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 GoldSilverBronze
Records Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships World Record Belayneh Dinsamo 2:06:50 April 17, 1988 Rotterdam, Netherlands Championships record Robert de Castella 2:10:03 August 14, 1983 Helsinki, Finland Season best Kōichi Morishita 2:08:53 February 3, 1991 Ōita, Japan
Intermediates
Results RankAthleteNationResultHiromi Taniguchi 2:14:57Hussein Ahmed Salah 2:15:26Steve Spence 2:15:364Jan Huruk 2:15:475Futoshi Shinohara 2:15:526Salvatore Bettiol 2:15:587Maurilio Castillo 2:16:158Gelindo Bordin 2:17:039Tekeye Gebrselassie 2:18:3710Konrad Dobler 2:19:0111Steve Moneghetti 2:19:1812Sam Carey 2:20:0213Peter Maher 2:20:3114Diego García 2:21:1615Dominique Chauvelier 2:21:3716Tonnie Dirks 2:22:1717Elphas Ginindza 2:22:4318Stephan Freigang 2:23:1319Kim Won-tak 2:23:1420Dave Buzza 2:23:2421Vladimir Bukhanov 2:24:2622Motsemme Kgaotsang 2:25:2823Kim Reynierse 2:26:5024Martin Vrábeľ 2:26:5625Gian Luigi Macina 2:28:4026Steve Taylor 2:29:0927Myint Kan 2:29:1428William Aguirre 2:29:3529Aleksandr Vychuzhanin 2:32:3730Alberto Cuba 2:32:5731Krishna Bahadur Basnet 2:33:1332Fai Yeung Ng 2:34:2633Freddy Lujan 2:36:5434Hsu Gi-sheng 2:37:2035Roland Wille 2:48:1236Abdillah Soilihi 2:56:36 —Faasalele Fuauli —Alessio Faustini —Manuel Matias —Abebe Mekonnen —Takeyuki Nakayama —Antoni Niemczak —Jörg Peter —Joaquim Pinheiro —Francisco Romera —Yakov Tolstikov —Carlos Ayala —Alfredo Shahanga —Nivaldo Vieira —Åke Eriksson —Brad Hudson —Mohamed Kamel Selmi —Ahmed Al Hamshani —Simon Mrashani —Kim Wan-ki —Laurenio Beserra —Jean-Luc Assemat —Tesfaye Dadi —Daniel Böltz —Manny Lolin
See also 1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
References Results IAAF Results