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

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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
  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

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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

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Men's

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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

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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

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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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