2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships

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2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships
Debrecen 2006.jpg
Host cityDebrecen, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary Hungary
Nations participating39
Athletes participating140
Events2
Dates2006-10-08
Race length20 km
Individual prize money (US$)1st: 30,000
2nd: 15,000
3rd: 10,000
4th: 7,000
5th: 5,000
6th: 3,000
Team prize money (US$)1st: 15,000
2nd: 12,000
3rd: 9,000
4th: 7,500
5th: 6,000
6th: 3,000

The 1st IAAF World Road Running Championships were held in Debrecen, Hungary on 8 October 2006, the women's race starting at 11:00 and the men's race at 13:00. This was the first time the title of World Road Running Champion had been competed for, with this competition replacing the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in the international sporting calendar. 140 athletes from 39 nations took part in the two races.[1]

As well as individual honours, there is also a team event where the times of the first three runners home from each country are added together to produce the team standings. Only nations with at least three competitors entered in the race are eligible for this competition.

The race was notable for having the first disabled athlete to take part in a world championship athletics event. Mark Brown, who was competing for Gibraltar, lost his left arm in a traffic accident in 1981.[2]

Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given both for the men's race[3][4] and for the women's race.[5][6]

The course[]

University debrecen main building.jpg

The total race distance was 20 kilometres, and consisted of four laps around a 5000-metre course. The race started and finished in front of the main building of the University of Debrecen (pictured left) on the northern edge of the city, and travelled in a clockwise direction around nearby parkland.

The runners started on Egyetem Square, outside the University, before heading around the circular Nagyerdei Avenue. Most of the course followed Nagyerdei Avenue, with two detours onto the roads inside the circle, passing the thermal baths and the Aquaticum Thermal & Wellness Hotel, before rounding the boating lake, passing the Nagyerdõ Stadium and the Hunguest Nagyerdõ Hotel. The race then headed back to Egyetem Square to complete the lap.

Medallists[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
Men  Zersenay Tadesse (ERI) 56:01  Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba (KEN) 56:41  Wilson Kiprotich Kebenei (KEN) 57:15
Women  Lornah Kiplagat (NED) 1:03:21  Constantina Diţă-Tomescu (ROU) 1:03:23  Rita Sitienei Jeptoo (KEN) 1:03:47
Team
Team Men  Kenya 2:51:18  Eritrea 2:53:19  Ethiopia 2:54:17
Team Women  Kenya 3:15:55  Ethiopia 3:18:50  Japan 3:19:00

Race results[]

Complete results were published[7] for the men's race,[8][9] for the women's race,[10][11] for men's team,[12][13] and for women's team.[14][15]

Men's[]

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Zersenay Tadesse  Eritrea 56:01 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba  Kenya 56:41 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Wilson Kiprotich Kebenei  Kenya 57:15
4 Wilson Busienei  Uganda 57:21 NR
5 Wilfred Taragon  Kenya 57:22
6 Deriba Merga  Ethiopia 57:27
7 Tadesse Tola  Ethiopia 57:27
8 Mubarak Hassan Shami  Qatar 57:33 NR
9 Dieudonné Disi  Rwanda 57:42 NR
10 Yonas Kifle  Eritrea 57:49
11 Ryan Hall  United States 57:54
12 Dickson Marwa  Tanzania 58:19
13 Martin Toroitich  Uganda 58:26
14 Essa Ismail Rashed  Qatar 58:31
15 Cuthbert Nyasango  Zimbabwe 58:43
16 Jamal Bilal Salem  Qatar 58:55
17 Fred Mogaka  Kenya 59:07
18 Lusapho April  South Africa 59:09
19 James Theuri  France 59:11
20  Ethiopia 59:23
21 Tesfayohannes Mesfen  Eritrea 59:29
22  Spain 59:29
23 Migidio Bourifa  Italy 59:37
24  Uganda 59:40
25 Antonello Petrei  Italy 59:45
26 Patrick Musyoki  Kenya 59:54
27 Kazuo Ietani  Japan 59:56
28  Tanzania 1:00:03
29 Sultan Khamis Zaman  Qatar 1:00:07
30  United States 1:00:12
31  France 1:00:15
32  Japan 1:00:24
33  South Africa 1:00:25
34 Max King  United States 1:00:26
35  Japan 1:00:30
36  France 1:00:43
37  Mexico 1:00:45
38 Henryk Szost  Poland 1:00:51
39  Spain 1:00:55
40  Russia 1:00:57
41 Francis Kirwa  Finland 1:00:57
42  Brazil 1:00:59
43 Rafael Iglesias  Spain 1:01:00
44  Brazil 1:01:05
45 Martin Dent  Australia 1:01:15
46 Jussi Utriainen  Finland 1:01:24
47  Eritrea 1:01:34
48 Norman Dlomo  South Africa 1:01:37
49 Fabio Mascheroni  Italy 1:01:38
50  Brazil 1:01:53
51  Spain 1:01:56
52 Juan Carlos Romero  Mexico 1:01:57
53 Gian Marco Buttazzo  Italy 1:02:00
54  Hungary 1:02:04
55  United States 1:02:11
57  Ireland 1:02:22
58  Uruguay 1:02:23
59  Japan 1:02:29
60  South Africa 1:02:34
61 Balázs Csillag  Hungary 1:02:45
62 George Mofokeng  South Africa 1:02:59
63 Simon Munyutu  France 1:03:00
64  Egypt 1:03:01
65  Japan 1:03:03
66 Alex Malinga  Uganda 1:03:06
67  Austria 1:03:07
68  Belarus 1:03:14
68  Belgium 1:03:14
69  Germany 1:03:19
70  Ireland 1:03:36
71  Ethiopia 1:03:48
72 Fernando Cabada Jr.  United States 1:03:52
73  Kyrgyzstan 1:04:31
74  Hungary 1:04:52
75  Hungary 1:05:18
76  Hungary 1:07:18
77  Dominican Republic 1:07:49
78 Mark Brown  Gibraltar 1:12:11
79  Palestine 1:41:15
—  Brazil DNF
— Yared Asmeron  Eritrea DNF
— Lishan Yegezu  Ethiopia DNF
— Nicholas Kemboi  Qatar DNF
— Martin Hhaway Sulle  Tanzania DNS

Women's[]

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lornah Kiplagat  Netherlands 1:03:21 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Constantina Diţă-Tomescu  Romania 1:03:23 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Rita Sitienei Jeptoo  Kenya 1:03:47 AR
4 Dire Tune  Ethiopia 1:05:16 NR
5 Edith Masai  Kenya 1:05:21
6 Kayoko Fukushi  Japan 1:05:32 NR
7 Yurika Nakamura  Japan 1:05:36
8 Natalya Berkut  Ukraine 1:05:42
9 Souad Aït Salem  Algeria 1:06:11
10 Teyba Erkesso  Ethiopia 1:06:15
11 Anikó Kálovics  Hungary 1:06:20
12 Gulnara Vygovskaya  Russia 1:06:30
13 Natalya Kurbatova  Russia 1:06:33
14 Eunice Jepkorir  Kenya 1:06:47
15 Irina Timofeyeva  Russia 1:07:10
16 Luminița Talpoș  Romania 1:07:11
17 Ashu Kasim  Ethiopia 1:07:19
18 Anna Thompson  Australia 1:07:23
19 Ryoko Kizaki  Japan 1:07:52
20  Japan 1:08:13
21 Olesya Syreva  Russia 1:08:14
22 Simona Staicu  Hungary 1:08:17
23 Alina Ivanova  Russia 1:08:27
24 Beáta Rakonczai  Hungary 1:08:38
25 Mulu Seboka  Ethiopia 1:08:59
26 Gloria Marconi  Italy 1:09:05
27 Susan Partridge  Great Britain 1:09:17
28 Lidia Simon  Romania 1:09:22
29 Adriana Pirtea  Romania 1:09:30
30 Silvia Sommaggio  Italy 1:09:33
31 Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu  Norway 1:09:37
32 Justyna Bak  Poland 1:09:48
33  Romania 1:09:57
34 Živilė Balčiūnaitė  Lithuania 1:10:10
35 Ivana Iozzia  Italy 1:10:27
36 Selma Borst  Netherlands 1:10:37
37 Lisa Weightman  Australia 1:10:51
38  Great Britain 1:10:55
39 Hafida Gadi-Richard  France 1:11:07
40 Annie Bersagel  United States 1:11:25
41  United States 1:11:48
42  United States 1:11:51
43 Desireé Davila  United States 1:11:56
44  Australia 1:12:22
45 Maria Rodrigues  Brazil 1:12:26
46  Eritrea 1:12:27
47 Merel de Knegt  Netherlands 1:12:32
48  United States 1:12:41
49 Stefania Benedetti  Italy 1:12:57
50  Mexico 1:13:09
51 Petra Teveli  Hungary 1:13:24
52  Brazil 1:14:13
53  Brazil 1:14:30
54  Brazil 1:15:16
55  Hungary 1:18:56
56  Egypt 1:19:55
57  Uruguay 1:20:58

Team results[]

Men's[]

Rank Country Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba
Wilson Kiprotich Kebenei
Wilfred Taragon		 2:51:18
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Eritrea Zersenay Tadesse
Yonas Kifle
Tesfayohannes Mesfen		 2:53:19
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Ethiopia Deriba Merga
Tadesse Tola
 2:54:17
4  Qatar Mubarak Hassan Shami
Essa Ismail Rashed
Jamal Bilal Salem		 2:54:59
5  Uganda Wilson Busienei
Martin Toroitich
 2:55:27
6  United States Ryan Hall

Max King		 2:58:32
7  France James Theuri

 3:00:09
8  Japan Kazuo Ietani

 3:00:50
9  Italy Migidio Bourifa
Antonello Petrei
Fabio Mascheroni		 3:01:00
10  South Africa Lusapho April

Norman Dlomo		 3:01:11
11  Spain

Rafael Iglesias		 3:01:24
12  Brazil

3:03:57
13  Hungary
Balázs Csillag
 3:09:41

Women's[]

Rank Country Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya Rita Sitienei Jeptoo
Edith Masai
Eunice Jepkorir		 3:15:55
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Ethiopia Dire Tune
Teyba Erkesso
Ashu Kasim		 3:18:50
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Japan Kayoko Fukushi
Yurika Nakamura
Ryoko Kizaki		 3:19:00
4  Romania Constantina Diţă-Tomescu
Luminița Talpoș
Lidia Simon		 3:19:56
5  Russia Gulnara Vygovskaya
Natalya Kurbatova
Irina Timofeyeva		 3:20:13
6  Hungary Anikó Kálovics
Simona Staicu
Beáta Rakonczai		 3:23:15
7  Netherlands Lornah Kiplagat
Selma Borst
Merel de Knegt		 3:26:30
8  Italy Gloria Marconi
Silvia Sommaggio
Ivana Iozzia		 3:29:05
9  Australia Anna Thompson
Lisa Weightman
 3:30:36
10  United States Annie Bersagel

 3:35:04
11  Brazil Maria Rodrigues

 3:41:09

Participation[]

The participation of 140 athletes (83 men/57 women) from 39 countries is reported.[7]

See also[]

References[]

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