# 1989 World Marathon Cup

The 1989 World Marathon Cup was the third edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Milan, Italy.

## Results

Team men :
| # | Nations | Time |
| 1 | Ethiopia Metaferia Zeleke Dereje Nedi Wami Alemayehu | 6:37:20 |
| 2 | Italy Gianni Poli Salvatore Bettiol Osvaldo Faustini | 6:37:51 |
| 3 | France Dominique Chauvelier Bertrand Itsweire Alexandre Gonzalez | 6:38:51 |
Team women :
| # | Nations | Time |
| 1 | Soviet Union Yekaterina Khramenkova Irina Yagodina Valentina Yegorova | 7:51:29 |
| 2 | United States Susan Marchiano Gordon Bakoulis Charlotte Thomas | 7:56:17 |
| 3 | China Li Juan Li Yemei Xie Lihua | 7:57:07 |

### Individual men

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (h:m:s) |
| 1 | Metaferia Zeleke | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:10:28 |
| 2 | Dereje Nedi | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:10:36 |
| 3 | Gianni Poli | Italy (ITA) | 2:10:49 |
| 4 | Ravil Kashapov | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:11:07 |
| 5 | Dominique Chauvelier | France (FRA) | 2:11:24 |
| 6 | Bertrand Itsweire | France (FRA) | 2:11:40 |
| 7 | Salvatore Bettiol | Italy (ITA) | 2:12:41 |
| 8 | Takeshi So | Japan (JPN) | 2:12:53 |
| 9 | Rainer Wachenbrunner | Germany (GER) | 2:13:08 |
| 10 | Konrad Dobler | Germany (GER) | 2:13:51 |
| 11 | Diamantino dosSantos | Brazil (BRA) | 2:13:57 |
| 12 | Nikolay Tabak | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:14:03 |
| 13 | Rustam Shagiev | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:14:08 |
| 14 | Osvaldo Faustini | Italy (ITA) | 2:14:21 |
| 15 | Radames Gonzalez | Cuba (CUB) | 2:14:32 |
| 16 | Honorato Hernandez | Spain (ESP) | 2:15:02 |
| 17 | Kazuyoshi Kudo | Japan (JPN) | 2:15:11 |
| 18 | Uwe Koch | Germany (GER) | 2:15:16 |
| 19 | Yakov Tolstikov | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:15:35 |
| 20 | Paul Herlihy | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:15:38 |
| 21 | Orlando Pizzolato | Italy (ITA) | 2:15:46 |
| 22 | Alexandre Gonzalez | France (FRA) | 2:15:47 |
| 23 | Won-Tak Kim | South Korea (KOR) | 2:16:00 |
| 24 | Wami Alemayehu | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:16:16 |
| 25 | Valmir deCarvalho | Brazil (BRA) | 2:16:23 |
| 26 | Werner Grommisch | Germany (GER) | 2:16:27 |
| 27 | Guido Dold | Germany (GER) | 2:16:32 |
| 28 | Yevgeniy Okorokov | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:16:40 |
| 29 | Driss Lakkim | Morocco (MAR) | 2:16:49 |
| 30 | Michel Constant | France (FRA) | 2:17:06 |
| 31 | Sebio Sikanyka | Zambia (ZAM) | 2:17:18 |
| 32 | Francisco Pastor | Spain (ESP) | 2:17:21 |
| 33 | Vithana Samarasinghe | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 2:17:35 |
| 34 | Steven Poulton | Australia (AUS) | 2:17:39 |
| 35 | Mory Werner | Belgium (BEL) | 2:17:39 |
| 36 | William Bedell | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:17:40 |
| 37 | Enrique Cortinas | Spain (ESP) | 2:17:51 |
| 38 | Richard Umberg | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:18:02 |
| 39 | Graham Macky | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:18:06 |
| 40 | Tesfaye Tafa | Ethiopia (ETH) | 2:18:23 |
| 41 | Mohamed Abdi-Said | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:18:48 |
| 42 | Kuruppu Karunaratne | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 2:18:53 |
| 43 | Heiko Klimmer | Germany (GER) | 2:18:56 |
| 44 | Francis Mukuka | Zambia (ZAM) | 2:19:06 |
| 45 | Nourredine Sobhi | Morocco (MAR) | 2:19:09 |
| 46 | Omar Moussa | Djibouti (DJI) | 2:19:18 |
| 47 | Tomohiro Imamura | Japan (JPN) | 2:19:20 |
| 48 | Christos Papachristos | Greece (GRE) | 2:19:32 |
| 49 | Isidro Rico | Mexico (MEX) | 2:20:13 |
| 50 | Jacques Marechet | France (FRA) | 2:20:14 |
| 51 | John Fitzgerald | Ireland (IRL) | 2:20:28 |
| 52 | Jesús Valdez Falcón | Mexico (MEX) | 2:20:32 |
| 53 | Jacob Marti | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:20:37 |
| 54 | Georgios Malliaris | Greece (GRE) | 2:20:52 |
| 55 | Eamonn Tierney | Ireland (IRL) | 2:21:08 |
| 57 | Bigboy Matlapeng | Botswana (BOT) | 2:21:58 |
| 59 | Peter Lyrenmann | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:22:23 |
| 60 | James Hage | United States (USA) | 2:22:25 |
| 61 | Gerard Barrett | Australia (AUS) | 2:22:32 |
| 62 | James Girven | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:22:42 |
| 63 | Peter DeVocht | Belgium (BEL) | 2:23:11 |
| 65 | Maurice Cowman | Ireland (IRL) | 2:23:44 |
| 66 | Adam Hoyle | Australia (AUS) | 2:23:46 |
| 67 | Tomas Oliveras | Portugal (POR) | 2:23:52 |
| 70 | Rachid Tbahi | Morocco (MAR) | 2:24:25 |
| 71 | Moacir Marconi | Brazil (BRA) | 2:24:36 |
| 74 | Driss Dacha | Morocco (MAR) | 2:25:46 |
| 76 | Robert Hensley | United States (USA) | 2:26:17 |
| 78 | Domingos Neves | Portugal (POR) | 2:26:56 |
| 79 | Jean-Luc Debaissieux | Belgium (BEL) | 2:27:59 |
| 82 | James Klein | United States (USA) | 2:28:57 |
| 88 | Michael Thompson | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:34:10 |
| — | Peter Brett | Australia (AUS) | DNF |
| — | Michael Bishop | Great Britain (GBR) | DNF |
| — | Fraser Clyne | Great Britain (GBR) | DNF |
| — | Michael Heilmann | Germany (GER) | DNF |
| — | Spyridon Andriopoulos | Greece (GRE) | DNF |
| — | Salvatore Nicosia | Italy (ITA) | DNF |
| — | Gary Gargasz | United States (USA) | DNF |
| — | Vicente Anton | Spain (ESP) | DNF |

### Individual women

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (h:m:s) |
| 1 | Susan Marchiano | United States (USA) | 2:30:48 |
| 2 | Misako Miyahara | Japan (JPN) | 2:35:16 |
| 3 | Uta Pippig | Germany (GER) | 2:35:17 |
| 4 | Yekaterina Khramenkova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:35:20 |
| 5 | Irina Yagodina | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:35:55 |
| 6 | Katsuyo Hyodo | Japan (JPN) | 2:36:06 |
| 7 | Li Juan | China (CHN) | 2:36:20 |
| 8 | Gordon Bakoulis | United States (USA) | 2:37:17 |
| 9 | Li Yemei | China (CHN) | 2:39:20 |
| 10 | Suk-Song Kim | South Korea (KOR) | 2:39:27 |
| 11 | Annette Fincke | Germany (GER) | 2:39:31 |
| 12 | Anne Roden | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:39:36 |
| 13 | Emma Scaunich | Italy (ITA) | 2:40:01 |
| 14 | Françoise Bonnet | France (FRA) | 2:40:12 |
| 15 | Valentina Yegorova | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:40:14 |
| 16 | Xie Lihua | China (CHN) | 2:40:52 |
| 17 | Graziella Striuli | Italy (ITA) | 2:41:15 |
| 18 | Jocelyne Villeton | France (FRA) | 2:41:31 |
| 19 | Antonella Bizioli | Italy (ITA) | 2:42:10 |
| 20 | Myong-Hui Kim | North Korea (PRK) | 2:42:23 |
| 21 | Sharon Higgins | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:42:24 |
| 22 | Sylviane Levesque | France (FRA) | 2:42:26 |
| 23 | Maria-Luisa Irizar | Spain (ESP) | 2:42:39 |
| 24 | Marina Prat | Spain (ESP) | 2:43:19 |
| 25 | Sun-Gyong Lim | North Korea (PRK) | 2:43:25 |
| 26 | Xiao Hongyan | China (CHN) | 2:43:51 |
| 27 | Anna-Isabel Holtkamp | Germany (GER) | 2:44:05 |
| 28 | Li Xiuxia | China (CHN) | 2:45:31 |
| 29 | Luzia Sahli | Switzerland (SUI) | 2:45:42 |
| 30 | Jillian Costley | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:45:49 |
| 31 | Petra Liebertz | Germany (GER) | 2:45:56 |
| 32 | Hiromi Hayashi | Japan (JPN) | 2:46:43 |
| 33 | Ursula Starke | Germany (GER) | 2:46:55 |
| 34 | Odile Poirot | France (FRA) | 2:47:20 |
| 35 | Silvana Cucchietti | Italy (ITA) | 2:47:39 |
| 36 | Elena Tsukhlo | Soviet Union (URS) | 2:47:43 |
| 37 | Hassania Darami | Morocco (MAR) | 2:48:01 |
| 38 | Charlotte Thomas | United States (USA) | 2:48:12 |
| 39 | Linda Rushmere | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:48:15 |
| 40 | Bernardine Portenski | New Zealand (NZL) | 2:49:19 |
| 41 | Maria-Esther Pedrosa | Spain (ESP) | 2:51:08 |
| 42 | Mary Brayley | Ireland (IRL) | 2:51:24 |
| 43 | Sylvia Kerambrum | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:51:57 |
| 45 | Patricia Hinson | United States (USA) | 2:54:33 |
| 47 | Winnie Lai-chu Ng | Hong Kong (HKG) | 2:55:04 |
| 48 | Heather MacDuff | Great Britain (GBR) | 2:55:14 |
| 49 | Gloria Corona | Mexico (MEX) | 2:58:23 |
| 56 | Zahra Akrachi | Morocco (MAR) | 3:09:00 |
| — | Maria Rebelo | France (FRA) | DNF |
| — | Laura Fogli | Italy (ITA) | DNF |
| — | Zoya Ivanova | Soviet Union (URS) | DNF |
| — | Mary Level | United States (USA) | DNF |