1993 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 2nd IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 3, 1993, in Brussels, Belgium. A total of 254 athletes, 133 men, 86 women and 35 juniors, from 49 countries took part. Complete results were published.^[1]

1993 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	2nd
Date	October 3
Host city	Brussels, Belgium
Events	3
Participation	254 athletes from 49 nations
← 1992 Tyneside 1994 Oslo →

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Vincent Rousseau (BEL)	1:01:06	Steve Moneghetti (AUS)	1:01:10	Carl Thackery (GBR)	1:01:13
Junior (Boys)	Meck Mothuli (RSA)	1:02:11	Beruke Bekele (ETH)	1:03:32	Isaac Radebe (RSA)	1:03:35
Women	Conceição Ferreira (POR)	1:10:07	Mari Tanigawa (JPN)	1:10:09	Tegla Loroupe (KEN)	1:10:12
Team
Team Men	Kenya	3:05:40	Australia	3:05:43	United Kingdom	3:06:10
Team Junior (Boys)	South Africa	3:09:46	Ethiopia	3:13:34	Italy	3:17:12
Team Women	Romania	3:32:18	Japan	3:32:22	Portugal	3:34:12

Race Results

Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	1:01:06
	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	1:01:10
	Carl Thackery	Great Britain	1:01:13
4	Lameck Aguta	Kenya	1:01:15
5	Valdenor dos Santos	Brazil	1:01:17
6	Antonio Silio	Argentina	1:01:35
7	John Andrews	Australia	1:01:37
8	Adam Motlagale	South Africa	1:01:42
9	Rainer Wachenbrunner	Germany	1:02:00
10	Jan Ikov	Denmark	1:02:02
11	Kozu Akutsu	Japan	1:02:07
12	Kidane Gebrmichael	Ethiopia	1:02:10
13	Thomas Osano	Kenya	1:02:10
14	Haruo Urata	Japan	1:02:12
15	Mark Flint	Great Britain	1:02:13
16	Joseph Cheromei	Kenya	1:02:15
17	Graziano Calvaresi	Italy	1:02:19
18	Akira Nakamura	Japan	1:02:21
19	Henrique Crisostomo	Portugal	1:02:25
20	Paul Aufdemberge	United States	1:02:30
21	Leykun Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	1:02:31
22	Alberto Maravilha	Portugal	1:02:32
23	Ezael Thlobo	South Africa	1:02:38
24	Bernd Bürger	Germany	1:02:40
25	Davide Milesi	Italy	1:02:42
26	Ronny Ligneel	Belgium	1:02:43
27	Dave Lewis	Great Britain	1:02:44
28	Mohamed Ezzher	France	1:02:45
29	Zablon Miano	Kenya	1:02:48
30	António Resende	Portugal	1:02:49
31	Luigi Di Lello	Italy	1:02:49
32	Meshack Mogotsi	South Africa	1:02:55
33	Antonio Peña	Spain	1:02:55
34	Fernando Couto	Portugal	1:02:56
35	Pat Carroll	Australia	1:02:56
36	Fransua Woldemarian	Ethiopia	1:02:57
37	José Ramon Moreno	Spain	1:03:08
38	Rodney Higgins	Australia	1:03:08
39	Santtu Mäkinen	Finland	1:03:09
40	Hoche Yaya Aden	Djibouti	1:03:09
41	Martin Jones	Great Britain	1:03:10
42	Luíz dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:11
43	Gerard Kappert	Netherlands	1:03:18
44	Ryo Watanabe	Japan	1:03:19
45	Aiduna Aitnafa	Ethiopia	1:03:25
46	Frank Bjørkli	Norway	1:03:29
47	Tomix da Costa	Brazil	1:03:33
48	Yuriy Chizhov	Russia	1:03:34
49	Klaus-Peter Nabein	Germany	1:03:38
50	Luís Soares	France	1:03:38
51	Viktor Vykhrystenko	Ukraine	1:03:39
52	Wolde Silasse Melkessa	Ethiopia	1:03:41
53	Eddy Hellebuyck	Belgium	1:03:44
54	Salvatore Orgiana	Italy	1:03:48
55	Joaquim Silva	Portugal	1:03:49
56	Omar Daher Ghadid	Djibouti	1:03:56
57	Sergey Struganov	Russia	1:03:57
58	Delmir dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:58
59	Bertrand Frechard	France	1:04:01
60	Steve Sisson	United States	1:04:02
61	Nikolay Kerimov	Russia	1:04:02
62	Valentin Martyniouk	Ukraine	1:04:02
63	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	1:04:04
64	Danilo Goffi	Italy	1:04:05
65	Terje Näss	Norway	1:04:08
66	Pascal Fetizon	France	1:04:10
67	Daniel Held	United States	1:04:14
68	Thierry Constantin	Switzerland	1:04:19
69	Sergey Fedotov	Russia	1:04:28
70	Raf Wijns	Belgium	1:04:29
71	Vladimir Epanov	Russia	1:04:29
72	John Griffin	Ireland	1:04:31
73	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	1:04:32
74	Vladimir Bukhanov	Ukraine	1:04:43
75	Roger Bjørkli	Norway	1:04:45
76	Svein Erik Eide	Norway	1:04:45
77	Steve Jones	Great Britain	1:04:52
78	Alberto Juzdado	Spain	1:04:53
79	Jukka Vähä-Vahe	Finland	1:04:59
80	Mirosław Żerkowski	Poland	1:05:00
81	Diomede Cishahayo	Burundi	1:05:03
82	Peter De Vocht	Belgium	1:05:05
83	Daniel Gonzalez	United States	1:05:07
84	Axel Krippschock	Germany	1:05:15
85	Jean-Louis Prianon	France	1:05:17
86	Marco Gielen	Netherlands	1:05:21
87	Nicolae Negru	Romania	1:05:22
88	Boris Batuyev	Belarus	1:05:23
89	Simon Mphulanyane	South Africa	1:05:33
90	Jari Hirvonen	Finland	1:05:40
91	Daniel Dasta	Israel	1:05:42
92	Craig Dickson	United States	1:05:48
93	Marcelo Cascabelo	Argentina	1:05:52
94	Rodrigo Gavela	Spain	1:05:58
95	Vladimir Tonchinskiy	Belarus	1:06:01
96	Kuruppe Karunaratne	Sri Lanka	1:06:03
97	Tom Maher	Ireland	1:06:18
98	Mikhail Vorontsov	Belarus	1:06:23
99	Bjørn Nordheggen	Norway	1:06:32
100	Aart Stigter	Netherlands	1:06:50
101	Khelil Benhalima	Algeria	1:06:53
102	Mohamed Abdi Said	Djibouti	1:07:00
103	Peter Handcock	New Zealand	1:07:10
104	Aleksandrs Prokopčuks	Latvia	1:07:13
105	David Rush	New Zealand	1:07:27
106	Uwe Honsdorf	Germany	1:07:34
107	Jan-Dirk Hazegeler	Netherlands	1:07:40
108	Roy Dooney	Ireland	1:07:55
109	Yuriy Brandes	Belarus	1:08:28
110	Georges Richmond	French Polynesia	1:08:44
111	Ģirts Fogels	Latvia	1:09:24
112	Asaf Bimro	Israel	1:09:27
113	Ajay Chuttoo	Mauritius	1:09:33
114	Brent Halley	New Zealand	1:09:37
115	Roland Wille	Liechtenstein	1:09:46
116	Kavin Smith	Bermuda	1:10:08
117	Thomas Payne	Ireland	1:10:20
118	Lee Kar Lun	Hong Kong	1:11:23
119	Isvans Normunds	Latvia	1:11:28
120	Ismael Hassan	Djibouti	1:11:53
121	Samantha Neil	Sri Lanka	1:11:57
122	G. Susiripala	Sri Lanka	1:12:17
123	Andrey Vasilyev	Turkmenistan	1:14:05
124	Fung Wang Tak	Hong Kong	1:15:23
125	Chan Hon Hung	Hong Kong	1:15:41
126	Tracy Wright	Bermuda	1:16:26
127	Ho Wing Fai	Hong Kong	1:17:28
128	Makudi Mubenga	Zaire	1:19:36
129	Andrey Pilipenko	Turkmenistan	1:20:01
—	Kamal Kohil	Algeria	DNF
—	Mark Carreras	Gibraltar	DNF
—	Johannas Mabitle	South Africa	DNF
—	Marly Sopyev	Turkmenistan	DNF

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	1:10:07
	Mari Tanigawa	Japan	1:10:09
	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	1:10:12
4	Miyoko Takahashi	Japan	1:10:15
5	Elena Murgoci	Romania	1:10:17
6	Anuța Cătună	Romania	1:10:39
7	Iulia Negura	Romania	1:11:22
8	Albertina Machado	Portugal	1:11:39
9	Adriana Barbu	Romania	1:11:52
10	Akari Takemoto	Japan	1:11:58
11	María Luisa Muñoz	Spain	1:12:04
12	Suzanne Rigg	Great Britain	1:12:07
13	Natalya Galushko	Belarus	1:12:08
14	Annick Clouvel	France	1:12:12
15	Rosa Oliveira	Portugal	1:12:26
16	Julia Sakara	Zimbabwe	1:12:28
17	Jane Salumäe	Estonia	1:12:30
18	Martha Ernstdóttir	Iceland	1:12:33
19	Marian Sutton	Great Britain	1:12:37
20	Monica OʼReilly	Ireland	1:12:50
21	Mónica Pont	Spain	1:12:53
22	Nicole Whiteford	South Africa	1:12:55
23	Firiya Sultanova	Russia	1:12:57
24	Klara Kashapova	Russia	1:13:13
25	Sara Romé	Sweden	1:13:30
26	Tomoe Abe	Japan	1:13:31
27	Stefanija Statkuvienė	Lithuania	1:13:34
28	Debbi Morris	United States	1:13:40
29	Dörte Köster	Germany	1:13:41
30	Kerstin Herzberg	Germany	1:13:42
31	Fatima Neves	Portugal	1:13:45
32	Fantaye Sirak	Ethiopia	1:13:47
33	Tatyana Pentukova	Russia	1:14:02
34	Linda Milo	Belgium	1:14:03
35	Jennifer Martin	United States	1:14:06
36	Rocío Ríos	Spain	1:14:07
37	Sue Dilnot	Great Britain	1:14:10
38	Kerryn McCann	Australia	1:14:11
39	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway	1:14:20
40	Susan Hobson	Australia	1:14:24
41	Irina Gras	France	1:14:30
42	Rosario Murcia	France	1:14:36
43	Marjan Freriks	Netherlands	1:14:38
44	Tatyana Pozdnyakova	Ukraine	1:14:40
45	Teresa Dyer	Great Britain	1:14:44
46	Myriam Dumont	Belgium	1:14:52
47	Tatyana Belovol	Ukraine	1:14:59
48	Grace de Oliveira	South Africa	1:15:01
49	Monique Ecker	United States	1:15:08
50	Lyudmila Pushkina	Ukraine	1:15:11
51	Anja De Brabant	Belgium	1:15:23
52	Helle Vullings	Netherlands	1:15:29
53	Solange de Souza	Brazil	1:15:34
54	Cathy Schum	Ireland	1:15:36
55	Isabelle Guillot	France	1:15:37
56	Andrea Fleischer	Germany	1:15:50
57	Françoise Bonnet	France	1:15:58
58	Kelly Lopes dos Santos/de Oliveira	Brazil	1:16:25
59	Bronwen Cardy-Wise	Great Britain	1:16:33
60	Torhild Dybwad	Norway	1:16:36
61	Rose Lambe	Ireland	1:16:48
62	Radka Pátková	Czech Republic	1:16:53
63	Yelena Makolova	Belarus	1:17:05
64	Siska Maton	Belgium	1:17:06
65	Jennifer Bam	South Africa	1:17:47
66	Wilma van Onna	Netherlands	1:17:51
67	Eryn Forbes	United States	1:18:03
68	Asha Gigi	Ethiopia	1:19:19
69	Nadir de Siqueira	Brazil	1:19:23
70	Patricia Griffin	Ireland	1:19:28
71	Galina Karnatsevich/Baruk	Belarus	1:19:46
72	Ingrid Van Giel	Belgium	1:20:47
73	Andrea Devine	New Zealand	1:20:52
74	Mary Sweeney	Ireland	1:21:11
75	Asselefech Assefa	Ethiopia	1:21:27
76	Anna Eatherley	Bermuda	1:23:31
77	Maisa Tcharyeva	Turkmenistan	1:23:39
78	Ilona Lubane	Latvia	1:27:55
79	Kristine Graudina	Latvia	1:28:31
80	Maria Wille	Liechtenstein	1:29:43
—	Gabriela Wolf	Germany	DNF
—	Irena Zumromska	Latvia	DNF
—	Debbie Sheddan	New Zealand	DNF
—	Manuela Dias	Portugal	DNF
—	Nadezhda Tatarenkova	Russia	DNF
—	Jennifer Brower	United States	DNF

Junior Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Meck Mothuli	South Africa	1:02:11
	Beruke Bekele	Ethiopia	1:03:32
	Isaac Radebe	South Africa	1:03:35
4	Frank Pooe	South Africa	1:04:00
5	Tegenu Abebe	Ethiopia	1:04:19
6	Aleksey Sobolev	Russia	1:05:12
7	Giovanni Ruggiero	Italy	1:05:21
8	Rosario Daidoni	Italy	1:05:35
9	Yifru Fekada Yifru	Ethiopia	1:05:43
10	Valeriy Kuzman	Russia	1:06:12
11	Ottaviano Andriani	Italy	1:06:16
12	Adam Selebalo	South Africa	1:06:46
13	Anton Nikolesko	Russia	1:07:02
14	Antonio Andriani	Italy	1:07:08
15	Johnny Loría	Costa Rica	1:07:14
16	Pavel Kokin	Russia	1:07:38
17	Alessandro Fasulo	Italy	1:07:52
18	José María Prieto	Spain	1:08:51
19	Aleksey Pletnev	Russia	1:09:09
20	Péter Imre	Hungary	1:09:11
21	Vivian Mkhize	South Africa	1:09:12
22	Torsten Matthes	Germany	1:10:01
23	Richard Muscat	Gibraltar	1:10:18
24	Martins Alksnis	Latvia	1:10:36
25	Zsolt Füleki	Hungary	1:10:54
26	Patrick Heinlein	Germany	1:11:14
27	Arturs Curkans	Latvia	1:11:32
28	Andras Eso	Hungary	1:11:44
29	Nikolaus Rama	Germany	1:11:57
30	Zsolt Bacskai	Hungary	1:13:44
31	Kemal Tuvakuliyev	Turkmenistan	1:15:07
32	Tofik Inger	Turkmenistan	1:17:30
33	Abdylesis Nurliev	Turkmenistan	1:19:03
—	Guido Streit	Germany	DNF
—	Ivars Lapiņš	Latvia	DNF

Team Results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Lameck Aguta Thomas Osano Joseph Cheromei	3:05:40
	Australia	Steve Moneghetti John Andrews Pat Carroll	3:05:43
	Great Britain	Carl Thackery Mark Flint Dave Lewis	3:06:10
4	Japan	Kozu Akutsu Haruo Urata Akira Nakamura	3:06:40
5	South Africa	Adam Motlagale Ezael Thlobo Meshack Mogotsi	3:07:15
6	Belgium	Vincent Rousseau Ronny Ligneel Eddy Hellebuyck	3:07:33
7	Ethiopia	Kidane Gebrmichael Leykun Gebremedhin Fransua Woldemarian	3:07:38
8	Portugal	Henrique Crisostomo Alberto Maravilha António Resende	3:07:46
9	Italy	Graziano Calvaresi Davide Milesi Luigi Di Lello	3:07:50
10	Brazil	Valdenor dos Santos Luíz dos Santos Tomix da Costa	3:08:01
11	Germany	Rainer Wachenbrunner Bernd Bürger Klaus-Peter Nabein	3:08:18
12	France	Mohamed Ezzher Luís Soares Bertrand Frechard	3:10:24
13	United States	Paul Aufdemberge Steve Sisson Daniel Held	3:10:46
14	Spain	Antonio Peña José Ramon Moreno Alberto Juzdado	3:10:56
15	Russia	Yuriy Chizhov Sergey Struganov Nikolay Kerimov	3:11:33
16	Norway	Frank Bjørkli Terje Näss Roger Bjørkli	3:12:22
17	Ukraine	Viktor Vykhrystenko Valentin Martyniouk Vladimir Bukhanov	3:12:24
18	Finland	Santtu Mäkinen Jukka Vähä-Vahe Jari Hirvonen	3:13:48
19	Djibouti	Hoche Yaya Aden Omar Daher Ghadid Mohamed Abdi Said	3:14:05
20	Netherlands	Gerard Kappert Marco Gielen Aart Stigter	3:15:29
21	Belarus	Boris Batuyev Vladimir Tonchinskiy Mikhail Vorontsov	3:17:47
22	Ireland	John Griffin Tom Maher Roy Dooney	3:18:44
23	New Zealand	Peter Handcock David Rush Brent Halley	3:24:14
24	Latvia	Aleksandrs Prokopčuks Ģirts Fogels Isvans Normunds	3:28:05
25	Sri Lanka	Kuruppe Karunaratne Samantha Neil G. Susiripala	3:30:17
26	Hong Kong	Lee Kar Lun Fung Wang Tak Chan Hon Hung	3:42:27
—	Algeria	Azzedine Sakhri Khelil Benhalima Kamal Kohil	DNF
—	Turkmenistan	Andrey Vasilyev Andrey Pilipenko Marly Sopyev	DNF

Women's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Romania	Elena Murgoci Anuța Cătună Iulia Negura	3:32:18
	Japan	Mari Tanigawa Miyoko Takahashi Akari Takemoto	3:32:22
	Portugal	Conceição Ferreira Albertina Machado Rosa Oliveira	3:34:12
4	Great Britain	Suzanne Rigg Marian Sutton Sue Dilnot	3:38:54
5	Spain	María Luisa Muñoz Mónica Pont Rocío Ríos	3:39:04
6	Russia	Firiya Sultanova Klara Kashapova Tatyana Pentukova	3:40:12
7	France	Annick Clouvel Irina Gras Rosario Murcia	3:41:18
8	United States	Debbi Morris Jennifer Martin Monique Ecker	3:42:54
9	Germany	Dörte Köster Kerstin Herzberg Andrea Fleischer	3:43:13
10	Belgium	Linda Milo Myriam Dumont Anja De Brabant	3:44:18
11	Ukraine	Tatyana Pozdnyakova Tatyana Belovol Lyudmila Pushkina	3:44:50
12	Ireland	Monica OʼReilly Cathy Schum Rose Lambe	3:45:14
13	South Africa	Nicole Whiteford Grace de Oliveira Jennifer Bam	3:45:43
14	Netherlands	Marjan Freriks Helle Vullings Wilma van Onna	3:47:58
15	Belarus	Natalya Galushko Natalya Galushko Yelena Makolova	3:41:21
16	Brazil	Solange de Souza Kelly Lopes dos Santos/de Oliveira Nadir de Siqueira	3:51:22
17	Ethiopia	Fantaye Sirak Asha Gigi Asselefech Assefa	3:54:33
—	Latvia	Ilona Lubane Kristine Graudina Irena Zumromska	DNF

Junior Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	South Africa	Meck Mothuli Isaac Radebe Frank Pooe	3:09:46
	Ethiopia	Beruke Bekele Tegenu Abebe Yifru Fekada Yifru	3:13:34
	Italy	Giovanni Ruggiero Rosario Daidoni Ottaviano Andriani	3:17:12
4	Russia	Aleksey Sobolev Valeriy Kuzman Anton Nikolesko	3:18:26
5	Hungary	Péter Imre Zsolt Füleki Andras Eso	3:31:49
6	Germany	Torsten Matthes Patrick Heinlein Nikolaus Rama	3:33:12
7	Turkmenistan	Kemal Tuvakuliyev Tofik Inger Abdylesis Nurliev	3:51:40
—	Latvia	Martins Alksnis Arturs Curkans Ivars Lapiņš	DNF

Participation

The participation of 254 athletes (168 men/86 women) from 49 countries is reported.^[1]

•  Algeria (3)
•  Argentina (2)
•  Australia (6)
•  Belarus (6)
•  Belgium (10)
•  Bermuda (3)
•  Brazil (7)
•  Burundi (1)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Djibouti (4)
•  Estonia (1)
•  Ethiopia (11)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (10)
•  Germany (13)
•  Gibraltar (2)
•  Hong Kong (4)
•  Hungary (4)
•  Iceland (1)
•  Ireland (9)
•  Israel (2)
•  Italy (10)
•  Japan (8)
•  Kenya (5)
•  Latvia (9)
•  Liechtenstein (2)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  Netherlands (7)
•  New Zealand (5)
•  Norway (7)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (10)
•  Romania (5)
•  Russia (14)
•  South Africa (13)
•  Spain (8)
•  Sri Lanka (3)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Switzerland (2)
• / Tahiti (1)
•  Turkmenistan (7)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United Kingdom (10)
•  United States (10)
•  Zaire (1)
•  Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• 1993 in athletics (track and field)