1997 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

1997 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition6th
DateOctober 4
Host cityKošice, Slovakia Slovakia
Events3
Participation226 athletes from
45 nations

The 6th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 4, 1997, in the city of Košice, Slovakia. A total of 228 athletes, 144 men and 84 women, from 45 countries took part. Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given.[1][2]

Complete results were published.[3][4][5][6][7]

Medallists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
Men  Shem Kororia (KEN) 59:56  Moses Tanui (KEN) 59:58  Kenneth Cheruiyot (KEN) 1:00:00
Women  Tegla Loroupe (KEN) 1:08:14  Cristina Pomacu (ROU) 1:08:43  Lidia Șimon (ROU) 1:09:05
Team
Team Men  Kenya 2:59:54  South Africa 3:03:34  Ethiopia 3:03:46
Team Women  Romania 3:27:40  Kenya 3:27:57  Japan 3:31:38

Race Results

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Men's

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Shem Kororia  Kenya 59:56 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Moses Tanui  Kenya 59:58
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kenneth Cheruiyot  Kenya 1:00:00
4 Hendrick Ramaala  South Africa 1:00:07
5 Mohamed Mourhit  Belgium 1:00:18
6 Gert Thys  South Africa 1:00:23
7 Abraham Assefa  Ethiopia 1:00:52
8 Luís Jesús  Portugal 1:00:56 NR
9 Stefano Baldini  Italy 1:01:01
10 Laban Chege  Kenya 1:01:13
11 Lemma Alemayehu  Ethiopia 1:01:17
12 Michael Fietz  Germany 1:01:18
13 Stéphane Schweickhardt   Switzerland 1:01:26
14 Eduardo do Nascimento  Brazil 1:01:27
15 Wilbroad Axweso  Tanzania 1:01:28
16 Jan Pešava  Czech Republic 1:01:31
17 Alejandro Gómez  Spain 1:01:36
18 Tesfaye Tola  Ethiopia 1:01:37
19 Tendai Chimusasa  Zimbabwe 1:01:42
20 Jean-Pierre Lautredoux  France 1:01:43
21 Bartolomé Serrano  Spain 1:01:44
22 Nicolae Negru  Romania 1:01:45
23 Osamu Nara  Japan 1:02:06
24 Abel Chimukoko  Zimbabwe 1:02:07
25 Herder Vázquez  Colombia 1:02:09
26 Joshua Chelanga  Kenya 1:02:12
27 Michele Gamba  Italy 1:02:13
28 Noriaki Igarashi  Japan 1:02:15
29 Róbert Štefko  Slovakia 1:02:15
30 Antonio Peña  Spain 1:02:15
31 Yoshifumi Miyamoto  Japan 1:02:16
32 Carlos de la Torre  Spain 1:02:42
33 Elisvaldo de Carvalho  Brazil 1:02:42
34 Carlos Grisales  Colombia 1:02:43
35 Alene Emere  Ethiopia 1:02:44
36 Antonio Armuzzi  Italy 1:02:46
37 Imre Berkovics  Hungary 1:02:46
38 Marco Gielen  Netherlands 1:02:48
39 José Orlando Sánchez Guerrero  Colombia 1:02:49
40 Tamás Kliszek  Hungary 1:02:50
41 Ali Mabrouk El-Zaidi  Libya 1:02:57
42 Makhosonke Fika  South Africa 1:03:04
43 Giovanni Ruggiero  Italy 1:03:06
44 Alcidio Costa  Portugal 1:03:08
45 Alemayehu Girma  Ethiopia 1:03:08
46 Fungai Kapanyota  Zimbabwe 1:03:12
47 Hakim Bagy  France 1:03:14
48 Ronny Ligneel  Belgium 1:03:14
49 José Carlos Adán  Spain 1:03:15
50 Joaquim Pinheiro  Portugal 1:03:18
51 Zoltán Holba  Hungary 1:03:19
52 Migidio Bourifa  Italy 1:03:22
53 David Taylor  Great Britain 1:03:24
54 Viktor Röthlin   Switzerland 1:03:29
55 Valeriy Kuzman  Russia 1:03:34
56 Rainer Huth  Germany 1:03:39
57 Janko Benša  Yugoslavia 1:03:41
58 Lee Troop  Australia 1:03:43
59 João Junqueira  Portugal 1:03:47
60 Alberto Chaíça  Portugal 1:03:59
61 Alan Chilton  Great Britain 1:03:59
62 Aleksandr Kuzin  Ukraine 1:04:06
63 Pat Carroll  Australia 1:04:09
64 Pavel Kokin  Russia 1:04:10
65 Faustin Saktay  Tanzania 1:04:29
66 Jeffrey Spillane  New Zealand 1:04:31
67 Jens Karrass  Germany 1:04:34
68 Anton Nikolesko  Russia 1:04:35
69 Percy Sephoda  Lesotho 1:04:35
70 Kokichi Kawamoto  Japan 1:04:36
71 Jean-Pierre Monciaux  France 1:04:36
72 Benno Piskur  Slovenia 1:04:41
73 Petr Pipa  Slovakia 1:04:42
74 Vladimír Vašek  Czech Republic 1:04:44
75 Todd Reeser  United States 1:04:45
76 Wiesław Figurski  Poland 1:04:48
77 Vladimir Tsyamchik  Belarus 1:04:52
78 Khomojoo Kapane  Lesotho 1:04:58
79 Hansjörg Brücker   Switzerland 1:04:59
80 Glynn Tromans  Great Britain 1:05:00
81 Darrell General  United States 1:05:10
82 Mykola Rudyk  Ukraine 1:05:15
83 Józef Kazanecki  Poland 1:05:23
84 Miroslav Vanko  Slovakia 1:05:24
85 Drago Paripović  Croatia 1:05:29
86 Markus Gerber   Switzerland 1:05:29
87 Mark Steinle  Great Britain 1:05:36
88 Ali Awad  Lebanon 1:05:38
89 Ramiz Taipi  Yugoslavia 1:05:46
90 Zsolt Bacskai  Hungary 1:05:53
91 Vladimir Tonchinskiy  Belarus 1:06:02
92 Jan Bláha  Czech Republic 1:06:14
93 Daniel Ferreira  Brazil 1:06:15
94 Robert Petro  Slovakia 1:06:25
95 Vladimir Gusev  Kyrgyzstan 1:06:30
96 Ian Hudspith  Great Britain 1:06:35
97 Boris Batuyev  Belarus 1:06:38
98 Marek Sukiennik  Poland 1:06:41
99 Dov Kremer  Israel 1:06:48
100 Yuriy Gichun  Ukraine 1:06:51
101 Pavel Faschingbauer  Czech Republic 1:06:51
102 Eric Morrison  United States 1:06:59
103 Kopamo Pekile  Lesotho 1:07:04
104 Sérgio da Silva  Brazil 1:07:10
105 Neema Tuluway  Tanzania 1:07:13
106 Amit Neʼeman  Israel 1:07:14
107 Thabiso Ralekhetla  Lesotho 1:07:17
108 Leonid Pykhteyev  Kyrgyzstan 1:07:19
109 Ali Al-Dosari  Bahrain 1:07:19
110 János Szemán  Hungary 1:07:29
111 Jos Maes  Belgium 1:07:40
112 Abdi Djama  France 1:07:44
113 David Morris  United States 1:07:46
114 Darius Gruzdys  Lithuania 1:07:48
115 Robert Sádek  Slovakia 1:07:51
116 Bogdan Krupa  Ukraine 1:07:54
117 James Herald  United States 1:08:01
118 Zarislav Gapeyenko  Belarus 1:08:14
119 Macbeth Akakwansa  Uganda 1:08:18
120 Sentso Retere  Lesotho 1:08:27
121 Abdullah Al-Dosari  Bahrain 1:08:48
122 Rustam Radjapov  Turkmenistan 1:08:54
123 Vujadin Alempic  Yugoslavia 1:09:15
124 Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev  Turkmenistan 1:09:18
125 Hayk Khojumyan  Armenia 1:09:28
126 Islam Dugum  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:09:51
127 Hidajet Bulic  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:09:51
128 Hsu Gi-Sheng  Chinese Taipei 1:09:56
129 Mehdi Chebli  Lebanon 1:10:03
130 Robert Prejnjak  Croatia 1:10:04
131 Adra Mocha  Israel 1:10:28
132 Ivica Škopac  Croatia 1:11:36
133 Željko-Franjo Letonija  Croatia 1:12:15
134 Dovletmomed Nazarov  Turkmenistan 1:12:18
135 Hussein Awada  Lebanon 1:14:03
136 Kaido Koppel  Estonia 1:16:35
137 Jacques Diab  Lebanon 1:18:11
138 Aleksandr Levdanskiy  Kyrgyzstan 1:19:23
— Sead Kondo  Bosnia and Herzegovina DNF
— Tomix da Costa  Brazil DNF
— Josip Lacković  Croatia DNF
— Cyrille Ballester  France DNF
— Adam Motlagale  South Africa DNF
— Panayiotis Karimalis  Greece DNS

Women's

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tegla Loroupe  Kenya 1:08:14
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Cristina Pomacu  Romania 1:08:43
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lidia Șimon  Romania 1:09:05
4 Joyce Chepchumba  Kenya 1:09:07
5 Nuta Olaru  Romania 1:09:52
6 Katrin Heinig  Germany 1:09:56
7 Lyudmila Petrova  Russia 1:10:02
8 Rocío Ríos  Spain 1:10:06
9 Mari Sotani  Japan 1:10:13
10 Svetlana Zakharova  Russia 1:10:29
11 Delilah Asiago  Kenya 1:10:36
12 Noriko Geji  Japan 1:10:37
13 Hiromi Katayama  Japan 1:10:48
14 Aurica Buia  Romania 1:11:01
15 Alina Tecuţă/Gherasim  Romania 1:11:02
16 Petra Wassiluk  Germany 1:11:03
17 Viktoria Nenasheva  Russia 1:11:14
18 Iris Biba  Germany 1:11:17
19 Lucia Subano  Kenya 1:11:39
20 Hellen Kimaiyo  Kenya 1:11:42
21 Christine Mallo  France 1:11:43
22 Silvia Skvortsova  Russia 1:11:53
23 Makiko Ito  Japan 1:12:08
24 Lucilla Andreucci  Italy 1:12:21
25 Sonja Deckers  Belgium 1:12:27
26 Kore Alemu  Ethiopia 1:12:30
27 Eyerusalem Kuma  Ethiopia 1:12:36
28 Abebe Tola  Ethiopia 1:12:42
29 Laura Fogli  Italy 1:12:43
30 Mónica Pont  Spain 1:12:44
31 Helena Javornik  Slovenia 1:12:51
32 Nadir de Siqueira  Brazil 1:13:05
33 Katrina Price  United States 1:13:07
34 Ursula Jeitziner   Switzerland 1:13:10
35 Lydia Mafula  South Africa 1:13:12
36 Yelena Plastinina  Ukraine 1:13:20
37 María Luisa Muñoz  Spain 1:13:33
38 Lee-Ann McPhillips  New Zealand 1:13:42
39 Yelena Makolova  Belarus 1:13:43
40 Angela Joiner  Great Britain 1:13:44
41 Kristijna Loonen  Netherlands 1:13:48
42 Irina Šafářová  Russia 1:13:53
43 Sally Goldsmith  Great Britain 1:14:08
44 Leila Aman  Ethiopia 1:14:15
45 Sonia Maccioni  Italy 1:14:18
46 Line Kuster  France 1:14:20
47 Simone Kuster  France 1:14:24
48 Luciene de Deus  Brazil 1:14:25
49 Galina Karnatsevich/Baruk  Belarus 1:14:42
50 Tatyana Glazyr  Ukraine 1:14:44
51 Ludmila Melicherová  Slovakia 1:14:45
52 Susan Michelsson  Australia 1:14:51
53 Jenny Crain  United States 1:15:05
54 Maria Trujillo  United States 1:15:08
55 Alta Lohann  South Africa 1:15:11
56 Amanda Wright-Allen  Great Britain 1:15:21
57 Angelines Rodríguez  Spain 1:15:23
58 Natalya Galushko  Belarus 1:15:26
59 Lorraine Masuoka/Hochella  United States 1:16:09
60 Alla Zadorozhnaya  Belarus 1:16:11
61 Lete Yesus  Ethiopia 1:16:34
62 Ágnes Jakab  Hungary 1:16:38
63 Vilija Birbalaitė  Lithuania 1:16:50
64 Nina Korvryzkina  Ukraine 1:16:56
65 Stephanie Manel  France 1:17:02
66 Renee Kruse  United States 1:17:11
67 Dana Janecková  Slovakia 1:17:45
68 Monika Deverová  Czech Republic 1:17:50
69 Muriel Linsolas  France 1:18:03
70 Nili Avramski  Israel 1:18:15
71 Tracey Swindell  Great Britain 1:19:40
72 Alena Mocariová  Slovakia 1:20:02
73 Alena Pochybová  Slovakia 1:21:22
74 Anna Balosakova  Slovakia 1:22:10
75 Adelaide Malepa  Lesotho 1:25:55
76 Kristinka Marković  Croatia 1:28:36
77 Ekateríni Fotopoúlou  Greece 1:33:29
— Yelena Mazovka  Belarus DNF
— Christina Mai  Germany DNF
— Jacky Newton  Great Britain DNF
— Patrizia Ragno  Italy DNF
— Elana Meyer  South Africa DNF
— Tatyana Dzhabrayilova  Ukraine DNF
— Agata Balsamo  Italy DNS

Team Results

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Men's

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Rank Country Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya Shem Kororia
Moses Tanui
Kenneth Cheruiyot		 2:59:54
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  South Africa Hendrick Ramaala
Gert Thys
Makhosonke Fika		 3:03:34
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Ethiopia Abraham Assefa
Lemma Alemayehu
Tesfaye Tola		 3:03:46
4  Spain Alejandro Gómez
Bartolomé Serrano
Antonio Peña		 3:05:35
5  Italy Stefano Baldini
Michele Gamba
Antonio Armuzzi		 3:06:00
6  Japan Osamu Nara
Noriaki Igarashi
Yoshifumi Miyamoto		 3:06:37
7  Zimbabwe Tendai Chimusasa
Abel Chimukoko
Fungai Kapanyota		 3:07:01
8  Portugal Luís Jesús
Alcidio Costa
Joaquim Pinheiro		 3:07:22
9  Colombia Herder Vázquez
Carlos Grisales
José Orlando Sánchez Guerrero		 3:07:41
10  Hungary Imre Berkovics
Tamás Kliszek
Zoltán Holba		 3:08:55
11  Germany Michael Fietz
Rainer Huth
Jens Karrass		 3:09:31
12  France Jean-Pierre Lautredoux
Hakim Bagy
Jean-Pierre Monciaux		 3:09:33
13   Switzerland Stéphane Schweickhardt
Viktor Röthlin
Hansjörg Brücker		 3:09:54
14  Brazil Eduardo do Nascimento
Elisvaldo de Carvalho
Daniel Ferreira		 3:10:24
15  Belgium Mohammed Mourhit
Ronny Ligneel
Jos Maes		 3:11:12
16  Russia Valeriy Kuzman
Pavel Kokin
Anton Nikolesko		 3:12:19
17  Slovakia Róbert Štefko
Petr Pipa
Miroslav Vanko		 3:12:21
18  Great Britain David Taylor
Alan Chilton
Glynn Tromans		 3:12:23
19  Czech Republic Jan Pešava
Vladimír Vašek
Jan Bláha		 3:12:29
20  Tanzania Wilbroad Axweso
Faustin Saktay
Neema Tuluway		 3:13:10
21  Ukraine Aleksandr Kuzin
Mykola Rudyk
Yuriy Gichun		 3:16:12
22  Lesotho Percy Sephoda
Khomojoo Kapane
Kopamo Pekile		 3:16:37
23  Poland Wiesław Figurski
Józef Kazanecki
Marek Sukiennik		 3:16:52
24  United States Todd Reeser
Darrell General
Eric Morrison		 3:16:54
25  Belarus Vladimir Tsyamchik
Vladimir Tonchinskiy
Boris Batuyev		 3:17:32
26  Yugoslavia Janko Benša
Ramiz Taipi
Vujadin Alempic		 3:18:42
27  Israel Dov Kremer
Amit Neʼeman
Adra Mocha		 3:24:30
28  Croatia Drago Paripović
Robert Prejnjak
Ivica Škopac		 3:27:09
29  Lebanon Ali Awad
Mehdi Chebli
Hussein Awada		 3:29:44
30  Turkmenistan Rustam Radjapov
Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev
Dovletmomed Nazarov		 3:30:30
31  Kyrgyzstan Vladimir Gusev
Leonid Pykhteyev
Aleksandr Levdanskiy		 3:33:12
—  Bosnia and Herzegovina Islam Dugum
Hidajet Bulic
Sead Kondo		 DNF

Women's

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Rank Country Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Romania Cristina Pomacu
Lidia Șimon
Nuta Olaru		 3:27:40
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Kenya Tegla Loroupe
Joyce Chepchumba
Delilah Asiago		 3:27:57
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Japan Mari Sotani
Noriko Geji
Hiromi Katayama		 3:31:38
4  Russia Lyudmila Petrova
Svetlana Zakharova
Viktoria Nenasheva		 3:31:45
5  Germany Katrin Heinig
Petra Wassiluk
Iris Biba		 3:32:16
6  Spain Rocío Ríos
Mónica Pont
María Luisa Muñoz		 3:36:23
7  Ethiopia Kore Alemu
Eyerusalem Kuma
Abebe Tola		 3:37:48
8  Italy Lucilla Andreucci
Laura Fogli
Sonia Maccioni		 3:39:22
9  France Christine Mallo
Line Kuster
Simone Kuster		 3:40:27
10  Great Britain Angela Joiner
Sally Goldsmith
Amanda Wright-Allen		 3:43:13
11  United States Katrina Price
Jenny Crain
Maria Trujillo		 3:43:20
12  Belarus Yelena Makolova
Galina Karnatsevich/Baruk
Natalya Galushko		 3:43:51
13  Ukraine Yelena Plastinina
Tatyana Glazyr
Nina Korvryzkina		 3:45:00
14  Slovakia Ludmila Melicherová
Dana Janecková
Alena Mocariová		 3:52:32
—  South Africa Lydia Mafula
Alta Lohann
Elana Meyer		 DNF

Participation

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The participation of 226 athletes (143 men/83 women) from 45 countries is reported.[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Reineri, Giorgio (October 4, 1997), Kenya wins 6th IAAF/VSZ World Half Marathon Championships – Winner Shem Kororia & Moses Tanui both under 60 minutes, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-09-28, retrieved September 6, 2013
  2. ^ Reineri, Giorgio (October 4, 1997), Loroupe (KEN) dominates women's half marathon final, but Rumania takes team title, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-09-28, retrieved September 6, 2013
  3. ^ a b IAAF WORLD HALF MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIPS - KAVARNA 2012 - FACTS & FIGURES - Incorporating the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships (1992-2005/2008-2010) & the IAAF World Road Running Championships 2006/2007 (PDF), IAAF, retrieved September 1, 2013
  4. ^ 6th IAAF/VSZ World Half Marathon Championships – Men Results, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-09-27, retrieved September 6, 2013
  5. ^ 6th IAAF/VSZ World Half Marathon Championships – Women Results, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-09-26, retrieved September 6, 2013
  6. ^ 6th IAAF/VSZ World Half Marathon Championships – Men Team Results, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-09-27, retrieved September 6, 2013
  7. ^ 6th IAAF/VSZ World Half Marathon Championships – Women Team Results, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-09-26, retrieved September 6, 2013
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