2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Host city	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date(s)	2008-10-12
Race length	21.0975 kilometres
Individual Prize Money (US$)	1st: 30,000 2nd: 15,000 3rd: 10,000 4th: 7,000 5th: 5,000 6th: 3,000
Team Prize Money (US$)	1st: 15,000 2nd: 12,000 3rd: 9,000 4th: 7,500 5th: 6,000 6th: 3,000
← 2007 2009 →

The 2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 12 October 2008.^[1]

This event was first announced as the 2008 IAAF World Road Running Championships, but in November 2007, the IAAF announced that the name of the IAAF World Road Running Championships would revert back to its original title of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.^[2][3]

Contents 1 Results 1.1 Men 1.2 Team race men 1.3 Women 1.4 Team race women 2 Notes 3 External links

Results

Men

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Zersenay Tadese	Eritrea	59:56
	Patrick Makau Musyoki	Kenya	1:01:54
	Ahmad Hassan Abdullah	Qatar	1:01:57
4	Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott	Kenya	1:01:58
5	Yusei Nakao	Japan	1:02:05
6	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	1:03:03
7	Abebe Dinkesa	Ethiopia	1:03:04
8	Marilson dos Santos	Brazil	1:03:14

Team race men

Rank	Team	Time
1	Kenya Patrick Makau Musyoki Stephen Kipkoech Kibiwott Joseph Maregu	3:07:24
2	Eritrea Zersenay Tadese Michael Tesfay Mogos Ahferom	3:09:40
3	Qatar Ahmad Hassan Abdullah Essa Ismail Rashed Ali Dawoud Sedam	3:10:52

Women

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
1	Lornah Kiplagat	Netherlands	1:08:37
2	Aselefech Mergia	Ethiopia	1:09:57
3	Pamela Chepchumba	Kenya	1:10:01
4	Genet Getaneh	Ethiopia	1:10:03
5	Peninah Arusei	Kenya	1:10:12
6	Abebu Gelan	Ethiopia	1:10:59
7	Julia Mumbi Muraga	Kenya	1:11:11
8	Atsede Habtamu	Ethiopia	1:11:13

Team race women

Rank	Team	Time
1	Ethiopia Aselefech Mergia Genet Getaneh Abebu Gelan	3:30:59
2	Kenya Pamela Chepchumba Peninah Arusei Julia Mumbi Muraga	3:31:24
3	Japan Yukiko Akaba Miki Ohira Yuko Machida	3:40:58

Notes

External links

• iaaf.org - IAAF/CIAXA World Half Marathon Championships - Rio 2008

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