1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 8th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 3, 1999, in the city of Palermo, Italy. A total of 192 athletes, 119 men and 73 women, from 48 countries, took part. The course was traced through the historical centre of the town with the start/finish line on the "Foro Italico." A detailed report on the event and an appraisal of the results were given.

1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	8th
Date	October 3
Host city	Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Events	2
Participation	192 athletes from 48 nations
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Complete results were published.

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Paul Tergat (KEN)	1:01:50	Hendrick Ramaala (RSA)	1:01:50	Tesfaye Jifar (ETH)	1:01:51
Women	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	1:08:48	Mizuki Noguchi (JPN)	1:09:12	Catherine Ndereba (KEN)	1:09:23
Team
Team Men	South Africa	3:06:01	Ethiopia	3:06:03	Kenya	3:06:03
Team Women	Kenya	3:27:40	Japan	3:30:06	Russia	3:31:49

Race results

Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paul Tergat	Kenya	1:01:50
	Hendrick Ramaala	South Africa	1:01:50
	Tesfaye Jifar	Ethiopia	1:01:51
4	Abdellah Béhar	France	1:01:53
5	Eduardo Henriques	Portugal	1:01:53
6	Abner Chipu	South Africa	1:01:54
7	Laban Chege	Kenya	1:01:54
8	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia	1:01:56
9	Fekadu Degefu	Ethiopia	1:02:16
10	Mluleki Nobanda	South Africa	1:02:17
11	Sammy Korir	Kenya	1:02:19
12	Gert Thys	South Africa	1:02:24
13	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands	1:02:33
14	Toshiyuki Hayata	Japan	1:02:35
15	Faustin Baha	Tanzania	1:02:41
16	Gebremariam Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	1:02:46
17	Philip Rugut	Kenya	1:02:59
18	Rachid Berradi	Italy	1:03:03
19	Larbi Zéroual	France	1:03:05
20	Alberto Chaíça	Portugal	1:03:08
21	Toshiaki Tezuka	Japan	1:03:20
22	Araya Berhane	Ethiopia	1:03:24
23	Shigeru Aburaya	Japan	1:03:26
24	Rachid Ziar	Algeria	1:03:32
25	Teodoro Cuñado	Spain	1:03:33
26	Javier Caballero	Spain	1:03:39
27	Mohamed Serbouti	France	1:03:41
28	Jafred Lorone	Uganda	1:03:44
29	José Ramos	Portugal	1:03:49
30	Tsuyoshi Ogata	Japan	1:03:50
31	Antonio Martins	France	1:03:55
32	Jumanne Tuluway	Tanzania	1:03:57
33	Antonio Serrano	Spain	1:03:58
34	Hakim Bagy	France	1:03:58
35	Koen Allaert	Belgium	1:04:00
36	Giacomo Leone	Italy	1:04:00
37	Roberto Barbi	Italy	1:04:02
38	Aiduna Aitnafa	Netherlands	1:04:02
39	Said Boumhandi	Morocco	1:04:10
40	Mark Steinle	Great Britain	1:04:11
41	Scott Larson	United States	1:04:14
42	Alejandro Cuahtepizi	Mexico	1:04:32
43	José Dias	Portugal	1:04:32
44	Christian Nemeth	Belgium	1:04:42
45	Vladimir Tsyamchik	Belarus	1:04:44
46	John Sence	United States	1:04:55
47	Kim Gillard	Australia	1:05:04
48	Marco Gielen	Netherlands	1:05:08
49	António Resende	Portugal	1:05:11
50	Kevin Odiorne	United States	1:05:19
51	Amar Dahbi	Algeria	1:05:19
51	Kamal Kohil	Algeria	1:05:19
52	Sebastiano Mazzara	Italy	1:05:20
53	Sebastian Bürklein	Germany	1:05:21
54	Ahmed Abd El-Mangoud	Egypt	1:05:34
55	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	1:05:45
56	Rachid Boulenouar	Algeria	1:05:47
57	Miguel Bravo	Mexico	1:05:47
58	Nick Jones	Great Britain	1:05:57
59	Drago Paripović	Croatia	1:05:58
60	Stéphane Rousseau	Belgium	1:06:10
61	Delmir dos Santos	Brazil	1:06:13
62	David Taylor	Great Britain	1:06:13
63	Alphonse Munyeshyaka	Rwanda	1:06:21
64	Masayuki Kobayashi	Japan	1:06:26
65	Borislav Dević	Yugoslavia	1:06:32
66	Francis Yiga	Uganda	1:06:47
67	Oscar Fernández	Spain	1:06:50
68	Fouly Salem	Egypt	1:06:50
69	Zarislav Gapeyenko	Belarus	1:06:52
70	Christian Fischer	Germany	1:06:54
71	Sipho Dlamini	Swaziland	1:06:59
72	Jan Křižák	Slovakia	1:07:00
73	Toomas Tarm	Estonia	1:07:08
74	Ali Awad	Lebanon	1:07:10
75	Ahmed Abdel Rasool Badry	Egypt	1:07:17
76	Leszek Lewandowski	Poland	1:07:25
77	Margus Pirksaar	Estonia	1:07:32
78	Pavel Faschingbauer	Czech Republic	1:07:39
79	Isaiah Dlamini	Swaziland	1:07:42
80	Oliver Mintzlaff	Germany	1:07:42
81	Lucky Bhembe	Swaziland	1:07:44
82	Vasilios Zabélis	Greece	1:07:47
83	Glynn Tromans	Great Britain	1:07:49
84	Jeff Campbell	United States	1:07:50
85	Job Sikoria	Uganda	1:08:30
86	Michael Fietz	Germany	1:08:33
87	Francisco Bautista	Mexico	1:08:38
88	Sokhibdjan Sharipov	Tajikistan	1:08:50
89	Gabriel Mazimpaka	Rwanda	1:08:51
90	Nedeljko Ravić	Croatia	1:08:55
91	António Zeferino	Cape Verde	1:09:05
92	Seif Eldin El-Nur	Sudan	1:09:10
93	Joseph Sterlino	Sudan	1:09:27
94	Shadrack Hoff	South Africa	1:09:44
95	Cordero Roy Vargas	Costa Rica	1:10:02
96	Ahmed Boulahia	Algeria	1:10:07
97	Ramiz Taipi	Yugoslavia	1:10:11
98	Mohamed Al-Khawlani	Yemen	1:10:11
99	Vladimir Tonchinskiy	Belarus	1:10:12
100	Ivica Škopac	Croatia	1:10:13
101	Miguel Romero	Ecuador	1:13:19
102	Hussein Awada	Lebanon	1:13:35
103	Ihab Salama	Palestine	1:13:41
104	Omar Abdel Latif	Lebanon	1:14:05
105	Weldon Johnson	United States	1:14:58
106	Frederick Baldacchino	Malta	1:14:58
107	Khalid Al-Estashi	Yemen	1:15:40
108	Vasiliy Andreyev	Uzbekistan	1:16:35
109	Abdel Salam Al-Dabaji	Palestine	1:18:48
—	Daniel Ferreira	Brazil	DNF
—	Geraldo Francisco de Assis	Brazil	DNF
—	Luíz Antônio dos Santos	Brazil	DNF
—	Michele Gamba	Italy	DNF
—	Shem Kororia	Kenya	DNF
—	Ali Mohamad	Sudan	DNF
—	John Nada Saya	Tanzania	DNF
—	Yevgeniy Nujdin	Uzbekistan	DNF
—	Esmail Al-Dawla	Yemen	DNF
—	Silvio Guerra	Ecuador	DNS
—	Nestor Jarni	Ecuador	DNS
—	Ahmed Aly Aly	Egypt	DNS
—	Wael Anwar Adan	Egypt	DNS
—	José Luis Ebatela Nvó	Equatorial Guinea	DNS
—	Diosdado Edjang Ndemesogo	Equatorial Guinea	DNS
—	Sergey Zabavski	Tajikistan	DNS
—	Joseph Nsubuga	Uganda	DNS
—	Santino Diang	Sudan	DNS
—	Gabriel Ndour	Senegal	DNS
—	Malick Seck	Senegal	DNS
—	Medson Chibwe	Zambia	DNS
—	Vincent Hatuleke	Zambia	DNS
—	Sam Mfula Mwape	Zambia	DNS
—	Mohammed S.A. Salama	Palestine	DNS

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	1:08:48
	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan	1:09:12
	Catherine Ndereba	Kenya	1:09:23
4	Joyce Chepchumba	Kenya	1:09:29
5	Reiko Tosa	Japan	1:09:36
6	Valentina Yegorova	Russia	1:09:59
7	Elana Meyer	South Africa	1:10:20
8	Luminița Talpoș	Romania	1:10:33
9	Lyudmila Biktasheva	Russia	1:10:35
10	Alina Ivanova	Russia	1:11:15
11	Hiromi Katayama	Japan	1:11:18
12	Constantina Diţă	Romania	1:11:22
13	Margaret Okayo	Kenya	1:11:29
14	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	1:11:33
15	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain	1:11:38
16	Cristina Pomacu	Romania	1:11:45
17	Satomi Matsuo	Japan	1:11:48
18	Lyudmila Petrova	Russia	1:11:53
19	Agata Balsamo	Italy	1:11:58
20	Jane Omoro	Kenya	1:12:10
21	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia	1:12:32
22	Marian Sutton	Great Britain	1:12:36
23	Rosaria Console	Italy	1:12:46
24	María Abel	Spain	1:13:08
25	Lyubov Morgunova	Russia	1:13:25
26	Ritsuko Sasaki	Japan	1:13:26
27	Florinda Andreucci	Italy	1:13:33
28	Tereza Yohanes	Ethiopia	1:13:38
29	Birhan Dagne	Great Britain	1:13:41
30	Fatima Hajjami	France	1:13:55
31	Gabrielle OʼRourke	New Zealand	1:14:12
32	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	1:14:15
33	Lucilla Andreucci	Italy	1:15:05
34	Susan Michelsson	Australia	1:15:07
35	Mónica Pont	Spain	1:15:12
36	Alemitu Bekele	Ethiopia	1:15:27
37	Marlene Fortunato	Brazil	1:15:29
38	Teyba Erkesso	Ethiopia	1:15:48
39	Michelle Byrne	United States	1:15:55
40	Lynn Fitzsimmons	United States	1:16:14
41	Christine McNamara	United States	1:16:18
42	Marie Boyd	United States	1:16:37
43	Annemette Jensen	Denmark	1:16:47
44	Asegedech Gizaw	Ethiopia	1:16:53
45	Silvana Trampuz	Australia	1:17:12
46	Stefanija Statkuvienė	Belgium	1:17:30
47	Theresa du Toit	South Africa	1:17:33
48	Jo Lodge	Great Britain	1:17:36
49	Krystyna Pieczulis	Poland	1:18:02
50	Azwindini Lukhwareni	South Africa	1:18:28
51	Carlien Cornelissen	South Africa	1:18:37
52	Shireen Crumpton	New Zealand	1:19:21
53	Kelly Liljeblad	United States	1:19:23
54	Nili Avramski	Israel	1:20:20
55	Yeoryía Abatzídou	Greece	1:20:45
56	Dana Janecková	Slovakia	1:21:28
57	Vesna Stevanović	Yugoslavia	1:21:34
58	Sarah Mahlangu	South Africa	1:22:01
59	Margarita Cabello	Mexico	1:22:28
60	Tijana Pavičić	Croatia	1:25:58
61	Slavica Brčić	Croatia	1:25:59
62	Irina Matrosova	Uzbekistan	1:28:25
63	Kristinka Marković	Croatia	1:30:24
64	Gina Coello	Honduras	1:30:27
65	Yuliya Arfipova	Uzbekistan	1:35:45
66	Aleksandra Rodigina	Uzbekistan	1:35:45
—	Carolyn Schuwalov	Australia	DNF
—	Sonja Deckers	Belgium	DNF
—	Milka Mihailova	Bulgaria	DNF
—	Annick Clouvel	France	DNF
—	Sonia Maccioni	Italy	DNF
—	Iulia Olteanu	Romania	DNF
—	Valentina Enaki	Moldova	DNS
—	Mable Chiwama	Zambia	DNS
—	Florina Pana	Romania	DQ†

^†: Florina Pana from Romania was initially 4th (1:09:26), but tested positive for nandrolone and disqualified.

Team results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	South Africa	Hendrick Ramaala Abner Chipu Mluleki Nobanda	3:06:01
	Ethiopia	Tesfaye Jifar Tesfaye Tola Fekadu Degefu	3:06:03
	Kenya	Paul Tergat Laban Chege Sammy Korir	3:06:03
4	France	Abdellah Béhar Larbi Zéroual Mohamed Serbouti	3:08:39
5	Portugal	Eduardo Henriques Alberto Chaíça José Ramos	3:08:50
6	Japan	Toshiyuki Hayata Toshiaki Tezuka Shigeru Aburaya	3:09:21
7	Italy	Rachid Berradi Giacomo Leone Roberto Barbi	3:11:05
8	Spain	Teodoro Cuñado Javier Caballero Antonio Serrano	3:11:10
9	Netherlands	Kamiel Maase Aiduna Aitnafa Marco Gielen	3:11:43
10	United States	Scott Larson John Sence Kevin Odiorne	3:14:28
11	Algeria	Rachid Ziar Amar Dahbi Kamal Kohil	3:14:10
12	Belgium	Koen Allaert Christian Nemeth Stéphane Rousseau	3:14:52
13	Great Britain	Mark Steinle Nick Jones David Taylor	3:16:21
14	Mexico	Alejandro Cuahtepizi Miguel Bravo Francisco Bautista	3:18:57
15	Uganda	Jafred Lorone Francis Yiga Job Sikoria	3:19:01
16	Egypt	Ahmed Abd El-Mangoud Fouly Salem Ahmed Abdel Rasool Badry	3:19:41
17	Germany	Sebastian Bürklein Christian Fischer Oliver Mintzlaff	3:19:57
18	Estonia	Pavel Loskutov Toomas Tarm Margus Pirksaar	3:20:25
19	Belarus	Vladimir Tsyamchik Zarislav Gapeyenko Vladimir Tonchinskiy	3:21:48
20	Swaziland	Sipho Dlamini Isaiah Dlamini Lucky Bhembe	3:22:25
21	Croatia	Drago Paripović Nedeljko Ravić Ivica Škopac	3:25:06
22	Lebanon	Ali Awad Hussein Awada Omar Abdel Latif	3:34:50
—	Brazil	Delmir dos Santos Daniel Ferreira Geraldo Francisco de Assis	DNF
—	Sudan	Seif Eldin El-Nur Joseph Sterlino Ali Mohamad	DNF
—	Tanzania	Faustin Baha Jumanne Tuluway John Nada Saya	DNF
—	Yemen	Mohamed Al-Khawlani Khalid Al-Estashi Esmail Al-Dawla	DNF

Women's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Tegla Loroupe Catherine Ndereba Joyce Chepchumba	3:27:40
	Japan	Mizuki Noguchi Reiko Tosa Hiromi Katayama	3:30:06
	Russia	Valentina Yegorova Lyudmila Biktasheva Alina Ivanova	3:31:49
4	Romania	Luminița Talpoș Constantina Diţă Cristina Pomacu	3:33:40
5	Italy	Agata Balsamo Rosaria Console Florinda Andreucci	3:38:17
6	Spain	Ana Isabel Alonso María Abel Mónica Pont	3:39:58
7	Ethiopia	Derartu Tulu Tereza Yohanes Alemitu Bekele Aga	3:40:38
8	Great Britain	Marian Sutton Birhan Dagne Jo Lodge	3:43:53
9	South Africa	Elana Meyer Theresa du Toit Azwindini Lukhwareni	3:46:21
10	United States	Michelle Byrne Lynn Fitzsimmons Christine McNamara	3:48:27
11	Croatia	Tijana Pavičić Slavica Brčić Kristinka Marković	4:22:21
12	Uzbekistan	Irina Matrosova Yuliya Arfipova Aleksandra Rodigina	4:39:55
—	Australia	Susan Michelsson Silvana Trampuz Carolyn Schuwalov	DNF

Participation

The participation of 192 athletes (119 men/73 women) from 48 countries is reported. Although announced, athletes from Equatorial Guinea, Moldova, Senegal, and Zambia did not show.

• Algeria (5)
• Australia (4)
• Belarus (3)
• Belgium (5)
• Brazil (4)
• Bulgaria (1)
• Cape Verde (1)
• Costa Rica (1)
• Croatia (6)
• Czech Republic (1)
• Denmark (2)
• Ecuador (1)
• Egypt (3)
• Estonia (3)
• Ethiopia (10)
• France (7)
• Germany (4)
• Greece (2)
• Honduras (1)
• Israel (1)
• Italy (10)
• Japan (10)
• Kenya (10)
• Lebanon (3)
• Malta (1)
• Morocco (1)
• Mexico (4)
• Netherlands (3)
• New Zealand (2)
• Palestine (2)
• Poland (2)
• Portugal (5)
• Romania (5)
• Russia (5)
• Rwanda (2)
• Slovakia (2)
• South Africa (10)
• Spain (7)
• Sudan (3)
• Swaziland (3)
• Tajikistan (1)
• Tanzania (3)
• Uganda (3)
• United Kingdom (7)
• United States (10)
• Uzbekistan (5)
• Yemen (3)
• Yugoslavia (4)

See also

• 1999 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Official website