# 1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 8th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 3, 1999, in the city of Palermo, Italy. A total of 192 athletes, 119 men and 73 women, from 48 countries, took part. The course was traced through the historical centre of the town with the start/finish line on the "Foro Italico." A detailed report on the event and an appraisal of the results were given.
Complete results were published.

## Medallists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Individual |||||||
| Men | Paul Tergat (KEN) | 1:01:50 | Hendrick Ramaala (RSA) | 1:01:50 | Tesfaye Jifar (ETH) | 1:01:51 |
| Women | Tegla Loroupe (KEN) | 1:08:48 | Mizuki Noguchi (JPN) | 1:09:12 | Catherine Ndereba (KEN) | 1:09:23 |
| Team |||||||
| Team Men | South Africa | 3:06:01 | Ethiopia | 3:06:03 | Kenya | 3:06:03 |
| Team Women | Kenya | 3:27:40 | Japan | 3:30:06 | Russia | 3:31:49 |

## Race results
### Men's

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 1:01:50 |
| | Hendrick Ramaala | South Africa | 1:01:50 |
| | Tesfaye Jifar | Ethiopia | 1:01:51 |
| 4 | Abdellah Béhar | France | 1:01:53 |
| 5 | Eduardo Henriques | Portugal | 1:01:53 |
| 6 | Abner Chipu | South Africa | 1:01:54 |
| 7 | Laban Chege | Kenya | 1:01:54 |
| 8 | Tesfaye Tola | Ethiopia | 1:01:56 |
| 9 | Fekadu Degefu | Ethiopia | 1:02:16 |
| 10 | Mluleki Nobanda | South Africa | 1:02:17 |
| 11 | Sammy Korir | Kenya | 1:02:19 |
| 12 | Gert Thys | South Africa | 1:02:24 |
| 13 | Kamiel Maase | Netherlands | 1:02:33 |
| 14 | Toshiyuki Hayata | Japan | 1:02:35 |
| 15 | Faustin Baha | Tanzania | 1:02:41 |
| 16 | Gebremariam Gebremedhin | Ethiopia | 1:02:46 |
| 17 | Philip Rugut | Kenya | 1:02:59 |
| 18 | Rachid Berradi | Italy | 1:03:03 |
| 19 | Larbi Zéroual | France | 1:03:05 |
| 20 | Alberto Chaíça | Portugal | 1:03:08 |
| 21 | Toshiaki Tezuka | Japan | 1:03:20 |
| 22 | Araya Berhane | Ethiopia | 1:03:24 |
| 23 | Shigeru Aburaya | Japan | 1:03:26 |
| 24 | Rachid Ziar | Algeria | 1:03:32 |
| 25 | Teodoro Cuñado | Spain | 1:03:33 |
| 26 | Javier Caballero | Spain | 1:03:39 |
| 27 | Mohamed Serbouti | France | 1:03:41 |
| 28 | Jafred Lorone | Uganda | 1:03:44 |
| 29 | José Ramos | Portugal | 1:03:49 |
| 30 | Tsuyoshi Ogata | Japan | 1:03:50 |
| 31 | Antonio Martins | France | 1:03:55 |
| 32 | Jumanne Tuluway | Tanzania | 1:03:57 |
| 33 | Antonio Serrano | Spain | 1:03:58 |
| 34 | Hakim Bagy | France | 1:03:58 |
| 35 | Koen Allaert | Belgium | 1:04:00 |
| 36 | Giacomo Leone | Italy | 1:04:00 |
| 37 | Roberto Barbi | Italy | 1:04:02 |
| 38 | Aiduna Aitnafa | Netherlands | 1:04:02 |
| 39 | Said Boumhandi | Morocco | 1:04:10 |
| 40 | Mark Steinle | Great Britain | 1:04:11 |
| 41 | Scott Larson | United States | 1:04:14 |
| 42 | Alejandro Cuahtepizi | Mexico | 1:04:32 |
| 43 | José Dias | Portugal | 1:04:32 |
| 44 | Christian Nemeth | Belgium | 1:04:42 |
| 45 | Vladimir Tsyamchik | Belarus | 1:04:44 |
| 46 | John Sence | United States | 1:04:55 |
| 47 | Kim Gillard | Australia | 1:05:04 |
| 48 | Marco Gielen | Netherlands | 1:05:08 |
| 49 | António Resende | Portugal | 1:05:11 |
| 50 | Kevin Odiorne | United States | 1:05:19 |
| 51 | Amar Dahbi | Algeria | 1:05:19 |
| 51 | Kamal Kohil | Algeria | 1:05:19 |
| 52 | Sebastiano Mazzara | Italy | 1:05:20 |
| 53 | Sebastian Bürklein | Germany | 1:05:21 |
| 54 | Ahmed Abd El-Mangoud | Egypt | 1:05:34 |
| 55 | Pavel Loskutov | Estonia | 1:05:45 |
| 56 | Rachid Boulenouar | Algeria | 1:05:47 |
| 57 | Miguel Bravo | Mexico | 1:05:47 |
| 58 | Nick Jones | Great Britain | 1:05:57 |
| 59 | Drago Paripović | Croatia | 1:05:58 |
| 60 | Stéphane Rousseau | Belgium | 1:06:10 |
| 61 | Delmir dos Santos | Brazil | 1:06:13 |
| 62 | David Taylor | Great Britain | 1:06:13 |
| 63 | Alphonse Munyeshyaka | Rwanda | 1:06:21 |
| 64 | Masayuki Kobayashi | Japan | 1:06:26 |
| 65 | Borislav Dević | Yugoslavia | 1:06:32 |
| 66 | Francis Yiga | Uganda | 1:06:47 |
| 67 | Oscar Fernández | Spain | 1:06:50 |
| 68 | Fouly Salem | Egypt | 1:06:50 |
| 69 | Zarislav Gapeyenko | Belarus | 1:06:52 |
| 70 | Christian Fischer | Germany | 1:06:54 |
| 71 | Sipho Dlamini | Swaziland | 1:06:59 |
| 72 | Jan Křižák | Slovakia | 1:07:00 |
| 73 | Toomas Tarm | Estonia | 1:07:08 |
| 74 | Ali Awad | Lebanon | 1:07:10 |
| 75 | Ahmed Abdel Rasool Badry | Egypt | 1:07:17 |
| 76 | Leszek Lewandowski | Poland | 1:07:25 |
| 77 | Margus Pirksaar | Estonia | 1:07:32 |
| 78 | Pavel Faschingbauer | Czech Republic | 1:07:39 |
| 79 | Isaiah Dlamini | Swaziland | 1:07:42 |
| 80 | Oliver Mintzlaff | Germany | 1:07:42 |
| 81 | Lucky Bhembe | Swaziland | 1:07:44 |
| 82 | Vasilios Zabélis | Greece | 1:07:47 |
| 83 | Glynn Tromans | Great Britain | 1:07:49 |
| 84 | Jeff Campbell | United States | 1:07:50 |
| 85 | Job Sikoria | Uganda | 1:08:30 |
| 86 | Michael Fietz | Germany | 1:08:33 |
| 87 | Francisco Bautista | Mexico | 1:08:38 |
| 88 | Sokhibdjan Sharipov | Tajikistan | 1:08:50 |
| 89 | Gabriel Mazimpaka | Rwanda | 1:08:51 |
| 90 | Nedeljko Ravić | Croatia | 1:08:55 |
| 91 | António Zeferino | Cape Verde | 1:09:05 |
| 92 | Seif Eldin El-Nur | Sudan | 1:09:10 |
| 93 | Joseph Sterlino | Sudan | 1:09:27 |
| 94 | Shadrack Hoff | South Africa | 1:09:44 |
| 95 | Cordero Roy Vargas | Costa Rica | 1:10:02 |
| 96 | Ahmed Boulahia | Algeria | 1:10:07 |
| 97 | Ramiz Taipi | Yugoslavia | 1:10:11 |
| 98 | Mohamed Al-Khawlani | Yemen | 1:10:11 |
| 99 | Vladimir Tonchinskiy | Belarus | 1:10:12 |
| 100 | Ivica Škopac | Croatia | 1:10:13 |
| 101 | Miguel Romero | Ecuador | 1:13:19 |
| 102 | Hussein Awada | Lebanon | 1:13:35 |
| 103 | Ihab Salama | Palestine | 1:13:41 |
| 104 | Omar Abdel Latif | Lebanon | 1:14:05 |
| 105 | Weldon Johnson | United States | 1:14:58 |
| 106 | Frederick Baldacchino | Malta | 1:14:58 |
| 107 | Khalid Al-Estashi | Yemen | 1:15:40 |
| 108 | Vasiliy Andreyev | Uzbekistan | 1:16:35 |
| 109 | Abdel Salam Al-Dabaji | Palestine | 1:18:48 |
| — | Daniel Ferreira | Brazil | DNF |
| — | Geraldo Francisco de Assis | Brazil | DNF |
| — | Luíz Antônio dos Santos | Brazil | DNF |
| — | Michele Gamba | Italy | DNF |
| — | Shem Kororia | Kenya | DNF |
| — | Ali Mohamad | Sudan | DNF |
| — | John Nada Saya | Tanzania | DNF |
| — | Yevgeniy Nujdin | Uzbekistan | DNF |
| — | Esmail Al-Dawla | Yemen | DNF |
| — | Silvio Guerra | Ecuador | DNS |
| — | Nestor Jarni | Ecuador | DNS |
| — | Ahmed Aly Aly | Egypt | DNS |
| — | Wael Anwar Adan | Egypt | DNS |
| — | José Luis Ebatela Nvó | Equatorial Guinea | DNS |
| — | Diosdado Edjang Ndemesogo | Equatorial Guinea | DNS |
| — | Sergey Zabavski | Tajikistan | DNS |
| — | Joseph Nsubuga | Uganda | DNS |
| — | Santino Diang | Sudan | DNS |
| — | Gabriel Ndour | Senegal | DNS |
| — | Malick Seck | Senegal | DNS |
| — | Medson Chibwe | Zambia | DNS |
| — | Vincent Hatuleke | Zambia | DNS |
| — | Sam Mfula Mwape | Zambia | DNS |
| — | Mohammed S.A. Salama | Palestine | DNS |

### Women's

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Tegla Loroupe | Kenya | 1:08:48 |
| | Mizuki Noguchi | Japan | 1:09:12 |
| | Catherine Ndereba | Kenya | 1:09:23 |
| 4 | Joyce Chepchumba | Kenya | 1:09:29 |
| 5 | Reiko Tosa | Japan | 1:09:36 |
| 6 | Valentina Yegorova | Russia | 1:09:59 |
| 7 | Elana Meyer | South Africa | 1:10:20 |
| 8 | Luminița Talpoș | Romania | 1:10:33 |
| 9 | Lyudmila Biktasheva | Russia | 1:10:35 |
| 10 | Alina Ivanova | Russia | 1:11:15 |
| 11 | Hiromi Katayama | Japan | 1:11:18 |
| 12 | Constantina Diţă | Romania | 1:11:22 |
| 13 | Margaret Okayo | Kenya | 1:11:29 |
| 14 | Derartu Tulu | Ethiopia | 1:11:33 |
| 15 | Ana Isabel Alonso | Spain | 1:11:38 |
| 16 | Cristina Pomacu | Romania | 1:11:45 |
| 17 | Satomi Matsuo | Japan | 1:11:48 |
| 18 | Lyudmila Petrova | Russia | 1:11:53 |
| 19 | Agata Balsamo | Italy | 1:11:58 |
| 20 | Jane Omoro | Kenya | 1:12:10 |
| 21 | Olivera Jevtić | Yugoslavia | 1:12:32 |
| 22 | Marian Sutton | Great Britain | 1:12:36 |
| 23 | Rosaria Console | Italy | 1:12:46 |
| 24 | María Abel | Spain | 1:13:08 |
| 25 | Lyubov Morgunova | Russia | 1:13:25 |
| 26 | Ritsuko Sasaki | Japan | 1:13:26 |
| 27 | Florinda Andreucci | Italy | 1:13:33 |
| 28 | Tereza Yohanes | Ethiopia | 1:13:38 |
| 29 | Birhan Dagne | Great Britain | 1:13:41 |
| 30 | Fatima Hajjami | France | 1:13:55 |
| 31 | Gabrielle OʼRourke | New Zealand | 1:14:12 |
| 32 | Gitte Karlshøj | Denmark | 1:14:15 |
| 33 | Lucilla Andreucci | Italy | 1:15:05 |
| 34 | Susan Michelsson | Australia | 1:15:07 |
| 35 | Mónica Pont | Spain | 1:15:12 |
| 36 | Alemitu Bekele | Ethiopia | 1:15:27 |
| 37 | Marlene Fortunato | Brazil | 1:15:29 |
| 38 | Teyba Erkesso | Ethiopia | 1:15:48 |
| 39 | Michelle Byrne | United States | 1:15:55 |
| 40 | Lynn Fitzsimmons | United States | 1:16:14 |
| 41 | Christine McNamara | United States | 1:16:18 |
| 42 | Marie Boyd | United States | 1:16:37 |
| 43 | Annemette Jensen | Denmark | 1:16:47 |
| 44 | Asegedech Gizaw | Ethiopia | 1:16:53 |
| 45 | Silvana Trampuz | Australia | 1:17:12 |
| 46 | Stefanija Statkuvienė | Belgium | 1:17:30 |
| 47 | Theresa du Toit | South Africa | 1:17:33 |
| 48 | Jo Lodge | Great Britain | 1:17:36 |
| 49 | Krystyna Pieczulis | Poland | 1:18:02 |
| 50 | Azwindini Lukhwareni | South Africa | 1:18:28 |
| 51 | Carlien Cornelissen | South Africa | 1:18:37 |
| 52 | Shireen Crumpton | New Zealand | 1:19:21 |
| 53 | Kelly Liljeblad | United States | 1:19:23 |
| 54 | Nili Avramski | Israel | 1:20:20 |
| 55 | Yeoryía Abatzídou | Greece | 1:20:45 |
| 56 | Dana Janecková | Slovakia | 1:21:28 |
| 57 | Vesna Stevanović | Yugoslavia | 1:21:34 |
| 58 | Sarah Mahlangu | South Africa | 1:22:01 |
| 59 | Margarita Cabello | Mexico | 1:22:28 |
| 60 | Tijana Pavičić | Croatia | 1:25:58 |
| 61 | Slavica Brčić | Croatia | 1:25:59 |
| 62 | Irina Matrosova | Uzbekistan | 1:28:25 |
| 63 | Kristinka Marković | Croatia | 1:30:24 |
| 64 | Gina Coello | Honduras | 1:30:27 |
| 65 | Yuliya Arfipova | Uzbekistan | 1:35:45 |
| 66 | Aleksandra Rodigina | Uzbekistan | 1:35:45 |
| — | Carolyn Schuwalov | Australia | DNF |
| — | Sonja Deckers | Belgium | DNF |
| — | Milka Mihailova | Bulgaria | DNF |
| — | Annick Clouvel | France | DNF |
| — | Sonia Maccioni | Italy | DNF |
| — | Iulia Olteanu | Romania | DNF |
| — | Valentina Enaki | Moldova | DNS |
| — | Mable Chiwama | Zambia | DNS |
| — | Florina Pana | Romania | DQ$^†$ |
$^†$: Florina Pana from Romania was initially 4th (1:09:26), but tested positive for nandrolone and disqualified.

## Team results
### Men's

| Rank | Country | Team | Time |
| | South Africa | Hendrick Ramaala Abner Chipu Mluleki Nobanda | 3:06:01 |
| | Ethiopia | Tesfaye Jifar Tesfaye Tola Fekadu Degefu | 3:06:03 |
| | Kenya | Paul Tergat Laban Chege Sammy Korir | 3:06:03 |
| 4 | France | Abdellah Béhar Larbi Zéroual Mohamed Serbouti | 3:08:39 |
| 5 | Portugal | Eduardo Henriques Alberto Chaíça José Ramos | 3:08:50 |
| 6 | Japan | Toshiyuki Hayata Toshiaki Tezuka Shigeru Aburaya | 3:09:21 |
| 7 | Italy | Rachid Berradi Giacomo Leone Roberto Barbi | 3:11:05 |
| 8 | Spain | Teodoro Cuñado Javier Caballero Antonio Serrano | 3:11:10 |
| 9 | Netherlands | Kamiel Maase Aiduna Aitnafa Marco Gielen | 3:11:43 |
| 10 | United States | Scott Larson John Sence Kevin Odiorne | 3:14:28 |
| 11 | Algeria | Rachid Ziar Amar Dahbi Kamal Kohil | 3:14:10 |
| 12 | Belgium | Koen Allaert Christian Nemeth Stéphane Rousseau | 3:14:52 |
| 13 | Great Britain | Mark Steinle Nick Jones David Taylor | 3:16:21 |
| 14 | Mexico | Alejandro Cuahtepizi Miguel Bravo Francisco Bautista | 3:18:57 |
| 15 | Uganda | Jafred Lorone Francis Yiga Job Sikoria | 3:19:01 |
| 16 | Egypt | Ahmed Abd El-Mangoud Fouly Salem Ahmed Abdel Rasool Badry | 3:19:41 |
| 17 | Germany | Sebastian Bürklein Christian Fischer Oliver Mintzlaff | 3:19:57 |
| 18 | Estonia | Pavel Loskutov Toomas Tarm Margus Pirksaar | 3:20:25 |
| 19 | Belarus | Vladimir Tsyamchik Zarislav Gapeyenko Vladimir Tonchinskiy | 3:21:48 |
| 20 | Swaziland | Sipho Dlamini Isaiah Dlamini Lucky Bhembe | 3:22:25 |
| 21 | Croatia | Drago Paripović Nedeljko Ravić Ivica Škopac | 3:25:06 |
| 22 | Lebanon | Ali Awad Hussein Awada Omar Abdel Latif | 3:34:50 |
| — | Brazil | Delmir dos Santos Daniel Ferreira Geraldo Francisco de Assis | DNF |
| — | Sudan | Seif Eldin El-Nur Joseph Sterlino Ali Mohamad | DNF |
| — | Tanzania | Faustin Baha Jumanne Tuluway John Nada Saya | DNF |
| — | Yemen | Mohamed Al-Khawlani Khalid Al-Estashi Esmail Al-Dawla | DNF |

### Women's

| Rank | Country | Team | Time |
| | Kenya | Tegla Loroupe Catherine Ndereba Joyce Chepchumba | 3:27:40 |
| | Japan | Mizuki Noguchi Reiko Tosa Hiromi Katayama | 3:30:06 |
| | Russia | Valentina Yegorova Lyudmila Biktasheva Alina Ivanova | 3:31:49 |
| 4 | Romania | Luminița Talpoș Constantina Diţă Cristina Pomacu | 3:33:40 |
| 5 | Italy | Agata Balsamo Rosaria Console Florinda Andreucci | 3:38:17 |
| 6 | Spain | Ana Isabel Alonso María Abel Mónica Pont | 3:39:58 |
| 7 | Ethiopia | Derartu Tulu Tereza Yohanes Alemitu Bekele Aga | 3:40:38 |
| 8 | Great Britain | Marian Sutton Birhan Dagne Jo Lodge | 3:43:53 |
| 9 | South Africa | Elana Meyer Theresa du Toit Azwindini Lukhwareni | 3:46:21 |
| 10 | United States | Michelle Byrne Lynn Fitzsimmons Christine McNamara | 3:48:27 |
| 11 | Croatia | Tijana Pavičić Slavica Brčić Kristinka Marković | 4:22:21 |
| 12 | Uzbekistan | Irina Matrosova Yuliya Arfipova Aleksandra Rodigina | 4:39:55 |
| — | Australia | Susan Michelsson Silvana Trampuz Carolyn Schuwalov | DNF |

## Participation

The participation of 192 athletes (119 men/73 women) from 48 countries is reported. Although announced, athletes from Equatorial Guinea, Moldova, Senegal, and Zambia did not show.
* Algeria (5)
* Australia (4)
* Belarus (3)
* Belgium (5)
* Brazil (4)
* Bulgaria (1)
* Cape Verde (1)
* Costa Rica (1)
* Croatia (6)
* Czech Republic (1)
* Denmark (2)
* Ecuador (1)
* Egypt (3)
* Estonia (3)
* Ethiopia (10)
* France (7)
* Germany (4)
* Greece (2)
* Honduras (1)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (10)
* Japan (10)
* Kenya (10)
* Lebanon (3)
* Malta (1)
* Morocco (1)
* Mexico (4)
* Netherlands (3)
* New Zealand (2)
* Palestine (2)
* Poland (2)
* Portugal (5)
* Romania (5)
* Russia (5)
* Rwanda (2)
* Slovakia (2)
* South Africa (10)
* Spain (7)
* Sudan (3)
* Swaziland (3)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Tanzania (3)
* Uganda (3)
* United Kingdom (7)
* United States (10)
* Uzbekistan (5)
* Yemen (3)
* Yugoslavia (4)