2004 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

2004 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	13th
Date	October 3
Host city	New Delhi, National Capital Territory, India
Events	2
Participation	152 athletes from 55 nations
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The 13th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 3, 2004 in New Delhi, India. A total of 152 athletes, 91 men and 61 women, from 55 countries took part.

Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given both for the men's race^[1][2] and for the women's race.^[3][4]

Complete results were published^[5] for the men's race,^[6][7] for the women's race,^[8][9] for men's team,^[10][11] and for women's team.^[12][13]

The competition also incorporated the 1st Asian Half Marathon Championships. Abdullah Ahmed Hassan of Qatar and Sun Yingjie of China were the inaugural winners. The tournament has not been held since, however.^[14]

Medallists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Paul Kirui (KEN)	1:02:15	Fabiano Joseph (TAN)	1:02:31	Ahmed Hassan Abdullah (QAT)	1:02:36
Women	Sun Yingjie (CHN)	1:08:40	Lydia Cheromei (KEN)	1:09:00	Constantina Diţă-Tomescu (ROU)	1:09:07
Team
Team Men	Kenya	3:07:55	Ethiopia	3:08:37	Uganda	3:13:48
Team Women	Ethiopia	3:36:00	Romania	3:36:08	Russia	3:38:21

Race results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paul Kirui	Kenya	1:02:15
	Fabiano Joseph	Tanzania	1:02:31
	Ahmed Hassan Abdullah	Qatar	1:02:36	NR
4	John Cheruiyot Korir	Kenya	1:02:38
5		Ethiopia	1:02:42
6		Ethiopia	1:02:52
7	Wilson Busienei	Uganda	1:02:55	PB
8	Wilson Kiprotich Kebenei	Kenya	1:03:02
9		Ethiopia	1:03:03
10	Abebe Dinkessa	Ethiopia	1:04:06
11	Yonas Kifle	Eritrea	1:04:19
12	Ayele Setegne	Israel	1:04:41
13	Martin Toroitich	Uganda	1:04:48	SB
14		Japan	1:04:48
15	Samson Kiflemariam	Eritrea	1:05:00	PB
16		Japan	1:05:03
17		Japan	1:05:19
18		United States	1:05:33
19	Aziz Driouche	Morocco	1:05:41
20		Zimbabwe	1:05:42
21	Tesfayohannes Mesfen	Eritrea	1:05:45
22		Spain	1:05:51
23		France	1:05:59
24	Larbi Zéroual	France	1:06:01
25	Yevgeniy Rybakov	Russia	1:06:02
26		Botswana	1:06:04
27		Uganda	1:06:05	SB
28		Tanzania	1:06:11
29		Japan	1:06:25
30		Qatar	1:06:42
31	Jeroen van Damme	Netherlands	1:06:52
32		Spain	1:06:56
33	Leonid Shvetsov	Russia	1:06:58
34	Rachid El-Ghanmouni	Morocco	1:07:01
35		Russia	1:07:05
36		Uganda	1:07:12
37		France	1:07:24
38	Magnus Michelsson	Australia	1:07:41
39	Yared Asmeron	Eritrea	1:07:48
40	Hakim Bagy	France	1:07:49
41		Chile	1:07:51
42		Sri Lanka	1:08:00
43		Qatar	1:08:13
44		Sri Lanka	1:08:25
45		Germany	1:08:29
46		Uganda	1:08:36
47	Josh Cox	United States	1:08:38
48		United States	1:08:39	PB
49		United States	1:08:43
50		Botswana	1:09:00
51		Mauritius	1:09:05
52		Tanzania	1:09:11
53		Russia	1:09:23
54	Grigoriy Andreyev	Russia	1:09:37
55		Botswana	1:10:10	PB
56		South Korea	1:10:12
57		Canada	1:10:13
58		United States	1:10:32
59		India	1:10:33
60		Croatia	1:10:47
61		Seychelles	1:10:52
62	Tsotang Maine	Lesotho	1:11:08
63	Sipho Dlamini	Swaziland	1:11:31
64		Jordan	1:11:41
65		India	1:11:53
66		India	1:12:05
67		Kazakhstan	1:12:07
68	José Alejandro Semprún	Venezuela	1:12:12
69	Raj Kumar	India	1:12:12
70		Oman	1:12:24
71		Nepal	1:12:29
72		India	1:12:49
73	Rene Herrera	Philippines	1:15:06
74		Nepal	1:16:16
75	Marcel Tschopp	Liechtenstein	1:16:45
76		Thailand	1:17:29
77		Kyrgyzstan	1:18:37
78		Bhutan	1:18:45	PB
79	Hem Bunting	Cambodia	1:19:40	NR
80		Hong Kong	1:19:42
81		Canada	1:21:26
82		Nepal	1:22:32
83		Palestine	1:22:59
84		Maldives	1:25:19
—	Franck de Almeida	Brazil	DNF
—		Macau	DNF
—	Abdelhadi Habassa	Morocco	DNF
—	Ridouane Harroufi	Morocco	DNF
—		Spain	DNF
—		Tanzania	DNF
—		Turkmenistan	DNF
—		Macau	DNS
—		Tajikistan	DNS
—		Yemen	DNS

Women's[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sun Yingjie	China	1:08:40	NR
	Lydia Cheromei	Kenya	1:09:00	PB
	Constantina Diţă-Tomescu	Romania	1:09:07
4	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	1:10:33
5		Japan	1:11:05
6	Eyerusalem Kuma	Ethiopia	1:11:07
7	Irina Timofeyeva	Russia	1:11:17
8	Bezunesh Bekele	Ethiopia	1:11:23
9	Alina Ivanova	Russia	1:12:17
10	Mihaela Botezan	Romania	1:12:36
11	Gloria Marconi	Italy	1:12:42
12	Zhou Chunxiu	China	1:12:52
13		Japan	1:13:07
14	Rita Sitienei Jeptoo	Kenya	1:13:08
15	Teyba Erkesso	Ethiopia	1:13:30
16	Adanech Zekiros	Ethiopia	1:13:50	PB
17	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	1:13:53
18	Luminița Talpoș	Romania	1:14:25
19		Spain	1:14:37
20		Japan	1:14:39
21		Russia	1:14:47
22	Irina Safarova	Russia	1:14:52
23	Patrizia Tisi	Italy	1:14:58
24		France	1:15:05
25	Aurica Buia	Romania	1:15:10
26	Christelle Daunay	France	1:15:28
27	María Luisa Lárraga	Spain	1:15:41
28	Petra Kamínková/Drajzajtlová	Czech Republic	1:15:46
29	Yamna Oubouhou	France	1:15:53
30	Ivana Iozzia	Italy	1:15:59
31		Japan	1:16:32
32	Kenza Wahbi	Morocco	1:16:41
33		United States	1:17:09
34	Vincenza Sicari	Italy	1:17:30
35		United States	1:17:40
36		United States	1:18:42
37		France	1:19:13
38		United States	1:19:48
39	Adriana da Silva	Brazil	1:19:49
40		Canada	1:21:41
41		Puerto Rico	1:21:58
42		Sri Lanka	1:22:07
43		Belarus	1:22:44
44		Kazakhstan	1:22:52
45		India	1:22:59	PB
46		India	1:23:23	PB
47		India	1:24:38
48		India	1:24:44
49		Thailand	1:25:20	NR
50		Congo	1:25:42
51		Lesotho	1:28:44
52		India	1:28:48
53		Singapore	1:29:22
54		Kazakhstan	1:30:20
55		Kyrgyzstan	1:36:56
56		Nepal	1:44:30
57		Maldives	1:44:39
58		Turkmenistan	1:44:52
—		Bhutan	DNF
—	Emily Kimuria	Kenya	DNF
—	Hafida Izem	Morocco	DNF

Team results[]

Men's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Paul Kirui John Cheruiyot Korir Wilson Kiprotich Kebenei	3:07:55
	Ethiopia		3:08:37
	Uganda	Wilson Busienei Martin Toroitich	3:13:48
4	Eritrea	Yonas Kifle Samson Kiflemariam Tesfayohannes Mesfen	3:15:04
5	Japan		3:15:10
6	Qatar	Ahmed Hassan Abdullah	3:17:31
7	Tanzania	Fabiano Joseph	3:17:53
8	France	Larbi Zéroual	3:19:24
9	Russia	Yevgeniy Rybakov Leonid Shvetsov	3:20:05
10	United States	Josh Cox	3:22:50
11	Botswana		3:25:14
12	India		3:34:31
13	Nepal		3:51:17
—	Morocco	Aziz Driouche Rachid El-Ghanmouni Abdelhadi Habassa	DNF
—	Spain		DNF

Women's[]

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Ethiopia	Eyerusalem Kuma Bezunesh Bekele Teyba Erkesso	3:36:00
	Romania	Constantina Diţă-Tomescu Mihaela Botezan Luminița Talpoș	3:36:08
	Russia	Irina Timofeyeva Alina Ivanova	3:38:21
4	Japan		3:38:51
5	Italy	Gloria Marconi Patrizia Tisi Ivana Iozzia	3:43:39
6	France	Christelle Daunay Yamna Oubouhou	3:46:26
7	United States		3:53:31
8	India		4:11:00
—	Kenya	Lydia Cheromei Rita Sitienei Jeptoo Emily Kimuria	DNF

Participation[]

The participation of 152 athletes (91 men/61 women) from 55 countries is reported.^[5] Although announced, athletes from  Tajikistan and  Yemen did not show.

Asian Championships[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's individual	Abdullah Ahmed Hassan (QAT)	1:02:36	(JPN)	1:04:48	(JPN)	1:05:03
Women's individual	Sun Yingjie (CHN)	1:08:40	(JPN)	1:11:05	Zhou Chunxiu (CHN)	1:12:52
Men's team	Japan (JPN)	3:15:10	Qatar (QAT)	3:17:31	India (IND)	3:34:31
Women's team	Japan (JPN)	3:38:51	India (IND)	4:11:00	Only two teams competed

See also[]

• 2004 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website