2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race

Men's short race at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Men's short race at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	33rd
Date	March 19
Host city	Saint-Galmier, Rhône-Alpes, France
Venue
Events	1
Distances	4.196 km – Men's short
Participation	140 athletes from ; 44 nations
	← 2004 Bruxelles 2006 Fukuoka → ;

The Men's short race at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the in Saint-Galmier near Saint-Étienne, France, on March 19, 2005. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times,^[1] in the Herald,^[2]^[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 (4.196 km)[]

Individual[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	11:33
	Abraham Chebii	Kenya	11:38
	Isaac Songok	Kenya	11:39
4	Saif Saeed Shaheen	Qatar	11:42
5	Jamal Bilal Salem	Qatar	11:43
6	Maregu Zewdie	Ethiopia	11:43
7	Dejene Berhanu	Ethiopia	11:43
8	Abdullah Ahmed Hassan	Qatar	11:46
9	Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam	Ethiopia	11:54
10	Shadrack Kosgei	Kenya	11:56
11	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	11:57
12		Ethiopia	11:58
13	Jorge Torres	United States	11:58
14	Mohamed Moustaoui	Morocco	11:59
15	James Kwalia	Qatar	12:00
16		Kenya	12:01
17	Sammy Kipketer	Kenya	12:01
18	Abderrahim Goumri	Morocco	12:06
19	Sultan Khamis Zaman	Qatar	12:09
20	Cutbert Nyasango	Zimbabwe	12:13
21	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	12:13
22	Hicham Bellani	Morocco	12:14
23	Rabah Aboud	Algeria	12:16
24	Khoudir Aggoune	Algeria	12:16
25		Eritrea	12:17
26	Mohamed Awol	Ethiopia	12:18
27	Damian Paul Chopa	Tanzania	12:18
28	Christian Belz	Switzerland	12:19
29		Eritrea	12:20
30		Zimbabwe	12:20
31	Azzedine Zerdoum	Algeria	12:21
32	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	12:22
33	Simone Zanon	Italy	12:22
34	Antar Zerguelaïne	Algeria	12:22
35	Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin	Qatar	12:23
36	Khalid El Amri	Morocco	12:23
37	Brimin Kipruto	Kenya	12:26
38	Ruben Ramolefi	South Africa	12:27
39	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	12:28
40	Samir Moussaoui	Algeria	12:28
41	Hamid Ezzine	Morocco	12:29
42	José Luis Blanco	Spain	12:30
43		Zimbabwe	12:30
44		Australia	12:30
45		Tanzania	12:30
46		Tanzania	12:31
47		France	12:31
48		Mexico	12:31
49	Abdulhak Zakaria	Bahrain	12:31
50	Gaël Pencréach	France	12:32
51	Manuel Damião	Portugal	12:33
52	Reid Coolsaet	Canada	12:33
53	John Mayock	United Kingdom	12:33
54		Spain	12:35
55		Algeria	12:35
56		Spain	12:35
57	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	12:35
58	Samwel Shauri	Tanzania	12:36
59		New Zealand	12:36
60	Donald Sage	United States	12:36
61		Eritrea	12:37
62	Yuri Floriani	Italy	12:38
63	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	12:39
64		United Kingdom	12:39
65	Philipp Bandi	Switzerland	12:40
66	Yuichiro Ueno	Japan	12:40
67		France	12:40
68		Portugal	12:41
69	Adrian Blincoe	New Zealand	12:42
70		Zimbabwe	12:42
71	Rui Silva	Portugal	12:42
72	Roberto García	Spain	12:43
73	Jakub Czaja	Poland	12:44
74		United Kingdom	12:44
75		Italy	12:45
76		Eritrea	12:45
77		Brazil	12:45
78		Spain	12:45
79	Vincent Le Dauphin	France	12:46
80	Manuel Silva	Portugal	12:46
81		Canada	12:47
82	Gianni Crepaldi	Italy	12:47
83	Luke Watson	United States	12:49
84	Javier Carriqueo	Argentina	12:50
85	Andrew Baddeley	United Kingdom	12:51
86	Stefano Scaini	Italy	12:52
87		Lesotho	12:52
88		Japan	12:52
89		Portugal	12:53
90		United Kingdom	12:54
91	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	12:56
92		Venezuela	12:56
93		Greece	12:56
94		United Kingdom	12:57
95	Mandla Maseko	South Africa	12:58
96		United States	12:58
97		South Africa	13:00
98		Seychelles	13:00
99		Egypt	13:00
100		Bahrain	13:01
101		Bahrain	13:01
102		South Africa	13:01
103	Rachid Chékhémani	France	13:05
104		New Zealand	13:06
105		Japan	13:06
106		Egypt	13:07
107	Gladson Barbosa	Brazil	13:12
108	Boštjan Buč	Slovenia	13:12
109		Canada	13:14
110		United States	13:15
111		Switzerland	13:16
112		Canada	13:17
113		Belgium	13:19
114		Switzerland	13:19
115	José Rocha	Portugal	13:20
116		Estonia	13:20
117		Brazil	13:20
118		Kazakhstan	13:21
119		Switzerland	13:23
120		Egypt	13:24
121	José Amado García	Guatemala	13:27
122		France	13:32
123		Egypt	13:33
124	Alexander Greaux	Puerto Rico	13:33
125		Belarus	13:34
126		Switzerland	13:38
127		New Zealand	13:40
128	Rene Herrera	Philippines	13:42
129	Tiidrek Nurme	Estonia	13:47
130		Yemen	13:53
131		Belgium	13:57
132	Roman Fosti	Estonia	14:01
133		Senegal	14:05
134		Brazil	14:06
135	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	14:14
136		Central African Republic	14:17
137		Uzbekistan	14:34
138		Andorra	14:48
—	Adam Goucher	United States	DNF
—		Estonia	DNF
—		Tanzania	DNS

Teams[]

Rank

Team

Points

Ethiopia

Kenenisa Bekele	1
Maregu Zewdie	6
Dejene Berhanu	7
Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam	9
()	(12)
(Mohamed Awol)	(26)

23

Kenya

Abraham Chebii	2
Isaac Songok	3
Shadrack Kosgei	10
	16
(Sammy Kipketer)	(17)
(Brimin Kipruto)	(37)

31

Qatar

Saif Saeed Shaheen	4
Jamal Bilal Salem	5
Abdullah Ahmed Hassan	8
James Kwalia	15
(Sultan Khamis Zaman)	(19)
(Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin)	(35)

32

4

Morocco

Adil Kaouch	11
Mohamed Moustaoui	14
Abderrahim Goumri	18
Hicham Bellani	22
(Khalid El Amri)	(36)
(Hamid Ezzine)	(41)

65

5

Algeria

Rabah Aboud	23
Khoudir Aggoune	24
Azzedine Zerdoum	31
Antar Zerguelaïne	34
(Samir Moussaoui)	(40)
()	(55)

112

6

Zimbabwe

Cutbert Nyasango	20
	30
	43
	70

163

7

Tanzania

Damian Paul Chopa	27
	45
	46
Samwel Shauri	58

176

8

Spain

Juan Carlos Higuero	39
José Luis Blanco	42
	54
	56
(Roberto García)	(72)
()	(78)

191

9

Eritrea

	25
	29
	61
	76

191

10

Italy

Simone Zanon	33
Yuri Floriani	62
Luciano Di Pardo	63
	75
(Gianni Crepaldi)	(82)
(Stefano Scaini)	(86)

233

11

France

	47
Gaël Pencréach	50
	67
Vincent Le Dauphin	79
(Rachid Chékhémani)	(103)
()	(122)

243

12

Canada

Kevin Sullivan	21
Reid Coolsaet	52
	81
Joël Bourgeois	91
()	(109)
()	(112)

245

13

United States

Jorge Torres	13
Donald Sage	60
Luke Watson	83
	96
()	(110)
(Adam Goucher)	(DNF)

252

14

Portugal

Manuel Damião	51
	68
Rui Silva	71
Manuel Silva	80
()	(89)
(José Rocha)	(115)

270

15

United Kingdom

John Mayock	53
	64
	74
Andrew Baddeley	85
()	(90)
()	(94)

276

16

Bahrain

Rashid Ramzi	32
Abdulhak Zakaria	49
	100
	101

282

17

Switzerland

Christian Belz	28
Philipp Bandi	65
	111
	114
()	(119)
()	(126)

318

18

South Africa

Ruben Ramolefi	38
Mandla Maseko	95
	97
	102

332

19

New Zealand

	59
Adrian Blincoe	69
	104
	127

359

20

Brazil

	77
Gladson Barbosa	107
	117
	134

435

21

Egypt

	99
	106
	120
	123

448

DNF

Estonia

()	(116)
(Tiidrek Nurme)	(129)
(Roman Fosti)	(132)
()	(DNF)

DNF

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

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 140 athletes from 44 countries participated in the Men's short race.

Algeria (6)
Andorra (1)
Argentina (1)
Australia (1)
Bahrain (4)
Belarus (1)
Belgium (2)
Brazil (4)
Canada (6)
Central African Republic (1)
Egypt (4)
Eritrea (4)
Estonia (4)
Ethiopia (6)
France (6)

Greece (1)
Guatemala (1)
Italy (6)
Japan (3)
Kazakhstan (1)
Kenya (6)
Lesotho (1)
Mexico (2)
Morocco (6)
New Zealand (4)
Philippines (1)
Poland (1)
Portugal (6)
Puerto Rico (1)
Qatar (6)

Senegal (1)
Seychelles (1)
Slovenia (1)
South Africa (4)
Spain (6)
Switzerland (6)
Tajikistan (1)
Tanzania (4)
United Kingdom (6)
United States (6)
Uzbekistan (1)
Venezuela (1)
Yemen (1)
Zimbabwe (4)

References[]

^ Clarey, Christopher (March 21, 2005), "Bekele reclaims championship form but can't outrun a tragedy", The New York Times, retrieved November 2, 2013
^ Gillon, Doug (March 18, 2005), "Great Britain team hope they can warm to the occasion", Herald, retrieved November 2, 2013
^ Gillon, Doug (March 21, 2005), "Kilted clach preserve tradition", Herald, retrieved November 2, 2013
^ Turner, Chris (March 19, 2005), Spirited Bekele unbowed by tragedy takes gold again - Men’s Short Race Report, IAAF, retrieved November 2, 2013
^ ^a ^b Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 4.2km CC Men - St. Etienne Hippodrome de St. Galmier Date: Saturday, March 19, 2005, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved November 2, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved November 2, 2013
^ 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 November 2, 2013

[times_01-1] Clarey, Christopher (March 21, 2005), "Bekele reclaims championship form but can't outrun a tragedy", The New York Times, retrieved November 2, 2013

[herald_01-2] Gillon, Doug (March 18, 2005), "Great Britain team hope they can warm to the occasion", Herald, retrieved November 2, 2013

[herald_02-3] Gillon, Doug (March 21, 2005), "Kilted clach preserve tradition", Herald, retrieved November 2, 2013

[iaaf_25-4] Turner, Chris (March 19, 2005), Spirited Bekele unbowed by tragedy takes gold again - Men’s Short Race Report, IAAF, retrieved November 2, 2013

[archive_05-5] Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 4.2km CC Men - St. Etienne Hippodrome de St. Galmier Date: Saturday, March 19, 2005, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved November 2, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[iaaf_05-6] Short Race - M Final - revised, IAAF, March 19, 2005, archived from the original on November 6, 2013, retrieved November 2, 2013

[iaaf_35-7] Results - 33rd IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Saint - Galmier, FRANCE 19 MAR 2005 - 20 MAR 2005 - Short Race - men, IAAF, March 19, 2005, retrieved November 2, 2013

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