title: 1985 World Marathon Cup
text: # 1985 World Marathon Cup
  
  The 1985 World Marathon Cup was the first edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Hiroshima, Japan.
  
  ## 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 |
  