1985 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1985 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	12th
Date	September 28–29
Host city	St. John's, Isle of Man
Nations participating	18
Athletes participating	158
Races	3
← 1983 Bergen 1987 New York City →

The 1985 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 28 and 29 September 1985 in the streets of St John's, Isle of Man. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
Men's 20 km walk	José Marín  Spain	1:21:42	Maurizio Damilano  Italy	1:21:43	Viktor Mostovik  Soviet Union	1:22:01
Men's 50 km walk	Hartwig Gauder  East Germany	3:47:31	Andrey Perlov  Soviet Union	3:49:23	Axel Noack  East Germany	3:56:53
Lugano Cup (Men)
Team (Men)	East Germany	234 pts	Soviet Union	234 pts	Italy	233 pts
Women
Women's 10 km walk	Yan Hong  China	46:22	Guan Ping  China	46:23	Olga Krishtop  Soviet Union Aleksandra Grigoryeva  Soviet Union	46:24
Eschborn Cup (Women)
Team (Women)	China	104 pts	Soviet Union	98 pts	Canada	74 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	José Marín  ESP	1:21:42
02 !	Maurizio Damilano  ITA	1:21:43
03 !	Viktor Mostovik  URS	1:22:01
4	Roland Wieser  GDR	1:23:39
5	Guillaume LeBlanc  CAN	1:23:51
6	Sergey Protishin  URS	1:23:54
7	Miguel Ángel Prieto  ESP	1:24:04
8	Carlo Mattioli  ITA	1:24:14
9	Nikolay Polozov  URS	1:24:37
10	Pavol Blažek  TCH	1:24:51
11	Anatoliy Gorshkov  URS	1:25:00
12	Simon Baker  AUS	1:25:32
13	Roman Mrázek  TCH	1:25:42
14	Werner Heyer  GDR	1:25:58
15	Alessandro Pezzatini  ITA	1:26:17
16	Jacek Herok  POL	1:26:41
17	Ralf Kowalsky  GDR	1:26:51
18	Héctor Moreno  COL	1:26:54
19	Jan Kłos  POL	1:27:10
20	Ian McCombie  GBR	1:27:15
21	Antonio González  ESP	1:27:26
22	Jacek Bednarek  POL	1:28:10
23	Martin Rush  GBR	1:28:12
24	Zdzisław Szlapkin  POL	1:28:45
25	Andrej Rubarth  GDR	1:28:51
26	Paul Wick  USA	1:28:54
27	Andrew Jachno  AUS	1:29:00
28	Tim Lewis  USA	1:30:02
30	Stefan Johansson  SWE	1:30:23
31	Todd Scully  USA	1:30:31
32	Jaroslav Makovec  TCH	1:31:05
33	Ricardo Lamprena  COL	1:31:14
34	Walter Arena  ITA	1:31:24
35	Ulf-Peter Sjöholm  SWE	1:31:27
36	Philip Vesty  GBR	1:31:38
37	Abdel Wahab Ferguène  ALG	1:32:51
38	Querubín Moreno  COL	1:32:59
39	Daniel Levesque  CAN	1:33:15
40	Andrés Marín  ESP	1:33:20
41	Mark Easton  GBR	1:33:24
44	Michel Lafortune  CAN	1:34:57
45	Andy Kaestner  USA	1:35:11
46	Clodomiro Moreno  COL	1:35:35
47	Paul Turpin  CAN	1:36:10
49	Thomas Pomozi  SWE	1:37:39
50	Benamar Kechkouche  ALG	1:37:57
51	Michael Harvey  AUS	1:39:03
52	Abderrahmane Djébbar  ALG	1:40:52
53	Pius Munyasia  KEN	1:42:29
54	Mohamed Bouhalla  ALG	1:43:14
55	John Mutinda  KEN	1:54:32
—	Dave Smith  AUS	DQ
—	Sándor Kanya  HUN	DQ
—	Imre Stankovics  HUN	DQ
—	János Szálas  HUN	DQ
—	John Maundu  KEN	DQ
—	Jan Staaf  SWE	DQ
—	Igor Kollár  TCH	DQ
—	Jozef Pribilinec  TCH	DQ
—	Li Baoyin  CHN	DNF
—	Qian Ku  CHN	DNF
—	Sun Xiaoguang  CHN	DNF
—	Zhang Fuxin  CHN	DNF

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Hartwig Gauder  GDR	3:47:31
02 !	Andrey Perlov  URS	3:49:23
03 !	Axel Noack  GDR	3:56:53
4	Alessandro Bellucci  ITA	3:58:22
5	Raffaello Ducceschi  ITA	3:59:55
6	Dietmar Meisch  GDR	4:00:03
7	Valeriy Suntsov  URS	4:01:31
8	Jorge Llopart  ESP	4:02:55
9	Manuel Alcalde  ESP	4:04:52
10	Massimo Quiriconi  ITA	4:05:35
11	Willi Sawall  AUS	4:06:38
12	Gregorz Ledzion  POL	4:08:07
13	Qian Ku  CHN	4:08:23
14	Pavol Jati  TCH	4:09:16
15	Venyamin Nikolayev  URS	4:09:37
16	Marco Evoniuk  USA	4:11:03
17	Les Morton  GBR	4:11:32
18	Dennis Jackson  GBR	4:12:11
19	Carl Schueler  USA	4:13:14
20	Giorgio Damilano  ITA	4:14:56
21	Ivo Pták  TCH	4:14:43
22	Zhang Fuxin  CHN	4:16:23
23	Pavel Szikora  TCH	4:16:55
24	Zbigniew Wiśniowski  POL	4:17:43
25	Li Baoyin  CHN	4:19:46
26	Martin Archambault  CAN	4:21:46
27	Rafael Espejo  ESP	4:23:56
28	Pierre Ekvall  SWE	4:25:09
29	Paul Blagg  GBR	4:26:21
30	Christer Forsström  SWE	4:26:21
31	Mauricio Cortés  COL	4:28:19
32	Dan OʼConnor  USA	4:28:34
33	Ian Fay  AUS	4:29:16
34	Randy Mimm  USA	4:31:14
35	Zbigniew Sadlej  POL	4:34:52
36	Josef Hudak  TCH	4:35:19
37	Sun Xiaoguang  CHN	4:38:13
38	Samuel Ginés  ESP	4:39:46
39	Barry Graham  GBR	4:48:27
40	Enrique Peña  COL	4:51:44
41	Ernesto Alfaro  COL	4:55:27
42	Harry Summers  AUS	4:56:58
43	Rashid Chege  KEN	5:00:51
44	Mark Henderson  CAN	5:02:31
—	Bill Dyer  AUS	DQ
—	François Lapointe  CAN	DQ
—	William Sawe  KEN	DQ
—	Bo Gustafsson  SWE	DQ
—	Abdel Wahab Ferguène  ALG	DNF
—	Benamar Kechkouche  ALG	DNF
—	Ronald Weigel  GDR	DNF
—	Bohdan Bułakowski  POL	DNF
—	Roland Nilsson  SWE	DNF

Team (Men)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	East Germany	234 pts
02 !	Soviet Union	234 pts
03 !	Italy	233 pts
4	Spain	206 pts
5	Czechoslovakia	170 pts
6	Poland	154 pts
7	United Kingdom	141 pts
8	United States	135 pts
9	Australia	124 pts
10	Colombia	101 pts
11	Canada	93 pts
12	Sweden	82 pts
13	China	80 pts
14	Algeria	30 pts
15	Kenya	20 pts
—	Hungary	DQ
—	Mexico	DNS

Women's 10 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Yan Hong  CHN	46:22
02 !	Guan Ping  CHN	46:23
03 !	Olga Krishtop  URS	46:24
	Aleksandra Grigoryeva  URS	46:24
5	Xu Yongjiu  CHN	46:32
6	Vera Osipova  URS	46:41
7	Ann Peel  CAN	46:31
8	Li Sujie  CHN	46:51
9	Natalya Serbiyenko  URS	46:55
10	Kerry Saxby-Junna  AUS	47:11
11	Ann Jansson  SWE	47:16
12	Dana Vavřačová  TCH	47:41
13	Janice McCaffrey  CAN	48:10
14	Susan Orr-Cook  AUS	48:17
15	Monica Gunnarsson  SWE	48:20
16	Maria Grazia Cogoli  ITA	48:38
17	Antonella Marangoni  ITA	48:42
18	Sirkka Oikarinen  FIN	48:50
19	Gunhild Kristiansen  DEN	49:06
20	Maryanne Torellas  USA	49:08
21	Alison Baker  CAN	49:12
22	Mari Cruz Díaz  ESP	49:19
23	María Reyes Sobrino  ESP	49:31
24	Teresa Vaill  USA	49:37
25	Lisa Langford  GBR	49:45
26	Lorraine Young-Jachno  AUS	50:06
27	Helena Åström  FIN	50:26
28	Helen Elleker  GBR	50:28
29	Debbi Lawrence  USA	50:29
30	Emilia Cano  ESP	50:54
31	Sue Narbey  AUS	51:03
32	Jana Zárubová  TCH	51:16
33	Karin Jensen  DEN	51:30
34	Micheline Daneau  CAN	51:45
35	Esther Lopez  USA	51:55
36	Maria Sehlin  SWE	51:56
37	Margareta Olsson  SWE	52:06
38	Mirva Hämäläinen  FIN	52:14
39	Beverley Allen  GBR	52:16
40	Rosanna Feroldi  ITA	52:38
41	Pier Carola Pagani  ITA	53:05
42	Lene Cassidy  DEN	53:36
43	Karen Nipper  GBR	53:53
44	Marta Hrubanová  TCH	54:58
45	Dana Semelová  TCH	55:05
—	Rosa Sierra  ESP	DQ
—	Ulla Kristiansen  DEN	DNF
—	Sari Essayah  FIN	DNF

Team (Women)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	China	104 pts
02 !	Soviet Union	98 pts
03 !	Canada	74 pts
4	Australia	67 pts
5	Sweden	58 pts
6	Italy	48 pts
7	United States	44 pts
8	Spain	42 pts
9	Finland	38 pts
10	Czechoslovakia	36 pts
11	Denmark	29 pts
12	United Kingdom	29 pts

Participation

The participation of 158 athletes (110 men/48 women) from countries is reported.^[1]

Qualifying Rounds

In 1985, there were qualifying rounds for both men's and women's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final.

Men

This year, the Soviet Union, Italy, México, the United Kingdom, the United States, Algeria, Australia, China, Canada, Colombia, and Kenya proceeded directly to the final. México withdrew due to the Mexico City earthquake.

Zone 1 Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, France, June 22/23 Rank Nation Points 1  Spain 85 pts 2  Poland 85 pts 3  France 82 pts 4  Netherlands 37 pts 5  Belgium 37 pts 6  Luxembourg 15 pts

Zone 2 Borås, Sweden, June 15 Rank Nation Points 1  East Germany 62 pts 2  Sweden 40 pts 3  Finland 29 pts 3  Norway 27 pts

Zone 3 Russe, Bulgaria, June 22/23 Rank Nation Points 1  Czechoslovakia 99 pts 2  Hungary 74 pts 3  Bulgaria 45 pts 4  West Germany 44 pts 5  Greece 44 pts 6   Switzerland 28 pts

Women

This year, China, the Soviet Union, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 Borås, Sweden, June 15 Rank Nation Points 1  Sweden 20 pts 2  Finland 18 pts 3  Norway 8 pts —  United Kingdom * *: competed as non-scorers

Zone 2 Russe, Bulgaria, June 22 Rank Nation Points 1  Denmark 48 pts 2  Czechoslovakia 42 pts 3  West Germany 35 pts 4  Hungary 24 pts 5  Bulgaria 14 pts 6   Switzerland 9 pts

Zone 3 Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, France, June 2 Rank Nation Points 1  Spain 39 pts 2  Italy 34 pts 3  Poland 23 pts 4  France 19 pts 5  Belgium 6 pts

See also

• 1985 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

External links

• IAAF World Race Walking Cup 1961-2006 Facts & Figures - IAAF.org