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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
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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※

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

Records※

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※

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Results※

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

See also※

• 1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon
• Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

References※

• Results
• IAAF Results