Road running world championships 2007

The 2nd Road Running World Championships (officially: 2nd IAAF World Running Championships Udine 2007 ) were held on October 14, 2007 in the Italian city ​​of Udine over the half marathon distance (21.0975 km). The men's race started at 10:30 a.m. and the women's race at 12:00 p.m.

The route consisted of a small straight in the start area and a circular course to be traversed three times in the center of Udine, with a difference of 8 meters between the lowest and the highest point. The start and finish were in Piazza Primo Maggio.

In addition to the individual ratings, there were team ratings that included all countries from which at least three runners had reached the finish. For the evaluation, the three best times of the athletes in the respective country were added up.

Both Eritrean Zersenay Tadese and Dutch Lornah Kiplagat defended their titles at the 2006 World Road Running Championships . Kiplagat not only set a world record in the half marathon with 1:06:25, she also improved her own world record from the previous year over this distance with her 20 km split time of 1:02:57.

Results

Men

Individual evaluation

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Zersenay Tadese	ERI	058:59 (PB)
2	Patrick Makau Musyoki	KEN	059:02
3	Evans Kiprop Cheruiyot	KEN	059:05 (PB)
4th	Deriba Merga	ETH	059:16 (PB)
5	Yonas Kifle	ERI	059:30 (PB)
6th	Dieudonné Disi	RWA	059:32 (NR)
7th	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	059:33 (AR)
8th	Dickson Marwa	TAN	1:00:24 (PB)

Of the 85 registered athletes, 82 started and 79 finished the race. Atsushi Satō from Japan (9th place) set an Asian record with 1:00:25. In addition, national records were set by Cuthbert Nyasango from Zimbabwe (10th place, 1:00:26), Ali Dawoud Sedam from Qatar (14th place, 1:00:39), and Nicholas Kiprono from Uganda (17th place, 1:00:57 ) and Günther Weidlinger from Austria (23rd place, 1:01:42).

Further placements from participants from German-speaking countries:

• 61: Martin Pröll ( AUT ), 1:04:32 (PB)
• 65: Markus Hohenwarter ( AUT ), 1:04:45 (PB)
• 69: Christian Pflügl ( AUT ), 1:06:26 (PB)

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Time (h)
1	Kenya Patrick Makau Musyoki (2nd) Evans Kiprop Cheruiyot (3rd) Robert Kipkorir Kipchumba (15th)	2:58:54 0 59:02 059:05 1:00:47
2	Eritrea Zersenay Tadese (1st) Yonas Kifle (5th) Michael Tesfay (13th)	2:59:08 0 58:59 059:30 1:00:39
3	Ethiopia Deriba Merga (4th) Raji Assefa (12th) Tariku Jufar (18th)	3:01:15 0 59:16 1:00:31 1:01:28

A total of 17 teams were rated. The Austrian team (Günther Weidlinger, Martin Pröll and Markus Hohenwarter) took twelfth place with a total time of 3:10:59.

Women

Individual evaluation

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Lornah Kiplagat	NED	1:06:25 (WR)
2	Mary Jepkosgei Keitany	KEN	1:06:48 (NR)
3	Pamela Chepchumba	KEN	1:08:06 (PB)
4th	Bezunesh Bekele	ETH	1:08:07 (NR)
5	Atsede Habtamu	ETH	1:08:29
6th	Everline Kemunto Kimwei	KEN	1:08:39 (PB)
7th	Chisato Osaki	JPN	1:08:56 (PB)
8th	Luminița Talpoș	ROU	1:09:01 (PB)

From 67 registered athletes, 66 started and 56 reached the finish. National records were set by Furtuna Zegergish from Eritrea (21st place, 1:11:03), Angeline Nyiransabimana from Rwanda (31st place, 1:12:44), Lucia Kimani from Bosnia and Herzegovina (36th place, 1:12:55 ) and Shermin Lasaldo from Trinidad and Tobago (54th place, 1:25:37).

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Time (h)
1	Kenya Mary Jepkosgei Keitany (2nd) Pamela Chepchumba (3rd) Everline Kemunto Kimwei (6th)	3:23:33 1:06:48 1:08:06 1:08:39
2	Ethiopia Bezunesh Bekele (4th) Atsede Habtamu (5th) Atsede Baysa (11th)	3:25:51 1:08:07 1:08:29 1:09:15
3	Japan Chisato Osaki (7th) Akane Taira (12th) Yoshimi Ozaki (13th)	3:27:39 1:08:56 1:09:17 1:09:26

A total of eight teams were rated.

Abbreviations

• WR = world record
• AR = continent record (area record)
• NR = national record
• PB = personal best

Web links

• Road Running World Championships 2007 ( Memento from August 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Local events committee website