2000 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

2000 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	9th
Date	November 12
Host city	Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
Events	2
Participation	182 athletes from 52 nations
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The 9th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on November 12, 2000 in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. A total of 182 athletes, 121 men and 61 women, from 52 countries took part. Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given.^[1][2][3][4]

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

Medallists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Paul Tergat (KEN)	1:03:47	Faustin Baha (TAN)	1:03:48	Tesfaye Jifar (ETH)	1:03:50
Women	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	1:09:07	Susan Chepkemei (KEN)	1:09:40	Lidia Simon (ROU)	1:10:24
Team
Team Men	Kenya	3:11:38	Ethiopia	3:14:45	Belgium	3:18:35
Team Women	Romania	3:34:22	Japan	3:36:25	Russia	3:45:41

Race Results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paul Tergat	Kenya	1:03:47
	Faustin Baha	Tanzania	1:03:48
	Tesfaye Jifar	Ethiopia	1:03:50
4	Joseph Kimani	Kenya	1:03:52
5	David Ruto	Kenya	1:03:59
6	John Gwako	Kenya	1:04:16
7	Zebedayo Bayo	Tanzania	1:04:25
8	Oscar Fernández	Spain	1:04:25
9	Marco Mazza	Italy	1:04:26
10		Algeria	1:04:40
11		Japan	1:04:55
12		Ethiopia	1:05:19
13		Mexico	1:05:34
14		Ethiopia	1:05:36
15		Belgium	1:05:41
16		Ethiopia	1:05:51
17		United States	1:05:56
18	Satoshi Irifune	Japan	1:06:08
19	George Mofokeng	South Africa	1:06:12
20		South Africa	1:06:18
21		Belgium	1:06:21
22	Jussi Utriainen	Finland	1:06:25
23	Diego Colorado	Colombia	1:06:27
24		Belgium	1:06:33
25	João Lopes	Portugal	1:06:33
26	José de Souza	Brazil	1:06:37
27	El-Arbi Khattabi	Morocco	1:06:43
28		Belgium	1:06:49
29		France	1:07:01
30		Spain	1:07:11
31		Mexico	1:07:15
32	Migidio Bourifa	Italy	1:07:17
33	Mostafa Errebbah	Morocco	1:07:19
34		Morocco	1:07:23
35	Janne Holmén	Finland	1:07:32
36	Daniele Caimmi	Italy	1:07:38
37	Andrew Letherby	Australia	1:07:38
38		Japan	1:07:41
39	Herder Vázquez	Colombia	1:07:55
40		South Africa	1:07:58
41	Scott Westcott	Australia	1:08:04
42		France	1:08:08
43	Shaun Creighton	Australia	1:08:12
44	Abdelhadi Habassa	Morocco	1:08:16
45		Algeria	1:08:17
46	Andrés Espinosa	Mexico	1:08:23
47	Dale Warrender	New Zealand	1:08:31
48		Spain	1:08:36
49		Belgium	1:08:45
50	Saïd Belhout	Algeria	1:08:46
51		Belarus	1:08:57
52		Great Britain	1:09:20
53	Denis Curzi	Italy	1:09:36
54	Thabiso Moqhali	Lesotho	1:09:46	PB
55		Colombia	1:09:47
56		United States	1:09:48
57		United States	1:09:52
58		Costa Rica	1:09:58
59	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	1:10:13
60		Algeria	1:10:21
61		France	1:10:33
62		Belarus	1:10:41
63		Swaziland	1:10:43
64		South Africa	1:11:08
65		Bolivia	1:11:21
66		Australia	1:11:28
67		Croatia	1:11:40
68		Brazil	1:11:49
69	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	1:11:52
70		Great Britain	1:12:00
71		El Salvador	1:12:04
72		United States	1:12:06
73		Czech Republic	1:12:23
74		Guatemala	1:13:02
75		Brazil	1:13:27
76		Croatia	1:13:28
77		Panama	1:13:30
78		Lesotho	1:13:42
79		Belarus	1:13:52
80		Seychelles	1:14:15
81		Great Britain	1:14:23
82		Lesotho	1:14:54
83		Kyrgyzstan	1:15:12
84		Puerto Rico	1:15:25
85	Kim Reynierse	Aruba	1:15:58
86		Japan	1:16:19
87		Croatia	1:16:35
88		Guatemala	1:16:50
89		Turkmenistan	1:17:04
90	Khalid Al-Estashi	Yemen	1:17:11
91		Aruba	1:17:36
92		Hong Kong	1:18:11
93		Uzbekistan	1:18:19
94		Yemen	1:18:36
95		Uzbekistan	1:19:40
96		Tajikistan	1:20:04
97	Sergey Zabavskiy	Tajikistan	1:22:25
98	Richard Rodriguez	Aruba	1:24:32
99		Tajikistan	1:30:35
100		Yemen	2:55:54
—	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	DNF
—		Armenia	DNF
—		Armenia	DNF
—		Aruba	DNF
—		Bolivia	DNF
—		Brazil	DNF
—		Ecuador	DNF
—		Ecuador	DNF
—	Abdellah Béhar	France	DNF
—		France	DNF
—		Guatemala	DNF
—	Giuliano Battocletti	Italy	DNF
—		Kenya	DNF
—		Kyrgyzstan	DNF
—		Kyrgyzstan	DNF
—	David Galván	Mexico	DNF
—		Mexico	DNF
—		Rwanda	DNF
—		South Africa	DNF
—	Jerry Lawson	United States	DNF
—		Uzbekistan	DNF
—	Franklin Tenorio	Ecuador	DNS

Women's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	1:09:07
	Susan Chepkemei	Kenya	1:09:40
	Lidia Simon	Romania	1:10:24
4	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan	1:11:11
5	Pamela Chepchumba	Kenya	1:11:33
6	Mihaela Botezan	Romania	1:11:52
7	Cristina Pomacu	Romania	1:12:06
8	Yukiko Okamoto	Japan	1:12:20
9	Yasuko Hashimoto	Japan	1:12:54
10		United States	1:13:53
11	Lidiya Grigoryeva	Russia	1:14:26
12	Stine Larsen	Norway	1:14:39
13		Russia	1:15:02
14		Brazil	1:15:16
15		Netherlands	1:15:17
16		Japan	1:15:52
17		Ethiopia	1:15:52
18	María Luisa Muñoz	Spain	1:15:54
19	Sarah Wilkinson	Great Britain	1:15:55
20		Ethiopia	1:15:59
21	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	1:16:01
22	Zinaida Semyonova	Russia	1:16:13
23		United States	1:16:20
24	Rocío Ríos	Spain	1:16:25
25	Annemette Jensen	Denmark	1:16:26
26		South Africa	1:16:27
27		Ethiopia	1:16:29
28	Hafida Gadi-Richard	France	1:16:45
29		New Zealand	1:16:48
30		Russia	1:16:57
31	Alina Tecuţă/Gherasim	Romania	1:17:16
32	Dorota Gruca-Giezek	Poland	1:17:27
33		Mexico	1:17:34
34		Czech Republic	1:18:06
35	Shelly Steely	United States	1:18:50
36		South Africa	1:19:15
37	Dulce María Rodríguez	Mexico	1:19:23
38		South Africa	1:19:44
39	Leila Aman	Ethiopia	1:19:49
40	Liliana Merlo	Mexico	1:19:58
41	Nuta Olaru	Romania	1:20:00
42		United States	1:21:51
43	Souad Aït Salem	Algeria	1:22:33
44	Nili Avramski	Israel	1:22:58
45	Andrea Green	Great Britain	1:24:53
46		South Africa	1:27:08
47		Puerto Rico	1:27:59
48		Croatia	1:29:11
49	Elsa Monterroso	Guatemala	1:30:30
50	Angelina Cornelio	Guatemala	1:30:57
51	Herlinda Xol	Guatemala	1:32:09
52		Croatia	1:33:45
53		Croatia	1:38:33
54		Turkmenistan	1:41:58
—		Gabon	DNF
—	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	DNF
—		Nicaragua	DNF
—		Puerto Rico	DNF
—		South Africa	DNF
—		Turkmenistan	DNF
—		United States	DNF
—		Ecuador	DNS

Team Results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Paul Tergat Joseph Kimani David Ruto	3:11:38
	Ethiopia	Tesfaye Jifar	3:14:45
	Belgium		3:18:35
4	Japan	Satoshi Irifune	3:18:44
5	Italy	Marco Mazza Migidio Bourifa Daniele Caimmi	3:19:21
6	Spain	Oscar Fernández	3:20:12
7	South Africa	George Mofokeng	3:20:28
8	Mexico	Andrés Espinosa	3:21:12
9	Morocco	El-Arbi Khattabi Mostafa Errebbah	3:21:25
10	Algeria	Saïd Belhout	3:21:43
11	Australia	Andrew Letherby Scott Westcott Shaun Creighton	3:23:54
12	Colombia	Diego Colorado Herder Vázquez	3:24:09
13	United States		3:25:36
14	France		3:25:42
15	Brazil	José de Souza	3:31:53
16	Belarus		3:33:30
17	Great Britain		3:35:43
18	Lesotho	Thabiso Moqhali	3:38:22
19	Croatia		3:41:43
20	Aruba	Kim Reynierse Richard Rodriguez	3:58:06
21	Tajikistan	Sergey Zabavskiy	4:13:04
22	Yemen	Khalid Al-Estashi	2:38:42
—	Guatemala		DNF
—	Kyrgyzstan		DNF
—	Uzbekistan		DNF

Women's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Romania	Lidia Simon Mihaela Botezan Cristina Pomacu	3:34:22
	Japan	Mizuki Noguchi Yukiko Okamoto Yasuko Hashimoto	3:36:25
	Russia	Lidiya Grigoryeva Zinaida Semyonova	3:45:41
4	Ethiopia		3:48:20
5	United States	Shelly Steely	3:49:03
6	Great Britain	Paula Radcliffe Sarah Wilkinson Andrea Green	3:49:55
7	South Africa		3:55:26
8	Mexico	Dulce María Rodríguez Liliana Merlo	3:56:55
9	Guatemala	Elsa Monterroso Angelina Cornelio Herlinda Xol	4:33:36
10	Croatia		4:41:29

Participation[]

The participation of 182 athletes (121 men/61 women) from 52 countries is reported.^[5]

See also[]

• 2000 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website