2000 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	9th
Date	November 12
Host city	Veracruz City, Mexico
Events	2
Participation	182 athletes from 52 nations
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The 9th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on November 12, 2000, in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. A total of 182 athletes, 121 men and 61 women, from 52 countries took part. Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results was given.^[1][2][3][4]

Complete results were published.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Paul Tergat (KEN)	1:03:47	Faustin Baha (TAN)	1:03:48	Tesfaye Jifar (ETH)	1:03:50
Women	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	1:09:07	Susan Chepkemei (KEN)	1:09:40	Lidia Șimon (ROU)	1:10:24
Team
Team Men	Kenya	3:11:38	Ethiopia	3:14:45	Belgium	3:18:35
Team Women	Romania	3:34:22	Japan	3:36:25	Russia	3:45:41

Race Results

Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paul Tergat	Kenya	1:03:47
	Faustin Baha	Tanzania	1:03:48
	Tesfaye Jifar	Ethiopia	1:03:50
4	Joseph Kimani	Kenya	1:03:52
5	David Ruto	Kenya	1:03:59
6	John Gwako	Kenya	1:04:16
7	Zebedayo Bayo	Tanzania	1:04:25
8	Óscar Fernández	Spain	1:04:25
9	Marco Mazza	Italy	1:04:26
10	Noureddine Betim	Algeria	1:04:40
11	Toshiyuki Hayata	Japan	1:04:55
12	Ibrahim Seid	Ethiopia	1:05:19
13	Faustino Reynoso	Mexico	1:05:34
14	Gemechu Kebede	Ethiopia	1:05:36
15	Koen Allaert	Belgium	1:05:41
16	Mohamed Awol	Ethiopia	1:05:51
17	Clint Verran	United States	1:05:56
18	Satoshi Irifune	Japan	1:06:08
19	George Mofokeng	South Africa	1:06:12
20	Bethuel Netshifhefhe	South Africa	1:06:18
21	Guy Fays	Belgium	1:06:21
22	Jussi Utriainen	Finland	1:06:25
23	Diego Colorado	Colombia	1:06:27
24	Christian Nemeth	Belgium	1:06:33
25	João Lopes	Portugal	1:06:33
26	José de Souza	Brazil	1:06:37
27	El-Arbi Khattabi	Morocco	1:06:43
28	Ronny Ligneel	Belgium	1:06:49
29	Mohamed Serbouti	France	1:07:01
30	Antonio Peña	Spain	1:07:11
31	Fidencio Torres	Mexico	1:07:15
32	Migidio Bourifa	Italy	1:07:17
33	Mostafa Errebbah	Morocco	1:07:19
34	Rachid Aït Bensalem	Morocco	1:07:23
35	Janne Holmén	Finland	1:07:32
36	Daniele Caimmi	Italy	1:07:38
37	Andrew Letherby	Australia	1:07:38
38	Jun Shida	Japan	1:07:41
39	Herder Vázquez	Colombia	1:07:55
40	Motsehi Moeketsane	South Africa	1:07:58
41	Scott Westcott	Australia	1:08:04
42	Stéphane Hannot	France	1:08:08
43	Shaun Creighton	Australia	1:08:12
44	Abdelhadi Habassa	Morocco	1:08:16
45	Amar Dahbi	Algeria	1:08:17
46	Andrés Espinosa	Mexico	1:08:23
47	Dale Warrender	New Zealand	1:08:31
48	Iván Sánchez	Spain	1:08:36
49	Frédéric Collignon	Belgium	1:08:45
50	Saïd Belhout	Algeria	1:08:46
51	Zarislav Gapeyenko	Belarus	1:08:57
52	Matthew Vaux-Harvey	Great Britain	1:09:20
53	Denis Curzi	Italy	1:09:36
54	Thabiso Moqhali	Lesotho	1:09:46	PB
55	Alvaro Neuta	Colombia	1:09:47
56	Teddy Mitchell	United States	1:09:48
57	Todd Reeser	United States	1:09:52
58	Johnny Loría	Costa Rica	1:09:58
59	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	1:10:13
60	Abdel Krim Benzai	Algeria	1:10:21
61	Brahim El-Ghazali	France	1:10:33
62	Vladimir Tsyamchik	Belarus	1:10:41
63	Siphesihle Mdluli	Swaziland	1:10:43
64	Makhosonke Fika	South Africa	1:11:08
65	Marco Antonio Condori	Bolivia	1:11:21
66	Pat Carroll	Australia	1:11:28
67	Ivica Škopac	Croatia	1:11:40
68	Leonardo Guedes	Brazil	1:11:49
69	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	1:11:52
70	Nick Wetheridge	Great Britain	1:12:00
71	Ronald Arias	El Salvador	1:12:04
72	Jeff Campbell	United States	1:12:06
73	Jiří Hnilička	Czech Republic	1:12:23
74	Juan Ramos	Guatemala	1:13:02
75	Elisvaldo de Carvalho	Brazil	1:13:27
76	Drago Paripović	Croatia	1:13:28
77	Simón Alvarado	Panama	1:13:30
78	Percy Sephoda	Lesotho	1:13:42
79	Andrey Gordeyev	Belarus	1:13:52
80	Simon Labiche	Seychelles	1:14:15
81	Nick Jones	Great Britain	1:14:23
82	Tau Khotso	Lesotho	1:14:54
83	Leonid Pykhteyev	Kyrgyzstan	1:15:12
84	Edwin Medina	Puerto Rico	1:15:25
85	Kim Reynierse	Aruba	1:15:58
86	Tatsumi Morimasa	Japan	1:16:19
87	Nedeljko Ravić	Croatia	1:16:35
88	Gonzalo Iquite	Guatemala	1:16:50
89	Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev	Turkmenistan	1:17:04
90	Khalid Al-Estashi	Yemen	1:17:11
91	Freddy Nystad	Aruba	1:17:36
92	Lee Kar Lun	Hong Kong	1:18:11
93	Khasan Rakhimov	Uzbekistan	1:18:19
94	Mohamed Al-Khawlani	Yemen	1:18:36
95	Vasiliy Medvedev	Uzbekistan	1:19:40
96	Djamched Rasulov	Tajikistan	1:20:04
97	Sergey Zabavskiy	Tajikistan	1:22:25
98	Richard Rodriguez	Aruba	1:24:32
99	Chokirjon Irmatov	Tajikistan	1:30:35
100	Fouad Obad	Yemen	2:55:54
—	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	DNF
—	Vahagn Hovanesyan	Armenia	DNF
—	Hayk Khojumyan	Armenia	DNF
—	Alvin Ras	Aruba	DNF
—	Marco Ivan Condori	Bolivia	DNF
—	Israel dos Anjos	Brazil	DNF
—	Manuel Peñaherrera	Ecuador	DNF
—	Néstor Quinapanta	Ecuador	DNF
—	Abdellah Béhar	France	DNF
—	Moulay Ali Ouadih	France	DNF
—	Fermin Sequén	Guatemala	DNF
—	Giuliano Battocletti	Italy	DNF
—	Philip Rugut	Kenya	DNF
—	Denis Bagrev	Kyrgyzstan	DNF
—	Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin	Kyrgyzstan	DNF
—	David Galván	Mexico	DNF
—	Enrique Montiel	Mexico	DNF
—	Joseph Nsengiyumya	Rwanda	DNF
—	Aaron Gabonewe	South Africa	DNF
—	Jerry Lawson	United States	DNF
—	Yevgeniy Nujdin	Uzbekistan	DNF
—	Franklin Tenorio	Ecuador	DNS

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	1:09:07
	Susan Chepkemei	Kenya	1:09:40
	Lidia Șimon	Romania	1:10:24
4	Mizuki Noguchi	Japan	1:11:11
5	Pamela Chepchumba	Kenya	1:11:33
6	Mihaela Botezan	Romania	1:11:52
7	Cristina Pomacu	Romania	1:12:06
8	Yukiko Okamoto	Japan	1:12:20
9	Yasuko Hashimoto	Japan	1:12:54
10	Milena Glusac	United States	1:13:53
11	Lidiya Grigoryeva	Russia	1:14:26
12	Stine Larsen	Norway	1:14:39
13	Galina Aleksandrova	Russia	1:15:02
14	Selma dos Reis	Brazil	1:15:16
15	Wilma van Onna	Netherlands	1:15:17
16	Fumi Murata	Japan	1:15:52
17	Aster Demissie	Ethiopia	1:15:52
18	María Luisa Muñoz	Spain	1:15:54
19	Sarah Wilkinson	Great Britain	1:15:55
20	Abebe Tola	Ethiopia	1:15:59
21	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	1:16:01
22	Zinaida Semyonova	Russia	1:16:13
23	Kristin Beaney	United States	1:16:20
24	Rocío Ríos	Spain	1:16:25
25	Annemette Jensen	Denmark	1:16:26
26	Carlien Cornelissen	South Africa	1:16:27
27	Meseret Kotu	Ethiopia	1:16:29
28	Hafida Gadi-Richard	France	1:16:45
29	Shireen Crumpton	New Zealand	1:16:48
30	Silvia Skvortsova	Russia	1:16:57
31	Alina Tecuţă/Gherasim	Romania	1:17:16
32	Dorota Gruca-Giezek	Poland	1:17:27
33	Margaríta Tapía	Mexico	1:17:34
34	Jana Klimešová	Czech Republic	1:18:06
35	Shelly Steely	United States	1:18:50
36	Theresa du Toit	South Africa	1:19:15
37	Dulce María Rodríguez	Mexico	1:19:23
38	Sibongile Ngcongwane	South Africa	1:19:44
39	Leila Aman	Ethiopia	1:19:49
40	Liliana Merlo	Mexico	1:19:58
41	Nuta Olaru	Romania	1:20:00
42	Kelly Keeler	United States	1:21:51
43	Souad Aït Salem	Algeria	1:22:33
44	Nili Avramski	Israel	1:22:58
45	Andrea Green	Great Britain	1:24:53
46	Catherine Maapela	South Africa	1:27:08
47	Lourdes Cruz	Puerto Rico	1:27:59
48	Kristinka Marković	Croatia	1:29:11
49	Elsa Monterroso	Guatemala	1:30:30
50	Angelina Cornelio	Guatemala	1:30:57
51	Herlinda Xol	Guatemala	1:32:09
52	Tijana Pavičić	Croatia	1:33:45
53	Slavica Brčić	Croatia	1:38:33
54	Anna Markelova	Turkmenistan	1:41:58
—	Josiane Aboungono	Gabon	DNF
—	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	DNF
—	Omara Loza	Nicaragua	DNF
—	Sandra Arroyo	Puerto Rico	DNF
—	Louisa Leballo	South Africa	DNF
—	Leyla Dzhumayeva	Turkmenistan	DNF
—	Kelly Cordell	United States	DNF
—	Wilma Guerra	Ecuador	DNS

Team Results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Paul Tergat Joseph Kimani David Ruto	3:11:38
	Ethiopia	Tesfaye Jifar Ibrahim Seid Gemechu Kebede	3:14:45
	Belgium	Koen Allaert Guy Fays Christian Nemeth	3:18:35
4	Japan	Toshiyuki Hayata Satoshi Irifune Jun Shida	3:18:44
5	Italy	Marco Mazza Migidio Bourifa Daniele Caimmi	3:19:21
6	Spain	Óscar Fernández Antonio Peña Iván Sánchez	3:20:12
7	South Africa	George Mofokeng Bethuel Netshifhefhe Motsehi Moeketsane	3:20:28
8	Mexico	Faustino Reynoso Fidencio Torres Andrés Espinosa	3:21:12
9	Morocco	El-Arbi Khattabi Mostafa Errebbah Rachid Aït Bensalem	3:21:25
10	Algeria	Noureddine Betim Amar Dahbi Saïd Belhout	3:21:43
11	Australia	Andrew Letherby Scott Westcott Shaun Creighton	3:23:54
12	Colombia	Diego Colorado Herder Vázquez Alvaro Neuta	3:24:09
13	United States	Clint Verran Teddy Mitchell Todd Reeser	3:25:36
14	France	Mohamed Serbouti Stéphane Hannot Brahim El-Ghazali	3:25:42
15	Brazil	José de Souza Leonardo Guedes Elisvaldo de Carvalho	3:31:53
16	Belarus	Zarislav Gapeyenko Vladimir Tsyamchik Andrey Gordeyev	3:33:30
17	Great Britain	Matthew Vaux-Harvey Nick Wetheridge Nick Jones	3:35:43
18	Lesotho	Thabiso Moqhali Percy Sephoda Tau Khotso	3:38:22
19	Croatia	Ivica Škopac Drago Paripović Nedeljko Ravić	3:41:43
20	Aruba	Kim Reynierse Freddy Nystad Richard Rodriguez	3:58:06
21	Tajikistan	Djamched Rasulov Sergey Zabavskiy Chokirjon Irmatov	4:13:04
22	Yemen	Khalid Al-Estashi Mohamed Al-Khawlani Fouad Obad	2:38:42
—	Guatemala	Juan Ramos Gonzalo Iquite Fermin Sequén	DNF
—	Kyrgyzstan	Leonid Pykhteyev Denis Bagrev Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin	DNF
—	Uzbekistan	Khasan Rakhimov Vasiliy Medvedev Yevgeniy Nujdin	DNF

Women's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Romania	Lidia Șimon Mihaela Botezan Cristina Pomacu	3:34:22
	Japan	Mizuki Noguchi Yukiko Okamoto Yasuko Hashimoto	3:36:25
	Russia	Lidiya Grigoryeva Galina Aleksandrova Zinaida Semyonova	3:45:41
4	Ethiopia	Aster Demissie Abebe Tola Meseret Kotu	3:48:20
5	United States	Milena Glusac Kristin Beaney Shelly Steely	3:49:03
6	Great Britain	Paula Radcliffe Sarah Wilkinson Andrea Green	3:49:55
7	South Africa	Carlien Cornelissen Theresa du Toit Sibongile Ngcongwane	3:55:26
8	Mexico	Margaríta Tapía Dulce María Rodríguez Liliana Merlo	3:56:55
9	Guatemala	Elsa Monterroso Angelina Cornelio Herlinda Xol	4:33:36
10	Croatia	Kristinka Marković Tijana Pavičić Slavica Brčić	4:41:29

Participation

The participation of 182 athletes (121 men/61 women) from 52 countries is reported.^[5]