The 1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the seventh edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by Brazil on 24 September 1989 in Rio de Janeiro and featured one race only: a 15K run for women. There were individual and team awards available, with the national team rankings being decided by the combined finishing positions of a team's top three runners. Countries with fewer than three finishers were not ranked.IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
The race was won by Wang Xiuting of China, who had been runner-up to Ingrid Kristiansen the previous year. She ran 49:34 minutes to finish ten seconds ahead of the runner-up, teammate Zhong Huandi, with former champion Aurora Cunha of Portugal in third place. With Wang Huabi in seventh, the Chinese team achieved a championship record-low score of ten points. The Portuguese women achieved the lowest non-winning score in championship history, with 15 points, with Cunha being followed home by fourth placed Albertina Machado and Albertina Dias in eighth. Showing the dominance of the race by a handful of nations, a Yekaterina Khramenkova-led Soviet Union also achieved the lowest ever score for third place on 24 points.1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships . Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
Results Individual RankAthleteCountryTime (m:s) Wang Xiuting 49:34 Zhong Huandi 49:44 Aurora Cunha 50:064 Albertina Machado 50:165 Yekaterina Khramenkova 50:216 Jill Hunter 50:347 Wang Huabi 50:428 Albertina Dias 50:599 Nadezhda Stepanova 51:0510 Irina Yagodina 51:0611 Judy Chamberlin 51:2812 Anna Villani 51:3213 Angie Pain 51:3514 Allison Rabour 52:0215 Elena Tolstogouzova 52:1716 Anni Müller 52:3617 Jane Welzel 52:4418 Nives Curti 52:5219 María Luisa Servín 53:0720 Janeth Mayal 53:1821 Márcia Narloch 53:2022 Yolanda Quimbita 53:2823 Susan Dilnot 53:3524 Tani Ruckle 53:4225 Carole Connelly 53:5226 Marina Prat 53:5327 Carmen Brunet 53:5429 Debbie Elsmore 54:0630 Monica O'Reilly 54:0831 Carmem de Oliveira 54:1732 Lesley Graham 54:1933 Griselda González 54:1934 Patricia Griffin 54:2436 Lynn Harding 54:3037 Kimball Dryden 54:4538 Santa Velasquez 54:4939 Leslie Lewis 54:5440 Marta Jimenez 55:1541 Wilma Guerra 55:1943 Mary Brayley 55:4344 Carmen Díaz 56:2045 Elsa Calderon 56:3246 Marisol Cossio 56:4550 Silvana Pereira 58:0751 Janeth Alder 58:1461 Trudy Fenton 60:0163 Julia Sakala 61:47
Team Rank Team Points Wang XiutingZhong HuandiWang Huabi10 pts Aurora CunhaAlbertina MachadoAlbertina Dias 15 pts Yekaterina KhramenkovaNadezhda StepanovaIrina Yagodina 24 pts
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