2001 World Half Marathon Championships

The 2001 Half Marathon World Championships (official name 10th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ) took place on October 7, 2001 in the English city ​​of Bristol .

The route consisted of a 10.55 km flat course in the center of Bristol that was run twice. The men's race started at 9:30 a.m. and the women's race at 10:45 a.m. The annual Bristol Half Marathon took place on the same route after the World Championship races .

Both the Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie and the British Paula Radcliffe lived up to their role as favorites. When Gebrselassie picked up the pace two kilometers from the finish, only Tesfaye Jifar could follow him, who then had to admit defeat to his compatriot in the final sprint.

In the women's race, defending champion Radcliffe took the lead after 40 minutes and decided the race for herself with a further increase in pace at 15 km. With 1:06:47 h, she improved her own European record by 20 seconds and missed the world record by just four seconds. Only the South African Elana Meyer (who finished sixth in this race) had been faster before.

Results

Individual ranking men

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Haile Gebrselassie	ETH	1:00:03
2	Tesfaye Jifar	ETH	1:00:04
3	John Yuda Msuri	TAN	1:00:12
4th	Hendrick Ramaala	RSA	1:01:14
5	Tesfaye Tola	ETH	1:00:24
6th	Evans Rutto	KEN	1:00:43
7th	Peter Kiplagat Chebet	KEN	1:00:56
8th	Christopher Cheboiboch	KEN	1:01:41

Of 134 registered athletes, 125 started and 117 reached the finish.

Team ranking men

space	Country and athletes	Time (h)
1	Ethiopia Haile Gebrselassie (1st) Tesfaye Jifar (2nd) Tesfaye Tola (5th)	3:00:31 1:00:03 1:00:04 1:00:24
2	Kenya Evans Rutto (6th) Peter Kiplagat Chebet (7th) Christopher Cheboiboch (8th)	3:02:53 1:00:43 1:00:56 1:01:14
3	Tanzania John Yuda Msuri (3rd) Phaustin Baha Sulle (12th) Benedict Ako (22nd)	3:05:08 1:00:12 1:02:15 1:02:41

A total of 24 teams were rated.

Individual evaluation women

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Paula Radcliffe	GBR	1:06:47
2	Susan Chepkemei	KEN	1:07:36
3	Berhane Adere	ETH	1:08:17
4th	Mizuki Noguchi	JPN	1:08:23
5	Jeļena Prokopčuka	LAT	1:08:43
6th	Elana Meyer	RSA	1:08:56
7th	Olivera Jevtić	YUG	1:09:51
8th	Isabella Ochichi	KEN	1:10:01

Of the 75 starters, 71 reached the finish.

Team ranking women

space	Country and athletes	Time (h)
1	Kenya Susan Chepkemei (2nd) Isabella Ochichi (8th) Caroline Chepkorir Kwambai (12th)	3:28:04 1:07:36 1:10:01 1:10:27
2	Japan Mizuki Noguchi (4th) Yasuyo Iwamoto (9th) Takako Kotorida (25th)	3:30:08 1:08:23 1:10:06 1:11:39
3	Ethiopia Berhane Adere (3rd) Meseret Kotu (17th) Teyba Erkesso (20th)	3:30:20 1:08:17 1:10:48 1:11:15

A total of 15 teams were rated.

Web links

• 10th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships on the IAAF website
• IAAF World Half Marathon Championships - Bristol 2001 ( Memento of 19 February 2002 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of UK Athletics

Footnotes

1. ↑ Haile Gebrselassie lives up to Half Marathon Challenge ( Memento from October 22, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Radcliffe retains title and goes close to world best ( Memento from April 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )