# 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships

The 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships, originally scheduled for 29 March 2020 in Gdynia, Poland, was postponed until 17 October 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On 31 August 2020, the mass participation race was cancelled, while the elite championships remained scheduled.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Individual |||||||
| Men | Jacob Kiplimo (UGA) | 58:49 | Kibiwott Kandie (KEN) | 58:54 | Amedework Walelegn (ETH) | 59:08 |
| Women | Peres Jepchirchir (KEN) | 1:05:16 | Melat Yisak Kejeta (GER) | 1:05:18 | Yalemzerf Yehualaw (ETH) | 1:05:19 |
| Team |||||||
| Men | Kenya | 2:58:10 | Ethiopia | 2:58:25 | Uganda | 2:58:39 |
| Women | Ethiopia | 3:16:39 | Kenya | 3:18:10 | Germany | 3:28:42 |

## Race results
### Men

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Jacob Kiplimo | Uganda | 58:49 | CR |
| | Kibiwott Kandie | Kenya | 58:54 | |
| | Amedework Walelegn | Ethiopia | 59:08 | PB |
| 4 | Joshua Cheptegei | Uganda | 59:21 | PB |
| 5 | Andamlak Belihu | Ethiopia | 59:32 | SB |
| 6 | Leonard Barsoton | Kenya | 59:34 | SB |
| 7 | Stephen Mokoka | South Africa | 59:36 | NR |
| 8 | Morhad Amdouni | France | 59:40 | NR |
| 9 | Benard Kimeli | Kenya | 59:42 | SB |
| 10 | Leul Gebresilase | Ethiopia | 59:45 | SB |
| 11 | Hailemaryam Kiros | Ethiopia | 1:00:01 | PB |
| 12 | Hamza Sahli | Morocco | 1:00:04 | PB |
| 13 | Mohamed Reda El Aaraby | Morocco | 1:00:17 | PB |
| 14 | Lesiba Precious Mashele | South Africa | 1:00:24 | PB |
| 15 | Mouhcine Outalha | Morocco | 1:00:26 | PB |
| 16 | Victor Kiplangat | Uganda | 1:00:29 | SB |
| 17 | Othmane El Goumri | Morocco | 1:00:30 | PB |
| 18 | Jake Smith | Great Britain | 1:00:31 | PB |
| 19 | Stephen Kissa | Uganda | 1:00:34 | |
| 20 | Bohdan-Ivan Horodyskyy | Ukraine | 1:00:40 | NR |
| 21 | Julien Wanders | Switzerland | 1:00:46 | SB |
| 22 | Guye Idemo Adola | Ethiopia | 1:00:50 | SB |
| 23 | Collen Mulaudzi | South Africa | 1:00:51 | PB |
| 24 | Aras Kaya | Turkey | 1:00:51 | PB |
| 25 | Tadesse Getahon | Israel | 1:00:52 | NR |
| 26 | Eyob Faniel | Italy | 1:00:53 | PB |
| 27 | Florian Carvalho | France | 1:00:58 | PB |
| 28 | Marhu Teferi | Israel | 1:00:58 | SB |
| 29 | José Luis Santana | Mexico | 1:01:11 | PB |
| 30 | Juan Pacheco | Mexico | 1:01:20 | PB |
| 31 | Ayad Lamdassem | Spain | 1:01:21 | PB |
| 32 | Benjamin Choquert | France | 1:01:32 | PB |
| 33 | Carlos Díaz | Chile | 1:01:32 | NR |
| 34 | Krystian Zalewski | Poland | 1:01:32 | NR |
| 35 | Simon Boch | Germany | 1:01:36 | PB |
| 36 | Juan Antonio Pérez | Spain | 1:01:39 | SB |
| 37 | David Nilsson | Sweden | 1:01:40 | PB |
| 38 | Hassan Toriss | Morocco | 1:01:42 | PB |
| 39 | Girmaw Amare | Israel | 1:02:03 | PB |
| 40 | Samuel Barata | Portugal | 1:02:19 | PB |
| 41 | Tiidrek Nurme | Estonia | 1:02:20 | NR |
| 42 | Benard Kipkorir Ngeno | Kenya | 1:02:26 | |
| 43 | Pietro Riva | Italy | 1:02:28 | SB |
| 44 | Stefano La Rosa | Italy | 1:02:28 | PB |
| 45 | Nicolas Navarro | France | 1:02:29 | PB |
| 46 | Adel Mechaal | Spain | 1:02:30 | PB |
| 47 | Morris Munene Gachaga | Kenya | 1:02:30 | SB |
| 48 | Iván Darío González | Colombia | 1:02:31 | PB |
| 49 | Daniele D'Onofrio | Italy | 1:02:32 | PB |
| 50 | Mohamud Ibrahim Aadan | Great Britain | 1:02:41 | SB |
| 51 | Tadesse Abraham | Switzerland | 1:02:46 | SB |
| 52 | Hlynur Andrésson | Iceland | 1:02:47 | NR |
| 53 | Mikael Ekvall | Sweden | 1:02:48 | SB |
| 54 | Kaan Kigen Özbilen | Turkey | 1:02:53 | SB |
| 55 | Emil Millán de la Oliva | Sweden | 1:02:53 | PB |
| 56 | Segundo Jami | Ecuador | 1:02:57 | PB |
| 57 | Abderrazak Charik | France | 1:02:58 | |
| 58 | Kevin Seaward | Ireland | 1:02:58 | PB |
| 59 | Roman Fosti | Estonia | 1:03:03 | PB |
| 60 | Kristian Jones | Great Britain | 1:03:05 | PB |
| 61 | Polat Kemboi Arikan | Turkey | 1:03:10 | SB |
| 62 | Adam Craig | Great Britain | 1:03:12 | PB |
| 63 | Nicolae Soare | Romania | 1:03:14 | PB |
| 64 | Tom Evans | Great Britain | 1:03:14 | PB |
| 65 | Sezgin Ataç | Turkey | 1:03:21 | |
| 66 | Roman Romanenko | Ukraine | 1:03:26 | SB |
| 67 | Otmane Nait Hammou | Athlete Refugee Team | 1:03:28 | NR |
| 68 | Maxim Răileanu | Moldova | 1:03:34 | PB |
| 69 | Saffet Elkatmiş | Turkey | 1:03:34 | PB |
| 70 | Hugh Armstrong | Ireland | 1:03:37 | PB |
| 71 | Oleksandr Sitkovskyy | Ukraine | 1:03:41 | PB |
| 72 | Jean Marie Vianney Niyomukiza | Burundi | 1:03:43 | PB |
| 73 | Koen Naert | Belgium | 1:03:44 | SB |
| 74 | Simon Holbek Kønigsfeldt | Denmark | 1:03:48 | PB |
| 75 | Gilmar Lopes | Brazil | 1:03:51 | SB |
| 76 | Moses Kibet | Uganda | 1:03:54 | SB |
| 77 | Joaquín Arbe | Argentina | 1:03:55 | SB |
| 78 | Luís Saraiva | Portugal | 1:03:56 | PB |
| 79 | Álvaro Abreu | Dominican Republic | 1:03:58 | NR |
| 80 | Timon Theuer | Austria | 1:03:59 | |
| 81 | Nicolás Cuestas | Uruguay | 1:04:00 | SB |
| 82 | Remigijus Kančys | Lithuania | 1:04:00 | NR |
| 83 | Adhanom Abraha | Sweden | 1:04:02 | SB |
| 84 | Iraitz Arrospide | Spain | 1:04:07 | |
| 85 | Iván Zarco | Honduras | 1:04:08 | NR |
| 86 | Ignas Brasevičius | Lithuania | 1:04:09 | PB |
| 87 | Thijs Nijhuis | Denmark | 1:04:10 | SB |
| 88 | Christian Steinhammer | Austria | 1:04:11 | |
| 89 | Luis Orta | Venezuela | 1:04:11 | |
| 90 | Ederson Pereira | Brazil | 1:04:19 | SB |
| 91 | Yitayew Abuhay | Israel | 1:04:21 | PB |
| 92 | Igor Olefirenko | Ukraine | 1:04:22 | SB |
| 93 | Daniel do Nascimento | Brazil | 1:04:27 | PB |
| 94 | Andreas Lommer | Denmark | 1:04:28 | |
| 95 | Adam Nowicki | Poland | 1:04:31 | SB |
| 96 | Jesús Arturo Esparza | Mexico | 1:04:35 | PB |
| 97 | Konstantin Wedel | Germany | 1:04:45 | |
| 98 | Christian Vásconez | Ecuador | 1:04:49 | PB |
| 99 | Marvin Blanco | Venezuela | 1:05:06 | PB |
| 100 | Amanal Petros | Germany | 1:05:22 | |
| 101 | Damian Kabat | Poland | 1:05:26 | PB |
| 102 | Valdas Dopolskas | Lithuania | 1:05:28 | PB |
| 103 | Jorge Blanco | Spain | 1:05:31 | |
| 104 | Tobias Blum | Germany | 1:05:33 | |
| 105 | Jeison Suárez | Colombia | 1:05:42 | SB |
| 106 | Adam Głogowski | Poland | 1:05:50 | |
| 107 | Nuno Lopes | Portugal | 1:06:30 | |
| 108 | Fouad Idbafdil | Athlete Refugee Team | 1:06:35 | PB |
| 109 | Bayron Piedra | Ecuador | 1:06:45 | SB |
| 110 | Wan Chun Wong | Hong Kong | 1:06:58 | PB |
| 111 | Rafael Loza | Ecuador | 1:08:30 | |
| 112 | Oscar Antonio Aldana | El Salvador | 1:08:31 | NR |
| 113 | Valentin Betoudji | Chad | 1:08:46 | PB |
| 114 | Charlton Debono | Malta | 1:08:51 | SB |
| 115 | Stefan Azzopardi | Malta | 1:09:18 | PB |
| 116 | Sonny Folcheri | Monaco | 1:16:01 | PB |
| 117 | Ilir Këllezi | Albania | 1:17:27 | SB |
| | Arnar Pétursson | Iceland | DNF | |
| | Nekagenet Crippa | Italy | DNF | |
| | Rui Pinto | Portugal | DNF | |
| | Napoleon Solomon | Sweden | DNF | |
| | Ayala Gashau | Israel | DNS | |

### Women

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Peres Jepchirchir | Kenya | 1:05:16 | WR$_{wo}$ |
| | Melat Yisak Kejeta | Germany | 1:05:18 | AR$_{wo}$ |
| | Yalemzerf Yehualaw | Ethiopia | 1:05:19 | PB |
| 4 | Zeineba Yimer | Ethiopia | 1:05:39 | PB |
| 5 | Ababel Yeshaneh | Ethiopia | 1:05:41 | |
| 6 | Joyciline Jepkosgei | Kenya | 1:05:58 | SB |
| 7 | Yasemin Can | Turkey | 1:06:20 | NR |
| 8 | Netsanet Gudeta | Ethiopia | 1:06:46 | SB |
| 9 | Brillian Jepkorir Kipkoech | Kenya | 1:06:56 | PB |
| 10 | Rosemary Wanjiru | Kenya | 1:07:10 | |
| 11 | Dorcas Jepchumba Kimeli | Kenya | 1:07:55 | |
| 12 | Lonah Chemtai Salpeter | Israel | 1:08:31 | SB |
| 13 | Fabienne Schlumpf | Switzerland | 1:08:38 | NR |
| 14 | Juliet Chekwel | Uganda | 1:08:44 | NR |
| 15 | Sisay Meseret Gola | Ethiopia | 1:09:02 | PB |
| 16 | Glenrose Xaba | South Africa | 1:09:26 | PB |
| 17 | Doreen Chemutai | Uganda | 1:10:18 | PB |
| 18 | Charlotta Fougberg | Sweden | 1:10:19 | PB |
| 19 | Úrsula Sánchez | Mexico | 1:10:19 | PB |
| 20 | Andrea Ramírez | Mexico | 1:10:20 | PB |
| 21 | Daniela Torres | Mexico | 1:10:22 | PB |
| 22 | Florencia Borelli | Argentina | 1:10:30 | NR |
| 23 | Yevheniya Prokofyeva | Ukraine | 1:10:32 | PB |
| 24 | Brenda Flores | Mexico | 1:10:36 | PB |
| 25 | Sofiia Yaremchuk | Ukraine | 1:10:42 | |
| 26 | Laura Hottenrott | Germany | 1:10:49 | PB |
| 27 | Fortunate Chidzivo | Zimbabwe | 1:10:50 | NR |
| 28 | Izabela Paszkiewicz | Poland | 1:10:52 | PB |
| 29 | Katarzyna Jankowska | Poland | 1:11:02 | PB |
| 30 | Doreen Chesang | Uganda | 1:11:04 | PB |
| 31 | Susan Kipsang Jeptooo | France | 1:11:06 | SB |
| 32 | Angelika Mach | Poland | 1:11:07 | PB |
| 33 | Marta Galimany | Spain | 1:11:08 | PB |
| 34 | Moira Stewartová | Czech Republic | 1:11:08 | PB |
| 35 | Bojana Bjeljac | Croatia | 1:11:12 | PB |
| 36 | Giovanna Epis | Italy | 1:11:14 | PB |
| 37 | Carolina Wikström | Sweden | 1:11:31 | PB |
| 38 | Nina Lauwaert | Belgium | 1:11:33 | PB |
| 39 | Sara Moreira | Portugal | 1:11:39 | SB |
| 40 | Valeria Straneo | Italy | 1:11:39 | |
| 41 | Samira Mezeghrane | France | 1:11:40 | PB |
| 42 | Ann Marie McGlynn | Ireland | 1:11:40 | PB |
| 43 | Hanna Lindholm | Sweden | 1:11:47 | PB |
| 44 | Andrea Bonilla | Ecuador | 1:11:48 | PB |
| 45 | Daiana Ocampo | Argentina | 1:11:50 | PB |
| 46 | Francine Niyomukunzi | Burundi | 1:11:50 | PB |
| 47 | Samantha Harrison | Great Britain | 1:11:53 | |
| 48 | Angie Orjuela | Colombia | 1:12:07 | PB |
| 49 | Kit Ching Yiu | Hong Kong | 1:12:10 | |
| 50 | Tereza Hrochová | Czech Republic | 1:12:13 | PB |
| 51 | Aleksandra Lisowska | Poland | 1:12:16 | PB |
| 52 | Esma Aydemir | Turkey | 1:12:22 | SB |
| 53 | Maor Tiyouri | Israel | 1:12:27 | PB |
| 54 | Rabea Schöneborn | Germany | 1:12:35 | |
| 55 | Deborah Schöneborn | Germany | 1:12:39 | |
| 56 | Elena Loyo | Spain | 1:12:44 | |
| 57 | Rachael Zena Chebet | Uganda | 1:12:50 | |
| 58 | Melody Julien | France | 1:12:51 | PB |
| 59 | Fatma Demir | Turkey | 1:12:57 | PB |
| 60 | Olga Skrypak | Ukraine | 1:12:58 | SB |
| 61 | Laura Mendez | Spain | 1:12:58 | PB |
| 62 | Maria Chiara Cascavilla | Italy | 1:13:01 | PB |
| 63 | Jekaterina Patjuk | Estonia | 1:13:08 | PB |
| 64 | Becky Briggs | Great Britain | 1:13:08 | PB |
| 65 | Clara Evans | Great Britain | 1:13:11 | |
| 66 | Vendula Frintová | Czech Republic | 1:13:16 | PB |
| 67 | Lilia Fisikovici | Moldova | 1:13:32 | SB |
| 68 | Federica Sugamiele | Italy | 1:13:38 | |
| 69 | Roxana Elisabeta Rotaru | Romania | 1:13:45 | PB |
| 70 | Monika Bytautienė | Lithuania | 1:13:50 | PB |
| 71 | Liliana Maria Dragomir | Romania | 1:14:02 | PB |
| 72 | Marcela Cristina Gomes | Argentina | 1:14:18 | PB |
| 73 | Marcela Joglová | Czech Republic | 1:14:30 | |
| 74 | Beverly Ramos | Puerto Rico | 1:14:39 | SB |
| 75 | Thalia Charalambous | Cyprus | 1:14:40 | NR |
| 76 | Andreia Hessel | Brazil | 1:14:41 | PB |
| 77 | Karen Ehrenreich | Denmark | 1:14:45 | PB |
| 78 | Katerine Tisalema | Ecuador | 1:14:59 | |
| 79 | Loreta Kančytė | Lithuania | 1:15:15 | PB |
| 80 | Elisa Stefani | Italy | 1:15:16 | |
| 81 | Rosa Chacha | Ecuador | 1:15:27 | SB |
| 82 | Jéssica Augusto | Portugal | 1:15:29 | SB |
| 83 | Elena Adelina Panaet | Romania | 1:15:33 | PB |
| 84 | Fanny Pruvost | France | 1:15:34 | |
| 85 | Tetyana Vernihor | Ukraine | 1:16:22 | SB |
| 86 | Victoria Schenk | Austria | 1:16:36 | SB |
| 87 | Fabienne Königstein | Germany | 1:17:03 | |
| 88 | Tatyana Neroznak | Kazakhstan | 1:17:07 | PB |
| 89 | Andrea Kolbeinsdóttir | Iceland | 1:17:52 | PB |
| 90 | Tania Chavez Moser | Bolivia | 1:17:53 | PB |
| 91 | Lina Kiriliuk | Lithuania | 1:18:31 | PB |
| 92 | Stella Christoforou | Cyprus | 1:18:42 | PB |
| 93 | Lisa Marie Bezzina | Malta | 1:18:43 | PB |
| 94 | Valdilene Silva | Brazil | 1:18:58 | SB |
| 95 | Adela Paulina Baltoi | Romania | 1:19:02 | SB |
| 96 | Tsz Ying Vut | Hong Kong | 1:19:08 | PB |
| 97 | Joelle Cortis | Malta | 1:19:28 | PB |
| 98 | Idelma Delgado | El Salvador | 1:21:01 | PB |
| 99 | Andrijana Pop Arsova | North Macedonia | 1:22:18 | |
| 100 | Lorena Sosa | Uruguay | 1:22:38 | SB |
| 101 | Elín Edda Sigurðardóttir | Iceland | 1:24:20 | |
| | Annemari Kiekara | Finland | DNF | |
| | Adriana Nelson | Romania | DNF | |
| | Hiruni Kesara Wijayaratne | Sri Lanka | DNF | |
| | Sarah Lahti | Sweden | DNS | |

## Team standings
### Men

| Rank | Country | Time |
| | Kenya | 2:58:10 |
| | Ethiopia | 2:58:25 |
| | Uganda | 2:58:39 |
| 4 | Morocco | 3:00:47 |
| 5 | South Africa | 3:00:51 |
| 6 | France | 3:02:10 |
| 7 | Israel | 3:03:53 |
| 8 | Spain | 3:05:30 |
| 9 | Italy | 3:05:49 |
| 10 | Great Britain | 3:06:17 |
| 11 | Turkey | 3:06:54 |
| 12 | Mexico | 3:07:06 |
| 13 | Sweden | 3:07:21 |
| 14 | Ukraine | 3:07:47 |
| 15 | Poland | 3:11:29 |
| 16 | Germany | 3:11:43 |
| 17 | Denmark | 3:12:26 |
| 18 | Brazil | 3:12:37 |
| 19 | Portugal | 3:12:45 |
| 20 | Lithuania | 3:13:37 |
| 21 | Ecuador | 3:14:31 |

### Women

| Rank | Country | Time |
| | Ethiopia | 3:16:39 |
| | Kenya | 3:18:10 |
| | Germany | 3:28:42 |
| 4 | Uganda | 3:30:06 |
| 5 | Mexico | 3:31:01 |
| 6 | Turkey | 3:31:39 |
| 7 | Poland | 3:33:01 |
| 8 | Sweden | 3:33:37 |
| 9 | Ukraine | 3:34:12 |
| 10 | France | 3:35:37 |
| 11 | Italy | 3:35:54 |
| 12 | Czech Republic | 3:36:37 |
| 13 | Argentina | 3:36:38 |
| 14 | Spain | 3:36:50 |
| 15 | Great Britain | 3:38:12 |
| 16 | Ecuador | 3:42:14 |
| 17 | Romania | 3:43:20 |
| 18 | Lithuania | 3:47:36 |