World Half Marathon Championships 2008

The 2008 Half Marathon World Championships (officially: IAAF / CAIXA World Half Marathon Championships ) were held on October 12, 2008 as a road race in the Brazilian city ​​of Rio de Janeiro . For the first time, the IAAF awarded this competition to South America, which was taking place for the 17th time .

The route was identical to the 12th Rio de Janeiro half marathon, which took place on the same day: a very flat point-to-point course with a difference in altitude of a good 20 meters, the one from São Conrado beach below the Pedra da Gávea mountain above Leblon , Ipanema , Copacabana and Botafogo to the finish in Flamengo .

While the women's race started at 8:45 am, the race of the men began half an hour later 200 meters from the 16,000 participants strong starting field of simultaneously launched people run . The temperature was 23 ° C, the humidity 78%.

Zersenay Tadese confidently defended his title from the 2007 road running world championships , took off before km 5 and became the first athlete to become world champion in the half marathon for the third time with a lead of almost two minutes. Also Lornah Kiplagat sat down early at km 7 on the front of the field and also safely won their third title.

Results

Individual ranking men

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Zersenay Tadese	ERI	059:56
2	Patrick Makau Musyoki	KEN	1:01:54
3	Ahmad Hassan Abdullah	QAT	1:01:57
4th	Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott	KEN	1:01:58
5	Yusei Nakao	JPN	1:02:05
6th	Dieudonné Disi	RWA	1:03:03
7th	Abebe Dinkesa	ETH	1:03:04
8th	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	1:03:14

Of 92 registered athletes, 90 started and 86 reached the finish. Stéphane Joly ( SUI ) finished 57th in 1:09:56.  

Team ranking men

space	Country and athletes	Time (h)
1	Kenya Patrick Makau Musyoki (2nd) Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott (4th) Joseph Maregu (9th)	3:07:24 1:01:54 1:01:58 1:03:32
2	Eritrea Zersenay Tadese (1st) Michael Tesfay (12th) Mogos Ahferom (25th)	3:09:40 0 59:56 1:04:04 1:05:40
3	Qatar Ahmad Hassan Abdullah (3rd) Essa Ismail Rashed (10th) Ali Dawoud Sedam (19th)	3:10:52 1:01:57 1:03:57 1:04:58

A total of 16 teams were rated.

Individual evaluation women

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Lornah Kiplagat	NED	1:08:37
2	Aselefech Mergia	ETH	1:09:57
3	Pamela Chepchumba	KEN	1:10:01
4th	Genet Done	ETH	1:10:03
5	Peninah Jerop Arusei	KEN	1:10:12
6th	Abebu Gelan	ETH	1:10:59
7th	Julia Mumbi Muraga	KEN	1:11:11
8th	Atsede Habtamu	ETH	1:11:13

60 of the 65 starters reached the finish line. María Díaz ( PUR , 33rd place) set a national record with 1:16:52.  

Team ranking women

space	Country and athletes	Time (h)
1	Ethiopia Aselefech Mergia (2nd) Genet Getaneh (4th) Abebu Gelan (6th)	3:30:59 1:09:57 1:10:03 1:10:59
2	Kenya Pamela Chepchumba (3rd) Peninah Jerop Arusei (5th) Julia Mumbi Muraga (7th)	3:31:24 1:10:01 1:10:12 1:11:11
3	Japan Yukiko Akaba (10th) Miki Ohira (19th) Yuko Machida (22nd)	3:40:58 1:11:39 1:14:27 1:14:52

A total of nine teams were rated.

Web links

• Half Marathon World Championship 2008 ( memo from March 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the IAAF website
• Website of the 12th Rio de Janeiro International Half Marathon

Footnotes

1. ^ IAAF: Making history - the who, what and when of the World Half Marathon Championships ( Memento of October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). October 8, 2008
2. ↑ Website of the Meia Maratona Internacional do Rio ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ IAAF: Emphatic third triumph; Tadese goes solo from 5km - Men's Race Report, Rio 2008 ( Memento from October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). October 12, 2008
4. ^ IAAF: Kiplagat saunters to another staggering victory - Women's Race Report, Rio 2008 ( Memento of October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) . October 12, 2008