World Half Marathon Championships 2000

The 9th Half Marathon World Championships (officially IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ) was held on November 12, 2000 in the Mexican city ​​of Veracruz . For the first time, world half marathon championships were held outside of Europe.

The course was a turning point route to be traversed three times along the port of the city. The participants suffered from warm temperatures of around 30 ° C and the high humidity. Especially in the men's race, which started at 10:30 a.m. one and a half hours after the women's race, an above-average number of runners gave up the competition prematurely.

In the absence of defending champion Tegla Loroupe due to illness , the British Paula Radcliffe secured the world title for the first time. Susan Chepkemei from Kenya and the Romanian Lidia Slavuteanu-Şimon followed on the seats . For Slavuteanu-Şimon it was already the fourth individual medal in the half marathon world championships. The team classification (adding up the times of the three fastest runners in a country) was won by Romania for the sixth time. As in the previous year, Japan and Russia took second and third place.

In the men's race, Paul Tergat from Kenya managed to defend his title. The then world record holder beat the 18-year-old Tanzanian Phaustin Baha Sulle in the final sprint by a second. Another two seconds behind, the Ethiopian Tesfaye Jifar completed the podium, repeating his position from last year. Kenya won the team competition ahead of Ethiopia. Belgium surprisingly came in third.

Results

Individual ranking men

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Paul Tergat	KEN	1:03:47
2	Phaustin Baha Sulle	TAN	1:03:48
3	Tesfaye Jifar	ETH	1:03:50
4th	Joseph Kimani	KEN	1:03:52
5	David Ruto	KEN	1:03:59
6th	John Gwako	KEN	1:04:16
7th	Amnaay Zebedayo Bayo	TAN	1:04:25
8th	Oscar Fernández	ESP	1:04:25

Out of 122 registered athletes, 119 started and 100 reached the finish.

Team ranking men

space	Country and athletes	Time (h)
1	Kenya Paul Tergat (1st) Joseph Kimani (4th) David Ruto (5th)	3:11:38 1:03:47 1:03:52 1:03:59
2	Ethiopia Tesfaye Jifar (3rd) Seid Ibrahim (12th) Gemechu Kebede (14th)	3:14:45 1:03:50 1:05:19 1:05:36
3	Belgium Koen Allaert (15th) Guy Fays (21st) Christiano Nemeth (24th)	3:18:35 1:05:41 1:06:21 1:06:33

A total of 22 teams were rated.

Individual evaluation women

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Paula Radcliffe	GBR	1:09:07
2	Susan Chepkemei	KEN	1:09:40
3	Lidia Slavuteanu-Şimon	ROU	1:10:24
4th	Mizuki Noguchi	JPN	1:11:11
5	Pamela Chepchumba	KEN	1:11:33
6th	Mihaela Botezan	ROU	1:11:52
7th	Cristina Pomacu	ROU	1:12:06
8th	Yukiko Okamoto	JPN	1:12:20

Of 62 registered athletes, 61 started and 54 reached the finish.

Team ranking women

space	Country and athletes	Time (h)
1	Romania Lidia Slavuteanu-Şimon (3rd) Mihaela Botezan (6th) Cristina Pomacu (7th)	3:34:22 1:10:24 1:11:52 1:12:06
2	Japan Mizuki Noguchi (4th) Yukiko Okamoto (8th) Yasuko Hashimoto (9th)	3:36:25 1:11:11 1:12:20 1:12:54
3	Russia Lidija Grigoryeva (11th) Galina Alexandrowa (13th) Sinaida Semjonowa (22nd)	3:45:41 1:14:26 1:15:02 1:16:13

A total of 10 teams were rated.

Web links

• World Half Marathon Championships 2000 on the IAAF website