Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's half marathon

The men's half marathon event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held on the streets of Catania, Italy on 31 August.^[1] This was the first time that this event was featured at the Universiade replacing the marathon.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Marílson Gomes dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:32	UR
	Stephen Mayaka	Kenya	1:03:51
	Solomon Wachira	Kenya	1:04:05
4	Masateru Ikeya	Japan	1:04:12
5	Sung Keun-oh	South Korea	1:04:37
6	Mark Steinle	Great Britain	1:04:19
7	Tshidiso Phofi	South Africa	1:05:11
8	Kanno Kuniaki	Japan	1:05:11
9	Christian Leuprecht	Italy	1:05:44
10	John Maitai Mboroth	Kenya	1:05:51
11	Juma Nkuwi	Tanzania	1:06:08
12	Je In-mo	South Korea	1:06:35
13	Rachid Boulenouar	Morocco	1:06:46
14	Robert Smits	Netherlands	1:07:09
15	Janko Benša	Yugoslavia	1:07:28
16	Ephraim Mokgokhu	South Africa	1:07:36
17	Adam Leane	Australia	1:07:41	^[4]
18	Raúl Ramírez	Mexico	1:08:04
19	Garrett Crossan	Ireland	1:08:05
20	Peter de la Cerda	United States	1:08:59
21	Robert Sadek	Slovakia	1:09:55
22	Michal Kavacký	Slovakia	1:10:04
23	Dumitru Bogus	Moldova	1:10:32
24	Laxman Adhikari	Nepal	1:10:44
25	James Menon	United States	1:10:54
26	Berthold Karumendu	Namibia	1:10:59
27	Wu Wen-chien	Chinese Taipei	1:13:14
28	Mohamed Abbas	Nigeria	1:13:28
29	Ng Yu Lun Anson	Hong Kong	1:16:08
30	Tolessa Teffera	Ethiopia	1:18:54
31	Mahamedadam Ahmed	Sudan	1:20:02
	Endalkachew Bezu	Ethiopia	DNF
	Şükrü Onat	Turkey	DNF