1993 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 2nd IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 3, 1993, in Brussels, Belgium. A total of 254 athletes, 133 men, 86 women and 35 juniors, from 49 countries took part. Complete results were published.

1993 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	2nd
Date	October 3
Host city	Brussels, Belgium
Events	3
Participation	254 athletes from 49 nations
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Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Vincent Rousseau (BEL)	1:01:06	Steve Moneghetti (AUS)	1:01:10	Carl Thackery (GBR)	1:01:13
Junior (Boys)	Meck Mothuli (RSA)	1:02:11	Beruke Bekele (ETH)	1:03:32	Isaac Radebe (RSA)	1:03:35
Women	Conceição Ferreira (POR)	1:10:07	Mari Tanigawa (JPN)	1:10:09	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	1:10:12
Team
Team Men	Kenya	3:05:40	Australia	3:05:43	United Kingdom	3:06:10
Team Junior (Boys)	South Africa	3:09:46	Ethiopia	3:13:34	Italy	3:17:12
Team Women	Romania	3:32:18	Japan	3:32:22	Portugal	3:34:12

Race Results

Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	1:01:06
	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	1:01:10
	Carl Thackery	Great Britain	1:01:13
4	Lameck Aguta	Kenya	1:01:15
5	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	1:01:17
6	Antonio Silio	Argentina	1:01:35
7	John Andrews	Australia	1:01:37
8	Adam Motlagale	South Africa	1:01:42
9	Rainer Wachenbrunner	Germany	1:02:00
10	Jan Ikov	Denmark	1:02:02
11	Kozu Akutsu	Japan	1:02:07
12	Kidane Gebrmichael	Ethiopia	1:02:10
13	Thomas Osano	Kenya	1:02:10
14	Haruo Urata	Japan	1:02:12
15	Mark Flint	Great Britain	1:02:13
16	Joseph Cheromei	Kenya	1:02:15
17	Graziano Calvaresi	Italy	1:02:19
18	Akira Nakamura	Japan	1:02:21
19	Henrique Crisostomo	Portugal	1:02:25
20	Paul Aufdemberge	United States	1:02:30
21	Leykun Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	1:02:31
22	Alberto Maravilha	Portugal	1:02:32
23	Ezael Thlobo	South Africa	1:02:38
24	Bernd Bürger	Germany	1:02:40
25	Davide Milesi	Italy	1:02:42
26	Ronny Ligneel	Belgium	1:02:43
27	Dave Lewis	Great Britain	1:02:44
28	Mohamed Ezzher	France	1:02:45
29	Zablon Miano	Kenya	1:02:48
30	António Resende	Portugal	1:02:49
31	Luigi Di Lello	Italy	1:02:49
32	Meshack Mogotsi	South Africa	1:02:55
33	Antonio Peña	Spain	1:02:55
34	Fernando Couto	Portugal	1:02:56
35	Pat Carroll	Australia	1:02:56
36	Fransua Woldemarian	Ethiopia	1:02:57
37	José Ramon Moreno	Spain	1:03:08
38	Rodney Higgins	Australia	1:03:08
39	Santtu Mäkinen	Finland	1:03:09
40	Hoche Yaya Aden	Djibouti	1:03:09
41	Martin Jones	Great Britain	1:03:10
42	Luíz dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:11
43	Gerard Kappert	Netherlands	1:03:18
44	Ryo Watanabe	Japan	1:03:19
45	Aiduna Aitnafa	Ethiopia	1:03:25
46	Frank Bjørkli	Norway	1:03:29
47	Tomix da Costa	Brazil	1:03:33
48	Yuriy Chizhov	Russia	1:03:34
49	Klaus-Peter Nabein	Germany	1:03:38
50	Luís Soares	France	1:03:38
51	Viktor Vykhrystenko	Ukraine	1:03:39
52	Wolde Silasse Melkessa	Ethiopia	1:03:41
53	Eddy Hellebuyck	Belgium	1:03:44
54	Salvatore Orgiana	Italy	1:03:48
55	Joaquim Silva	Portugal	1:03:49
56	Omar Daher Ghadid	Djibouti	1:03:56
57	Sergey Struganov	Russia	1:03:57
58	Delmir dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:58
59	Bertrand Frechard	France	1:04:01
60	Steve Sisson	United States	1:04:02
61	Nikolay Kerimov	Russia	1:04:02
62	Valentin Martyniouk	Ukraine	1:04:02
63	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	1:04:04
64	Danilo Goffi	Italy	1:04:05
65	Terje Näss	Norway	1:04:08
66	Pascal Fetizon	France	1:04:10
67	Daniel Held	United States	1:04:14
68	Thierry Constantin	Switzerland	1:04:19
69	Sergey Fedotov	Russia	1:04:28
70	Raf Wijns	Belgium	1:04:29
71	Vladimir Epanov	Russia	1:04:29
72	John Griffin	Ireland	1:04:31
73	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	1:04:32
74	Vladimir Bukhanov	Ukraine	1:04:43
75	Roger Bjørkli	Norway	1:04:45
76	Svein Erik Eide	Norway	1:04:45
77	Steve Jones	Great Britain	1:04:52
78	Alberto Juzdado	Spain	1:04:53
79	Jukka Vähä-Vahe	Finland	1:04:59
80	Mirosław Żerkowski	Poland	1:05:00
81	Diomede Cishahayo	Burundi	1:05:03
82	Peter De Vocht	Belgium	1:05:05
83	Daniel Gonzalez	United States	1:05:07
84	Axel Krippschock	Germany	1:05:15
85	Jean-Louis Prianon	France	1:05:17
86	Marco Gielen	Netherlands	1:05:21
87	Nicolae Negru	Romania	1:05:22
88	Boris Batuyev	Belarus	1:05:23
89	Simon Mphulanyane	South Africa	1:05:33
90	Jari Hirvonen	Finland	1:05:40
91	Daniel Dasta	Israel	1:05:42
92	Craig Dickson	United States	1:05:48
93	Marcelo Cascabelo	Argentina	1:05:52
94	Rodrigo Gavela	Spain	1:05:58
95	Vladimir Tonchinskiy	Belarus	1:06:01
96	Kuruppe Karunaratne	Sri Lanka	1:06:03
97	Tom Maher	Ireland	1:06:18
98	Mikhail Vorontsov	Belarus	1:06:23
99	Bjørn Nordheggen	Norway	1:06:32
100	Aart Stigter	Netherlands	1:06:50
101	Khelil Benhalima	Algeria	1:06:53
102	Mohamed Abdi Said	Djibouti	1:07:00
103	Peter Handcock	New Zealand	1:07:10
104	Aleksandrs Prokopčuks	Latvia	1:07:13
105	David Rush	New Zealand	1:07:27
106	Uwe Honsdorf	Germany	1:07:34
107	Jan-Dirk Hazegeler	Netherlands	1:07:40
108	Roy Dooney	Ireland	1:07:55
109	Yuriy Brandes	Belarus	1:08:28
110	Georges Richmond	French Polynesia	1:08:44
111	Ģirts Fogels	Latvia	1:09:24
112	Asaf Bimro	Israel	1:09:27
113	Ajay Chuttoo	Mauritius	1:09:33
114	Brent Halley	New Zealand	1:09:37
115	Roland Wille	Liechtenstein	1:09:46
116	Kavin Smith	Bermuda	1:10:08
117	Thomas Payne	Ireland	1:10:20
118	Lee Kar Lun	Hong Kong	1:11:23
119	Isvans Normunds	Latvia	1:11:28
120	Ismael Hassan	Djibouti	1:11:53
121	Samantha Neil	Sri Lanka	1:11:57
122	G. Susiripala	Sri Lanka	1:12:17
123	Andrey Vasilyev	Turkmenistan	1:14:05
124	Fung Wang Tak	Hong Kong	1:15:23
125	Chan Hon Hung	Hong Kong	1:15:41
126	Tracy Wright	Bermuda	1:16:26
127	Ho Wing Fai	Hong Kong	1:17:28
128	Makudi Mubenga	Zaire	1:19:36
129	Andrey Pilipenko	Turkmenistan	1:20:01
—	Kamal Kohil	Algeria	DNF
—	Mark Carreras	Gibraltar	DNF
—	Johannas Mabitle	South Africa	DNF
—	Marly Sopyev	Turkmenistan	DNF

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	1:10:07
	Mari Tanigawa	Japan	1:10:09
	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	1:10:12
4	Miyoko Takahashi	Japan	1:10:15
5	Elena Murgoci	Romania	1:10:17
6	Anuța Cătună	Romania	1:10:39
7	Iulia Negura	Romania	1:11:22
8	Albertina Machado	Portugal	1:11:39
9	Adriana Barbu	Romania	1:11:52
10	Akari Takemoto	Japan	1:11:58
11	María Luisa Muñoz	Spain	1:12:04
12	Suzanne Rigg	Great Britain	1:12:07
13	Natalya Galushko	Belarus	1:12:08
14	Annick Clouvel	France	1:12:12
15	Rosa Oliveira	Portugal	1:12:26
16	Julia Sakara	Zimbabwe	1:12:28
17	Jane Salumäe	Estonia	1:12:30
18	Martha Ernstdóttir	Iceland	1:12:33
19	Marian Sutton	Great Britain	1:12:37
20	Monica OʼReilly	Ireland	1:12:50
21	Mónica Pont	Spain	1:12:53
22	Nicole Whiteford	South Africa	1:12:55
23	Firiya Sultanova	Russia	1:12:57
24	Klara Kashapova	Russia	1:13:13
25	Sara Romé	Sweden	1:13:30
26	Tomoe Abe	Japan	1:13:31
27	Stefanija Statkuvienė	Lithuania	1:13:34
28	Debbi Morris	United States	1:13:40
29	Dörte Köster	Germany	1:13:41
30	Kerstin Herzberg	Germany	1:13:42
31	Fatima Neves	Portugal	1:13:45
32	Fantaye Sirak	Ethiopia	1:13:47
33	Tatyana Pentukova	Russia	1:14:02
34	Linda Milo	Belgium	1:14:03
35	Jennifer Martin	United States	1:14:06
36	Rocío Ríos	Spain	1:14:07
37	Sue Dilnot	Great Britain	1:14:10
38	Kerryn McCann	Australia	1:14:11
39	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway	1:14:20
40	Susan Hobson	Australia	1:14:24
41	Irina Gras	France	1:14:30
42	Rosario Murcia	France	1:14:36
43	Marjan Freriks	Netherlands	1:14:38
44	Tatyana Pozdnyakova	Ukraine	1:14:40
45	Teresa Dyer	Great Britain	1:14:44
46	Myriam Dumont	Belgium	1:14:52
47	Tatyana Belovol	Ukraine	1:14:59
48	Grace de Oliveira	South Africa	1:15:01
49	Monique Ecker	United States	1:15:08
50	Lyudmila Pushkina	Ukraine	1:15:11
51	Anja De Brabant	Belgium	1:15:23
52	Helle Vullings	Netherlands	1:15:29
53	Solange de Souza	Brazil	1:15:34
54	Cathy Schum	Ireland	1:15:36
55	Isabelle Guillot	France	1:15:37
56	Andrea Fleischer	Germany	1:15:50
57	Françoise Bonnet	France	1:15:58
58	Kelly Lopes dos Santos/de Oliveira	Brazil	1:16:25
59	Bronwen Cardy-Wise	Great Britain	1:16:33
60	Torhild Dybwad	Norway	1:16:36
61	Rose Lambe	Ireland	1:16:48
62	Radka Pátková	Czech Republic	1:16:53
63	Yelena Makolova	Belarus	1:17:05
64	Siska Maton	Belgium	1:17:06
65	Jennifer Bam	South Africa	1:17:47
66	Wilma van Onna	Netherlands	1:17:51
67	Eryn Forbes	United States	1:18:03
68	Asha Gigi	Ethiopia	1:19:19
69	Nadir de Siqueira	Brazil	1:19:23
70	Patricia Griffin	Ireland	1:19:28
71	Galina Karnatsevich/Baruk	Belarus	1:19:46
72	Ingrid Van Giel	Belgium	1:20:47
73	Andrea Devine	New Zealand	1:20:52
74	Mary Sweeney	Ireland	1:21:11
75	Asselefech Assefa	Ethiopia	1:21:27
76	Anna Eatherley	Bermuda	1:23:31
77	Maisa Tcharyeva	Turkmenistan	1:23:39
78	Ilona Lubane	Latvia	1:27:55
79	Kristine Graudina	Latvia	1:28:31
80	Maria Wille	Liechtenstein	1:29:43
—	Gabriela Wolf	Germany	DNF
—	Irena Zumromska	Latvia	DNF
—	Debbie Sheddan	New Zealand	DNF
—	Manuela Dias	Portugal	DNF
—	Nadezhda Tatarenkova	Russia	DNF
—	Jennifer Brower	United States	DNF

Junior Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Meck Mothuli	South Africa	1:02:11
	Beruke Bekele	Ethiopia	1:03:32
	Isaac Radebe	South Africa	1:03:35
4	Frank Pooe	South Africa	1:04:00
5	Tegenu Abebe	Ethiopia	1:04:19
6	Aleksey Sobolev	Russia	1:05:12
7	Giovanni Ruggiero	Italy	1:05:21
8	Rosario Daidoni	Italy	1:05:35
9	Yifru Fekada Yifru	Ethiopia	1:05:43
10	Valeriy Kuzman	Russia	1:06:12
11	Ottaviano Andriani	Italy	1:06:16
12	Adam Selebalo	South Africa	1:06:46
13	Anton Nikolesko	Russia	1:07:02
14	Antonio Andriani	Italy	1:07:08
15	Johnny Loría	Costa Rica	1:07:14
16	Pavel Kokin	Russia	1:07:38
17	Alessandro Fasulo	Italy	1:07:52
18	José María Prieto	Spain	1:08:51
19	Aleksey Pletnev	Russia	1:09:09
20	Péter Imre	Hungary	1:09:11
21	Vivian Mkhize	South Africa	1:09:12
22	Torsten Matthes	Germany	1:10:01
23	Richard Muscat	Gibraltar	1:10:18
24	Martins Alksnis	Latvia	1:10:36
25	Zsolt Füleki	Hungary	1:10:54
26	Patrick Heinlein	Germany	1:11:14
27	Arturs Curkans	Latvia	1:11:32
28	Andras Eso	Hungary	1:11:44
29	Nikolaus Rama	Germany	1:11:57
30	Zsolt Bacskai	Hungary	1:13:44
31	Kemal Tuvakuliyev	Turkmenistan	1:15:07
32	Tofik Inger	Turkmenistan	1:17:30
33	Abdylesis Nurliev	Turkmenistan	1:19:03
—	Guido Streit	Germany	DNF
—	Ivars Lapiņš	Latvia	DNF

Team Results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Lameck Aguta Thomas Osano Joseph Cheromei	3:05:40
	Australia	Steve Moneghetti John Andrews Pat Carroll	3:05:43
	Great Britain	Carl Thackery Mark Flint Dave Lewis	3:06:10
4	Japan	Kozu Akutsu Haruo Urata Akira Nakamura	3:06:40
5	South Africa	Adam Motlagale Ezael Thlobo Meshack Mogotsi	3:07:15
6	Belgium	Vincent Rousseau Ronny Ligneel Eddy Hellebuyck	3:07:33
7	Ethiopia	Kidane Gebrmichael Leykun Gebremedhin Fransua Woldemarian	3:07:38
8	Portugal	Henrique Crisostomo Alberto Maravilha António Resende	3:07:46
9	Italy	Graziano Calvaresi Davide Milesi Luigi Di Lello	3:07:50
10	Brazil	Valdenor dos Santos Luíz dos Santos Tomix da Costa	3:08:01
11	Germany	Rainer Wachenbrunner Bernd Bürger Klaus-Peter Nabein	3:08:18
12	France	Mohamed Ezzher Luís Soares Bertrand Frechard	3:10:24
13	United States	Paul Aufdemberge Steve Sisson Daniel Held	3:10:46
14	Spain	Antonio Peña José Ramon Moreno Alberto Juzdado	3:10:56
15	Russia	Yuriy Chizhov Sergey Struganov Nikolay Kerimov	3:11:33
16	Norway	Frank Bjørkli Terje Näss Roger Bjørkli	3:12:22
17	Ukraine	Viktor Vykhrystenko Valentin Martyniouk Vladimir Bukhanov	3:12:24
18	Finland	Santtu Mäkinen Jukka Vähä-Vahe Jari Hirvonen	3:13:48
19	Djibouti	Hoche Yaya Aden Omar Daher Ghadid Mohamed Abdi Said	3:14:05
20	Netherlands	Gerard Kappert Marco Gielen Aart Stigter	3:15:29
21	Belarus	Boris Batuyev Vladimir Tonchinskiy Mikhail Vorontsov	3:17:47
22	Ireland	John Griffin Tom Maher Roy Dooney	3:18:44
23	New Zealand	Peter Handcock David Rush Brent Halley	3:24:14
24	Latvia	Aleksandrs Prokopčuks Ģirts Fogels Isvans Normunds	3:28:05
25	Sri Lanka	Kuruppe Karunaratne Samantha Neil G. Susiripala	3:30:17
26	Hong Kong	Lee Kar Lun Fung Wang Tak Chan Hon Hung	3:42:27
—	Algeria	Azzedine Sakhri Khelil Benhalima Kamal Kohil	DNF
—	Turkmenistan	Andrey Vasilyev Andrey Pilipenko Marly Sopyev	DNF

Women's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Romania	Elena Murgoci Anuța Cătună Iulia Negura	3:32:18
	Japan	Mari Tanigawa Miyoko Takahashi Akari Takemoto	3:32:22
	Portugal	Conceição Ferreira Albertina Machado Rosa Oliveira	3:34:12
4	Great Britain	Suzanne Rigg Marian Sutton Sue Dilnot	3:38:54
5	Spain	María Luisa Muñoz Mónica Pont Rocío Ríos	3:39:04
6	Russia	Firiya Sultanova Klara Kashapova Tatyana Pentukova	3:40:12
7	France	Annick Clouvel Irina Gras Rosario Murcia	3:41:18
8	United States	Debbi Morris Jennifer Martin Monique Ecker	3:42:54
9	Germany	Dörte Köster Kerstin Herzberg Andrea Fleischer	3:43:13
10	Belgium	Linda Milo Myriam Dumont Anja De Brabant	3:44:18
11	Ukraine	Tatyana Pozdnyakova Tatyana Belovol Lyudmila Pushkina	3:44:50
12	Ireland	Monica OʼReilly Cathy Schum Rose Lambe	3:45:14
13	South Africa	Nicole Whiteford Grace de Oliveira Jennifer Bam	3:45:43
14	Netherlands	Marjan Freriks Helle Vullings Wilma van Onna	3:47:58
15	Belarus	Natalya Galushko Natalya Galushko Yelena Makolova	3:41:21
16	Brazil	Solange de Souza Kelly Lopes dos Santos/de Oliveira Nadir de Siqueira	3:51:22
17	Ethiopia	Fantaye Sirak Asha Gigi Asselefech Assefa	3:54:33
—	Latvia	Ilona Lubane Kristine Graudina Irena Zumromska	DNF

Junior Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	South Africa	Meck Mothuli Isaac Radebe Frank Pooe	3:09:46
	Ethiopia	Beruke Bekele Tegenu Abebe Yifru Fekada Yifru	3:13:34
	Italy	Giovanni Ruggiero Rosario Daidoni Ottaviano Andriani	3:17:12
4	Russia	Aleksey Sobolev Valeriy Kuzman Anton Nikolesko	3:18:26
5	Hungary	Péter Imre Zsolt Füleki Andras Eso	3:31:49
6	Germany	Torsten Matthes Patrick Heinlein Nikolaus Rama	3:33:12
7	Turkmenistan	Kemal Tuvakuliyev Tofik Inger Abdylesis Nurliev	3:51:40
—	Latvia	Martins Alksnis Arturs Curkans Ivars Lapiņš	DNF

Participation

The participation of 254 athletes (168 men/86 women) from 49 countries is reported.

• Algeria (3)
• Argentina (2)
• Australia (6)
• Belarus (6)
• Belgium (10)
• Bermuda (3)
• Brazil (7)
• Burundi (1)
• Costa Rica (1)
• Czech Republic (1)
• Denmark (1)
• Djibouti (4)
• Estonia (1)
• Ethiopia (11)
• Finland (3)
• France (10)
• Germany (13)
• Gibraltar (2)
• Hong Kong (4)
• Hungary (4)
• Iceland (1)
• Ireland (9)
• Israel (2)
• Italy (10)
• Japan (8)
• Kenya (5)
• Latvia (9)
• Liechtenstein (2)
• Lithuania (1)
• Mauritius (1)
• Netherlands (7)
• New Zealand (5)
• Norway (7)
• Poland (1)
• Portugal (10)
• Romania (5)
• Russia (14)
• South Africa (13)
• Spain (8)
• Sri Lanka (3)
• Sweden (1)
• Switzerland (2)
• /Tahiti (1)
• Turkmenistan (7)
• Ukraine (6)
• United Kingdom (10)
• United States (10)
• Zaire (1)
• Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• 1993 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 1992-2005 Facts & Figures