2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	14th
Date	October 1
Host city	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Events	2
Participation	156 athletes from 43 nations
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The 14th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships were held in Edmonton, Canada on 1 October 2005. The competition was replaced by the World Road Running Championships in 2006 and 2007, but revived as IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 2008.

A total of 156 athletes, 87 men and 69 women, from 43 countries took part. The four and a half lap course begins and ends in Hawrelak Park.^[1] Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given both for the men's race^[2][3] and for the women's race.^[4][5]

Complete results were published^[6] for the men's race,^[7][8] for the women's race,^[9][10] for men's team,^[11][12] and for women's team.^[13][14]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Fabiano Joseph (TAN)	1:01:08	Mubarak Hassan Shami (QAT)	1:01:09	Yonas Kifle (ERI)	1:01:13
Women	Constantina Diţă-Tomescu (ROU)	1:09:17	Lornah Kiplagat (NED)	1:10:19	Susan Chepkemei (KEN)	1:10:20
Team
Team Men	Ethiopia	3:06:18	Eritrea	3:07:05	Japan	3:08:30
Team Women	Romania	3:31:00	Russia	3:33:05	Japan	3:35:42

Race Results

Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Fabiano Joseph	Tanzania	1:01:08
	Mubarak Hassan Shami	Qatar	1:01:09	NR
	Yonas Kifle	Eritrea	1:01:13
4	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia	1:01:14
5	Abebe Dinkessa	Ethiopia	1:01:53	PB
6	John Yuda	Tanzania	1:02:11
7	James Mwangi Macharia	Kenya	1:02:25
8	Kazuo Ietani	Japan	1:02:26
9	Yared Asmeron	Eritrea	1:02:44
10	Norman Dlomo	South Africa	1:02:45
11	Takayuki Matsumiya	Japan	1:02:45
12	Tesfayohannes Mesfen	Eritrea	1:03:08	PB
13	Lishan Yegezu	Ethiopia	1:03:11
14	Wilson Busienei	Uganda	1:03:12
15	Ryan Shay	United States	1:03:13
16	Paul Kimaiyo	Kenya	1:03:17
17	Takanobu Otsubo	Japan	1:03:19
18	Solomon Tsige	Ethiopia	1:03:23
19	Sultan Khamis Zaman	Qatar	1:03:31
20	Jason Hartmann	United States	1:03:32
21	Julius Kibet	Kenya	1:03:50
22	Antonio Peña	Spain	1:03:52
23	Ahmed Jumaa Jaber	Qatar	1:04:06	PB
24	Yoshihiro Yamamoto	Japan	1:04:15
25	Gilbert Okari	Kenya	1:04:17
26	Ayele Setegne	Israel	1:04:21
27	Sylvester Moleko	South Africa	1:04:33
28	Keenetse Moswasi	Botswana	1:04:42
29	Julio César Pérez	Mexico	1:04:49	PB
30	Matt Downin	United States	1:04:53
31	Jeffrey Gwebu	South Africa	1:04:57
32	Fabio Mascheroni	Italy	1:04:57
33	Jason Lehmkuhle	United States	1:04:58
34	Odilón Cuahutle	Mexico	1:04:59
35	Brett Cartwright	Australia	1:05:10
36	José Souza	Brazil	1:05:24	PB
37	Fernando Rey	Spain	1:05:28
38	Javier Cortés	Spain	1:05:36
39	Kaelo Mosalagae	Botswana	1:05:58	PB
40	Nicholas Kemboi	Qatar	1:06:04
41	Toshihiro Iwasa	Japan	1:06:14
42	Luis Collazo	Puerto Rico	1:06:15
43	José Eloy	Brazil	1:06:17
44	Jeremy Deere	Canada	1:06:19	SB
45	Raúl Mora	Chile	1:06:20
46	Carlos Jaramillo	Chile	1:06:22
47	Matthew McInnes	Canada	1:06:28	SB
48	César Lam	Puerto Rico	1:06:30
49	Mike Morgan	United States	1:06:46
50	Ndabili Bashingili	Botswana	1:06:47
51	Nicolas Kiprono	Uganda	1:06:59
52	Andrew Smith	Canada	1:07:23
53	Asaf Bimro	Israel	1:07:46
54	Anuradha Cooray	Sri Lanka	1:08:02
55	Miguel Ángel Gamonal	Spain	1:08:09
56	Bat-Ochir Ser-Od	Mongolia	1:08:12	NR
57	James Kibet	Uganda	1:08:36
58	Leonidas Rivadeneira	Chile	1:08:52
59	Egide Manirakiza	Burundi	1:09:19
60	Róbert Štefko	Czech Republic	1:09:32
61	Mukat Derbe	Israel	1:09:36
62	Kabo Gabaseme	Botswana	1:09:56
63	Coolboy Ngamole	South Africa	1:10:00
64	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	1:10:01
65	Linos Chintali	Zambia	1:10:11
66	Mark Bomba	Canada	1:10:39
67	Wodage Zvadya	Israel	1:11:09
68	Ryan Day	Canada	1:11:20
69	Frederic Burquier	French Polynesia	1:11:30	PB
70	Rupert Green	Jamaica	1:12:59	NR
71	Gregory McKenzie	Jamaica	1:13:27	PB
72	Marcel Tschopp	Liechtenstein	1:13:57
73	Curtis Cox	Trinidad and Tobago	1:14:52
74	Samson Kiflemariam	Eritrea	1:14:56
75	Andrew Gutzmore	Jamaica	1:14:56	PB
76	Fouly Salem	Egypt	1:15:03
77	Richard Jones	Trinidad and Tobago	1:17:30
78	Kun Sio Pan	Macau	1:17:42
79	Lindson Lynch	Dominica	1:18:09
80	Kani Simons	South Africa	1:19:32
81	Michael Alexander	Trinidad and Tobago	1:24:07
—	Elson Gracioli	Brazil	DNF
—	Jean-Paul Niyonsaba	Burundi	DNF
—	Eric Quiros	Costa Rica	DNF
—	El Hassan Lahssini	France	DNF
—	Ali Al-Dawoodi	Qatar	DNF
—	Alex Malinga	Uganda	DNF
—	Roath Ban	Cambodia	DNS
—	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia	DNS
—	Osama S. Mabrouk	Palestine	DNS

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Constantina Diţă-Tomescu	Romania	1:09:17	SB
	Lornah Kiplagat	Netherlands	1:10:19	SB
	Susan Chepkemei	Kenya	1:10:20
4	Galina Bogomolova	Russia	1:10:34	PB
5	Mihaela Botezan	Romania	1:10:36	SB
6	Madaí Pérez	Mexico	1:10:37	PB
7	Lidiya Grigoryeva	Russia	1:11:01	SB
8	Nuța Olaru	Romania	1:11:07
9	Merima Hashim	Ethiopia	1:11:09	PB
10	Adriana Pirtea	Romania	1:11:10
11	Irina Timofeyeva	Russia	1:11:30
12	Terumi Asoshina	Japan	1:11:45
13	Hiromi Ominami	Japan	1:11:57
14	Yoko Yagi	Japan	1:12:00
15	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	1:12:12
16	Caroline Kilel	Kenya	1:12:13	SB
17	Akane Taira	Japan	1:12:23
18	Mara Yamauchi	Great Britain	1:12:40
19	Letay Nagash	Ethiopia	1:12:43
20	Nina Rillstone	New Zealand	1:13:03
21	Lioudmila Kortchaguina	Canada	1:13:15
22	Sisay Measo	Ethiopia	1:13:35	PB
23	Deborah Toniolo	Italy	1:13:36
24	Hayley Haining	Great Britain	1:13:39
25	Susan Partridge	Great Britain	1:13:49
26	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	1:13:54
27	Luminița Talpoș	Romania	1:14:01
28	Nicole Stevenson	Canada	1:14:26
29	Anastasiya Padalinskaya	Belarus	1:14:26	PB
30	Alina Ivanova	Russia	1:14:27
31	Vincenza Sicari	Italy	1:14:33
32	Lauren Shelley	Australia	1:14:36
33	Tara Quinn-Smith	Canada	1:14:58
34	Josephine Deemay	Tanzania	1:15:07
35	Christelle Daunay	France	1:15:27
36	Carmen Oliveras	France	1:15:42
37	Ivana Iozzia	Italy	1:15:46
38	Laura Turner	United States	1:16:11
39	Tina Connelly	Canada	1:16:12
40	María Luisa Lárraga	Spain	1:16:12
41	Dolores Pulido	Spain	1:16:19
42	Rosângela Faria	Brazil	1:16:28
43	Jenny Spangler	United States	1:16:41
44	Rosa Barbosa	Brazil	1:16:48
45	María José Pueyo	Spain	1:16:50
46	Stephanie Bylander	United States	1:16:58
47	Yesenia Centeno	Spain	1:17:48
48	Dorothy McMaham	United States	1:18:44
49	Lisa Harvey	Canada	1:19:03
50	Alla Zhilyayeva	Russia	1:19:25
51	Marcella Mancini	Italy	1:19:30
52	Debbie Robinson/Mason	Great Britain	1:19:32
53	Michelle Lafleur	United States	1:20:36
54	Lourdes Cruz	Puerto Rico	1:22:04
55	Nili Avramski	Israel	1:22:34
56	Feri Marince Subnafeu	Indonesia	1:23:41	NR
57	Yolanda Mercado	Puerto Rico	1:25:09
58	Kerstin Mennenga	Liechtenstein	1:25:29
59	Vivian Tang	Singapore	1:26:50	NR
60	Mable Chiwama	Zambia	1:28:45
61	Tamica Thomas	Jamaica	1:31:41	NR
62	Merrecia James	Jamaica	1:31:54	PB
63	Chao Fong Leng	Macau	1:35:08	NR
64	Mona Mahmoud	Egypt	1:36:55
—	Eyerusalem Kuma	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Zahia Dahmani	France	DNF
—	Hafida Gadi-Richard	France	DNF
—	Arieta Martin	Jamaica	DNF
—	Salina Kosgei	Kenya	DNF
—	Selenge Avdiigerel	Mongolia	DNS
—	Zuleima Amaya	Venezuela	DNS

Team Results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Ethiopia	Sileshi Sihine Abebe Dinkessa Lishan Yegezu	3:06:18
	Eritrea	Yonas Kifle Yared Asmeron Tesfayohannes Mesfen	3:07:05
	Japan	Kazuo Ietani Takayuki Matsumiya Takanobu Otsubo	3:08:30
4	Qatar	Mubarak Hassan Shami Sultan Khamis Zaman Ahmed Jumaa Jaber	3:08:46
5	Kenya	James Mwangi Macharia Paul Kimaiyo Julius Kibet	3:09:32
6	United States	Ryan Shay Jason Hartmann Matt Downin	3:11:38
7	South Africa	Norman Dlomo Sylvester Moleko Jeffrey Gwebu	3:12:15
8	Spain	Antonio Peña Fernando Rey Javier Cortés	3:14:56
9	Botswana	Keenetse Moswasi Kaelo Mosalagae Ndabili Bashingili	3:17:27
10	Uganda	Wilson Busienei Nicolas Kiprono James Kibet	3:18:47
11	Canada	Jeremy Deere Matthew McInnes Andrew Smith	3:20:10
12	Chile	Raúl Mora Carlos Jaramillo Leonidas Rivadeneira	3:21:34
13	Israel	Ayele Setegne Asaf Bimro Mukat Derbe	3:21:43
14	Jamaica	Rupert Green Gregory McKenzie Andrew Gutzmore	3:41:22
15	Trinidad and Tobago	Curtis Cox Richard Jones Michael Alexander	3:56:29
—	Brazil	José Souza José Eloy Elson Gracioli	DNF

Women's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Romania	Constantina Diţă-Tomescu Mihaela Botezan Nuța Olaru	3:31:00
	Russia	Galina Bogomolova Lidiya Grigoryeva Irina Timofeyeva	3:33:05
	Japan	Terumi Asoshina Hiromi Ominami Yoko Yagi	3:35:42
4	Ethiopia	Merima Hashim Derartu Tulu Letay Nagash	3:36:04
5	Great Britain	Mara Yamauchi Hayley Haining Susan Partridge	3:40:08
6	Canada	Lioudmila Kortchaguina Nicole Stevenson Tara Quinn-Smith	3:42:39
7	Italy	Deborah Toniolo Vincenza Sicari Ivana Iozzia	3:43:55
8	Spain	María Luisa Lárraga Dolores Pulido María José Pueyo	3:49:21
9	United States	Laura Turner Jenny Spangler Stephanie Bylander	3:49:50
—	France	Christelle Daunay Carmen Oliveras Zahia Dahmani	DNF
—	Jamaica	Tamica Thomas Merrecia James Arieta Martin	DNF
—	Kenya	Susan Chepkemei Caroline Kilel Salina Kosgei	DNF

Participation

The participation of 156 athletes (87 men/69 women) from 43 countries is reported.^[6] Although announced, athletes from  Cambodia,  Palestine, and  Venezuela did not show.