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Welcome from IAAF
President Dr Primo Nebiolo
The
World Half Marathon Championships is the final event of
an immensely thrilling, intensive, action-packed season
for the IAAF and athletics enthusiasts around the world.The charming
Slovakian city of Kosice, home of the Kosice Peace
Marathon, will no doubt be a worthy host to this, the 6th
IAAF/VSZ World Half Marathon Championships. Join us here
for a wealth of information and full coverage of this
exciting event
Primo
Nebiolo
" The
end of a year of great successes for Athletics"
KOSICE - IAAF President Dr Primo Nebiolo made the
following statement after attending the men and
women’s races in the 6th IAAF/VSZ World
Half Marathon Championships: " 1997, which has been
the Year of Athletics, could not have had a better ending
than what we have seen here in Kosice. The world’s
greatest half marathon runners have come to the Slovak
Republic to contest the title and the $194,000 in prize
money - 97 thousand dollars each for the men’s race
and the women’s race. This new policy of the IAAF,
introduced for the first time this year, has demonstrated
its value starting with the World Indoor Championships in
Paris and carrying on with the World Cross Country
Championships in Turin, the World Race Walking Cup in
Podebrady, the World Championships in Athletics in Athens
and the Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka. We have seen great
results, great records and wonderful competitions. The
interest in athletics world-wide and its audience on
television and in the media has never been so
great."
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Kenya
wins 6th IAAF/VSZ World Half Marathon Championships: Shem
Kororia and Moses Tanui both under 60 minutes
Giorgio
Reineri reports from Kosice
The Kenyan team dominated
the 6th IAAF/VSZ World Half Marathon
Championships. This spectacular race was fought out every
stride of the  way and finally won by Shem Kororia
with a final sprint worthy of a 5000m specialist. The
final time - 59.56 - is a new world championships record
and the second fastest all time over 21.097km: just 9
seconds behind the best performance set by Moses Tanui in
Milan on 3 April 1993.
Loroupe (KEN) dominates women's
half marathon final, but Rumania takes team title
Giorgio
Reineri reports from Kosice
Kenya’s Tegla Loroupe was the
happy winner of the 6th IAAF/VSZ World Half
Marathon Championships  women’s event. Loroupe seemed virtually
assured of victory when Elana Meyer fell out of the
running at the 11th kilometre. Up to the 10km
mark (32:12), the pair had been running closely together,
then Loroupe pulled away strongly and the battle was
over.
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