The 1981 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 3 and 4 October 1981 in the streets of Valencia, Spain. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup.

Complete results were published.

Medallists MenMen's 20 km walkErnesto Canto 1:23:52Roland Wieser 1:24:12Alessandro Pezzatini 1:24:24Men's 50 km walkRaúl González 3:48:30Hartwig Gauder 3:52:18Sandro Bellucci 3:54:57 Lugano Cup (Men)Team (Men) 227 pts 227 pts 221 pts WomenWomen's 5 km walkSiv Gustavsson 22:56.9Aleksandra Deveranskaya 23:17.2Lyudmila Khrushchova 23:25.4 Eschborn Cup (Women)Team (Women) 105 pts 104 pts 90 pts

Results

Men's 20 km Place Athlete Nation Time Ernesto Canto 1:23:52 Roland Wieser 1:24:12 Alessandro Pezzatini 1:24:24 4 Yevgeniy Yevsyukov 1:24:51 5 José Marín 1:25:00 6 Maurizio Damilano 1:25:08 7 Anatoliy Solomin 1:26:39 8 Pyotr Pochenchuk 1:27:03 9 Bo Gustafsson 1:27:28 10 Guillaume LeBlanc 1:28:02 11 Pavol Blažek 1:28:12 12 Stefan Petrik 1:28:20 13 Carlo Mattioli 1:28:52 14 Ralf Meisel 1:29:24 15 Stanisław Rola 1:29:37 16 Wang Chuntang 1:29:45 17 Steve Barry 1:29:56 18 Erling Andersen 1:30:03 19 Ian McCombie 1:30:03 20 Eduardo Linares 1:30:05 21 Todd Scully 1:30:22 22 Jim Heiring 1:30:39 23 Mykola Vynnychenko 1:31:11 24 Jozef Zimka 1:31:13 25 Marcelino Colín 1:31:23 26 Zdzisław Szlapkin 1:31:29 27 Bogusław Duda 1:31:35 28 Ray Sharp 1:32:30 29 Bill Dyer 1:32:52 30 Roger Mills 1:33:30 31 Andrés Marin 1:33:46 32 François Lapointe 1:33:49 33 Amos Seddon 1:33:52 34 Philippe Lafleur 1:34:08 35 Per Rasmussen 1:34:18 36 Jaroslaw Kazmierski 1:34:18 37 Roland Nilsson 1:34:47 38 Martial Fesselier 1:35:05 39 Pascal Lenglart 1:35:59 40 Jozef Pribilinec 1:36:25 41 Duncan Knox 1:37:41 42 Denis Terraz 1:38:40 43 Horst Matern 1:39:21 44 Francisco Botonero 1:39:55 45 Tore Strømøy 1:40:07 46 Michael Stones 1:41:56 47 Gu Fangyuan 1:44:47 48 Anders Hjelle 1:46:05 49 Michael Harvey 1:46:17 — Zhang Fuxin DQ — Luis Bueno DQ — Ralf Kowalsky DQ — Giorgio Damilano DQ — Félix Gómez DQ — Owe Hemmingsson DQ — Steve Pecinovsky DQ — Dave Smith DNF — Tor-Ivar Guttulsrød DNF

Men's 50 km Place Athlete Nation Time Raúl González 3:48:30 Hartwig Gauder 3:52:18 Sandro Bellucci 3:54:57 4 Dietmar Meisch 3:56:27 5 Arturo Bravo 3:58:04 6 Martín Bermúdez 3:58:16 7 Valeriy Suntsov 4:01:30 8 Uwe Dünkel 4:02:04 9 Gérard Lelièvre 4:03:06 10 Giacomo Poggi 4:03:15 11 Viktor Dorovskikh 4:03:51 12 Viktor Grodenchuk 4:07:16 13 Marco Evoniuk 4:07:44 14 Domenico Carpentieri 4:13:19 15 Bohdan Bułakowski 4:15:34 16 Pavol Jati 4:17:06 17 Lubos Mackanic 4:17:11 18 Bengt Simonsen 4:17:57 19 Paolo Grecucci 4:18:56 20 Ian Richards 4:21:04 21 Dan OʼConnor 4:22:24 22 Vladimír Podroužek 4:23:31 23 Krzysztof Drajski 4:25:10 24 Jan Pilczuk 4:26:28 25 Stig-Olof Elovsson 4:28:08 26 Vince OʼSullivan 4:29:49 27 Wayne Glusker 4:33:01 28 Barry Graham 4:34:34 29 Max Sjöholm 4:34:58 30 François Lapointe 4:35:51 31 Bob Dobson 4:36:13 32 Pavel Szikora 4:37:31 33 John Sheard 4:38:48 34 Dennis Jackson 4:39:37 35 Cato Viken 4:41:04 36 Alain Moulinet 4:42:58 37 Agustin Jorbo 4:43:03 38 Harry Summers 4:43:43 39 Stanisław Korneluk 4:47:27 40 Jean-Pierre Saint-Martin 4:52:04 41 Maurice Dumont 5:03:32 — Rafael Espejo DQ — Jorge Llopart DQ — Enrique Vera DQ — Ragner Hofnes DQ — Peter Fullager DNF — Willi Sawall DNF — Marcel Jobin DNF — Guillaume LeBlanc DNF — Michael Stones DNF — Gu Fangyuan DNF — Wang Chuntang DNF — Zhang Fuxin DNF — Manuel Alcalde DNF — Ronald Weigel DNF — Harald Krokli DNF — Lars Ove Moen DNF — Torbjørn Janse DNF — Vyacheslav Fursov DNF

Team (men) The team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results. Place Country Points 227 pts 227 pts 221 pts 4 208 pts 5 176 pts 6 150 pts 7 148 pts 8 137 pts 9 131 pts 10 97 pts 11 77 pts 12 74 pts 13 57 pts 14 52 pts 15 34 pts

Women's 5 km Place Athlete Nation Time Siv Gustavsson 22:56.9 Aleksandra Derevinskaya 23:17.2 Lyudmila Khrushchova 23:25.4 4 Fröydis Hilsen 23:34.4 5 Ann Jansson 23:42.2 6 Sally Pierson 23:51.3 7 Sue Cook 24:04.9 8 Ann Peel 24:05.9 9 Susan Liers-Westerfield 24:15.8 10 Natalya Sharipova 24:20.7 11 Ann-Marie Larsson 24:31.0 12 Suzanne Griesbach 24:35.6 13 Irene Bateman 24:40.0 14 Margot Vetterli 24:43.9 15 Lillian Millen 24:47.4 16 Olga Tshgunova 24:53.2 17 Britt Holmqvist 25:03.5 18 Jill Barrett 25:05.1 19 Carol Tyson 25:10.9 20 Ann Ryan 25:14.2 21 Gillian Grant 25:26 22 Teresa Palacios 25:31 23 Ingrid Adam 25:34 24 Line Viken 25:34 25 Bonnie Dillon 25:39 26 Vicki Jones 25:51 27 Mia Kjølberg 26:08 28 Paula Kash 26:21 29 Claudine Gerald/Richard 26:35 30 Mandy Holland 26:44 31 Regine Broders 26:53 32 Isabelle Dumont 26:56 33 Jeanine Gosselin 27:02 34 Joni Bender 27:04 35 Valeria Carpanese 27:07 36 Lene Cassidy 27:16 37 Karin Jensen 27:17 38 Helga Henrich 27:23 39 Belén Asensio 27:27 40 Gunhild Kristiansen 28:00 41 Begoña Miranda 28:04 42 Paola Pastorini 28:12 43 Nuria Lloret 28:20 44 Renate Bauch 28:30 45 Laurence Perrin 29:32 46 Helle Bütow Jørgensen 30:30 47 Astrid Mignot 32:02 — Lorraine Young-Jachno DNF — Thorill Gylder DNF

Team (women) Place Country Points 105 pts 104 pts 90 pts 4 76 pts 5 71 pts 6 68 pts 7 66 pts 8 55 pts 9 41 pts 10 33 pts 11 31 pts 12 25 pts 13 15 pts

Participation The participation of 160 athletes (111 men/49 women) from 18 countries is reported.

(8/4) (4/4) (3/-) (8/-) (-/4) (8/-) (8/4) (8/2) (8/-) (8/4) (8/-) (8/4) (8/4) (8/4) (-/3) (8/4) (8/4) (-/4)

Qualifying rounds From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds for the men's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, México, the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, Italy, Spain, the United States, Australia, Canada, and China proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, France, September 5/6 Rank Nation Points 1 77 pts 2 75 pts 3 39 pts 4 27 pts 5 24 pts

Zone 2 Helsinki, Finland, August 29/30 Rank Nation Points 1 49 pts 2 44 pts 3 37 pts 4 28 pts

Zone 3 Szolnok, Hungary, August 29 Rank Nation Points 1 73 pts 2 64 pts 3 58 pts 4 23 pts 5 14 pts

References

External links - IAAF.org