2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

Host city	Cardiff, United Kingdom
Nations	49
Athletes	174
Events	2
Dates	26 March 2016
Race length	21.0975 km (13.1 mi)
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The 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships took place on 26 March 2016 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.^[1] It was the 22nd edition of the event and the 4th in the United Kingdom alone.^[2]

In conjunction with the men's elite race, an open half marathon was held on the same course for 16,000 competitors.^[3]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor (KEN)	59:10	Bedan Karoki Muchiri (KEN)	59:36	Mohamed Farah (GBR)	59:59
Women	Peres Jechirchir (KEN)	1:07:31	Cynthia Jerotich Limo (KEN)	1:07:34	Mary Wacera Ngugi (KEN)	1:07:54
Team
Men	Kenya	2:58:58	Ethiopia	3:01:16	Eritrea	3:06:18
Women	Kenya	3:22:59	Ethiopia	3:26:29	Japan	3:32:25

Race results

Results for the men's^[4] and women's^[5] elite races are shown below. Results for the open race are kept separately.^[6]

Men

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor	Kenya	59:10	SB
	Bedan Karoki Muchiri	Kenya	59:36	SB
	Mo Farah	Great Britain	59:59	SB
4	Abayneh Ayele	Ethiopia	59:59	PB
5	Tamirat Tola	Ethiopia	1:00:06	PB
6	Simon Cheprot	Kenya	1:00:12	SB
7	Abrar Osman	Eritrea	1:00:58	SB
8	Mule Wasihun	Ethiopia	1:01:11	SB
9	Edwin Kiprop Kiptoo	Kenya	1:01:21
10	Stephen Mokoka	South Africa	1:01:27	SB
11	Teshome Mekonen	Ethiopia	1:01:39	SB
12	Edwin Kipyego	Kenya	1:01:52
13	Nguse Amlosom	Eritrea	1:01:54
14	Paul Pollock	Ireland	1:02:46	SB
15	Callum Hawkins	Great Britain	1:02:51
16	Guye Adola	Ethiopia	1:03:26
17	Hiskel Tewelde	Eritrea	1:03:26	SB
18	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	1:03:29	SB
19	Sidi-Hassan Chahdi	France	1:03:30	SB
20	Michael Shelley	Australia	1:03:33	SB
21	Robert Chemonges	Uganda	1:03:39	PB
22	Naoki Kudo	Japan	1:03:41
23	Timothy Ritchie	United States	1:03:49	SB
24	Samsom Gebreyohannes	Eritrea	1:04:03
25	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	1:04:05	SB
26	Jared Ward	United States	1:04:05	SB
27	Dewi Griffiths	Great Britain	1:04:10	PB
28	Minato Oishi	Japan	1:04:11
29	Keijiro Mogi	Japan	1:04:19
30	Jhordan Alonso Ccope	Peru	1:04:23	SB
31	Asbjørn Ellefsen Persen	Norway	1:04:32
32	Scott Bauhs	United States	1:04:34
33	Mariano Mastromarino	Argentina	1:04:35	PB
34	Wellington da Silva	Brazil	1:04:43	SB
35	Keisuke Nakatani	Japan	1:04:43
36	Shogo Nakamura	Japan	1:04:49
37	Mbongeni Ngxazozo	South Africa	1:04:51	SB
38	Reid Coolsaet	Canada	1:04:56	SB
39	Raverso Ramos	Peru	1:04:59	PB
40	Ricardo Ramos	Mexico	1:05:00
41	Thomas Frazer	Ireland	1:05:20	PB
42	Kevin Seaward	Ireland	1:05:23	SB
43	Denis Mayaud	France	1:05:48	SB
44	Ferdinand Pacheco	Peru	1:06:05	SB
45	Ryan McLeod	Great Britain	1:06:13	SB
46	Rob Watson	Canada	1:06:15
47	Diego Colorado	Colombia	1:06:16	SB
48	Nicolae-Alexandru Soare	Romania	1:06:18	SB
49	Lars Budolfsen	Denmark	1:06:28	SB
50	Sergiu Ciobanu	Ireland	1:06:30	SB
51	Daniel Vargas	Mexico	1:06:32	SB
52	Nelson Ito	Peru	1:06:34	SB
53	Matthew Hynes	Great Britain	1:06:37	SB
54	Gerald Giraldo	Colombia	1:06:39	PB
55	Tesama Moogas	Israel	1:06:41
56	Ben Bruce	United States	1:06:46
57	Kári Steinn Karlsson	Iceland	1:06:49	SB
58	Juraj Vitko	Slovakia	1:06:50	SB
59	Yolo Nikolov	Bulgaria	1:06:52	PB
60	Jesper Faurschou	Denmark	1:06:53	SB
61	Vuyisile Tshoba	South Africa	1:06:55
62	Romain Courcières	France	1:07:02
63	Janis Viskers	Latvia	1:07:34	SB
64	Theis Nijhuis	Denmark	1:07:49	SB
65	Danmuzhenciwang	China	1:07:52	PB
66	Rui Yong Soh	Singapore	1:07:56	SB
67	Arnar Pétursson	Iceland	1:08:02	PB
68	Djamel Bachiri	France	1:08:09
69	Dmytro Lashyn	Ukraine	1:08:49	SB
70	Daniel Daly	Croatia	1:08:51	SB
71	Paul Lalire	France	1:08:58	SB
72	Shokhrukh Davlatov	Uzbekistan	1:09:56	PB
73	Zhoodar Kochkonbaev	Kyrgyzstan	1:10:07	PB
74	Marcel Tschopp	Liechtenstein	1:10:48	SB
75	Brandon Lord	Canada	1:11:00
76	Hussein Ahmed	Egypt	1:11:21	PB
77	Belal Ahmed	Egypt	1:11:29	PB
78	Saby Luna	Mexico	1:11:32	SB
79	Gladwin Mzazi	South Africa	1:11:49	SB
80	Charlton Debono	Malta	1:12:03
81	Kuan Un Iao	Macau	1:13:55	PB
82	Modike Lucky Mohale	South Africa	1:15:28
83	Abdi Madar Amare	Somalia	1:15:53	PB
84	Elsidig Ibrahim	Sudan	1:17:07	SB
85	Armann Eydal Albertsson	Iceland	1:17:22	SB
—	Sean Hehir	Ireland	DQ	R143.11[7]
—	David Nilsson	Sweden	DNS
—	Patrick Muleki	DR Congo	DNS

Women

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Peres Jechirchir	Kenya	1:07:31
	Cynthia Jerotich Limo	Kenya	1:07:34
	Mary Wacera Ngugi	Kenya	1:07:54
4	Netsanet Gudeta	Ethiopia	1:08:01	SB
5	Genet Yalew	Ethiopia	1:08:15
6	Gladys Chesir Kiptagelai	Kenya	1:08:46
7	Pascalia Chepkorir Kipkoech	Kenya	1:09:44	SB
8	Dehininet Demsew	Ethiopia	1:10:13	PB
9	Gladys Tejeda	Peru	1:10:14	AR
10	Yuka Ando	Japan	1:10:34
11	Janet Cherobon-Bawcom	United States	1:10:46	SB
12	Eloise Wellings	Australia	1:10:47
13	Milly Clark	Australia	1:10:48	PB
14	Miho Shimizu	Japan	1:10:51
15	Sara Hall	United States	1:10:58
16	Veronica Inglese	Italy	1:10:59	SB
17	Mizuki Matsuda	Japan	1:11:00
18	Cassie Fien	Australia	1:11:13	PB
19	Kellys Arias	Colombia	1:11:21	PB
20	Lanni Marchant	Canada	1:11:26	SB
21	Vianey de la Rosa	Mexico	1:11:52	PB
22	Margarita Hernández	Mexico	1:11:56	PB
23	Tarah Korir	Canada	1:12:04	PB
24	Askale Alemayehu	Ethiopia	1:12:28	SB
25	Kellyn Taylor	United States	1:12:42	SB
26	Laurane Picoche	France	1:12:43	SB
27	Alyson Dixon	Great Britain	1:12:57	SB
28	Brianne Nelson	United States	1:13:01	SB
29	Sinke Dessie	Ethiopia	1:13:12	PB
30	Angie Orjuela	Colombia	1:13:16	SB
31	Souad Aït Salem	Algeria	1:13:18
32	Jovana de la Cruz	Peru	1:13:19	PB
33	Charlotte Purdue	Great Britain	1:13:20	SB
34	Laura Batterink	Canada	1:13:24	SB
35	Paula-Claudia Todoran	Romania	1:13:27	SB
36	Hisami Ishii	Japan	1:13:41
37	Nolene Conrad	South Africa	1:13:45	SB
38	Rosaria Console	Italy	1:13:45
39	Anna Incerti	Italy	1:14:00	SB
40	Kit-Ching Yiu	Hong Kong	1:14:19	SB
41	Lebogang Phalula	South Africa	1:14:21	SB
42	Cornelia Joubert	South Africa	1:14:23	SB
43	Kenza Dahmani Tifahi	Algeria	1:14:33	SB
44	Cuomu Ciren	China	1:14:37	PB
45	Valdilene Silva	Brazil	1:14:38	PB
46	Mariya Korobitskaya	Kyrgyzstan	1:14:46	PB
47	Ángela Figueroa	Colombia	1:14:46	PB
48	Laila Soufyane	Italy	1:15:05
49	Tina Muir	Great Britain	1:15:12	SB
50	Brenda Flores	Mexico	1:15:19
51	María Peralta	Argentina	1:15:21	PB
52	Lizzie Lee	Ireland	1:15:36	SB
53	Marta Galimany	Spain	1:15:37
54	Fanny Pruvost	France	1:15:37
55	Louise Langelund Batting	Denmark	1:15:41	PB
56	Carmen Patricia Martínez	Paraguay	1:15:44	NR
57	Severine Hamel	France	1:15:53	SB
58	Samira Mezeghrane	France	1:16:08	SB
59	Paula Mayobre	Spain	1:16:13
60	Luz Mery Rojas	Peru	1:16:13	PB
61	Hillary Montgomery	United States	1:16:16
62	Katarina Bérešová	Slovakia	1:16:20	SB
63	Rachel Felton	Great Britain	1:16:36
64	Marta Esteban	Spain	1:16:52
65	Militsa Mircheva	Bulgaria	1:16:54	SB
66	Andreea-Alina Pîscu	Romania	1:17:07	PB
67	Ariana Kira Hilborna	Latvia	1:17:11	SB
68	Mirai Waku	Japan	1:17:30	SB
69	Wangmu Nuzeng	China	1:17:35	SB
70	Jila Dawa	China	1:17:52	PB
71	Chien-Ho Hsieh	Chinese Taipei	1:18:00
72	Nicolasa Condori	Peru	1:18:21	SB
73	Karine Pasquier	France	1:18:24	SB
74	Tonya Nero	Trinidad and Tobago	1:19:53	SB
75	Irina Moroz	Uzbekistan	1:22:47	PB
76	Dina Lebo Phalula	South Africa	1:23:49	SB
77	Emma Montiel	Gibraltar	1:25:51	SB
78	Zintle Xiniwe	South Africa	1:26:30	SB
79	Long Hoi	Macau	1:28:37	SB
80	Allison Edwards	Gibraltar	1:32:08	SB
—	Jenny Spink	Great Britain	DNF
—	Alessandra Aguilar	Spain	DNF
—	Silvia La Barbera	Italy	DNF
—	Amal Mohammed	Iraq	DNS
—	Rutendo Joan Nyahora	Zimbabwe	DNS
—	Olha Skrypak	Ukraine	DNS

Team standings

The men's^[8] and women's^[9] team standings are shown below.

Men

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time
	Kenya	Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor Bedan Karoki Muchiri Simon Cheprot	2:58:58
	Ethiopia	Abayneh Ayele Tamirat Tola Mule Wasihun	3:01:16
	Eritrea	Abrar Osman Nguse Amlosom Hiskel Tewelde	3:06:18
4	Great Britain	Mohamed Farah Callum Hawkins Dewi Griffiths	3:07:00
5	Japan	Naoki Kudo Minato Oishi Keijiro Mogi	3:12:11
6	United States	Timothy Ritchie Jared Ward Scott Bauhs	3:12:28
7	South Africa	Stephen Mokoka Mbongeni Ngxazozo Vuyisile Tshoba	3:13:13
8	Ireland	Paul Pollock Thomas Frazer Kevin Seaward	3:13:29
9	Peru	Jhordan Alonso Ccope Raverso Ramos Ferdinand Pacheco	3:15:27
10	France	Sidi-Hassan Chahdi Denis Mayaud Romain Courcières	3:16:20
11	Denmark	Lars Budolfsen Jesper Faurschou Theis Nijhuis	3:21:10
12	Canada	Reid Coolsaet Rob Watson Brandon Lord	3:22:11
13	Mexico	Ricardo Ramos Daniel Vargas Saby Luna	3:23:04
14	Iceland	Kári Steinn Karlsson Arnar Pétursson Armann Eydal Albertsson	3:32:13

Women

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time
	Kenya	Peres Jechirchir Cynthia Jerotich Limo Mary Wacera Ngugi	3:22:59
	Ethiopia	Netsanet Gudeta Genet Yalew Dehininet Demsew	3:26:29
	Japan	Yuka Ando Miho Shimizu Mizuki Matsuda	3:32:25
4	Australia	Eloise Wellings Milly Clark Cassie Fien	3:32:48
5	United States	Janet Cherobon-Bawcom Sara Hall Kellyn Taylor	3:34:26
6	Canada	Lanni Marchant Tarah Korir Laura Batterink	3:36:54
7	Italy	Veronica Inglese Rosaria Console Anna Incerti	3:38:44
8	Mexico	Vianey de la Rosa Margarita Hernández Brenda Flores	3:39:07
9	Colombia	Kellys Arias Angie Orjuela Ángela Figueroa	3:39:23
10	Peru	Gladys Tejeda Jovana de la Cruz Luz Mery Rojas	3:39:46
11	Great Britain	Alyson Dixon Charlotte Purdue Tina Muir	3:41:29
12	South Africa	Nolene Conrad Lebogang Phalula Cornelia Joubert	3:42:29
13	France	Laurane Picoche Fanny Pruvost Severine Hamel	3:44:13
14	Spain	Marta Galimany Paula Mayobre Marta Esteban	3:48:42
15	China	Cuomu Ciren Wangmu Nuzeng Jila Dawa	3:50:04

Medal table (unofficial)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	4	2	1	7
2	Ethiopia	0	2	0	2
3	Eritrea	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 174 athletes from 49 countries. Although announced,^[10] the athletes from  Djibouti and  Sri Lanka did not show.