1985 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

The 1985 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the third edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by the United Kingdom on 3 November 1985 in Gateshead and featured one race only: a 15K run for women. This was the first time that the distance was contested at the championships, having previously been a 10K run, and this was a permanent change. 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.[1]

The race was won by Portugal's Aurora Cunha in a time of 49:17 minutes, completing a successful defence of her title from 1984. Judi St. Hilaire of the United States finished eight seconds later in second place, while Great Britain's Carole Bradford came third for a second year running. As she had the year before, Bradford led the British women to the team title (alongside fifth place Paula Fudge and Wendy Sly in eleventh). The Soviet Union's team, featuring Lyudmila Matveyeva in fourth and two other top ten finishers in Mariya Vasilyuk and Yelena Sipatova, was just one point behind in the team race. St Hilaire helped the American women to the bronze medal team position (backed up by Nancy Ditz and Carol McLatchie).

Results

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Individual

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Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Aurora Cunha   Portugal (POR) 49:17
  Judi St. Hilaire   United States (USA) 49:25
  Carole Bradford   Great Britain (GBR) 49:59
4 Lyudmila Matveyeva   Soviet Union (URS) 50:28
5 Paula Fudge   Great Britain (GBR) 50:36
6 Donna Gould   Australia (AUS) 50:42
7 Mariya Vasilyuk   Soviet Union (URS) 50:56
8 Anna Villani   Italy (ITA) 51:00
9 Yelena Sipatova   Soviet Union (URS) 51:08
10 Ellen Wessinghage   West Germany (FRG) 51:29
11 Wendy Sly   Great Britain (GBR) 51:40
12 Dorthe Rasmussen   Denmark (DEN) 51:48
13 Tatyana Bultot   Soviet Union (URS) 51:51
14 Jill Rothwell   Great Britain (GBR) 51:53
15 Christina Mai   West Germany (FRG) 51:54
16 Nancy Ditz   United States (USA) 51:57
17 Ann Ford   Great Britain (GBR) 52:01
18 Elizabeth Franzis   West Germany (FRG) 52:06
19 Carol McLatchie   United States (USA) 52:13
20 Mami Fukao   Japan (JPN) 52:18
21 Conceição Ferreira   Portugal (POR) 52:20
22 Danièle Kaber   Luxembourg (LUX) 52:23
23 Rosanna Munerotto   Italy (ITA) 52:30
24 Elly van Hulst   Netherlands (NED) 52:32
25 Antonella Bizioli   Italy (ITA) 52:35
26 Yvonne Murray   Great Britain (GBR) 52:38
27 Lucilia Soares   Portugal (POR) 52:40
28 Sinikka Keskitalo   Finland (FIN) 52:43
29 Jiang Zhourong   China (CHN) 52:45
30 Susan Schneider   United States (USA) 52:51
31 Jocelyne Villeton   France (FRA) 52:52
32 Sheila Purves   Hong Kong (HKG) 53:05
33 Xiao Hongyan   China (CHN) 53:08
34 Maria Rebelo   France (FRA) 53:09
35 Gabriela Górzyńska   Poland (POL) 53:11
36 Ailish Smyth   Ireland (IRL) 53:15
37 Sirkku Kumpulainen   Finland (FIN) 53:17
38 Megan-Louise Sloane   Australia (AUS) 53:18
39 Françoise Bonnet   France (FRA) 53:35
40 Kristiina Iisakkila   Finland (FIN) 53:37
41 Ľudmila Melicherová   Czechoslovakia (TCH) 53:40
42 Sylviane Levesque   France (FRA) 53:42
43 Christine Kennedy   Ireland (IRL) 53:45
44 Maria-Luisa Irizar   Spain (ESP) 53:52
45 Kerstin Pressler   West Germany (FRG) 54:01
46 Mette Holm   Denmark (DEN) 54:04
47 Nikolina Shtereva   Bulgaria (BUL) 54:08
48 Aino-Maria Slej   Denmark (DEN) 54:11
49 Carolien Lucas   Netherlands (NED) 54:13
50 Malgorzata Szuminska   Poland (POL) 54:15
51 Jenny Lund   Australia (AUS) 54:20
52 Deirdre Nagle   Ireland (IRL) 54:21
53 Albertina Dias   Portugal (POR) 54:31
54 Henrietta Fina   Austria (AUT) 54:32
55 Maria-Esther Pedrosa   Spain (ESP) 54:36
56 ?
57 Tuija Toivonen   Finland (FIN) 55:02
58 Odette Lapierre   Canada (CAN) 55:11
59 Ewa Wrzosek   Poland (POL) 55:13
61 Anna Iskra   Poland (POL) 55:53
62 ?
63 Gitte Karlshøj   Denmark (DEN) 56:00
65 Maryse Justin   Mauritius (MRI) 57:01
66 ?
67 Consuelo Alonso   Spain (ESP) 57:11

Team

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Rank Team Points
    Great Britain (GBR)
Carole Bradford
Paula Fudge
Wendy Sly
19 pts
    Soviet Union (URS)
Lyudmila Matveyeva
Mariya Vasilyuk
Yelena Sipatova
20 pts
    United States (USA)
Judi St Hilaire
Nancy Ditz
Carol McLatchie
36 pts

References

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  1. ^ IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-09.