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World Cross Country Championships - Results Women 1981
Spain - Madrid - 28 March 1981
Women's Cross - 28 March 1981
| 1 |  Grete Waitz (NOR) | 14:07 |
| 2 |  Janice Merrill (USA) | 14:22 |
| 3 |  Yelena Sipatova (URS) | 14:22 |
Women's Cross team event - 28 March 1981
| 1 | Soviet Union (Yelena Sipatova, Tatyana Sychova, Svetlana Ulmasova, Tatyana Pozdnyakova) | 24 |
| 2 | United States (Janice Merrill, Betty Springs, Julie Shea, Mary Shea) | 36 |
| 3 |  Italy (Agnese Possamai, Cristina Tomasini, Silvana Cruciata, Alba Milana) | 89 |
| 4 |  New Zealand | 90 |
| 5 |  Canada | 96 |
| 6 |  England | 106 |
| 7 | Norway | 123 |
| 8 |  Ireland | 167 |
