The 1990

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 World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur At ...

was the eighth, and penultimate, edition of the annual international

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competition organised by the

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(IAAF). The competition was hosted by Ireland on 14 October 1990 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. Romania's Iulia Olteanu won the race in a time of 50:11.8 – the slowest winning time recorded at the competition's history.

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of the United States was the silver medallist and Chinese runner

Zhong Huandi Zhong Huandi (; born 28 June 1967 in Yunnan) is a retired Chinese long-distance runner who concentrated on the 3000 and 10,000 metres, and later the marathon. She became a four-time Asian champion and two-time World Championships silver medalist ...

took bronze to feature on the podium for a second year running.

Aurora Cunha Aurora Cunha (born 31 May 1959, in Ronfe, near Guimarães) is a retired long-distance runner from Portugal, living in Póvoa de Varzim. From 1984 to 1992 she represented her native country in three consecutive Olympic Games. Cunha's greatest succe ...

led Portugal to the team title, as she had in

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, with support from

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and Lucilia Soares. The Soviet Union reached the team podium for a fifth time in as many years through the efforts of

Nadezhda Stepanova Nadezhda Stepanova (married name ''Nadezhda Galyamova'', russian: Надежда Степанова; born 22 July 1959) is a Russian former long-distance runner. Her sole international medals of note came at the 1989 IAAF World Cross Country Cham ...

Valentina Yegorova Valentina Mikhailovna Yegorova (russian: Валентина Михайловна Егорова, born 16 February 1964) is a long-distance runner from Russia. She was born in Cheboksary. Her first medal in the marathon came at the 1990 European ...

and Lyudmila Matveyeva. A unified German team entered for the first time and former East German Katrin Dörre led the team to third place in the team rankings with former West Germans Kerstin Pressler and Christina Mai.1990 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships

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. Retrieved 2018-02-11.

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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 ...

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International athletics competitions hosted by Ireland Women's sport in Ireland