2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
The 14th World Half Marathon Championships (official IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ) were held on 1 October 2005 in the Canadian city of Edmonton.
The start and finish were in William Hawrelak Park. It was four and a half laps to complete a comprehensive way.
At 6 ° C, and pouring rain Fabiano Joseph on sprinted to the finish line starting off for Qatar native Kenyans Mubarak Hassan Shami, who thought himself already as the winner. The 19 -year-old Tanzanians had won in the previous two years silver. In the women's race Constantina Tomescu went from the outset in the lead, broke away from the rest of the field at 8 km and latched on until the finish a lead of over a minute. It was the first world title for the Romanian, who had three weeks earlier won bronze in the marathon at the World Championships in Helsinki and the 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medalist in the marathon. In the battle for the silver medal, the Dutch Lornah Kiplagat prevailed only on the goal line against their former countrywoman Susan Chepkemei from Kenya. The team standings (total of times of the three fastest runners of a nation ) secured in the men's Ethiopia against Eritrea, whose best runners Zersenay Tadese was missing injured, and for women, Romania.
Results
Individual classification
90 reported 87 athletes went to the start and reached the goal of 81. Marcel Tschopp ( Liechtenstein LIE) finished in 72nd place in 1:13:57. National records were set by Mubarak Hassan Shami (Qatar Qatar, 1:01:09, 2nd place), Bat- Otschiryn Ser - Od (Mongolia Mongolia, 1:08:12, 56th ) and Rupert Green ( Jamaica, 1:12: 59, place 70) set up.
Team standings
A total of 15 teams counted.
Women
Individual classification
71 reported 69 athletes went to the start and reached the goal of 64. Kerstin Mennenga - Metzler ( Liechtenstein LIE ) finished 58th in 1:25:29. National Records have been awarded Marince Subnafeu (Indonesia Indonesia, 1:23:41, 56th ), Vivian Tang (Singapore Singapore, 1:26:50, number 59 ), Tamica Thomas ( Jamaica, 1:31:41, Place 61) and Chao Fong Leng ( Macau Macau, placed number 63 ).
Team standings
A total of nine teams counted.