# 1987 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

The 1987 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the fifth edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by Monaco on 21 November 1987 in Monte Carlo 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.
The race was won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway in a championship record time of 47:17 minutes, breaking Aurora Cunha's three-year winning streak (the Portuguese was twelfth here). In a dominant display by the Norwegian, the runner-up Nancy Tinari (Canada) was over a minute and a half behind, while third-placer Maria Curatolo of Italy arrived nearly two minutes later. The team competition was won by Portugal (their first team title), led by Albertina Machado in sixth with Cunha and Conceição Ferreira in support. The Soviet Union took second place with a team of Yekaterina Khramenkova, Lyudmila Matveyeva and Marina Rodchenkova – though they matched Portugal on 32 points, they lost out on merit of a slower combined time. Great Britain was third in the team rankings, led by Paula Fudge.

## Results
### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (m:s) |
| | Ingrid Kristiansen | Norway (NOR) | 47:17 |
| | Nancy Tinari | Canada (CAN) | 48:53 |
| | Maria Curatolo | Italy (ITA) | 49:15 |
| 4 | Malin Wästland | Sweden (SWE) | 49:21 |
| 5 | Yekaterina Khramenkova | Soviet Union (URS) | 49:33 |
| 6 | Albertina Machado | Portugal (POR) | 49:35 |
| 7 | Lisa Weidenbach | United States (USA) | 49:41 |
| 8 | Paula Fudge | Great Britain (GBR) | 49:43 |
| 9 | Evy Palm | Sweden (SWE) | 49:48 |
| 10 | Agnes Pardaens | Belgium (BEL) | 49:56 |
| 11 | Lyudmila Matveyeva | Soviet Union (URS) | 49:59 |
| 12 | Aurora Cunha | Portugal (POR) | 50:04 |
| 13 | Carolyn Schuwalow | Australia (AUS) | 50:08 |
| 14 | Albertina Dias | Portugal (POR) | 50:12 |
| 15 | Karolina Szabó | Hungary (HUN) | 50:18 |
| 16 | Marina Rodchenkova | Soviet Union (URS) | 50:26 |
| 17 | Teresa Ornduff | United States (USA) | 50:31 |
| 18 | Marina Samy | Great Britain (GBR) | 50:43 |
| 19 | Françoise Bonnet | France (FRA) | 50:46 |
| 20 | Sally Ellis | Great Britain (GBR) | 50:48 |
| 21 | Suzanne Malaxos | Australia (AUS) | 50:52 |
| 22 | Conceição Ferreira | Portugal (POR) | 50:59 |
| 23 | Grete Kirkeberg | Norway (NOR) | 51:02 |
| 24 | Elena Vyazova | Soviet Union (URS) | 51:05 |
| 25 | Christina Mai | West Germany (FRG) | 51:08 |
| 26 | Diane Gentry | United States (USA) | 51:15 |
| 27 | Jacqueline Perkins | Australia (AUS) | 51:30 |
| 28 | Elly van Hulst | Netherlands (NED) | 51:30 |
| 29 | Wanda Panfil | Poland (POL) | 51:30 |
| 30 | Rose Lambe | Ireland (IRL) | 51:33 |
| 31 | Barbara Kamp | Netherlands (NED) | 51:38 |
| 32 | María Luisa Servín | Mexico (MEX) | 51:41 |
| 33 | Sinikka Keskitalo | Finland (FIN) | 51:48 |
| 34 | Ágnes Sipka | Hungary (HUN) | 51:57 |
| 35 | Anni Müller | Austria (AUT) | 52:06 |
| 36 | Rizoneide Vanderlei | Brazil (BRA) | 52:08 |
| 37 | Beatriz Peralta | Mexico (MEX) | 52:10 |
| 38 | Emma Scaunich | Italy (ITA) | 52:13 |
| 39 | Sirkku Kumpulainen | Finland (FIN) | 52:15 |
| 40 | Christine Kennedy | Ireland (IRL) | 52:15 |
| 41 | Jocelyne Villeton | France (FRA) | 52:16 |
| 42 | Gabriela Wolf | West Germany (FRG) | 52:19 |
| 43 | Heléna Barócsi | Hungary (HUN) | 52:22 |
| 44 | Susan Crehan | Great Britain (GBR) | 52:24 |
| 45 | Rita Marchisio | Italy (ITA) | 52:29 |
| 46 | Sissel Grottenberg | Norway (NOR) | 52:37 |
| 47 | May Allison | Canada (CAN) | 52:41 |
| 48 | Maria Luisa Irizar | Spain (ESP) | 52:47 |
| 49 | Magda Ilands | Belgium (BEL) | 52:48 |
| 50 | Marita Yli-ilkka | Finland (FIN) | 52:49 |
| 51 | Marcianne Mukamurenzi | Rwanda (RWA) | 52:52 |
| 52 | Robyn Root | United States (USA) | 53:04 |
| 53 | Sabine Knetsch | West Germany (FRG) | 53:04 |
| 54 | Verena Lechner | Austria (AUT) | 53:05 |
| 55 | Ana Isabel Alonso | Spain (ESP) | 53:09 |
| 56 | Coral Farr | Australia (AUS) | 53:12 |
| 57 | Anita Håkenstad | Norway (NOR) | 53:18 |
| 58 | Griselda González | Argentina (ARG) | 53:18 |
| 59 | Silvana Cucchietti | Italy (ITA) | 53:29 |
| 60 | Silvana Pereira | Brazil (BRA) | 53:30 |
| 61 | Santa Velasquez | Mexico (MEX) | 53:34 |
| 62 | Marina Prat | Spain (ESP) | 53:38 |
| 63 | Sheila Purves | Hong Kong (HKG) | 53:39 |
| 64 | Annie van Stiphout | Netherlands (NED) | 53:40 |
| 65 | Marta Visnyei | Hungary (HUN) | 53:42 |
| 66 | Martine Van De Gehuchte | Belgium (BEL) | 53:44 |
| 67 | Veronique Vauzelle | France (FRA) | 53:46 |
| 68 | Carina Leutner | Austria (AUT) | 53:49 |
| 69 | Gabriela Górzyńska | Poland (POL) | 53:58 |
| 70 | Sylviane Levesque | France (FRA) | 54:04 |
| 71 | ? | | |
| 72 | Sirpa Kytola | Finland (FIN) | 54:12 |
| 73 | Addis Gezahegne | Ethiopia (ETH) | 54:29 |
| 74 | Zehava Shmueli | Israel (ISR) | 54:48 |
| 75 | Bonnie LeFrank | Canada (CAN) | 54:48 |
| 76 | Maria Esther Pedrosa | Spain (ESP) | 54:56 |
| 77 | Fabiola Oppliger | Colombia (COL) | 54:59 |
| 78 | ? | | |
| 79 | ? | | |
| 80 | Ailish Smyth | Ireland (IRL) | 55:22 |
| 81 | ? | | |
| 82 | ? | | |
| 83 | ? | | |
| 84 | Emily Dowling | Ireland (IRL) | 56:07 |
| 85 | Tigist Moreda | Ethiopia (ETH) | 56:19 |
| 86 | Maryse Justin | Mauritius (MRI) | 56:33 |
| 87 | ? | | |
| 88 | ? | | |
| 89 | ? | | |
| 90 | Magdalini Poulimenou | Greece (GRE) | 57:12 |
| 91 | Maria Polyzou | Greece (GRE) | 57:53 |

### Team

| Team | Points |
| Portugal (POR) Albertina Machado Aurora Cunha Conceição Ferreira | 32 pts |
| Soviet Union (URS) Yekaterina Khramenkova Lyudmila Matveyeva Marina Rodchenkova | 32 pts |
| Great Britain (GBR) Paula Fudge Marina Samy Sally Ellis | 46 pts |