# 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

The 3rd IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on September 24, 1994, in Oslo, Norway. A total of 214 athletes, 127 men and 87 women, from 48 countries took part.
Complete results were published.

## Medallists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Individual |||||||
| Men | Khalid Skah (MAR) | 1:00:27 | Germán Silva (MEX) | 1:00:28 | Ronaldo da Costa (BRA) | 1:00:54 |
| Women | Elana Meyer (RSA) | 1:08:36 | Iulia Negura (ROU) | 1:09:15 | Anuța Cătună (ROU) | 1:09:35 |
| Team |||||||
| Team Men | Kenya | 3:03:36 | Mexico | 3:03:47 | Morocco | 3:05:58 |
| Team Women | Romania | 3:29:03 | Norway | 3:33:36 | Japan | 3:35:39 |

## Race Results
### Men's

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Khalid Skah | Morocco | 1:00:27 | |
| | Germán Silva | Mexico | 1:00:28 | |
| | Ronaldo da Costa | Brazil | 1:00:54 | |
| 4 | Godfrey Kiprotich | Kenya | 1:01:01 | |
| 5 | Shem Kororia | Kenya | 1:01:16 | |
| 6 | Andrew Masai | Kenya | 1:01:19 | |
| 7 | Tendai Chimusasa | Zimbabwe | 1:01:26 | |
| 8 | Fackson Nkandu | Zambia | 1:01:30 | NR |
| 9 | Moses Tanui | Kenya | 1:01:35 | |
| 10 | Rolando Vera | Ecuador | 1:01:36 | |
| 11 | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 1:01:37 | |
| 12 | Martín Pitayo | Mexico | 1:01:38 | |
| 13 | Bedilu Kibret | Ethiopia | 1:01:40 | |
| 14 | Benjamín Paredes | Mexico | 1:01:41 | |
| 15 | Carsten Eich | Germany | 1:01:44 | |
| 16 | Kamal Kohil | Algeria | 1:01:50 | |
| 17 | Addis Abebe | Ethiopia | 1:02:14 | |
| 18 | Salah Hissou | Morocco | 1:02:20 | |
| 19 | Samson Dingani | Zimbabwe | 1:02:21 | |
| 20 | Meshack Mogotsi | South Africa | 1:02:26 | |
| 21 | Taher Mansouri | Tunisia | 1:02:27 | |
| 22 | Luíz dos Santos | Brazil | 1:02:28 | |
| 23 | Fernando Couto | Portugal | 1:02:28 | |
| 24 | Javier Cortés | Spain | 1:02:32 | |
| 25 | Keita Fujino | Japan | 1:02:36 | |
| 26 | Adam Motlagale | South Africa | 1:02:43 | |
| 27 | Paul Arpin | France | 1:02:44 | |
| 28 | José Isidro Rico | Mexico | 1:02:44 | |
| 29 | Martin McLoughlin | Great Britain | 1:02:45 | |
| 30 | Daniel Held | United States | 1:02:46 | |
| 31 | João Lopes | Portugal | 1:02:53 | |
| 32 | Yuriy Chizhov | Russia | 1:02:55 | |
| 33 | Kidane Gebrmichael | Ethiopia | 1:03:10 | |
| 34 | Abdel Kader El-Mouaziz | Morocco | 1:03:11 | |
| 35 | Brighton Chipere | Zimbabwe | 1:03:12 | |
| 36 | Talal Omar Abdillahi | Djibouti | 1:03:14 | |
| 37 | Pascal Clouvel | France | 1:03:16 | |
| 38 | Omar Daher Ghadid | Djibouti | 1:03:19 | |
| 39 | Aleksey Korobov | Russia | 1:03:21 | |
| 40 | Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin | Kyrgyzstan | 1:03:24 | |
| 41 | Andrey Tikhonov | Russia | 1:03:25 | |
| 42 | Ronny Ligneel | Belgium | 1:03:26 | |
| 43 | Terje Näss | Norway | 1:03:27 | |
| 44 | Hamid Essebani | Morocco | 1:03:29 | |
| 45 | Arnold Mächler | Switzerland | 1:03:30 | |
| 46 | Jorge Márquez | Mexico | 1:03:36 | |
| 47 | Carl Udall | Great Britain | 1:03:36 | |
| 48 | Sergey Fedotov | Russia | 1:03:40 | |
| 49 | Julio Hernández | Colombia | 1:03:43 | |
| 50 | Mahieddine Belhadj | Algeria | 1:03:48 | |
| 51 | Pedro Rojas | Colombia | 1:03:50 | |
| 52 | Kenjiro Jitsui | Japan | 1:03:55 | |
| 53 | Winston Muzini | Zimbabwe | 1:03:57 | |
| 54 | Michael Scheytt | Germany | 1:03:59 | |
| 55 | Christopher Campagne | France | 1:04:00 | |
| 56 | Konrad Dobler | Germany | 1:04:01 | |
| 57 | Joseph LeMay | United States | 1:04:03 | |
| 58 | José Dias | Portugal | 1:04:21 | |
| 59 | Tomix da Costa | Brazil | 1:04:25 | |
| 60 | Andrew Pearson | Great Britain | 1:04:30 | |
| 61 | Mark Croasdale | Great Britain | 1:04:41 | |
| 62 | Klaus-Peter Nabein | Germany | 1:04:47 | |
| 63 | Bigboy Goromonzi | Zimbabwe | 1:04:48 | |
| 64 | Mohamed Abdi Said | Djibouti | 1:04:50 | |
| 65 | Francis Mukuka | Zambia | 1:04:51 | |
| 66 | Pierre Lévisse | France | 1:04:52 | |
| 67 | Boris Batuyev | Belarus | 1:04:54 | |
| 68 | Vladimir Kiselyov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:04:55 | |
| 69 | Ayele Setegne | Israel | 1:04:59 | |
| 70 | René Godlieb | Netherlands | 1:05:01 | |
| 71 | Simon Morolong | South Africa | 1:05:06 | |
| 72 | Gennadiy Panin | Russia | 1:05:10 | |
| 73 | Peter Sichula | Zambia | 1:05:11 | |
| 74 | Peter De Vocht | Belgium | 1:05:12 | |
| 75 | Asaf Bimro | Israel | 1:05:14 | |
| 76 | Frank Pooe | South Africa | 1:05:28 | |
| 77 | Pavel Loskutov | Estonia | 1:05:30 | |
| 78 | Dan Nelson | United States | 1:05:34 | |
| 79 | Tayeb Kalloud | Algeria | 1:05:36 | |
| 80 | Daniel Gonzalez | United States | 1:05:37 | |
| 81 | Kiyoji Hayashi | Japan | 1:05:41 | |
| 82 | Markus Gerber | Switzerland | 1:05:42 | |
| 83 | Azzedine Sakhri | Algeria | 1:05:45 | |
| 84 | Toomas Tarm | Estonia | 1:05:47 | |
| 85 | Bertrand Itsweire | France | 1:06:06 | |
| 86 | Amit Neʼeman | Israel | 1:06:12 | |
| 87 | Viktor Rogovoy | Ukraine | 1:06:18 | |
| 88 | Marly Sopyev | Turkmenistan | 1:06:24 | |
| 89 | Svein Inge Buhaug | Norway | 1:06:34 | |
| 90 | Nazirdin Akylbekov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:06:36 | |
| 91 | Meck Mothuli | South Africa | 1:06:41 | |
| 92 | Tibor Nemes-Nagy | Hungary | 1:06:41 | |
| 93 | Miroslav Vanko | Slovakia | 1:06:44 | |
| 94 | Viktor Chumakov | Belarus | 1:06:50 | |
| 95 | Jan Bláha | Czech Republic | 1:06:53 | |
| 96 | Chuck Trujillo | United States | 1:06:56 | |
| 97 | Ivar Øyan | Norway | 1:07:00 | |
| 98 | Markus Graf | Switzerland | 1:07:29 | |
| 99 | Modise Mosarwa | Botswana | 1:07:52 | |
| 100 | Jun Kuroki | Japan | 1:08:01 | |
| 101 | Hansjörg Brücker | Switzerland | 1:08:13 | |
| 102 | Wayne Edgeler | New Zealand | 1:08:14 | |
| 103 | Ali Youssouf | Djibouti | 1:08:15 | |
| 104 | Lesedinyana Lekgoa | Botswana | 1:08:15 | |
| 105 | Ajay Chuttoo | Mauritius | 1:08:17 | |
| 106 | Andrew Peskett | New Zealand | 1:08:26 | |
| 107 | Andrey Kovalenko | Belarus | 1:08:33 | |
| 108 | Heiki Sarapuu | Estonia | 1:08:38 | |
| 109 | Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev | Turkmenistan | 1:08:40 | |
| 110 | Chala Kelele | Ethiopia | 1:08:59 | |
| 111 | Nazim Noorbux | Mauritius | 1:10:07 | |
| 112 | Alister Munroe | New Zealand | 1:10:49 | |
| 113 | Richard Muscat | Gibraltar | 1:11:25 | |
| 114 | Philip Harris | Gibraltar | 1:12:25 | |
| 115 | Lee Kar Lun | Hong Kong | 1:12:27 | |
| 116 | Fouad Obad | Yemen | 1:12:47 | |
| 117 | Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev | Turkmenistan | 1:13:33 | |
| 118 | Mohamed Al-Hada | Yemen | 1:13:51 | |
| 119 | Louis Chichon | Gibraltar | 1:15:10 | |
| 120 | Tom Kikina | Botswana | 1:16:11 | |
| 121 | Mohamed Al-Ahjari | Yemen | 1:18:12 | |
| — | Saïd Belhout | Algeria | DNF | |
| — | Aleksey Tarasyuk | Belarus | DNF | |
| — | Kurt Stenzel | Germany | DNF | |
| — | Frank Bjørkli | Norway | DNF | |
| — | Knut Hegvold | Norway | DNF | |
| — | Stéphane Schweickhardt | Switzerland | DNF | |

### Women's

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Elana Meyer | South Africa | 1:08:36 | CR |
| | Iulia Negura | Romania | 1:09:15 | |
| | Anuța Cătună | Romania | 1:09:35 | |
| 4 | Albertina Dias | Portugal | 1:09:57 | |
| 5 | Elena Fidatof | Romania | 1:10:13 | |
| 6 | Hilde Stavik | Norway | 1:10:21 | |
| 7 | Brynhild Synstnes | Norway | 1:10:29 | |
| 8 | Marleen Renders | Belgium | 1:10:33 | |
| 9 | Adriana Barbu | Romania | 1:10:38 | |
| 10 | Mari Tanigawa | Japan | 1:10:43 | |
| 11 | Fatuma Roba | Ethiopia | 1:10:49 | |
| 12 | Natalya Galushko | Belarus | 1:11:00 | |
| 13 | Alena Peterková | Czech Republic | 1:11:02 | |
| 14 | Alla Zhilyayeva | Russia | 1:11:16 | |
| 15 | Nicole Lévêque | France | 1:11:54 | |
| 16 | Klara Kashapova | Russia | 1:12:04 | |
| 17 | Martha Ernstdóttir | Iceland | 1:12:15 | |
| 18 | Stella Castro | Colombia | 1:12:23 | |
| 19 | Mineko Watanabe | Japan | 1:12:26 | |
| 20 | Yukari Komatsu | Japan | 1:12:30 | |
| 21 | Manuela Dias | Portugal | 1:12:43 | |
| 22 | Grete Kirkeberg | Norway | 1:12:46 | |
| 23 | Garifa Kuku | Kazakhstan | 1:12:52 | |
| 24 | Cathy Schum | Ireland | 1:12:52 | |
| 25 | Rosa Oliveira | Portugal | 1:13:02 | |
| 26 | Nadezhda Ilyina | Russia | 1:13:05 | |
| 27 | Nadezhda Tatarenkova | Russia | 1:13:07 | |
| 28 | Kornélia Pásztor | Hungary | 1:13:12 | |
| 29 | Danielle Sanderson | Great Britain | 1:13:13 | |
| 30 | Maiken Sørum | Norway | 1:13:19 | |
| 31 | Angie Hulley | Great Britain | 1:13:19 | |
| 32 | Eri Yamaguchi | Japan | 1:13:21 | |
| 33 | Lucía Rendón | Mexico | 1:13:32 | |
| 34 | Carmem de Oliveira | Brazil | 1:13:33 | |
| 35 | Ann Boyd | United States | 1:13:35 | |
| 36 | Grace de Oliveira | South Africa | 1:13:36 | |
| 37 | Anita Håkenstad | Norway | 1:13:40 | |
| 38 | Natalya Sorokivskaya | Kazakhstan | 1:13:41 | |
| 39 | Jane Salumäe | Estonia | 1:13:47 | |
| 40 | Susan Mahony | Australia | 1:13:50 | |
| 41 | Carla Beurskens | Netherlands | 1:13:51 | |
| 42 | Fikirte Woldemichael | Ethiopia | 1:13:53 | |
| 43 | Albertina Machado | Portugal | 1:13:58 | |
| 44 | Fantaye Sirak | Ethiopia | 1:14:00 | |
| 45 | Yumi Akao | Japan | 1:14:05 | |
| 46 | Heather Heasman | Great Britain | 1:14:06 | |
| 47 | Cath Mijovic | Great Britain | 1:14:15 | |
| 48 | Yelena Mazovka | Belarus | 1:14:16 | |
| 49 | Heather Turland | Australia | 1:14:17 | |
| 50 | Yelena Vinitskaya | Belarus | 1:14:18 | |
| 51 | Julie Petersen | United States | 1:14:21 | |
| 52 | Márta Visnyei | Hungary | 1:14:25 | |
| 53 | Christine Mallo | France | 1:14:27 | |
| 54 | Muriel Linsolas | France | 1:14:33 | |
| 55 | Nicole Whiteford | South Africa | 1:14:38 | |
| 56 | Elfenesh Alemu | Ethiopia | 1:14:39 | |
| 57 | Lorraine Davis | Australia | 1:14:48 | |
| 58 | Midde Hamrin | Sweden | 1:14:53 | |
| 59 | Ana Maria Mejía | Mexico | 1:15:01 | |
| 60 | Emma Cabrera | Mexico | 1:15:14 | |
| 61 | Jane Welzel | United States | 1:15:24 | |
| 62 | Christine Toonstra | Netherlands | 1:15:32 | |
| 63 | Marietjie McDermott | South Africa | 1:15:37 | |
| 64 | Gadissie Edato | Ethiopia | 1:15:39 | |
| 65 | Marta Durán | Mexico | 1:15:44 | |
| 66 | Lesley Morton | New Zealand | 1:15:47 | |
| 67 | Delirde Bernardi | Brazil | 1:15:48 | |
| 68 | Irina Bogachova | Kyrgyzstan | 1:15:51 | |
| 69 | Josette Janin | France | 1:15:55 | |
| 70 | Ingmarie Nilsson | Sweden | 1:15:56 | |
| 71 | Maria Lundgren | Sweden | 1:16:15 | |
| 72 | Marian Sutton | Great Britain | 1:16:15 | |
| 73 | Sonja Laxton | South Africa | 1:16:46 | |
| 74 | Éva Nagy | Hungary | 1:16:57 | |
| 75 | Yelena Mostovaya | Kazakhstan | 1:16:58 | |
| 76 | Olga Yudenkova | Belarus | 1:17:34 | |
| 77 | Winnie Ng | Hong Kong | 1:17:37 | |
| 78 | Kamila Gradus | Poland | 1:18:44 | |
| 79 | Monique Ecker | United States | 1:19:37 | |
| 80 | Anna Cosser | Iceland | 1:22:50 | |
| 81 | Nemia Coca | Bolivia | 1:24:16 | |
| 82 | Hulda Pálsdóttir | Iceland | 1:27:30 | |
| 83 | Olga Shiyanova | Turkmenistan | 1:28:29 | |
| 84 | Josiane Nairac-Boullé | Mauritius | 1:32:15 | |
| 85 | Maisa Tcharyeva | Turkmenistan | 1:38:14 | |
| — | Firiya Sultanova | Russia | DNF | |
| — | Jennifer Martin | United States | DNF | |

## Team Results
### Men's

| Rank | Country | Team | Time |
| | Kenya | Godfrey Kiprotich Shem Kororia Andrew Masai | 3:03:36 |
| | Mexico | Germán Silva Martín Pitayo Benjamín Paredes | 3:03:47 |
| | Morocco | Khalid Skah Salah Hissou Abdel Kader El-Mouaziz | 3:05:58 |
| 4 | Zimbabwe | Tendai Chimusasa Samson Dingani Brighton Chipere | 3:06:59 |
| 5 | Ethiopia | Bedilu Kibret Addis Abebe Kidane Gebrmichael | 3:07:04 |
| 6 | Brazil | Ronaldo da Costa Luíz dos Santos Tomix da Costa | 3:07:47 |
| 7 | Russia | Yuriy Chizhov Aleksey Korobov Andrey Tikhonov | 3:09:41 |
| 8 | Portugal | Fernando Couto João Lopes José Dias | 3:09:42 |
| 9 | Germany | Carsten Eich Michael Scheytt Konrad Dobler | 3:09:44 |
| 10 | France | Paul Arpin Pascal Clouvel Christopher Campagne | 3:10:00 |
| 11 | South Africa | Meshack Mogotsi Adam Motlagale Simon Morolong | 3:10:15 |
| 12 | Great Britain | Martin McLoughlin Carl Udall Andrew Pearson | 3:10:51 |
| 13 | Algeria | Kamal Kohil Mahieddine Belhadj Tayeb Kalloud | 3:11:14 |
| 14 | Djibouti | Talal Omar Abdillahi Omar Daher Ghadid Mohamed Abdi Said | 3:11:23 |
| 15 | Zambia | Fackson Nkandu Francis Mukuka Peter Sichula | 3:11:32 |
| 16 | Japan | Keita Fujino Kenjiro Jitsui Kiyoji Hayashi | 3:12:12 |
| 17 | United States | Daniel Held Joseph LeMay Dan Nelson | 3:12:23 |
| 18 | Kyrgyzstan | Arkadiy Tolstyn/Nikitin Vladimir Kiselyov Nazirdin Akylbekov | 3:14:55 |
| 19 | Israel | Ayele Setegne Asaf Bimro Amit Neʼeman | 3:16:25 |
| 20 | Switzerland | Arnold Mächler Markus Gerber Markus Graf | 3:16:41 |
| 21 | Norway | Terje Näss Svein Inge Buhaug Ivar Øyan | 3:17:01 |
| 22 | Estonia | Pavel Loskutov Toomas Tarm Heiki Sarapuu | 3:19:55 |
| 23 | Belarus | Boris Batuyev Viktor Chumakov Andrey Kovalenko | 3:20:17 |
| 24 | New Zealand | Wayne Edgeler Andrew Peskett Alister Munroe | 3:27:29 |
| 25 | Turkmenistan | Marly Sopyev Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev | 3:28:37 |
| 26 | Botswana | Modise Mosarwa Lesedinyana Lekgoa Tom Kikina | 3:32:18 |
| 27 | Gibraltar | Richard Muscat Philip Harris Louis Chichon | 3:39:00 |
| 28 | Yemen | Fouad Obad Mohamed Al-Hada Mohamed Al-Ahjari | 3:44:50 |

### Women's

| Rank | Country | Team | Time |
| | Romania | Iulia Negura Anuța Cătună Elena Fidatof | 3:29:03 CR |
| | Norway | Hilde Stavik Brynhild Synstnes Grete Kirkeberg | 3:33:36 |
| | Japan | Mari Tanigawa Mineko Watanabe Yukari Komatsu | 3:35:39 |
| 4 | Portugal | Albertina Dias Manuela Dias Rosa Oliveira | 3:35:42 |
| 5 | Russia | Alla Zhilyayeva Klara Kashapova Nadezhda Ilyina | 3:36:25 |
| 6 | South Africa | Elana Meyer Grace de Oliveira Nicole Whiteford | 3:36:50 |
| 7 | Ethiopia | Fatuma Roba Fikirte Woldemichael Fantaye Sirak | 3:38:42 |
| 8 | Belarus | Natalya Galushko Yelena Mazovka Yelena Vinitskaya | 3:39:34 |
| 9 | Great Britain | Danielle Sanderson Angie Hulley Heather Heasman | 3:40:38 |
| 10 | France | Nicole Lévêque Christine Mallo Muriel Linsolas | 3:40:54 |
| 11 | Australia | Susan Mahony Heather Turland Lorraine Davis | 3:42:55 |
| 12 | United States | Ann Boyd Julie Petersen Jane Welzel | 3:43:20 |
| 13 | Kazakhstan | Garifa Kuku Natalya Sorokivskaya Yelena Mostovaya | 3:43:31 |
| 14 | Mexico | Lucía Rendón Ana Maria Mejía Emma Cabrera | 3:43:47 |
| 15 | Hungary | Kornélia Pásztor Márta Visnyei Éva Nagy | 3:44:34 |
| 16 | Sweden | Midde Hamrin Ingmarie Nilsson Maria Lundgren | 3:47:04 |
| 17 | Iceland | Martha Ernstdóttir Anna Cosser Hulda Pálsdóttir | 4:02:35 |

## Participation

The participation of 214 athletes (127 men/87 women) from 48 countries is reported.
* Algeria (5)
* Australia (3)
* Belarus (8)
* Belgium (3)
* Bolivia (1)
* Botswana (3)
* Brazil (5)
* Colombia (3)
* Czech Republic (2)
* Djibouti (4)
* Ecuador (1)
* Estonia (4)
* Ethiopia (9)
* France (9)
* Germany (5)
* Gibraltar (3)
* Hong Kong (2)
* Hungary (4)
* Iceland (3)
* Ireland (1)
* Israel (3)
* Japan (9)
* Kazakhstan (3)
* Kenya (5)
* Kyrgyzstan (4)
* Morocco (4)
* Mauritius (3)
* Mexico (9)
* Netherlands (3)
* New Zealand (4)
* Norway (10)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (7)
* Romania (4)
* Russia (10)
* Slovakia (1)
* South Africa (10)
* Spain (1)
* Sweden (3)
* Switzerland (5)
* Tunisia (1)
* Turkmenistan (5)
* Ukraine (1)
* United Kingdom (9)
* United States (10)
* Yemen (3)
* Zambia (3)
* Zimbabwe (5)