1998 World Half Marathon Championships

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The 7th Half Marathon World Championships (officially IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ) took place on September 27, 1998 in the Swiss city ​​of Uster . It was held on the Greifensee run.

In the men's race, the eventual winner Paul Koech pulled away from a larger group of leaders after about half the distance and quickly built up a comfortable lead. At the end of the race he lost a few seconds to his pursuers, but still won easily. Behind them, Hendrick Ramaala sprinted to second place in a tight decision ahead of Khalid Skah at the same time . Ronaldo da Costa , who just a week earlier had set a new world record for the marathon distance at the Berlin Marathon , took a respectable twelfth place. The team standings (adding up the times of the three fastest runners in a country) won South Africa, which was the only country with three runners in the top ten, ahead of Kenya and Ethiopia.

In the women's race, which started twenty minutes later, a duel developed between the defending champion Tegla Loroupe and the world record holder at the time, Elana Meyer . In the last few kilometers, Loroupe was able to run out a small lead that brought her victory. She was the first athlete in the history of the World Half Marathon Championships to defend her title. With a clear gap, but still far ahead of the rest of the field, Lidia Șimon followed in third place. Kenya won the team championship ahead of Romania and Spain. A five-year winning streak ended for Romania.

Results

Individual ranking men

space athlete country Time (h)
1 Paul Koech KenyaKenya KEN 1:00:01
2 Hendrick Ramaala South AfricaSouth Africa RSA 1:00:24
3 Khalid Skah MoroccoMorocco MAR 1:00:24
4th Be Ibrahim Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia ETH 1:00:31
5 Gert Thys South AfricaSouth Africa RSA 1:00:37
6th Antonio Fabián Silio ArgentinaArgentina ARG 1:00:45
7th Luis Jesus PortugalPortugal POR 1:01:10
8th Tendai Chimusasa ZimbabweZimbabwe ZIM 1:01:14

Out of 139 athletes who started, 135 reached the finish line.
Participants from German-speaking countries: 31st place: Stéphane Schweickhardt SUI , 1:02:48 h; 58th place: Viktor Röthlin SUI , 1:04:30 h; 70th place: Oliver Mintzlaff GER , 1:05:09 h; 72nd place: Michael Fietz GER , 1:05:15 h; 75th place: Hansjörg Brücker SUI , 1:05:19 h; 83rd place: Markus Gerber SUI , 1:05:51 h; 90th place: Steffen Benecke GER , 1:06:04 h; 96th place: Philip Rist SUI , 1:06:32 h; Place 107: Michael Wolf GER , 1:07:24 h; 110th place: Christian Fischer GER , 1:07:56 h; 122nd place: Roland Wille LIE , 1:10:56 h. SwitzerlandSwitzerland  SwitzerlandSwitzerland  GermanyGermany  GermanyGermany  SwitzerlandSwitzerland  SwitzerlandSwitzerland  GermanyGermany  SwitzerlandSwitzerland  GermanyGermany  GermanyGermany  LiechtensteinLiechtenstein 

Team ranking men

space Country and athletes Time (h)
1 South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
Hendrick Ramaala (2nd)
Gert Thys (5th)
Abner Chipu (9th) 		3:02:21
1:00:24
1:00:37
1:01:20
2 KenyaKenya Kenya
Paul Koech (1st)
Shem Kororia (10th)
John Gwako (11th) 		3:03:07
1:00:01
1:01:30
1:01:36
3 Ethiopia 1996Ethiopia Ethiopia
Seid Ibrahim (4th)
Girma Alemayehu (19th)
Addis Abebe (29th) 		3:05:18
1:00:31
1:02:07
1:02:40

A total of 29 teams were rated. Switzerland took 12th place in 3:12:37 h, Germany 18th place in 3:16:28 h.

Individual evaluation women

space Athlete country Time (h)
1 Tegla Loroupe KenyaKenya KEN 1:08:29
2 Elana Meyer South AfricaSouth Africa RSA 1:08:32
3 Lidia Șimon RomaniaRomania ROU 1:08:58
4th Olivera Jevtić Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia YUG 1:10:02
5 Annemari Sandell FinlandFinland FIN 1:10:04
6th Joyce Chepchumba KenyaKenya KEN 1:10:10
7th Julia Vaquero SpainSpain ESP 1:10:33
8th Cristina Pomacu RomaniaRomania ROU 1:10:39

Of 97 athletes who started, 93 made it to the finish line.
Participants from German-speaking countries: 18th place: Franziska Rochat-Moser SUI , 1:11:47 h; Place 24: Daria Nauer SUI , 1:12:25 h; 30th place: Sylvia Renz GER , 1:12:44 h; 32nd place: Maren Ostringer GER , 1:12:49 h; 48th place: Birgit Jerschabek GER , 1:14:45 AM; 66th place: Ursula Jeitziner SUI , 1:16:40 h; 68th place: Elisabeth Krieg-Ruprecht SUI , 1:16:50 h; 70th place: Anna Ursula Olbrecht SUI , 1:17:20 h; 88th place: Ines Cronjäger GER , 1:21:52 h. SwitzerlandSwitzerland  SwitzerlandSwitzerland  GermanyGermany  GermanyGermany  GermanyGermany  SwitzerlandSwitzerland  SwitzerlandSwitzerland  SwitzerlandSwitzerland  GermanyGermany 

Team ranking women

space Country and athletes Time (h)
1 KenyaKenya Kenya
Tegla Loroupe (1st)
Joyce Chepchumba (6th)
Leah Malot (10th) 		3:29:43
1:08:29
1:10:10
1:11:04
2 RomaniaRomania Romania
Lidia Șimon (3rd)
Cristina Pomacu (8th)
Constantina Tomescu (29th) 		3:32:19
1:08:58
1:11:39
1:12:42
3 SpainSpain Spain
Julia Vaquero (7th)
Maria Luisa Larraga (14th)
Rocío Ríos (23rd) 		3:34:18
1:10:33
1:11:30
1:12:15

A total of 18 teams were rated. Germany took 9th place in 3:40:18 h, Switzerland 10th place in 3:40:52 h.

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