# Wereldkampioenschap halve marathon 1996

Het wereldkampioenschap halve marathon 1996 vond plaats op 29 september 1996. Het was de vijfde keer dat de IAAF een wedstrijd organiseerde met als inzet de wereldtitel op de halve marathon. De wedstrijd vond plaats in Palma de Mallorca.
In totaal namen 209 atleten (waarvan 137 mannen en 72 vrouwen) uit 53 landen deel. Voor zowel de mannen als de vrouwen werd naast een individueel klassement ook een teamklassement samengesteld. De klassering van een land werd berekend aan de hand van de totaaltijd van de drie snelste lopers van dit land.

## Uitslagen
### Mannen
#### Individueel

| Rang | Atleet | Land | Tijd |
| 1 | Stefano Baldini | ITA | 1:01.17 |
| 2 | Josephat Kiprono | KEN | 1:01.30 |
| 3 | Tendai Chimusasa | ZIM | 1:02.00 |
| 4 | Carlos de la Torre | ESP | 1:02.03 |
| 5 | Toshiyuki Hayata | JPN | 1:02.05 |
| 6 | Neema Tuluway | TAN | 1:02.30 |
| 7 | Delmir dos Santos | BRA | 1:02.44 |
| 8 | Alejandro Gómez | ESP | 1:02.47 |
| 9 | Giacomo Leone | ITA | 1:02.48 |
| 10 | Stéphane Schweickhardt | SUI | 1:02.49 |
| 11 | Gemechu Kebede | ETH | 1:02.52 |
| 12 | Masatoshi Ibata | JPN | 1:03.07 |
| 13 | Luketz Swartbooi | NAM | 1:03.24 |
| 14 | Katsuhiko Hanada | JPN | 1:03.31 |
| 15 | Ezael Thlobo | RSA | 1:03.32 |
| 16 | Philip Chirchir | KEN | 1:03.36 |
| 17 | Vincenzo Modica | ITA | 1:03.37 |
| 18 | Dario Fegatelli | ITA | 1:03.38 |
| 19 | Kamal Kohil | ALG | 1:03.39 |
| 20 | Christopher Isengwe | TAN | 1:03.43 |
| 21 | Paul Arpin | FRA | 1:03.44 |
| 22 | Dave Swanston | GBR | 1:03.44 |
| 23 | José Manuel García | ESP | 1:03.46 |
| 24 | André Ramos | BRA | 1:03.46 |
| 25 | Michele Gamba | ITA | 1:03.50 |
| 26 | John Sence | USA | 1:04.07 |
| 27 | Dagne Debela | ETH | 1:04.13 |
| 28 | Charles Tangus | KEN | 1:04.18 |
| 29 | Johannes Maremane | RSA | 1:04.20 |
| 30 | Margarito Zamora | MEX | 1:04.21 |
| 31 | José Manuel Martínez | ESP | 1:04.26 |
| 32 | Eduardo do Nascimento | BRA | 1:04.35 |
| 33 | Pablo Olmedo Castañon | MEX | 1:04.37 |
| 34 | Klaus-Peter Hansen | DEN | 1:04.39 |
| 35 | Bruno Léger | FRA | 1:04.41 |
| 36 | Ronny Ligneel | BEL | 1:04.49 |
| 37 | James Herald | USA | 1:04.50 |
| 38 | Jens Karrass | GER | 1:04.52 |
| 39 | Jerry Lawson | USA | 1:04.55 |
| 40 | Muneyuki Ojima | JPN | 1:04.59 |
| 41 | Chris Robison | GBR | 1:05.10 |
| 42 | Aleksandr Bolkhovitin | RUS | 1:05.12 |
| 43 | Kaare Sørensen | DEN | 1:05.15 |
| 44 | Abdi Djama | FRA | 1:05.20 |
| 45 | Mykola Rudyk | UKR | 1:05.20 |
| 46 | Philip Tanui | KEN | 1:05.22 |
| 47 | Luboš Šubrt | CZE | 1:05.26 |
| 48 | Vladimir Afanasyev | RUS | 1:05.37 |
| 49 | Geraldo Morales | MEX | 1:05.39 |
| 50 | Wodage Zvadya | ISR | 1:05.40 |
| 51 | Viktor Rogovoy | UKR | 1:05.46 |
| 52 | Herman De Coux | BEL | 1:05.53 |
| 53 | Miroslav Sajler | CZE | 1:06.05 |
| 54 | Andrey Shalagin | RUS | 1:06.08 |
| 55 | Farid Khayrullin | RUS | 1:06.08 |
| 56 | Xia Fengyuan | CHN | 1:06.10 |
| 57 | Meck Mothuli | RSA | 1:06.12 |
| 58 | Oleksandr Koezin | UKR | 1:06.18 |
| 59 | Dominique Chauvelier | FRA | 1:06.21 |
| 60 | Carsten Eich | GER | 1:06.31 |
| 61 | Alfredo Vigueras | USA | 1:06.35 |
| 62 | Phil Makepeace | GBR | 1:06.36 |
| 63 | Zoltán Holba | HUN | 1:06.42 |
| 64 | Kidane Gebrmichael | ETH | 1:06.46 |
| 65 | Apolinar Caudillo | MEX | 1:06.47 |
| 66 | Rainer Huth | GER | 1:06.49 |
| 67 | Ángel Vizcarrondo | PUR | 1:06.52 |
| 68 | Tesfaye Tola | ETH | 1:06.59 |
| 69 | Asaf Bimro | ISR | 1:07.12 |
| 70 | Semyon Zhustin | RUS | 1:07.15 |
| 71 | Ayele Setegne | ISR | 1:07.21 |
| 72 | Tadayuki Ojima | JPN | 1:07.42 |
| 73 | Pavel Loskutov | EST | 1:07.50 |
| 74 | Marly Sopyev | TKM | 1:07.50 |
| 75 | Josphat Mhandu | ZIM | 1:07.55 |
| 76 | Carlos Ayala | MEX | 1:07.58 |
| 77 | Peter Ndirangu | KEN | 1:08.06 |
| 78 | Leonid Pykhteyev | KGZ | 1:08.13 |
| 79 | Peter Weilenmann | USA | 1:08.28 |
| 80 | Martin Block | GER | 1:08.31 |
| 81 | Fungai Kapanyota | ZIM | 1:08.38 |
| 82 | Dov Kremer | ISR | 1:08.40 |
| 83 | Ricardo Vera | URU | 1:08.48 |
| 84 | Aleksandr Saprykin | KAZ | 1:08.51 |
| 85 | Sujeewa Chandrapala | SRI | 1:08.54 |
| 86 | Marcel Matanin | SVK | 1:08.56 |
| 87 | Vladimir Gusev | KAZ | 1:09.15 |
| 88 | Dave Tune | GBR | 1:09.26 |
| 89 | Martin Horáček | CZE | 1:09.36 |
| 90 | Johnny Loría | CRC | 1:09.45 |
| 91 | Nazirdin Akylbekov | KGZ | 1:09.53 |
| 92 | Jaroslav Jakubáček | SVK | 1:09.54 |
| 93 | Mo Shuxin | CHN | 1:09.56 |
| 94 | Miroslav Plešivka | SVK | 1:10.09 |
| 95 | Drago Paripović | CRO | 1:10.34 |
| 96 | Josip Lacković | CRO | 1:10.45 |
| 97 | Gabriel Laboy | PUR | 1:10.49 |
| 98 | Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev | TKM | 1:10.51 |
| 99 | Nazim Noorbux | MRI | 1:11.04 |
| 100 | Vladimir Kiselyov | KGZ | 1:11.17 |
| 101 | Bhairon Singh Loney | IND | 1:11.27 |
| 102 | Antoni Bernadó | AND | 1:11.40 |
| 103 | Nedeljko Ravić | CRO | 1:12.09 |
| 104 | Muni Rajappa | IND | 1:12.21 |
| 105 | Khalid Al-Estashi | YEM | 1:13.17 |
| 106 | José Luis Ebatela | GEQ | 1:13.17 |
| 107 | Satish Huryl | MRI | 1:13.28 |
| 108 | Marco Ivan Condori | BOL | 1:13.28 |
| 109 | Jean Ntdugou | GAB | 1:14.01 |
| 110 | Kostas Konstantinou | CYP | 1:14.15 |
| 111 | Michal Kavacký | SVK | 1:14.34 |
| 112 | Loasis Boussougou | GAB | 1:14.37 |
| 113 | Soudesh Rajcoomar | MRI | 1:15.21 |
| 114 | Leonard Madinda | GAB | 1:16.33 |
| 115 | Redmal Singh | IND | 1:16.34 |
| 116 | Theofilou Vasos | CYP | 1:16.44 |
| 117 | Carles Font | AND | 1:17.39 |
| 118 | Ihab Salama | PLE | 1:18.42 |
| 119 | Mohamed Al-Khawlani | YEM | 1:19.33 |
| 120 | Xavier Bossa | AND | 1:22.42 |
| 121 | Josep Graells | AND | 1:22.42 |
| — | Marcelo Cascabelo | ARG | DNF |
| — | Stéphane Rousseau | BEL | DNF |
| — | Gino Van Geyte | BEL | DNF |
| — | Marco Antonio Condori | BOL | DNF |
| — | Tomix da Costa | BRA | DNF |
| — | Vanderlei de Lima | BRA | DNF |
| — | Willy Kalombo | ZAI | DNF |
| — | Mohamed El-Massoudi | FRA | DNF |
| — | Klaus-Peter Nabein | GER | DNF |
| — | Robert de Vido | HKG | DNF |
| — | Sam Molokomme | RSA | DNF |
| — | Bartolomé Serrano | ESP | DNF |
| — | Maxmillian Iranqhe | TAN | DNF |

#### Team

| rang | team | deelnemers |
| 1 | Italië | Stefano Baldini (1e) Giacomo Leone (9e) Vincenzo Modica (17e) |
| 2 | Spanje | Carlos de la Torre (4e) Alejandro Gómez (8e) José Manuel García (23e) |
| 3 | Japan | Toshiyuki Hayata (5e) Masatoshi Ibata (12e) Katsuhiko Hanada (14e) |

### Vrouwen
#### Individueel

| Rang | Atlete | Land | Tijd |
| 1 | Ren Xiujuan | CHN | 1:10.39 |
| 2 | Lidia Şimon | ROU | 1:10.57 |
| 3 | Aurica Buia | ROU | 1:11.01 |
| 4 | Nuța Olaru | ROU | 1:11.07 |
| 5 | Kanako Haginaga | JPN | 1:11.18 |
| 6 | Christine Mallo | FRA | 1:12.24 |
| 7 | Firiya Sultanova | RUS | 1:12.34 |
| 8 | Heather Turland | AUS | 1:12.46 |
| 9 | Zahia Dahmani | FRA | 1:12.47 |
| 10 | Lucilla Andreucci | ITA | 1:12.50 |
| 11 | Cristina Pomacu | ROU | 1:13.05 |
| 12 | Zola Pieterse | RSA | 1:13.19 |
| 13 | Getenesh Urge | ETH | 1:13.22 |
| 14 | Martha Ernstdóttir | ISL | 1:13.27 |
| 15 | Muriel Linsolas | FRA | 1:13.33 |
| 16 | Annalisa Scurti | ITA | 1:13.41 |
| 17 | Mayumi Ichikawa | JPN | 1:13.42 |
| 18 | Alla Zhilyayeva | RUS | 1:13.47 |
| 19 | Dorota Gruca-Giezek | POL | 1:14.07 |
| 20 | Nina Korvryzkina | UKR | 1:14.28 |
| 21 | Teresa Récio | ESP | 1:14.32 |
| 22 | Tatyana Dzhabrayilova | UKR | 1:14.45 |
| 23 | Bénédicte Molle | FRA | 1:14.52 |
| 24 | Sonia Maccioni | ITA | 1:14.57 |
| 25 | Paola Cabrera | MEX | 1:15.00 |
| 26 | María Luisa Lárraga | ESP | 1:15.03 |
| 27 | Wendy Barrett | USA | 1:15.23 |
| 28 | Sally Goldsmith | GBR | 1:15.33 |
| 29 | Angelines Rodríguez | ESP | 1:15.50 |
| 30 | Patrizia Ritondo | ITA | 1:16.04 |
| 31 | Lorraine Masuoka/Hochella | USA | 1:16.05 |
| 32 | Magdalena Thorsell | SWE | 1:16.07 |
| 33 | Tatyana Belovol | UKR | 1:16.11 |
| 34 | Nicole Whiteford | RSA | 1:16.15 |
| 35 | Emebet Abossa | ETH | 1:16.16 |
| 36 | María Luisa Muñoz | ESP | 1:16.29 |
| 37 | Sonja Deckers | BEL | 1:16.32 |
| 38 | Dörte Köster | GER | 1:16.45 |
| 39 | Irina Safarova | RUS | 1:16.48 |
| 40 | Katrina Price | USA | 1:16.49 |
| 41 | Renata Paradowska | POL | 1:16.49 |
| 42 | Gadissie Edato | ETH | 1:16.53 |
| 43 | Natalia Requena | ESP | 1:16.54 |
| 44 | Danielle Sanderson | GBR | 1:16.56 |
| 45 | Laurel Park | USA | 1:17.04 |
| 46 | Ilona Barbanova | UKR | 1:17.29 |
| 47 | Hayley Nash | GBR | 1:17.45 |
| 48 | Nelly Glauser | SUI | 1:18.05 |
| 49 | Adriana Fernández | MEX | 1:18.25 |
| 50 | Anniek Beckers | BEL | 1:18.51 |
| 51 | Tijana Pavičić | CRO | 1:19.22 |
| 52 | Chunping Jin | CHN | 1:19.41 |
| 53 | Asselefech Assefa | ETH | 1:19.45 |
| 54 | Lu Jing | CHN | 1:20.00 |
| 55 | Danuta Marczyk | POL | 1:20.36 |
| 56 | Ingrid Van Giel | BEL | 1:21.53 |
| 57 | Eloisa Toral | MEX | 1:21.56 |
| 58 | Lizianne Holmes | RSA | 1:21.58 |
| 59 | Lynn Doering | USA | 1:22.25 |
| 60 | Mandy Lo | HKG | 1:22.37 |
| 61 | Flor Venegas | CHI | 1:24.28 |
| 62 | Abebe Tola | ETH | 1:24.36 |
| 63 | Usha Verma | IND | 1:24.50 |
| 64 | Slavica Brčić | CRO | 1:25.10 |
| 65 | Shelyi Joseph | IND | 1:25.36 |
| 66 | Rigzen Angmo | IND | 1:25.37 |
| — | Anja Jørgensen | DEN | DNF |
| — | Heather Heasman | GBR | DNF |
| — | Liz McColgan | GBR | DNF |
| — | Ljoedmila Petrova | RUS | DNF |
| — | Paulina Phaho | RSA | DNF |
| — | Cristina Burca | ROU | DQ |

#### Team

| rang | team | Comptetitors |
| 1 | Roemenië | Lidia Şimon (2e) Aura Buia (3e) Nuţa Olaru (4e) |
| 2 | Frankrijk | Christine Mallo (6e) Zahia Dahmani (9e) Muriel Linsolas (15e) |
| 3 | Italië | Lucilla Andreucci (10e) Annalisa Scurti (16e) Sonia Maccioni (24e) |
* Uitslagen mannen
* Uitslagen vrouwen
* (en) IAAF / CAIXA Half Marathon World Championships Fact & Figures
* ↑ Cristina Burca uit Rusland werd achtste (1:12.37), maar later gediskwalificeerd. Op 2 mei 1999 legde de IAAF haar een levenslange schorsing op.
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