2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's half marathon

The men's half marathon at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place on the streets of Amsterdam on 10 July. The start and finish of the race were on the Museumplein. Due to 2016 being an Olympic year the marathon is replaced by a half marathon. This is the first time that the half marathon has been run during the European Championships.^[1]

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 2016 European Athletics Championships
World record	Zersenay Tadese (ERI)	58:23	Lisbon, Portugal	21 March 2010
European record	Mo Farah (GBR)	59:32	Lisbon, Portugal	22 March 2015
World Leading	Solomon Kirwa Yego (KEN)	58:44	Rome, Italy	13 March 2016
European Leading	Mo Farah (GBR)	59:59	Cardiff, United Kingdom	26 March 2016

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Round
10 July 2016	09:50	Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Results[]

The entrance to the Rijksmuseum where the start and finish took place

Final[]

Individual[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tadesse Abraham	Switzerland	1:02:03
	Kaan Kigen Özbilen	Turkey	1:02:27
	Daniele Meucci	Italy	1:02:38	SB
4	Marcin Chabowski	Poland	1:02:54	SB
5	Abdi Hakin Ulad	Denmark	1:03:22
6	Abdi Nageeye	Netherlands	1:03:43
7	Hassan Chahdi	France	1:03:43
8	Carles Castillejo	Spain	1:03:52
9	Callum Hawkins	Great Britain	1:03:57
10	Jesús España	Spain	1:04:01
11		Ukraine	1:04:11	SB
12	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	1:04:13
13	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	1:04:15
14	Mikael Ekvall	Sweden	1:04:28	SB
15		Switzerland	1:04:40	PB
16		Poland	1:04:47
17	Paul Pollock	Ireland	1:04:58
18	Ercan Muslu	Turkey	1:05:00
19	Evans Kiplagat	Azerbaijan	1:05:01
20	Lemawork Ketema	Austria	1:05:10
21	Mustafa Mohamed	Sweden	1:05:11
22	Roman Prodius	Moldova	1:05:14
23	David Nilsson	Sweden	1:05:16
24	Julian Flügel	Germany	1:05:18
25	Marius Ionescu	Romania	1:05:21
26		Switzerland	1:05:21
27	Michel Butter	Netherlands	1:05:24	SB
28	Soufiane Bouchikhi	Belgium	1:05:31
29	Ruggero Pertile	Italy	1:05:48
30		Norway	1:05:56
31	Roman Fosti	Estonia	1:06:00	SB
32	Mick Clohisey	Ireland	1:06:00
33	Philipp Pflieger	Germany	1:06:01
34	Kevin Seaward	Ireland	1:06:20
35		Portugal	1:06:28
36		Netherlands	1:06:29
37		Norway	1:06:29
38	Xavier Chevrier	Italy	1:06:31
39	Bart van Nunen	Netherlands	1:06:41
40	Ihor Russ	Ukraine	1:06:45	SB
41		Ukraine	1:06:53
42		Great Britain	1:07:00
43		Israel	1:07:02	SB
44		Sweden	1:07:06
45	Mert Girmalegesse	Turkey	1:07:07
46	Serkan Kaya	Turkey	1:07:09
47	Christian Kreienbühl	Switzerland	1:07:09
48	Remigijus Kančys	Lithuania	1:07:12
49		Portugal	1:07:17
50		Finland	1:07:21
51		Germany	1:07:22
52	Lee Merrien	Great Britain	1:07:29
53	Yohan Durand	France	1:07:32
54		Ukraine	1:07:38
55		Latvia	1:07:40
56	Maru Teferi	Israel	1:07:40
57	Sergiu Ciobanu	Ireland	1:07:46
58	Edwin Kemboi	Austria	1:07:51
59		Czech Republic	1:08:00
60		Norway	1:08:06
61	Konstantinos Gkelaouzos	Greece	1:08:09
62		Ukraine	1:08:14
63	Samuel Barata	Portugal	1:08:30
64		Czech Republic	1:08:34
65	Daniele D'Onofrio	Italy	1:08:41
66		France	1:08:42
67		Switzerland	1:08:47
68		Norway	1:08:55
69	Gábor Józsa	Hungary	1:08:57
70		Israel	1:09:11
71	Valentin Pfeil	Austria	1:09:34
72	Iván Fernández	Spain	1:09:38
73	Yavuz Ağralı	Turkey	1:09:41
74	Anton Kosmač	Slovenia	1:09:45
75		Norway	1:09:55
76	Rui Pedro Silva	Portugal	1:10:04
77	Jonathan Hay	Great Britain	1:10:08
78	Ageze Guadie	Israel	1:10:45
79		Czech Republic	1:10:55
80		Switzerland	1:11:10
81		Ukraine	1:11:24
82	Vít Pavlišta	Czech Republic	1:11:58
83	Marcel Tschopp	Liechtenstein	1:15:36
84		Norway	1:18:12
		Portugal	DNF
	Khalid Choukoud	Netherlands	DNF
	Hendrik Pfeiffer	Germany	DNF
	Arne Gabius	Germany	DNF
		Ireland	DNF
		Ireland	DNF
	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey	DNF
		Bulgaria	DNF

Team[]

Rank	Nation	Time
	Switzerland Tadesse Abraham Christian Kreienbühl	3:12:04
	Spain Carles Castillejo Jesús España Ayad Lamdassem Ivan Fernandez	3:12:06
	Italy Daniele Meucci Stefano La Rosa Ruggero Pertile Xavier Chevrier Daniele D'Onofrio	3:12:41
4	Turkey	3:14:34
5	Sweden	3:14:55
6	Netherlands	3:15:36
7	Ireland	3:17:18
8	Ukraine	3:17:49
9	Great Britain & Northern Ireland	3:18:26
10	Germany	3:18:41
11	France	3:19:57
12	Norway	3:20:31
13	Portugal	3:22:15
14	Austria	3:22:35
15	Israel	3:23:53
16	Czech Republic	3:27:29

References[]

^ http://www.amsterdam2016.org/en/atletiek-onderdelen/artikel/half-marathon/^{[permanent dead link]}

[1] ttp://www.amsterdam2016.org/en/atletiek-onderdelen/artikel/half-marathon/^{[permanent dead link]}

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2016 European Athletics Championships

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Half marathon	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t

v t Marathon and half marathon at the European Athletics Championships
Men's marathon	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Men's half marathon	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Women's marathon	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Women's half marathon	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018