louise Cavanagh95 Valerie Vaughan105 Anne Keenan-Buckley106 (Roisin Smyth)(111) (Teresa McKenna)(120) | 371 |
| 20 | India Nanda Shaner Yadav110 Poonam Taneja114 Lukose Leelamma117 Vally Satayabhama119 (Suresh Bala)(121) | 460 |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 126 athletes from 30 countries in the Senior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
* Argentina (1)
* Aruba (1)
* Australia (4)
* Belgium (6)
* Brazil (4)
* Canada (5)
* Czechoslovakia (1)
* Denmark (1)
* Ethiopia (6)
* France (6)
* Germany (2)
* India (5)
* Ireland (6)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (6)
* Kenya (5)
* Mauritius (2)
* Mexico (5)
* Netherlands (5)
* New Zealand (6)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (6)
* Romania (6)
* Rwanda (1)
* Soviet Union (6)
* Spain (6)
* Switzerland (3)
* United Kingdom (7)
* United States (6)
* U.S. Virgin Islands (1)