2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships took place on 24 March 2018 in Valencia, Spain. It was the 23rd edition of the event and the 2nd time it was held in Spain.

Netsanet Gudeta gave the standout performance of the competition, winning with a half marathon world record of 1:06:11 hours in a women-only race. This improved Lornah Kiplagat's eleven-year-old championships record by 14 seconds and marked a personal improvement of over a minute. She led the Ethiopian women (alongside fifth and sixth placers Zeineba Yimer and Meseret Belete) to the team title with a combined time of 3:22:27 hours. The outright world record holder Joyciline Jepkosgei settled for second and her third-placed compatriot Pauline Kaveke Kamulu helped Kenya to second in the team competition.Minshull, Phil (2018-03-24). Gudeta shatters world half marathon record in Valencia. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-03-26. The best performance by a non-African-born runner was by Romania's Ancuţa Bobocel, who set a personal best in 15th place.

In the men's race Kenya's Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor took his third straight title in 1:00:02 hours (nearly a minute short of his championship record). Bahrain's Abraham Naibei Cheroben claimed the silver medal 20 seconds further back and Aron Kifle was the bronze medallist around half a minute short of the winner. The winning men's team, Ethiopia, contained no medallists but Jemal Yimer, Getaneh Molla and Betesfa Getahun rounded out the top six. The best non-African-born performer was Julien Wanders of Switzerland who managed eighth place in 1:01:03 hours.Minshull, Phil (2018-03-24). Hat trick of world half marathon titles for Kamworor. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-03-26.

A total of 151 men (including 23 teams) finished the distance, with five men failing to finish the distance and three entrants being non-starters. A total of 122 women (including 19 teams) entered and started the race, with 117 finishers. Seven men's and seven women's national records were broken at the competition. Abdelaziz Guerziz of Algeria finished in 61st place but he was disqualified for four years in February 2019 with his results from 6 February 2018 onwards being disqualified.

Sopot, Poland was defeated in the bidding process. Copenhagen, Denmark was also in the running to host.

In conjunction with the men's elite race, an open half marathon was held on the same course for 14,577 competitors.

Medallists IndividualMen 1:00:02 1:00:22 1:00:31Women 1:06:11 1:06:54 1:06:56 TeamMen 3:02:14 3:02:40 3:02:52Women 3:22:27 3:23:02 3:23:39

Race results Results for the men's and women's elite races are shown below. Results for the open race are kept separately. Men Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor 1:00:02 Abraham Naibei Cheroben 1:00:22 Aron Kifle 1:00:31 4 Jemal Yimer 1:00:33 5 Getaneh Molla 1:00:47 6 Betesfa Getahun 1:00:54 7 Amanuel Mesel 1:00:58 8 Julien Wanders 1:01:03 9 Kaan Kigen Ozbilen 1:01:05 10 Leul Gebresilase 1:01:07 11 Aweke Ayalew 1:01:09 12 Leonard Kiplimo Barsoton 1:01:14 13 Albert Rop 1:01:21 14 Sam Chelanga 1:01:23 15 Barselius Kipyego 1:01:24 16 Stephen Mokoka 1:01:26 17 Nguse Amlosom 1:01:34 18 Jorum Lumbasi Okombo 1:01:34 19 Afewerki Berhane 1:01:37 20 Fred Musobo 1:01:38 21 El Hassan Elabbassi 1:01:41 22 Koen Naert 1:01:42 23 Jiksa Tolosa 1:01:50 24 Suguru Osako 1:01:56 25 Abrar Osman 1:02:05 26 Felix Chemonges 1:02:10 27 Willy Canchanya 1:02:11 28 Ayad Lamdassem 1:02:14 29 Abdi Hakin Ulad 1:02:15 30 Cameron Levins 1:02:15 31 Bernard Lagat 1:02:16 32 Juan Luis Barrios 1:02:18 33 Maru Teferi 1:02:24 34 John Hakizimana 1:02:26 35 Moses Martin Kurong 1:02:27 36 Mohamud Ibrahim Aadan 1:02:34 37 Eyob Ghebrehiwet 1:02:37 38 Luke Traynor 1:02:38 39 1:02:40 40 Benjamin Choquert 1:02:46 41 Elroy Gelant 1:02:52 42 Noel Hitimana 1:02:53 43 Mikael Ekvall 1:02:54 44 Lesiba Precious Mashele 1:02:58 45 Haimro Almaya 1:03:04 46 Kenta Murayama 1:03:07 47 Jose Luis Ostos 1:03:09 48 Luis Alberto Orta 1:03:09 49 Mohamed Hrezi 1:03:11 50 Cristhian Pacheco 1:03:15 51 Derlys Ayala 1:03:19 52 Girmaw Amare 1:03:19 53 Peter Herzog 1:03:22 54 Olivier Irabaruta 1:03:23 55 Yimer Getahun 1:03:25 56 Bayron Piedra 1:03:29 57 Segundo Jami 1:03:31 58 Houssame Eddine Benabbou 1:03:35 59 Florian Carvalho 1:03:40 60 Melikhaya Frans 1:03:42 61 Collis Birmingham 1:03:44 62 Roman Fosti 1:03:45 63 Benjamin Connor 1:03:45 64 Jiří Homoláč 1:03:45 65 Dejen Gebreselassie 1:03:47 66 Benjamin Malaty 1:03:54 67 Lemawork Ketema 1:03:57 68 Diego Estrada 1:03:59 69 Roman Romanenko 1:04:03 70 Hayato Sonoda 1:04:12 71 Thomas Do Canto 1:04:18 72 Alex Mutai 1:04:24 73 Lorenzo Dini 1:04:26 74 Maamar Bengriba 1:04:26 75 Jesús Torres 1:04:27 76 Paul Pollock 1:04:29 77 Ernesto Andrés Zamora 1:04:30 78 Geoffrey Martinson 1:04:34 79 Enzo Yáñez 1:04:37 80 Miguel Ángel Barzola 1:04:39 81 Daisuke Uekado 1:04:48 82 Jared Ward 1:04:49 83 Christian Vasconez 1:04:53 84 Kevin Seaward 1:04:56 85 Juan Antonio Pérez 1:05:01 86 Mariano Mastromarino 1:05:03 87 Jean-Pierre Castro 1:05:06 88 Jaume Leiva 1:05:09 89 Christian Steinhammer 1:05:09 90 Yoseph-Fabien Goasdoue 1:05:18 91 Stephen Scullion 1:05:19 92 Félix Bour 1:05:22 93 Yusuf Alici 1:05:40 94 Farid Terfia 1:05:44 95 Jacob Mugomeri 1:06:11 96 Janis Viskers 1:06:11 97 Nicolae Alexandru Soare 1:06:14 98 Leslie Encina 1:06:18 99 Daviti Kharazishvili 1:06:19 100 Sergiu Ciobanu 1:06:19 101 Dmitrijs Serjogins 1:06:20 102 Daniel Studley 1:06:20 103 Valdas Dopolskas 1:06:24 104 Aykut Taşdemir 1:06:25 105 El Hadi Laameche 1:06:27 106 Jesper Faurschou 1:06:42 107 Kota Murayama 1:06:49 108 Mikhail Krasilov 1:06:49 109 David Gakuru 1:07:02 110 Sami Jibril 1:07:11 111 Tomas Hilifa Rainhold 1:07:15 112 Ignas Brasevicius 1:07:16 113 Mbongeni Ngxazozo 1:07:16 114 Evan Esselink 1:07:20 115 Chao Xie 1:07:24 116 Arnar Pétursson 1:07:29 117 César Lizano 1:07:38 118 Ser-Od Bat-Ochir 1:07:48 119 Salem Mohamed Attiaallah 1:07:51 120 Ukuk Utho'o Bul 1:08:15 121 Rui Yong Soh 1:08:28 122 Sergio Dias 1:09:10 123 Danijel Fak 1:09:20 124 Paulo Amotun Lokoro 1:09:31 125 Andrey Leymenov 1:09:31 126 Ahmad Smour 1:09:33 127 Oscar Antonio Aldana 1:09:43 128 Valentin Betoudji 1:09:46 129 Alexey Gussarov 1:09:49 130 Charlton Debono 1:10:11 131 Antoni Bernadó 1:10:19 132 Jonathan Atse Herrera 1:11:00 133 Amir Baitukanov 1:11:04 134 Hussein Ahmed 1:12:11 135 Kevin Dooney 1:12:14 136 Sakirjan Durdyýew 1:12:22 137 Adrian Pillajo 1:12:39 138 Arnold Rogers 1:13:33 139 Jinrun Liu 1:13:44 140 Antun Pavelić 1:13:45 141 Shifaz Mohamed 1:14:23 142 Artem Kosinov 1:15:26 143 Francesc Josep Carmona Parada 1:15:53 144 Kuan Un Iao 1:16:22 145 Nuri Kömür 1:16:29 146 Sonny Folcheri 1:18:53 147 Charles Savignon 1:20:06 148 Maurice Turnock 1:22:34 149 Mehrubon Shamsidinov 1:23:06 150 Tibor Sahajda 1:25:05 151 Ilir Këllezi 1:26:04 152 Alrric Leroy Kock 1:38:06 — Abdelaziz Guerziz — Alex Oloitiptip Korio — Leonard Korir — Rok Puhar — Tsegai Tewelde — Mustapha Eskimo Kamara — Moses Kibet — Abdi Daud Roble

Women Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes Netsanet Gudeta Kebede 1:06:11 Joyciline Jepkosgei 1:06:54 Pauline Kaveke Kamulu 1:06:56 4 Eunice Chebichii Chumba 1:07:17 5 Zeineba Yimer 1:08:07 6 Meseret Belete 1:08:09 7 Desi Mokonin 1:08:10 8 Bekelech Gudeta 1:08:12 9 Dalila Abdulkadir 1:08:12 10 Shitaye Eshete 1:08:25 11 Zinash Mekonnen 1:08:30 12 Lonah Chemtai Salpeter 1:08:58 13 Ruth Chepngetich 1:09:12 14 Rose Chelimo 1:10:20 15 Ancuţa Bobocel 1:10:21 16 Fabienne Schlumpf 1:10:36 17 Kaori Morita 1:10:46 18 Volha Mazuronak 1:10:57 19 Mao Ichiyama 1:11:02 20 Dolshi Tesfu 1:11:09 21 Charlotte Purdue 1:11:21 22 Deshun Zhang 1:11:28 23 Sinead Diver 1:11:40 24 Ellie Pashley 1:11:43 25 Nolene Conrad 1:11:44 26 Nazret Weldu 1:11:45 27 Emma Bates 1:11:45 28 Clémence Calvin 1:11:51 29 Gladys Tejeda 1:11:52 30 Sasha Gollish 1:11:52 31 Charlotte Arter 1:11:52 32 Inés Melchor 1:11:55 33 Trihas Gebre 1:12:02 34 Luz Mery Rojas 1:12:05 35 Honami Maeda 1:12:09 36 Lilia Fisikovici 1:12:11 37 Nastassia Ivanova 1:12:15 38 Kokob Tesfagabriel 1:12:15 39 Luula Weldegebriel 1:12:19 40 Giovanna Epis 1:12:27 41 Rebecca Wade 1:12:31 42 Nina Savina 1:12:31 43 Tracy Barlow 1:12:35 44 Eva Vrabcová Nývltová 1:12:54 45 Florencia Borelli 1:13:10 46 Lizzie Lee 1:13:19 47 Victoria Coates 1:13:35 48 Gemma Steel 1:13:39 49 Doreen Chesang 1:13:52 50 Kinsey Middleton 1:13:52 51 Sara Brogiato 1:13:53 52 Angie Orjuela 1:13:55 53 Faye Fullerton 1:13:56 54 Esmeralda Rebollo 1:14:18 55 Elena Loyo 1:14:19 56 Rosa Chacha 1:14:19 57 Claire McCarthy 1:14:20 58 Bojana Bjeljac 1:14:24 59 Sophie Duarte 1:14:30 60 Marta Esteban 1:14:47 61 Büsra Nur Koku 1:14:49 62 Roxana Elisabeta Birca 1:14:51 63 Teresa Urbina 1:14:53 64 Elaina Tabb 1:14:55 65 Samira Mezeghrane 1:14:56 66 Maor Tiyouri 1:15:03 67 Soumaya Boussaïd 1:15:11 68 Cristina Simion 1:15:15 69 Emily Chebet 1:15:18 70 Yuka Hori 1:15:24 71 Sofiia Yaremchuk 1:15:27 72 Patiance Murowe 1:15:30 73 Kidanu Teshome 1:15:49 74 Chien-Ho Hsieh 1:15:56 75 Anja Scherl 1:16:13 76 Janet Dlamini 1:16:23 77 Remziye Temel 1:16:23 78 Laura Graham 1:16:27 79 Laura Shaughnessy 1:16:28 80 Paula-Claudia Todoran 1:16:40 81 Jacqueline Gandar 1:16:46 82 Fionnuala Ross 1:16:53 83 Tatiele Roberta de Carvalho 1:16:58 84 Beata Naigambo 1:17:14 85 Irene Pelayo 1:17:16 86 Emily Setlack 1:17:30 87 Vaida Žūsinaitė 1:17:38 88 Ilona Marhele 1:17:51 89 Tonya Nero 1:17:55 90 Andreea-Alina Pîscu 1:18:17 91 Cornelia Joubert 1:18:23 92 Mapaseka Makhanya 1:18:43 93 Jenny Mendez 1:18:47 94 Paule Marie Perrier 1:19:31 95 Adha Munguleya 1:19:36 96 Ruiling Li 1:19:41 97 Lebogang Phalula 1:19:41 98 Liying Shi 1:19:42 99 Andrea Kolbeinsdóttir 1:19:46 100 Diana Landi 1:20:00 101 Esma Aydemir 1:20:41 102 Fadouwa Ledhem 1:20:54 103 Lisa Marie Bezzina 1:20:58 104 Elín Edda Sigurðardóttir 1:21:20 105 Jane Vongvorachoti 1:21:52 106 Zhanna Mamazhanova 1:22:35 107 Dana Aydosova 1:22:43 108 María Caballero 1:23:08 109 Nesma Ammar Saad Mohamed Abdelghany 1:26:52 110 Emma Montiel 1:27:58 111 Allison Edwards 1:28:21 112 Kim Baglietto 1:29:50 113 Dulce Casanova Martínez 1:32:27 114 Yangyang Wu 1:32:38 115 Mariyam Abdul Kareem 1:33:37 116 Bethan Perera 1:33:46 117 Olena Hudaybergenova 1:48:29 — Dailín Belmonte — Sviatlana Kudzelich — Matea Matosević — Yelena Nanaziashvili — Şeyma Yildiz

Team standings Men Rank Country Time 1 3:02:14 2 3:02:40 3 3:02:52 4 3:03:03 5 3:06:15 6 3:07:16 7 3:07:38 8 3:08:29 9 3:08:35 10 3:08:47 11 3:08:57 12 3:09:15 13 3:10:20 14 3:11:49 15 3:11:53 16 3:12:21 17 3:12:28 18 3:13:10 19 3:13:52 20 3:14:00 21 3:14:44 22 3:26:09 23 3:56:13

Women Rank Country Time 1 3:22:27 2 3:23:02 3 3:23:39 4 3:33:57 5 3:35:09 6 3:35:43 7 3:35:48 8 3:35:52 9 3:39:11 10 3:39:19 11 3:40:27 12 3:41:08 13 3:41:17 14 3:44:06 15 3:46:30 16 3:48:46 17 3:50:51 18 3:51:53 19 4:26:09

Medal table (unofficial)

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 279 athletes from 79 countries and the Athlete Refugee Team, which is a record for this event. Although announced, the athletes from and did not show.

(1) (4) (3) (3) (1) Athlete Refugee Team (2) (5) (3) (9) (4) (1) (1) (1) (8) (1) (1) (2) (5) (1) (1) (2) (4) (1) (2) (2) (6) (3) (1) (10) (1) (10) (10) (1) (1) (7) (10) (3) (10) (6) (4) (1) (9) (1) (8) (8) (3) (1) (3) (2) (2) (2) (1) (3) (1) (1) (1) (2) (2) (7) (6) (3) (1) (1) (1) (10) (10) (2) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (8) (2) (7) (2) (8) (1) (1) (2)

Notes

References

Results Results Half Marathon Men. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-26. Results Half Marathon Women. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-26. Team Standings Half Marathon Men. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-26. Team Standings Half Marathon Women. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-02-26.