1986 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

The 1986 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the fourth edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by Portugal on 9 November 1986 in Lisbon 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.^[1]

The race was won by Portugal's Aurora Cunha in a championship record time of 48:31 minutes, completing a successful defence of her titles from 1984 and 1985. Her teammate Rosa Mota finished four seconds in arrears for second place, narrowly pushing Carla Beurskens of the Netherlands in the bronze medal spot by a margin of one second. The Soviet Union won the team race, courtesy of Tatyana Kazankina, Lyudmila Matveyeva and , who all finished in the top ten. Cunha and Mota were joined by Albertina Dias to bring Portugal second in the team rankings, two points clear of the Marty Cooksey-led American team.^[2]

Results[]

Individual[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Aurora Cunha	Portugal (POR)	48:31
	Rosa Mota	Portugal (POR)	48:35
	Carla Beurskens	Netherlands (NED)	48:36
4	Marty Cooksey	United States (USA)	48:41
5	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union (URS)	49:12
6	Lyudmila Matveyeva	Soviet Union (URS)	49:13
7	Maria Curatolo	Italy (ITA)	49:15
8	Nancy Tinari	Canada (CAN)	49:22
9		Soviet Union (URS)	49:26
10		United States (USA)	49:42
11	Agnes Pardaens	Belgium (BEL)	49:49
12		United States (USA)	50:12
13		France (FRA)	50:20
14	Kerstin Pressler	West Germany (FRG)	50:23
15	Jocelyne Villeton	France (FRA)	50:30
16	Anna Villani	Italy (ITA)	50:30
17	Susan Crehan	Great Britain (GBR)	50:32
18	Danièle Kaber	Luxembourg (LUX)	50:38
19	Françoise Bonnet	France (FRA)	50:42
20	Paula Fudge	Great Britain (GBR)	50:51
21	Albertina Dias	Portugal (POR)	51:01
22		Spain (ESP)	51:02
23		Great Britain (GBR)	51:02
24	Iris Biba	West Germany (FRG)	51:24
25		Great Britain (GBR)	51:28
26	Nancy Ditz	United States (USA)	51:39
27		New Zealand (NZL)	51:42
28	Marcianne Mukamurenzi	Rwanda (RWA)	51:47
29	Magda Ilands	Belgium (BEL)	51:50
30		Mexico (MEX)	51:54
31	Vera Michallek	West Germany (FRG)	51:56
32		Ireland (IRL)	51:56
33		Ireland (IRL)	52:01
34		Australia (AUS)	52:03
35	Rosanna Munerotto	Italy (ITA)	52:06
36		Austria (AUT)	52:09
37	Yelena Sipatova	Soviet Union (URS)	52:18
38		Canada (CAN)	52:22
39		Ireland (IRL)	52:25
40	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain (ESP)	52:29
41	Jenny Lund	Australia (AUS)	52:47
42		Australia (AUS)	52:48
43		Austria (AUT)	52:59
44		Portugal (POR)	53:04
45		Netherlands (NED)	53:14
46	Christina Mai	West Germany (FRG)	53:14
47		Australia (AUS)	53:14
48		Spain (ESP)	53:27
49	Lesley Morton	New Zealand (NZL)	53:29
50		Argentina (ARG)	53:32
51	Griselda González	Argentina (ARG)	53:35
52	Róisín Smyth	Ireland (IRL)	53:43
53	Manuela Machado	Portugal (POR)	53:51
54	?
55	Kriscia García	El Salvador (ESA)	54:23
56		Portugal (POR)	54:26
57		Luxembourg (LUX)	54:35
58	?
59	?
60	?
61	Fabiola Paoletti	Italy (ITA)	56:06
62	?
63	?
64		Spain (ESP)	56:24
65		Bolivia (BOL)	56:26

Team[]

Rank	Team	Points
	Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Kazankina Lyudmila Matveyeva	20 pts
	Portugal (POR) Aurora Cunha Rosa Mota Albertina Dias	24 pts
	United States (USA) Marty Cooksey	26 pts

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