Women's marathon at the 1991 World Championships
Venue	National Stadium, Tokyo
Date	25 August 1991
Competitors	39 from 25 nations
Winning time	2:29:53
Medalists
Wanda Panfil    Poland   Sachiko Yamashita    Japan   Katrin Dörre    Germany
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Events at the 1991 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's marathon was one of the road events at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan. It took place on 25 August 1991; the course started and finished at the National Stadium. The race was won by Poland's Wanda Panfil in 2:29:53, ahead of Sachiko Yamashita of Japan in second and Germany's Katrin Dörre in third.

Results^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wanda Panfil	Poland (POL)	2:29:53
	Sachiko Yamashita	Japan (JPN)	2:29:57
	Katrin Dörre	Germany (GER)	2:30:10
4	Yuko Arimori	Japan (JPN)	2:31:08
5	Maria Rebelo	France (FRA)	2:32:05
6	Kamila Gradus	Poland (POL)	2:32:09
7	Manuela Machado	Portugal (POR)	2:32:33
8	Ramilya Burangulova	Soviet Union (URS)	2:33:00
9	Iris Biba	Germany (GER)	2:33:48
10	Sally Ellis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:35:09
11	Sally Eastall	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:36:16
12	Kumi Araki	Japan (JPN)	2:38:27
13	Joy Smith	United States (USA)	2:39:16
14	María Trujillo	United States (USA)	2:39:28
15	Fabiola Rueda	Colombia (COL)	2:41:51
16	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway (NOR)	2:43:11
17	Franziska Moser	Switzerland (SUI)	2:44:07
18	Pascaline Wangui	Kenya (KEN)	2:45:22
19	Ena Guevara	Peru (PER)	2:48:53
20	Françoise Bonnet	France (FRA)	2:48:57
21	Cornelia Melis	Aruba (ARU)	2:58:18
22	Yi-Lo Man	Hong Kong (HKG)	2:59:39
23	Gina Coello	Honduras (HON)	2:59:54	NR
24	Graciela Caizabanda	Ecuador (ECU)	3:00:03
–	Chen Qingmei	China (CHN)	DNF
	Aurora Cunha	Portugal (POR)
	Joke Kleijweg	Netherlands (NED)
	Veronique Marot	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
	Ludmila Melicherová	Czechoslovakia (TCH)
	Rosa Mota	Portugal (POR)
	Márcia Narloch	Brazil (BRA)
	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark (DEN)
	Anna Villani	Italy (ITA)
	Tatyana Zuyeva	Soviet Union (URS)
	Laura Fogli	Italy (ITA)
	Valentina Yegorova	Soviet Union (URS)
	Gordon Bloch	United States (USA)
	Isabel Canto	Guatemala (GUA)
	Sandra Natal	Dominican Republic (DOM)

• 1988 Women's Olympic Marathon (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Marathon (Split)
• 1992 Women's Olympic Marathon (Barcelona)
• 1994 Women's European Championships Marathon (Helsinki)