2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

Host city	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nations	42
Athletes	155
Events	2
Dates	2008-10-12
Race length	21.0975 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
	Zersenay Tadesse	Eritrea	59:56	CR
	Patrick Makau Musyoki	Kenya	1:01:54
	Ahmed Hassan Abdullah	Qatar	1:01:57	SB
4	Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott	Kenya	1:01:58
5	Yusei Nakao	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	Sylvain Rukundo	Rwanda	1:04:02	SB
12	Michael Tesfay	Eritrea	1:04:04	SB
13	Eshetu Wondemu	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	Dereje Tesfaye	Ethiopia	1:04:57
19	Ali Dawoud Sedam	Qatar	1:04:58	SB
20	Giomar da Silva	Brazil	1:05:07	SB
21	Jason Lehmkuhle	United States	1:05:17
22	Tshamano Setone	South Africa	1:05:20
23	Anatoliy Rybakov	Russia	1:05:38
24	James Theuri	France	1:05:38
25	Mogos Ahferom	Eritrea	1:05:40	PB
26	Iván Galán	Spain	1:05:42
27	João de Lima	Brazil	1:05:46
28	Franck de Almeida	Brazil	1:05:52	SB
29	Yemane Teame	Eritrea	1:05:56	PB
30	Yevgeniy Rybakov	Russia	1:05:59
31	Andrew Smith	Canada	1:06:10
32	Yukihiro Kitaoka	Japan	1:06:26
33	Mikhail Lemaev	Russia	1:06:35
34	Javier Díaz	Spain	1:06:37
35	Rod Koborsi	United States	1:06:46
36	Sultan Khamis Zaman	Qatar	1:06:50	SB
37	Kazuo Ietani	Japan	1:06:57
38	Keenetse Moswasi	Botswana	1:07:08	SB
39	Jeffrey Gwebu	South Africa	1:07:08
40	Felix Kibore	Qatar	1:07:10	PB
41	Kaelo Mosalagae	Botswana	1:07:12	SB
42	Jorge Cabrera	Paraguay	1:07:26	SB
43	Dmitriy Semyonov	Russia	1:07:40
44	Fabrice Jaouen	France	1:07:41
45	Gervais Hakizimana	Rwanda	1:07:57
46	Cristinel Irimia	Romania	1:08:11
47	Jesper Faurschou	Denmark	1:08:14
48	Artur Kozłowski	Poland	1:08:24
49	Tetsuo Nishimura	Japan	1:08:34
50	Vladimir Guerra	Ecuador	1:08:36
51	Ivanildo dos Anjos	Brazil	1:08:38
52	Moorosi Soke	South Africa	1:08:41
53	Steve Sundell	United States	1:08:47
54	Lameck Mosoti	Kenya	1:08:49
55	Ulises Sanguinetti	Argentina	1:09:08
56	Rolando Pillco	Bolivia	1:09:51	PB
57	Stéphane Joly	Switzerland	1:09:56	PB
58	Cleveland Forde	Guyana	1:10:20	PB
59	Kabo Gabaseme	Botswana	1:10:33	SB
60	Miguel Ángel Almachi	Ecuador	1:10:34	PB
61	Didimo Sánchez	Venezuela	1:10:36
62	Julien Moreau	France	1:10:40
63	Siphesihle Mdluli	Swaziland	1:10:47	SB
64	Ernesto Zamora	Uruguay	1:11:01	SB
65	Vasyl Matviychuk	Ukraine	1:11:12
66	Oswaldo Belandria	Venezuela	1:11:23
67	Stephen Mokoka	South Africa	1:11:45
68	Wilson Videla	Argentina	1:11:53
69	Mark Tucker	Australia	1:12:04	SB
70	Julio César Pérez	Mexico	1:12:42	SB
71	Richard Jones	Trinidad and Tobago	1:13:01	SB
72	Paulo Buenaño	Ecuador	1:13:02
73	Patrick Gildea	United States	1:14:06
74	Gustavo Comba	Argentina	1:14:35
75	Thibaud Naël	France	1:14:50
76	Fernando Blanco	Panama	1:14:50
77	Wang Enjun	China	1:15:19	PB
78	Gustavo López	Paraguay	1:15:33	PB
79	Alejandro Cuahtepizi	Mexico	1:16:53	SB
80	Bernardo Jiménez	Dominican Republic	1:17:39
81	Guido Benedetti	Argentina	1:17:44
82	Delvis Sánchez	Venezuela	1:18:02
83	Masato Kihara	Japan	1:20:05
84	Ryan Kirkpatrick	United States	1:20:50
85	Chan Chan Kit	Macau	1:25:14
86	Dario Nuñez	Argentina	1:28:24
—	Deriba Merga	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Mekubo Mogusu	Kenya	DNF
—	Tim Rogers	Norfolk Island	DNF
—	Lindihaya Mthangayi	South Africa	DNF
—	Samson Kiflemariam	Eritrea	DNS
—	Jussi Utriainen	Finland	DNS

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lornah Kiplagat	Netherlands	1:08:37	SB
	Aselefech Mergia	Ethiopia	1:09:57	PB
	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	Pauline Ngigi	Kenya	1:12:58
15	Yesenia Centeno	Spain	1:13:01
16	Azucena Díaz	Spain	1:13:30
17	Maria Baldaia	Brazil	1:13:42	SB
18	Olesya Syreva	Russia	1:14:08
19	Miki Ohira	Japan	1:14:27
20	Lyudmila Biktasheva	Russia	1:14:33
21	Melissa White	United States	1:14:37
22	Yuko Machida	Japan	1:14:52
23	Ikuyo Yamashita	Japan	1:15:05
24	Dorothy McMaham	United States	1:15:14
25	Kristen Nicolini	United States	1:15:15
26	Angeline Nyiransabimana	Rwanda	1:15:23	SB
27	Stephanie Herbst	United States	1:15:25	PB
28	Maria Sig Møller	Denmark	1:15:30
29	Rosa Godoy	Argentina	1:15:31	PB
30	Jill Steffens	United States	1:16:02	PB
31	Christine Bardelle	France	1:16:17
32	Dorota Gruca-Giezek	Poland	1:16:46
33	María Díaz	Puerto Rico	1:16:52	NR
34	Marizete dos Santos	Brazil	1:17:04	SB
35	Maria Isabel Montilla	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	Wendy Nicholls/Jones	Great Britain	1:18:52
41	Zenaida Maldonado	Puerto Rico	1:19:28	PB
42	Zuleima Amaya	Venezuela	1:20:01
43	Tatyana Khmeleva-Aryasova	Russia	1:20:06
44	Judith Ramírez	Mexico	1:20:18
45	Edielza Guimarães	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	Estela María Martínez	Argentina	1:22:51
51	Magdalena Luca	Romania	1:23:37
52	Mileydy Jaimes	Venezuela	1:23:38
53	Susana Rebolledo	Chile	1:24:18
54	Jiang Chengcheng	China	1:26:20	SB
55	Paula Todoran	Romania	1:27:51
56	Rosa America Rodríguez	Venezuela	1:28:49
57	Rosângela Faria	Brazil	1:29:11
58	Andreina De La Rosa	Dominican Republic	1:29:30	PB
59	Marisol Redón	Uruguay	1:31:20	SB
60	Chao Fong Leng	Macau	1:38:08	SB
—	Marizete Rezende	Brazil	DNF
—	Carmen Vallés	Puerto Rico	DNF
—	Alina Ivanova	Russia	DNF
—	Ntombesintu Mfunzi	South Africa	DNF
—	Johanna van Schalkwyk	South Africa	DNF

Team results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Patrick Makau Musyoki Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott Joseph Maregu	3:07:24
	Eritrea	Zersenay Tadesse Michael Tesfay Mogos Ahferom	3:09:40
	Qatar	Ahmed Hassan Abdullah Essa Ismail Rashed Ali Dawoud Sedam	3:10:52
4	Ethiopia	Abebe Dinkessa Eshetu Wondemu Raji Assefa	3:11:47
5	Brazil	Marilson dos Santos Giomar da Silva João de Lima	3:14:07
6	Rwanda	Dieudonné Disi Sylvain Rukundo Gervais Hakizimana	3:15:02
7	Japan	Yusei Nakao Yukihiro Kitaoka Kazuo Ietani	3:15:28
8	Spain	Ignacio Cáceres Iván Galán Javier Díaz	3:16:58
9	Russia	Anatoliy Rybakov Yevgeniy Rybakov Mikhail Lemaev	3:18:12
10	United States	Jason Lehmkuhle Rod Koborsi Steve Sundell	3:20:50
11	South Africa	Tshamano Setone Jeffrey Gwebu Moorosi Soke	3:21:09
12	France	James Theuri Fabrice Jaouen Julien Moreau	3:23:59
13	Botswana	Keenetse Moswasi Kaelo Mosalagae Kabo Gabaseme	3:24:53
14	Venezuela	Pedro Mora Didimo Sánchez Oswaldo Belandria	3:26:44
15	Ecuador	Vladimir Guerra Miguel Ángel Almachi Paulo Buenaño	3:32:12
16	Argentina	Ulises Sanguinetti Wilson Videla Gustavo Comba	3:35:36

Women's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Ethiopia	Aselefech Mergia Genet Getaneh Abebu Gelan	3:30:59
	Kenya	Pamela Chepchumba Peninah Arusei Julia Mombi Muraga	3:31:24
	Japan	Yukiko Akaba Miki Ohira Yuko Machida	3:40:58
4	United States	Melissa White Dorothy McMaham Kristen Nicolini	3:45:06
5	Russia	Olesya Syreva Lyudmila Biktasheva Tatyana Khmeleva-Aryasova	3:48:47
6	Brazil	Maria Baldaia Marizete dos Santos Edielza Guimarães	3:51:11
7	Argentina	Rosa Godoy Roxana Preussler Estela María Martínez	4:00:51
8	Venezuela	Maria Isabel Montilla Zuleima Amaya Mileydy Jaimes	4:00:58
—	Puerto Rico	María Díaz Zenaida Maldonado Carmen Vallés	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.

•   Argentina (8)
•   Australia (2)
•   Bolivia (2)
•   Botswana (3)
•   Brazil (10)
•   Canada (1)
•   Chile (1)
•   China (2)
•   Colombia (1)
•   Denmark (2)
•   Dominican Republic (2)
•   Ecuador (3)
•   Eritrea (5)
•   Ethiopia (10)
•   France (6)
•   Guyana (1)
•   Japan (9)
•   Kenya (9)
•   Macau (2)
•   Mexico (4)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   Norfolk Island (1)
•   Panama (1)
•   Paraguay (2)
•   Poland (2)
•   Portugal (1)
•   Puerto Rico (3)
•   Qatar (5)
•   Romania (4)
•   Russia (8)
•   Rwanda (4)
•   South Africa (7)
•   Spain (5)
• Swaziland (1)
•   Switzerland (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•   Ukraine (2)
•   United Kingdom (2)
•   United States (10)
•   Uruguay (2)
•   Venezuela (8)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• 2008 in athletics (track and field)

References

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External links

• iaaf.org - IAAF/CIAXA World Half Marathon Championships - Rio 2008