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Senior men's race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition30th
DateMarch 24
Host cityDublin, Leinster, Ireland Republic of Ireland
VenueLeopardstown Racecourse
Events1
Distances11.998 km – Senior men
Participation141 athletes from
37 nations

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]

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

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Senior men's race (11.998 km)

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Individual

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Rank Athlete Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia 34:52
2nd place, silver medalist(s) John Yuda  Tanzania 34:58
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

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Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya
Wilberforce Talel 3
Richard Limo 4
Charles Kamathi 5
Albert Chepkurui 6
(Enock Mitei) (n/s)
(Hosea Kogo) (n/s)
18
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Ethiopia
Kenenisa Bekele 1
Assefa Mezegebu 11
Habte Jifar 15
Fita Bayissa 16
(Lemma Alemayehu) (n/s)
(Mesfin Hailu) (n/s)
43
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

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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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "PLUS: RUNNING; Briton Holds Off U.S. Challenge", The New York Times, March 24, 2002, retrieved October 30, 2013
  2. ^ Clarey, Christopher (March 25, 2002), "TRACK AND FIELD : A gold sweep for Ethiopian 'in a class of his own'", The New York Times, retrieved October 30, 2013
  3. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 25, 2001), "Radcliffe completes the double - Briton successfully defends world cross-country title", Herald, retrieved October 30, 2013
  4. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 25, 2001), "Title joy second time around for youngster Bikele", Herald, retrieved October 30, 2013
  5. ^ Wallace-Jones, Sean (March 24, 2001), Bekele defies pundits to take historic double gold in Dublin, IAAF, retrieved October 30, 2013
  6. ^ a b Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Dublin Leopardstown Date: Sunday, March 24, 2002, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 30, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ a b Official Results - CROSS LONG RACE Men - Sunday, March 24, 2002, IAAF, March 24, 2002, archived from the original on November 1, 2013, retrieved October 30, 2013
  8. ^ a b Results - 30th IAAF/Sport Ireland World Cross Country Championships - Dublin, IRELAND 23 MAR 2002 - 24 MAR 2002 - Long Race - men, IAAF, March 24, 2002, retrieved October 30, 2013
  9. ^ Official Results - CROSS LONG RACE Men - Team - Sunday, March 24, 2002, IAAF, March 24, 2002, archived from the original on March 15, 2011, retrieved October 30, 2013
  10. ^ Results - 30th IAAF/Sport Ireland World Cross Country Championships - Dublin, IRELAND 23 MAR 2002 - 24 MAR 2002 - Long Race - men - Final - Team, IAAF, March 24, 2002, retrieved October 30, 2013
  11. ^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 30, 2013
  12. ^ 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 October 30, 2013
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