World Marathon Cup

The World Marathon Cup (full name IAAF World Marathon Cup) was an international event organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations every two years.

From 1997 until 2011 (its final year) it was incorporated with IAAF World Championships in Athletics.

Editions

Year	Venue	Date
1985	Hiroshima	13–14 April
1987	Seoul	11–12 April
1989	Milan	13–16 April
1991	London	21 April
1993	San Sebastián	31 October
1995	Athens	9 April
1997	Athens	9 and 10 August
1999	Seville	28 and 29 August
2001	Edmonton	3 and 12 August
2003	Paris	30 e 31 August
2005	Helsinki	13 and 14 August
2007	Osaka	25 August and 2 September
2009	Berlin	22–23 August
2011	Daegu	27 August and 4 September

Winners

Men

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1985	Djibouti	06:27:08	Japan	06:31:43	Ethiopia	06:32:46
1987	Italy 3. Salvatore Bettiol 4. Salvatore Nicosia 5. Osvaldo Faustini	06:36:38	Japan	06:39:23	France	06:43:46
1989	Ethiopia	06:37:20	Italy 3. Gianni Poli 7. Salvatore Bettiol 14. Osvaldo Faustini	06:37:51	France	06:38:51
1991	United Kingdom	06:34:59	Portugal	06:35:55	Poland	06:36:12
1993	Ethiopia	06:31:17	Italy 2. Severino Bernardini 8. Luca Barzaghi 13. Walter Durbano	06:32:41	United Kingdom	06:34:06
1995	Italy 3. Davide Milesi 6. Marco Gozzano 7. Roberto Crosio	06:43:42	France	06:48:47	Spain	06:51:05
1997	Spain	06:43:30	Italy 4. Danilo Goffi 6. Giacomo Leone 30. Francesco Ingargiola	06:55:33	Brazil	07:02:56
1999	Italy 2. Vincenzo Modica 5. Danilo Goffi 10. Daniele Caimmi	06:45:16	Japan	06:45:42	Ethiopia	06:50:11
2001	Ethiopia	06:43:32	Japan	06:48:36	Italy 3. Stefano Baldini 11. Giacomo Leone 17. Alberico Di Cecco	06:51:56
2003	Japan	06:30:43	Italy 3. Stefano Baldini 6. Daniele Caimmi 22. Alberico Di Cecco	06:32:19	South Africa	06:35:54
2005	Japan	06:38:39	Kenya	06:46:38	Ethiopia	06:52:14
2007	Japan	06:54:23	South Korea	07:12:08	Kenya	07:12:33
2009	Kenya	06:25:28	Ethiopia	06:32:06	Japan	06:41:05
2011	Kenya	06:29:23	Japan	06:41:13	Morocco	06:42:18

Women

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1985	Italy 4. Laura Fogli 6. Rita Marchisio 11. Emma Scaunich	07:51:27	Soviet Union 2. Zoya Ivanova 10. Raisa Smekhnova Nadia Ushanova	07:53:22	East Germany 1. Katrin Dörre 19. Birgit Weinhold 22. Gabriele Martins	08:00:02
1987	Soviet Union	07:34:39	East Germany	07:42:10	France	07:46:41
1989	Soviet Union	07:51:29	United States	07:56:17	China	07:57:07
1991	Soviet Union	07:30:21	Italy 10. Anna Villani 11. Antonella Bizioli 13. Laura Fogli	07:36:37	France	07:38:51
1993	China 1. Wang Junxia 2. Zhang Linli 3. Zhang Lirong 4. Ma Liyan	07:27:43	Spain	07:33:55	Russia	07:44:07
1995	Romania	07:35:05	Russia	07:47:39	Italy 4. Ornella Ferrara 15. Maura Viceconte 16. Antonella Bizioli	07:50:46
1997	Japan	07:38:57	Romania	07:52:18	Italy 3. Ornella Ferrara 13. Franca Fiacconi 24. Laura Fogli	07:56:31
1999	Japan	07:27:52	Romania	07:34:37	Germany	07:35:41
2001	Japan	07:22:36	Russia	07:26:00	Romania	07:29:44
2003	Japan	07:14:48	Ethiopia	07:24:56	Russia	07:31:04
2005	Kenya	07:12:37	Japan	07:16:35	United Kingdom	07:27:04
2007	Kenya	07:35:02	China	07:35:52	Japan	07:37:39
2009	China	07:17:02	Japan	07:22:15	Russia	07:24:42
2011	Kenya	07:26:57	China	07:31:34	Ethiopia	07:32:20

Medal table

Men

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	5	1	9
2	Italy	3	4	1	8
3	Ethiopia	3	1	3	7
4	Kenya	2	1	1	4
5	United Kingdom	1	0	1	2
	Spain	1	0	1	2
7	Djibouti	1	0	0	1
8	France	0	1	2	3
9	Portugal	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
11	Poland	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	14	42

Women

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	2	1	7
2	Soviet Union	3	1	0	4
3	Kenya	3	0	0	3
4	China	2	2	1	5
5	Romania	1	2	1	4
6	Italy	1	1	2	4
7	Russia	0	2	3	5
8	East Germany	0	1	1	2
9	Ethiopia	0	1	1	1
10	United States	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
12	France	0	0	2	2
13	Germany	0	0	1	1
	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1
Total		14	14	14	42

See also

• IAAF competitions
• IAAF Continental Cup
• European Marathon Cup

External links

• IAAF official site
• IAAF WORLD MARATHON CUP
• IAAF World Cup Marathon - Individual Medalists/Dates/Venues