# 2002 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 11th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on May 5, 2002 in the city of Brussels, Belgium. A total of 198 athletes, 123 men and 75 women, from 60 countries took part. Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given both for the men's race and for the women's race.
Complete results were published for the men's race, for the women's race, for men's team, and for women's team.

## Medallists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Individual |||||||
| Men | Paul Kosgei (KEN) | 1:00:39 | Jaouad Gharib (MAR) | 1:00:42 | John Yuda (TAN) | 1:00:57 |
| Women | Berhane Adere (ETH) | 1:09:06 | Susan Chepkemei (KEN) | 1:09:13 | Jeļena Prokopčuka (LAT) | 1:09:15 |
| Team |||||||
| Team Men | Kenya | 3:04:42 | Japan | 3:07:12 | Ethiopia | 3:07:25 |
| Team Women | Kenya | 3:28:22 | Russia | 3:30:05 | Ethiopia | 3:30:58 |

## Race results
### Men's

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Paul Kosgei | Kenya | 1:00:39 | |
| | Jaouad Gharib | Morocco | 1:00:42 | PB |
| | John Yuda | Tanzania | 1:00:57 | |
| 4 | Yonas Kifle | Eritrea | 1:01:05 | |
| 5 | Tesfaye Jifar | Ethiopia | 1:01:11 | |
| 6 | Shadrack Hoff | South Africa | 1:01:23 | |
| 7 | Rachid Berradi | Italy | 1:01:32 | |
| 8 | Atsushi Sato | Japan | 1:01:37 | PB |
| 9 | Charles Kamathi | Kenya | 1:02:01 | |
| 10 | Paul Kirui | Kenya | 1:02:02 | |
| 11 | Julio Rey | Spain | 1:02:10 | |
| 12 | Javier Cortés | Spain | 1:02:13 | |
| 13 | Amebesse Tolossa | Ethiopia | 1:02:19 | |
| 14 | Marco Mazza | Italy | 1:02:21 | |
| 15 | Hendrick Ramaala | South Africa | 1:02:27 | |
| 16 | Alberto Chaíça | Portugal | 1:02:29 | |
| 17 | Toshihide Kato | Japan | 1:02:35 | |
| 18 | Augustin Togon | Kenya | 1:02:59 | |
| 19 | Kurao Umeki | Japan | 1:03:00 | |
| 20 | Francis Yiga | Uganda | 1:03:04 | PB |
| 21 | Zersenay Tadesse | Eritrea | 1:03:05 | |
| 22 | Tetsuo Nishikawa | Japan | 1:03:06 | |
| 23 | Mohamed Serbouti | France | 1:03:08 | |
| 24 | Augusto Gomes | France | 1:03:09 | |
| 25 | David Morris | United States | 1:03:26 | |
| 26 | Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga | Burundi | 1:03:27 | |
| 27 | Guy Fays | Belgium | 1:03:29 | |
| 28 | Janne Holmén | Finland | 1:03:33 | |
| 29 | Vital Gahungu | Burundi | 1:03:35 | |
| 30 | Josia Thugwane | South Africa | 1:03:39 | |
| 31 | Scott Larson | United States | 1:03:42 | |
| 32 | Moustafa Ahmed Cheboto | Uganda | 1:03:44 | |
| 33 | Alberto Juzdado | Spain | 1:03:47 | |
| 34 | Alfred Shemweta | Sweden | 1:03:49 | |
| 35 | Jim Jurcevich | United States | 1:03:51 | PB |
| 36 | Hassan El Ahmadi | France | 1:03:52 | |
| 37 | Worku Bikila | Ethiopia | 1:03:55 | |
| 38 | Brian Sell | United States | 1:03:57 | PB |
| 39 | Odilón Cuahutle | Mexico | 1:03:59 | PB |
| 40 | Daniele Caimmi | Italy | 1:04:00 | |
| 41 | Ndabili Bashingili | Botswana | 1:04:18 | |
| 42 | Frédéric Collignon | Belgium | 1:04:19 | PB |
| 43 | Christian Nemeth | Belgium | 1:04:22 | |
| 44 | Getachew Kebede | Ethiopia | 1:04:23 | |
| 45 | Antonio Peña | Spain | 1:04:24 | |
| 46 | Stéphane Hannot | France | 1:04:24 | |
| 47 | Medison Chibwe | Zambia | 1:04:28 | |
| 48 | Marco Gielen | Netherlands | 1:04:33 | |
| 49 | Valdenor dos Santos | Brazil | 1:04:34 | |
| 50 | Pavel Faschingbauer | Czech Republic | 1:04:39 | |
| 51 | Zhang Donglin | China | 1:04:46 | |
| 52 | Thuso Dihoro | Botswana | 1:04:53 | |
| 53 | George Ntshiliza | South Africa | 1:04:59 | |
| 54 | Hidemori Noguchi | Japan | 1:05:06 | |
| 55 | Ahmed Jumaa Jaber | Qatar | 1:05:07 | |
| 56 | Wodage Zvadya | Israel | 1:05:08 | |
| 57 | Magnus Bergman | Sweden | 1:05:08 | |
| 58 | Jeff Campbell | United States | 1:05:24 | |
| 59 | Miguel Mallqui | Peru | 1:05:26 | |
| 60 | Takhir Mamashayev | Belarus | 1:05:28 | PB |
| 61 | Toni Bernadó | Andorra | 1:05:29 | |
| 62 | Hilaire Ntirampeba | Burundi | 1:05:31 | |
| 63 | Ali Mabrouk El-Zaidi | Libya | 1:05:32 | |
| 64 | Viktor Lomonosov | Belarus | 1:05:33 | |
| 65 | Constantino León | Peru | 1:05:36 | |
| 66 | Oleg Gutnik | Belarus | 1:05:50 | |
| 67 | Li Zhuhong | China | 1:06:02 | |
| 68 | William Struyven | France | 1:06:02 | |
| 69 | Enoch Skosana | South Africa | 1:06:03 | |
| 70 | Raúl Pacheco | Peru | 1:06:04 | |
| 71 | Yusuf Zepak | Turkey | 1:06:11 | |
| 72 | Ahmed Abdel Mougod Soliman | Egypt | 1:06:12 | |
| 73 | Denis Curzi | Italy | 1:06:16 | |
| 74 | Tesfit Berhe | Eritrea | 1:06:16 | |
| 75 | Jumah Al-Noor | Qatar | 1:06:19 | |
| 76 | Ramiro Morán | Spain | 1:06:20 | |
| 77 | Mcmillan Mwansa | Zambia | 1:06:27 | PB |
| 78 | Adamou Aboubakar | Cameroon | 1:06:40 | |
| 79 | Ahmed Adam Saleh | Qatar | 1:06:56 | |
| 80 | Foaad Abubaker | Qatar | 1:06:56 | PB |
| 81 | Li He | China | 1:07:03 | |
| 82 | Yevgeniy Medvednikov | Kazakhstan | 1:07:05 | |
| 83 | Eduardo Rojas | Mexico | 1:07:12 | |
| 84 | Zeki Öztürk | Turkey | 1:07:21 | |
| 85 | Khimu Giri | Nepal | 1:07:22 | PB |
| 86 | Drago Paripović | Croatia | 1:07:27 | |
| 87 | Martin Toroitich | Uganda | 1:07:42 | |
| 88 | Furkan Boyan | Turkey | 1:07:48 | |
| 89 | Ion Luchianov | Moldova | 1:08:11 | |
| 90 | Rik Ceulemans | Belgium | 1:08:16 | |
| 91 | Hussein Hamid Mousa | Qatar | 1:08:30 | |
| 92 | Ivica Škopac | Croatia | 1:08:38 | |
| 93 | Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin | Kyrgyzstan | 1:08:57 | |
| 94 | Salah Juaim | Yemen | 1:09:28 | |
| 95 | Ahmet Yavuz | Turkey | 1:09:41 | |
| 96 | Bat-Ochir Ser-Od | Mongolia | 1:09:54 | |
| 97 | Rafael Muñoz | Mexico | 1:10:13 | |
| 98 | Nedeljko Ravić | Croatia | 1:10:26 | |
| 99 | Mathieu Kouanotso | Cameroon | 1:10:41 | |
| 100 | Umaru Mohamed | Nigeria | 1:10:43 | |
| 101 | Vasiliy Medvedev | Uzbekistan | 1:10:43 | |
| 102 | Raibat Dahal | Nepal | 1:10:57 | |
| 103 | Mohamed Issa | Libya | 1:10:58 | |
| 104 | Khasan Rakhimov | Uzbekistan | 1:11:19 | |
| 105 | Charles Cilia | Malta | 1:11:24 | |
| 106 | Sergey Zabavskiy | Tajikistan | 1:11:29 | |
| 107 | Nazirdin Akylbekov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:12:55 | |
| 108 | Dovran Amandjayev | Turkmenistan | 1:13:24 | |
| 109 | Kursan Jusupaliyev | Kyrgyzstan | 1:14:40 | |
| 110 | Sifli Ahar | Brunei | 1:14:52 | |
| 111 | Kaelo Mosalagae | Botswana | 1:15:31 | |
| 112 | Lee Kar Lun | Hong Kong | 1:15:46 | |
| 113 | Kun Sio Pan | Macau | 1:16:23 | PB |
| 114 | Mamadou Alpha Barry | Guinea | 1:17:01 | |
| 115 | Vladimir Escajadillo | Peru | 1:21:33 | |
| 116 | Mark Hydes | Cayman Islands | 1:22:41 | |
| 117 | Ihab Salama | Palestine | 1:29:01 | |
| — | Berhanu Addane | Ethiopia | DNF | |
| — | Amara Sangare | Guinea | DNF | |
| — | Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot | Kenya | DNF | |
| — | Khaingaikhuu Uvgunkhuu | Mongolia | DNF | |
| — | Luís Novo | Portugal | DNF | |
| — | Mohammed Mourhit | Belgium | DQ$^†$ | |
| — | Jean-Paul Niyonsaba | Burundi | DNS | |
$^†$: Mohammed Mourhit from Belgium was initially 23rd (1:03:08), but tested positive for EPO.

### Women's

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Berhane Adere | Ethiopia | 1:09:06 | |
| | Susan Chepkemei | Kenya | 1:09:13 | |
| | Jeļena Prokopčuka | Latvia | 1:09:15 | |
| 4 | Mihaela Botezan | Romania | 1:09:24 | PB |
| 5 | Pamela Chepchumba | Kenya | 1:09:30 | |
| 6 | Olivera Jevtić | Yugoslavia | 1:09:33 | |
| 7 | Lenah Cheruiyot | Kenya | 1:09:39 | |
| 8 | Marleen Renders | Belgium | 1:09:40 | |
| 9 | Mizuki Noguchi | Japan | 1:09:43 | |
| 10 | Asmae Leghzaoui | Morocco | 1:09:46 | |
| 11 | Kerryn McCann | Australia | 1:09:47 | |
| 12 | Svetlana Zakharova | Russia | 1:09:48 | PB |
| 13 | Lyudmila Petrova | Russia | 1:09:55 | |
| 14 | Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 1:10:04 | PB |
| 15 | Luminița Talpoș | Romania | 1:10:08 | PB |
| 16 | Irina Safarova | Russia | 1:10:22 | |
| 17 | Asha Gigi | Ethiopia | 1:10:42 | PB |
| 18 | Leila Aman | Ethiopia | 1:11:10 | PB |
| 19 | Mikie Takanaka | Japan | 1:11:16 | |
| 20 | Ines Chenonge | Kenya | 1:11:25 | |
| 21 | Kiyomi Ogawa | Japan | 1:11:27 | |
| 22 | Constantina Diţă-Tomescu | Romania | 1:11:34 | |
| 23 | Silvia Skvortsova | Russia | 1:11:39 | |
| 24 | Shitaye Gemechu | Ethiopia | 1:11:43 | |
| 25 | Alina Tecuţă/Gherasim | Romania | 1:11:48 | |
| 26 | Gunhild Haugen | Norway | 1:11:56 | |
| 27 | Mari Ozaki | Japan | 1:11:57 | |
| 28 | Cristina Pomacu | Romania | 1:12:19 | |
| 29 | Wei Yanan | China | 1:12:23 | |
| 30 | Maria Guida | Italy | 1:12:26 | |
| 31 | Viktoriya Klimina | Russia | 1:12:33 | |
| 32 | Gloria Marconi | Italy | 1:12:41 | |
| 33 | Chantal Dällenbach | France | 1:12:50 | |
| 34 | Zhang Shujing | China | 1:13:04 | |
| 35 | Petra Kamínková/Drajzajtlová | Czech Republic | 1:13:08 | |
| 36 | Silvia Sommaggio | Italy | 1:13:31 | |
| 37 | María Abel | Spain | 1:13:58 | |
| 37 | María Abel | Sweden | 1:13:58 | |
| 38 | Worknesh Tola | Ethiopia | 1:13:58 | |
| 39 | Nili Avramski | Israel | 1:13:59 | PB |
| 41 | Irma Heeren | Netherlands | 1:14:11 | |
| 42 | Mounia Aboulahcen | Belgium | 1:14:13 | |
| 43 | Tegla Loroupe | Kenya | 1:14:23 | |
| 44 | Jin Li | China | 1:14:36 | |
| 45 | Monia Capelli | Italy | 1:14:38 | PB |
| 46 | Rodica Moroianu | France | 1:14:49 | |
| 47 | Amanda Wright-Allen | Great Britain | 1:14:53 | |
| 48 | Charné Rademeyer | South Africa | 1:15:19 | |
| 49 | Yelena Tolstygina | Belarus | 1:15:27 | |
| 50 | Sandra Van Den Haesevelde | Belgium | 1:15:31 | |
| 51 | Cathérine Lallemand | Belgium | 1:15:59 | |
| 52 | Rosa Gutierrez | United States | 1:16:28 | PB |
| 53 | Misti Demko | United States | 1:16:51 | |
| 54 | Kim Pawelek | United States | 1:17:30 | |
| 55 | Linda Somers | United States | 1:17:38 | |
| 56 | Monica Hostetler | United States | 1:18:02 | |
| 57 | Marina Gurbina | Kazakhstan | 1:18:33 | |
| 58 | Magdaline Morobi | South Africa | 1:18:37 | |
| 59 | Carol Galea | Malta | 1:18:39 | |
| 60 | Yekaterina Shatnaya | Kazakhstan | 1:18:59 | |
| 61 | Gulsara Dadabayeva | Tajikistan | 1:19:08 | |
| 62 | Caroline Desprez | France | 1:19:10 | |
| 63 | Ann Parmentier | Belgium | 1:19:32 | |
| 64 | Nicole Whiteford | South Africa | 1:20:40 | |
| 65 | Christiana Augustine | Nigeria | 1:21:59 | |
| 66 | Dildar Mamedova | Turkmenistan | 1:21:59 | PB |
| 67 | Rashida Sarbasova | Kazakhstan | 1:23:06 | PB |
| 68 | Chanda Mwansa | Zambia | 1:25:43 | |
| — | Marizete Rezende | Brazil | DNF | |
| — | Annemette Jensen | Denmark | DNF | |
| — | Zahia Dahmani | France | DNF | |
| — | Kadiatou Diallo | Guinea | DNF | |
| — | Stine Larsen | Norway | DNF | |
| — | Carlien Cornelissen | South Africa | DNF | |
| — | Irina Matrosova | Uzbekistan | DNF | |
| — | Yumiko Hara | Japan | DNS | |
| — | Rosita Rota Gelpi | Italy | DNS | |
| — | Maria Condrea | Moldova | DNS | |
| — | Nebiat Habtemariam | Eritrea | DNS | |

## Team results
### Men's

| Rank | Country | Team | Time |
| | Kenya | Paul Kosgei Charles Kamathi Paul Kirui | 3:04:42 |
| | Japan | Atsushi Sato Toshihide Kato Kurao Umeki | 3:07:12 |
| | Ethiopia | Tesfaye Jifar Amebesse Tolossa Worku Bikila | 3:07:25 |
| 4 | South Africa | Shadrack Hoff Hendrick Ramaala Josia Thugwane | 3:07:29 |
| 5 | Italy | Rachid Berradi Marco Mazza Daniele Caimmi | 3:07:53 |
| 6 | Spain | Julio Rey Javier Cortés Alberto Juzdado | 3:08:10 |
| 7 | France | Mohamed Serbouti Augusto Gomes Hassan El Ahmadi | 3:10:09 |
| 8 | Eritrea | Yonas Kifle Zersenay Tadesse Tesfit Berhe | 3:10:26 |
| 9 | United States | David Morris Scott Larson Jim Jurcevich | 3:10:59 |
| 10 | Belgium | Guy Fays Frédéric Collignon Christian Nemeth | 3:12:10 |
| 11 | Burundi | Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga Vital Gahungu Hilaire Ntirampeba | 3:12:33 |
| 12 | Uganda | Francis Yiga Moustafa Ahmed Cheboto Martin Toroitich | 3:14:30 |
| 13 | Belarus | Takhir Mamashayev Viktor Lomonosov Oleg Gutnik | 3:16:51 |
| 14 | Peru | Miguel Mallqui Constantino León Raúl Pacheco | 3:17:06 |
| 15 | China | Zhang Donglin Li Zhuhong Li He | 3:17:51 |
| 16 | Qatar | Ahmed Jumaa Jaber Jumah Al-Noor Ahmed Adam Saleh | 3:18:22 |
| 17 | Turkey | Yusuf Zepak Zeki Öztürk Furkan Boyan | 3:21:20 |
| 18 | Mexico | Odilón Cuahutle Eduardo Rojas Rafael Muñoz | 3:21:24 |
| 19 | Botswana | Ndabili Bashingili Thuso Dihoro Kaelo Mosalagae | 3:24:42 |
| 20 | Croatia | Drago Paripović Ivica Škopac Nedeljko Ravić | 3:26:31 |
| 21 | Kyrgyzstan | Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin Nazirdin Akylbekov Kursan Jusupaliyev | 3:36:32 |

### Women's

| Rank | Country | Team | Time |
| | Kenya | Susan Chepkemei Pamela Chepchumba Lenah Cheruiyot | 3:28:22 |
| | Russia | Svetlana Zakharova Lyudmila Petrova Irina Safarova | 3:30:05 |
| | Ethiopia | Berhane Adere Asha Gigi Leila Aman | 3:30:58 |
| 4 | Romania | Mihaela Botezan Luminița Talpoș Constantina Diţă-Tomescu | 3:31:06 |
| 5 | Japan | Mizuki Noguchi Mikie Takanaka Kiyomi Ogawa | 3:32:26 |
| 6 | Italy | Maria Guida Gloria Marconi Silvia Sommaggio | 3:38:38 |
| 7 | Belgium | Marleen Renders Mounia Aboulahcen Sandra Van Den Haesevelde | 3:39:24 |
| 8 | China | Wei Yanan Zhang Shujing Jin Li | 3:40:03 |
| 9 | France | Chantal Dällenbach Rodica Moroianu Caroline Desprez | 3:46:49 |
| 10 | United States | Rosa Gutierrez Misti Demko Kim Pawelek | 3:50:49 |
| 11 | South Africa | Charné Rademeyer Magdaline Morobi Nicole Whiteford | 3:54:36 |
| 12 | Kazakhstan | Marina Gurbina Yekaterina Shatnaya Rashida Sarbasova | 4:00:38 |

## Participation

The participation of 198 athletes (123 men/75 women) from 60 countries is reported.
* Andorra (1)
* Australia (1)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (10)
* Botswana (3)
* Brazil (2)
* Brunei (1)
* Burundi (3)
* Cameroon (2)
* Cayman Islands (1)
* China (6)
* Croatia (3)
* Czech Republic (2)
* Denmark (1)
* Egypt (1)
* Eritrea (3)
* Ethiopia (10)
* Finland (1)
* France (9)
* Guinea (3)
* Hong Kong (1)
* Ireland (1)
* Israel (2)
* Italy (8)
* Japan (9)
* Kazakhstan (4)
* Kenya (10)
* Kyrgyzstan (3)
* Latvia (1)
* Libya (2)
* Macau (1)
* Malta (2)
* Mexico (3)
* Moldova (1)
* Mongolia (2)
* Morocco (2)
* Netherlands (2)
* Nepal (2)
* Nigeria (2)
* Norway (2)
* Palestine (1)
* Peru (4)
* Portugal (2)
* Qatar (5)
* Romania (5)
* Russia (5)
* South Africa (9)
* Spain (6)
* Sweden (3)
* Tajikistan (2)
* Tanzania (1)
* Turkey (4)
* Turkmenistan (2)
* Uganda (3)
* United Kingdom (1)
* United States (10)
* Uzbekistan (3)
* Yemen (1)
* Yugoslavia (1)
* Zambia (3)