The IAAF World Marathon Cup was an international event organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations every two years.

From 1997 until 2011 (its final year) it was incorporated with IAAF World Championships in Athletics.^[1] The competition is defunct, Daegu 2011 was the last edition.^[2]

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1985	Djibouti Hussein Ahmed Salah Djama Robleh Omar Abdillahi Charmarke	6:27:08	Japan Takeyuki Nakayama Takeshi So Shigeru So	6:31:43	Ethiopia Abebe Mekonnen Kebede Balcha Dereje Nedi	6:32:46
1987	Italy 3. Salvatore Bettiol 4. Salvatore Nicosia 5. Osvaldo Faustini	6:36:38	Japan Taisuke Kodama Kazuyoshi Kudo Yoshihiro Nishimura	6:39:23	France Alain Lazare Jacques Marechet Alexandre Gonzalez	6:43:46
1989	Ethiopia Metaferia Zeleke Dereje Nedi Wami Alemayehu	6:37:20	Italy 3. Gianni Poli 7. Salvatore Bettiol 14. Osvaldo Faustini	6:37:51	France Dominique Chauvelier Bertrand Itsweire Alexandre Gonzalez	6:38:51
1991	United Kingdom David Long Stephen Brace David Buzza	6:34:59	Portugal Manuel Matias Joaquim Pinheiro Antonio Godinho	6:35:55	Poland Jan Huruk Sławomir Gurny Wiesław Perszke	6:36:12
1993	Ethiopia Gemechu Kebede Becho Tadesse Tumo Turbo	6:31:17	Italy 2. Severino Bernardini 8. Luca Barzaghi 13. Walter Durbano	6:32:41	United Kingdom Richard Nerurkar David Buzza Andrew Green	6:34:06
1995	Italy 3. Davide Milesi 6. Marco Gozzano 7. Roberto Crosio	6:43:42	France Jean-Marie Gehin Dominique Chauvelier Pascal Fetizon	6:48:47	Spain José Ramón Torres Bartolomé Serrano ?	6:51:05
1997	Spain Abel Antón Martín Fiz Fabián Roncero	6:43:30	Italy 4. Danilo Goffi 6. Giacomo Leone 30. Francesco Ingargiola	6:55:33	Brazil Luíz Antônio dos Santos Vanderlei de Lima Osmiro Silva	7:02:56
1999	Italy 2. Vincenzo Modica 5. Danilo Goffi 10. Daniele Caimmi	6:45:16	Japan	6:45:42	Ethiopia	6:50:11
2001	Ethiopia	6:43:32	Japan	6:48:36	Italy 3. Stefano Baldini 11. Giacomo Leone 17. Alberico Di Cecco	6:51:56
2003	Japan	6:30:43	Italy 3. Stefano Baldini 6. Daniele Caimmi 22. Alberico Di Cecco	6:32:19	South Africa	6:35:54
2005	Japan	6:38:39	Kenya	6:46:38	Ethiopia	6:52:14
2007	Japan	6:54:23	South Korea	7:12:08	Kenya	7:12:33
2009	Kenya	6:25:28	Ethiopia	6:32:06	Japan	6:41:05
2011	Kenya	6:29:23	Japan	6:41:13	Morocco	6:42:18

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1985	Italy 4. Laura Fogli 6. Rita Marchisio 11. Emma Scaunich	7:51:27	Soviet Union 2. Zoya Ivanova 10. Raisa Smekhnova Nadia Ushanova	7:53:22	East Germany 1. Katrin Dörre 19. Birgit Weinhold 22. Gabriele Martins	8:00:02
1987	Soviet Union Zoya Ivanova Tatyana Gridnyeva Yekaterina Khramenkova	7:34:39	East Germany Katrin Dörre Uta Pippig Annette Fincke	7:42:10	France Maria Rebelo Françoise Bonnet Jocelyne Villeton	7:46:41
1989	Soviet Union Yekaterina Khramenkova Irina Yagodina Valentina Yegorova	7:51:29	United States Susan Marchiano Gordon Bakoulis Charlotte Thomas	7:56:17	China Li Juan Li Yemei Xie Lihua	7:57:07
1991	Soviet Union Valentina Yegorova Ramilya Burangulova Tatyana Zuyeva	7:30:21	Italy 10. Anna Villani 11. Antonella Bizioli 13. Laura Fogli	7:36:37	France Maria Rebelo Françoise Bonnet Marie-Helene Ohier	7:38:51
1993	China Wang Junxia Zhang Linli Zhang Lirong	7:27:43	Spain Maria-Luisa Muñoz Monica Pont Rocio Rios	7:33:55	Russia Firiya Sultanova Olga Michurina Tatyana Pentukova	7:44:07
1995	Romania Anuța Catuna Lidia Șimon Cristina Pomacu	7:35:05	Russia Larisa Zyusko Nadezhda Wijenberg Marina Belyayeva	7:47:39	Italy 4. Ornella Ferrara 15. Maura Viceconte 16. Antonella Bizioli	7:50:46
1997	Japan Hiromi Suzuki Takako Tobise Nobuko Fujimura	7:38:57	Romania Lidia Șimon Anuța Cătună Aurica Buia	7:52:18	Italy 3. Ornella Ferrara 13. Franca Fiacconi 24. Laura Fogli	7:56:31
1999	Japan	7:27:52	Romania	7:34:37	Germany	7:35:41
2001	Japan	7:22:36	Russia	7:26:00	Romania	7:29:44
2003	Japan	7:14:48	Ethiopia	7:24:56	Russia	7:31:04
2005	Kenya	7:12:37	Japan	7:16:35	United Kingdom	7:27:04
2007	Kenya	7:35:02	China	7:35:52	Japan	7:37:39
2009	China	7:17:02	Japan	7:22:15	Russia	7:24:42
2011	Kenya	7:26:57	China	7:31:34	Ethiopia	7:32:20

Men

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	3	5	1	9
2	Italy (ITA)	3	4	1	8
3	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	1	3	7
4	Kenya (KEN)	2	1	1	4
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	1	2
7	Djibouti (DJI)	1	0	0	1
8	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
9	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
11	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		14	14	14	42

Women

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	2	1	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	0	4
3	Kenya (KEN)	3	0	0	3
4	China (CHN)	2	2	1	5
5	Romania (ROM)	1	2	1	4
6	Italy (ITA)	1	1	2	4
7	Russia (RUS)	0	2	3	5
8	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	1	2
	Ethiopia (ETH)	0	1	1	2
10	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
12	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
13	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		14	14	14	42

• IAAF Continental Cup
• European Marathon Cup

• World Athletics official site (formerly known as IAAF)
• IAAF WORLD MARATHON CUP at GBR Athletics
• IAAF World Cup Marathon - Individual Medalists/Dates/Venues