International athletics championship event
1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Organisers IAAF Edition 19th Date March 24 Host city Antwerp , Province of Antwerp , Belgium Venue Linkeroever RacecourseEvents 4 Distances 11.764 km – Senior men 8.415 km – Junior men 6.425 km – Senior women 4.435 km – Junior women Participation 633 athletes from 51 nations ← 1990 Aix-les-Bains
1992 Boston →
The 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in
Antwerp , Belgium , at the Linkeroever Racecourse on March 24,
1991. A report on the event was given in The New York Times .[1]
Complete results for senior men,[2] junior men,[3] senior women,[4] junior women,[5] medallists,
[6] and the results of British athletes[7] were published.
Medallists [ ]
Race results [ ]
Senior men's race (11.764 km) [ ]
Individual race
Rank
Athlete
Country
Time
Khalid Skah
Morocco
33:53
Moses Tanui
Kenya
33:54
Simon Karori
Kenya
33:54
4
Richard Chelimo
Kenya
33:57
5
Ondoro Osoro †
Kenya
33:57
6
Stephenson Nyamau
Kenya
34:01
7
Chala Kelele
Ethiopia
34:06
8
Ezequiel Bitok †
Kenya
34:19
9
Addis Abebe
Ethiopia
34:24
10
Hammou Boutayeb
Morocco
34:28
11
Boniface Merande
Kenya
34:31
12
William Mutwol
Kenya
34:32
Full results
† : Athlete marked in the results list[2] as nonscorer.
Teams
Rank
Team
Points
Kenya
38
Ethiopia
Chala Kelele
7
Addis Abebe
9
Melese Feissa
13
22
23
Habte Negash
30
()
(80)
()
(91)
104
Spain
198
4
Portugal
233
5
Morocco
265
6
United Kingdom
281
7
Italy
336
8
Soviet Union
409
Full results
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Junior men's race (8.415 km) [ ]
Teams
Rank
Team
Points
Kenya
19
Ethiopia
Fita Bayissa
3
5
Haile Gebrselassie
8
Desta Asgedom
10
(Abraham Assefa )
(11)
(Ayele Mezegebu )
(13)
()
(DNF)
26
Tanzania
54
4
Morocco
76
5
Japan
102
6
Algeria
109
7
United Kingdom
165
8
Spain
175
Full results
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Senior women's race (6.425 km) [ ]
Individual race
Rank
Athlete
Country
Time
Lynn Jennings
United States
20:24
Derartu Tulu
Ethiopia
20:27
Liz McColgan
United Kingdom
20:28
4
Luchia Yeshak
Ethiopia
20:29
5
Jane Ngotho
Kenya
20:30
6
Albertina Dias
Portugal
20:40
7
Susan Sirma
Kenya
20:46
8
Yelena Romanova
Soviet Union
20:50
9
Margaret Ngotho
Kenya
20:55
10
Marcianne Mukamurenzi
Rwanda
20:57
11
Natalya Sorokivskaya
Soviet Union
20:57
12
Fatuma Roba
Ethiopia
21:01
Full results
Teams
Rank
Team
Points
Kenya
36
Ethiopia
Derartu Tulu
2
Luchia Yeshak
4
Fatuma Roba
12
Merima Denboba
18
(Tigist Moreda )
(20)
(Berhane Adere )
(34)
36
Soviet Union
Yelena Romanova
8
Natalya Sorokivskaya
11
Nadezhda Galyamova
13
16
()
(23)
(Nadezhda Ilyina )
(24)
48
4
United States
77
5
United Kingdom
104
6
Portugal
145
7
Romania
148
8
France
175
Full results
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Junior women's race (4.435 km) [ ]
Individual race
Rank
Athlete
Country
Time
Lydia Cheromei
Kenya
13:59
Kenya
14:20
Melody Fairchild
United States
14:28
4
Japan
14:30
5
Gete Wami
Ethiopia
14:33
6
Catherine Kirui
Kenya
14:34
7
Hayley Haining
United Kingdom
14:36
8
Minori Hayakari
Japan
14:42
9
Kenya
14:43
10
Ethiopia
14:45
11
Ethiopia
14:46
12
Japan
14:47
Full results
Teams
Rank
Team
Points
Kenya
18
Ethiopia
40
Japan
4
Minori Hayakari
8
12
Natsue Koikawa
19
()
(20)
()
(41)
43
4
United Kingdom
82
5
United States
88
6
Australia
99
7
Ecuador
114
8
Poland
181
Full results
Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Medal table (unofficial) [ ]
Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.
Participation [ ]
An unofficial count yields the participation of 633 athletes from 51 countries. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[7]
See also [ ]
References [ ]
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Bloom, Marc (March 25, 1991), "CROSS COUNTRY; Jennings Retains World Title" , The New York Times , retrieved October 16, 2013
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Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 11.8km CC Men - Antwerpen Linkerover Date: Sunday, March 24, 1991 , Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 24, 2013 CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
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Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.4km CC Men - Antwerpen Linkerover Date: Sunday, March 24, 1991 , Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 24, 2013 CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
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Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 6.4km CC Women - Antwerpen Linkerover Date: Sunday, March 24, 1991 , Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 24, 2013 CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
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Magnusson, Tomas (February 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 4.4km CC Women - Antwerpen Linkerover Date: Sunday, March 24, 1991 , Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 24, 2013 CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
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IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS , Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
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36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF) , IAAF , p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013
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