2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race

Men's short race at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Men's short race at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	31st
Date	March 29
Host city	Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Venue
Events	1
Distances	4.03 km – Men's short
Participation	126 athletes from ; 37 nations
	← 2002 Dublin 2004 Bruxelles → ;

The Men's short race at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the in Avenches near Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 29, 2003. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times,^[1]^[2] in the 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 (4.03 km)[]

Individual[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	11:01
	John Kibowen	Kenya	11:04
	Benjamin Limo	Kenya	11:06
4	Mike Kipyego	Kenya	11:18
5	Thomas Kiplitany	Kenya	11:20
6	Khalid El Amri	Morocco	11:22
7	Meba Tadesse	Ethiopia	11:24
8	David Kilel	Kenya	11:25
9	Smail Sghir	France	11:27
10	Abderrahim Goumri	Morocco	11:28
11	Yousef El Nasri	Spain	11:28
12	Tessema Absher	Ethiopia	11:29
13	Abiyote Endale	Ethiopia	11:31
14	Driss Maazouzi	France	11:32
15	Ahmed Baday	Morocco	11:34
16	Abdelkader Hachlaf	Morocco	11:35
17	Ketema Nigusse	Ethiopia	11:39
18	Christian Belz	Switzerland	11:39
19	Chris Thompson	United Kingdom	11:40
20		Kenya	11:42
21		Algeria	11:42
22	Saïd El Wardi	Morocco	11:43
23	Azzedine Zerdoum	Algeria	11:43
24	Ali Abdalla	Eritrea	11:44
25	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	11:44
26	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	11:45
27	Khoudir Aggoune	Algeria	11:45
28		Spain	11:45
29		New Zealand	11:46
30		France	11:46
31		United States	11:47
32	Umberto Pusterla	Italy	11:47
33	Viktor Röthlin	Switzerland	11:47
34	Sergio Gallardo	Spain	11:48
35	Salah Hissou	Morocco	11:48
36	Rachid Chékhémani	France	11:49
37	Dan Browne	United States	11:49
38	Boštjan Buč	Slovenia	11:50
39	Abdelhakim Maazouz	Algeria	11:51
40		Ethiopia	11:52
41	Adrian Blincoe	New Zealand	11:53
42	Manuel Silva	Portugal	11:54
43	Fernando Silva	Portugal	11:55
44		New Zealand	11:55
45	Philipp Bandi	Switzerland	11:56
46	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	11:56
47		United Kingdom	11:57
48	Abdulhak Zakaria	Bahrain	11:58
49	Tarek Boukensa	Algeria	11:58
50		Brazil	11:59
51		France	12:00
52		Eritrea	12:00
53		Portugal	12:01
54		United Kingdom	12:01
55	Javier Carriqueo	Argentina	12:01
56	Luke Watson	United States	12:02
57	Sean Kaley	Canada	12:02
58	Jesús España	Spain	12:02
59		United States	12:03
60		United States	12:04
61		United States	12:04
62		United Kingdom	12:05
63		Canada	12:05
64	José Ramos	Portugal	12:06
65		Canada	12:07
66	Stefano Scaini	Italy	12:07
67		Egypt	12:08
68	Michael Aish	New Zealand	12:09
69	José Luis Blanco	Spain	12:09
70		South Africa	12:11
71	Jonathan Monje	Chile	12:12
72	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	12:12
73		Ireland	12:13
74	Mo Farah	United Kingdom	12:13
75	Domenico D'Ambrosio	Italy	12:13
76	Rui Silva	Portugal	12:15
77		Eritrea	12:16
78		South Africa	12:16
79	Giuliano Battocletti	Italy	12:17
80		Belgium	12:17
81		Ireland	12:17
82		Belarus	12:18
83		Egypt	12:18
84		United Kingdom	12:19
85		South Africa	12:19
86		South Africa	12:20
87	Julius Achon	Uganda	12:20
88		Belarus	12:21
89	Mandla Maseko	South Africa	12:23
90		Egypt	12:24
91	Nick Willis	New Zealand	12:24
92		Iceland	12:25
93	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	12:26
94		Switzerland	12:27
95		Belarus	12:28
96		Belgium	12:28
97		Andorra	12:29
98		Belgium	12:29
99	Noel Berkeley	Ireland	12:30
100	Alibay Shukurov	Azerbaijan	12:32
101		Ireland	12:33
102		France	12:34
103		Seychelles	12:34
104		Burundi	12:35
105		Switzerland	12:37
106	Luís Feiteira	Portugal	12:37
107	Víctor Martínez	Andorra	12:37
108		Ireland	12:38
109		Croatia	12:38
110	Valeriy Pisarev	Kyrgyzstan	12:38
111		Belarus	12:39
112	Monder Rizki	Belgium	12:42
113		Kyrgyzstan	12:43
114	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	12:46
115		Iceland	12:48
116		Seychelles	12:52
117		Egypt	13:00
118		South Africa	13:02
119		Ireland	13:03
120		Uzbekistan	13:04
121		Turkmenistan	13:12
122		U.S. Virgin Islands	13:13
123		Uzbekistan	13:19
124		Eritrea	14:05
125		Peru	14:52
—	Alberto García	Spain	DQ^†
—		Algeria	DNS
—		DR Congo	DNS
—		DR Congo	DNS
—		DR Congo	DNS
—	Gabriele De Nard	Italy	DNS
—		Lebanon	DNS
—		Sierra Leone	DNS
—		Sierra Leone	DNS
—	Mohammed Yagoub	Sudan	DNS
—		Tanzania	DNS
—		Tanzania	DNS
—		Tanzania	DNS

^†: Alberto García from Spain finished about 20th in 11:42 min, but was disqualified.

Teams[]

Rank

Team

Points

Kenya

John Kibowen	2
Benjamin Limo	3
Mike Kipyego	4
Thomas Kiplitany	5
(David Kilel)	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

14

Ethiopia

Kenenisa Bekele	1
Meba Tadesse	7
Tessema Absher	11
Abiyote Endale	12
(Ketema Nigusse)	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

31

Morocco

Khalid El Amri	6
Abderrahim Goumri	9
Ahmed Baday	14
Abdelkader Hachlaf	15
(Saïd El Wardi)	(n/s)
(Salah Hissou)	(n/s)

44

4

France

Smail Sghir	8
Driss Maazouzi	13
	26
Rachid Chékhémani	31
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

78

5

Algeria

	18
Azzedine Zerdoum	19
Khoudir Aggoune	23
Abdelhakim Maazouz	33
(Tarek Boukensa)	(n/s)
(Mohamed Khaldi)	(n/s)

93

6

Spain

Yousef El Nasri	10
	24
Sergio Gallardo	30
Jesús España	46
(José Luis Blanco)	(n/s)

110

7

Switzerland

Christian Belz	16
Viktor Röthlin	29
Philipp Bandi	38
Peter Philipp	55
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

138

8

United Kingdom

Chris Thompson	17
	40
	43
	48
(Mo Farah)	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

148

9

New Zealand

	25
Adrian Blincoe	34
	37
Michael Aish	53
(Nick Willis)	(n/s)

149

10

Canada

Kevin Sullivan	21
Joël Bourgeois	39
Sean Kaley	45
	49
()	(n/s)

154

11

Italy

Luciano Di Pardo	22
Umberto Pusterla	28
Stefano Scaini	51
Domenico D'Ambrosio	57
(Giuliano Battocletti)	(n/s)

158

12

United States

	27
Dan Browne	32
	47
Luke Watson	56
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

162

13

Portugal

Manuel Silva	35
Fernando Silva	36
	42
José Ramos	50
(Rui Silva)	(n/s)
(Luís Feiteira)	(n/s)

163

14

Eritrea

Ali Abdalla	20
	41
	58
	76

195

15

South Africa

	54
	59
	64
	65
(Mandla Maseko)	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

242

16

Egypt

	52
	63
	67
	75

257

17

Ireland

	56
	61
Noel Berkeley	71
	72
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

260

18

Belarus

	62
	66
	68
	73

269

19

Belgium

	60
	69
	70
Monder Rizki	74

273

Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result (n/s: nonscorer)

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 126 athletes from 37 countries participated in the Men's short race. The announced athletes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Tanzania did not show.^[6]^[7]

Algeria (6)
Andorra (2)
Argentina (1)
Azerbaijan (1)
Bahrain (1)
Belarus (4)
Belgium (4)
Brazil (1)
Burundi (1)
Canada (5)
Central African Republic (1)
Chile (1)
Croatia (1)

Egypt (4)
Eritrea (4)
Ethiopia (6)
France (6)
Iceland (2)
Ireland (6)
Italy (5)
Kenya (6)
Kyrgyzstan (2)
Morocco (6)
New Zealand (5)
Peru (1)

Portugal (6)
Seychelles (2)
Slovenia (1)
South Africa (6)
Spain (6)
Switzerland (6)
Turkmenistan (1)
Uganda (1)
United Kingdom (6)
United States (6)
U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
Uzbekistan (2)

References[]

^ "PLUS: CROSS-COUNTRY; Kidane of Ethiopia Wins World Title", The New York Times, March 30, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
^ "PLUS: CROSS-COUNTRY; Bekele and Masai Victorious Again", The New York Times, March 31, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
^ Gillon, Doug (March 31, 2003), "Bekele blazes a trail past all others - Ethiopian defends long- and short-course crowns", Herald, retrieved October 31, 2013
^ Gillon, Doug (March 29, 2003), Invincible Bekele - men's short course race in Lausanne, IAAF, retrieved October 31, 2013
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^ ^a ^b Results - 31st IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Lausanne, SWITZERLAND 29 MAR 2003 - 30 MAR 2003 - Short Race - men, IAAF, March 29, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
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