# 2001 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 10th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on 7 October 2001 in the city of Bristol, UK, and was run immediately before that year's Bristol Half Marathon. A total of 200 athletes, 125 men and 75 women, from 52 countries took part. Detailed reports on the event and an appraisal of the results were given.
Complete results were published for men, for women, for men's team, and for women's team.

## Medallists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Individual |||||||
| Men | Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) | 1:00:03 | Tesfaye Jifar (ETH) | 1:00:04 | John Yuda (TAN) | 1:00:12 |
| Women | Paula Radcliffe (GBR) | 1:06:47 | Susan Chepkemei (KEN) | 1:07:36 | Berhane Adere (ETH) | 1:08:17 |
| Team |||||||
| Team Men | Ethiopia | 3:00:31 | Kenya | 3:02:53 | Tanzania | 3:05:08 |
| Team Women | Kenya | 3:28:04 | Japan | 3:30:08 | Ethiopia | 3:30:20 |

## Race results
### Men's

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 1:00:03 | PB |
| | Tesfaye Jifar | Ethiopia | 1:00:04 | PB |
| | John Yuda | Tanzania | 1:00:12 | PB |
| 4 | Hendrick Ramaala | South Africa | 1:00:15 | |
| 5 | Tesfaye Tola | Ethiopia | 1:00:24 | PB |
| 6 | Evans Rutto | Kenya | 1:00:43 | |
| 7 | Peter Kiplagat Chebet | Kenya | 1:00:56 | PB |
| 8 | Christopher Cheboiboch | Kenya | 1:01:14 | |
| 9 | Jaouad Gharib | Morocco | 1:01:41 | |
| 10 | Khalid Skah | Morocco | 1:01:41 | |
| 11 | Salah Hissou | Morocco | 1:01:56 | PB |
| 12 | Faustin Baha | Tanzania | 1:02:15 | |
| 13 | John Gwako | Kenya | 1:02:15 | PB |
| 14 | Abner Chipu | South Africa | 1:02:18 | |
| 15 | Mostafa Errebbah | Italy | 1:02:19 | PB |
| 16 | Haron Toroitich | Kenya | 1:02:27 | |
| 17 | Takeshi Hamano | Japan | 1:02:28 | PB |
| 18 | Abdelhadi Habassa | Morocco | 1:02:30 | PB |
| 19 | Rachid Ziar | Algeria | 1:02:32 | |
| 20 | Tiyapo Maso | Botswana | 1:02:33 | |
| 21 | Matt O'Dowd | Great Britain | 1:02:40 | |
| 22 | Benedict Ako | Tanzania | 1:02:41 | |
| 23 | Eduardo Henriques | Portugal | 1:02:44 | |
| 24 | Kazuo Ietani | Japan | 1:02:46 | |
| 25 | Lahoussine Mrikik | Morocco | 1:02:54 | |
| 26 | Zebedayo Bayo | Tanzania | 1:02:55 | |
| 27 | George Mofokeng | South Africa | 1:02:57 | |
| 28 | Janne Holmén | Finland | 1:03:01 | PB |
| 29 | Róbert Štefko | Slovakia | 1:03:03 | |
| 30 | Abel Chimukoko | Zimbabwe | 1:03:04 | PB |
| 31 | Noureddine Betim | Algeria | 1:03:05 | PB |
| 32 | Paulo Guerra | Portugal | 1:03:06 | |
| 33 | Scott Larson | United States | 1:03:08 | PB |
| 34 | Daniele Caimmi | Italy | 1:03:16 | |
| 35 | Francis Yiga | Uganda | 1:03:23 | PB |
| 36 | Paul Wakou | Uganda | 1:03:27 | PB |
| 37 | Takashi Ota | Japan | 1:03:28 | |
| 38 | José Carlos Adán | Spain | 1:03:33 | PB |
| 39 | Jean-François Bertron | France | 1:03:34 | |
| 40 | Yuki Mori | Japan | 1:03:36 | |
| 41 | Norman Dlomo | South Africa | 1:03:38 | |
| 42 | Abdelghani Lahlali | France | 1:03:39 | |
| 43 | Ignacio Cáceres | Spain | 1:03:42 | PB |
| 44 | Fidencio Torres | Mexico | 1:03:48 | PB |
| 45 | Gabalebe Moloko | Botswana | 1:03:55 | |
| 46 | Antonio Silio | Argentina | 1:03:56 | |
| 47 | Venry Hamalila | Zambia | 1:03:56 | PB |
| 48 | Medison Chibwe | Zambia | 1:03:57 | PB |
| 49 | Saïd Belhout | Algeria | 1:03:58 | PB |
| 50 | Ottaviano Andriani | Italy | 1:04:00 | |
| 51 | Nick Jones | Great Britain | 1:04:00 | |
| 52 | Aguelmis Rojas | Cuba | 1:04:13 | |
| 53 | Takayuki Matsumiya | Japan | 1:04:16 | |
| 54 | Kabo Gabaseme | Botswana | 1:04:20 | |
| 55 | Augusto Gomes | France | 1:04:21 | |
| 56 | Domingos Castro | Portugal | 1:04:22 | |
| 57 | Dan Robinson | Great Britain | 1:04:23 | PB |
| 58 | Jeff Campbell | United States | 1:04:24 | PB |
| 59 | Abdel Hak Lebouazda | Algeria | 1:04:25 | |
| 60 | Christian Nemeth | Belgium | 1:04:26 | |
| 61 | Luíz dos Santos | Brazil | 1:04:26 | PB |
| 62 | Dereje Kebede | Ethiopia | 1:04:30 | PB |
| 63 | Ronny Ligneel | Belgium | 1:04:30 | PB |
| 64 | Zarislav Gapeyenko | Belarus | 1:04:31 | PB |
| 65 | Pavel Faschingbauer | Czech Republic | 1:04:37 | |
| 66 | Manuel Teixeira | Brazil | 1:04:42 | PB |
| 67 | José de Souza | Brazil | 1:04:48 | PB |
| 68 | Dan Browne | United States | 1:04:56 | |
| 69 | Simon Mpholo | South Africa | 1:05:13 | |
| 70 | Wodage Zvadya | Israel | 1:05:16 | |
| 71 | José de Jesús | Mexico | 1:05:18 | |
| 72 | Alejandro Gómez | Spain | 1:05:23 | |
| 73 | Frédéric Collignon | Belgium | 1:05:27 | |
| 74 | David Ramard | France | 1:05:30 | |
| 75 | Kassa Tadesse | Great Britain | 1:05:39 | |
| 76 | Joseph Nsubuga | Uganda | 1:05:41 | |
| 77 | Andrey Gordeyev | Belarus | 1:05:47 | |
| 78 | Migidio Bourifa | Italy | 1:05:48 | |
| 79 | Adamou Aboubakar | Cameroon | 1:05:49 | |
| 80 | Andrew Morgan-Lee | Great Britain | 1:05:51 | |
| 81 | Siphesihle Mdluli | Swaziland | 1:05:59 | |
| 82 | Takhir Mamashayev | Belarus | 1:06:10 | |
| 83 | Carlos Jaramillo | Chile | 1:06:22 | PB |
| 84 | Procopio Franco | Mexico | 1:06:33 | |
| 85 | Vincent Hatuleke | Zambia | 1:06:33 | PB |
| 86 | José Amaro Lourenço | Angola | 1:06:56 | PB |
| 87 | Ernest Ndjissipou | Central African Republic | 1:06:56 | PB |
| 88 | José Alberto Montenegro | Argentina | 1:07:03 | |
| 89 | Leonidas Rivadeneira | Chile | 1:07:16 | |
| 90 | Valentim Naúle | Angola | 1:07:17 | |
| 91 | Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin | Kyrgyzstan | 1:07:18 | |
| 92 | Giovanni Gualdi | Italy | 1:07:22 | |
| 93 | Simon Labiche | Seychelles | 1:07:24 | PB |
| 94 | Moulay Ali Ouadih | France | 1:07:32 | |
| 95 | Vasiliy Medvedev | Uzbekistan | 1:07:57 | |
| 96 | Clint Verran | United States | 1:08:04 | |
| 97 | Yevgeniy Medvednikov | Kazakhstan | 1:08:10 | |
| 98 | Christian Rogelio | Chile | 1:08:12 | |
| 99 | Kavin Smith | Bermuda | 1:08:17 | PB |
| 100 | Khimu Giri | Nepal | 1:09:09 | PB |
| 101 | Tau Khotso | Lesotho | 1:09:10 | PB |
| 102 | Eric Vamben | Mauritius | 1:09:24 | PB |
| 103 | Daniel Ferreira | Brazil | 1:09:25 | |
| 104 | Carlos Cangengele | Angola | 1:09:55 | |
| 105 | Khasan Rakhimov | Uzbekistan | 1:10:07 | |
| 106 | Denis Bagrev | Kyrgyzstan | 1:10:12 | |
| 107 | Mathieu Kouanotso | Cameroon | 1:10:43 | |
| 108 | Judex Durhone | Mauritius | 1:11:04 | |
| 109 | Joseph Simuchimba | Zambia | 1:11:39 | |
| 110 | Dovran Amandjayev | Turkmenistan | 1:13:42 | |
| 111 | Sergey Anokhin | Azerbaijan | 1:14:19 | |
| 112 | Agzam Aliyev | Uzbekistan | 1:15:32 | |
| 113 | Yamil Iskanderov | Azerbaijan | 1:15:51 | |
| 114 | Kemal Tuvakuliyev | Turkmenistan | 1:16:19 | |
| 115 | Dovletgeldi Hangeldiyev | Turkmenistan | 1:17:37 | |
| 116 | Kun Sio Pan | Macau | 1:18:31 | |
| 117 | Abdulla Moosa | Maldives | 1:25:45 | PB |
| — | Mustapha Benacer | Algeria | DNF | |
| — | Guy Fays | Belgium | DNF | |
| — | Roland Inack | Cameroon | DNF | |
| — | Alemayehu Girma | Ethiopia | DNF | |
| — | David Galván | Mexico | DNF | |
| — | Germán Silva | Mexico | DNF | |
| — | Alfred Shemweta | Sweden | DNF | |
| — | Mike Donnelly | United States | DNF | |
| — | Mamadou Alpha Barry | Guinea | DNS | |
| — | Souleymane Camara | Guinea | DNS | |
| — | Layedjan Diaby | Guinea | DNS | |
| — | Abdou Rahim Diallo | Guinea | DNS | |
| — | Ibrahim Diallo | Guinea | DNS | |
| — | António Pinto | Portugal | DNS | |
| — | Ahmed Al-Azzi | Yemen | DNS | |
| — | Mohammed Al-Khawlani | Yemen | DNS | |
| — | Fuad Obad | Yemen | DNS | |

### Women's

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Paula Radcliffe | Great Britain | 1:06:47 | CR |
| | Susan Chepkemei | Kenya | 1:07:36 | PB |
| | Berhane Adere | Ethiopia | 1:08:17 | PB |
| 4 | Mizuki Noguchi | Japan | 1:08:23 | PB |
| 5 | Jeļena Prokopčuka/Čelnova | Latvia | 1:08:43 | PB |
| 6 | Elana Meyer | South Africa | 1:08:56 | PB |
| 7 | Olivera Jevtić | Yugoslavia | 1:09:51 | PB |
| 8 | Isabella Ochichi | Kenya | 1:10:01 | |
| 9 | Yasuyo Iwamoto | Japan | 1:10:06 | PB |
| 10 | Mihaela Botezan | Romania | 1:10:11 | |
| 11 | Nuta Olaru | Romania | 1:10:27 | |
| 12 | Caroline Kwambai | Kenya | 1:10:27 | |
| 13 | Lyudmila Biktasheva | Russia | 1:10:31 | PB |
| 14 | Aurica Buia | Romania | 1:10:40 | PB |
| 15 | Restituta Joseph | Tanzania | 1:10:43 | |
| 16 | Viktoriya Klimina | Russia | 1:10:46 | |
| 17 | Meseret Kotu | Ethiopia | 1:10:48 | PB |
| 18 | Joyce Chepchumba | Kenya | 1:11:03 | |
| 19 | Lyubov Morgunova | Russia | 1:11:06 | |
| 20 | Teyba Erkesso | Ethiopia | 1:11:15 | PB |
| 21 | Magdeline Chemjor | Kenya | 1:11:26 | |
| 22 | Iulia Olteanu/Negura | Romania | 1:11:28 | |
| 23 | Liz Yelling | Great Britain | 1:11:29 | PB |
| 24 | Milena Glusac | United States | 1:11:34 | PB |
| 25 | Takako Kotorida | Japan | 1:11:39 | |
| 26 | Beáta Rakonczai | Hungary | 1:12:08 | PB |
| 27 | Simona Staicu | Hungary | 1:12:11 | PB |
| 28 | Silvia Sommaggio | Italy | 1:12:14 | PB |
| 29 | Irina Safarova | Russia | 1:12:17 | |
| 30 | Maria Baldaia | Brazil | 1:12:45 | PB |
| 31 | Annie Emmerson | Great Britain | 1:13:00 | PB |
| 32 | Constantina Diţă-Tomescu | Romania | 1:13:08 | |
| 33 | María Luisa Muñoz | Spain | 1:13:12 | |
| 34 | Erika Csomor | Hungary | 1:13:58 | |
| 35 | Gloria Marconi | Italy | 1:13:59 | |
| 36 | Sylvia Mosqueda | United States | 1:14:04 | |
| 37 | Anikó Kálovics | Hungary | 1:14:04 | PB |
| 38 | Tausi Juma | Tanzania | 1:14:05 | |
| 39 | Marizete Rezende | Brazil | 1:14:13 | PB |
| 40 | Hiromi Watanabe | Japan | 1:14:22 | |
| 41 | Annemette Jensen | Denmark | 1:14:24 | |
| 42 | Sandra Van Den Haesevelde | Belgium | 1:14:33 | |
| 43 | Susannah Beck | United States | 1:14:40 | |
| 44 | Dione dʼAgostini | Brazil | 1:14:47 | PB |
| 45 | Cathérine Lallemand | Belgium | 1:15:03 | PB |
| 46 | Charné Rademeyer | South Africa | 1:15:06 | PB |
| 47 | Monica Hostetler | United States | 1:15:21 | |
| 48 | Nili Avramski | Israel | 1:15:30 | PB |
| 49 | Patrizia Tisi | Italy | 1:16:12 | |
| 50 | Petra Kamínková/Drajzajtlová | Czech Republic | 1:16:18 | |
| 51 | Mariela González | Cuba | 1:16:24 | PB |
| 52 | Alison Holinka | United States | 1:16:36 | |
| 53 | María Luisa Lárraga | Spain | 1:16:44 | |
| 54 | Alla Zadorozhnaya | Belarus | 1:16:48 | |
| 55 | Margareth Iro | Tanzania | 1:17:02 | |
| 56 | Poppy Mlambo | South Africa | 1:17:12 | PB |
| 57 | Ann Parmentier | Belgium | 1:17:13 | |
| 58 | Célia dos Santos | Brazil | 1:17:17 | PB |
| 59 | Ronel Thomas | South Africa | 1:17:50 | PB |
| 60 | Florinda Andreucci | Italy | 1:17:56 | |
| 61 | Carlien Cornelissen | South Africa | 1:18:29 | PB |
| 62 | Lidia Karwowski | Brazil | 1:18:31 | PB |
| 63 | Natallia Kvachuk | Belarus | 1:18:57 | |
| 64 | Lourdes Cruz | Puerto Rico | 1:19:41 | PB |
| 65 | Natalia Bendzik | Belarus | 1:22:00 | |
| 66 | Yuliya Arfipova | Uzbekistan | 1:22:26 | |
| 67 | Irina Matrosova | Uzbekistan | 1:22:39 | |
| 68 | Yekaterina Shatnaya | Kazakhstan | 1:23:46 | |
| 69 | Alda Maurício | Angola | 1:26:58 | PB |
| 70 | Dildar Mamedova | Turkmenistan | 1:31:46 | |
| 71 | Yekaterina Dirova | Uzbekistan | 1:33:57 | |
| — | Beth Allott | Great Britain | DNF | |
| — | Birhan Dagne | Great Britain | DNF | |
| — | Asmae Leghzaoui | Morocco | DNF | |
| — | Galina Aleksandrova | Russia | DNF | |

## Team results
### Men's

| Rank | Country | Team | Time |
| | Ethiopia | Haile Gebrselassie Tesfaye Jifar Tesfaye Tola | 3:00:31 |
| | Kenya | Evans Rutto Peter Chebet Christopher Cheboiboch | 3:02:53 |
| | Tanzania | John Yuda Faustin Baha Benedict Ako | 3:05:08 |
| 4 | Morocco | Jaouad Gharib Khalid Skah Salah Hissou | 3:05:18 |
| 5 | South Africa | Hendrick Ramaala Abner Chipu George Mofokeng | 3:05:30 |
| 6 | Japan | Takeshi Hamano Kazuo Ietani Takashi Ota | 3:08:42 |
| 7 | Algeria | Rachid Ziar Noureddine Betim Saïd Belhout | 3:09:35 |
| 8 | Italy | Mostafa Errebbah Daniele Caimmi Ottaviano Andriani | 3:09:35 |
| 9 | Portugal | Eduardo Henriques Paulo Guerra Domingos Castro | 3:10:12 |
| 10 | Botswana | Tiyapo Maso Gabalebe Moloko Kabo Gabaseme | 3:10:48 |
| 11 | Great Britain | Matt O'Dowd Nick Jones Dan Robinson | 3:11:03 |
| 12 | France | Jean-François Bertron Abdelghani Lahlali Augusto Gomes | 3:11:34 |
| 13 | United States | Scott Larson Jeff Campbell Dan Browne | 3:12:28 |
| 14 | Uganda | Francis Yiga Paul Wakou Joseph Nsubuga | 3:12:31 |
| 15 | Spain | José Carlos Adán Ignacio Cáceres Alejandro Gómez | 3:12:38 |
| 16 | Brazil | Luíz dos Santos Manuel Teixeira José de Souza | 3:13:56 |
| 17 | Belgium | Christian Nemeth Ronny Ligneel Frédéric Collignon | 3:14:23 |
| 18 | Zambia | Venry Hamalila Medison Chibwe Vincent Hatuleke | 3:14:26 |
| 19 | Mexico | Fidencio Torres José de Jesús Procopio Franco | 3:15:39 |
| 20 | Belarus | Zarislav Gapeyenko Andrey Gordeyev Takhir Mamashayev | 3:16:28 |
| 21 | Chile | Carlos Jaramillo Leonidas Rivadeneira Christian Rogelio | 3:21:50 |
| 22 | Angola | José Amaro Lourenço Valentim Naúle Carlos Cangengele | 3:24:08 |
| 23 | Uzbekistan | Vasiliy Medvedev Khasan Rakhimov Agzam Aliyev | 3:33:36 |
| 24 | Turkmenistan | Dovran Amandjayev Kemal Tuvakuliyev Dovletgeldi Hangeldiyev | 3:47:38 |
| — | Cameroon | Adamou Aboubakar Mathieu Kouanotso Roland Inack | DNF |

### Women's

| Rank | Country | Team | Time |
| | Kenya | Susan Chepkemei Isabella Ochichi Caroline Kwambai | 3:28:04 |
| | Japan | Mizuki Noguchi Yasuyo Iwamoto Takako Kotorida | 3:30:08 |
| | Ethiopia | Berhane Adere Meseret Kotu Teyba Erkesso | 3:30:20 |
| 4 | Great Britain | Paula Radcliffe Liz Yelling Annie Emmerson | 3:31:16 |
| 5 | Romania | Mihaela Botezan Nuta Olaru Aurica Buia | 3:31:18 |
| 6 | Russia | Lyudmila Biktasheva Viktoriya Klimina Lyubov Morgunova | 3:32:23 |
| 7 | Hungary | Beáta Rakonczai Simona Staicu Erika Csomor | 3:38:17 |
| 8 | United States | Milena Glusac Sylvia Mosqueda Susannah Beck | 3:40:18 |
| 9 | South Africa | Elana Meyer Charné Rademeyer Poppy Mlambo | 3:41:14 |
| 10 | Brazil | Maria Baldaia Marizete Rezende Dione dʼAgostini | 3:41:45 |
| 11 | Tanzania | Restituta Joseph Tausi Juma Margareth Iro | 3:41:50 |
| 12 | Italy | Silvia Sommaggio Gloria Marconi Patrizia Tisi | 3:42:25 |
| 13 | Belgium | Sandra Van Den Haesevelde Cathérine Lallemand Ann Parmentier | 3:46:49 |
| 14 | Belarus | Alla Zadorozhnaya Natallia Kvachuk Natalia Bendzik | 3:57:45 |
| 15 | Uzbekistan | Yuliya Arfipova Irina Matrosova Yekaterina Dirova | 4:19:02 |

## Participation

The participation of 200 athletes (125 men/75 women) from 52 countries is reported. Although announced, athletes from Guinea and Yemen did not show.
* Algeria (5)
* Angola (4)
* Argentina (2)
* Azerbaijan (2)
* Belarus (6)
* Belgium (7)
* Bermuda (1)
* Botswana (3)
* Brazil (9)
* Cameroon (3)
* Central African Republic (1)
* Chile (3)
* Cuba (2)
* Czech Republic (2)
* Denmark (1)
* Ethiopia (8)
* Finland (1)
* France (5)
* Hungary (4)
* Israel (2)
* Italy (9)
* Japan (9)
* Kazakhstan (2)
* Kenya (10)
* Kyrgyzstan (2)
* Latvia (1)
* Lesotho (1)
* Macau (1)
* Maldives (1)
* Mauritius (2)
* Mexico (5)
* Morocco (6)
* Nepal (1)
* Portugal (3)
* Puerto Rico (1)
* Romania (5)
* Russia (5)
* Seychelles (1)
* Slovakia (1)
* South Africa (10)
* Spain (5)
* Swaziland (1)
* Sweden (1)
* Tanzania (7)
* Turkmenistan (4)
* Uganda (3)
* United Kingdom (10)
* United States (10)
* Uzbekistan (6)
* Yugoslavia (1)
* Zambia (4)
* Zimbabwe (1)