2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships

2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships
Host city	Gdynia, Poland
Events	2
Dates	17 October 2020
Race length	21.0975 km; (13.1 mi)
	← 2018 Valencia cancelled 2022 Yangzhou; ; 2023 Riga →

The 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships, originally scheduled for 29 March 2020 in Gdynia, Poland, was postponed until 17 October 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.^[1]

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On 31 August 2020, the mass participation race was cancelled, while the elite championships remained scheduled.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Jacob Kiplimo (UGA)	58:49	Kibiwott Kandie (KEN)	58:54	Amedework Walelegn (ETH)	59:08
Women	Peres Jepchirchir (KEN)	1:05:16	Melat Yisak Kejeta (GER)	1:05:18	Yalemzerf Yehualaw (ETH)	1:05:19
Team
Men	Kenya	2:58:10	Ethiopia	2:58:25	Uganda	2:58:39
Women	Ethiopia	3:16:39	Kenya	3:18:10	Germany	3:28:42

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jacob Kiplimo	Uganda	58:49	CR
	Kibiwott Kandie	Kenya	58:54
	Amedework Walelegn	Ethiopia	59:08	PB
4	Joshua Cheptegei	Uganda	59:21	PB
5	Andamlak Belihu	Ethiopia	59:32	SB
6	Leonard Barsoton	Kenya	59:34	SB
7	Stephen Mokoka	South Africa	59:36	NR
8	Morhad Amdouni	France	59:40	NR
9	Benard Kimeli	Kenya	59:42	SB
10	Leul Gebresilase	Ethiopia	59:45	SB
11	Hailemaryam Kiros	Ethiopia	1:00:01	PB
12	Hamza Sahli	Morocco	1:00:04	PB
13	Mohamed Reda El Aaraby	Morocco	1:00:17	PB
14	Lesiba Precious Mashele	South Africa	1:00:24	PB
15	Mouhcine Outalha	Morocco	1:00:26	PB
16	Victor Kiplangat	Uganda	1:00:29	SB
17	Othmane El Goumri	Morocco	1:00:30	PB
18	Jake Smith	Great Britain	1:00:31	PB
19	Stephen Kissa	Uganda	1:00:34
20	Bohdan-Ivan Horodyskyy	Ukraine	1:00:40	NR
21	Julien Wanders	Switzerland	1:00:46	SB
22	Guye Idemo Adola	Ethiopia	1:00:50	SB
23	Collen Mulaudzi	South Africa	1:00:51	PB
24	Aras Kaya	Turkey	1:00:51	PB
25	Tadesse Getahon	Israel	1:00:52	NR
26	Eyob Faniel	Italy	1:00:53	PB
27	Florian Carvalho	France	1:00:58	PB
28	Marhu Teferi	Israel	1:00:58	SB
29	José Luis Santana	Mexico	1:01:11	PB
30	Juan Pacheco	Mexico	1:01:20	PB
31	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	1:01:21	PB
32	Benjamin Choquert	France	1:01:32	PB
33	Carlos Díaz	Chile	1:01:32	NR
34	Krystian Zalewski	Poland	1:01:32	NR
35	Simon Boch	Germany	1:01:36	PB
36	Juan Antonio Pérez	Spain	1:01:39	SB
37	David Nilsson	Sweden	1:01:40	PB
38	Hassan Toriss	Morocco	1:01:42	PB
39	Girmaw Amare	Israel	1:02:03	PB
40	Samuel Barata	Portugal	1:02:19	PB
41	Tiidrek Nurme	Estonia	1:02:20	NR
42	Benard Kipkorir Ngeno	Kenya	1:02:26
43	Pietro Riva	Italy	1:02:28	SB
44	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	1:02:28	PB
45	Nicolas Navarro	France	1:02:29	PB
46	Adel Mechaal	Spain	1:02:30	PB
47	Morris Munene Gachaga	Kenya	1:02:30	SB
48	Iván Darío González	Colombia	1:02:31	PB
49	Daniele D'Onofrio	Italy	1:02:32	PB
50	Mohamud Ibrahim Aadan	Great Britain	1:02:41	SB
51	Tadesse Abraham	Switzerland	1:02:46	SB
52	Hlynur Andrésson	Iceland	1:02:47	NR
53	Mikael Ekvall	Sweden	1:02:48	SB
54	Kaan Kigen Özbilen	Turkey	1:02:53	SB
55	Emil Millán de la Oliva	Sweden	1:02:53	PB
56	Segundo Jami	Ecuador	1:02:57	PB
57	Abderrazak Charik	France	1:02:58
58	Kevin Seaward	Ireland	1:02:58	PB
59	Roman Fosti	Estonia	1:03:03	PB
60	Kristian Jones	Great Britain	1:03:05	PB
61	Polat Kemboi Arikan	Turkey	1:03:10	SB
62	Adam Craig	Great Britain	1:03:12	PB
63	Nicolae Soare	Romania	1:03:14	PB
64	Tom Evans	Great Britain	1:03:14	PB
65	Sezgin Ataç	Turkey	1:03:21
66	Roman Romanenko	Ukraine	1:03:26	SB
67	Otmane Nait Hammou	Athlete Refugee Team	1:03:28	NR
68	Maxim Răileanu	Moldova	1:03:34	PB
69	Saffet Elkatmiş	Turkey	1:03:34	PB
70	Hugh Armstrong	Ireland	1:03:37	PB
71	Oleksandr Sitkovskyy	Ukraine	1:03:41	PB
72	Jean Marie Vianney Niyomukiza	Burundi	1:03:43	PB
73	Koen Naert	Belgium	1:03:44	SB
74	Simon Holbek Kønigsfeldt	Denmark	1:03:48	PB
75	Gilmar Lopes	Brazil	1:03:51	SB
76	Moses Kibet	Uganda	1:03:54	SB
77	Joaquín Arbe	Argentina	1:03:55	SB
78	Luís Saraiva	Portugal	1:03:56	PB
79	Álvaro Abreu	Dominican Republic	1:03:58	NR
80	Timon Theuer	Austria	1:03:59
81	Nicolás Cuestas	Uruguay	1:04:00	SB
82	Remigijus Kančys	Lithuania	1:04:00	NR
83	Adhanom Abraha	Sweden	1:04:02	SB
84	Iraitz Arrospide	Spain	1:04:07
85	Iván Zarco	Honduras	1:04:08	NR
86	Ignas Brasevičius	Lithuania	1:04:09	PB
87	Thijs Nijhuis	Denmark	1:04:10	SB
88	Christian Steinhammer	Austria	1:04:11
89	Luis Orta	Venezuela	1:04:11
90	Ederson Pereira	Brazil	1:04:19	SB
91	Yitayew Abuhay	Israel	1:04:21	PB
92	Igor Olefirenko	Ukraine	1:04:22	SB
93	Daniel do Nascimento	Brazil	1:04:27	PB
94	Andreas Lommer	Denmark	1:04:28
95	Adam Nowicki	Poland	1:04:31	SB
96	Jesús Arturo Esparza	Mexico	1:04:35	PB
97	Konstantin Wedel	Germany	1:04:45
98	Christian Vásconez	Ecuador	1:04:49	PB
99	Marvin Blanco	Venezuela	1:05:06	PB
100	Amanal Petros	Germany	1:05:22
101	Damian Kabat	Poland	1:05:26	PB
102	Valdas Dopolskas	Lithuania	1:05:28	PB
103	Jorge Blanco	Spain	1:05:31
104	Tobias Blum	Germany	1:05:33
105	Jeison Suárez	Colombia	1:05:42	SB
106	Adam Głogowski	Poland	1:05:50
107	Nuno Lopes	Portugal	1:06:30
108	Fouad Idbafdil	Athlete Refugee Team	1:06:35	PB
109	Bayron Piedra	Ecuador	1:06:45	SB
110	Wan Chun Wong	Hong Kong	1:06:58	PB
111	Rafael Loza	Ecuador	1:08:30
112	Oscar Antonio Aldana	El Salvador	1:08:31	NR
113	Valentin Betoudji	Chad	1:08:46	PB
114	Charlton Debono	Malta	1:08:51	SB
115	Stefan Azzopardi	Malta	1:09:18	PB
116	Sonny Folcheri	Monaco	1:16:01	PB
117	Ilir Këllezi	Albania	1:17:27	SB
	Arnar Pétursson	Iceland	DNF
	Nekagenet Crippa	Italy	DNF
	Rui Pinto	Portugal	DNF
	Napoleon Solomon	Sweden	DNF
	Ayala Gashau	Israel	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Peres Jepchirchir	Kenya	1:05:16	WR_wo
	Melat Yisak Kejeta	Germany	1:05:18	AR_wo
	Yalemzerf Yehualaw	Ethiopia	1:05:19	PB
4	Zeineba Yimer	Ethiopia	1:05:39	PB
5	Ababel Yeshaneh	Ethiopia	1:05:41
6	Joyciline Jepkosgei	Kenya	1:05:58	SB
7	Yasemin Can	Turkey	1:06:20	NR
8	Netsanet Gudeta	Ethiopia	1:06:46	SB
9	Brillian Jepkorir Kipkoech	Kenya	1:06:56	PB
10	Rosemary Wanjiru	Kenya	1:07:10
11	Dorcas Jepchumba Kimeli	Kenya	1:07:55
12	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter	Israel	1:08:31	SB
13	Fabienne Schlumpf	Switzerland	1:08:38	NR
14	Juliet Chekwel	Uganda	1:08:44	NR
15	Sisay Meseret Gola	Ethiopia	1:09:02	PB
16	Glenrose Xaba	South Africa	1:09:26	PB
17	Doreen Chemutai	Uganda	1:10:18	PB
18	Charlotta Fougberg	Sweden	1:10:19	PB
19	Úrsula Sánchez	Mexico	1:10:19	PB
20	Andrea Ramírez	Mexico	1:10:20	PB
21	Daniela Torres	Mexico	1:10:22	PB
22	Florencia Borelli	Argentina	1:10:30	NR
23	Yevheniya Prokofyeva	Ukraine	1:10:32	PB
24	Brenda Flores	Mexico	1:10:36	PB
25	Sofiia Yaremchuk	Ukraine	1:10:42
26	Laura Hottenrott	Germany	1:10:49	PB
27	Fortunate Chidzivo	Zimbabwe	1:10:50	NR
28	Izabela Paszkiewicz	Poland	1:10:52	PB
29	Katarzyna Jankowska	Poland	1:11:02	PB
30	Doreen Chesang	Uganda	1:11:04	PB
31	Susan Kipsang Jeptooo	France	1:11:06	SB
32	Angelika Mach	Poland	1:11:07	PB
33	Marta Galimany	Spain	1:11:08	PB
34	Moira Stewartová	Czech Republic	1:11:08	PB
35	Bojana Bjeljac	Croatia	1:11:12	PB
36	Giovanna Epis	Italy	1:11:14	PB
37	Carolina Wikström	Sweden	1:11:31	PB
38	Nina Lauwaert	Belgium	1:11:33	PB
39	Sara Moreira	Portugal	1:11:39	SB
40	Valeria Straneo	Italy	1:11:39
41	Samira Mezeghrane	France	1:11:40	PB
42	Ann Marie McGlynn	Ireland	1:11:40	PB
43	Hanna Lindholm	Sweden	1:11:47	PB
44	Andrea Bonilla	Ecuador	1:11:48	PB
45	Daiana Ocampo	Argentina	1:11:50	PB
46	Francine Niyomukunzi	Burundi	1:11:50	PB
47	Samantha Harrison	Great Britain	1:11:53
48	Angie Orjuela	Colombia	1:12:07	PB
49	Kit Ching Yiu	Hong Kong	1:12:10
50	Tereza Hrochová	Czech Republic	1:12:13	PB
51	Aleksandra Lisowska	Poland	1:12:16	PB
52	Esma Aydemir	Turkey	1:12:22	SB
53	Maor Tiyouri	Israel	1:12:27	PB
54	Rabea Schöneborn	Germany	1:12:35
55	Deborah Schöneborn	Germany	1:12:39
56	Elena Loyo	Spain	1:12:44
57	Rachael Zena Chebet	Uganda	1:12:50
58	Melody Julien	France	1:12:51	PB
59	Fatma Demir	Turkey	1:12:57	PB
60	Olga Skrypak	Ukraine	1:12:58	SB
61	Laura Mendez	Spain	1:12:58	PB
62	Maria Chiara Cascavilla	Italy	1:13:01	PB
63	Jekaterina Patjuk	Estonia	1:13:08	PB
64	Becky Briggs	Great Britain	1:13:08	PB
65	Clara Evans	Great Britain	1:13:11
66	Vendula Frintová	Czech Republic	1:13:16	PB
67	Lilia Fisikovici	Moldova	1:13:32	SB
68	Federica Sugamiele	Italy	1:13:38
69	Roxana Elisabeta Rotaru	Romania	1:13:45	PB
70	Monika Bytautienė	Lithuania	1:13:50	PB
71	Liliana Maria Dragomir	Romania	1:14:02	PB
72	Marcela Cristina Gomes	Argentina	1:14:18	PB
73	Marcela Joglová	Czech Republic	1:14:30
74	Beverly Ramos	Puerto Rico	1:14:39	SB
75	Thalia Charalambous	Cyprus	1:14:40	NR
76	Andreia Hessel	Brazil	1:14:41	PB
77	Karen Ehrenreich	Denmark	1:14:45	PB
78	Katerine Tisalema	Ecuador	1:14:59
79	Loreta Kančytė	Lithuania	1:15:15	PB
80	Elisa Stefani	Italy	1:15:16
81	Rosa Chacha	Ecuador	1:15:27	SB
82	Jéssica Augusto	Portugal	1:15:29	SB
83	Elena Adelina Panaet	Romania	1:15:33	PB
84	Fanny Pruvost	France	1:15:34
85	Tetyana Vernihor	Ukraine	1:16:22	SB
86	Victoria Schenk	Austria	1:16:36	SB
87	Fabienne Königstein	Germany	1:17:03
88	Tatyana Neroznak	Kazakhstan	1:17:07	PB
89	Andrea Kolbeinsdóttir	Iceland	1:17:52	PB
90	Tania Chavez Moser	Bolivia	1:17:53	PB
91	Lina Kiriliuk	Lithuania	1:18:31	PB
92	Stella Christoforou	Cyprus	1:18:42	PB
93	Lisa Marie Bezzina	Malta	1:18:43	PB
94	Valdilene Silva	Brazil	1:18:58	SB
95	Adela Paulina Baltoi	Romania	1:19:02	SB
96	Tsz Ying Vut	Hong Kong	1:19:08	PB
97	Joelle Cortis	Malta	1:19:28	PB
98	Idelma Delgado	El Salvador	1:21:01	PB
99	Andrijana Pop Arsova	North Macedonia	1:22:18
100	Lorena Sosa	Uruguay	1:22:38	SB
101	Elín Edda Sigurðardóttir	Iceland	1:24:20
	Annemari Kiekara	Finland	DNF
	Adriana Nelson	Romania	DNF
	Hiruni Kesara Wijayaratne	Sri Lanka	DNF
	Sarah Lahti	Sweden	DNS

Rank	Country	Time
	Kenya	2:58:10
	Ethiopia	2:58:25
	Uganda	2:58:39
4	Morocco	3:00:47
5	South Africa	3:00:51
6	France	3:02:10
7	Israel	3:03:53
8	Spain	3:05:30
9	Italy	3:05:49
10	Great Britain	3:06:17
11	Turkey	3:06:54
12	Mexico	3:07:06
13	Sweden	3:07:21
14	Ukraine	3:07:47
15	Poland	3:11:29
16	Germany	3:11:43
17	Denmark	3:12:26
18	Brazil	3:12:37
19	Portugal	3:12:45
20	Lithuania	3:13:37
21	Ecuador	3:14:31

Rank	Country	Time
	Ethiopia	3:16:39
	Kenya	3:18:10
	Germany	3:28:42
4	Uganda	3:30:06
5	Mexico	3:31:01
6	Turkey	3:31:39
7	Poland	3:33:01
8	Sweden	3:33:37
9	Ukraine	3:34:12
10	France	3:35:37
11	Italy	3:35:54
12	Czech Republic	3:36:37
13	Argentina	3:36:38
14	Spain	3:36:50
15	Great Britain	3:38:12
16	Ecuador	3:42:14
17	Romania	3:43:20
18	Lithuania	3:47:36

2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships

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