IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships
Rank Athlete Time
1 Wang Xiuting ( CHN ) 49:34
2 Zhong Huandi ( CHN ) 50:06
3 Aurora Cunha ( POR ) 50:06
4 Albertina Machado ( POR ) 50:16
5 Yekaterina Khramenkova ( URS ) 50:21
6 Jill Hunter ( GBR ) 50:34
7 Wang Huabi ( CHN ) 50:42
8 Albertina Dias ( POR ) 50:59
9 Nadyezhda Stepanova ( URS ) 51:05
10 Irina Yagodina ( URS ) 51:06
Individual Results -- Rio de Janeiro 1989 ( 15 km )
85 starters . 68 finishers .
The IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was an annual international athletics championship in road running organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (then known as the International Amateur Athletics Federation). It was contested from 1983-1991, before being replaced by the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992, an event for both men and women. The event was a 10 km race in 1983 and 1984, then a 15 km race from 1985-1991.