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1997 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

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]

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

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

Medallists edit

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 edit

Men's edit

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
  Shem Kororia   Kenya 59:56 CR
  Moses Tanui   Kenya 59:58
  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 edit

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
  Tegla Loroupe   Kenya 1:08:14
  Cristina Pomacu   Romania 1:08:43
  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 edit

Men's edit

Rank Country Team Time
    Kenya Shem Kororia
Moses Tanui
Kenneth Cheruiyot		 2:59:54
    South Africa Hendrick Ramaala
Gert Thys
Makhosonke Fika		 3:03:34
    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 edit

Rank Country Team Time
    Romania Cristina Pomacu
Lidia Șimon
Nuta Olaru		 3:27:40
    Kenya Tegla Loroupe
Joyce Chepchumba
Delilah Asiago		 3:27:57
    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 edit

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

See also edit

References edit

  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

External links edit

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