1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon

The men's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan was held on September 1, 1991. The race started at 18:00 local time.

Medalists edit

Gold	Hiromi Taniguchi Japan
Silver	Hussein Ahmed Salah Djibouti
Bronze	Steve Spence United States

Records edit

Standing records prior to the 1991 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Belayneh Dinsamo	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:06:50	April 17, 1988	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Championships tecord	Robert de Castella	Australia (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Season best	Kōichi Morishita	Japan (JPN)	2:08:53	February 3, 1991	Ōita, Japan

Intermediates edit

Results edit

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result
	Hiromi Taniguchi	Japan (JPN)	2:14:57
	Hussein Ahmed Salah	Djibouti (DJI)	2:15:26
	Steve Spence	United States (USA)	2:15:36
4	Jan Huruk	Poland (POL)	2:15:47
5	Futoshi Shinohara	Japan (JPN)	2:15:52
6	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy (ITA)	2:15:58
7	Maurilio Castillo	Mexico (MEX)	2:16:15
8	Gelindo Bordin	Italy (ITA)	2:17:03
9	Tekeye Gebrselassie	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:18:37
10	Konrad Dobler	Germany (GER)	2:19:01
11	Steve Moneghetti	Australia (AUS)	2:19:18
12	Sam Carey	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:20:02
13	Peter Maher	Canada (CAN)	2:20:31
14	Diego García	Spain (ESP)	2:21:16
15	Dominique Chauvelier	France (FRA)	2:21:37
16	Tonnie Dirks	Netherlands (NED)	2:22:17
17	Elphas Ginindza	Eswatini (SWZ)	2:22:43
18	Stephan Freigang	Germany (GER)	2:23:13
19	Kim Won-tak	South Korea (KOR)	2:23:14
20	Dave Buzza	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2:23:24
21	Vladimir Bukhanov	Soviet Union (URS)	2:24:26
22	Motsemme Kgaotsang	Botswana (BOT)	2:25:28
23	Kim Reynierse	Aruba (ARU)	2:26:50
24	Martin Vrábeľ	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2:26:56
25	Gian Luigi Macina	San Marino (SMR)	2:28:40
26	Steve Taylor	United States (USA)	2:29:09
27	Myint Kan	Myanmar (MYA)	2:29:14
28	William Aguirre	Nicaragua (NCA)	2:29:35
29	Aleksandr Vychuzhanin	Soviet Union (URS)	2:32:37
30	Alberto Cuba	Cuba (CUB)	2:32:57
31	Krishna Bahadur Basnet	Nepal (NEP)	2:33:13
32	Fai Yeung Ng	Hong Kong (HKG)	2:34:26
33	Freddy Lujan	Bolivia (BOL)	2:36:54
34	Hsu Gi-sheng	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2:37:20
35	Roland Wille	Liechtenstein (LIE)	2:48:12
36	Abdillah Soilihi	Comoros (COM)	2:56:36
—	Faasalele Fuauli	Western Samoa (WSM)	DNF
—	Alessio Faustini	Italy (ITA)	DNF
—	Manuel Matias	Portugal (POR)	DNF
—	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia (ETH)	DNF
—	Takeyuki Nakayama	Japan (JPN)	DNF
—	Antoni Niemczak	Poland (POL)	DNF
—	Jörg Peter	Germany (GER)	DNF
—	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal (POR)	DNF
—	Francisco Romera	Spain (ESP)	DNF
—	Yakov Tolstikov	Soviet Union (URS)	DNF
—	Carlos Ayala	Mexico (MEX)	DNF
—	Alfredo Shahanga	Tanzania (TAN)	DNF
—	Nivaldo Vieira	Brazil (BRA)	DNF
—	Åke Eriksson	Sweden (SWE)	DNF
—	Brad Hudson	United States (USA)	DNF
—	Mohamed Kamel Selmi	Algeria (ALG)	DNF
—	Ahmed Al Hamshani	Jordan (JOR)	DNF
—	Simon Mrashani	Tanzania (TAN)	DNF
—	Kim Wan-ki	South Korea (KOR)	DNF
—	Laurenio Beserra	Brazil (BRA)	DNF
—	Jean-Luc Assemat	France (FRA)	DNF
—	Tesfaye Dadi	Ethiopia (ETH)	DNF
—	Daniel Böltz	Switzerland (SUI)	DNF
—	Manny Lolin	Malaysia (MAS)	DNF