1992 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

1992 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	1st
Date	September 19-20
Host city	Newcastle upon Tyne to South Shields, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Events	3
Participation	204 athletes from 36 nations
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The 1st IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on September 19 and 20, 2001 in Tyneside, UK, and was run simultaneously with that year's Great North Run. A total of 204 athletes, 96 men, 84 women and 24 juniors, from 36 countries took part. Complete results were published.^[1]

Though this competition was the first of its kind, it followed on from the 1991 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships, which was held over the 15K distance.

Medallists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Benson Masya (KEN)	1:00:24	Antonio Silio (ARG)	1:00:40	Boay Akonay (TAN)	1:00:45
Junior (Boys)	(ETH)	1:04:51	(RSA)	1:05:01	Francesco Ingargiola (ITA)	1:05:18
Women	Liz McColgan (GBR)	1:08:53	Megumi Fujiwara (JPN)	1:09:21	Rosanna Munerotto (ITA)	1:09:38
Team
Team Men	Kenya	3:02:25	United Kingdom	3:04:54	Brazil	3:05:56
Team Junior (Boys)	Italy	3:17:39	Ethiopia	3:18:56	South Africa	3:20:04
Team Women	Japan	3:30:39	United Kingdom	3:33:03	Romania	3:33:27

Results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Benson Masya	Kenya	1:00:24
	Antonio Silio	Argentina	1:00:40
	Boay Akonay	Tanzania	1:00:45
4	Lameck Aguta	Kenya	1:00:55
5	Joseph Keino	Kenya	1:01:06
6		Great Britain	1:01:17
7		Brazil	1:01:18
8	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	1:01:20
9	Cosmas Ndeti	Kenya	1:01:34
10	Paul Evans	Great Britain	1:01:38
11	Xolile Yawa	South Africa	1:01:48
12	Antoni Peña	Spain	1:01:48
13	Koichi Fujita	Japan	1:01:53
14	Francesco Panetta	Italy	1:01:55
15	Malcolm Norwood	Australia	1:01:56
16	Carl Thackery	Great Britain	1:01:59
17		United States	1:02:00
18	Luca Barzaghi	Italy	1:02:06
19		Japan	1:02:08
20	Ronaldo da Costa	Brazil	1:02:10
21		France	1:02:11
22	Melese Feissa	Ethiopia	1:02:14
23	Kamal Kohil	Algeria	1:02:25
24		Brazil	1:02:28
25	Severino Bernardini	Italy	1:02:28
26		Great Britain	1:02:29
27	Kenjiro Jitsui	Japan	1:02:33
28	Vincenzo Modica	Italy	1:02:33
29		Netherlands	1:02:33
30		France	1:02:37
31	Steve Brace	Great Britain	1:02:38
32	Róbert Štefko	Czechoslovakia	1:02:41
33	Luigi Di Lello	Italy	1:02:48
34		Japan	1:02:51
35		Kenya	1:02:55
36	Marti ten Kate	Netherlands	1:02:57
37		South Africa	1:03:03
38		South Africa	1:03:04
39	Alberto Juzdado	Spain	1:03:08
40		France	1:03:12
41		France	1:03:24
42		Netherlands	1:03:33
43		Japan	1:03:33
44		Germany	1:03:34
45		Mexico	1:03:46
46		Algeria	1:03:46
47		Ethiopia	1:03:47
48	Rafael Zepeda	Mexico	1:03:57
49		Belgium	1:03:59
50	Rodrigo Gavela	Spain	1:03:59
51	Gert Thys	South Africa	1:04:03
52	Mirko Vindiš	Slovenia	1:04:04
53		Norway	1:04:06
54		Norway	1:04:08
55	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	1:04:16
56		Germany	1:04:24
57		Ethiopia	1:04:25
58		United States	1:04:30
59		Slovenia	1:04:31
60	Noel Berkeley	Ireland	1:04:35
61		Sweden	1:04:38
62	Martin Vrábel	Czechoslovakia	1:04:39
63		United States	1:04:39
64	Roy Dooney	Ireland	1:04:41
65		France	1:04:45
66		Germany	1:04:45
67	Mohamed Selmi	Algeria	1:04:50
68	Roman Kejžar	Slovenia	1:04:51
69		Netherlands	1:04:52
70		Algeria	1:04:53
71	Matthews Motshwarateu	South Africa	1:04:54
72		Israel	1:04:56
73		Brazil	1:04:59
74	Zachariah Ditetso	Botswana	1:05:20
75		Denmark	1:05:23
76		Germany	1:05:24
77		Netherlands	1:05:46
78		Ireland	1:05:46
79		Spain	1:05:47
80		Denmark	1:05:48
81		Norway	1:05:51
82		Norway	1:05:52
83	Haji Bulbula	Ethiopia	1:05:55
84		Ethiopia	1:06:03
85		Puerto Rico	1:06:07
86		Belgium	1:06:12
87		Ireland	1:06:22
88		United States	1:06:52
89		Botswana	1:07:26
90		Belgium	1:08:16
91		Ivory Coast	1:08:27
92		Ivory Coast	1:09:13
93		Botswana	1:12:15
94	Salvador García	Mexico	1:13:19
—		Estonia	DNF
—	Mark Plaatjes	United States	DNF

Women's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	1:08:53
	Megumi Fujiwara	Japan	1:09:21
	Rosanna Munerotto	Italy	1:09:38
4	Anuța Cătună	Romania	1:10:25
5	Miyoko Asahina	Japan	1:10:27
6	Fatuma Roba	Ethiopia	1:10:28
7	Eriko Asai	Japan	1:10:51
8	Birgit Jerschabek	Germany	1:10:53
9	Nadezhda Ilyina	Commonwealth of Independent States	1:10:58
10	Iulia Negura	Romania	1:10:59
11		Japan	1:11:01
12	Andrea Wallace	Great Britain	1:11:21
13	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	1:11:22
14		United States	1:11:34
15		United States	1:11:43
16	Colleen de Reuck	South Africa	1:11:46
17	Alena Peterková	Czechoslovakia	1:11:53
18		France	1:11:59
19	Aurica Buia	Romania	1:12:03
20		United States	1:12:15
21	Bente Moe	Norway	1:12:20
22		Netherlands	1:12:23
23	Martha Ernstdóttir	Iceland	1:12:25
24	Maria Guida	Italy	1:12:26
25		Commonwealth of Independent States	1:12:27
26	Hilde Stavik	Norway	1:12:29
27	Judit Nagy	Hungary	1:12:43
28		Brazil	1:12:46
29	Carla Beurskens	Netherlands	1:12:46
30	Tatyana Titova	Commonwealth of Independent States	1:12:48
31	Suzanne Rigg	Great Britain	1:12:49
32	Emma Scaunich	Italy	1:12:53
33	Ritva Lemettinen	Finland	1:12:57
34	Kerstin Pressler	Germany	1:13:00
35	Wanda Panfil	Poland	1:13:01
36		France	1:13:09
37	Marian Sutton	Great Britain	1:13:09
38	Adriana Barbu	Romania	1:13:14
39	Rocío Ríos	Spain	1:13:23
40		Denmark	1:13:25
41	Gabriela Wolf	Germany	1:13:28
42	Grete Kirkeberg	Norway	1:13:30
43		United States	1:13:30
44		Commonwealth of Independent States	1:13:45
45	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain	1:13:49
46		South Africa	1:13:53
47		Ireland	1:13:57
48		United States	1:13:58
49		France	1:14:04
50		Netherlands	1:14:06
51		South Africa	1:14:07
52		Spain	1:14:08
53		Denmark	1:14:10
54	Anne van Schuppen	Netherlands	1:14:14
55	Isabella Moretti	Switzerland	1:14:25
56		Slovenia	1:14:25
57		Brazil	1:14:29
58	Sally Eastall	Great Britain	1:14:33
59		Germany	1:15:17
60	Maria Lelut	France	1:15:25
61		South Africa	1:15:26
62		Ethiopia	1:15:29
63	María Luisa Muñoz	Spain	1:15:44
64	Nelly Glauser	Switzerland	1:15:58
65		Sweden	1:16:07
66	Jocelyne Villeton	France	1:16:19
67		Spain	1:16:39
68		Netherlands	1:16:47
69		Hungary	1:16:51
70	Gadissie Edato	Ethiopia	1:17:09
71		Belgium	1:17:11
72		Ireland	1:17:13
73		Ireland	1:17:32
74		Denmark	1:17:37
75	Marie-Christine Deurbroeck	Belgium	1:18:21
76		Australia	1:18:24
77		Israel	1:18:27
78		Ethiopia	1:18:29
79		South Africa	1:19:33
80		Ireland	1:20:42
81		Ireland	1:21:08
82		Belgium	1:24:52
—		Brazil	DNF
—		Finland	DNF

Junior Men's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
		Ethiopia	1:04:51
		South Africa	1:05:01
	Francesco Ingargiola	Italy	1:05:18
4	Salvatore Orgiana	Italy	1:05:40
5		Ethiopia	1:06:26
6		South Africa	1:06:36
7	Ottaviano Andriani	Italy	1:06:41
8		Italy	1:07:12
9		Ethiopia	1:07:39
10		Estonia	1:07:44
11		South Africa	1:08:27
12	Marcel Matanin	Czechoslovakia	1:09:04
13		Estonia	1:09:11
14		Germany	1:09:18
15		Hungary	1:09:48
16		Hungary	1:10:09
17		Ethiopia	1:10:15
18		Germany	1:10:41
19		Spain	1:11:49
20		Germany	1:13:11
21		Germany	1:13:51
22		Hungary	1:14:15
23		Germany	1:14:15
—		Italy	DNF

Team Results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Benson Masya Lameck Aguta Joseph Keino	3:02:25
	Great Britain	Paul Evans Carl Thackery	3:04:54
	Brazil	Ronaldo da Costa	3:05:56
4	Spain	Alejandro Gómez Antoni Peña Alberto Juzdado	3:06:16
5	Italy	Francesco Panetta Luca Barzaghi Severino Bernardini	3:06:29
6	Japan	Koichi Fujita Kenjiro Jitsui	3:06:34
7	South Africa	Xolile Yawa	3:07:55
8	France		3:08:00
9	Netherlands		3:09:03
10	Ethiopia	Melese Feissa	3:10:26
11	Algeria	Kamal Kohil Azzedine Sakhri	3:10:27
12	United States		3:11:09
13	Germany		3:12:43
14	Slovenia	Mirko Vindiš Roman Kejžar	3:13:26
15	Norway		3:14:05
16	Ireland	Noel Berkeley Roy Dooney	3:15:02
17	Belgium		3:18:27
18	Mexico	Rafael Zepeda Salvador García	3:21:02
19	Botswana	Zachariah Ditetso	3:25:01

Women's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Japan	Megumi Fujiwara Miyoko Asahina Eriko Asai	3:30:39
	Great Britain	Liz McColgan Andrea Wallace Suzanne Rigg	3:33:03
	Romania	Anuța Cătună Iulia Negura Aurica Buia	3:33:27
4	Italy	Rosanna Munerotto Maria Guida Emma Scaunich	3:34:57
5	United States		3:35:32
6	Commonwealth of Independent States	Nadezhda Ilyina Tatyana Titova	3:36:13
7	Germany	Birgit Jerschabek Kerstin Pressler Gabriela Wolf	3:37:21
8	Norway	Bente Moe Hilde Stavik Grete Kirkeberg	3:38:19
9	France		3:39:12
10	Netherlands	Carla Beurskens	3:39:15
11	South Africa	Colleen de Reuck	3:39:46
12	Spain	Rocío Ríos Ana Isabel Alonso	3:41:20
13	Ethiopia	Fatuma Roba Gadissie Edato	3:43:06
14	Denmark		3:45:12
15	Ireland	Ursula Noctor	3:48:42
16	Belgium	Marie-Christine Deurbroeck	4:00:24
—	Brazil		DNF
—	Finland	Päivi Tikkanen Ritva Lemettinen	DNF

Junior Men's (Boys)[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Italy	Francesco Ingargiola Salvatore Orgiana Ottaviano Andriani	3:17:39
	Ethiopia		3:18:56
	South Africa		3:20:04
4	Germany		3:33:10
5	Hungary		3:34:12

Participation[]

The participation of 204 athletes (120 men/84 women) from 36 countries is reported.^[1]

See also[]

• 1992 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

External links[]

• IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 1992-2005 Facts & Figures (Internet Archive)