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The 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Waregem, Belgium, at the Hippodroom Waregem on March 17, 1973. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.[1]
1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships | |
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Organisers | IAAF |
Edition | 1st |
Date | March 17 |
Host city | Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium |
Venue | Hippodroom Waregem |
Events | 3 |
Distances | 12 km – Senior men 7 km – Junior men 4 km – Senior women |
Participation | 286 athletes from 21 nations |
Complete results for men,[2] junior men,[3] women,[4] medallists, [5] and the results of British athletes[6] were published.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Individual | ||||||
Senior men (12 km) |
Pekka Päivärinta Finland | 35:46.4 | Mariano Haro Spain | 35:46.5 | Rod Dixon New Zealand | 36:00 |
Junior men (7 km) |
Jim Brown Scotland | 20:52.8 | José Haro Spain | 21:00.6 | Léon Schots Belgium | 21:07.2 |
Senior women (4 km) |
Paola Pigni Italy | 13:45.2 | Joyce Smith England | 13:58 | Josee van Santberghe Belgium | 14:01 |
Team | ||||||
Senior men | Belgium | 109 | Soviet Union | 119 | New Zealand | 136 |
Junior men | Spain | 18 | Italy | 22 | England | 24 |
Senior women | England | 40 | Finland | 73 | United States | 90 |
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
---|---|---|---|
Pekka Päivärinta | Finland | 35:46.4 | |
Mariano Haro | Spain | 35:46.5 | |
Rod Dixon | New Zealand | 36:00 | |
4 | Tapio Kantanen | Finland | 36:05 |
5 | Willy Polleunis | Belgium | 36:05 |
6 | Roger Clark | England | 36:08 |
7 | Juan Hidalgo | Spain | 36:12 |
8 | Gaston Roelants | Belgium | 36:13 |
9 | Nikolay Sviridov | Soviet Union | 36:19 |
10 | Noel Tijou | France | 36:21 |
11 | Grenville Tuck | England | 36:24 |
12 | Dick Tayler | New Zealand | 36:26 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Belgium
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109 | |||||||||||||||||
Soviet Union
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119 | |||||||||||||||||
New Zealand
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136 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Finland | 180 | ||||||||||||||||
5 | England | 181 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | Spain | 260 | ||||||||||||||||
7 | France | 273 | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Scotland | 291 | ||||||||||||||||
Full results |
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
---|---|---|---|
Jim Brown | Scotland | 20:52.8 | |
José Haro | Spain | 21:00.6 | |
Léon Schots | Belgium | 21:07.2 | |
4 | Franco Fava | Italy | 21:15.2 |
5 | Aldo Tomasini | Italy | 21:27.6 |
6 | Dennis Coates | England | 21:27.6 |
7 | José Luis Ruiz | Spain | 21:32.2 |
8 | Barry Smith | England | 21:32.3 |
9 | Fernando Cerrada | Spain | 21:45 |
10 | Tony Staynings | England | 21:49 |
11 | Reinosa Miramontes | Spain | 21:49 |
12 | Neil Coupland | England | 21:49.1 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spain
|
18 | |||||||||||
Italy
|
22 | |||||||||||
England
|
24 | |||||||||||
4 | Scotland | 32 | ||||||||||
5 | France | 55 | ||||||||||
6 | Belgium | 57 | ||||||||||
7 | Ireland | 89 | ||||||||||
8 | Switzerland | 100 | ||||||||||
Full results |
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
---|---|---|---|
Paola Pigni | Italy | 13:45.2 | |
Joyce Smith | England | 13:58 | |
Josee van Santberghe | Belgium | 14:01 | |
4 | Rita Ridley | England | 14:02 |
5 | Sinikka Tyynelä | Finland | 14:09 |
6 | Jean Lochhead | Wales | 14:12 |
7 | Marijke Moser | Switzerland | 14:13 |
8 | Irja Pettinen | Finland | 14:14 |
9 | Anne Garrett | New Zealand | 14:15 |
10 | Nina Holmén | Finland | 14:16 |
11 | Annie van de Kerkhof | Netherlands | 14:20 |
12 | Marleen Mols | Belgium | 14:21 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
England
|
40 | |||||||||||||
Finland
|
73 | |||||||||||||
United States
|
90 | |||||||||||||
4 | Italy | 96 | ||||||||||||
5 | West Germany | 99 | ||||||||||||
6 | New Zealand | 103 | ||||||||||||
7 | Belgium | 107 | ||||||||||||
8 | Ireland | 115 | ||||||||||||
Full results |
* Host nation (Belgium)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Spain | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
2 | England | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | Finland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Italy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
5 | Belgium* | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
6 | Scotland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
7 | Soviet Union | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
9 | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (9 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
An unofficial count yields the participation of 286 athletes from 21 countries.
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