2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

The Senior men's race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Leopardstown Racecourse near Dublin, Ireland, on March 24, 2002. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times,^[1][2] in the Herald,^[3][4] and for the IAAF.^[5]

Senior men's race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	30th
Date	March 24
Host city	Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Venue	Leopardstown Racecourse
Events	1
Distances	11.998 km – Senior men
Participation	141 athletes from 37 nations
← 2001 Oostende 2003 Lausanne →

Complete results for individuals,^[6][7][8] for teams,^[6][9][10] medallists,^[11] and the results of British athletes who took part^[12] were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (11.998 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	34:52
	John Yuda	Tanzania	34:58
	Wilberforce Talel	Kenya	35:20
4	Richard Limo	Kenya	35:26
5	Charles Kamathi	Kenya	35:29
6	Albert Chepkurui	Kenya	35:32
7	Abderrahim Goumri	Morocco	35:43
8	Yonas Kifle	Eritrea	35:47
9	Enock Mitei	Kenya	35:49
10	Jaouad Gharib	Morocco	35:57
11	Abdi Abdirahman	United States	36:03
12	Assefa Mezegebu	Ethiopia	36:06
13	Smail Sghir	France	36:07
14	Meb Keflezighi	United States	36:09
15	Mustapha Essaïd	France	36:10
16	Habte Jifar	Ethiopia	36:11
17	Fita Bayissa	Ethiopia	36:14
18	Samson Ramadhani	Tanzania	36:16
19	Eduardo Henriques	Portugal	36:20
20	Lemma Alemayehu	Ethiopia	36:25
21	Saïd Berrioui	Morocco	36:27
22	Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga	Burundi	36:29
23	El Hassan Lahssini	France	36:30
24	Dathan Ritzenhein	United States	36:31
25	Yevgeniy Bozhko	Ukraine	36:33
26	José Manuel García	Spain	36:34
27	Elarbi Khattabi	Morocco	36:34
28	Michael Ngaaseke	Zimbabwe	36:35
29	Hosea Kogo	Kenya	36:36
30	Zersenay Tadesse	Eritrea	36:37
31	Obed Mutanya	Zambia	36:37
32	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands	36:40
33	Mohamed Serbouti	France	36:40
34	Tom van Hooste	Belgium	36:40
35	José Manuel Martínez	Spain	36:40
36	Makoto Otsu	Japan	36:41
37	Dean Cavuoto	Australia	36:41
38	Mauricio Díaz	Chile	36:41
39	Claes Nyberg	Sweden	36:42
40	Teodoro Cuñado	Spain	36:48
41	Samir Moussaoui	Algeria	36:49
42	Gabriele De Nard	Italy	36:51
43	Sam Haughian	United Kingdom	36:53
44	Peter Matthews	Ireland	36:59
45	Rachid Berradi	Italy	37:07
46	Brett Cartwright	Australia	37:07
47	Alberto Maravilha	Portugal	37:08
48	Mark Carroll	Ireland	37:09
49	Allen Graffin	United Kingdom	37:10
50	Iván Sánchez	Spain	37:10
51	Ahmed Naïli	Algeria	37:11
52	Róbert Štefko	Slovakia	37:12
53	Tau Khotso	Lesotho	37:13
54	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	37:14
55	Paulo Gomes	Portugal	37:20
56	George Mofokeng	South Africa	37:23
57	José Carlos Adán	Spain	37:26
58	Abel Chimukoko	Zimbabwe	37:28
59	Mustapha Benacer	Algeria	37:30
60	Matt Smith	United Kingdom	37:32
61	Tomonori Watanabe	Japan	37:32
62	José Rios	Spain	37:34
63	Umberto Pusterla	Italy	37:35
64	Seamus Power	Ireland	37:36
65	Habtai Kifletsion	Eritrea	37:36
66	Pacifique Ayabusa	Rwanda	37:36
67	Shinichiro Okuda	Japan	37:37
68	Ian Hudspith	United Kingdom	37:38
69	Glynn Tromans	United Kingdom	37:40
70	Koen van Rie	Belgium	37:45
71	Daniel Andrew Sipe	Tanzania	37:46
72	Kamel Kohil	Algeria	37:46
73	Kenjiro Jitsui	Japan	37:47
74	Hassan El Ahmadi	France	37:49
75	Khalid Zoubaa	France	37:50
76	Brad Tighe	Canada	37:51
77	Yukihiro Motoda	Japan	37:55
78	Tesfayohannes Mesfen	Eritrea	37:55
79	Egide Manirazika	Burundi	37:56
80	Abdelkrim Benzai	Algeria	37:57
81	Rachid Safari	Rwanda	37:57
82	Kim Gillard	Australia	37:59
83	Eric Sindayigaya	Burundi	38:00
84	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	38:02
85	Sisay Bezabeh	Australia	38:05
86	Clint Wells	United States	38:08
87	Yuki Yamamoto	Japan	38:08
88	Giovanni Gualdi	Italy	38:15
89	Jean Bosco Ndagijimana	Rwanda	38:16
90	Hélder Ornelas	Portugal	38:18
91	Siphesihle Mdluli	Eswatini	38:18
92	Fiachra Lombard	Ireland	38:21
93	Greg Jimmerson	United States	38:22
94	Sunil Jayaweera	Sri Lanka	38:25
95	Gianni Crepaldi	Italy	38:30
96	Hugo Romero	Mexico	38:31
97	Alberto Chaíça	Portugal	38:34
98	Reid Coolsaet	Canada	38:36
99	Julian Dwyer	Australia	38:37
100	Christian Nemeth	Belgium	38:38
101	Mesfin Hailu	Ethiopia	38:39
102	Matt O'Dowd	United Kingdom	38:41
103	Jollyn Kanyika	Zambia	38:43
104	José Alberto Montenegro	Argentina	38:51
105	David Milne	Canada	38:53
106	Alex Hutchinson	Canada	38:56
107	Julius Gidabuday	Tanzania	38:57
108	Mykola Novytskyy	Ukraine	38:59
109	Oscar Cortínez	Argentina	39:03
110	Scott Simpson	Canada	39:05
111	John Burke	Ireland	39:06
112	Yevgeniy Medvednikov	Kazakhstan	39:12
113	Andrey Chigidinov	Kazakhstan	39:20
114	Paul Sumawe	Tanzania	39:21
115	Miguel Melendez	Chile	39:25
116	Arturo Malaquias	Mexico	39:31
117	Julián Peralta	Argentina	39:33
118	Jerry van den Eede	Belgium	39:37
119	Carlos Jaramillo	Chile	39:38
120	James Finlayson	Canada	40:08
121	Frédéric Collignon	Belgium	40:10
122	Jonathan Monje	Chile	40:13
123	Martin McCarthy	Ireland	40:22
124	Arkadiy Tolstyn	Kyrgyzstan	40:36
125	Sujeewa Chandrapala	Sri Lanka	40:39
126	Yohannes Ghirmai	Eritrea	40:56
127	Ajit Bandara	Sri Lanka	40:58
128	Khasan Rakhimov	Uzbekistan	41:45
129	Daniel Herrera	Chile	42:24
130	Vasiliy Medvedev	Uzbekistan	43:58
131	Leonard Ntala Meso	DR Congo	45:16
132	Radik Khubbiev	Uzbekistan	46:18
133	Abduvahob Nizamov	Uzbekistan	46:27
—	Sergiy Lebid	Ukraine	DNF
—	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	DNF
—	Antonio Silio	Argentina	DNF
—	Giuliano Battocletti	Italy	DNF
—	Hakim Radouan	Morocco	DNF
—	Matt Downin	United States	DNF
—	Goran Stojiljković	Yugoslavia	DNF
—	Hamid El Mouaziz	Morocco	DQ†
—	Arthur Santiago	Angola	DNS
—	Juan José Cruz	Argentina	DNS
—	Vital Gahungu	Burundi	DNS
—	Mohammed S.M. Albayed	Palestine	DNS
—	Nader Almassri	Palestine	DNS
—	Ihab Salama Abdellah	Palestine	DNS
—	Paulo Guerra	Portugal	DNS
—	Joseph Kamara	Sierra Leone	DNS
—	Abubakar Timbo	Sierra Leone	DNS
—	Sergey Zabavski	Tajikistan	DNS

^†: Hamid El Mouaziz from  Morocco finished 44th in 36:57 min, but was disqualified.

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya Wilberforce Talel 3 Richard Limo 4 Charles Kamathi 5 Albert Chepkurui 6 (Enock Mitei) (n/s) (Hosea Kogo) (n/s)	18
	Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele 1 Assefa Mezegebu 11 Habte Jifar 15 Fita Bayissa 16 (Lemma Alemayehu) (n/s) (Mesfin Hailu) (n/s)	43
	Morocco Abderrahim Goumri 7 Jaouad Gharib 9 Saïd Berrioui 19 Elarbi Khattabi 23 (Hakim Radouan) (DNF)	58
4	France Smail Sghir 12 Mustapha Essaïd 14 El Hassan Lahssini 20 Mohamed Serbouti 25 (Hassan El Ahmadi) (n/s) (Khalid Zoubaa) (n/s)	71
5	United States Abdi Abdirahman 10 Meb Keflezighi 13 Dathan Ritzenhein 21 Clint Wells 63 (Greg Jimmerson) (n/s) (Matt Downin) (DNF)	107
6	Spain José Manuel García 22 José Manuel Martínez 27 Teodoro Cuñado 31 Iván Sánchez 41 (José Carlos Adán) (n/s) (José Rios) (n/s)	121
7	Eritrea Yonas Kifle 8 Zersenay Tadesse 24 Habtai Kifletsion 50 Tesfayohannes Mesfen 59 (Yohannes Ghirmai) (n/s)	141
8	Tanzania John Yuda 2 Samson Ramadhani 17 Daniel Andrew Sipe 55 Julius Gidabuday 72 (Paul Sumawe) (n/s)	146
9	Portugal Eduardo Henriques 18 Alberto Maravilha 38 Paulo Gomes 44 Hélder Ornelas 66 (Alberto Chaíça) (n/s)	166
10	United Kingdom Sam Haughian 34 Allen Graffin 40 Matt Smith 46 Ian Hudspith 53 (Glynn Tromans) (n/s) (Matt O'Dowd) (n/s)	173
11	Algeria Samir Moussaoui 32 Ahmed Naïli 42 Mustapha Benacer 45 Kamel Kohil 56 (Abdelkrim Benzai) (n/s) (Azzedine Sakhri) (n/s)	175
12	Italy Gabriele De Nard 33 Rachid Berradi 36 Umberto Pusterla 48 Giovanni Gualdi 64 (Gianni Crepaldi) (n/s) (Giuliano Battocletti) (DNF)	181
13	Japan Makoto Otsu 28 Tomonori Watanabe 47 Shinichiro Okuda 52 Kenjiro Jitsui 57 (Yukihiro Motoda) (n/s) (Yuki Yamamoto) (n/s)	184
14	Australia Dean Cavuoto 29 Brett Cartwright 37 Kim Gillard 61 Sisay Bezabeh 62 (Julian Dwyer) (n/s)	189
15	Ireland Peter Matthews 35 Mark Carroll 39 Seamus Power 49 Fiachra Lombard 67 (John Burke) (n/s) (Martin McCarthy) (n/s)	190
16	Rwanda Dieudonné Disi 43 Pacifique Ayabusa 51 Rachid Safari 60 Jean Bosco Ndagijimana 65	219
17	Belgium Tom van Hooste 26 Koen van Rie 54 Christian Nemeth 69 Jerry van den Eede 74 (Frédéric Collignon) (n/s) (Mohammed Mourhit) (DNF)	223
18	Chile Mauricio Díaz 30 Miguel Melendez 73 Carlos Jaramillo 75 Jonathan Monje 76 (Daniel Herrera) (n/s)	254
19	Canada Brad Tighe 58 Reid Coolsaet 68 David Milne 70 Alex Hutchinson 71 (Scott Simpson) (n/s) (James Finlayson) (n/s)	267
20	Uzbekistan Khasan Rakhimov 77 Vasiliy Medvedev 78 Radik Khubbiev 79 Abduvahob Nizamov 80	314
DNF	Argentina José Alberto Montenegro (n/s) Oscar Cortínez (n/s) Julián Peralta (n/s) Antonio Silio (DNF)	DNF

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

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 141 athletes from 37 countries participated in the Senior men's race. The announced athletes from  Angola,  Palestine,  Sierra Leone, and  Tajikistan did not show.^[7][8]

•  Algeria (6)
•  Argentina (4)
•  Australia (5)
•  Belgium (6)
•  Burundi (3)
•  Canada (6)
•  Chile (5)
•  DR Congo (1)
•  Eritrea (5)
•  Ethiopia (6)
•  France (6)
•  Ireland (6)
•  Italy (6)
•  Japan (6)
•  Kazakhstan (2)
•  Kenya (6)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Lesotho (1)
•  Mexico (2)
•  Morocco (6)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Portugal (5)
•  Rwanda (4)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Spain (6)
•  Sri Lanka (3)
•  Eswatini (1)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Tanzania (5)
•  Ukraine (3)
•  United Kingdom (6)
•  United States (6)
•  Uzbekistan (4)
•  Yugoslavia (1)
•  Zambia (2)
•  Zimbabwe (2)

See also

• 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race
• 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race
• 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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