1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

Events at the 1991 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan was held on September 1, 1991. The race started at 18:00 local time.

Medalists[]

Gold	Hiromi Taniguchi  Japan
Silver	Hussein Ahmed Salah  Djibouti
Bronze	Steve Spence  United States

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Belayneh Dinsamo	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:06:50	April 17, 1988	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Championships tecord	Robert de Castella	Australia (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
	Kōichi Morishita	Japan (JPN)	2:08:53	February 3, 1991	Ōita, Japan

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Results[]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result
	Hiromi Taniguchi	(JPN)	2:14:57
	Hussein Ahmed Salah	(DJI)	2:15:26
	Steve Spence	(USA)	2:15:36
4	Jan Huruk	Poland (POL)	2:15:47
5	Futoshi Shinohara	(JPN)	2:15:52
6	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy (ITA)	2:15:58
7	Maurilio Castillo	(MEX)	2:16:15
8	Gelindo Bordin	Italy (ITA)	2:17:03
9		(ETH)	2:18:37
10	Konrad Dobler	(GER)	2:19:01
11	Steve Moneghetti	(AUS)	2:19:18
12		(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		(GBR)	2:23:24
21		(URS)	2:24:26
22		(BOT)	2:25:28
23	Kim Reynierse	(ARU)	2:26:50
24	Martin Vrábeľ	(TCH)	2:26:56
25	Gian Luigi Macina	(SMR)	2:28:40
26		(USA)	2:29:09
27	Myint Kan	(MYA)	2:29:14
28	William Aguirre	(NCA)	2:29:35
29		(URS)	2:32:37
30	Alberto Cuba	(CUB)	2:32:57
31	Krishna Bahadur Basnet	(NEP)	2:33:13
32		(HKG)	2:34:26
33		(BOL)	2:36:54
34		(TPE)	2:37:20
35	Roland Wille	(LIE)	2:48:12
36		(COM)	2:56:36
—		Western Samoa (WSM)	DNF
—	Alessio Faustini	Italy (ITA)	DNF
—	Manuel Matias	(POR)	DNF
—	Abebe Mekonnen	(ETH)	DNF
—	Takeyuki Nakayama	(JPN)	DNF
—	Antoni Niemczak	Poland (POL)	DNF
—	Jörg Peter	(GER)	DNF
—	Joaquim Pinheiro	(POR)	DNF
—		(ESP)	DNF
—	Yakov Tolstikov	(URS)	DNF
—		(MEX)	DNF
—	Alfredo Shahanga	(TAN)	DNF
—		(BRA)	DNF
—		(SWE)	DNF
—		(USA)	DNF
—	Mohamed Kamel Selmi	(ALG)	DNF
—		(JOR)	DNF
—	Simon Mrashani	(TAN)	DNF
—	Kim Wan-ki	(KOR)	DNF
—		(BRA)	DNF
—		(FRA)	DNF
—		(ETH)	DNF
—	Daniel Böltz	(SUI)	DNF
—		(MAS)	DNF

See also[]

• 1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon
• Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

References[]

• Results
• IAAF Results^{[permanent dead link]}