1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

The Men's Marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan was held on September 1, 1991. The race started at 18.00h local time.

Medalists

Gold	Hiromi Taniguchi Japan (JPN)
Silver	Hussein Ahmed Salah Djibouti (DJI)
Bronze	Steve Spence United States (USA)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Belayneh Densamo (ETH)	2:06:50	April 17, 1988	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Event Record	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season Best	Koichi Morishita (JPN)	2:08:53	February 3, 1991	Oita, Japan

Results

Rank	Name	Result
	Hiromi Taniguchi (JPN)	2:14:57
	Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI)	2:15:26
	Steve Spence (USA)	2:15:36
4.	Jan Huruk (POL)	2:15:47
5.	Futoshi Shinohara (JPN)	2:15:52
6.	Salvatore Bettiol (ITA)	2:15:58
7.	Maurilio Castillo (MEX)	2:16:15
8.	Gelindo Bordin (ITA)	2:17:03
9.	Tekeye Gebrselassie (ETH)	2:18:37
10.	Konrad Dobler (GER)	2:19:01
11.	Steve Moneghetti (AUS)	2:19:18
12.	Sam Carey (GBR)	2:20:02
13.	Peter Maher (CAN)	2:20:31
14.	Diego García (ESP)	2:21:16
15.	Dominique Chauvelier (FRA)	2:21:37
16.	Tonnie Dirks (NED)	2:22:17
17.	Elphas Ginindza (SWZ)	2:22:43
18.	Stephan Freigang (GER)	2:23:13
19.	Kim Won-Tak (KOR)	2:23:14
20.	Dave Buzza (GBR)	2:23:24
21.	Vladimir Bukhanov (URS)	2:24:26
22.	Motsemme Kgaotsang (BOT)	2:25:28
23.	Kim Reynierse (ARU)	2:26:50
24.	Martin Vrabel (TCH)	2:26:56
25.	Gian Luigi Macina (SMR)	2:28:40
26.	Steve Taylor (USA)	2:29:09
27.	Myint Kan (MYA)	2:29:14
28.	William Aguirre (NCA)	2:29:35
29.	Aleksandr Vychuzhanin (URS)	2:32:37
30.	Alberto Cuba (CUB)	2:32:57
31.	Krishna Bahadur Basnet (NEP)	2:33:13
32.	Fai Yeung Ng (HKG)	2:34:26
33.	Freddy Lujan (BOL)	2:36:54
34.	Gi-Sheng Hsu (TPE)	2:37:20
35.	Roland Wille (LIE)	2:48:12
36.	Abdillah Soilihi (COM)	2:56:36
—	Faasalele Fuauli (WSM)	DNF
—	Alessio Faustini (ITA)	DNF
—	Manuel Matias (POR)	DNF
—	Abebe Mekonnen (ETH)	DNF
—	Takeyuki Nakayama (JPN)	DNF
—	Antoni Niemczak (POL)	DNF
—	Jörg Peter (GER)	DNF
—	Joaquim Pinheiro (POR)	DNF
—	Francisco Romera (ESP)	DNF
—	Yakov Tolstikov (URS)	DNF
—	Carlos Ayala (MEX)	DNF
—	Alfredo Shahanga (TAN)	DNF
—	Nivaldo Vieira (BRA)	DNF
—	Åke Eriksson (SWE)	DNF
—	Brad Hudson (USA)	DNF
—	Mohamed Kamel Selmi (ALG)	DNF
—	Ahmed Al Hamshani (JOR)	DNF
—	Simon Mrashani (TAN)	DNF
—	Kim Wan-Ki (KOR)	DNF
—	Laurenio Beserra (BRA)	DNF
—	Jean-Luc Assemat (FRA)	DNF
—	Tesfaye Dadi (ETH)	DNF
—	Daniel Böltz (SUI)	DNF
—	Manny Lolin (MAS)	DNF

See also

• 1990 Men's European Championships Marathon (Split)
• 1991 Marathon Year Ranking
• 1992 Men's Olympic Marathon (Barcelona)

References

• Results
• IAAF Results