1991 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1991 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	15th
Date	June 1–2
Host city	San Jose, California, United States
Nations participating	33
Athletes participating	309
Races	3
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The 1991 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 1 and 2 June 1991 in the streets of San Jose, California, USA. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup. The course followed a loop along Park Avenue and Almaden Boulevard, north and east of the intersection.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
Men's 20 km walk	Mikhail Shchennikov  Soviet Union	1:20:43	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:20:46	Thierry Toutain  France	1:20:56
Men's 50 km walk	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	3:42:03	Simon Baker  Australia	3:46:36	Ronald Weigel  Germany	3:47:50
Lugano Cup (Men)
Team (Men)	Italy	517 pts	Germany	491 pts	Mexico	487 pts
Women
Women's 10 km walk	Irina Strakhova  Soviet Union	43:55	Graciela Mendoza  Mexico	44:09	Yelena Sayko  Soviet Union	44:11
Eschborn Cup (Women)
Team (Women)	Soviet Union	203 pts	Italy	180 pts	Mexico	162 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
01 !	Mikhail Shchennikov  URS	1:20:43
02 !	Ernesto Canto  MEX	1:20:46
03 !	Thierry Toutain  FRA	1:20:56
4	Daniel Plaza  ESP	1:21:00
5	Giovanni De Benedictis  ITA	1:21:13
6	Walter Arena  ITA	1:21:13
7	Robert Korzeniowski  POL	1:21:19
8	Maurizio Damilano  ITA	1:21:31
9	Axel Noack  GER	1:21:35
10	Valentí Massana  ESP	1:21:38
11	Li Mingcai  CHN	1:21:56
12	Joel Sánchez  MEX	1:22:03
13	José Urbano  POR	1:22:04
14	Miguel Ángel Prieto  ESP	1:22:19
15	Nicholas A'Hern  AUS	1:22:21
16	Andrey Plotnikov  URS	1:22:29
17	Sándor Urbanik  HUN	1:22:38
18	Héctor Moreno  COL	1:22:40
19	Robert Ihly  GER	1:22:52
20	Martial Fesselier  FRA	1:22:59
21	Bo Lingtang  CHN	1:23:00
22	Tim Berrett  CAN	1:23:10
23	Roman Mrázek  TCH	1:23:30
24	Aleksey Pershin  URS	1:23:32
25	Ján Záhončík  TCH	1:23:49
26	Sergio Galdino  BRA	1:23:58
27	Vladimir Andreyev  URS	1:23:59
28	Jimmy McDonald  IRL	1:24:07
29	Orlando Díaz  COL	1:24:08
30	Pavol Blažek  TCH	1:24:27
31	Olegario Regidor  ESP	1:24:29
32	Zbigniew Sadlej  POL	1:24:55
33	Sławomir Cielica  POL	1:24:57
34	Ralf Weise  GER	1:25:08
35	Hubert Sonnek  TCH	1:25:10
36	Querubín Moreno  COL	1:25:11
37	Valentin Kononen  FIN	1:25:17
38	Ian McCombie  GBR	1:25:10
39	Sergio Spagnulo  ITA	1:25:30
40	Sun Xiaoguang  CHN	1:25:33
41	Jean-Claude Corre  FRA	1:25:35
42	Martin Rush  GBR	1:25:42
43	Arturo Di Mezza  ITA	1:25:45
44	Igor Kollár  TCH	1:25:57
45	Krzysztof Richter  POL	1:26:13
46	Dave Smith  AUS	1:26:14
47	Gyula Dudás  HUN	1:26:54
48	Helder Oliveira  POR	1:26:58
49	Augusto Cardoso  POR	1:27:08
50	Michael Lane  IRL	1:27:34
51	Julio César Urías  GUA	1:27:45
52	Bernardo Segura  MEX	1:27:55
53	Mark Easton  GBR	1:27:57
54	Tim Lewis  USA	1:28:04
55	Christophe Cousin  FRA	1:28:14
56	Curtis Fisher  USA	1:28:15
57	Andrew Penn  GBR	1:28:28
58	Tadahiro Kosaka  JPN	1:28:42
59	Andrew Jachno  AUS	1:29:22
60	Karoly Kirszt  HUN	1:29:24
61	Pat Murphy  IRL	1:27:34
62	Abdel Wahab Ferguène  ALG	1:29:51
63	Michael Harvey  AUS	1:29:59
64	Yoshimi Hara  JPN	1:30:06
65	Mario Contreiras  POR	1:30:07
66	Clodomiro Moreno  COL	1:30:16
67	Allen James  USA	1:30:25
68	Fabrice Delaforge  FRA	1:30:36
69	Pauli Pirjetä  FIN	1:30:49
70	Olaf Möldner  GER	1:31:09
71	João Sendenski  BRA	1:31:44
72	Hammimed Rahouli  ALG	1:32:01
73	Cláudio Bertolino  BRA	1:32:06
74	Martin St. Pierre  CAN	1:32:07
75	Douglas Fournier  USA	1:32:09
76	Pascal Charrière   SUI	1:32:11
77	Risto Nurmi  FIN	1:32:29
78	Derek Beaven  NZL	1:32:38
79	Arezki Boumar  ALG	1:32:47
80	Scott Nelson  NZL	1:33:10
81	Zsolt Szilagyi  HUN	1:33:39
82	Rene Haarpainter   SUI	1:34:02
83	Abderrazak Gharfaa  ALG	1:34:22
84	Leighton Poidevin  CAN	1:34:50
85	Dan Bauer  GER	1:34:59
86	Craig Barrett  NZL	1:35:34
87	Daniel Levesque  CAN	1:36:07
88	Peter Ferrari  SWE	1:36:18
89	Göran Lindé  SWE	1:36:20
90	Ademar Kammler  BRA	1:37:44
91	Julio René Martínez  GUA	1:37:58
92	Axel Thiele  SWE	1:38:22
93	Henrik Kjellgren  SWE	1:38:46
94	Bernard Binggeli   SUI	1:38:46
95	Ivan Hernández  PUR	1:39:08
96	José Torres  PUR	1:39:08
97	Ron Enns  CAN	1:40:25
98	Nelson Funes  GUA	1:40:36
99	Daniele Carrobio   SUI	1:41:17
100	Sean Sullivan  NZL	1:41:54
101	Roberto Oscal  GUA	1:42:37
102	José Mencos  GUA	1:47:39
103	Sucha Singh  IND	1:48:04
104	Harmesh Lal  IND	1:48:11
105	Harmana Ram  IND	1:59:53
106	Feston Bwalya  ZAM	2:06:11
107	Patrick Nkhata  ZAM	2:12:45
—	Paul Copeland  AUS	DQ
—	Marcelo Palma  BRA	DQ
—	Víctor Sánchez  MEX	DQ
—	Ignacio Zamudio  MEX	DQ
—	Jonathan Kinga  ZAM	DQ
—	Godfried De Jonckheere  BEL	DNF
—	Gerard Goujon  BEL	DNF
—	Luc Nicque  BEL	DNF
—	German Nieto  ESP	DNF
—	Hirofumi Sakai  JPN	DNF
—	Theo Koenis  NED	DNF
—	Ton van Andel  NED	DNF
—	Harold van Beek  NED	DNF
—	Hans van den Knaap  NED	DNF
—	José Ramírez  PUR	DNF
—	Darryl Guy-Williams  SLE	DNF
—	Kelly Keita Lansana  SLE	DNF
—	Franz Kostyukevich  URS	DNF
—	Don Lawrence  USA	DNF
—	Jeresani Bwalya  ZAM	DNF

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
01 !	Carlos Mercenario  MEX	3:42:03
02 !	Simon Baker  AUS	3:46:36
03 !	Ronald Weigel  GER	3:47:50
4	Bernd Gummelt  GER	3:51:12
5	Giovanni Perricelli  ITA	3:52:51
6	Hartwig Gauder  GER	3:53:14
7	Miguel Rodríguez  MEX	3:54:36
8	Valeriy Spitsyn  URS	3:55:13
9	Giuseppe de Gaetano  ITA	3:55:45
10	René Piller  FRA	3:55:48
11	Martín Bermúdez  MEX	3:58:33
12	Fumio Imamura  JPN	3:59:18
13	Godfried De Jonckheere  BEL	3:59:26
14	Alessandro Bellucci  ITA	3:59:43
15	Anatoliy Grigoryev  URS	4:00:35
16	Pavol Szikora  TCH	4:00:39
17	José Marín  ESP	4:01:02
18	Massimo Quiriconi  ITA	4:01:21
19	Veijo Savikko  FIN	4:01:28
20	Les Morton  GBR	4:02:11
21	Takehiro Sonohara  JPN	4:02:17
22	Jacek Bednarek  POL	4:03:31
23	Basilio Labrador  ESP	4:03:42
24	Bo Gustafsson  SWE	4:04:04
25	Paul Blagg  GBR	4:04:09
26	Jorge Llopart  ESP	4:06:07
27	Zoltán Czukor  HUN	4:06:21
28	Denis Terraz  FRA	4:06:48
29	Germán Sánchez  MEX	4:07:37
30	Torsten Trampeli  GER	4:07:48
31	Carl Schueler  USA	4:08:51
32	Jean-Olivier Brosseau  FRA	4:08:59
33	Jaroslav Makovec  TCH	4:09:57
34	Ulf-Peter Sjöholm  SWE	4:11:07
35	Grzegorz Ledzion  POL	4:11:43
36	László Sátor  HUN	4:11:46
37	Štefan Malík  TCH	4:12:07
38	Antero Lindman  FIN	4:12:33
39	Carlo Mattioli  ITA	4:12:48
40	Hubert Sonnek  TCH	4:14:03
41	Alexander Preusche  GER	4:14:53
42	Zhang Shiquan  CHN	4:18:10
43	Gyula Dudás  HUN	4:19:50
44	Ton van Andel  NED	4:19:58
45	Chris Maddocks  GBR	4:20:05
46	Aldo Bertoldi   SUI	4:21:24
47	José Magalhães  POR	4:21:30
48	Faustino Ruíz  ESP	4:23:13
49	Arto Hokkanen  FIN	4:23:42
50	Paul McElwee  NZL	4:24:10
51	Wolfgang Varrin   SUI	4:24:46
52	Janusz Goławski  POL	4:25:25
53	Harold van Beek  NED	4:25:37
54	Thierry Nuttin  FRA	4:25:59
55	Dennis Jackson  GBR	4:26:08
56	Matti Heikkilä  FIN	4:26:24
57	António Kohler  BRA	4:27:01
58	Ricky Cooke  AUS	4:28:15
59	Dan OʼConnor  USA	4:30:22
60	Theo Koenis  NED	4:30:52
61	Renzo Toscanelli   SUI	4:33:32
62	Gerard Goujon  BEL	4:38:16
63	Gary Little  NZL	4:39:27
64	Hans van den Knaap  NED	4:44:46
65	Jean Claude Zaugg   SUI	4:45:00
66	Miroslav Bosko  TCH	4:46:20
67	Carlos Graça  POR	4:53:47
68	Luc Nicque  BEL	4:55:12
69	Ottoniel Ardila  GUA	4:58:07
70	Paulo Ávila  BRA	4:59:33
71	Wayne Marriott  NZL	5:10:06
72	José Santos  GUA	5:13:31
73	Mark Gray  NZL	5:28:23
—	Craig Brill  AUS	DQ
—	Bill Dyer  AUS	DQ
—	Zhao Wanbo  CHN	DQ
—	Andrey Perlov  URS	DQ
—	Vitaliy Popovich  URS	DQ
—	Aleksandr Potashov  URS	DQ
—	Arezki Boumar  ALG	DNF
—	Abdel Wahab Ferguène  ALG	DNF
—	Hammimed Rahouli  ALG	DNF
—	Kevin Lowden  AUS	DNF
—	Cicero de Moura  BRA	DNF
—	Tim Berrett  CAN	DNF
—	Ron Enns  CAN	DNF
—	Daniel Levesque  CAN	DNF
—	Leighton Poidevin  CAN	DNF
—	Martin St. Pierre  CAN	DNF
—	Zhou Yongsheng  CHN	DNF
—	Orlando Díaz  COL	DNF
—	Héctor Moreno  COL	DNF
—	Querubín Moreno  COL	DNF
—	Jaime Barroso  ESP	DNF
—	Alain Lemercier  FRA	DNF
—	Hugo López  GUA	DNF
—	Endre Andrasfai  HUN	DNF
—	Harmesh Lal  IND	DNF
—	Rewat Singh  IND	DNF
—	Michael Lane  IRL	DNF
—	Jimmy McDonald  IRL	DNF
—	Pat Murphy  IRL	DNF
—	Tadahiro Kosaka  JPN	DNF
—	Hernán Andrade  MEX	DNF
—	Jan Holender  POL	DNF
—	José Pinto  POR	DNF
—	Ivan Hernández  PUR	DNF
—	José Ramírez  PUR	DNF
—	José Torres  PUR	DNF
—	Robert Dauphine  SLE	DNF
—	Baba Suma-Keita  SLE	DNF
—	James Toussaint  SLE	DNF
—	Stefan Johansson  SWE	DNF
—	Jan Olsson  SWE	DNF
—	Marco Evoniuk  USA	DNF
—	Eugene Kitts  USA	DNF
—	Paul Wick  USA	DNF
—	Feston Bwalya  ZAM	DNF
—	Jonathan Kinga  ZAM	DNF
—	Patrick Nkhata  ZAM	DNF

Team (Men)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Italy	517 pts
02 !	Germany	491 pts
03 !	Mexico	487 pts
4	Spain	472 pts
5	France	438 pts
6	Soviet Union	407 pts
7	Czechoslovakia	407 pts
8	Poland	398 pts
9	United Kingdom	363 pts
10	Hungary	360 pts
11	Finland	317 pts
12	Australia	316 pts
13	Portugal	279 pts
14	China	272 pts
15	United States	243 pts
16	Japan	241 pts
17	Switzerland	229 pts
18	Brazil	224 pts
19	New Zealand	214 pts
20	Sweden	205 pts
21	Colombia	203 pts
22	Guatemala	164 pts
23	Belgium	162 pts
24	Ireland	160 pts
25	Netherlands	148 pts
26	Canada	133 pts
27	Algeria	107 pts
28	India	48 pts
29	Puerto Rico	39 pts
30	Zambia	27 pts
31	Sierra Leone	DNF

Women's 10 km

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
01 !	Irina Strakhova  URS	43:55
02 !	Graciela Mendoza  MEX	44:09
03 !	Yelena Sayko  URS	44:11
4	Olga Kardopoltseva  URS	44:36
5	Kerry Saxby-Junna  AUS	44:49
6	Ileana Salvador  ITA	44:52
7	Beate Gummelt  GER	45:03
8	Nadezhda Ryashkina  URS	45:19
9	Annarita Sidoti  ITA	45:28
10	Mari Cruz Díaz  ESP	46:38
11	Andrea Alföldi  HUN	45:42
12	Fan Xiaoling  CHN	45:53
13	Madelein Svensson  SWE	45:57
14	Monica Gunnarsson  SWE	46:08
15	Debbi Lawrence  USA	46:13
16	Sari Essayah  FIN	46:20
17	Pier Carola Pagnani  ITA	46:33
18	Maricela Chávez  MEX	46:34
19	Emilia Cano  ESP	46:35
20	Cui Yingzi  CHN	46:36
21	Betty Sworowski  GBR	46:38
22	Tina Poitras  CAN	46:47
23	Ildikó Ilyés  HUN	46:50
24	Pascale Grand  CAN	47:08
25	Mária Rosza-Urbanik  HUN	47:25
26	Yuko Sato  JPN	47:26
27	Victoria Herazo  USA	47:33
28	Lynn Weik  USA	47:44
29	Nathalie Marchand-Fortain  FRA	47:46
30	María Colín  MEX	47:50
31	Olga Sánchez  ESP	47:57
32	Zuzana Zemková  TCH	47:58
33	Lorraine Young-Jachno  AUS	48:01
34	Hideko Hirayama  JPN	48:09
35	Kathrin Born-Boyde  GER	48:12
36	Francisca Martínez  MEX	48:33
37	Fusako Masuda  JPN	48:25
38	Maria Grazia Cogoli  ITA	48:28
39	Vicky Lupton  GBR	48:57
40	Valérie Lévèque-Nadaud  FRA	48:58
41	Holly Gerke  CAN	49:05
42	Wendy Sharpe  USA	49:08
43	Helen Elleker  GBR	49:12
44	Ann Peel  CAN	49:18
45	Miriam Ramón  ECU	49:27
46	Natalie Camplin  AUS	49:32
47	Eva Machuca  MEX	49:47
48	Ivana Brozmánová  TCH	48:49
49	Kamila Holpuchová  TCH	50:06
50	Elisabetta Perrone  ITA	50:08
51	Veronica Öqvist  SWE	50:09
52	María Reyes Sobrino  ESP	50:10
53	Anikó Szebenszky  HUN	50:17
54	Ibolya Varadi  HUN	50:23
55	Takako Taura  JPN	50:26
56	Janice McCaffrey  CAN	50:30
57	Teresa Palacios  ESP	50:36
58	Mira Saastamoinen  FIN	50:55
59	Susan Orr-Cook  AUS	51:29
60	Julie Drake  GBR	52:05
61	Sandy Leddin  GER	52:20
62	Karianne Larsen  NOR	52:28
64	Ivana Henn  BRA	52:41
65	Åslaug Mostad  NOR	52:56
66	Rosemar Piazza  BRA	53:20
67	Bertha Vera  ECU	53:50
68	Renate Warz  GER	54:15
69	Helena Åström  FIN	54:17
70	Jane Jackson  NZL	54:23
71	Lynley Mathieson  NZL	54:30
72	Sharon Schnyder  AUS	54:58
73	Maria Vele  ECU	55:03
74	Ana Cortés  ECU	55:24
75	Sharon De Groot  NZL	55:37
76	Denise Volker  BRA	57:29
77	Kavita Garari  IND	58:14
78	Anneli Kuukkanen  FIN	58:49
79	Maria Ambrocio  GUA	59:49
80	Chitra Choudhry  IND	60:01
81	Polly Nandi  IND	62:17
82	Olga Martínez  GUA	63:03
83	Reyna Gómez  GUA	63:16
—	Chen Yueling  CHN	DQ
—	Jin Bingyie  CHN	DQ
—	Alina Ivanova  URS	DQ
—	Nadine Mazuir-Vavre  FRA	DNF
—	Andrea Mone  IRL	DNF
—	Marie Walsh  IRL	DNF
—	Kristin Andreassen  NOR	DNF
—	Teresa Vaill  USA	DNF

Team (Women)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Soviet Union	203 pts
02 !	Italy	180 pts
03 !	Mexico	162 pts
4	Hungary	154 pts
5	Spain	153 pts
6	United States	143 pts
7	Sweden	141 pts
8	Australia	132 pts
9	Canada	128 pts
10	Germany	123 pts
11	Japan	117 pts
12	United Kingdom	115 pts
13	China	110 pts
14	Finland	97 pts
15	Czechoslovakia	94 pts
16	France	75 pts
17	Ecuador	62 pts
18	Brazil	52 pts
19	New Zealand	44 pts
20	Norway	43 pts
21	India	28 pts
22	Guatemala	23 pts
23	Ireland	22 pts

Participation

The participation of 309 athletes (218 men/91 women) from 33 countries is reported.^[1]

See also

• 1991 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

External links

• IAAF World Race Walking Cup 1961-2006 Facts & Figures - IAAF.org