IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was an annual Half marathon competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations and contested from 1992 to 2005. It was replaced by IAAF World Road Running Championships, with first event to be held in 2006. In athletics, a half marathon is a race over half the distance of a marathon, i. ... The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics (known in the US as track and field). It was founded in 1912 at its first Congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation. ...

Events

• 1992 Newcastle upon Tyne–South Shields, United Kingdom
• 1993 Brussels, Belgium
• 1994 Oslo, Norway
• 1995 Montbéliard–Belfort, France
• 1996 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
• 1997 Košice, Slovakia
• 1998 Zürich, Switzerland
• 1999 Palermo, Italy
• 2000 Veracruz, Mexico
• 2001 Bristol, United Kingdom
• 2002 Brussels, Belgium
• 2003 Vilamoura, Portugal
• 2004 New Delhi, India
• 2005 Edmonton, Canada

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Winners

Men

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1992	Benson Masya	1:00:24	Antonio Silio	1:00:40	Boay Akonay	1:00:45
1993	Vincent Rousseau	1:01:06	Steve Moneghetti	1:01:10	Carl Thackery	1:01:13
1994	Khalid Skah	1:00:27	Germán Silva	1:00:28	Ronaldo da Costa	1:00:54
1995	Moses Tanui	1:01:45	Paul Yego	1:01:46	Charles Tangus	1:01:50
1996	Stefano Baldini	1:01:17	Josephat Kiprono	1:01:30	Tendai Chimusasa	1:02:00
1997	Shem Kororia	59:56	Moses Tanui	59:58	Kenneth Cheruiyot	1:00:00
1998	Paul Koech	1:00:01	Hendrick Ramaala	1:00:24	Khalid Skah	1:00:24
1999	Paul Tergat	1:01:50	Hendrick Ramaala	1:01:50	Tesfaye Jifar	1:01:51
2000	Paul Tergat	1:03:47	Faustin Baha	1:03:48	Tesfaye Jifar	1:03:50
2001	Haile Gebrselassie	1:00:03	Tesfaye Jifar	1:00:04	John Yuda	1:00:12
2002	Paul Kosgei	1:00:39	Jaouad Gharib	1:00:42	John Yuda	1:00:57
2003	Martin Lel	1:00:49	Fabiano Joseph	1:00:52	Martin Sulle	1:00:56
2004	Paul Kirui	1:02:15	Fabiano Joseph	1:02:31	Abdullah Ahmad Hassan	1:02:36
2005	Fabiano Joseph	1:01:08	Mubarak Hassan Shami	1:01:09	Yonas Kifle	1:01:13

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Team competition

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1992	Kenya	3:02:25	United Kingdom	3:04:54	Brazil	3:05:56
1993	Kenya	3:05:40	Australia	3:05:43	United Kingdom	3:06:10
1994	Kenya	3:03:36	Mexico	3:03:47	Morocco	3:05:58
1995	Kenya	3:05:21	Spain	3:07:51	Italy	3:08:31
1996	Italy	3:07:42	Spain	3:08:36	Japan	3:08:43
1997	Kenya	2:59:54	South Africa	3:03:34	Ethiopia	3:03:46
1998	South Africa	3:02:21	Kenya	3:03:07	Ethiopia	3:05:18
1999	South Africa	3:06:01	Ethiopia	3:06:03	Kenya	3:06:03
2000	Kenya	3:11:38	Ethiopia	3:14:45	Belgium	3:18:35
2001	Ethiopia	3:00:31	Kenya	3:02:53	Tanzania	3:05:08
2002	Kenya	3:00:31	Japan	3:02:53	Ethiopia	3:05:08
2003	Tanzania	3:03:01	Kenya	3:03:09	Ethiopia	3:07:34
2004	Kenya	3:07:55	Ethiopia	3:08:37	Uganda	3:13:48
2005	Ethiopia	3:06:18	Eritrea	3:07:05	Japan	3:08:30

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Women

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1992	Liz McColgan	1:08:53	Megumi Fujiwara	1:09:21	Rosanna Munerotto	1:09:38
1993	Conceição Ferreira	1:10:07	Mari Tanigawa	1:10:09	Tegla Loroupe	1:10:12
1994	Elana Meyer	1:08:36	Iulia Negura	1:09:15	Anuta Catuna	1:09:35
1995	Valentina Jegorova	1:09:58	Cristina Pomacu	1:10:22	Anuta Catuna	1:10:28
1996	Ren Xiujuan	1:10:39	Lidia Simon	1:10:57	Aura Buia	1:11:01
1997	Tegla Loroupe	1:08:14	Cristina Pomacu	1:08:43	Lidia Simon	1:09:05
1998	Tegla Loroupe	1:08:29	Elana Meyer	1:08:32	Lidia Simon	1:08:58
1999	Tegla Loroupe	1:08:48	Mizuki Noguchi	1:09:12	Catherine Ndereba	1:09:23
2000	Paula Radcliffe	1:09:07	Susan Chepkemei	1:09:40	Lidia Simon-Slavuteanu	1:10:24
2001	Paula Radcliffe	1:06:47	Susan Chepkemei	1:07:36	Berhane Adere	1:08:17
2002	Berhane Adere	1:09:06	Susan Chepkemei	1:09:13	Jelena Prokopcuka	1:09:15
2003	Paula Radcliffe	1:07:35	Berhane Adere	1:09:02	Benita Johnson	1:09:26
2004	Sun Yingjie	1:08:40	Lydia Cheromei	1:09:00	Constantina Tomescu	1:09:07
2005	Constantina Tomescu	1:09:17	Lornah Kiplagat	1:10:19	Susan Chepkemei	1:10:20

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Team competition

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1992	Japan	3:30:39	United Kingdom	3:33:05	Romania	3:33:27
1993	Romania	3:32:18	Japan	3:32:22	Portugal	3:34:12
1994	Romania	3:29:03	Norway	3:33:36	Japan	3:35:39
1995	Romania	3:31:29	Russia	3:33:12	Spain	3:34:26
1996	Romania	3:33:05	France	3:38:44	Italy	3:41:28
1997	Romania	3:27:40	Kenya	3:27:57	Japan	3:31:38
1998	Kenya	3:29:43	Romania	3:32:19	Spain	3:34:18
1999	Kenya	3:27:40	Japan	3:30:06	Russia	3:31:49
2000	Romania	3:34:22	Japan	3:36:25	Russia	3:45:41
2001	Kenya	3:28:04	Japan	3:30:08	Ethiopia	3:30:20
2002	Kenya	3:28:22	Russia	3:30:05	Ethiopia	3:30:58
2003	Russia	3:30:16	Japan	3:34:23	Ethiopia	3:35:07
2004	Ethiopia	3:36:00	Romania	3:36:08	Russia	3:38:21
2005	Romania	3:31:00	Russia	3:33:05	Japan	3:35:42

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External links

• http://www.gbrathletics.co.uk/ic/road.htm
• http://www.iaaf.org/WRU06/preview.html