2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Host city	Cardiff, United Kingdom
Nations participating	49
Athletes participating	174
Events	2
Dates	26 March 2016
Race length	21.0975 km; (13.1 mi)
	← 2014 Copenhagen 2018 Valencia →

The 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships took place on 26 March 2016 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.^[1] It was the 22nd edition of the event and the 4th in the United Kingdom alone.^[2]

In conjunction with the men's elite race, an open half marathon was held on the same course for 16,000 competitors.^[3]

Medallists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor (KEN)	59:10	Bedan Karoki Muchiri (KEN)	59:36	Mohamed Farah (GBR)	59:59
Women	Peres Jechirchir (KEN)	1:07:31	Cynthia Jerotich Limo (KEN)	1:07:34	Mary Wacera Ngugi (KEN)	1:07:54
Team
Men	Kenya	2:58:58	Ethiopia	3:01:16	Eritrea	3:06:18
Women	Kenya	3:22:59	Ethiopia	3:26:29	Japan	3:32:25

Race results[]

Results for the men's^[4] and women's^[5] elite races are shown below. Results for the open race are kept separately.^[6]

Men[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor	Kenya	59:10	SB
	Bedan Karoki Muchiri	Kenya	59:36	SB
	Mo Farah	Great Britain	59:59	SB
4	Abayneh Ayele	Ethiopia	59:59	PB
5	Tamirat Tola	Ethiopia	1:00:06	PB
6	Simon Cheprot	Kenya	1:00:12	SB
7	Abrar Osman	Eritrea	1:00:58	SB
8	Mule Wasihun	Ethiopia	1:01:11	SB
9		Kenya	1:01:21
10	Stephen Mokoka	South Africa	1:01:27	SB
11		Ethiopia	1:01:39	SB
12	Edwin Kipyego	Kenya	1:01:52
13	Nguse Amlosom	Eritrea	1:01:54
14	Paul Pollock	Ireland	1:02:46	SB
15	Callum Hawkins	Great Britain	1:02:51
16	Guye Adola	Ethiopia	1:03:26
17	Hiskel Tewelde	Eritrea	1:03:26	SB
18	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	1:03:29	SB
19	Sidi-Hassan Chahdi	France	1:03:30	SB
20	Michael Shelley	Australia	1:03:33	SB
21	Robert Chemonges	Uganda	1:03:39	PB
22		Japan	1:03:41
23		United States	1:03:49	SB
24	Samsom Gebreyohannes	Eritrea	1:04:03
25	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	1:04:05	SB
26	Jared Ward	United States	1:04:05	SB
27		Great Britain	1:04:10	PB
28		Japan	1:04:11
29		Japan	1:04:19
30		Peru	1:04:23	SB
31		Norway	1:04:32
32	Scott Bauhs	United States	1:04:34
33	Mariano Mastromarino	Argentina	1:04:35	PB
34	Wellington da Silva	Brazil	1:04:43	SB
35		Japan	1:04:43
36	Shogo Nakamura	Japan	1:04:49
37		South Africa	1:04:51	SB
38	Reid Coolsaet	Canada	1:04:56	SB
39		Peru	1:04:59	PB
40	Ricardo Ramos	Mexico	1:05:00
41		Ireland	1:05:20	PB
42	Kevin Seaward	Ireland	1:05:23	SB
43		France	1:05:48	SB
44		Peru	1:06:05	SB
45	Ryan McLeod	Great Britain	1:06:13	SB
46	Rob Watson	Canada	1:06:15
47	Diego Colorado	Colombia	1:06:16	SB
48	Nicolae-Alexandru Soare	Romania	1:06:18	SB
49		Denmark	1:06:28	SB
50	Sergiu Ciobanu	Ireland	1:06:30	SB
51	Daniel Vargas	Mexico	1:06:32	SB
52		Peru	1:06:34	SB
53		Great Britain	1:06:37	SB
54	Gerald Giraldo	Colombia	1:06:39	PB
55	Tesama Moogas	Israel	1:06:41
56		United States	1:06:46
57	Kári Steinn Karlsson	Iceland	1:06:49	SB
58		Slovakia	1:06:50	SB
59		Bulgaria	1:06:52	PB
60	Jesper Faurschou	Denmark	1:06:53	SB
61		South Africa	1:06:55
62		France	1:07:02
63		Latvia	1:07:34	SB
64		Denmark	1:07:49	SB
65		China	1:07:52	PB
66		Singapore	1:07:56	SB
67	Arnar Pétursson	Iceland	1:08:02	PB
68		France	1:08:09
69		Ukraine	1:08:49	SB
70		Croatia	1:08:51	SB
71		France	1:08:58	SB
72		Uzbekistan	1:09:56	PB
73	Zhoodar Kochkonbaev	Kyrgyzstan	1:10:07	PB
74	Marcel Tschopp	Liechtenstein	1:10:48	SB
75		Canada	1:11:00
76		Egypt	1:11:21	PB
77		Egypt	1:11:29	PB
78		Mexico	1:11:32	SB
79	Gladwin Mzazi	South Africa	1:11:49	SB
80	Charlton Debono	Malta	1:12:03
81		Macau	1:13:55	PB
82		South Africa	1:15:28
83		Somalia	1:15:53	PB
84		Sudan	1:17:07	SB
85		Iceland	1:17:22	SB
—	Sean Hehir	Ireland	DQ	R143.11^[7]
—	David Nilsson	Sweden	DNS
—		DR Congo	DNS

Women[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Peres Jechirchir	Kenya	1:07:31
	Cynthia Jerotich Limo	Kenya	1:07:34
	Mary Wacera Ngugi	Kenya	1:07:54
4	Netsanet Gudeta	Ethiopia	1:08:01	SB
5	Genet Yalew	Ethiopia	1:08:15
6	Gladys Chesir Kiptagelai	Kenya	1:08:46
7	Pascalia Chepkorir Kipkoech	Kenya	1:09:44	SB
8	Dehininet Demsew	Ethiopia	1:10:13	PB
9	Gladys Tejeda	Peru	1:10:14	AR
10	Yuka Ando	Japan	1:10:34
11	Janet Cherobon-Bawcom	United States	1:10:46	SB
12	Eloise Wellings	Australia	1:10:47
13	Milly Clark	Australia	1:10:48	PB
14		Japan	1:10:51
15	Sara Hall	United States	1:10:58
16	Veronica Inglese	Italy	1:10:59	SB
17	Mizuki Matsuda	Japan	1:11:00
18	Cassie Fien	Australia	1:11:13	PB
19	Kellys Arias	Colombia	1:11:21	PB
20	Lanni Marchant	Canada	1:11:26	SB
21		Mexico	1:11:52	PB
22	Margarita Hernández	Mexico	1:11:56	PB
23	Tarah Korir	Canada	1:12:04	PB
24		Ethiopia	1:12:28	SB
25	Kellyn Taylor	United States	1:12:42	SB
26	Laurane Picoche	France	1:12:43	SB
27	Alyson Dixon	Great Britain	1:12:57	SB
28	Brianne Nelson	United States	1:13:01	SB
29		Ethiopia	1:13:12	PB
30	Angie Orjuela	Colombia	1:13:16	SB
31	Souad Aït Salem	Algeria	1:13:18
32	Jovana de la Cruz	Peru	1:13:19	PB
33	Charlotte Purdue	Great Britain	1:13:20	SB
34		Canada	1:13:24	SB
35	Paula-Claudia Todoran	Romania	1:13:27	SB
36		Japan	1:13:41
37	Nolene Conrad	South Africa	1:13:45	SB
38	Rosaria Console	Italy	1:13:45
39	Anna Incerti	Italy	1:14:00	SB
40		Hong Kong	1:14:19	SB
41	Lebogang Phalula	South Africa	1:14:21	SB
42		South Africa	1:14:23	SB
43	Kenza Dahmani Tifahi	Algeria	1:14:33	SB
44		China	1:14:37	PB
45	Valdilene Silva	Brazil	1:14:38	PB
46	Mariya Korobitskaya	Kyrgyzstan	1:14:46	PB
47	Ángela Figueroa	Colombia	1:14:46	PB
48	Laila Soufyane	Italy	1:15:05
49	Tina Muir	Great Britain	1:15:12	SB
50	Brenda Flores	Mexico	1:15:19
51	María Peralta	Argentina	1:15:21	PB
52	Lizzie Lee	Ireland	1:15:36	SB
53	Marta Galimany	Spain	1:15:37
54	Fanny Pruvost	France	1:15:37
55		Denmark	1:15:41	PB
56	Carmen Patricia Martínez	Paraguay	1:15:44	NR
57		France	1:15:53	SB
58	Samira Mezeghrane	France	1:16:08	SB
59		Spain	1:16:13
60		Peru	1:16:13	PB
61		United States	1:16:16
62		Slovakia	1:16:20	SB
63		Great Britain	1:16:36
64	Marta Esteban	Spain	1:16:52
65	Militsa Mircheva	Bulgaria	1:16:54	SB
66		Romania	1:17:07	PB
67		Latvia	1:17:11	SB
68		Japan	1:17:30	SB
69		China	1:17:35	SB
70		China	1:17:52	PB
71		Chinese Taipei	1:18:00
72		Peru	1:18:21	SB
73		France	1:18:24	SB
74	Tonya Nero	Trinidad and Tobago	1:19:53	SB
75		Uzbekistan	1:22:47	PB
76	Dina Lebo Phalula	South Africa	1:23:49	SB
77	Emma Montiel	Gibraltar	1:25:51	SB
78		South Africa	1:26:30	SB
79		Macau	1:28:37	SB
80		Gibraltar	1:32:08	SB
—		Great Britain	DNF
—	Alessandra Aguilar	Spain	DNF
—	Silvia La Barbera	Italy	DNF
—		Iraq	DNS
—	Rutendo Joan Nyahora	Zimbabwe	DNS
—	Olha Skrypak	Ukraine	DNS

Team standings[]

The men's^[8] and women's^[9] team standings are shown below.

Men[]

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time
	Kenya	Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor Bedan Karoki Muchiri Simon Cheprot	2:58:58
	Ethiopia	Abayneh Ayele Tamirat Tola Mule Wasihun	3:01:16
	Eritrea	Abrar Osman Nguse Amlosom Hiskel Tewelde	3:06:18
4	Great Britain	Mohamed Farah Callum Hawkins Dewi Griffiths	3:07:00
5	Japan	Naoki Kudo Minato Oishi Keijiro Mogi	3:12:11
6	United States	Timothy Ritchie Jared Ward Scott Bauhs	3:12:28
7	South Africa	Stephen Mokoka Mbongeni Ngxazozo Vuyisile Tshoba	3:13:13
8	Ireland	Paul Pollock Thomas Frazer Kevin Seaward	3:13:29
9	Peru	Jhordan Alonso Ccope Raverso Ramos Ferdinand Pacheco	3:15:27
10	France	Sidi-Hassan Chahdi Denis Mayaud Romain Courcières	3:16:20
11	Denmark	Lars Budolfsen Jesper Faurschou Theis Nijhuis	3:21:10
12	Canada	Reid Coolsaet Rob Watson Brandon Lord	3:22:11
13	Mexico	Ricardo Ramos Daniel Vargas Saby Luna	3:23:04
14	Iceland	Kári Steinn Karlsson Arnar Pétursson Armann Eydal Albertsson	3:32:13

Women[]

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time
	Kenya	Peres Jechirchir Cynthia Jerotich Limo Mary Wacera Ngugi	3:22:59
	Ethiopia	Netsanet Gudeta Genet Yalew Dehininet Demsew	3:26:29
	Japan	Yuka Ando Miho Shimizu Mizuki Matsuda	3:32:25
4	Australia	Eloise Wellings Milly Clark Cassie Fien	3:32:48
5	United States	Janet Cherobon-Bawcom Sara Hall Kellyn Taylor	3:34:26
6	Canada	Lanni Marchant Tarah Korir Laura Batterink	3:36:54
7	Italy	Veronica Inglese Rosaria Console Anna Incerti	3:38:44
8	Mexico	Vianey de la Rosa Margarita Hernández Brenda Flores	3:39:07
9	Colombia	Kellys Arias Angie Orjuela Ángela Figueroa	3:39:23
10	Peru	Gladys Tejeda Jovana de la Cruz Luz Mery Rojas	3:39:46
11	Great Britain	Alyson Dixon Charlotte Purdue Tina Muir	3:41:29
12	South Africa	Nolene Conrad Lebogang Phalula Cornelia Joubert	3:42:29
13	France	Laurane Picoche Fanny Pruvost Severine Hamel	3:44:13
14	Spain	Marta Galimany Paula Mayobre Marta Esteban	3:48:42
15	China	Cuomu Ciren Wangmu Nuzeng Jila Dawa	3:50:04

Medal table (unofficial)[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	4	2	1	7
2	Ethiopia	0	2	0	2
3	Eritrea	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		4	4	4	12

Participation[]

An unofficial count yields the participation of 174 athletes from 49 countries. Although announced,^[10] the athletes from Djibouti and Sri Lanka did not show.

Algeria (2)
Argentina (2)
Australia (4)
Brazil (2)
Bulgaria (2)
Canada (6)
China (4)
Chinese Taipei (1)
Colombia (5)
Croatia (1)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
Denmark (4)
Egypt (2)
Eritrea (4)
Ethiopia (10)
France (10)
Gibraltar (2)

Great Britain (10)
Hong Kong (1)
Iceland (3)
Iraq (1)
Ireland (6)
Israel (1)
Italy (6)
Japan (10)
Kenya (10)
Kyrgyzstan (2)
Latvia (2)
Liechtenstein (1)
Macau (2)
Malta (1)
Mexico (6)
Norway (1)

Paraguay (1)
Peru (8)
Romania (3)
Singapore (1)
Slovakia (2)
Somalia (1)
South Africa (10)
Spain (5)
Sudan (1)
Sweden (1)
Trinidad and Tobago (1)
Uganda (1)
Ukraine (2)
United States (9)
Uzbekistan (2)
Zimbabwe (1)

References[]

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^ "ATHLETES by COUNTRY" (PDF). IAAF. 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2016-03-28.

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2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

Contents

Medallists[]

Race results[]

Men[]

Women[]

Team standings[]

Men[]

Women[]

Medal table (unofficial)[]

Participation[]

See also[]

References[]