1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

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Senior men's race at the 1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition25th
DateMarch 23
Host cityTorino, Piemonte, Italy Italy
VenueParco del Valentino
Events1
Distances12.333 km – Senior men
Participation280 athletes from
58 nations

The Senior men's race at the 1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Torino, Italy, at the Parco del Valentino on March 23, 1997. A report on the event was given in The New York Times,[1] in the Herald,[2] and for the IAAF.[3]

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

Race results[]

Senior men's race (12.333 km)[]

Individual[]

Rank Athlete Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paul Tergat  Kenya 35:11
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Salah Hissou  Morocco 35:13
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tom Nyariki  Kenya 35:20
4 Paul Koech  Kenya 35:23
5 Mohammed Mourhit  Belgium 35:35
6 Bernard Barmasai†  Kenya 35:35
7 Joseph Kibor  Kenya 35:37
8 Smail Sghir  Morocco 35:56
9 Julio Rey  Spain 35:57
10 Khaled Boulami  Morocco 35:59
11 Habte Jifar  Ethiopia 35:59
12 El Hassan Lahssini  Morocco 36:01
13 Assefa Mezegebu  Ethiopia 36:06
14 Jon Brown  United Kingdom 36:08
15 Domingos Castro  Portugal 36:16
16 Elarbi Khattabi  Morocco 36:18
17 Joshua Chelanga  Kenya 36:19
18 Ayele Mezegebu  Ethiopia 36:33
19 Shem Kororia  Kenya 36:34
20 Abdellah Béhar  France 36:37
21 José Manuel García  Spain 36:38
22 Brahim Boulami  Morocco 36:40
23 Abraham Assefa  Ethiopia 36:40
24  Kenya 36:43
25 Benedict Ako  Tanzania 36:43
26 Paulo Guerra  Portugal 36:46
27 Girma Tolla  Ethiopia 36:47
28  Kenya 36:47
29 Mustapha Essaïd  France 36:47
30 Eduardo Henriques  Portugal 36:48
31 Kamiel Maase  Netherlands 36:49
32 Giuliano Battocletti  Italy 36:56
33  Ethiopia 37:00
34 Abel Chimukoko  Zimbabwe 37:02
35 Abderrahim Zitouna  Morocco 37:04
36  Ethiopia 37:04
37 Elenilson da Silva  Brazil 37:05
38 Christian Stephenson  United Kingdom 37:05
39 Alejandro Gómez  Spain 37:07
40 Simone Zanon  Italy 37:08
41  Tanzania 37:09
42 José Manuel Martínez  Spain 37:09
43  United Kingdom 37:10
44  Japan 37:10
45 Azzedine Sakhri  Algeria 37:10
46 Steve Moneghetti  Australia 37:11
47 John Kosgei  Kenya 37:12
48  Brazil 37:13
49  South Africa 37:14
50  Ireland 37:14
51  United States 37:15
52 Umberto Pusterla  Italy 37:15
53  Portugal 37:16
54 Gabino Apolonio  Mexico 37:16
55 Shaun Creighton  Australia 37:17
56 Andrew Pearson  United Kingdom 37:18
57 Mark Coogan  United States 37:19
58  Namibia 37:22
59  Hungary 37:24
60  Algeria 37:24
61  South Africa 37:25
62  France 37:26
63  Algeria 37:27
64 Róbert Štefko  Slovakia 37:28
65 Rachid Berradi  Italy 37:28
66 Vítor Almeida  Portugal 37:31
67  Netherlands 37:31
68  Ethiopia 37:32
69  United Kingdom 37:32
70 Abdelaziz Sahere  Morocco 37:33
71 Sergey Fedotov  Russia 37:34
72  Tanzania 37:35
73  Portugal 37:35
74  South Africa 37:36
75  Portugal 37:36
76 Gabriele De Nard  Italy 37:37
77 Samir Moussaoui  Algeria 37:38
78  Mexico 37:38
79 Vincenzo Modica  Italy 37:39
80 José Carlos Adán  Spain 37:39
81  South Africa 37:39
82 Mustapha Bamouh  Morocco 37:40
83 Claes Nyberg  Sweden 37:40
84  Spain 37:41
85  United States 37:42
86 Pete Julian  United States 37:42
87  Algeria 37:42
88  Mexico 37:43
89   Switzerland 37:44
90  Australia 37:44
91 Réda Benzine  Algeria 37:44
92 Jacinto Navarrete  Colombia 37:45
93 Patrick Ndayisenga  Burundi 37:46
94  Portugal 37:47
95  South Africa 37:47
96  Portugal 37:48
97  Mexico 37:49
98 Brian Baker  United States 37:50
99  New Zealand 37:51
100  Australia 37:51
101  Belgium 37:53
102  Japan 37:53
103  France 37:54
104 Ville Hautala  Finland 37:54
105  United Kingdom 37:55
106  Finland 37:55
107  Tanzania 37:58
108  Japan 37:59
109  Canada 37:59
110  United States 38:00
111 Pablo Olmedo  Mexico 38:01
112  Japan 38:02
113 Greg van Hest  Netherlands 38:02
114  China 38:03
115 John Morapedi  South Africa 38:03
116  United Kingdom 38:04
117  New Zealand 38:04
118  Brazil 38:04
119  France 38:05
120 Rod de Highden  Australia 38:06
121  New Zealand 38:07
122  Tanzania 38:07
123  Rwanda 38:08
124  Netherlands 38:08
125  Brazil 38:09
126  South Africa 38:09
127  China 38:10
128  Rwanda 38:11
129  Ethiopia 38:11
130  France 38:12
131  South Africa 38:18
132 Domenico D'Ambrosio  Italy 38:19
133  Belgium 38:21
134  United States 38:22
135  Brazil 38:23
136  Tanzania 38:24
137 Sean Quilty  Australia 38:29
138  France 38:30
139  India 38:31
140  New Zealand 38:31
141 Bruno Toledo  Spain 38:34
142 Aleksandr Kuzin  Ukraine 38:34
143  Belgium 38:36
144  Botswana 38:37
145 Zoltán Káldy  Hungary 38:38
146  Mexico 38:39
147 Joël Bourgeois  Canada 38:41
148  Turkey 38:42
149 Simon Vroemen  Netherlands 38:43
150  Hungary 38:44
151  New Zealand 38:46
152  Algeria 38:47
153 Ayele Setegne  Israel 38:48
154  Australia 38:49
155  Netherlands 38:50
156  Canada 38:51
157 Gianni Crepaldi  Italy 38:54
158  United States 38:55
159  Finland 38:56
160  Colombia 38:56
161 Glynn Tromans  United Kingdom 38:57
162  Angola 38:59
163  Slovenia 39:00
164  Finland 39:06
165  Colombia 39:07
166  China 39:07
167 Hendrick Ramaala  South Africa 39:08
168 Viktor Röthlin   Switzerland 39:10
169 Ernest Ndjissipou  Central African Republic 39:11
170  Finland 39:13
171 Alphonse Munyeshyaka  Rwanda 39:13
172  Lesotho 39:16
173  United States 39:18
174  Finland 39:18
175  Hungary 39:20
176  Namibia 39:21
177  Canada 39:21
178  India 39:22
179  Australia 39:23
180  Hungary 39:23
181  Algeria 39:30
182  Botswana 39:32
183  Turkey 39:32
184  Ireland 39:33
185  Turkey 39:34
186  Canada 39:34
187  Hungary 39:36
188  Canada 39:37
189  Estonia 39:41
190  Mauritius 39:44
191  China 39:44
192 Patrick Ishyaka  Rwanda 39:44
193  Rwanda 39:53
194  Estonia 39:54
195  Colombia 39:55
196  Turkmenistan 39:57
197  France 40:02
198 Khristo Stefanov  Bulgaria 40:03
199  Lesotho 40:07
200 Thabiso Moqhali  Lesotho 40:09
201  Cameroon 40:10
202  Canada 40:12
203  China 40:14
204  India 40:15
205  Turkey 40:16
206 Nazirdin Akylbekov  Kyrgyzstan 40:19
207  Mexico 40:22
208  Turkey 40:24
209  India 40:27
210  Canada 40:31
211  Finland 40:33
212  Côte d'Ivoire 40:34
213  Mexico 40:35
214  India 40:35
215  Kyrgyzstan 40:41
216  Turkey 40:41
217  Cameroon 40:44
218  Netherlands 40:45
219  Kyrgyzstan 40:46
220  India 40:50
221  Seychelles 40:54
222  Namibia 40:56
223  Namibia 40:56
224  Colombia 40:58
225  Cameroon 41:04
226  Turkmenistan 41:06
227  Namibia 41:08
228  Croatia 41:10
229  Malta 41:15
230  Yemen 41:32
231  Mauritius 41:33
232  Estonia 41:37
233 Xandru Grech  Malta 41:40
234  Cameroon 41:40
235  Estonia 41:41
236  Yemen 41:54
237  Mauritius 41:57
238 William Roldán  Colombia 42:02
239  Congo 42:04
240  Malta 42:06
241  Mauritius 42:10
242  Estonia 42:11
243  Turkey 42:16
244 Anwar Al-Harazi  Yemen 42:18
245  Lesotho 42:20
246  Lesotho 42:27
247  Estonia 42:37
248 Sergey Zabavskiy  Tajikistan 42:51
249  Côte d'Ivoire 43:02
250  Lesotho 43:03
251  Yemen 43:03
252  Malta 43:10
253  Cameroon 43:12
254  Mauritius 43:17
255  Yemen 43:19
256  Cameroon 43:23
257  Mauritius 43:48
258  Malta 43:53
259  Hong Kong 44:04
260  Malta 44:11
261  Yemen 44:28
262  Malta 44:38
263  Equatorial Guinea 44:52
264  Seychelles 45:08
265  Seychelles 45:10
— Tendai Chimusasa  Zimbabwe DNF
— Keith Cullen  United Kingdom DNF
— Gennaro Di Napoli  Italy DNF
— Mohamed Ezzher  France DNF
— Mathias Ntawulikura  Rwanda DNF
— Julian Paynter  Australia DNF
— Miroslav Vanko  Slovakia DNF
— Kamel Kohil  Algeria DNF
—  Brazil DNF
—  Jamaica DNF
—  Spain DNF
—  Brazil DNF
—  Hungary DNF
—  Turkmenistan DNF
—  Tajikistan DNF
— Carlos de la Torre  Spain DNS
—  Palestine DNS
—  Sierra Leone DNS
—  Sierra Leone DNS
—  Sierra Leone DNS
—  Sierra Leone DNS

†: Athlete marked in the results list[4] as nonscorer.

Teams[]

Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya
Paul Tergat 1
Tom Nyariki 3
Paul Koech 4
Joseph Kibor 7
Joshua Chelanga 17
Shem Kororia 19
() (24)
() (28)
(John Kosgei) (47)
51
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Morocco
Salah Hissou 2
Smail Sghir 8
Khaled Boulami 10
El Hassan Lahssini 12
Elarbi Khattabi 16
Brahim Boulami 22
(Abderrahim Zitouna) (35)
(Abdelaziz Sahere) (70)
(Mustapha Bamouh) (82)
70
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Ethiopia
Habte Jifar 11
Assefa Mezegebu 13
Ayele Mezegebu 18
Abraham Assefa 23
Girma Tolla 27
33
() (36)
() (68)
() (129)
125
4  Portugal
Domingos Castro 15
Paulo Guerra 26
Eduardo Henriques 30
53
Vítor Almeida 66
73
() (75)
() (94)
() (96)
263
5  Spain
Julio Rey 9
José Manuel García 21
Alejandro Gómez 39
José Manuel Martínez 42
José Carlos Adán 80
84
(Bruno Toledo) (141)
() (DNF)
275
6  United Kingdom
Jon Brown 14
Christian Stephenson 38
43
Andrew Pearson 56
69
105
() (116)
(Glynn Tromans) (161)
(Keith Cullen) (DNF)
325
7  Italy
Giuliano Battocletti 32
Simone Zanon 40
Umberto Pusterla 52
Rachid Berradi 65
Gabriele De Nard 76
Vincenzo Modica 79
(Domenico D'Ambrosio) (132)
(Gianni Crepaldi) (157)
(Gennaro Di Napoli) (DNF)
344
8  Algeria
Azzedine Sakhri 45
60
63
Samir Moussaoui 77
87
Réda Benzine 91
() (152)
() (181)
(Kamel Kohil) (DNF)
423
9  France
Abdellah Béhar 20
Mustapha Essaïd 29
62
103
119
130
() (138)
() (197)
(Mohamed Ezzher) (DNF)
463
10  South Africa
49
61
74
81
95
John Morapedi 115
() (126)
() (131)
(Hendrick Ramaala) (167)
475
11  United States
51
Mark Coogan 57
85
Pete Julian 86
Brian Baker 98
110
() (134)
() (158)
() (173)
487
12  Tanzania
Benedict Ako 25
41
72
107
122
136
503
13  Australia
Steve Moneghetti 46
Shaun Creighton 55
90
100
Rod de Highden 120
Sean Quilty 137
() (154)
() (179)
(Julian Paynter) (DNF)
548
14  Mexico
Gabino Apolonio 54
78
88
97
Pablo Olmedo 111
146
() (207)
() (213)
574
15  Netherlands
Kamiel Maase 31
67
Greg van Hest 113
124
Simon Vroemen 149
155
() (218)
639
16  Finland
Ville Hautala 104
106
159
164
170
174
() (211)
877
17  Hungary
59
Zoltán Káldy 145
150
175
180
187
() (DNF)
896
18  Canada
109
Joël Bourgeois 147
156
177
186
188
() (202)
() (210)
963
19  Colombia
Jacinto Navarrete 92
160
165
195
224
William Roldán 238
1074
20  Turkey
148
183
185
205
208
216
() (243)
1145
21  India
139
178
204
209
214
220
1164
22  Lesotho
172
199
Thabiso Moqhali 200
245
246
250
1312
23  Estonia
189
194
232
235
242
247
1339
24  Cameroon
201
217
225
234
253
256
1386
25  Mauritius
190
231
237
241
254
257
1410
26  Malta
229
Xandru Grech 233
240
252
258
260
() (262)
1472
27  Yemen
230
236
Anwar Al-Harazi 244
251
255
261
1477
DNF  Brazil
(Elenilson da Silva) (37)
() (48)
() (118)
() (125)
() (135)
() (DNF)
() (DNF)
DNF
DNF  Rwanda
() (123)
() (128)
(Alphonse Munyeshyaka) (171)
(Patrick Ishyaka) (192)
() (193)
(Mathias Ntawulikura) (DNF)
DNF
  • Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation[]

An unofficial count yields the participation of 280 athletes from 58 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[7] Although announced, athletes from  Sierra Leone did not show.[5]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Tergat Leads Kenyans With Dramatic Victory", The New York Times, March 24, 1997, retrieved October 27, 2013
  2. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 24, 1997), Tulu swoops late to take title but British runner still happy Radcliffe joy as she runs into medal place, Herald, retrieved October 27, 2013
  3. ^ Reineri, Giorgio, Report for Senior races - Men's race - Paul Tergat (KEN) has won his third world cross country champion title, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-10-29, retrieved October 27, 2013
  4. ^ a b Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.3km CC Men - Torino Parco del Valentino Date: Sunday, March 23, 1997, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 27, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ a b Cross Senior Men - 23-03-97 - Results, IAAF, March 23, 1997, archived from the original on 2013-10-29, retrieved October 27, 2013
  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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