1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Senior men's race at the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Senior men's race at the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	1st
Date	March 17
Host city	Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium
Venue	Hippodroom Waregem
Events	1
Distances	11.98 km – Senior men
Participation	156 athletes from ; 19 nations
	1974 Monza → ;

The Senior men's race at the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Waregem, Belgium, at the Hippodroom Waregem on March 17, 1973. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.^[1]

Complete results,^[2] medallists, ^[3] and the results of British athletes^[4] were published.

Race results[]

Senior men's race (11.98 km)[]

Individual[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	35:46.4
	Mariano Haro	Spain	35:46.5
	Rod Dixon	New Zealand	36:00
4	Tapio Kantanen	Finland	36:05
5	Willy Polleunis	Belgium	36:05
6		England	36:08
7		Spain	36:12
8	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	36:13
9	Nikolay Sviridov	Soviet Union	36:19
10	Noel Tijou	France	36:21
11		England	36:24
12	Dick Tayler	New Zealand	36:26
13		Scotland	36:31
14	Bryan Rose	New Zealand	36:38
15	Euan Robertson	New Zealand	36:45
16		Netherlands	36:46
17		Soviet Union	36:47
18	Eric de Beck	Belgium
19		Belgium
20	Abdelkader Zaddem	Tunisia
21	Nikolay Puklakov	Soviet Union
22		Soviet Union
23		Soviet Union
24	Carlos Lopes	Portugal
25	Eddie Leddy	Ireland	36:56
26		Wales
27		Soviet Union
28	Karel Lismont	Belgium
29	Steve Kenyon	England
30		Scotland
31	Marc Smet	Belgium
32	Tony Simmons	England
33		Wales
34		Finland
35	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy
36	Santiago de la Parte	Spain
37		Tunisia
38		New Zealand
39		Netherlands
40	Edgard Salvé	Belgium
41		France
42	Mike Baxter	England
43	Seppo Nikkari	Finland
44	Detlef Uhlemann	West Germany
45	Lachie Stewart	Scotland
46		France
47	Olavi Suomalainen	Finland
48	Haico Scharn	Netherlands
49		France
50	Dennis Fowles	Wales
51	Pekka Tiihonen	Finland
52		Netherlands
53		Soviet Union
54		New Zealand
55		Wales
56	Gerd Frähmcke	West Germany
57	Jim Alder	Scotland
58		Spain
59		New Zealand
60		Finland
61	Ricky Wilde	England
62		France
63	Donal Walsh	Ireland
64		Northern Ireland
65		France
66		Morocco
67	Danny McDaid	Ireland
68		Tunisia
69		Ireland
70		England
71	Fernand Kolbeck	France
72		Scotland
73		Soviet Union
74		Scotland
75		England
76	Renato Martini	Italy
77	Mansour Guettaya	Tunisia
78		Spain
79	Javier Álvarez	Spain
80	Franco Veronese	Italy
81	Jean-Paul Gomez	France
82		Morocco
83		Scotland
84	Tom O'Riordan	Ireland
85		Ireland
86	Bernie Ford	England
87	Albrecht Moser	Switzerland
88		West Germany
89		Wales
90	Gaetano Pusterla	Italy
91		Tunisia
92		Wales
93		Morocco
94		West Germany
95		Morocco
96	Luigi Zarcone	Italy
97	Gabriele Barbaro	Italy
98		Belgium
99	Labidi Ayachi	Tunisia
100		Northern Ireland
101		Morocco
102		Spain
103		West Germany
104		Finland
105		Northern Ireland
106		Wales
107		Morocco
108	Anacleto Pinto	Portugal
109		Ireland
110	Brunello Bertolin	Italy
111		Morocco
112	Gérard Vervoort	France
113		Portugal
114		Wales
115		Scotland
116		Portugal
117		Ireland
118		Tunisia
119	Aniceto Simoes	Portugal
120		Scotland
121		Netherlands
122	Cidalio Caetano	Portugal
123		West Germany
124		Netherlands
125		Northern Ireland
126		Northern Ireland
127		Morocco
128		Wales
129	Mario Binato	Italy
130		New Zealand
131	Jos Hermens	Netherlands
132		Tunisia
133		Portugal
134		Spain
135		Denmark
136	Armando Aldegalega	Portugal
137		Northern Ireland
138		Denmark
139		Switzerland
140		Netherlands
141		Northern Ireland
142		Denmark
143		Denmark
144		Denmark
145		Denmark
146	Gerd Larsen	Denmark
147		Denmark
148		Denmark
–	Neil Cusack	Ireland	DNF
–	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	DNF
–	Umberto Risi	Italy	DNF
–	Willi Wagner	West Germany	DNF
–		Spain	DNF
–		West Germany	DNF
–		Morocco	DNF
–		Finland	DNF

Teams[]

Rank

Team

Points

Belgium

Willy Polleunis	5
Gaston Roelants	8
Eric de Beck	18
	19
Karel Lismont	28
Marc Smet	31
(Edgard Salvé)	(40)
()	(98)

109

Soviet Union

Nikolay Sviridov	9
	17
Nikolay Puklakov	21
	22
	23
	27
()	(53)
()	(73)

119

New Zealand

Rod Dixon	3
Dick Tayler	12
Bryan Rose	14
Euan Robertson	15
	38
	54
()	(59)
()	(130)

136

4

Finland

Pekka Päivärinta	1
Tapio Kantanen	4
	34
Seppo Nikkari	43
Olavi Suomalainen	47
Pekka Tiihonen	51
()	(60)
()	(104)
()	(DNF)

180

5

England

	6
	11
Steve Kenyon	29
Tony Simmons	32
Mike Baxter	42
Ricky Wilde	61
()	(70)
()	(75)
(Bernie Ford)	(86)

181

6

Spain

Mariano Haro	2
	7
Santiago de la Parte	36
	58
	78
Javier Alvarez	79
()	(102)
()	(134)
()	(DNF)

260

7

France

Noel Tijou	10
	41
	46
	49
	62
	65
(Fernand Kolbeck)	(71)
(Jean-Paul Gomez)	(81)
(Gérard Vervoort)	(112)

273

8

Scotland

	13
	30
Lachie Stewart	45
Jim Alder	57
	72
	74
()	(83)
()	(115)
()	(120)

291

9

Wales

	26
	33
Dennis Fowles	50
	55
	89
	92
()	(106)
()	(114)
()	(128)

345

10

Tunisia

Abdelkader Zaddem	20
	37
	68
Mansour Guettaya	77
	91
Labidi Ayachi	99
()	(118)
()	(132)

392

11

Ireland

Eddie Leddy	25
Donal Walsh	63
Danny McDaid	67
	69
Tom O'Riordan	84
	85
()	(109)
()	(117)
(Neil Cusack)	(DNF)

393

12

Netherlands

	16
	39
Haico Scharn	48
	52
	121
	124
(Jos Hermens)	(131)
()	(140)

400

13

Italy

Giuseppe Cindolo	35
Renato Martini	76
Franco Veronese	80
Gaetano Pusterla	90
Luigi Zarcone	96
Gabriele Barbaro	97
(Brunello Bertolin)	(110)
(Mario Binato)	(129)
(Umberto Risi)	(DNF)

474

14

West Germany

Detlef Uhlemann	44
Gerd Frähmcke	56
	88
	94
	103
	123
(Willi Wagner)	(DNF)
()	(DNF)

508

15

Morocco

	66
	82
	93
	95
	101
	107
()	(111)
()	(127)
()	(DNF)

544

16

Portugal

Carlos Lopes	24
Anacleto Pinto	108
	113
	116
Aniceto Simoes	119
Cidalio Caetano	122
()	(133)
(Armando Aldegalega)	(136)
(Fernando Mamede)	(DNF)

602

17

Northern Ireland

	64
	100
	105
	125
	126
	137
()	(141)

657

18

Denmark

	135
	138
	142
	143
	144
	145
(Gerd Larsen)	(146)
()	(147)
()	(148)

847

Note: Athletes in parenthesis did not score for the team result

Participation[]

An unofficial count yields the participation of 156 athletes from 19 countries in the Senior men's race, one athlete less than the official number published.^[4]

Belgium (8)
Denmark (9)
England (9)
Finland (9)
France (9)
Ireland (9)
Italy (9)

Morocco (9)
Netherlands (8)
New Zealand (8)
Northern Ireland (7)
Portugal (9)
Scotland (9)

Spain (9)
Soviet Union (8)
Switzerland (2)
Tunisia (8)
Wales (9)
West Germany (8)

References[]

^ 'Brawn' breaks clear and lives up his name - A goodly ration of champagne in their hotel here last night, strictly speaking to celebrate Jim Brown's crushing win in the junior race, washed away much of the bitterness and frustration that had clung for several hours to the Scottish Senior cross country team..., Glasgow Herald, March 19, 1973, p. 2, retrieved October 9, 2013
^ Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Waregem Date: Saturday, March 17, 1973, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 9, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
^ ^a ^b 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013

[herald_01-1] 'Brawn' breaks clear and lives up his name - A goodly ration of champagne in their hotel here last night, strictly speaking to celebrate Jim Brown's crushing win in the junior race, washed away much of the bitterness and frustration that had clung for several hours to the Scottish Senior cross country team..., Glasgow Herald, March 19, 1973, p. 2, retrieved October 9, 2013

[archive_01-2] Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Waregem Date: Saturday, March 17, 1973, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 9, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[gbr_01-3] IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013

[iaaf_01-4] 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013

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