1998 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

1998 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	7th
Date	September 27
Host city	Uster, Zürich, Switzerland
Events	2
Participation	236 athletes from 54 nations
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The 7th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on September 27, 1998, in the city of Uster, Switzerland. A total of 236 athletes, 139 men and 97 women, from 54 countries took part.

Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given.^[1][2]

Complete results were published.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Medallists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Paul Koech (KEN)	1:00:01	Hendrick Ramaala (RSA)	1:00:24	Khalid Skah (MAR)	1:00:24
Women	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	1:08:29	Elana Meyer (RSA)	1:08:32	Lidia Simon (ROU)	1:08:58
Team
Team Men	South Africa	3:02:21	Kenya	3:03:07	Ethiopia	3:05:18
Team Women	Kenya	3:29:43	Romania	3:32:19	Spain	3:34:18

Race Results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paul Koech	Kenya	1:00:01	PB
	Hendrick Ramaala	South Africa	1:00:24
	Khalid Skah	Morocco	1:00:24	PB
4		Ethiopia	1:00:31	PB
5	Gert Thys	South Africa	1:00:37
6	Antonio Silio	Argentina	1:00:45	NR
7	Luís Jesús	Portugal	1:01:10
8	Tendai Chimusasa	Zimbabwe	1:01:14
9	Abner Chipu	South Africa	1:01:20
10	Shem Kororia	Kenya	1:01:30
11	John Gwako	Kenya	1:01:36
12	Ronaldo da Costa	Brazil	1:01:40
13	Joseph Kibor	Kenya	1:01:42
14	Bartolomé Serrano	Spain	1:01:43	PB
15	Martín Fiz	Spain	1:01:47
16	Luís Novo	Portugal	1:01:50	PB
17	Carsten Jørgensen	Denmark	1:01:55	PB
18		Spain	1:02:02	PB
19		Ethiopia	1:02:07	PB
20	Janko Benša	FR Yugoslavia	1:02:11	PB
21	Joseph Kimani	Kenya	1:02:15
22		South Africa	1:02:16	PB
23		Japan	1:02:21
24	Carlos Patrício	Portugal	1:02:22
25	Danilo Goffi	Italy	1:02:24
26	Mohamed Ouaadi	France	1:02:29	PB
27	Daniele Caimmi	Italy	1:02:33	PB
28		Libya	1:02:39	PB
29	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia	1:02:40
30	Atsushi Fujita	Japan	1:02:45
31		Switzerland	1:02:48
32	Giacomo Leone	Italy	1:02:49
33		Ethiopia	1:02:50
34		Ethiopia	1:02:51	PB
35	Wilbroad Axweso	Tanzania	1:02:52
36		Spain	1:02:54	PB
37		Angola	1:02:54	PB
38		Netherlands	1:02:57
39	Alberto Chaíça	Portugal	1:03:03
40		France	1:03:07	PB
41		Colombia	1:03:08
42	Alfred Shemweta	Sweden	1:03:20
43	Francesco Ingargiola	Italy	1:03:30
44	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:32
45		Colombia	1:03:42
46		Portugal	1:03:44
47	Carlos Grisales	Colombia	1:03:47
48		Colombia	1:03:59	PB
49		Spain	1:04:06
50		Poland	1:04:07	PB
51		South Africa	1:04:08
52	Benedict Ako	Tanzania	1:04:14
53		New Zealand	1:04:16	PB
54	André Ramos	Brazil	1:04:17	PB
55		Poland	1:04:20
56	Jonathan Wyatt	New Zealand	1:04:23	PB
57		Zambia	1:04:26
58	Viktor Röthlin	Switzerland	1:04:30
59	Alex Malinga	Uganda	1:04:33	PB
60		Rwanda	1:04:40	PB
61		Belarus	1:04:43
62	Sam Mwape	Zambia	1:04:44
63		Zimbabwe	1:04:46
64	Katsuhiko Hanada	Japan	1:04:53
65		France	1:04:59
66	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	1:05:00	PB
67		Zimbabwe	1:05:03
68		Japan	1:05:06
69		New Zealand	1:05:08
70	Oliver Mintzlaff	Germany	1:05:09	PB
71	Borislav Dević	FR Yugoslavia	1:05:14
72	Michael Fietz	Germany	1:05:15
73		United States	1:05:18
74		Netherlands	1:05:18
75		Switzerland	1:05:19
76		Estonia	1:05:21	PB
77		Brazil	1:05:27
78		Tanzania	1:05:34
79		Rwanda	1:05:35
80		United States	1:05:36	PB
81		Netherlands	1:05:47
82	Eric Morrison	United States	1:05:50
83		Switzerland	1:05:51
84		Slovakia	1:05:56	PB
85		United States	1:05:58	PB
86	Ceslovas Kundrotas	Lithuania	1:05:59
87		Lithuania	1:05:59
88		Zambia	1:06:00
89		Netherlands	1:06:00
90		Germany	1:06:04
91		Czech Republic	1:06:06
92		Uganda	1:06:09	PB
93		Brazil	1:06:14
94		Uganda	1:06:29	PB
95		Estonia	1:06:31	PB
96		Switzerland	1:06:32
97		Czech Republic	1:06:34
98	Sipho Dlamini	Swaziland	1:06:45	PB
99		Lebanon	1:06:50
100		New Zealand	1:06:51	PB
101		Kyrgyzstan	1:06:55
102		Czech Republic	1:06:56
103		Mauritius	1:07:05
104		France	1:07:06
105		France	1:07:07
106		Czech Republic	1:07:15
107		Germany	1:07:24
108	Patrick Ishyaka	Rwanda	1:07:42
109		United States	1:07:48
110		Germany	1:07:56
111		FR Yugoslavia	1:08:18
112		Lithuania	1:08:28
113		Poland	1:08:31
114		Finland	1:08:43
115		Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:09:10	PB
116		Lebanon	1:09:53
117	António Zeferino	Cape Verde	1:10:19
118		Lebanon	1:10:37
119		Denmark	1:10:39
120		India	1:10:40	PB
121		Turkmenistan	1:10:49
122	Roland Wille	Liechtenstein	1:10:56
123	Hari Singh	India	1:10:58	PB
124		India	1:11:05	PB
125		Uganda	1:11:15	PB
126		Croatia	1:11:48
127		Croatia	1:12:18
128		Croatia	1:12:28
129	José Luis Ebatela	Equatorial Guinea	1:13:01	PB
130		Mauritius	1:13:38
131		Gibraltar	1:14:11
132		Mauritius	1:15:14
133		Turkmenistan	1:16:01
134		Gibraltar	1:16:18
135		Kyrgyzstan	1:19:25
—	Diego Colorado	Colombia	DNF
—		Croatia	DNF
—	Michele Gamba	Italy	DNF
—		Turkmenistan	DNF

Women's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	1:08:29
	Elana Meyer	South Africa	1:08:32
	Lidia Simon	Romania	1:08:58	PB
4	Olivera Jevtić	FR Yugoslavia	1:10:02
5	Annemari Sandell	Finland	1:10:04
6	Joyce Chepchumba	Kenya	1:10:10
7	Julia Vaquero	Spain	1:10:33
8	Cristina Pomacu	Romania	1:10:39
9	Yukiko Okamoto	Japan	1:10:50
10	Leah Malot	Kenya	1:11:04
11	Albertina Dias	Portugal	1:11:08
12	Alina Ivanova	Russia	1:11:18
13	Svetlana Zakharova	Russia	1:11:26
14	María Luisa Lárraga	Spain	1:11:30	PB
15	Maria Guida	Italy	1:11:31
16		Netherlands	1:11:35
17	Rakiya Maraoui	France	1:11:44
18	Franziska Rochat	Switzerland	1:11:47
19	Asha Gigi	Ethiopia	1:11:49	PB
20	Firiya Sultanova-Zhdanova	Russia	1:11:53
21	Lornah Kiplagat	Kenya	1:12:09
22	Kazumi Matsuo	Japan	1:12:12
23	Rocío Ríos	Spain	1:12:15
24	Daria Nauer	Switzerland	1:12:25
25	Zahia Dahmani	France	1:12:27
26	Lucilla Andreucci	Italy	1:12:34
27	Franca Fiacconi	Italy	1:12:37
28		United States	1:12:38
29	Constantina Diţă-Tomescu	Romania	1:12:42
30		Germany	1:12:44
31		South Africa	1:12:49
32		Germany	1:12:49
33	Melissa Moon	New Zealand	1:13:06
34	Mayumi Ichikawa	Japan	1:13:16
35	Aurica Buia	Romania	1:13:44
36	Annemette Jensen	Denmark	1:13:47
37	Galina Karnatsevich/Baruk	Belarus	1:13:47
38		Portugal	1:13:52
39	Alena Peterková	Czech Republic	1:13:58
40		France	1:14:02
41		Kenya	1:14:03
42	Shelly Steely	United States	1:14:06
43	Yelena Mazovka	Belarus	1:14:16
44	Irina Safarova	Russia	1:14:28
45	Takako Kotorida	Japan	1:14:32
46	Leila Aman	Ethiopia	1:14:36
47		Ethiopia	1:14:37	PB
48	Birgit Jerschabek	Germany	1:14:45
49		Japan	1:14:48
51		United States	1:15:01
52	Liz Yelling/Talbot	Great Britain	1:15:06	PB
53	Dorota Gruca-Giezek	Poland	1:15:12
54	Florinda Andreucci	Italy	1:15:14
55	Clarisse Rasoarizay	Madagascar	1:15:43
56		Hungary	1:15:48
56	Martha Ernstdóttir	Iceland	1:15:48
57		China	1:15:56
58		China	1:15:56
59		South Africa	1:15:56
60		Portugal	1:16:05
61		United States	1:16:10
62		United States	1:16:22
63	Inga Juodeškienė	Lithuania	1:16:23
64		Great Britain	1:16:25
65		Belarus	1:16:31
66	Ursula Jeitziner	Switzerland	1:16:40
67	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	1:16:44
68		Switzerland	1:16:50
69	Dita Hebelková	Czech Republic	1:17:20	PB
70		Switzerland	1:17:20
71		Great Britain	1:17:25
72		Ethiopia	1:17:30	PB
73		New Zealand	1:17:51
74		Israel	1:18:01	PB
75		Ethiopia	1:18:13
76		South Africa	1:18:14
77		FR Yugoslavia	1:18:52
78		Lithuania	1:19:21
79		Great Britain	1:19:30
80		Zambia	1:19:34
81		Slovakia	1:19:50
82		FR Yugoslavia	1:20:10
83	Luz Fabiola Rueda	Colombia	1:20:24
84		Zambia	1:20:47
85		Zambia	1:21:22
86		France	1:21:39
87		Czech Republic	1:21:40
88		Germany	1:21:52
89		Turkmenistan	1:22:13	PB
90		India	1:31:36
91		Equatorial Guinea	1:33:59
92		Croatia	1:34:04
93		India	1:34:06
—		Belarus	DNF
—	Chantal Dällenbach	France	DNF
—	Sonia Maccioni	Italy	DNF
—	Nuta Olaru	Romania	DNF

Team Results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	South Africa	Hendrick Ramaala Gert Thys Abner Chipu	3:02:21
	Kenya	Paul Koech Shem Kororia John Gwako	3:03:07
	Ethiopia	Addis Abebe	3:05:18
4	Portugal	Luís Jesús Luís Novo Carlos Patrício	3:05:22
5	Spain	Bartolomé Serrano Martín Fiz	3:05:32
6	Italy	Danilo Goffi Daniele Caimmi Giacomo Leone	3:07:46
7	Brazil	Ronaldo da Costa Valdenor dos Santos André Ramos	3:09:29
8	Japan	Atsushi Fujita Katsuhiko Hanada	3:09:59
9	France	Mohamed Ouaadi	3:10:35
10	Colombia	Carlos Grisales	3:10:37
11	Zimbabwe	Tendai Chimusasa	3:11:03
12	Switzerland	Viktor Röthlin	3:12:37
13	Tanzania	Wilbroad Axweso Benedict Ako	3:12:40
14	New Zealand	Jonathan Wyatt	3:13:47
15	Netherlands		3:14:02
16	Zambia	Sam Mwape	3:15:10
17	FR Yugoslavia	Janko Benša Borislav Dević	3:15:43
18	Germany	Oliver Mintzlaff Michael Fietz	3:16:28
19	United States	Eric Morrison	3:16:44
20	Estonia	Pavel Loskutov	3:16:52
21	Poland		3:16:58
22	Uganda	Alex Malinga	3:17:11
23	Rwanda	Patrick Ishyaka	3:17:57
24	Czech Republic		3:19:36
25	Lithuania	Ceslovas Kundrotas	3:20:26
26	Lebanon		3:27:20
27	India	Hari Singh	3:32:43
28	Mauritius		3:35:57
29	Croatia		3:36:34
—	Turkmenistan		DNF

Women's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Tegla Loroupe Joyce Chepchumba Leah Malot	3:29:43
	Romania	Lidia Simon Cristina Pomacu Constantina Diţă-Tomescu	3:32:19
	Spain	Julia Vaquero María Luisa Lárraga Rocío Ríos	3:34:18
4	Russia	Alina Ivanova Svetlana Zakharova Firiya Sultanova-Zhdanova	3:34:37
5	Japan	Yukiko Okamoto Kazumi Matsuo Mayumi Ichikawa	3:36:18
6	Italy	Maria Guida Lucilla Andreucci Franca Fiacconi	3:36:42
7	South Africa	Elana Meyer	3:37:17
8	France	Rakiya Maraoui Zahia Dahmani	3:38:13
9	Germany	Birgit Jerschabek	3:40:18
10	Switzerland	Franziska Rochat Daria Nauer Ursula Jeitziner	3:40:52
11	Ethiopia	Asha Gigi Leila Aman	3:41:02
12	Portugal	Albertina Dias	3:41:05
13	United States	Shelly Steely	3:41:45
14	Belarus	Galina Karnatsevich/Baruk Yelena Mazovka	3:44:34
15	Great Britain	Alison Wyeth	3:48:15
16	FR Yugoslavia	Olivera Jevtić	3:49:04
17	Czech Republic	Alena Peterková Dita Hebelková	3:52:58
18	Zambia		4:01:43

Participation[]

The participation of 236 athletes (139 men/97 women) from 54 countries is reported.^[3]

See also[]

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website