2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

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2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
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Host cityRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Brazil
Nations participating42
Athletes participating155
Events2
Dates2008-10-12
Race length21.0975 kilometres
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
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The 2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 12 October 2008.[1]

This event was first announced as the 2008 IAAF World Road Running Championships, but in November 2007, the IAAF announced that the name of the IAAF World Road Running Championships would revert to its original title of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.[2][3]

Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given both for the men's race[4][5] and for the women's race.[6][7]

Medallists[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
Men  Zersenay Tadesse (ERI) 59:56  Patrick Makau Musyoki (KEN) 1:01:54  Ahmed Hassan Abdullah (QAT) 1:01:57
Women  Lornah Kiplagat (NED) 1:08:37  Aselefech Mergia (ETH) 1:09:57  Pamela Chepchumba (KEN) 1:10:01
Team
Team Men  Kenya 3:07:24  Eritrea 3:09:40  Qatar 3:10:52
Team Women  Ethiopia 3:30:59  Kenya 3:31:24  Japan 3:40:58

Race results[]

Complete results were published[8] for the men's race,[9][10] for the women's race,[11][12] for men's team,[13][14] and for women's team.[15][16]

Men's[]

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Zersenay Tadesse  Eritrea 59:56 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Patrick Makau Musyoki  Kenya 1:01:54
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ahmed Hassan Abdullah  Qatar 1:01:57 SB
4 Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott  Kenya 1:01:58
5  Japan 1:02:05
6 Dieudonné Disi  Rwanda 1:03:03
7 Abebe Dinkessa  Ethiopia 1:03:04
8 Marilson dos Santos  Brazil 1:03:14
9 Joseph Maregu  Kenya 1:03:32
10 Essa Ismail Rashed  Qatar 1:03:57 PB
11  Rwanda 1:04:02 SB
12  Eritrea 1:04:04 SB
13  Ethiopia 1:04:11
14 Raji Assefa  Ethiopia 1:04:32
15 Ignacio Cáceres  Spain 1:04:39
16 Michael Shelley  Australia 1:04:44
17 Pedro Mora  Venezuela 1:04:45 SB
18  Ethiopia 1:04:57
19  Qatar 1:04:58 SB
20  Brazil 1:05:07 SB
21  United States 1:05:17
22  South Africa 1:05:20
23  Russia 1:05:38
24 James Theuri  France 1:05:38
25  Eritrea 1:05:40 PB
26  Spain 1:05:42
27  Brazil 1:05:46
28 Franck de Almeida  Brazil 1:05:52 SB
29  Eritrea 1:05:56 PB
30 Yevgeniy Rybakov  Russia 1:05:59
31  Canada 1:06:10
32  Japan 1:06:26
33  Russia 1:06:35
34 Javier Díaz  Spain 1:06:37
35  United States 1:06:46
36 Sultan Khamis Zaman  Qatar 1:06:50 SB
37 Kazuo Ietani  Japan 1:06:57
38  Botswana 1:07:08 SB
39  South Africa 1:07:08
40 Felix Kibore  Qatar 1:07:10 PB
41  Botswana 1:07:12 SB
42  Paraguay 1:07:26 SB
43 Dmitriy Semyonov  Russia 1:07:40
44  France 1:07:41
45  Rwanda 1:07:57
46  Romania 1:08:11
47 Jesper Faurschou  Denmark 1:08:14
48 Artur Kozłowski  Poland 1:08:24
49  Japan 1:08:34
50  Ecuador 1:08:36
51  Brazil 1:08:38
52  South Africa 1:08:41
53  United States 1:08:47
54  Kenya 1:08:49
55  Argentina 1:09:08
56  Bolivia 1:09:51 PB
57   Switzerland 1:09:56 PB
58 Cleveland Forde  Guyana 1:10:20 PB
59  Botswana 1:10:33 SB
60 Miguel Ángel Almachi  Ecuador 1:10:34 PB
61  Venezuela 1:10:36
62  France 1:10:40
63  Swaziland 1:10:47 SB
64  Uruguay 1:11:01 SB
65 Vasyl Matviychuk  Ukraine 1:11:12
66  Venezuela 1:11:23
67 Stephen Mokoka  South Africa 1:11:45
68  Argentina 1:11:53
69  Australia 1:12:04 SB
70  Mexico 1:12:42 SB
71  Trinidad and Tobago 1:13:01 SB
72  Ecuador 1:13:02
73  United States 1:14:06
74  Argentina 1:14:35
75  France 1:14:50
76 Fernando Blanco  Panama 1:14:50
77  China 1:15:19 PB
78  Paraguay 1:15:33 PB
79  Mexico 1:16:53 SB
80  Dominican Republic 1:17:39
81  Argentina 1:17:44
82  Venezuela 1:18:02
83  Japan 1:20:05
84  United States 1:20:50
85  Macau 1:25:14
86  Argentina 1:28:24
— Deriba Merga  Ethiopia DNF
— Mekubo Mogusu  Kenya DNF
—  Norfolk Island DNF
—  South Africa DNF
— Samson Kiflemariam  Eritrea DNS
— Jussi Utriainen  Finland DNS

Women's[]

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lornah Kiplagat  Netherlands 1:08:37 SB
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Aselefech Mergia  Ethiopia 1:09:57 PB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Pamela Chepchumba  Kenya 1:10:01
4 Genet Getaneh  Ethiopia 1:10:03 PB
5 Peninah Arusei  Kenya 1:10:12
6 Abebu Gelan  Ethiopia 1:10:59 PB
7 Julia Mombi Muraga  Kenya 1:11:11
8 Atsede Habtamu  Ethiopia 1:11:13
9 Luminița Talpoș  Romania 1:11:16 SB
10 Yukiko Akaba  Japan 1:11:39
11 Meseret Mengistu  Ethiopia 1:12:03 PB
12 Furtuna Zegergish  Eritrea 1:12:16 SB
13 Dulce Félix  Portugal 1:12:56
14  Kenya 1:12:58
15 Yesenia Centeno  Spain 1:13:01
16 Azucena Díaz  Spain 1:13:30
17  Brazil 1:13:42 SB
18 Olesya Syreva  Russia 1:14:08
19  Japan 1:14:27
20 Lyudmila Biktasheva  Russia 1:14:33
21  United States 1:14:37
22  Japan 1:14:52
23  Japan 1:15:05
24  United States 1:15:14
25  United States 1:15:15
26  Rwanda 1:15:23 SB
27  United States 1:15:25 PB
28  Denmark 1:15:30
29 Rosa Godoy  Argentina 1:15:31 PB
30  United States 1:16:02 PB
31 Christine Bardelle  France 1:16:17
32 Dorota Gruca-Giezek  Poland 1:16:46
33  Puerto Rico 1:16:52 NR
34  Brazil 1:17:04 SB
35  Venezuela 1:17:19
36 Yolanda Fernández  Colombia 1:17:27
37 Sharon Tavengwa  Zimbabwe 1:18:30
38 Yamna Oubouhou  France 1:18:39
39 Angélica Sánchez  Mexico 1:18:49
40  Great Britain 1:18:52
41  Puerto Rico 1:19:28 PB
42 Zuleima Amaya  Venezuela 1:20:01
43 Tatyana Khmeleva-Aryasova  Russia 1:20:06
44  Mexico 1:20:18
45  Brazil 1:20:25
46 Sonia Calizaya  Bolivia 1:20:34 SB
47 Michelle Ross-Cope  Great Britain 1:20:43
48 Oksana Sklyarenko  Ukraine 1:21:11 SB
49 Roxana Preussler  Argentina 1:22:29
50  Argentina 1:22:51
51  Romania 1:23:37
52  Venezuela 1:23:38
53  Chile 1:24:18
54  China 1:26:20 SB
55  Romania 1:27:51
56  Venezuela 1:28:49
57  Brazil 1:29:11
58  Dominican Republic 1:29:30 PB
59  Uruguay 1:31:20 SB
60  Macau 1:38:08 SB
—  Brazil DNF
—  Puerto Rico DNF
— Alina Ivanova  Russia DNF
—  South Africa DNF
—  South Africa DNF

Team results[]

Men's[]

Rank Country Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya Patrick Makau Musyoki
Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott
Joseph Maregu		 3:07:24
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Eritrea Zersenay Tadesse

 3:09:40
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Qatar Ahmed Hassan Abdullah
Essa Ismail Rashed
 3:10:52
4  Ethiopia Abebe Dinkessa

Raji Assefa		 3:11:47
5  Brazil Marilson dos Santos

 3:14:07
6  Rwanda Dieudonné Disi

 3:15:02
7  Japan

Kazuo Ietani		 3:15:28
8  Spain Ignacio Cáceres

Javier Díaz		 3:16:58
9  Russia
Yevgeniy Rybakov
 3:18:12
10  United States

3:20:50
11  South Africa

3:21:09
12  France James Theuri

 3:23:59
13  Botswana

3:24:53
14  Venezuela Pedro Mora

 3:26:44
15  Ecuador
Miguel Ángel Almachi
 3:32:12
16  Argentina

3:35:36

Women's[]

Rank Country Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Ethiopia Aselefech Mergia
Genet Getaneh
Abebu Gelan		 3:30:59
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Kenya Pamela Chepchumba
Peninah Arusei
Julia Mombi Muraga		 3:31:24
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Japan Yukiko Akaba

 3:40:58
4  United States

3:45:06
5  Russia Olesya Syreva
Lyudmila Biktasheva
Tatyana Khmeleva-Aryasova		 3:48:47
6  Brazil

3:51:11
7  Argentina Rosa Godoy
Roxana Preussler
 4:00:51
8  Venezuela
Zuleima Amaya
 4:00:58
—  Puerto Rico

DNF

Participation[]

The participation of 155 athletes (90 men/65 women) from 42 countries is reported.[8] Although announced, athletes from  Finland did not show.

See also[]

  • 2008 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

  1. ^ IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday 12 October 2008 Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, IAAF.org, Retrieved 2008-02-06
  2. ^ "Council Selects Four New Venues for Future Events - IAAF Council Meeting, Day Two". IAAF. 2006-03-29. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2007.
  3. ^ NEWS CENTRE: Rio 2008 – championships renamed. IAAF.org. 2007-11-29
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