1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 8th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 3, 1999, in the city of Palermo, Italy. A total of 192 athletes, 119 men and 73 women, from 48 countries, took part. The course was traced through the historical centre of the town with the start/finish line on the "Foro Italico."[1] A detailed report on the event and an appraisal of the results were given.[2][3]

1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	8th
Date	October 3
Host city	Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Events	2
Participation	192 athletes from 48 nations
← 1998 Zürich 2000 Veracruz →

Complete results were published.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Paul Tergat (KEN)	1:01:50	Hendrick Ramaala (RSA)	1:01:50	Tesfaye Jifar (ETH)	1:01:51
Women	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	1:08:48	Mizuki Noguchi (JPN)	1:09:12	Catherine Ndereba (KEN)	1:09:23
Team
Team Men	South Africa	3:06:01	Ethiopia	3:06:03	Kenya	3:06:03
Team Women	Kenya	3:27:40	Japan	3:30:06	Russia	3:31:49

Race results

Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paul Tergat	Kenya	1:01:50
	Hendrick Ramaala	South Africa	1:01:50
	Tesfaye Jifar	Ethiopia	1:01:51
4	Abdellah Béhar	France	1:01:53
5	Eduardo Henriques	Portugal	1:01:53
6	Abner Chipu	South Africa	1:01:54
7	Laban Chege	Kenya	1:01:54
8	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia	1:01:56
9	Fekadu Degefu	Ethiopia	1:02:16
10	Mluleki Nobanda	South Africa	1:02:17
11	Sammy Korir	Kenya	1:02:19
12	Gert Thys	South Africa	1:02:24
13	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands	1:02:33
14	Toshiyuki Hayata	Japan	1:02:35
15	Faustin Baha	Tanzania	1:02:41
16	Gebremariam Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	1:02:46
17	Philip Rugut	Kenya	1:02:59
18	Rachid Berradi	Italy	1:03:03
19	Larbi Zéroual	France	1:03:05
20	Alberto Chaíça	Portugal	1:03:08
21	Toshiaki Tezuka	Japan	1:03:20
22	Araya Berhane	Ethiopia	1:03:24
23	Shigeru Aburaya	Japan	1:03:26
24	Rachid Ziar	Algeria	1:03:32
25	Teodoro Cuñado	Spain	1:03:33
26	Javier Caballero	Spain	1:03:39
27	Mohamed Serbouti	France	1:03:41
28	Jafred Lorone	Uganda	1:03:44
29	José Ramos	Portugal	1:03:49
30	Tsuyoshi Ogata	Japan	1:03:50
31	Antonio Martins	France	1:03:55
32	Jumanne Tuluway	Tanzania	1:03:57
33	Antonio Serrano	Spain	1:03:58
34	Hakim Bagy	France	1:03:58
35	Koen Allaert	Belgium	1:04:00
36	Giacomo Leone	Italy	1:04:00
37	Roberto Barbi	Italy	1:04:02
38	Aiduna Aitnafa	Netherlands	1:04:02
39	Said Boumhandi	Morocco	1:04:10
40	Mark Steinle	Great Britain	1:04:11
41	Scott Larson	United States	1:04:14
42	Alejandro Cuahtepizi	Mexico	1:04:32
43	José Dias	Portugal	1:04:32
44	Christian Nemeth	Belgium	1:04:42
45	Vladimir Tsyamchik	Belarus	1:04:44
46	John Sence	United States	1:04:55
47	Kim Gillard	Australia	1:05:04
48	Marco Gielen	Netherlands	1:05:08
49	António Resende	Portugal	1:05:11
50	Kevin Odiorne	United States	1:05:19
51	Amar Dahbi	Algeria	1:05:19
51	Kamal Kohil	Algeria	1:05:19
52	Sebastiano Mazzara	Italy	1:05:20
53	Sebastian Bürklein	Germany	1:05:21
54	Ahmed Abd El-Mangoud	Egypt	1:05:34
55	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	1:05:45
56	Rachid Boulenouar	Algeria	1:05:47
57	Miguel Bravo	Mexico	1:05:47
58	Nick Jones	Great Britain	1:05:57
59	Drago Paripović	Croatia	1:05:58
60	Stéphane Rousseau	Belgium	1:06:10
61	Delmir dos Santos	Brazil	1:06:13
62	David Taylor	Great Britain	1:06:13
63	Alphonse Munyeshyaka	Rwanda	1:06:21
64	Masayuki Kobayashi	Japan	1:06:26
65	Borislav Dević	FR Yugoslavia	1:06:32
66	Francis Yiga	Uganda	1:06:47
67	Oscar Fernández	Spain	1:06:50
68	Fouly Salem	Egypt	1:06:50
69	Zarislav Gapeyenko	Belarus	1:06:52
70	Christian Fischer	Germany	1:06:54
71	Sipho Dlamini	Swaziland	1:06:59
72	Jan Křižák	Slovakia	1:07:00
73	Toomas Tarm	Estonia	1:07:08
74	Ali Awad	Lebanon	1:07:10
75	Ahmed Abdel Rasool Badry	Egypt	1:07:17
76	Leszek Lewandowski	Poland	1:07:25
77	Margus Pirksaar	Estonia	1:07:32
78	Pavel Faschingbauer	Czech Republic	1:07:39
79	Isaiah Dlamini	Swaziland	1:07:42
80	Oliver Mintzlaff	Germany	1:07:42
81	Lucky Bhembe	Swaziland	1:07:44
82	Vasilios Zabélis	Greece	1:07:47
83	Glynn Tromans	Great Britain	1:07:49
84	Jeff Campbell	United States	1:07:50
85	Job Sikoria	Uganda	1:08:30
86	Michael Fietz	Germany	1:08:33
87	Francisco Bautista	Mexico	1:08:38
88	Sokhibdjan Sharipov	Tajikistan	1:08:50
89	Gabriel Mazimpaka	Rwanda	1:08:51
90	Nedeljko Ravić	Croatia	1:08:55
91	António Zeferino	Cape Verde	1:09:05
92	Seif Eldin El-Nur	Sudan	1:09:10
93	Joseph Sterlino	Sudan	1:09:27
94	Shadrack Hoff	South Africa	1:09:44
95	Cordero Roy Vargas	Costa Rica	1:10:02
96	Ahmed Boulahia	Algeria	1:10:07
97	Ramiz Taipi	FR Yugoslavia	1:10:11
98	Mohamed Al-Khawlani	Yemen	1:10:11
99	Vladimir Tonchinskiy	Belarus	1:10:12
100	Ivica Škopac	Croatia	1:10:13
101	Miguel Romero	Ecuador	1:13:19
102	Hussein Awada	Lebanon	1:13:35
103	Ihab Salama	Palestine	1:13:41
104	Omar Abdel Latif	Lebanon	1:14:05
105	Weldon Johnson	United States	1:14:58
106	Frederick Baldacchino	Malta	1:14:58
107	Khalid Al-Estashi	Yemen	1:15:40
108	Vasiliy Andreyev	Uzbekistan	1:16:35
109	Abdel Salam Al-Dabaji	Palestine	1:18:48
—	Daniel Ferreira	Brazil	DNF
—	Geraldo de Assis	Brazil	DNF
—	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	Brazil	DNF
—	Michele Gamba	Italy	DNF
—	Shem Kororia	Kenya	DNF
—	Ali Mohamad	Sudan	DNF
—	John Nada Saya	Tanzania	DNF
—	Yevgeniy Nujdin	Uzbekistan	DNF
—	Esmail Al-Dawla	Yemen	DNF
—	Silvio Guerra	Ecuador	DNS
—	Nestor Jarni	Ecuador	DNS
—	Ahmed Aly Aly	Egypt	DNS
—	Wael Anwar Adan	Egypt	DNS
—	José Luis Ebatela Nvó	Equatorial Guinea	DNS
—	Diosdado Edjang Ndemesogo	Equatorial Guinea	DNS
—	Sergey Zabavski	Tajikistan	DNS
—	Joseph Nsubuga	Uganda	DNS
—	Santino Diang	Sudan	DNS
—	Gabriel Ndour	Senegal	DNS
—	Malick Seck	Senegal	DNS
—	Medson Chibwe	Zambia	DNS
—	Vincent Hatuleke	Zambia	DNS
—	Sam Mfula Mwape	Zambia	DNS
—	Mohammed S.A. Salama	Palestine	DNS

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	1:08:48
	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan	1:09:12
	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	1:09:23
4	Joyce Chepchumba	Kenya	1:09:29
5	Reiko Tosa	Japan	1:09:36
6	Valentina Yegorova	Russia	1:09:59
7	Elana Meyer	South Africa	1:10:20
8	Luminița Talpoș	Romania	1:10:33
9	Lyudmila Biktasheva	Russia	1:10:35
10	Alina Ivanova	Russia	1:11:15
11	Hiromi Katayama	Japan	1:11:18
12	Constantina Diţă	Romania	1:11:22
13	Margaret Okayo	Kenya	1:11:29
14	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	1:11:33
15	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain	1:11:38
16	Cristina Pomacu	Romania	1:11:45
17	Satomi Matsuo	Japan	1:11:48
18	Lyudmila Petrova	Russia	1:11:53
19	Agata Balsamo	Italy	1:11:58
20	Jane Omoro	Kenya	1:12:10
21	Olivera Jevtić	FR Yugoslavia	1:12:32
22	Marian Sutton	Great Britain	1:12:36
23	Rosaria Console	Italy	1:12:46
24	María Abel	Spain	1:13:08
25	Lyubov Morgunova	Russia	1:13:25
26	Ritsuko Sasaki	Japan	1:13:26
27	Florinda Andreucci	Italy	1:13:33
28	Tereza Yohanes	Ethiopia	1:13:38
29	Birhan Dagne	Great Britain	1:13:41
30	Fatima Hajjami	France	1:13:55
31	Gabrielle OʼRourke	New Zealand	1:14:12
32	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	1:14:15
33	Lucilla Andreucci	Italy	1:15:05
34	Susan Michelsson	Australia	1:15:07
35	Mónica Pont	Spain	1:15:12
36	Alemitu Bekele	Ethiopia	1:15:27
37	Marlene Fortunato	Brazil	1:15:29
38	Teyba Erkesso	Ethiopia	1:15:48
39	Michelle Byrne	United States	1:15:55
40	Lynn Fitzsimmons	United States	1:16:14
41	Christine McNamara	United States	1:16:18
42	Marie Boyd	United States	1:16:37
43	Annemette Jensen	Denmark	1:16:47
44	Asegedech Gizaw	Ethiopia	1:16:53
45	Silvana Trampuz	Australia	1:17:12
46	Stefanija Statkuvienė	Belgium	1:17:30
47	Theresa du Toit	South Africa	1:17:33
48	Jo Lodge	Great Britain	1:17:36
49	Krystyna Pieczulis	Poland	1:18:02
50	Azwindini Lukhwareni	South Africa	1:18:28
51	Carlien Cornelissen	South Africa	1:18:37
52	Shireen Crumpton	New Zealand	1:19:21
53	Kelly Liljeblad	United States	1:19:23
54	Nili Avramski	Israel	1:20:20
55	Yeoryía Abatzídou	Greece	1:20:45
56	Dana Janecková	Slovakia	1:21:28
57	Vesna Stevanović	FR Yugoslavia	1:21:34
58	Sarah Mahlangu	South Africa	1:22:01
59	Margarita Cabello	Mexico	1:22:28
60	Tijana Pavičić	Croatia	1:25:58
61	Slavica Brčić	Croatia	1:25:59
62	Irina Matrosova	Uzbekistan	1:28:25
63	Kristinka Marković	Croatia	1:30:24
64	Gina Coello	Honduras	1:30:27
65	Yuliya Arfipova	Uzbekistan	1:35:45
66	Aleksandra Rodigina	Uzbekistan	1:35:45
—	Carolyn Schuwalov	Australia	DNF
—	Sonja Deckers	Belgium	DNF
—	Milka Mihailova	Bulgaria	DNF
—	Annick Clouvel	France	DNF
—	Sonia Maccioni	Italy	DNF
—	Iulia Olteanu	Romania	DNF
—	Valentina Enaki	Moldova	DNS
—	Mable Chiwama	Zambia	DNS
—	Florina Pana	Romania	DQ^†

^†: Florina Pana from  Romania was initially 4th (1:09:26), but tested positive for nandrolone[13] and disqualified.[14]

Team results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	South Africa	Hendrick Ramaala Abner Chipu Mluleki Nobanda	3:06:01
	Ethiopia	Tesfaye Jifar Tesfaye Tola Fekadu Degefu	3:06:03
	Kenya	Paul Tergat Laban Chege Sammy Korir	3:06:03
4	France	Abdellah Béhar Larbi Zéroual Mohamed Serbouti	3:08:39
5	Portugal	Eduardo Henriques Alberto Chaíça José Ramos	3:08:50
6	Japan	Toshiyuki Hayata Toshiaki Tezuka Shigeru Aburaya	3:09:21
7	Italy	Rachid Berradi Giacomo Leone Roberto Barbi	3:11:05
8	Spain	Teodoro Cuñado Javier Caballero Antonio Serrano	3:11:10
9	Netherlands	Kamiel Maase Aiduna Aitnafa Marco Gielen	3:11:43
10	United States	Scott Larson John Sence Kevin Odiorne	3:14:28
11	Algeria	Rachid Ziar Amar Dahbi Kamal Kohil	3:14:10
12	Belgium	Koen Allaert Christian Nemeth Stéphane Rousseau	3:14:52
13	Great Britain	Mark Steinle Nick Jones David Taylor	3:16:21
14	Mexico	Alejandro Cuahtepizi Miguel Bravo Francisco Bautista	3:18:57
15	Uganda	Jafred Lorone Francis Yiga Job Sikoria	3:19:01
16	Egypt	Ahmed Abd El-Mangoud Fouly Salem Ahmed Abdel Rasool Badry	3:19:41
17	Germany	Sebastian Bürklein Christian Fischer Oliver Mintzlaff	3:19:57
18	Estonia	Pavel Loskutov Toomas Tarm Margus Pirksaar	3:20:25
19	Belarus	Vladimir Tsyamchik Zarislav Gapeyenko Vladimir Tonchinskiy	3:21:48
20	Swaziland	Sipho Dlamini Isaiah Dlamini Lucky Bhembe	3:22:25
21	Croatia	Drago Paripović Nedeljko Ravić Ivica Škopac	3:25:06
22	Lebanon	Ali Awad Hussein Awada Omar Abdel Latif	3:34:50
—	Brazil	Delmir dos Santos Daniel Ferreira Geraldo de Assis	DNF
—	Sudan	Seif Eldin El-Nur Joseph Sterlino Ali Mohamad	DNF
—	Tanzania	Faustin Baha Jumanne Tuluway John Nada Saya	DNF
—	Yemen	Mohamed Al-Khawlani Khalid Al-Estashi Esmail Al-Dawla	DNF

Women's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Tegla Loroupe Catherine Ndereba Joyce Chepchumba	3:27:40
	Japan	Mizuki Noguchi Reiko Tosa Hiromi Katayama	3:30:06
	Russia	Valentina Yegorova Lyudmila Biktasheva Alina Ivanova	3:31:49
4	Romania	Luminița Talpoș Constantina Diţă Cristina Pomacu	3:33:40
5	Italy	Agata Balsamo Rosaria Console Florinda Andreucci	3:38:17
6	Spain	Ana Isabel Alonso María Abel Mónica Pont	3:39:58
7	Ethiopia	Derartu Tulu Tereza Yohanes Alemitu Bekele Aga	3:40:38
8	Great Britain	Marian Sutton Birhan Dagne Jo Lodge	3:43:53
9	South Africa	Elana Meyer Theresa du Toit Azwindini Lukhwareni	3:46:21
10	United States	Michelle Byrne Lynn Fitzsimmons Christine McNamara	3:48:27
11	Croatia	Tijana Pavičić Slavica Brčić Kristinka Marković	4:22:21
12	Uzbekistan	Irina Matrosova Yuliya Arfipova Aleksandra Rodigina	4:39:55
—	Australia	Susan Michelsson Silvana Trampuz Carolyn Schuwalov	DNF

Participation

The participation of 192 athletes (119 men/73 women) from 48 countries is reported.[4] Although announced, athletes from  Equatorial Guinea,  Moldova,  Senegal, and  Zambia did not show.

Algeria (5)  Australia (4)  Belarus (3)  Belgium (5)  Brazil (4)  Bulgaria (1)  Cape Verde (1)  Costa Rica (1)  Croatia (6)  Czech Republic (1)  Denmark (2)  Ecuador (1)  Egypt (3)  Estonia (3)  Ethiopia (10)  France (7)

Germany (4)  Greece (2)  Honduras (1)  Israel (1)  Italy (10)  Japan (10)  Kenya (10)  Lebanon (3)  Malta (1)  Morocco (1)  Mexico (4)  Netherlands (3)  New Zealand (2)  Palestine (2)  Poland (2)  Portugal (5)

Romania (5)  Russia (5)  Rwanda (2)  Slovakia (2)  South Africa (10)  Spain (7)  Sudan (3)  Swaziland (3)  Tajikistan (1)  Tanzania (3)  Uganda (3)  United Kingdom (7)  United States (10)  Uzbekistan (5)  Yemen (3)  FR Yugoslavia (4)

See also

• 1999 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. Palermo course, IAAF, archived from the original on 2012-10-04, retrieved September 7, 2013
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4. 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
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14. Larsson, Peter (March 28, 2010), All-time women's best half-marathon - performances annulled due to doping offense, Track and Field all-time Performances Homepage, retrieved September 7, 2013

External links

• Official website