1996 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

1996 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	5th
Date	September 29
Host city	Palma de Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain
Events	2
Participation	206 athletes from 53 nations
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The 5th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on September 29, 1996, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. A total of 206 athletes, 134 men and 72 women, from 53 countries took part.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Stefano Baldini (ITA)	1:01:17	Josephat Kiprono (KEN)	1:01:30	Tendai Chimusasa (ZIM)	1:02:00
Women	Ren Xiujuan (CHN)	1:10:39	Lidia Simon (ROU)	1:10:57	Aurica Buia (ROU)	1:11:01
Team
Team Men	Italy	3:07:42	Spain	3:08:36	Japan	3:08:43
Team Women	Romania	3:32:59	France	3:38:44	Italy	3:41:28

Race results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Stefano Baldini	Italy	1:01:17
	Josephat Kiprono	Kenya	1:01:30
	Tendai Chimusasa	Zimbabwe	1:02:00
4	Carlos de la Torre	Spain	1:02:03
5		Japan	1:02:05
6		Tanzania	1:02:30
7		Brazil	1:02:44
8	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	1:02:47
9	Giacomo Leone	Italy	1:02:48
10		Switzerland	1:02:49
11		Ethiopia	1:02:52
12		Japan	1:03:07
13	Lucketz Swartbooi	Namibia	1:03:24
14	Katsuhiko Hanada	Japan	1:03:31
15		South Africa	1:03:32
16		Kenya	1:03:36
17	Vincenzo Modica	Italy	1:03:37
18	Dario Fegatelli	Italy	1:03:38
19	Kamal Kohil	Algeria	1:03:39
20	Christopher Isengwe	Tanzania	1:03:43
21	Paul Arpin	France	1:03:44
22		Great Britain	1:03:44
23	José Manuel García	Spain	1:03:46
24	André Ramos	Brazil	1:03:46
25	Michele Gamba	Italy	1:03:50
26		United States	1:04:07
27		Ethiopia	1:04:13
28	Charles Tangus	Kenya	1:04:18
29	Johannes Maremane	South Africa	1:04:20
30		Mexico	1:04:21
31	José Manuel Martínez	Spain	1:04:26
32		Brazil	1:04:35
33		Mexico	1:04:37
34		Denmark	1:04:39
35		France	1:04:41
36		Belgium	1:04:49
37		United States	1:04:50
38		Germany	1:04:52
39	Jerry Lawson	United States	1:04:55
40		Japan	1:04:59
41		Great Britain	1:05:10
42		Russia	1:05:12
43		Denmark	1:05:15
44		France	1:05:20
45		Ukraine	1:05:20
46		Kenya	1:05:22
47		Czech Republic	1:05:26
48		Russia	1:05:37
49		Mexico	1:05:39
50	Wodage Zvadya	Israel	1:05:40
51		Ukraine	1:05:46
52		Belgium	1:05:53
53		Czech Republic	1:06:05
54		Russia	1:06:08
55		Russia	1:06:08
56		China	1:06:10
57		South Africa	1:06:12
58	Aleksandr Kuzin	Ukraine	1:06:18
59	Dominique Chauvelier	France	1:06:21
60	Carsten Eich	Germany	1:06:31
61		United States	1:06:35
62		Great Britain	1:06:36
63		Hungary	1:06:42
64		Ethiopia	1:06:46
65		Mexico	1:06:47
66		Germany	1:06:49
67		Puerto Rico	1:06:52
68	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia	1:06:59
69	Asaf Bimro	Israel	1:07:12
70		Russia	1:07:15
71	Ayele Setegne	Israel	1:07:21
72		Japan	1:07:42
73	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	1:07:50
74		Turkmenistan	1:07:50
75		Zimbabwe	1:07:55
76		Mexico	1:07:58
77		Kenya	1:08:06
78		Kyrgyzstan	1:08:13
79		United States	1:08:28
80		Germany	1:08:31
81		Zimbabwe	1:08:38
82		Israel	1:08:40
83	Ricardo Vera	Uruguay	1:08:48
84		Kazakhstan	1:08:51
85		Sri Lanka	1:08:54
86	Marcel Matanin	Slovakia	1:08:56
87		Kazakhstan	1:09:15
88		Great Britain	1:09:26
89		Czech Republic	1:09:36
90		Costa Rica	1:09:45
91	Nazirdin Akylbekov	Kyrgyzstan	1:09:53
92		Slovakia	1:09:54
93		China	1:09:56
94		Slovakia	1:10:09
95		Croatia	1:10:34
96		Croatia	1:10:45
97		Puerto Rico	1:10:49
98		Turkmenistan	1:10:51
99		Mauritius	1:11:04
100		Kyrgyzstan	1:11:17
101		India	1:11:27
102	Toni Bernadó	Andorra	1:11:40
103		Croatia	1:12:09
104		India	1:12:21
105	Khalid Al-Estashi	Yemen	1:13:17
106	José Luis Ebatela	Equatorial Guinea	1:13:17
107		Mauritius	1:13:28
108		Bolivia	1:13:28
109		Gabon	1:14:01
110		Cyprus	1:14:15
111		Slovakia	1:14:34
112		Gabon	1:14:37
113		Mauritius	1:15:21
114		Gabon	1:16:33
115		India	1:16:34
116		Cyprus	1:16:44
117		Andorra	1:17:39
118		Palestine	1:18:42
119		Yemen	1:19:33
120		Andorra	1:22:42
121	Josep Graells	Andorra	1:22:42
—	Marcelo Cascabelo	Argentina	DNF
—		Belgium	DNF
—		Belgium	DNF
—		Bolivia	DNF
—		Brazil	DNF
—	Vanderlei de Lima	Brazil	DNF
—	Willy Kalombo	Zaire	DNF
—		France	DNF
—	Klaus-Peter Nabein	Germany	DNF
—		Hong Kong	DNF
—		South Africa	DNF
—	Bartolomé Serrano	Spain	DNF
—		Tanzania	DNF

Women's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ren Xiujuan	China	1:10:39
	Lidia Simon	Romania	1:10:57
	Aurica Buia	Romania	1:11:01
4	Nuta Olaru	Romania	1:11:07
5	Kanako Haginaga	Japan	1:11:18
6	Christine Mallo	France	1:12:24
7	Firiya Sultanova	Russia	1:12:34
8	Heather Turland	Australia	1:12:46
9	Zahia Dahmani	France	1:12:47
10	Lucilla Andreucci	Italy	1:12:50
11	Cristina Pomacu	Romania	1:13:05
12	Zola Pieterse	South Africa	1:13:19
13	Getenesh Urge	Ethiopia	1:13:22
14	Martha Ernstdóttir	Iceland	1:13:27
15	Muriel Linsolas	France	1:13:33
16	Annalisa Scurti	Italy	1:13:41
17	Mayumi Ichikawa	Japan	1:13:42
18	Alla Zhilyayeva	Russia	1:13:47
19	Dorota Gruca-Giezek	Poland	1:14:07
20		Ukraine	1:14:28
21		Spain	1:14:32
22		Ukraine	1:14:45
23		France	1:14:52
24	Sonia Maccioni	Italy	1:14:57
25		Mexico	1:15:00
26	María Luisa Lárraga	Spain	1:15:03
27		United States	1:15:23
28		Great Britain	1:15:33
29	Angelines Rodríguez	Spain	1:15:50
30	Patrizia Ritondo	Italy	1:16:04
31		United States	1:16:05
32		Sweden	1:16:07
33		Ukraine	1:16:11
34		South Africa	1:16:15
35		Ethiopia	1:16:16
36	María Luisa Muñoz	Spain	1:16:29
37		Belgium	1:16:32
38		Germany	1:16:45
39	Irina Safarova	Russia	1:16:48
40		United States	1:16:49
41		Poland	1:16:49
42	Gadissie Edato	Ethiopia	1:16:53
43		Spain	1:16:54
44		Great Britain	1:16:56
45		United States	1:17:04
46		Ukraine	1:17:29
47		Great Britain	1:17:45
48	Nelly Glauser	Switzerland	1:18:05
49	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	1:18:25
50		Belgium	1:18:51
51		Croatia	1:19:22
52		China	1:19:41
53		Ethiopia	1:19:45
54		China	1:20:00
55		Poland	1:20:36
56		Belgium	1:21:53
57		Mexico	1:21:56
58		South Africa	1:21:58
59		United States	1:22:25
60		Hong Kong	1:22:37
61		Chile	1:24:28
62		Ethiopia	1:24:36
63		India	1:24:50
64		Croatia	1:25:10
65		India	1:25:36
66		India	1:25:37
—		Denmark	DNF
—		Great Britain	DNF
—	Liz McColgan	Great Britain	DNF
—	Lyudmila Petrova	Russia	DNF
—		South Africa	DNF
—		Romania	DQ†

^†: from  Romania was initially 8th (1:12:37), but disqualified later. From 2 May 1999, the IAAF imposed a life ban on her.^[2]

Team results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Italy	Stefano Baldini Giacomo Leone Vincenzo Modica	3:07:42
	Spain	Carlos de la Torre Alejandro Gómez José Manuel García	3:08:36
	Japan	Katsuhiko Hanada	3:08:43
4	Kenya	Josephat Kiprono Charles Tangus	3:09:24
5	Brazil	André Ramos	3:11:05
6	France	Paul Arpin	3:13:45
7	Ethiopia		3:13:51
8	United States	Jerry Lawson	3:13:52
9	South Africa	Johannes Maremane	3:14:04
10	Mexico		3:14:37
11	Great Britain		3:15:30
12	Russia		3:16:57
13	Ukraine	Aleksandr Kuzin	3:17:24
14	Germany	Carsten Eich	3:18:12
15	Zimbabwe	Tendai Chimusasa	3:18:33
16	Israel	Wodage Zvadya Asaf Bimro Ayele Setegne	3:20:13
17	Czech Republic		3:21:07
18	Slovakia	Marcel Matanin	3:28:59
19	Kyrgyzstan	Nazirdin Akylbekov	3:29:23
20	Croatia		3:33:28
21	Mauritius		3:39:53
22	India		3:40:22
23	Gabon		3:45:11
24	Andorra	Toni Bernadó	3:52:01
—	Belgium		DNF
—	Tanzania	Christopher Isengwe	DNF

Women's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Romania	Lidia Simon Aurica Buia Nuta Olaru	3:33:05
	France	Christine Mallo Zahia Dahmani Muriel Linsolas	3:38:44
	Italy	Lucilla Andreucci Annalisa Scurti Sonia Maccioni	3:41:28
4	Russia	Firiya Sultanova Alla Zhilyayeva Irina Safarova	3:43:09
5	Ukraine		3:45:24
6	Spain	María Luisa Lárraga Angelines Rodríguez	3:45:25
7	Ethiopia	Getenesh Urge Gadissie Edato	3:46:31
8	United States		3:48:17
9	Great Britain		3:50:14
10	China	Ren Xiujuan	3:50:20
11	Poland	Dorota Gruca-Giezek	3:51:32
12	South Africa	Zola Pieterse	3:51:32
13	Mexico	Adriana Fernández	3:55:21
14	Belgium		3:57:16
15	India		4:16:03

Participation[]

The participation of 206 athletes (134 men/72 women) from 53 countries is reported.^[1]

See also[]

• 1996 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

External links[]

• IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 1992-2005 Facts & Figures