The 1985 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships was the third edition of the annual international road running competition organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF). The competition was hosted by the United Kingdom on 3 November 1985, in Gateshead and featured one race only: a 15K run for women. This was the first time that the distance was contested at the championships, having previously been a 10K run, and this was a permanent change. 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.IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
The race was won by Portugal's Aurora Cunha in a time of 49:17 minutes, completing a successful defence of her title from 1984. Judi St. Hilaire of the United States finished eight seconds later in second place, while Great Britain's Carole Bradford came third for a second year running. As she had the year before, Bradford led the British women to the team title (alongside fifth place Paula Fudge and Wendy Sly in eleventh). The Soviet Union's team, featuring Lyudmila Matveyeva in fourth and two other top ten finishers in Mariya Vasilyuk and Yelena Sipatova, was just one point behind in the team race. St Hilaire helped the American women to the bronze medal team position (backed up by Nancy Ditz and Carol McLatchie).
Results Individual RankAthleteCountryTime (m:s) Aurora Cunha 49:17 Judi St. Hilaire 49:25 Carole Bradford 49:594 Lyudmila Matveyeva 50:285 Paula Fudge 50:366 Donna Gould 50:427 Mariya Vasilyuk 50:568 Anna Villani 51:009 Yelena Sipatova 51:0810 Ellen Wessinghage 51:2911 Wendy Sly 51:4012 Dorthe Rasmussen 51:4813 Tatyana Bultot 51:5114 Jill Rothwell 51:5315 Christina Mai 51:5416 Nancy Ditz 51:5717 Ann Ford 52:0118 Elizabeth Franzis 52:0619 Carol McLatchie 52:1320 Mami Fukao 52:1821 Conceição Ferreira 52:2022 Danièle Kaber 52:2323 Rosanna Munerotto 52:3024 Elly van Hulst 52:3225 Antonella Bizioli 52:3526 Yvonne Murray 52:3827 Lucilia Soares 52:4028 Sinikka Keskitalo 52:4329 Jiang Zhourong 52:4530 Susan Schneider 52:5131 Jocelyne Villeton 52:5232 Sheila Purves 53:0533 Xiao Hongyan 53:0834 Maria Rebelo 53:0935 Gabriela Górzyńska 53:1136 Ailish Smyth 53:1537 Sirkku Kumpulainen 53:1738 Megan-Louise Sloane 53:1839 Françoise Bonnet 53:3540 Kristiina Iisakkila 53:3741 Ľudmila Melicherová 53:4042 Sylviane Levesque 53:4243 Christine Kennedy 53:4544 Maria-Luisa Irizar 53:5245 Kerstin Pressler 54:0146 Mette Holm 54:0447 Nikolina Shtereva 54:0848 Aino-Maria Slej 54:1149 Carolien Lucas 54:1350 Malgorzata Szuminska 54:1551 Jenny Lund 54:2052 Deirdre Nagle 54:2153 Albertina Dias 54:3154 Henrietta Fina 54:3255 Maria-Esther Pedrosa 54:3656 ? 57 Tuija Toivonen 55:0258 Odette Lapierre 55:1159 Ewa Wrzosek 55:1361 Anna Iskra 55:5362 ? 63 Gitte Karlshøj 56:0065 Maryse Justin 57:0166 ? 67 Consuelo Alonso 57:11
Team Rank Team Points Carole BradfordPaula FudgeWendy Sly 19 pts Lyudmila MatveyevaMariya VasilyukYelena Sipatova 20 pts Judi St HilaireNancy DitzCarol McLatchie 36 pts
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