1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race

Men's short race at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Men's short race at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	27th
Date	March 27
Host city	Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Venue	Barnett Demesne/Queen’s University Playing Fields
Events	1
Distances	4.236 km – Men's short
Participation	144 athletes from ; 38 nations
	← 1998 Marrakech 2000 Vilamoura → ;

The Men's short race at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Barnett Demesne/Queen’s University Playing Fields in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, on March 27, 1999. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times,^[1]^[2] in the Glasgow Herald,^[3] and for the IAAF.^[4]

Complete results for individuals,^[5]^[6]^[7] for teams,^[5]^[8]^[9] medallists,^[10] and the results of British athletes who took part^[11] were published.

Race results[]

Men's short race (4.236 km)[]

Individual[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Benjamin Limo	Kenya	12:28
	Paul Kosgei	Kenya	12:31
	Haylu Mekonnen	Ethiopia	12:35
4	Million Wolde	Ethiopia	12:36
5	James Koskei	Kenya	12:38
6	Daniel Gachara	Kenya	12:41
7	Abdellah Béhar	France	12:44
8	John Kosgei	Kenya	12:45
9	El Hassan Lahssini	Morocco	12:47
10	Mohamed Amyn	Morocco	12:50
11	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	12:52
12	Adam Goucher	United States	12:53
13	Driss El Himer	France	12:56
14		Kenya	12:57
15	Ahmed Baday	Morocco	12:58
16	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	12:59
17	Laïd Bessou	Algeria	13:00
18		Ethiopia	13:05
19		United Kingdom	13:05
20	Kamel Boulahfane	Algeria	13:06
21	Mark Carroll	Ireland	13:07
22	Hicham Bouaouiche	Morocco	13:09
23	Miroslav Vanko	Slovakia	13:09
24	Azzedine Zerdoum	Algeria	13:09
25	Mohamed Ezzher	France	13:10
26		United Kingdom	13:11
27	Shadrack Hoff	South Africa	13:12
28	Yousef El Nasri	Spain	13:12
29	Sean Kaley	Canada	13:13
30		Ethiopia	13:14
31	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	13:15
32		France	13:15
33	Angelo Carosi	Italy	13:16
34		United Kingdom	13:17
35	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	13:18
36	Simone Zanon	Italy	13:19
37	Mustapha Essaïd	France	13:19
38		Spain	13:19
39	Réda Benzine	Algeria	13:20
40	Salvatore Vincenti	Italy	13:21
41		Ireland	13:22
42	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	13:23
43		United Kingdom	13:23
44		United Kingdom	13:23
45	Tom Nohilly	United States	13:24
46	Vítor Almeida	Portugal	13:24
47	Jason Stewart	United States	13:25
48	Alberto García	Spain	13:26
49	John Morapedi	South Africa	13:27
50		South Africa	13:27
51		Zimbabwe	13:28
52	José Ramos	Portugal	13:28
53		Algeria	13:29
54		Portugal	13:29
55		Tanzania	13:30
56	Jeff Schiebler	Canada	13:31
57	Daniel Middleman	United States	13:34
58	Florin Ionescu	Romania	13:37
59		DR Congo	13:37
60		Zimbabwe	13:37
61		Egypt	13:37
62	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	13:38
63		Turkey	13:38
64	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	13:38
65	Domenico D'Ambrosio	Italy	13:40
66		Spain	13:41
67	Cormac Finnerty	Ireland	13:41
68		Brazil	13:41
69		Ireland	13:41
70		Canada	13:42
71	Javier Carriqueo	Argentina	13:42
72		Ethiopia	13:42
73		Morocco	13:42
74		Ireland	13:43
75	Hélder Ornelas	Portugal	13:44
76	Dan Browne	United States	13:45
77		South Africa	13:46
78		France	13:46
79		Zimbabwe	13:46
80		Zimbabwe	13:47
81		Portugal	13:47
82		Argentina	13:49
83		Argentina	13:50
84	João Leite	Brazil	13:51
85		Ireland	13:52
86		Netherlands	13:53
87		Turkey	13:54
88		Egypt	13:55
89		Estonia	13:57
90		Brazil	13:58
91		South Africa	13:58
92		Belarus	13:59
93		United States	14:00
94		Egypt	14:00
95		Zimbabwe	14:01
96	José de Oliveira	Brazil	14:02
97	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	14:02
98		Argentina	14:02
99	Marko Koers	Netherlands	14:04
100		United Kingdom	14:05
101		Argentina	14:06
102		Belarus	14:07
103		Seychelles	14:07
104		Yemen	14:08
105		Turkey	14:09
106	Richard Tremain	Canada	14:10
107		Estonia	14:10
108		Belarus	14:12
109		Yemen	14:13
110		Kazakhstan	14:15
111		Slovenia	14:15
112		Yemen	14:15
113	Yasunori Uchitomi	Japan	14:23
114	Sergey Zabavskiy	Tajikistan	14:23
115	Satish Kumar	India	14:26
116		India	14:26
117	Alibay Shukurov	Azerbaijan	14:33
118		Egypt	14:33
119		Yemen	14:36
120		Tanzania	14:53
121		India	14:56
122		Seychelles	15:03
123	Walid Ibrahim	Palestine	15:03
124		India	15:08
125		Uzbekistan	15:13
126		Tajikistan	15:14
127	Isireli Naikelekelevesi	Fiji	15:15
128		Belarus	15:15
129		Tajikistan	15:16
130		Seychelles	15:38
131		Fiji	15:45
132	Moses Zarak Khan	Fiji	15:50
133		Uzbekistan	15:56
134		Seychelles	16:02
135		Fiji	16:04
136		Fiji	16:05
137		Fiji	16:41
138		Kyrgyzstan	17:15
139		Tajikistan	18:02
140		Turkmenistan	18:32
141		Uzbekistan	19:00
142		Kyrgyzstan	19:20
—	Abel Chimukoko	Zimbabwe	DNF
—		Palestine	DNF
—		Portugal	DNS
—	José Luis Ebatela Nvó	Equatorial Guinea	DNS
—	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	DNS
—	Antonio Fabián Silio	Argentina	DNS

Teams[]

Rank

Team

Points

Kenya

Benjamin Limo	1
Paul Kosgei	2
James Koskei	5
Daniel Gachara	6
(John Kosgei)	(8)
()	(14)

14

Morocco

El Hassan Lahssini	9
Mohamed Amyn	10
Adil Kaouch	11
Ahmed Baday	15
(Hicham Bouaouiche)	(22)
()	(73)

45

Ethiopia

Haylu Mekonnen	3
Million Wolde	4
	18
	30
()	(72)

55

4

France

Abdellah Béhar	7
Driss El Himer	13
Mohamed Ezzher	25
	32
(Mustapha Essaïd)	(37)
()	(78)

77

5

Algeria

Laïd Bessou	17
Kamel Boulahfane	20
Azzedine Zerdoum	24
Réda Benzine	39
()	(53)
(Mohamed Khaldi)	(62)

100

6

United Kingdom

	19
	26
	34
	43
()	(44)
()	(100)

122

7

Italy

Luciano Di Pardo	16
Angelo Carosi	33
Simone Zanon	36
Salvatore Vincenti	40
(Gennaro Di Napoli)	(64)
(Domenico D'Ambrosio)	(65)

125

8

Spain

Yousef El Nasri	28
Isaac Viciosa	31
	38
Alberto García	48
()	(66)

145

9

United States

Adam Goucher	12
Tom Nohilly	45
Jason Stewart	47
Daniel Middleman	57
(Dan Browne)	(76)
()	(93)

161

10

Canada

Sean Kaley	29
Joël Bourgeois	35
Kevin Sullivan	42
Jeff Schiebler	56
()	(70)
(Richard Tremain)	(106)

162

11

Ireland

Mark Carroll	21
	41
Cormac Finnerty	67
	69
()	(74)
()	(85)

198

12

South Africa

Shadrack Hoff	27
John Morapedi	49
	50
	77
()	(91)

203

13

Portugal

Vítor Almeida	46
José Ramos	52
	54
Hélder Ornelas	75
()	(81)

227

14

Zimbabwe

	51
	60
	79
	80
()	(95)
(Abel Chimukoko)	(DNF)

270

15

Argentina

Javier Carriqueo	71
	82
	83
	98
()	(101)

334

16

Brazil

	68
João Leite	84
	90
José de Oliveira	96

338

17

Turkey

	63
	87
Zeki Öztürk	97
	105

352

18

Egypt

	61
	88
	94
	118

361

19

Belarus

	92
	102
	108
	128

430

20

Yemen

Abdul Abdullah	104
	109
	112
	119

444

21

India

Satish Kumar	115
	116
	121
	124

476

22

Seychelles

	103
	122
	130
	134

489

23

Tajikistan

Sergey Zabavskiy	114
	126
	129
	139

508

24

Fiji

Isireli Naikelekelevesi	127
	131
Moses Zarak Khan	132
	135
()	(136)
()	(137)

525

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

Participation[]

An unofficial count yields the participation of 144 athletes from 38 countries in the Men's short race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[11] The announced athlete from Equatorial Guinea did not show.^[6]^[7]

Algeria (6)
Argentina (5)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belarus (4)
Brazil (4)
Canada (6)
DR Congo (1)
Egypt (4)
Estonia (2)
Ethiopia (5)
Fiji (6)
France (6)
India (4)

Ireland (6)
Italy (6)
Japan (1)
Kazakhstan (1)
Kenya (6)
Kyrgyzstan (2)
Morocco (6)
Netherlands (2)
Palestine (2)
Portugal (5)
Romania (1)
Seychelles (4)
Slovakia (1)

Slovenia (1)
South Africa (5)
Spain (5)
Tajikistan (4)
Tanzania (2)
Turkey (4)
Turkmenistan (1)
United Kingdom (6)
United States (6)
Uzbekistan (3)
Yemen (4)
Zimbabwe (6)

References[]

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^ "PLUS: CROSS-COUNTRY -- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS; Winning Streak Grows for Tergat", The New York Times, March 29, 1999, retrieved October 28, 2013
^ Gillon, Doug (March 29, 1999), "Tergat runs away with the championship in rainy Belfast", Glasgow Herald, retrieved October 28, 2013
^ Minshull, Phil (March 27, 1999), Limo engineers men’s short race victory, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-10-29, retrieved October 28, 2013
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