Host city | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Nations | 42 |
Athletes | 155 |
Events | 2 |
Dates | 2008-10-12 |
Race length | 21.0975 kilometres |
Individual prize money (US$) | 1st: 30,000 2nd: 15,000 3rd: 10,000 4th: 7,000 5th: 5,000 6th: 3,000 |
Team prize money (US$) | 1st: 15,000 2nd: 12,000 3rd: 9,000 4th: 7,500 5th: 6,000 6th: 3,000 |
The 2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 12 October 2008. [1]
This event was first announced as the 2008 IAAF World Road Running Championships, but in November 2007, the IAAF announced that the name of the IAAF World Road Running Championships would revert to its original title of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. [2] [3]
Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given both for the men's race [4] [5] and for the women's race. [6] [7]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Individual | ||||||
Men | Zersenay Tadesse ( ERI) | 59:56 | Patrick Makau Musyoki ( KEN) | 1:01:54 | Ahmed Hassan Abdullah ( QAT) | 1:01:57 |
Women | Lornah Kiplagat ( NED) | 1:08:37 | Aselefech Mergia ( ETH) | 1:09:57 | Pamela Chepchumba ( KEN) | 1:10:01 |
Team | ||||||
Team Men | Kenya | 3:07:24 | Eritrea | 3:09:40 | Qatar | 3:10:52 |
Team Women | Ethiopia | 3:30:59 | Kenya | 3:31:24 | Japan | 3:40:58 |
Complete results were published [8] for the men's race, [9] [10] for the women's race, [11] [12] for men's team, [13] [14] and for women's team. [15] [16]
Rank | Country | Team | Time |
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Ethiopia |
Aselefech Mergia Genet Getaneh Abebu Gelan |
3:30:59 | |
Kenya |
Pamela Chepchumba Peninah Arusei Julia Mombi Muraga |
3:31:24 | |
Japan |
Yukiko Akaba Miki Ohira Yuko Machida |
3:40:58 | |
4 | United States |
Melissa White Dorothy McMaham Kristen Nicolini |
3:45:06 |
5 | Russia |
Olesya Syreva Lyudmila Biktasheva Tatyana Khmeleva-Aryasova |
3:48:47 |
6 | Brazil |
Maria Baldaia Marizete dos Santos Edielza Guimarães |
3:51:11 |
7 | Argentina |
Rosa Godoy Roxana Preussler Estela María Martínez |
4:00:51 |
8 | Venezuela |
Maria Isabel Montilla Zuleima Amaya Mileydy Jaimes |
4:00:58 |
— | Puerto Rico |
María Díaz Zenaida Maldonado Carmen Vallés |
DNF |
The participation of 155 athletes (90 men/65 women) from 42 countries is reported. [8] Although announced, athletes from Finland did not show.