2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

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Senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition36th
DateMarch 30
Host cityEdinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom United Kingdom
VenueHolyrood Park
Events1
Distances12 km – Senior men
Participation179 athletes from
45 nations

The Senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on March 30, 2008.[1] Reports of the event were given in The New York Times,[2] in the Herald,[3] and for the IAAF.[4]

Complete results for individuals,[5][6][7] and for teams[8][9][10] were published.

Race results[]

Senior men's race (12 km)[]

Individual[]

Rank Athlete Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia 34:38
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Leonard Patrick Komon  Kenya 34:41
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zersenay Tadese  Eritrea 34:43
4 Joseph Ebuya  Kenya 34:47
5 Moses Ndiema Masai  Kenya 35:02
6 Felix Kikwai Kibore  Qatar 35:15
7 Gideon Lekumok Ngatuny  Kenya 35:16
8 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah  Qatar 35:18
9 Habtamu Fikadu  Ethiopia 35:19
10 Bernard Kiprop Kipyego  Kenya 35:24
11 Hosea Mwok Macharinyang  Kenya 35:24
12 Augustine Kiprono Choge  Kenya 35:26
13 Moses Kipsiro  Uganda 35:29
14 Mark Kosgei Kiptoo  Kenya 35:39
15 Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia 35:40
16 Boniface Kiprop  Uganda 35:41
17 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam  Ethiopia 35:59
18  Kenya 36:00
19 Jorge Torres  United States 36:03
20 Yonas Kifle  Eritrea 36:09
21  Ethiopia 36:10
22 Sultan Khamis Zaman  Qatar 36:12
23 Teklemariam Medhin  Eritrea 36:13
24 Juan Carlos de la Ossa  Spain 36:15
25 Mubarak Hassan Shami  Qatar 36:17
26 Kidane Tadasse  Eritrea 36:25
27 Cuthbert Nyasango  Zimbabwe 36:28
28 Abdellah Falil  Morocco 36:30
29 Martin Toroitich  Uganda 36:33
30 Jamel Chatbi  Morocco 36:35
31 Craig Mottram  Australia 36:40
32 Anis Selmouni  Morocco 36:42
33  Morocco 36:43
34 Gamal Belal Salem  Qatar 36:43
35 Ahmed Baday  Morocco 36:46
36 Ayad Lamdassem  Spain 36:49
37  Morocco 36:49
38  Eritrea 36:50
39 Khalid Kamal Yaseen  Bahrain 36:51
40 Chakir Boujattaoui  Morocco 36:51
41 Abebe Dinkesa  Ethiopia 36:51
42  Algeria 36:52
43 Josh Rohatinsky  United States 36:52
44  South Africa 36:53
45  United States 36:56
46 Wilson Busienei  Uganda 37:02
47 Mourad Marofit  Morocco 37:04
48 Essa Ismail Rashed  Qatar 37:07
49 Moses Aliwa  Uganda 37:08
50 Michael Shelley  Australia 37:09
51 Scott Bauhs  United States 37:15
52  Eritrea 37:15
53 Marílson Dos Santos  Brazil 37:17
54 Max King  United States 37:20
55 Simon Ayeko  Uganda 37:20
56 José Manuel Martínez  Spain 37:21
57  Ethiopia 37:22
58 Gianmarco Buttazzo  Italy 37:24
59  Algeria 37:27
60 Aadam Ismaeel Khamis  Bahrain 37:27
61  Qatar 37:27
62  United Kingdom 37:27
63  Uganda 37:32
64 Carles Castillejo  Spain 37:34
65  United Kingdom 37:35
66  Ireland 37:37
67 Moustafa Ahmed Shebto  Qatar 37:40
68 David McNeill  Australia 37:41
69 Liam Adams  Australia 37:41
70 Andrea Lalli  Italy 37:44
71  Portugal 37:44
72 Frank Tickner  United Kingdom 37:49
73 Collis Birmingham  Australia 37:49
74 Stephen Mokoka  South Africa 37:52
75 Al Mustafa Riyadh  Bahrain 37:53
76 Manuel Damião  Portugal 37:55
77 Mike Tebulo  Malawi 37:57
78 Andrew Lemoncello  United Kingdom 37:57
79  United Kingdom 37:57
80  Burundi 38:00
81  Qatar 38:02
82  United Kingdom 38:02
83 José Luis Blanco  Spain 38:02
84  United States 38:04
85 Antonio David Jiménez  Spain 38:06
86  Eritrea 38:07
87  Spain 38:10
88 Yoshitaka Iwamizu  Japan 38:11
89  Algeria 38:11
90  Canada 38:12
91 Paulo Gomes  Portugal 38:13
92 Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi  Libya 38:13
93 Yuki Sato  Japan 38:19
94  Japan 38:20
95 Joël Bourgeois  Canada 38:23
96  United States 38:23
97 Rabah Aboud  Algeria 38:24
98  Algeria 38:24
99 Daniele Meucci  Italy 38:28
100 José Rocha  Portugal 38:28
101  Botswana 38:29
102 Samuel Tsegay  Eritrea 38:30
103  Botswana 38:31
104 Martin Dent  Australia 38:31
105  Japan 38:32
106  Portugal 38:33
107  Lesotho 38:34
108 Andrew Letherby  Australia 38:35
109  United States 38:36
110  Spain 38:39
111  France 38:42
112 Brahim Chettah  Algeria 38:43
113  Belarus 38:43
114 Andrew Vernon  United Kingdom 38:43
115  Japan 38:43
116  Canada 38:44
117  Brazil 38:45
118 José Ramos  Portugal 38:45
119 Reyes Estévez  Spain 38:47
120  Japan 38:48
121  Botswana 38:48
122  Japan 38:49
123  Japan 38:51
124  Brazil 39:00
125  United Kingdom 39:01
126 Ben St.Lawrence  Australia 39:02
127 Jesper Faurschou  Denmark 39:03
128  Ireland 39:05
129 Dylan Wykes  Canada 39:06
130  Uganda 39:10
131  Algeria 39:11
132  China 39:11
133   Switzerland 39:12
134 Rapula Diphoko  Botswana 39:12
135 Mick Clohisey  Ireland 39:13
136  United Kingdom 39:21
137 Abdelatif Chemlal  Morocco 39:25
138  Canada 39:26
139  Ethiopia 39:26
140  Ireland 39:29
141 Dong Guojian  China 39:33
142  Kyrgyzstan 39:42
143  Canada 39:45
144  Ireland 39:50
145 Colin Fewer  Canada 39:52
146  Bulgaria 39:53
147  Egypt 39:56
148  Armenia 39:57
149  Libya 39:58
150  Canada 40:01
151  South Africa 40:18
152  Brazil 40:19
153  China 40:26
154 Cleveland Forde  Guyana 40:27
155  Botswana 40:27
156  New Zealand 40:34
157  Portugal 40:35
158  Jordan 41:00
159  Canada 41:47
160  Botswana 42:03
161  Brazil 42:23
162 Gaylord Silly  Seychelles 43:03
163  Turkmenistan 43:27
164  Azerbaijan 45:37
165  Ghana 46:56
— Ricardo Ribas  Portugal DNF
—  Palestine DNF
—  Brazil DNF
—  Ireland DNF
— Alistair Ian Cragg  Ireland DNF
— Abdulhak Elgorche Zakaria  Bahrain DNF
— Ed Moran  United States DNF
— Alejandro Suárez  Mexico DNF
— Dieudonné Disi  Rwanda DNF
— Stefano La Rosa  Italy DNF
—  Ethiopia DNF
— Hasan Mahboob  Bahrain DNF
—  United Arab Emirates DQ
—  Algeria DQ†
—  Bahrain DNS
— Roman Prodius  Moldova DNS
— Arjun Kumar Basnet    Nepal DNS
—  Nigeria DNS
—  Nigeria DNS
—  Rwanda DNS
—  Rwanda DNS
—  Rwanda DNS
—  Bahrain DNS

†: from  Algeria finished 35th in 36:44 min, but was disqualified because of doping violations.[11]

Teams[]

Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya
Leonard Patrick Komon 2
Joseph Ebuya 4
Moses Ndiema Masai 5
Gideon Lekumok Ngatuny 7
Bernard Kiprop Kipyego 10
Hosea Mwok Macharinyang 11
(Augustine Kiprono Choge) (12)
(Mark Kosgei Kiptoo) (14)
() (18)
39
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Ethiopia
Kenenisa Bekele 1
Habtamu Fikadu 9
Sileshi Sihine 15
Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam 17
21
Abebe Dinkesa 41
() (57)
() (139)
() (DNF)
104
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Qatar
Felix Kikwai Kibore 6
Ahmad Hassan Abdullah 8
Sultan Khamis Zaman 22
Mubarak Hassan Shami 25
Gamal Belal Salem 34
Essa Ismail Rashed 48
() (61)
(Moustafa Ahmed Shebto) (67)
() (81)
143
4  Eritrea
Zersenay Tadese 3
Yonas Kifle 20
Teklemariam Medhin 23
Kidane Tadasse 26
38
52
() (86)
(Samuel Tsegay) (102)
162
5  Morocco
Abdellah Falil 28
Jamel Chatbi 30
Anis Selmouni 32
33
Ahmed Baday 35
37
(Chakir Boujattaoui) (40)
(Mourad Marofit) (47)
(Abdelatif Chemlal) (137)
195
6  Uganda
Moses Kipsiro 13
Boniface Kiprop 16
Martin Toroitich 29
Wilson Busienei 46
Moses Aliwa 49
Simon Ayeko 55
() (63)
() (130)
208
7  United States
Jorge Torres 19
Josh Rohatinsky 43
45
Scott Bauhs 51
Max King 54
84
() (96)
() (109)
(Ed Moran) (DNF)
296
8  Spain
Juan Carlos de la Ossa 24
Ayad Lamdassem 36
José Manuel Martínez 56
Carles Castillejo 64
José Luis Blanco 83
Antonio David Jiménez 85
() (87)
() (110)
(Reyes Estévez) (119)
348
9  Australia
Craig Mottram 31
Michael Shelley 50
David Mcneill 68
Liam Adams 69
Collis Birmingham 73
Martin Dent 104
(Andrew Letherby) (108)
(Ben St.Lawrence) (126)
395
10  United Kingdom
62
65
Frank Tickner 72
Andrew Lemoncello 78
79
82
(Andrew Vernon) (114)
() (125)
() (136)
438
11  Algeria
42
59
89
Rabah Aboud 97
98
Brahim Chettah 112
() (131)
() (DQ)
497
12  Portugal
71
Manuel Damião 76
Paulo Gomes 91
José Rocha 100
106
José Ramos 118
() (157)
(Ricardo Ribas) (DNF)
562
13  Japan
Yoshitaka Iwamizu 88
Yuki Sato 93
94
105
115
120
() (122)
() (123)
615
14  Canada
90
Joël Bourgeois 95
116
Dylan Wykes 129
138
143
(Colin Fewer) (145)
() (150)
() (159)
711
15  Botswana
101
103
121
Rapula Diphoko 134
155
160
774
  • Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 179 athletes from 45 countries participated in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[1] The announced athletes from  Moldova,    Nepal, and  Nigeria did not show.[5][6][7]

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Athletics - World cross-country championships - Bekele wins sixth world cross-country title; Dibaba also wins", The New York Times, March 30, 2008, retrieved November 4, 2013
  3. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 31, 2008), "Coronation of King Kenenisa", Herald, retrieved November 4, 2013
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  11. ^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - BYDGOSZCZ 2013 - FACTS & FIGURES - DOPING VIOLATIONS AT THE WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 11, retrieved November 2, 2013
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