1991 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

Women's marathon
at the 1991 World Championships
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
	← 1987 1993 →

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^[1]
Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wanda Panfil	Poland (POL)	2:29:53
	Sachiko Yamashita	Japan (JPN)	2:29:57
	Katrin Dörre	Germany (GER)	2:30:10
4	Yuko Arimori	Japan (JPN)	2:31:08
5	Maria Rebelo	France (FRA)	2:32:05
6	Kamila Gradus	Poland (POL)	2:32:09
7	Manuela Machado	Portugal (POR)	2:32:33
8	Ramilya Burangulova	Soviet Union (URS)	2:33:00
9	Iris Biba	Germany (GER)	2:33:48
10	Sally Ellis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:35:09
11	Sally Eastall	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:36:16
12	Kumi Araki	Japan (JPN)	2:38:27
13	Joy Smith	United States (USA)	2:39:16
14	María Trujillo	United States (USA)	2:39:28
15	Fabiola Rueda	Colombia (COL)	2:41:51
16	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway (NOR)	2:43:11
17	Franziska Moser	Switzerland (SUI)	2:44:07
18	Pascaline Wangui	Kenya (KEN)	2:45:22
19	Ena Guevara	Peru (PER)	2:48:53
20	Françoise Bonnet	France (FRA)	2:48:57
21	Cornelia Melis	Aruba (ARU)	2:58:18
22	Yi-Lo Man	Hong Kong (HKG)	2:59:39
23	Gina Coello	Honduras (HON)	2:59:54	NR
24	Graciela Caizabanda	Ecuador (ECU)	3:00:03
–	Chen Qingmei	China (CHN)	DNF
	Aurora Cunha	Portugal (POR)
	Joke Kleijweg	Netherlands (NED)
	Veronique Marot	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
	Ludmila Melicherová	Czechoslovakia (TCH)
	Rosa Mota	Portugal (POR)
	Márcia Narloch	Brazil (BRA)
	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark (DEN)
	Anna Villani	Italy (ITA)
	Tatyana Zuyeva	Soviet Union (URS)
	Laura Fogli	Italy (ITA)
	Valentina Yegorova	Soviet Union (URS)
	Gordon Bloch	United States (USA)
	Isabel Canto	Guatemala (GUA)
	Sandra Natal	Dominican Republic (DOM)