1998 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 7th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on September 27, 1998, in the city of Uster, Switzerland. A total of 236 athletes, 139 men and 97 women, from 54 countries took part.

Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given.

Complete results were published.

Medallists IndividualMen 1:00:01 1:00:24 1:00:24 Women 1:08:29 1:08:32 1:08:58 TeamTeam Men 3:02:21 3:03:07 3:05:18Team Women 3:29:43 3:32:19 3:34:18

Race results

Men's Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Paul Koech 1:00:01 PB Hendrick Ramaala 1:00:24 Khalid Skah 1:00:24 PB 4 Ibrahim Seid 1:00:31 PB 5 Gert Thys 1:00:37 6 Antonio Silio 1:00:45 NR 7 Luís Jesús 1:01:10 8 Tendai Chimusasa 1:01:14 9 Abner Chipu 1:01:20 10 Shem Kororia 1:01:30 11 John Gwako 1:01:36 12 Ronaldo da Costa 1:01:40 13 Joseph Kibor 1:01:42 14 Bartolomé Serrano 1:01:43 PB 15 Martín Fiz 1:01:47 16 Luís Novo 1:01:50 PB 17 Carsten Jørgensen 1:01:55 PB 18 Javier Cortés 1:02:02 PB 19 Alemayehu Girma 1:02:07 PB 20 Janko Benša 1:02:11 PB 21 Joseph Kimani 1:02:15 22 Maxwell Zungu 1:02:16 PB 23 Osamu Nara 1:02:21 24 Carlos Patrício 1:02:22 25 Danilo Goffi 1:02:24 26 Mohamed Ouaadi 1:02:29 PB 27 Daniele Caimmi 1:02:33 PB 28 Ali Mabrouk El-Zaidi 1:02:39 PB 29 Addis Abebe 1:02:40 30 Atsushi Fujita 1:02:45 31 Stéphane Schweickhardt 1:02:48 32 Giacomo Leone 1:02:49 33 Alene Emere 1:02:50 34 Kebede Tekeste 1:02:51 PB 35 Wilbroad Axweso 1:02:52 36 Javier Caballero 1:02:54 PB 37 João N'Tyamba 1:02:54 PB 38 Marco Gielen 1:02:57 39 Alberto Chaíça 1:03:03 40 Mohamed Serbouti 1:03:07 PB 41 José Orlando Sánchez Guerrero 1:03:08 42 Alfred Shemweta 1:03:20 43 Francesco Ingargiola 1:03:30 44 Valdenor dos Santos 1:03:32 45 Juan Carlos Gutiérrez 1:03:42 46 Delfim Conceição 1:03:44 47 Carlos Grisales 1:03:47 48 Pedro Rojas 1:03:59 PB 49 Antonio Pérez 1:04:06 50 Krzysztof Przybyła 1:04:07 PB 51 Ezael Thlobo 1:04:08 52 Benedict Ako 1:04:14 53 Richard Potts 1:04:16 PB 54 André Ramos 1:04:17 PB 55 Eryk Szostak 1:04:20 56 Jonathan Wyatt 1:04:23 PB 57 Stephen Bwalya 1:04:26 58 Viktor Röthlin 1:04:30 59 Alex Malinga 1:04:33 PB 60 Joseph Nsengiyumya 1:04:40 PB 61 Vladimir Tsyamchik 1:04:43 62 Sam Mwape 1:04:44 63 Bigboy Goromonzi 1:04:46 64 Katsuhiko Hanada 1:04:53 65 Jean-Pierre Lautredoux 1:04:59 66 Pavel Loskutov 1:05:00 PB 67 Elijah Mutandiro 1:05:03 68 Koji Kimura 1:05:06 69 Craig Kirkwood 1:05:08 70 Oliver Mintzlaff 1:05:09 PB 71 Borislav Dević 1:05:14 72 Michael Fietz 1:05:15 73 Todd Reeser 1:05:18 74 Tekeye Gebrselassie 1:05:18 75 Hansjörg Brücker 1:05:19 76 Toomas Tarm 1:05:21 PB 77 Eduardo do Nascimento 1:05:27 78 Safari Ingi 1:05:34 79 Gabriel Mazimpaka 1:05:35 80 Gavin Gaynor 1:05:36 PB 81 Peter van der Velden 1:05:47 82 Eric Morrison 1:05:50 83 Markus Gerber 1:05:51 84 Jan Křižák 1:05:56 PB 85 Patrick Phillips 1:05:58 PB 86 Ceslovas Kundrotas 1:05:59 87 Pavelas Fedorenko 1:05:59 88 Felix Mbuye 1:06:00 89 Peter Visser 1:06:00 90 Steffen Benecke 1:06:04 91 Miroslav Sajler 1:06:06 92 Joseph Nsubuga 1:06:09 PB 93 Daniel Ferreira 1:06:14 94 Ben Chesang 1:06:29 PB 95 Margus Pirksaar 1:06:31 PB 96 Philip Rist 1:06:32 97 Pavel Dudr 1:06:34 98 Sipho Dlamini 1:06:45 PB 99 Ali Awad 1:06:50 100 Andrew Peskett 1:06:51 PB 101 Vladimir Gusev 1:06:55 102 Pavel Faschingbauer 1:06:56 103 Menon Ramsamy 1:07:05 104 Jean-François Bertron 1:07:06 105 Pascal Fetizon 1:07:07 106 Jiří Hajzler 1:07:15 107 Michael Wolf 1:07:24 108 Patrick Ishyaka 1:07:42 109 Darrell General 1:07:48 110 Christian Fischer 1:07:56 111 Ramiz Taipi 1:08:18 112 Arunas Balciunas 1:08:28 113 Wiesław Figurski 1:08:31 114 Samuli Vasala 1:08:43 115 Hidajet Bulic 1:09:10 PB 116 Mehdi Chebli 1:09:53 117 António Zeferino 1:10:19 118 Omar Abdel Latif 1:10:37 119 Kaare Sørensen 1:10:39 120 Room Singh 1:10:40 PB 121 Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev 1:10:49 122 Roland Wille 1:10:56 123 Hari Singh 1:10:58 PB 124 Raj Pal 1:11:05 PB 125 Clement Omagoro 1:11:15 PB 126 Josip Lacković 1:11:48 127 Drago Paripović 1:12:18 128 Robert Prejnjak 1:12:28 129 José Luis Ebatela 1:13:01 PB 130 Eric Vamben 1:13:38 131 Liam Byrne 1:14:11 132 Judex Durhone 1:15:14 133 Dovletmomed Nazarov 1:16:01 134 Louis Chichon 1:16:18 135 Aleksandr Levdanskiy 1:19:25 — Diego Colorado DNF — Saša Ljubojević DNF — Michele Gamba DNF — Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev DNF

Women's Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Tegla Loroupe 1:08:29 Elana Meyer 1:08:32 Lidia Șimon 1:08:58 PB 4 Olivera Jevtić 1:10:02 5 Annemari Sandell 1:10:04 6 Joyce Chepchumba 1:10:10 7 Julia Vaquero 1:10:33 8 Cristina Pomacu 1:10:39 9 Yukiko Okamoto 1:10:50 10 Leah Malot 1:11:04 11 Albertina Dias 1:11:08 12 Alina Ivanova 1:11:18 13 Svetlana Zakharova 1:11:26 14 María Luisa Lárraga 1:11:30 PB 15 Maria Guida 1:11:31 16 Irma Heeren 1:11:35 17 Rakiya Maraoui 1:11:44 18 Franziska Rochat 1:11:47 19 Asha Gigi 1:11:49 PB 20 Firiya Sultanova-Zhdanova 1:11:53 21 Lornah Kiplagat 1:12:09 22 Kazumi Matsuo 1:12:12 23 Rocío Ríos 1:12:15 24 Daria Nauer 1:12:25 25 Zahia Dahmani 1:12:27 26 Lucilla Andreucci 1:12:34 27 Franca Fiacconi 1:12:37 28 Jody Hawkins 1:12:38 29 Constantina Diţă-Tomescu 1:12:42 30 Sylvia Renz 1:12:44 31 Nicole Whiteford 1:12:49 32 Maren Östringer 1:12:49 33 Melissa Moon 1:13:06 34 Mayumi Ichikawa 1:13:16 35 Aurica Buia 1:13:44 36 Annemette Jensen 1:13:47 37 Galina Karnatsevich/Baruk 1:13:47 38 Rosa Oliveira 1:13:52 39 Alena Peterková 1:13:58 40 Annick Clouvel 1:14:02 41 Jackline Torori 1:14:03 42 Shelly Steely 1:14:06 43 Yelena Mazovka 1:14:16 44 Irina Šafářová 1:14:28 45 Takako Kotorida 1:14:32 46 Leila Aman 1:14:36 47 Elsabet Truneh 1:14:37 PB 48 Birgit Jerschabek 1:14:45 49 Satoko Karita 1:14:48 51 Christine McNamara 1:15:01 52 Liz Yelling/Talbot 1:15:06 PB 53 Dorota Gruca-Giezek 1:15:12 54 Florinda Andreucci 1:15:14 55 Clarisse Rasoarizay 1:15:43 56 Helána Barócsi 1:15:48 56 Martha Ernstdóttir 1:15:48 57 Pan Jinhong 1:15:56 58 Wang Yanfang 1:15:56 59 Marietjie McDermott 1:15:56 60 Fátima Cabral 1:16:05 61 Trina Painter 1:16:10 62 Kim Pawelek 1:16:22 63 Inga Juodeškienė 1:16:23 64 Debbie Percival 1:16:25 65 Yelena Makolova 1:16:31 66 Ursula Jeitziner 1:16:40 67 Alison Wyeth 1:16:44 68 Elisabeth Krieg-Ruprecht 1:16:50 69 Dita Hebelková 1:17:20 PB 70 Anna-Ursula Olbrecht 1:17:20 71 Maria Bradley 1:17:25 72 Yigezu Tsehay 1:17:30 PB 73 Maree Bunce 1:17:51 74 Eti Einer 1:18:01 PB 75 Asegedech Gizaw 1:18:13 76 Lydia Mafula 1:18:14 77 Mirjana Glisovic 1:18:52 78 Vilija Birbalaitė 1:19:21 79 Sue Reinsford 1:19:30 80 Mable Chiwama 1:19:34 81 Dana Janecková 1:19:50 82 Suzana Čirić 1:20:10 83 Luz Fabiola Rueda 1:20:24 84 Chanda Mwansa 1:20:47 85 Jean Mpundu 1:21:22 86 Annie Coathalem 1:21:39 87 Irena Šádková 1:21:40 88 Ines Cronjäger 1:21:52 89 Anna Markelova 1:22:13 PB 90 Rigzen Angmo 1:31:36 91 Esperanza Obono 1:33:59 92 Kristinka Marković 1:34:04 93 Sarbjett Kaur 1:34:06 — Natalia Bendzik DNF — Chantal Dällenbach DNF — Sonia Maccioni DNF — Nuta Olaru DNF

Team Results

Men's Rank Country Team Time Hendrick RamaalaGert ThysAbner Chipu 3:02:21 Paul KoechShem KororiaJohn Gwako 3:03:07 Ibrahim SeidAlemayehu GirmaAddis Abebe 3:05:18 4 Luís JesúsLuís NovoCarlos Patrício 3:05:22 5 Bartolomé SerranoMartín FizJavier Cortés 3:05:32 6 Danilo GoffiDaniele CaimmiGiacomo Leone 3:07:46 7 Ronaldo da CostaValdenor dos SantosAndré Ramos 3:09:29 8 Osamu NaraAtsushi FujitaKatsuhiko Hanada 3:09:59 9 Mohamed OuaadiMohamed SerboutiJean-Pierre Lautredoux 3:10:35 10 José Orlando Sánchez GuerreroJuan Carlos GutiérrezCarlos Grisales 3:10:37 11 Tendai ChimusasaBigboy GoromonziElijah Mutandiro 3:11:03 12 Stéphane SchweickhardtViktor RöthlinHansjörg Brücker 3:12:37 13 Wilbroad AxwesoBenedict AkoSafari Ingi 3:12:40 14 Richard PottsJonathan WyattCraig Kirkwood 3:13:47 15 Marco GielenTekeye GebrselassiePeter van der Velden 3:14:02 16 Stephen BwalyaSam MwapeFelix Mbuye 3:15:10 17 Janko BenšaBorislav DevićRamiz Taipi 3:15:43 18 Oliver MintzlaffMichael FietzSteffen Benecke 3:16:28 19 Todd ReeserGavin GaynorEric Morrison 3:16:44 20 Pavel LoskutovToomas TarmMargus Pirksaar 3:16:52 21 Krzysztof PrzybyłaEryk SzostakWiesław Figurski 3:16:58 22 Alex MalingaJoseph NsubugaBen Chesang 3:17:11 23 Joseph NsengiyumyaGabriel MazimpakaPatrick Ishyaka 3:17:57 24 Miroslav SajlerPavel DudrPavel Faschingbauer 3:19:36 25 Ceslovas KundrotasPavelas FedorenkoArunas Balciunas 3:20:26 26 Ali AwadMehdi ChebliOmar Abdel Latif 3:27:20 27 Room SinghHari SinghRaj Pal 3:32:43 28 Menon RamsamyEric VambenJudex Durhone 3:35:57 29 Josip LackovićDrago ParipovićRobert Prejnjak 3:36:34 — Charygeldiy AllaberdiyevDovletmomed NazarovParakhat Kurtgeldiyev DNF

Women's Rank Country Team Time Tegla LoroupeJoyce ChepchumbaLeah Malot 3:29:43 Lidia ȘimonCristina PomacuConstantina Diţă-Tomescu 3:32:19 Julia VaqueroMaría Luisa LárragaRocío Ríos 3:34:18 4 Alina IvanovaSvetlana ZakharovaFiriya Sultanova-Zhdanova 3:34:37 5 Yukiko OkamotoKazumi MatsuoMayumi Ichikawa 3:36:18 6 Maria GuidaLucilla AndreucciFranca Fiacconi 3:36:42 7 Elana MeyerNicole WhitefordMarietjie McDermott 3:37:17 8 Rakiya MaraouiZahia DahmaniAnnick Clouvel 3:38:13 9 Sylvia RenzMaren ÖstringerBirgit Jerschabek 3:40:18 10 Franziska RochatDaria NauerUrsula Jeitziner 3:40:52 11 Asha GigiLeila AmanElsabet Truneh 3:41:02 12 Albertina DiasRosa OliveiraFátima Cabral 3:41:05 13 Jody HawkinsShelly SteelyChristine McNamara 3:41:45 14 Galina Karnatsevich/BarukYelena MazovkaYelena Makolova 3:44:34 15 Liz Yelling/TalbotDebbie PercivalAlison Wyeth 3:48:15 16 Olivera JevtićMirjana GlisovicSuzana Čirić 3:49:04 17 Alena PeterkováDita HebelkováIrena Šádková 3:52:58 18 Mable ChiwamaChanda MwansaJean Mpundu 4:01:43

Participation The participation of 236 athletes (139 men/97 women) from 54 countries is reported.

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See also 1998 in athletics (track and field)

References

External links Official website