1991 London Marathon

11th London Marathon

11th London Marathon
VenueLondon, United Kingdom
Date21 April 1991
Champions
MenYakov Tolstikov (2:09:17)
WomenKatrin Dörre-Heinig (2:29:39)
Wheelchair menFarid Amarouche (1:52:52)
Wheelchair womenConnie Hansen (2:04:40)
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The 1991 London Marathon was the 11th running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 21 April. The elite men's race was won by Soviet athlete Yakov Tolstikov in a time of 2:09:17 hours and the women's race was won by Portugal's Rosa Mota in 2:26:14. Tolstikov's run was a Soviet record, which was never bettered as the country collapsed at the end of 1991.[1]

The elite race featured high levels of international participation that year as it played host to the 1991 World Marathon Cup, where Great Britain won the men's team race and the Soviet Union won the women's team race.[2]

In the wheelchair races, France's Farid Amarouche (1:52:52) and Denmark's Connie Hansen (2:04:40) set course records in the men's and women's divisions, respectively. This was the first time that the winning time in the women's wheelchair race surpassed that of both able-bodied races.[3]

In the mass race, around 79,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 33,485 had their applications accepted and around 24,500 started the race. A total of 23,435 runners finished the race.[4]

Results

Men

Position Athlete Nationality Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yakov Tolstikov  Soviet Union 2:09:17
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Manuel Matias  Portugal 2:10:21
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jan Huruk  Poland 2:10:21
4 Dave Long  United Kingdom 2:10:30
5 Joaquim Pinheiro  Portugal 2:10:38
6 Alfredo Shahanga  Tanzania 2:11:20
7 Steve Brace  United Kingdom 2:11:45
8 Peter Maher  Ireland 2:11:46
9 Jean-Luc Assemat  France 2:11:49
10 Salvatore Bettiol  Italy 2:11:53
11 Konrad Dobler  Germany 2:11:57
12 José Esteban Montiel  Spain 2:11:59
13 Tekeye Gebrselassie  Ethiopia 2:12:05
14 Alessio Faustini  Italy 2:12:12
15 Marco Gozzano  Italy 2:12:26
16 David Buzza  United Kingdom 2:12:37
17 Isidro Rico  Mexico 2:12:38
18 Slawomir Gurny  Poland 2:12:39
19 Marcelino Crisanto  Mexico 2:12:42
20 Hugh Jones  United Kingdom 2:12:46
21 Carlos Ayala  Mexico 2:12:51
22 Luis Soares  France 2:12:53
23 Diego García  Spain 2:12:54
24 Pascal Zilliox  France 2:12:59
25 Belayneh Tadesse  Ethiopia 2:13:09
26 Wiesław Perszke  Poland 2:13:12
27 Takeshi So  Japan 2:13:15
28 Peter Daenens  Belgium 2:13:16
29 Vicente Antón  Spain 2:13:38
30 Sam Carey  United Kingdom 2:13:54
31 José Carlos da Silva  Brazil 2:14:11
32 Allister Hutton  United Kingdom 2:14:13
33 Mohamed Kamel Selmi  Algeria 2:14:20
— Gelindo Bordin  Italy DNF
— Bill Reifsnyder  United States DNF
— Carl Thackery  United Kingdom DNF
— Delmir Alves Dos Santos  Brazil DNF
— Suleiman Nyambui  Tanzania DNF

Women

Position Athlete Nationality Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rosa Mota  Portugal 2:26:14
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Francie Larrieu Smith  United States 2:27:35
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Valentina Yegorova  Soviet Union 2:28:18
4 Katrin Dörre-Heinig  Germany 2:28:57
5 Maria Rebelo  France 2:29:04
6 Renata Kokowska  Poland 2:30:12
7 Ramilya Burangulova  Soviet Union 2:30:41
8 Naomi Watanabe  Japan 2:31:23
9 Tatyana Zuyeva  Soviet Union 2:31:23
10 Anna Villani  Italy 2:31:26
11 Irina Bogacheva  Soviet Union 2:31:35
12 Antonella Bizioli  Italy 2:32:30
13 Laura Fogli  Italy 2:32:41
14 Mari Tanigawa  Japan 2:33:16
15 Sissel Grottenberg  Norway 2:33:21
16 Christel Rogiers  Belgium 2:33:41
17 Ria Van Landeghem  Belgium 2:33:49
18 Joy Smith  United States 2:34:20
19 Mary O'Connor  New Zealand 2:34:31
20 Sally Ellis  United Kingdom 2:34:42
21 Véronique Marot  United Kingdom 2:34:46
22 Françoise Bonnet  France 2:34:49
23 Izabela Zatorska  Poland 2:34:55
24 Marie-Hélène Ohier  France 2:34:59
25 Kerstin Pressler  Germany 2:35:09
26 Sally Eastall  United Kingdom 2:36:19
27 Anna Rybicka  Poland 2:36:41
28 Birgit Jerschabek  Germany 2:36:48
29 Jocelyne Villeton  France 2:37:04
30 Dominique Rembert  France 2:37:05
31 Lidia Camberg  Poland 2:37:13
32 Terry Adams  Switzerland 2:37:32
33 Sylvie Laville  France 2:37:51
— Dorthe Rasmussen  Denmark DNF
— Wendy Breed  New Zealand DNF

Wheelchair men

Position Athlete Nationality Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Farid Amarouche  France 1:52:52
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bo Lindkvist  Sweden 1:52:55
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jean-Francois Poitevin  France 1:52:57
4 Daniel Wesley  Canada 1:52:59
5 Håkan Ericsson  Sweden 1:53:02
6 David Holding  United Kingdom 1:54:39
7 Christian Pickernell  Australia 2:04:11
8 Doug Gray  United Kingdom 2:04:51
9 Ivan Newman  United Kingdom 2:04:55
10 Rob Wickham  Zimbabwe 2:05:01

Wheelchair women

Position Athlete Nationality Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Connie Hansen  Denmark 2:04:40
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Rose Hill  United Kingdom 2:21:49
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tanni Grey  United Kingdom 2:38:42
4 Tracy Lewis  United Kingdom 2:45:33
5 Yvonne Holloway  United Kingdom 2:51:47

References

  1. ^ "Top list of the best results in the world in the history of marathon running in men". alltime -athletics.com. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  2. ^ IAAF World Marathon Cup. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  3. ^ 2015 London Marathon Media Guide[permanent dead link]. London Marathon (2015). Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  4. ^ Stats and Figures Archived 23 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine. London Marathon. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
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