1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

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Senior men's race at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition9th
DateMarch 28
Host cityMadrid, Spain
VenueHipódromo de la Zarzuela
Events1
Distances12 km – Senior men
Participation238 athletes from
36 nations

The Senior men's race at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Madrid, Spain, at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela on March 28, 1981. 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 (12 km)[]

Individual[]

Rank Athlete Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Craig Virgin  United States 35:05
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mohammed Kedir  Ethiopia 35:07
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Fernando Mamede  Portugal 35:09
4 Julian Goater  England 35:13
5 Antonio Prieto  Spain 35:18
6 Rob de Castella  Australia 35:20
7 Girma Berhanu  Ethiopia 35:22
8 Thom Hunt  United States 35:23
9 Alex Hagelsteens  Belgium 35:24
10 Pierre Levisse  France 35:26
11 Rod Dixon  New Zealand 35:30
12  Algeria 35:34
13 Dereje Nedi  Ethiopia 35:39
14 Kebede Balcha  Ethiopia 35:40
15 Miruts Yifter  Ethiopia 35:42
16 Martti Vainio  Finland 35:42
17 Mark Nenow  United States 35:42
18 Bill Donakowski  United States 35:42
19 Bruce Bickford  United States 35:42
20  Belgium 35:46
21 Lahcene Babaci  Algeria 35:47
22  Kenya 35:49
23 Steve Austin  Australia 35:50
24 Peter Koech  Kenya 35:50
25  Kenya 35:50
26 Nat Muir  Scotland 35:50
27 José Luis González  Spain 35:50
28 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann  West Germany 35:50
29 Fernando Cerrada  Spain 35:55
30 Eshetu Tura  Ethiopia 35:59
31 Steve Jones  Wales 35:59
32  Ethiopia 35:59
33 Steve Binns  England 35:59
34  Australia 35:59
35 Marios Kassianidis  Greece 35:59
36  Kenya 35:59
37 Rachid Habchaoui  Algeria 35:59
38 Dave Clarke  England 35:59
39 Leonid Moseyev  Soviet Union 36:05
40 Bill Britton  Canada 36:05
41 Paul Ballinger  New Zealand 36:05
42  Spain 36:05
43 Marc Nevens  Belgium 36:05
44  West Germany 36:05
45 Abdelmadjid Mada  Algeria 36:05
46 Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer  Czechoslovakia 36:05
47 Peter Butler  Canada 36:05
48 Allister Hutton  Scotland 36:05
49  Australia 36:12
50  France 36:12
51 George Malley  United States 36:12
52  Soviet Union 36:12
53  Czechoslovakia 36:20
54 John Robson  Scotland 36:20
55  Tunisia 36:20
56  Kenya 36:20
57 Some Muge  Kenya 36:20
58 Euan Robertson  New Zealand 36:20
59  Wales 36:20
60  Ireland 36:20
61  France 36:20
62  Australia 36:20
63  United States 36:20
64 Eric de Beck  Belgium 36:20
65  Netherlands 36:30
66 José Sena  Portugal 36:30
67 Detlef Uhlemann  West Germany 36:30
68 Joseph Kiptum  Kenya 36:30
69 Venanzio Ortis  Italy 36:30
70  England 36:30
71 Yevgeniy Okorokov  Soviet Union 36:30
72 Cor Lambregts  Netherlands 36:30
73 Greg Duhaime  Canada 36:30
74  Spain 36:30
75 Tolossa Kotu  Ethiopia 36:30
76 Bernie Ford  England 36:30
77 Jorge García  Spain 36:30
78 Vadim Sidorov  Soviet Union 36:30
79  Canada 36:30
80  United States 36:30
81 Chris Wardlaw  Australia 36:30
82  Ireland 36:30
83  Poland 36:38
84 Alex Gonzalez  France 36:38
85  France 36:38
86  Portugal 36:38
87  Greece 36:38
88  Soviet Union 36:38
89  Greece 36:44
90 Ralf Salzmann  West Germany 36:44
91 Dave Moorcroft  England 36:44
92 Santiago de la Parte  Spain 36:44
93  Netherlands 36:44
94 Alberto Cova  Italy 36:44
95 Aniceto Simoes  Portugal 36:44
96  Poland 36:44
97  Finland 36:44
98  Poland 36:50
99 Giuseppe Gerbi  Italy 36:50
100  Australia 36:50
101 John Woods  Ireland 36:50
102 Tommy Persson  Sweden 36:50
103  United States 36:50
104  Ireland 36:50
105 Mehdi Aidet  Algeria 36:59
106  Belgium 36:59
107 Krzysztof Wesolowski  Poland 36:59
108 Christoph Herle  West Germany 36:59
109 Luigi Zarcone  Italy 36:59
110  Finland 36:59
111 Bernardo Manuel  Angola 36:59
112 Dominique Chauvelier  France 36:59
113  Greece 36:59
114 Boguslaw Psujek  Poland 36:59
115  Tunisia 36:59
116  New Zealand 36:59
117  Netherlands 36:59
118 Neil Cusack  Ireland 36:59
119 Arturo Iacona  Italy 36:59
120 John Doherty  Northern Ireland 36:59
121  Wales 36:59
122  Scotland 37:05
123 Valeriy Abramov  Soviet Union 37:17
124 Francisco Sánchez  Spain 37:17
125  New Zealand 37:17
126 Roger Hackney  Wales 37:17
127 Filippos Filippou  Greece 37:17
128  Portugal 37:17
129  Greece 37:17
130  Algeria 37:17
131  Wales 37:17
132 Kevin Forster  England 37:17
133 Claudio Solone  Italy 37:17
134  Scotland 37:17
135 Emiel Puttemans  Belgium 37:17
136  New Zealand 37:17
137  Netherlands 37:17
138  West Germany 37:17
139  Belgium 37:17
140 Art Boileau  Canada 37:17
141  Netherlands 37:17
142 Alain Bordeleau  Canada 37:34
143 Justin Gloden  Luxembourg 37:34
144 Yehuda Zadok  Israel 37:34
145  Tunisia 37:34
146 Jacques Boxberger  France 37:34
147  Kenya 37:34
148 Willy van Huylenbroeck  Belgium 37:34
149  Finland 37:34
150 Mario Gelli  Italy 37:34
151  New Zealand 37:34
152 Peter Daenens  Belgium 37:34
153  Greece 37:34
154  Tunisia 37:34
155  Algeria 37:34
156  Denmark 37:34
157  Tunisia 37:34
158  Canada 37:34
159  West Germany 37:50
160 Antonio Leitão  Portugal 37:50
161  Canada 37:50
162  Algeria 37:50
163  Wales 37:50
164  Tunisia 37:50
165  England 37:50
166  Northern Ireland 37:50
167 Juan Torres  Spain 37:50
168 John Hartnett  Ireland 37:50
169 Greg Hannon  Northern Ireland 37:50
170  Finland 37:50
171  Australia 37:50
172 Tony Simmons  Wales 37:50
173  Northern Ireland 37:50
174  Wales 37:50
175  Turkey 37:50
176 Flemming Jensen  Denmark 37:50
177  France 38:04
178 Vladimir Kotov  Soviet Union 38:04
179  Ireland 38:04
180  New Zealand 38:04
181  Netherlands 38:04
182 Dave Edge  Canada 38:04
183 Svend-Erik Kristensen  Denmark 38:15
184  Algeria 38:15
185  Denmark 38:23
186  Wales 38:23
187  Australia 38:29
188 Danny McDaid  Ireland 38:37
189 Féthi Baccouche  Tunisia 38:37
190  Greece 38:37
191  Finland 38:37
192  Scotland 38:37
193  West Germany 38:40
194  Denmark 38:40
195  Netherlands 38:51
196 Mansour Guettaya  Tunisia 38:51
197  Finland 39:05
198 Gerhard Hartmann  Austria 39:15
199  Ireland 39:18
200  Kenya 39:18
201  Northern Ireland 39:20
202  Poland 39:23
203 Piero Selvaggio  Italy 39:30
204  Tunisia 39:33
205 Paul Craig  Northern Ireland 39:45
206  Denmark 39:45
207  Soviet Union 39:54
208 Mike McLeod  England 40:24
209  Portugal 40:32
210 Nabil Choueiry  Lebanon 40:47
211  Finland 41:10
212 João Carvalho  Angola 41:25
213  Saudi Arabia 41:34
214  Angola 41:45
215  Angola 41:51
216  Angola 42:01
217  Saudi Arabia 42:05
218  Angola 42:05
219  Saudi Arabia 42:27
220  Angola 42:27
221  Saudi Arabia 42:33
222  Saudi Arabia 42:40
223  Saudi Arabia 42:51
224 Sekou Camara  Guinea 42:53
225  Angola 43:15
226  Saudi Arabia 43:16
227  Saudi Arabia 43:39
228  Guinea 44:58
 — Arye Gamliel  Israel DNF
— Francis Gonzalez  France DNF
— Carlos Lopes  Portugal DNF
— Kaarlo Maaninka  Finland DNF
— Bronisław Malinowski  Poland DNF
— Peter Renner  New Zealand DNF
— Graham Williamson  Scotland DNF
—  Scotland DNF
—  Portugal DNF
—  Scotland DNF

Teams[]

Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Ethiopia
Mohammed Kedir 2
Girma Berhanu 7
Dereje Nedi 13
Kebede Balcha 14
Miruts Yifter 15
Eshetu Tura 30
() (32)
(Tolossa Kotu) (75)
81
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States
Craig Virgin 1
Thom Hunt 8
Mark Nenow 17
Bill Donakowski 18
Bruce Bickford 19
George Malley 51
() (63)
() (80)
() (103)
114
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Kenya
22
Peter Koech 24
25
36
56
Some Muge 57
(Joseph Kiptum) (68)
() (147)
() (200)
220
4  Spain
Antonio Prieto 5
José Luis González 27
Fernando Cerrada 29
42
74
Jorge García 77
(Santiago de la Parte) (92)
(Francisco Sánchez) (124)
(Juan Torres) (167)
254
5  Australia
Rob de Castella 6
Steve Austin 23
34
49
62
Chris Wardlaw 81
() (100)
() (171)
() (187)
255
6  England
Julian Goater 4
Steve Binns 33
Dave Clarke 38
70
Bernie Ford 76
Dave Moorcroft 91
(Kevin Forster) (132)
() (165)
(Mike McLeod) (208)
312
7  Algeria
12
Lahcene Babaci 21
Rachid Habchaoui 37
Abdelmadjid Mada 45
Mehdi Aidet 105
130
() (155)
() (162)
() (184)
350
8  Belgium
Alex Hagelsteens 9
20
Marc Nevens 43
Eric de Beck 64
106
Emiel Puttemans 135
() (139)
(Willy van Huylenbroeck) (148)
(Peter Daenens) (152)
377
9  France
Pierre Levisse 10
50
61
Alex Gonzalez 84
François Person 85
Dominique Chauvelier 112
(Jacques Boxberger) (146)
() (177)
(Francis Gonzalez) (DNF)
402
10  Soviet Union
Leonid Moseyev 39
52
Yevgeniy Okorokov 71
Vadim Sidorov 78
88
Valeriy Abramov 123
(Vladimir Kotov) (178)
() (207)
451
11  West Germany
Hans-Jürgen Orthmann 28
44
Detlef Uhlemann 67
Ralf Salzmann 90
Christoph Herle 108
138
() (159)
() (193)
475
12  New Zealand
Rod Dixon 11
Paul Ballinger 41
Euan Robertson 58
116
125
136
() (151)
() (180)
(Peter Renner) (DNF)
487
13  Canada
Bill Britton 40
Peter Butler 47
Greg Duhaime 73
79
Art Boileau 140
Alain Bordeleau 142
() (158)
() (161)
(Dave Edge) (182)
521
14  Portugal
Fernando Mamede 3
José Sena 66
86
Aniceto Simoes 95
128
Antonio Leitão 160
() (209)
(Carlos Lopes) (DNF)
() (DNF)
538
15  Scotland
Nat Muir 26
Allister Hutton 48
John Robson 54
122
134
192
(Graham Williamson) (DNF)
() (DNF)
() (DNF)
576
16  Greece
Marios Kassianidis 35
87
89
113
Filippos Filippou 127
129
() (153)
() (190)
580
17  Italy
Venanzio Ortis 69
Alberto Cova 94
Giuseppe Gerbi 99
Luigi Zarcone 109
Arturo Iacona 119
Claudio Solone 133
(Mario Gelli) (150)
(Piero Selvaggio) (203)
623
18  Netherlands
65
Cor Lambregts 72
93
117
137
141
() (181)
() (195)
625
19  Wales
Steve Jones 31
59
121
Roger Hackney 126
131
163
(Tony Simmons) (172)
() (174)
() (186)
631
20  Ireland
60
82
John Woods 101
104
Neil Cusack 118
John Hartnett 168
() (179)
(Danny McDaid) (188)
() (199)
633
21  Poland
83
96
98
Krzysztof Wesolowski 107
Boguslaw Psujek 114
202
(Bronisław Malinowski) (DNF)
700
22  Finland
Martti Vainio 16
97
110
149
170
191
() (197)
() (211)
(Kaarlo Maaninka) (DNF)
733
23  Tunisia
55
115
145
154
157
164
(Féthi Baccouche) (189)
(Mansour Guettaya) (196)
() (204)
790
24  Northern Ireland
John Doherty 120
166
Greg Hannon 169
173
201
Paul Craig 205
1034
25  Denmark
156
Flemming Jensen 176
Svend-Erik Kristensen 183
185
194
206
1100
26  Angola
Bernardo Manuel 111
João Carvalho 212
214
215
216
218
() (220)
() (225)
1186
27  Saudi Arabia
213
217
219
221
222
223
() (226)
() (227)
1315
  • Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation[]

An unofficial count yields the participation of 238 athletes from 35 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[4]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 19, 1973), "Muir dream is shattered in Madrid – Nat Muir, who went to Madrid with dreams of becoming world cross-county champion, spent yesterday with his coach trying to work out why it became a nichtmare...", Glasgow Herald, p. 20, retrieved October 18, 2013
  2. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships – 12.0km CC Men – Madrid Hippodromo de la Zarzuela Date: Saturday, March 28, 1981, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 18, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS", Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
  4. ^ 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
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