Tokyo (Japan)
23rd August - 1st September 1991
(Olympic Stadium)
100 m - 27-08-1991
1. Katrin Krabbe - Germany - 10.99
2. Gwen Torrence - USA - 11.03
3. Merlene Ottey - Jamaica - 11.06
200 m - 30-08-1991
1. Katrin Krabbe - Germany - 22.09
2. Gwen Torrence - USA - 22.16
3. Merlene Ottey - Jamaica - 22.21
400 m - 27-08-1991
1. Marie-José Pérec - France - 49.13
2. Grit Breuer - Germany - 49.42
3. Sandra Myers - Spain - 49.78
800 m - 26-08-1991
1. Liliya Nurutdinova - Soviet Union - 1:57.50
2. Ana Fidelia Quirot - Cuba - 1:57.55
3. Ella Kovacs - Romania - 1:57.58
1500 m - 31-08-1991
1. Hassiba Boulmerka - Algeria - 4:02.21
2. Tetyana Dorovskikh - Soviet Union - 4:02.58
3. Lyudmila Rogachova - Soviet Union - 4:02.72
3000 m - 26-08-1991
1. Tetyana Dorovskikh - Soviet Union - 8:35.82
2. Yelena Romanova - Soviet Union - 8:36.06
3. Susan Sirma - Kenya - 8:39.41
10000 m - 20-08-1991
1. Liz McColgan - Great Britain - 31:14.31
2. Zhong Huandi - China - 31:35.08
3. Wang Xiuting - China - 31:35.99
marathon - 25-08-1991
1. Wanda Panfil - Poland - 2:29:53
2. Sachiko Yamashita - Japan - 2:29:57
3. Katrin Dörre - Germany - 2:30:10
100 m hurdles - 30-08-1991
1. Lyudmila Narozhilenko - Soviet Union - 12.59
2. Gail Devers - USA - 12.63
3. Nataliya Grygoryeva - Soviet Union - 12.69
400m hurdles - 29-08-1991
1. Tatyana Ledovskaya - Soviet Union - 53.11
( Championship record)
2. Sally Gunnell - Great Britain - 53.16
3. Janeene Vickers - USA - 53.47
10 km walk - 24-08-1991
1. Alina Ivanova - Soviet Union - 42:57
( Championship record)
2. Madelein Svensson - Sweden - 43:13
3. Sari Essayah - Finland - 43:13
4 x 100 m - 01-09-1991
1. Jamaica - 41.94
(Dahlia Duhaney, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Ottey)
2. Soviet Union - 42.20
(Natalya Kovtun, Galina Malchugina, Yelena Vinogradova, Irina Privalova)
3. Germany - 42.33
(Grit Breuer, Katrin Krabbe, Sabine Richter, Heike Daute-Drechsler)
4 x 400 m - 01-09-1991
1. Soviet Union - 3:18.43
(Tatyana Ledovskaya, Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Nazarova, Olha Vladykina-Bryzhina)
2. United States - 3:20.15
(Rochelle Stevens, Diane Dixon, Jearl Miles, Lillie Leatherwood)
3. Germany - 3:21.25
(Uta Rohländer, Katrin Krabbe, Christine Wachtel, Grit Breuer)
long jump - 25-08-1991
1. Jackie Joyner-Kersee - USA - 7,32 m
2. Heike Drechsler - Germany - 7,29 m
3. Larysa Berezhna - Soviet Union - 7,11 m
high jump - 31-08-1991
1. Heike Henkel - Germany - 2,05 m
2. Yelena Yelesina - Soviet Union - 1,98 m
3. Inha Babakova - Soviet Union - 1,96 m
shot put - 24-08-1991
1. Huang Zhihong - China - 20,83 m
2. Natalya Lisovskaya - Soviet Union - 20,29 m
3. Svetlana Krivelyova - Soviet Union - 20,16 m
discus throw - 31-08-1991
1. Tsvetanka Khristova - Bulgaria - 71,02 m
2. Ilke Wyludda - Germany - 69,12 m
3. Larisa Mikhalchenko - Soviet Union - 68,26 m
javelin throw - 01-09-1991
1. Xu Demei - China - 68,78 m
2. Petra Felke-Meier - Germany - 68,68 m
3. Silke Renk - Germany - 66,80 m
heptathlon - 26/27-08-1991
1. Sabine Braun - Germany - 6672 points
2. Liliana Nastase - Romania - 6493 points
3. Irina Belova - Soviet Union - 6448 points
