The 1988 Women's World Highway Championship was held on March 20 in Adelaide ( Australia ). 73 athletes from 24 countries of the world went to the start. Two sets of medals were played - at a distance of 15 km in the individual and team standings.
| Women's World Highway Championship 1988 | |
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| Host city |  Adelaide , Australia |
| Member countries | 24 |
| Of the participants | 73 |
| Medals | 2 |
| date of | March 20, 1988 |
Content
- 1 Results of the competition
- 2 winners
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Competition Results
The competition, previously held at the end of the year, first took place in March, when autumn begins in the Southern Hemisphere. Only four months have passed since the previous championship.
Norwegian runner Ingrid Kristiansen successfully defended her world title. Like last year, from the very start she single-handedly led the race and ahead of the nearest rival by almost two minutes. A week later, Kristiansen won another gold medal of the world championship, this time a cross , held in neighboring New Zealand [1] .
Following Kristiansen in Adelaide, Chinese woman Van Syutin finished : athletes from the Middle Kingdom in 1988 made significant progress, taking second and fourth places in the individual championship and becoming silver medalists in the team. Zoya Ivanova from the USSR supplemented the individual pedestal.
Each country could put up to four athletes. The strongest teams in the team championship were determined by the sum of the places of the three best participants. For the second time in history, gold medals went to runners from the Soviet Union.
Winners
Participants whose result did not count towards the team are shown in italics.
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| 15 km | Ingrid Christiansen Norway | 48.24 | Wang Xiutin China | 50.18 | Zoya Ivanova the USSR | 50.28 |
| 15 km (teams) | the USSR Zoya Ivanova Ekaterina Khramenkova Lyudmila Matveeva Marina Rodchenkova | 21 points | China Wang Xiutin Zhong Huandi Van huabi Lee Xuxia | 31 points | Portugal Conseissan ferreira Albertina Dias Albertina Mashadu | 37 points |
Notes
- β Results Plus , The New York Times (March 27, 1988). Archived on November 10, 2018. Date of treatment November 10, 2018.
Literature
- Soviet runners - again the first // Athletics: magazine. - 1988. - No. 5 (396) . - S. 2 (reg.) .
Links
- Martin Rix IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships . GBRAthletics.com. - A list of winners of the women's world championships in highway running (1983-1991). Date of treatment November 10, 2018. Archived on February 3, 2018.
- 1988 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships Results . ARRS. - Complete competition results. Date of treatment November 10, 2018. Archived November 10, 2018.