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.

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
	Mikhail Shchennikov URS	1:20:43
	Ernesto Canto MEX	1:20:46
	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
	Carlos Mercenario MEX	3:42:03
	Simon Baker AUS	3:46:36
	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
	Italy	517 pts
	Germany	491 pts
	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
	Irina Strakhova URS	43:55
	Graciela Mendoza MEX	44:09
	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
	Soviet Union	203 pts
	Italy	180 pts
	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.

• Algeria (4/-)
• Australia (10/5)
• Belgium (3/-)
• Brazil (8/3)
• Canada (5/5)
• China (6/4)
• Colombia (4/-)
• Czechoslovakia (9/3)
• Ecuador (-/4)
• Finland (7/4)
• France (10/3)

• Germany (10/4)
• Guatemala (8/3)
• Hungary (7/5)
• India (4/3)
• Ireland (3/3)
• Italy (10/5)
• Japan (5/4)
• Mexico (10/5)
• Netherlands (4/-)
• New Zealand (8/3)
• Norway (-/3)

• Poland (8/-)
• Portugal (7/-)
• Puerto Rico (3/-)
• Sierra Leone (5/-)
• Soviet Union (10/5)
• Spain (10/5)
• Sweden (8/3)
• Switzerland (8/-)
• United Kingdom (8/4)
• United States (10/5)
• Zambia (4/-)

See also

• 1991 Race Walking Year Ranking

External links

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