1996 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

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Senior men's race at the 1996 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition24th
DateMarch 23
Host cityStellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa South Africa
VenueDanie Craven Stadium
Events1
Distances12.15 km – Senior men
Participation281 athletes from
56 nations

The Senior men's race at the 1996 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, at the Danie Craven Stadium on March 23, 1996. A preview on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald,[1] and a report in The New York Times.[2]

Complete results,[3][4][5] medallists, [6] and the results of British athletes[7] were published.

Race results[]

Senior men's race (12.15 km)[]

Individual[]

Rank Athlete Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paul Tergat  Kenya 33:44
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Salah Hissou  Morocco 33:56
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ismael Kirui  Kenya 33:57
4 Paul Koech  Kenya 34:10
5 Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia 34:28
6 Joseph Kimani  Kenya 34:30
7 Khalid Skah  Morocco 34:34
8 Smail Sghir  Morocco 34:34
9  Kenya 34:35
10 Josephat Machuka  Kenya 34:37
11 Abraham Assefa  Ethiopia 34:55
12 Jon Brown  United Kingdom 34:55
13 Abderrahim Zitouna  Morocco 35:00
14  Kenya 35:01
15 Shadrack Hoff  South Africa 35:04
16 Steve Moneghetti  Australia 35:04
17 Habte Jifar  Ethiopia 35:05
18 Fita Bayissa  Ethiopia 35:09
19 Alejandro Gómez  Spain 35:14
20 Mustapha Essaïd  France 35:15
21 Ayele Mezegebu  Ethiopia 35:23
22 José Manuel García  Spain 35:25
23 James Songok  Kenya 35:29
24  Tanzania 35:30
25 Julian Paynter  Australia 35:31
26 Domingos Castro  Portugal 35:33
27  Brazil 35:35
28 John Nuttall  United Kingdom 35:38
29 Mustapha Bamouh  Morocco 35:40
30 Kamiel Maase  Netherlands 35:40
31   Switzerland 35:42
32 Antonio Serrano  Spain 35:47
33  Spain 35:49
34  Tanzania 35:50
35 Chala Kelele  Ethiopia 35:51
36 Carlos Grisales  Colombia 35:53
37 Gennaro Di Napoli  Italy 35:55
38 António Pinto  Portugal 35:56
39 Girma Tolla  Ethiopia 35:56
40 Khaled Boulami  Morocco 35:57
41 Brian Baker  United States 35:57
42  France 35:59
43 Christian Leuprecht  Italy 35:59
44  South Africa 36:00
45 Rob Denmark  United Kingdom 36:01
46  Spain 36:04
47  Tanzania 36:05
48 Stefano Baldini  Italy 36:06
49 Shaun Creighton  Australia 36:06
50 John Morapedi  South Africa 36:07
51 Andrew Pearson  United Kingdom 36:07
52 Mohamed Issangar  Morocco 36:11
53 Carlos de la Torre  Spain 36:13
54 Abdelaziz Sahere  Morocco 36:16
55 Julio Rey  Spain 36:17
56  Zimbabwe 36:17
57 Keith Cullen  United Kingdom 36:17
58 Róbert Štefko  Slovakia 36:18
59  United Kingdom 36:19
60  Portugal 36:19
61  Kenya 36:20
62 Greg van Hest  Netherlands 36:21
63 Takahiro Sunada  Japan 36:21
64 Angelo Carosi  Italy 36:22
65  Colombia 36:22
66 Lee Troop  Australia 36:27
67 Robbie Johnston  New Zealand 36:27
68  New Zealand 36:27
69 Pablo Olmedo  Mexico 36:31
70  Mexico 36:31
71  Ethiopia 36:32
72  Tanzania 36:32
73  Tanzania 36:32
74  Brazil 36:34
75 Francesco Panetta  Italy 36:34
76 Abdellah Béhar  France 36:35
77 Claes Nyberg  Sweden 36:36
78 Brahim Boulami  Morocco 36:37
79  France 36:37
80  Zimbabwe 36:37
81  Zimbabwe 36:37
82  United States 36:41
83 Carlos Patrício  Portugal 36:44
84  Spain 36:48
85 Salvatore Bettiol  Italy 36:50
86  South Africa 36:51
87  United Kingdom 36:52
88  New Zealand 36:53
89  South Africa 36:53
90 Adalberto Garcia  Brazil 36:54
91  Canada 36:56
92 Vítor Almeida  Portugal 36:58
93 John Mwathiwa  Malawi 36:58
94 Tim Gannon  United States 36:59
95  South Africa 37:00
96  South Africa 37:01
97  Ukraine 37:02
98 Joaquim Silva  Portugal 37:04
99  Netherlands 37:05
100  Namibia 37:06
101  New Zealand 37:06
102  Uganda 37:07
103 Viktor Röthlin   Switzerland 37:09
104 Éder Fialho  Brazil 37:10
105  Belgium 37:10
106 William Roldán  Colombia 37:11
107  Ireland 37:12
108 Henry Moyo  Malawi 37:13
109  Spain 37:15
110  Mexico 37:15
111 Jonathan Wyatt  New Zealand 37:16
112 Ayele Setegne  Israel 37:17
113 Alex Malinga  Uganda 37:18
114  New Zealand 37:20
115  Finland 37:21
116  Zambia 37:22
117 Jeff Schiebler  Canada 37:22
118  Australia 37:23
119  United States 37:23
120  Japan 37:28
121  United States 37:30
122  Belgium 37:32
123  Australia 37:32
124  India 37:33
125  Netherlands 37:33
126  United States 37:33
127  United States 37:34
128 Dominique Chauvelier  France 37:35
129  United Kingdom 37:36
130  Jamaica 37:38
131  Uganda 37:39
132  Canada 37:43
133  France 37:43
134  Belgium 37:44
135 Daniel Sibandze  Eswatini 37:45
136 Joseph Tjitunga  Namibia 37:48
137  Belgium 37:50
138  South Africa 37:50
139 Francis Munthali  Malawi 37:51
140  Finland 37:51
141  Colombia 37:53
142 Isaac Simelane  Eswatini 37:54
143  Botswana 37:54
144  Ukraine 37:55
145 Marcel Versteeg  Netherlands 37:55
146  Cameroon 37:56
147  Brazil 38:00
148 Elenilson da Silva  Brazil 38:00
149  Zimbabwe 38:02
150 Aleksandr Kuzin  Ukraine 38:02
151  United Kingdom 38:06
152  Netherlands 38:08
153  Belgium 38:10
154 Sergiy Lebid  Ukraine 38:10
155  Australia 38:14
156  Germany 38:15
157  Uganda 38:16
158 Miroslav Vanko  Slovakia 38:17
159 André Green  Germany 38:18
160  Tanzania 38:18
161  Ireland 38:19
162  Mexico 38:19
163 Sebastiano Mazzara  Italy 38:19
164  Cameroon 38:21
165  Zimbabwe 38:23
166  Colombia 38:23
167  Czech Republic 38:26
168  India 38:27
169  India 38:27
170  India 38:27
171  Ireland 38:30
172 Hisayuki Okawa  Japan 38:31
173  Botswana 38:32
174 Elphas Ginindza  Eswatini 38:33
175  FR Yugoslavia 38:33
176  India 38:33
177  Uganda 38:37
178  Cameroon 38:41
179  United States 38:41
180 Paul McCloy  Canada 38:42
181  United States 38:42
182 Goran Raičević  FR Yugoslavia 38:42
183  Zambia 38:43
184  Namibia 38:44
185 Zachariah Ditetso  Botswana 38:44
186  Mauritius 38:45
187 Simone Zanon  Italy 38:48
188 André Bucher   Switzerland 38:49
189  Angola 38:50
190  Ukraine 38:50
191  Belgium 38:52
192  Finland 38:53
193  Uganda 38:54
194  India 38:56
195  Lesotho 38:56
196  Lesotho 38:56
197  Ireland 38:56
198  Estonia 38:57
199  Mauritius 39:00
200  Uganda 39:03
201  Botswana 39:04
202  Chinese Taipei 39:04
203  Finland 39:09
204  Botswana 39:11
205  Japan 39:17
206  Eswatini 39:21
207  Ukraine 39:24
208  South Africa 39:25
209  Mexico 39:26
210  Ireland 39:29
211  Egypt 39:30
212  Namibia 39:37
213  Finland 39:40
214  Cameroon 39:42
215  Finland 39:46
216  Eswatini 39:49
217 Cheikh Boye  Senegal 39:56
218  Congo 39:58
219 Ajay Chuttoo  Mauritius 39:59
220 Bruno Le Stum  France 40:01
221  Lesotho 40:04
222  Mozambique 40:08
223  Namibia 40:11
224  Croatia 40:13
225  Namibia 40:13
226  Colombia 40:13
227  Mozambique 40:15
228  Finland 40:18
229  Jamaica 40:26
230  France 40:27
231  Botswana 40:36
232  Mauritius 40:37
233  Poland 40:38
234 Nils Antonio  Jamaica 40:39
235  Mauritius 40:43
236  Eswatini 40:47
237  Hong Kong 40:57
238  Jamaica 41:00
239  Papua New Guinea 41:05
240  Mauritius 41:21
241  Mauritius 41:22
242  Jamaica 41:25
243  Malawi 41:29
244  Czech Republic 41:29
245  Malawi 41:46
246  Papua New Guinea 41:52
247  Fiji 41:54
248  Lesotho 42:22
249  Papua New Guinea 42:24
250  Malawi 42:33
251  Papua New Guinea 42:34
252  Canada 42:44
253  Jamaica 42:47
254  Fiji 43:06
255  Papua New Guinea 43:09
256  Fiji 43:37
257 Isireli Naikelekelevesi  Fiji 44:18
258 Tony Green  Papua New Guinea 44:18
259  Papua New Guinea 45:10
260  Fiji 45:16
261  Fiji 45:33
—  Brazil DNF
— Cormac Finnerty  Ireland DNF
— Paulo Guerra  Portugal DNF
—  Zimbabwe DNF
— Eduardo Henriques  Portugal DNF
— Vincenzo Modica  Italy DNF
— José Regalo  Portugal DNF
—  Finland DNF
—  Netherlands DNF
— Dale Warrander  New Zealand DNF
—  France DNF
— Tesfaye Tafa  Ethiopia DNF
—  Ireland DNF
—  Mexico DNF
—  Tajikistan DNF
—  Ireland DNF
—  Belarus DNF
—  Malawi DNF
—  Tajikistan DNF
—  Zambia DNF

Teams[]

Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya
Paul Tergat 1
Ismael Kirui 3
Paul Koech 4
Joseph Kimani 6
9
Josephat Machuka 10
() (14)
(James Songok) (23)
() (61)
33
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Morocco
Salah Hissou 2
Khalid Skah 7
Smail Sghir 8
Abderrahim Zitouna 13
Mustapha Bamouh 29
Khaled Boulami 40
(Mohamed Issangar) (52)
(Abdelaziz Sahere) (54)
(Brahim Boulami) (78)
99
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Ethiopia
Haile Gebrselassie 5
Abraham Assefa 11
Habte Jifar 17
Fita Bayissa 18
Ayele Mezegebu 21
Chala Kelele 35
(Girma Tolla) (39)
() (71)
(Tesfaye Tafa) (DNF)
107
4  Spain
Alejandro Gómez 19
José Manuel García 22
Antonio Serrano 32
33
46
Carlos de la Torre 53
(Julio Rey) (55)
() (84)
() (109)
205
5  United Kingdom
Jon Brown 12
John Nuttall 28
Rob Denmark 45
Andrew Pearson 51
Keith Cullen 57
59
() (87)
() (129)
() (151)
252
6  Italy
Gennaro Di Napoli 37
Christian Leuprecht 43
Stefano Baldini 48
Angelo Carosi 64
Francesco Panetta 75
Salvatore Bettiol 85
(Sebastiano Mazzara) (163)
(Simone Zanon) (187)
(Vincenzo Modica) (DNF)
352
7  South Africa
Shadrack Hoff 15
44
John Morapedi 50
86
89
95
() (96)
() (138)
() (208)
379
8  Portugal
Domingos Castro 26
António Pinto 38
60
Carlos Patrício 83
Vítor Almeida 92
Joaquim Silva 98
(Paulo Guerra) (DNF)
(Eduardo Henriques) (DNF)
(José Regalo) (DNF)
397
9  Australia
Steve Moneghetti 16
Julian Paynter 25
Shaun Creighton 49
Lee Troop 66
118
123
() (155)
397
10  Tanzania
24
34
47
72
73
160
410
11  France
Mustapha Essaïd 20
42
Abdellah Béhar 76
79
Dominique Chauvelier 128
133
(Bruno Le Stum) (220)
() (230)
() (DNF)
478
12  New Zealand
Robbie Johnston 67
68
88
101
Jonathan Wyatt 111
114
(Dale Warrander) (DNF)
549
13  United States
Brian Baker 41
82
Tim Gannon 94
119
121
126
() (127)
() (179)
() (181)
583
14  Brazil
27
74
Adalberto Garcia 90
Éder Fialho 104
147
Elenilson da Silva 148
() (DNF)
590
15  Netherlands
Kamiel Maase 30
Greg van Hest 62
99
125
Marcel Versteeg 145
152
() (DNF)
613
16  Colombia
Carlos Grisales 36
65
William Roldán 106
141
166
226
740
17  Belgium
105
122
134
137
153
191
842
18  Uganda
102
Alex Malinga 113
131
157
177
193
() (200)
873
19  Ukraine
97
144
Aleksandr Kuzin 150
Sergiy Lebid 154
190
207
942
20  India
124
168
169
170
176
194
1001
21  Finland
115
140
192
203
213
215
() (228)
() (DNF)
1078
22  Malawi
John Mwathiwa 93
Henry Moyo 108
Francis Munthali 139
243
245
250
() (DNF)
1078
23  Namibia
100
Joseph Tjitunga 136
184
212
223
225
1080
24  Eswatini
Daniel Sibandze 135
Isaac Simelane 142
Elphas Ginindza 174
206
216
236
1109
25  Botswana
143
173
Zachariah Ditetso 185
201
204
231
1137
26  Mauritius
186
199
Ajay Chuttoo 219
232
235
240
() (241)
1311
27  Jamaica
130
229
Nils Antonio 234
238
242
253
1326
28  Papua New Guinea
239
246
249
251
255
Tony Green 258
() (259)
1498
29  Fiji
247
254
256
Isireli Naikelekelevesi 257
260
261
1535
DNF  Zimbabwe
() (56)
() (80)
() (81)
() (149)
() (165)
() (DNF)
DNF
DNF  Mexico
(Pablo Olmedo) (69)
() (70)
() (110)
() (162)
() (209)
() (DNF)
DNF
DNF  Ireland
() (107)
() (161)
() (171)
() (197)
() (210)
(Cormac Finnerty) (DNF)
() (DNF)
() (DNF)
DNF
  • Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation[]

An unofficial count yields the participation of 281 athletes from 56 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[7]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 23, 1996), Zola admits she's an also-ran, Herald, retrieved October 26, 2013
  2. ^ "RESULTS PLUS - CROSS-COUNTRY - Kenyans Dominate", The New York Times, March 24, 1996, retrieved October 26, 2013
  3. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.1km CC Men - Cape Town Danie Craven Stadium Date: Saturday, March 23, 1996, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 26, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ The World Cross Country Championships 1996, Cape Town, South Africa - Individual Results - Senior - Men, IAAF (archived), archived from the original on February 23, 1997, retrieved October 26, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ The World Cross Country Championships 1996, Cape Town, South Africa - Team Results - Senior - Men, IAAF (archived), archived from the original on February 23, 1997, retrieved October 26, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
  7. ^ 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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