1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 3rd IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on September 24, 1994, in Oslo, Norway. A total of 214 athletes, 127 men and 87 women, from 48 countries took part.

1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	3rd
Date	September 24
Host city	Oslo, Norway
Events	2
Participation	214 athletes from 48 nations
← 1993 Brussels 1995 Montbéliard-Belfort →

Complete results were published.

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men	Khalid Skah (MAR)	1:00:27	Germán Silva (MEX)	1:00:28	Ronaldo da Costa (BRA)	1:00:54
Women	Elana Meyer (RSA)	1:08:36	Iulia Negura (ROU)	1:09:15	Anuța Cătună (ROU)	1:09:35
Team
Team Men	Kenya	3:03:36	Mexico	3:03:47	Morocco	3:05:58
Team Women	Romania	3:29:03	Norway	3:33:36	Japan	3:35:39

Race results

Men's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Khalid Skah	Morocco	1:00:27
	Germán Silva	Mexico	1:00:28
	Ronaldo da Costa	Brazil	1:00:54
4	Godfrey Kiprotich	Kenya	1:01:01
5	Shem Kororia	Kenya	1:01:16
6	Andrew Masai	Kenya	1:01:19
7	Tendai Chimusasa	Zimbabwe	1:01:26
8	Fackson Nkandu	Zambia	1:01:30	NR
9	Moses Tanui	Kenya	1:01:35
10	Rolando Vera	Ecuador	1:01:36
11	Paul Tergat	Kenya	1:01:37
12	Martín Pitayo	Mexico	1:01:38
13	Bedilu Kibret	Ethiopia	1:01:40
14	Benjamín Paredes	Mexico	1:01:41
15	Carsten Eich	Germany	1:01:44
16	Kamal Kohil	Algeria	1:01:50
17	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia	1:02:14
18	Salah Hissou	Morocco	1:02:20
19	Samson Dingani	Zimbabwe	1:02:21
20	Meshack Mogotsi	South Africa	1:02:26
21	Taher Mansouri	Tunisia	1:02:27
22	Luíz dos Santos	Brazil	1:02:28
23	Fernando Couto	Portugal	1:02:28
24	Javier Cortés	Spain	1:02:32
25	Keita Fujino	Japan	1:02:36
26	Adam Motlagale	South Africa	1:02:43
27	Paul Arpin	France	1:02:44
28	José Isidro Rico	Mexico	1:02:44
29	Martin McLoughlin	Great Britain	1:02:45
30	Daniel Held	United States	1:02:46
31	João Lopes	Portugal	1:02:53
32	Yuriy Chizhov	Russia	1:02:55
33	Kidane Gebrmichael	Ethiopia	1:03:10
34	Abdel Kader El-Mouaziz	Morocco	1:03:11
35	Brighton Chipere	Zimbabwe	1:03:12
36	Talal Omar Abdillahi	Djibouti	1:03:14
37	Pascal Clouvel	France	1:03:16
38	Omar Daher Ghadid	Djibouti	1:03:19
39	Aleksey Korobov	Russia	1:03:21
40	Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin	Kyrgyzstan	1:03:24
41	Andrey Tikhonov	Russia	1:03:25
42	Ronny Ligneel	Belgium	1:03:26
43	Terje Näss	Norway	1:03:27
44	Hamid Essebani	Morocco	1:03:29
45	Arnold Mächler	Switzerland	1:03:30
46	Jorge Márquez	Mexico	1:03:36
47	Carl Udall	Great Britain	1:03:36
48	Sergey Fedotov	Russia	1:03:40
49	Julio Hernández	Colombia	1:03:43
50	Mahieddine Belhadj	Algeria	1:03:48
51	Pedro Rojas	Colombia	1:03:50
52	Kenjiro Jitsui	Japan	1:03:55
53	Winston Muzini	Zimbabwe	1:03:57
54	Michael Scheytt	Germany	1:03:59
55	Christopher Campagne	France	1:04:00
56	Konrad Dobler	Germany	1:04:01
57	Joseph LeMay	United States	1:04:03
58	José Dias	Portugal	1:04:21
59	Tomix da Costa	Brazil	1:04:25
60	Andrew Pearson	Great Britain	1:04:30
61	Mark Croasdale	Great Britain	1:04:41
62	Klaus-Peter Nabein	Germany	1:04:47
63	Bigboy Goromonzi	Zimbabwe	1:04:48
64	Mohamed Abdi Said	Djibouti	1:04:50
65	Francis Mukuka	Zambia	1:04:51
66	Pierre Lévisse	France	1:04:52
67	Boris Batuyev	Belarus	1:04:54
68	Vladimir Kiselyov	Kyrgyzstan	1:04:55
69	Ayele Setegne	Israel	1:04:59
70	René Godlieb	Netherlands	1:05:01
71	Simon Morolong	South Africa	1:05:06
72	Gennadiy Panin	Russia	1:05:10
73	Peter Sichula	Zambia	1:05:11
74	Peter De Vocht	Belgium	1:05:12
75	Asaf Bimro	Israel	1:05:14
76	Frank Pooe	South Africa	1:05:28
77	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	1:05:30
78	Dan Nelson	United States	1:05:34
79	Tayeb Kalloud	Algeria	1:05:36
80	Daniel Gonzalez	United States	1:05:37
81	Kiyoji Hayashi	Japan	1:05:41
82	Markus Gerber	Switzerland	1:05:42
83	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	1:05:45
84	Toomas Tarm	Estonia	1:05:47
85	Bertrand Itsweire	France	1:06:06
86	Amit Neʼeman	Israel	1:06:12
87	Viktor Rogovoy	Ukraine	1:06:18
88	Marly Sopyev	Turkmenistan	1:06:24
89	Svein Inge Buhaug	Norway	1:06:34
90	Nazirdin Akylbekov	Kyrgyzstan	1:06:36
91	Meck Mothuli	South Africa	1:06:41
92	Tibor Nemes-Nagy	Hungary	1:06:41
93	Miroslav Vanko	Slovakia	1:06:44
94	Viktor Chumakov	Belarus	1:06:50
95	Jan Bláha	Czech Republic	1:06:53
96	Chuck Trujillo	United States	1:06:56
97	Ivar Øyan	Norway	1:07:00
98	Markus Graf	Switzerland	1:07:29
99	Modise Mosarwa	Botswana	1:07:52
100	Jun Kuroki	Japan	1:08:01
101	Hansjörg Brücker	Switzerland	1:08:13
102	Wayne Edgeler	New Zealand	1:08:14
103	Ali Youssouf	Djibouti	1:08:15
104	Lesedinyana Lekgoa	Botswana	1:08:15
105	Ajay Chuttoo	Mauritius	1:08:17
106	Andrew Peskett	New Zealand	1:08:26
107	Andrey Kovalenko	Belarus	1:08:33
108	Heiki Sarapuu	Estonia	1:08:38
109	Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev	Turkmenistan	1:08:40
110	Chala Kelele	Ethiopia	1:08:59
111	Nazim Noorbux	Mauritius	1:10:07
112	Alister Munroe	New Zealand	1:10:49
113	Richard Muscat	Gibraltar	1:11:25
114	Philip Harris	Gibraltar	1:12:25
115	Lee Kar Lun	Hong Kong	1:12:27
116	Fouad Obad	Yemen	1:12:47
117	Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev	Turkmenistan	1:13:33
118	Mohamed Al-Hada	Yemen	1:13:51
119	Louis Chichon	Gibraltar	1:15:10
120	Tom Kikina	Botswana	1:16:11
121	Mohamed Al-Ahjari	Yemen	1:18:12
—	Saïd Belhout	Algeria	DNF
—	Aleksey Tarasyuk	Belarus	DNF
—	Kurt Stenzel	Germany	DNF
—	Frank Bjørkli	Norway	DNF
—	Knut Hegvold	Norway	DNF
—	Stéphane Schweickhardt	Switzerland	DNF

Women's

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Elana Meyer	South Africa	1:08:36	CR
	Iulia Negura	Romania	1:09:15
	Anuța Cătună	Romania	1:09:35
4	Albertina Dias	Portugal	1:09:57
5	Elena Fidatof	Romania	1:10:13
6	Hilde Stavik	Norway	1:10:21
7	Brynhild Synstnes	Norway	1:10:29
8	Marleen Renders	Belgium	1:10:33
9	Adriana Barbu	Romania	1:10:38
10	Mari Tanigawa	Japan	1:10:43
11	Fatuma Roba	Ethiopia	1:10:49
12	Natalya Galushko	Belarus	1:11:00
13	Alena Peterková	Czech Republic	1:11:02
14	Alla Zhilyayeva	Russia	1:11:16
15	Nicole Lévêque	France	1:11:54
16	Klara Kashapova	Russia	1:12:04
17	Martha Ernstdóttir	Iceland	1:12:15
18	Stella Castro	Colombia	1:12:23
19	Mineko Watanabe	Japan	1:12:26
20	Yukari Komatsu	Japan	1:12:30
21	Manuela Dias	Portugal	1:12:43
22	Grete Kirkeberg	Norway	1:12:46
23	Garifa Kuku	Kazakhstan	1:12:52
24	Cathy Schum	Ireland	1:12:52
25	Rosa Oliveira	Portugal	1:13:02
26	Nadezhda Ilyina	Russia	1:13:05
27	Nadezhda Tatarenkova	Russia	1:13:07
28	Kornélia Pásztor	Hungary	1:13:12
29	Danielle Sanderson	Great Britain	1:13:13
30	Maiken Sørum	Norway	1:13:19
31	Angie Hulley	Great Britain	1:13:19
32	Eri Yamaguchi	Japan	1:13:21
33	Lucía Rendón	Mexico	1:13:32
34	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	1:13:33
35	Ann Boyd	United States	1:13:35
36	Grace de Oliveira	South Africa	1:13:36
37	Anita Håkenstad	Norway	1:13:40
38	Natalya Sorokivskaya	Kazakhstan	1:13:41
39	Jane Salumäe	Estonia	1:13:47
40	Susan Mahony	Australia	1:13:50
41	Carla Beurskens	Netherlands	1:13:51
42	Fikirte Woldemichael	Ethiopia	1:13:53
43	Albertina Machado	Portugal	1:13:58
44	Fantaye Sirak	Ethiopia	1:14:00
45	Yumi Akao	Japan	1:14:05
46	Heather Heasman	Great Britain	1:14:06
47	Cath Mijovic	Great Britain	1:14:15
48	Yelena Mazovka	Belarus	1:14:16
49	Heather Turland	Australia	1:14:17
50	Yelena Vinitskaya	Belarus	1:14:18
51	Julie Petersen	United States	1:14:21
52	Márta Visnyei	Hungary	1:14:25
53	Christine Mallo	France	1:14:27
54	Muriel Linsolas	France	1:14:33
55	Nicole Whiteford	South Africa	1:14:38
56	Elfenesh Alemu	Ethiopia	1:14:39
57	Lorraine Davis	Australia	1:14:48
58	Midde Hamrin	Sweden	1:14:53
59	Ana Maria Mejía	Mexico	1:15:01
60	Emma Cabrera	Mexico	1:15:14
61	Jane Welzel	United States	1:15:24
62	Christine Toonstra	Netherlands	1:15:32
63	Marietjie McDermott	South Africa	1:15:37
64	Gadissie Edato	Ethiopia	1:15:39
65	Marta Durán	Mexico	1:15:44
66	Lesley Morton	New Zealand	1:15:47
67	Delirde Bernardi	Brazil	1:15:48
68	Irina Bogachova	Kyrgyzstan	1:15:51
69	Josette Janin	France	1:15:55
70	Ingmarie Nilsson	Sweden	1:15:56
71	Maria Lundgren	Sweden	1:16:15
72	Marian Sutton	Great Britain	1:16:15
73	Sonja Laxton	South Africa	1:16:46
74	Éva Nagy	Hungary	1:16:57
75	Yelena Mostovaya	Kazakhstan	1:16:58
76	Olga Yudenkova	Belarus	1:17:34
77	Winnie Ng	Hong Kong	1:17:37
78	Kamila Gradus	Poland	1:18:44
79	Monique Ecker	United States	1:19:37
80	Anna Cosser	Iceland	1:22:50
81	Nemia Coca	Bolivia	1:24:16
82	Hulda Pálsdóttir	Iceland	1:27:30
83	Olga Shiyanova	Turkmenistan	1:28:29
84	Josiane Nairac-Boullé	Mauritius	1:32:15
85	Maisa Tcharyeva	Turkmenistan	1:38:14
—	Firiya Sultanova	Russia	DNF
—	Jennifer Martin	United States	DNF

Team Results

Men's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Kenya	Godfrey Kiprotich Shem Kororia Andrew Masai	3:03:36
	Mexico	Germán Silva Martín Pitayo Benjamín Paredes	3:03:47
	Morocco	Khalid Skah Salah Hissou Abdel Kader El-Mouaziz	3:05:58
4	Zimbabwe	Tendai Chimusasa Samson Dingani Brighton Chipere	3:06:59
5	Ethiopia	Bedilu Kibret Addis Abebe Kidane Gebrmichael	3:07:04
6	Brazil	Ronaldo da Costa Luíz dos Santos Tomix da Costa	3:07:47
7	Russia	Yuriy Chizhov Aleksey Korobov Andrey Tikhonov	3:09:41
8	Portugal	Fernando Couto João Lopes José Dias	3:09:42
9	Germany	Carsten Eich Michael Scheytt Konrad Dobler	3:09:44
10	France	Paul Arpin Pascal Clouvel Christopher Campagne	3:10:00
11	South Africa	Meshack Mogotsi Adam Motlagale Simon Morolong	3:10:15
12	Great Britain	Martin McLoughlin Carl Udall Andrew Pearson	3:10:51
13	Algeria	Kamal Kohil Mahieddine Belhadj Tayeb Kalloud	3:11:14
14	Djibouti	Talal Omar Abdillahi Omar Daher Ghadid Mohamed Abdi Said	3:11:23
15	Zambia	Fackson Nkandu Francis Mukuka Peter Sichula	3:11:32
16	Japan	Keita Fujino Kenjiro Jitsui Kiyoji Hayashi	3:12:12
17	United States	Daniel Held Joseph LeMay Dan Nelson	3:12:23
18	Kyrgyzstan	Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin Vladimir Kiselyov Nazirdin Akylbekov	3:14:55
19	Israel	Ayele Setegne Asaf Bimro Amit Neʼeman	3:16:25
20	Switzerland	Arnold Mächler Markus Gerber Markus Graf	3:16:41
21	Norway	Terje Näss Svein Inge Buhaug Ivar Øyan	3:17:01
22	Estonia	Pavel Loskutov Toomas Tarm Heiki Sarapuu	3:19:55
23	Belarus	Boris Batuyev Viktor Chumakov Andrey Kovalenko	3:20:17
24	New Zealand	Wayne Edgeler Andrew Peskett Alister Munroe	3:27:29
25	Turkmenistan	Marly Sopyev Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev	3:28:37
26	Botswana	Modise Mosarwa Lesedinyana Lekgoa Tom Kikina	3:32:18
27	Gibraltar	Richard Muscat Philip Harris Louis Chichon	3:39:00
28	Yemen	Fouad Obad Mohamed Al-Hada Mohamed Al-Ahjari	3:44:50

Women's

Rank	Country	Team	Time
	Romania	Iulia Negura Anuța Cătună Elena Fidatof	3:29:03 CR
	Norway	Hilde Stavik Brynhild Synstnes Grete Kirkeberg	3:33:36
	Japan	Mari Tanigawa Mineko Watanabe Yukari Komatsu	3:35:39
4	Portugal	Albertina Dias Manuela Dias Rosa Oliveira	3:35:42
5	Russia	Alla Zhilyayeva Klara Kashapova Nadezhda Ilyina	3:36:25
6	South Africa	Elana Meyer Grace de Oliveira Nicole Whiteford	3:36:50
7	Ethiopia	Fatuma Roba Fikirte Woldemichael Fantaye Sirak	3:38:42
8	Belarus	Natalya Galushko Yelena Mazovka Yelena Vinitskaya	3:39:34
9	Great Britain	Danielle Sanderson Angie Hulley Heather Heasman	3:40:38
10	France	Nicole Lévêque Christine Mallo Muriel Linsolas	3:40:54
11	Australia	Susan Mahony Heather Turland Lorraine Davis	3:42:55
12	United States	Ann Boyd Julie Petersen Jane Welzel	3:43:20
13	Kazakhstan	Garifa Kuku Natalya Sorokivskaya Yelena Mostovaya	3:43:31
14	Mexico	Lucía Rendón Ana Maria Mejía Emma Cabrera	3:43:47
15	Hungary	Kornélia Pásztor Márta Visnyei Éva Nagy	3:44:34
16	Sweden	Midde Hamrin Ingmarie Nilsson Maria Lundgren	3:47:04
17	Iceland	Martha Ernstdóttir Anna Cosser Hulda Pálsdóttir	4:02:35

Participation

The participation of 214 athletes (127 men/87 women) from 48 countries is reported.

•  Algeria (5)
•  Australia (3)
•  Belarus (8)
•  Belgium (3)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Botswana (3)
•  Brazil (5)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Djibouti (4)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  Estonia (4)
•  Ethiopia (9)
•  France (9)
•  Germany (5)
•  Gibraltar (3)
•  Hong Kong (2)
•  Hungary (4)
•  Iceland (3)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Israel (3)
•  Japan (9)
•  Kazakhstan (3)
•  Kenya (5)
•  Kyrgyzstan (4)
•  Morocco (4)
•  Mauritius (3)
•  Mexico (9)
•  Netherlands (3)
•  New Zealand (4)
•  Norway (10)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (7)
•  Romania (4)
•  Russia (10)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  South Africa (10)
•  Spain (1)
•  Sweden (3)
•   Switzerland (5)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Turkmenistan (5)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United Kingdom (9)
•  United States (10)
•  Yemen (3)
•  Zambia (3)
•  Zimbabwe (5)

See also

• 1994 in athletics (track and field)