The 1989

IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships The IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was an annual international athletics championship in road running organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (then known as the International Amateur Athletics Federation). It ...

was the seventh edition of the annual international

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competition organised by the

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(IAAF). The competition was hosted by Brazil on 24 September 1989 in

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and featured one race only: a 15K run for women. There were individual and team awards available, with the national team rankings being decided by the combined finishing positions of a team's top three runners. Countries with fewer than three finishers were not ranked. The race was won by Wang Xiuting of China, who had been runner-up to

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the previous year. She ran 49:34 minutes to finish ten seconds ahead of the runner-up, teammate

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, with former champion

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of Portugal in third place. With Wang Huabi in seventh, the Chinese team achieved a championship record-low score of ten points. The Portuguese women achieved the lowest non-winning score in championship history, with 15 points, with Cunha being followed home by fourth placed Albertina Machado and

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in eighth. Showing the dominance of the race by a handful of nations, a Yekaterina Khramenkova-led Soviet Union also achieved the lowest ever score for third place on 24 points.1989 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

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. Retrieved 2018-02-11.

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