The 1985 World Marathon Cup was the first edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Hiroshima, Japan.^[1]

Results

Men

Team men

#	Nations	Time
1	Djibouti Hussein Ahmed Salah Djama Robleh Omar Abdillahi Charmarke	6:27:08
2	Japan Takeyuki Nakayama Takeshi So Shigeru So	6:31:43
3	Ethiopia Abebe Mekonnen Kebede Balcha Dereje Nedi	6:32:46

Individual men

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (h:m:s)
1	Hussein Ahmed Salah	Djibouti (DJI)	2:08:09
2	Takeyuki Nakayama	Japan (JPN)	2:08:15
3	Djama Robleh	Djibouti (DJI)	2:08:26
4	Michael Heilmann	East Germany (GDR)	2:09:03
5	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:09:05
6	Orlando Pizzolato	Italy (ITA)	2:10:23
7	Omar Abdillahi Charmarke	Djibouti (DJI)	2:10:33
8	Takeshi So	Japan (JPN)	2:11:01
9	Massimo Magnani	Italy (ITA)	2:11:02
10	Juma Ikangaa	Tanzania (TAN)	2:11:06
11	Kebede Balcha	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:11:19
12	Gelindo Bordin	Italy (ITA)	2:11:29
13	Dean Matthews	United States (USA)	2:11:48
14	Herbert Steffny	West Germany (FRG)	2:11:49
15	Aldo Fantoni	Italy (ITA)	2:12:09
16	Dereje Nedi	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:12:22
17	Shigeru So	Japan (JPN)	2:12:27
18	Peter Pfitzinger	United States (USA)	2:12:28
19	Alain Lazare	France (FRA)	2:12:53
20	Daniel Nzioka	Kenya (KEN)	2:13:26
21	Dick Hooper	Ireland (IRL)	2:13:34
22	Luc Waegeman	Belgium (BEL)	2:13:49
23	Alessio Faustini	Italy (ITA)	2:13:55
24	Jong-Hyong Lee	North Korea (PRK)	2:13:56
25	Viktor Semyenov	Ukraine (UKR)	2:14:07
26	Eberhardt Weyel	West Germany (FRG)	2:14:22
27	Antoni Niemczak	Poland (POL)	2:14:30
28	Alfonso Abellán	Spain (ESP)	2:14:31
29	Istvan Kerekjarto	Hungary (HUN)	2:14:33
30	Yevgeniy Okorokov	Ukraine (UKR)	2:14:35
31	Mervyn Brameld	Great Britain (GBR)	2:14:36
32	Roy Dooney	Ireland (IRL)	2:14:38
33	Hugo Rey	Switzerland (SUI)	2:14:39
34	Paul Ballinger	New Zealand (NZL)	2:14:42
35	Franz Homberger	West Germany (FRG)	2:14:56
36	Jörg Peter	East Germany (GDR)	2:15:04
37	Zoltan Koszegi	Hungary (HUN)	2:15:17
38	Derek Froude	New Zealand (NZL)	2:15:32
39	Honorato Hernández	Spain (ESP)	2:15:48
40	Frantisek Visnicky	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2:15:53
41	John Burra	Tanzania (TAN)	2:15:59
42	Sergey Rudenko	Soviet Union (URS)	2:16:00
43	Jae-Song Yoo	South Korea (KOR)	2:16:04
44	Frank Konzack	East Germany (GDR)	2:16:07
45	Jean-Yves Madelon	France (FRA)	2:16:09
46	Stephen-Glenn Forster	Great Britain (GBR)	2:16:14
47	Graham Macky	New Zealand (NZL)	2:16:17
48	Fraser Clyne	Great Britain (GBR)	2:16:20
49	Mojmir Lanicek	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2:16:36
50	Willem Zegers	Netherlands (NED)	2:16:39
51	Elói Schleder	Brazil (BRA)	2:16:46
52	Taisuke Kodama	Japan (JPN)	2:16:51
53	Tommy Persson	Sweden (SWE)	2:16:54
54	Youssef Doukal	Djibouti (DJI)	2:16:57
55	Peter Lyrenmann	Switzerland (SUI)	2:17:18
56	Gino Braeckevelt	Belgium (BEL)	2:17:20
57	Herminio Martins	Portugal (POR)	2:17:21
58	Juan Zetina	Mexico (MEX)	2:17:27
59	Steven Poulton	Australia (AUS)	2:17:30
60	Xu Liang	China (CHN)	2:17:33
61	Victor Mudehwe	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	2:17:50
62	Georgios Afordakos	Greece (GRE)	2:17:56
63	Robert Wallace	Australia (AUS)	2:18:03
64	Klevestostenes Albuquerque	Brazil (BRA)	2:18:04
65	Jean-Jacques Padel	France (FRA)	2:18:06
66	Jose-Oscar Santos	Portugal (POR)	2:18:10
67	Jerzy Skarżyński	Poland (POL)	2:18:12
68	Luis Bautista	Venezuela (VEN)	2:18:18
69	Per Hoffmann	Denmark (DEN)	2:18:38
70	Dong-Myong Lee	North Korea (PRK)	2:18:41
71	Muya Wachira	Canada (CAN)	2:18:43
72	Michael Dyon	Canada (CAN)	2:19:00
73	James Fallon	Ireland (IRL)	2:19:00
74	Mergessa Tula	Ethiopia (ETH)	2:19:03
75	Richard Umberg	Switzerland (SUI)	2:19:09
76	Jeffrey Martin	Canada (CAN)	2:19:13
77	Kunimitsu Itō	Japan (JPN)	2:19:14
78	Jean-Michel Charbonnel	France (FRA)	2:19:18
79	Jürgen Eberding	East Germany (GDR)	2:19:25
80	Andras Mozes	Hungary (HUN)	2:19:28
81	Juan Camacho	Bolivia (BOL)	2:19:36
82	Paul Craig	Great Britain (GBR)	2:19:40
83	Wiktor Sawicki	Poland (POL)	2:19:57
84	Henryk Lupa	Poland (POL)	2:20:07
116	Wojciech Ratkowski	Poland (POL)	2:24:55
—	Mark Finucane	United States (USA)	DNF
—	Michael Pinocci	United States (USA)	DNF
—	Fred Torneden	United States (USA)	DNF

Women

Team women

#	Nations	Time
1	Italy Laura Fogli Rita Marchisio Emma Scaunich	7:51:27
2	Soviet Union Zoya Ivanova Raisa Smekhnova Nadezhda Usmanova	7:53:22
3	East Germany Katrin Dörre Birgit Stephan Gabriele Riemann	8:00:02

Individual women

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (h:m:s)
1	Katrin Dörre	East Germany (GDR)	2:33:30
2	Zoya Ivanova	Soviet Union (URS)	2:34:17
3	Karolina Szabó	Hungary (HUN)	2:34:57
4	Laura Fogli	Italy (ITA)	2:35:45
5	Kersti Jakobsen	Denmark (DEN)	2:35:56
6	Rita Marchisio	Italy (ITA)	2:35:59
7	Ľudmila Melicherová	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2:36:26
8	Véronique Marot	Great Britain (GBR)	2:37:04
9	Eriko Asai	Japan (JPN)	2:37:18
10	Raisa Smekhnova	Soviet Union (URS)	2:37:31
11	Emma Scaunich	Italy (ITA)	2:39:41
12	Maria Curatolo	Italy (ITA)	2:40:09
13	Françoise Bonnet	France (FRA)	2:40:18
14	Sylvie Bornet	France (FRA)	2:40:31
15	Solweig Harrysson	Sweden (SWE)	2:41:05
16	Nadezhda Usmanova	Soviet Union (URS)	2:41:32
17	Chie Matsuda	Japan (JPN)	2:41:47
18	Xiao Hongyan	China (CHN)	2:41:56
19	Birgit Stephan	East Germany (GDR)	2:42:49
20	Magda Ilands	Belgium (BEL)	2:43:13
21	Mercedes Calleja	Spain (ESP)	2:43:39
22	Gabriele Riemann	East Germany (GDR)	2:43:43
23	Sylviane Levesque	France (FRA)	2:43:48
24	Dorothy Goertzen	Canada (CAN)	2:44:10
25	Barbara McKerrow	Australia (AUS)	2:44:23
26	Birgit Lennartz	East Germany (GDR)	2:44:41
27	Maria-Luisa Irizar	Spain (ESP)	2:45:28
28	Yuko Gordon	Hong Kong (HKG)	2:45:29
29	Nancy Ditz	United States (USA)	2:45:52
30	Denise Verhaert	Belgium (BEL)	2:46:07
31	Deborah Raunig	United States (USA)	2:46:12
32	Alba Milana	Italy (ITA)	2:46:21
33	Evy Palm	Sweden (SWE)	2:46:50
34	Grazyna Mierzejewska	Poland (POL)	2:47:05
35	Margaret Lockley	Great Britain (GBR)	2:47:15
36	Ma Liqin	China (CHN)	2:48:17
37	Consuelo Alonso	Spain (ESP)	2:48:28
38	Desiree Letherby	Australia (AUS)	2:48:43
39	Tracy Robinson	Canada (CAN)	2:49:06
40	Yoshiko Hirohama	Japan (JPN)	2:49:17
41	Gillian Castka	Great Britain (GBR)	2:49:36
42	Lutsia Belyayeva	Soviet Union (URS)	2:49:48
43	Mora Main	Australia (AUS)	2:50:25
44	Gillian Horovitz	Great Britain (GBR)	2:50:36
45	Angélica de Almeida	Brazil (BRA)	2:50:43
46	Susan Kainulainen	Canada (CAN)	2:51:15
47	Tina Wild	New Zealand (NZL)	2:51:20
48	Margaret Reddan	Australia (AUS)	2:52:30
49	Maria Rebelo	France (FRA)	2:52:47
50	Angelika Dunke	East Germany (GDR)	2:53:27
51	Sachiko Ishida	Japan (JPN)	2:53:46
52	Deirdre Nagle	Ireland (IRL)	2:53:52
53	Antonia Ladanyine	Hungary (HUN)	2:54:08
54	Winnie Lai-chu Ng	Hong Kong (HKG)	2:54:42
55	?	?
56	?	?
57	Kathy Ricica	Canada (CAN)	2:55:20
60?	Christine Kennedy	Ireland (IRL)	2:56:04
65?	Ailish Smyth	Ireland (IRL)	3:01:04
73	Elena Murgoci	Romania (ROM)	3:04:12
75?	Czeslawa Mentlewicz	Poland (POL)	3:05:09
—	Carol McLatchie	United States (USA)	DNF
—	Lorraine Moller	New Zealand (NZL)	DNF
—	Gabriela Gorzynska	Poland (POL)	DNF
—	Renata Walendziak	Poland (POL)	DNF
—	Ewa Wrzosek	Poland (POL)	DNF

References

Results

• IAAF World Marathon Cup Results Men. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
• IAAF World Marathon Cup Results Women. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-03-22.

External links

• (in Spanish) Copa del Mundo de marathon en Hiroshima