1991 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

Women's marathon at the 1991 World Championships
Venue	National Stadium, Tokyo
Date	25 August 1991
Competitors	39 from 25 nations
Winning time	2:29:53
Medalists
Wanda Panfil   Poland   Sachiko Yamashita   Japan   Katrin Dörre   Germany

The women's marathon was one of the road events at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan. It took place on 25 August 1991; the course started and finished at the National Stadium. The race was won by Poland's Wanda Panfil in 2:29:53, ahead of Sachiko Yamashita of Japan in second and Germany's Katrin Dörre in third.

Final ranking

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wanda Panfil	Poland	2:29:53
	Sachiko Yamashita	Japan	2:29:57
	Katrin Dörre	Germany	2:30:10
4	Yuko Arimori	Japan	2:31:08
5	Maria Rebelo	France	2:32:05
6	Kamila Gradus	Poland	2:32:09
7	Manuela Machado	Portugal	2:32:33
8	Ramilya Burangulova	Soviet Union	2:33:00
9	Iris Biba	Germany	2:33:48
10	Sally Ellis	Great Britain & N.I.	2:35:09
11	Sally Eastall	Great Britain & N.I.	2:36:16
12	Kumi Araki	Japan	2:38:27
13	Joy Smith	United States	2:39:16
14	María Trujillo	United States	2:39:28
15	Fabiola Rueda	Colombia	2:41:51
16	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway	2:43:11
17	Franziska Moser	Switzerland	2:44:07
18	Pascaline Wangui	Kenya	2:45:22
19	Ena Guevara	Peru	2:48:53
20	Françoise Bonnet	France	2:48:57
21	Cornelia Melis	Aruba	2:58:18
22	Yi-Lo Man	Hong Kong	2:59:39
23	Gina Coello	Honduras	2:59:54	NR
24	Graciela Caizabanda	Ecuador	3:00:03
–	Chen Qingmei	China	DNF
	Aurora Cunha	Portugal
	Joke Kleijweg	Netherlands
	Veronique Marot	Great Britain & N.I.
	Ludmila Melicherová	Czechoslovakia
	Rosa Mota	Portugal
	Márcia Narloch	Brazil
	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark
	Anna Villani	Italy
	Tatyana Zuyeva	Soviet Union
	Laura Fogli	Italy
	Valentina Yegorova	Soviet Union
	Gordon Bloch	United States
	Isabel Canto	Guatemala
	Sandra Natal	Dominican Republic

See also

• 1988 Women's Olympic Marathon (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Marathon (Split)
• 1992 Women's Olympic Marathon (Barcelona)
• 1994 Women's European Championships Marathon (Helsinki)