The 1991 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the ninth and final edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by the Netherlands on 13 October 1991 in Nieuwegein 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.
Romania's Iulia Olteanu defended her title from the 1990 race with a winning time of 48:42 minutes. In the tightest ever finish seen in the competition's history, four women finished within the space of three seconds. Andrea Wallace of Great Britain took the runner-up spot while Germany's Uta Pippig edged out Soviet athlete Nadezhda Ilyina for third place by a fraction of a second. Pippig led Germany to its first team title at the competition with the former East German being backed up by former West German teammates Kerstin Pressler and Iris Biba. The Romanian women, headed by Olteanu, were two points adrift in second, with Georgeta State in seventh and Nuța Olaru in 16th place. In third, the Soviet Union took a sixth consecutive team medal (having reached the podium on every occasion it entered a team) through the performances of Ilyina, Marina Rodchenkova and Yelena Zhupiyeva.1991 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
The ending of this championships series coincided with the IAAF launching the 1992 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships a year later, thus a women's road world championship remained in the form of the half marathon distance.
Results Individual RankAthleteCountryTime (m:s) Iulia Negură 48:42 Andrea Wallace 48:43 Uta Pippig 48:444 Nadezhda Ilyina 48:445 Rosanna Munerotto 48:476 Kerstin Pressler 49:197 Georgeta State 49:218 Lidia Camberg 49:249 Conceição Ferreira 49:2710 Marina Rodchenkova 49:3711 Annick Clouvel 49:3812 Manuela Dias 49:3813 Iris Biba 49:4014 Odile Ohier 49:4615 Wendy Ticehurst 49:5516 Nuța Olaru 50:1317 Yelena Zhupiyeva 50:1418 Heléna Barócsi 50:2019 Fatuma Roba 50:2120 Rosario Gangloff 50:2421 Gitte Karlshøj 50:2622 Birgit Jerschabek 50:3023 Isabella Moretti 50:3324 Felicidade Sena 50:3425 Allison Rabour 50:3726 Olga Appell 50:4127 Marian Sutton 50:4228 Silvana Pereira 50:4529 Wilma van Onna 50:4830 Rizoneide Vanderlei 50:5031 María Luisa Servín 50:5432 Joy Smith 51:0033 Bettina Sabatini 51:0634 Annette Bell 51:2135 Lucilia Soares 51:2836 Ceri Pritchard 51:2937 Rita de Jesus 51:3038 Margareta Florea 51:3139 Tigist Moreda 51:3240 Christine Toonstra 51:3741 Paola Cabrera 51:4042 Benita Perez 51:4043 Laura LaMena 51:4244 Maria Rebelo 51:4945 Lynn Clayton 51:5046 Maria-del Carmen Brunet 51:5247 Aino-Maria Slej 52:0448 Rocío Ríos 52:1049 Anita Palshøj 52:1950 Maria-Esther Pedrosa 52:2251 Tanya Turney 52:2252 Kelly dos Santos 52:2553 Jennifer Martin 52:4554 Marjan Freriks 52:4655 Joke Kleijweg 52:5356 Berhane Adere 53:1157 Lynn Deninno 53:4058 Lyudmila Matveyeva 53:4859 Nelly Glauser 53:5660 Vally Sathyabhama 54:1961 Vilma Sanchez 54:2062 Anne Lord 54:3363 Ursula Jeitziner 55:0564 Carmen Fuentes 55:0865 Maryse Justin 55:5466 Sunita Godara 56:07
Team Rank Team Points Uta PippigKerstin PresslerIris Biba 22 pts Iulia OlteanuGeorgeta StateNuța Olaru 23 pts Nadezhda IlyinaMarina RodchenkovaYelena Zhupiyeva 31 pts
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