2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Senior men's race at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Senior men's race at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	28th
Date	March 19
Host city	Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
Venue	Sporting Complex of Vilamoura
Events	1
Distances	12.3 km – Senior men
Participation	171 athletes from ; 54 nations
	← 1999 Belfast 2001 Oostende →

The Senior men's race at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Sporting Complex in Vilamoura, Portugal, on March 19, 2000. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times,^[1]^[2] in the Herald,^[3] and for the IAAF.^[4]

Complete results^[5] for individuals,^[6]^[7] for teams,^[6]^[8] medallists,^[9] and the results of British athletes who took part^[10] were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (12.3 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	35:00
	Assefa Mezegebu	Ethiopia	35:01
	Paul Tergat	Kenya	35:02
4	Patrick Ivuti	Kenya	35:03
5	Wilberforce Talel	Kenya	35:06
6	Paul Koech	Kenya	35:22
7	Charles Kamathi	Kenya	35:51
8	Sergiy Lebid	Ukraine	35:52
9	Abdellah Béhar	France	35:55
10	Eduardo Henriques	Portugal	35:56
11	Abraham Cherono	Kenya	36:00
12	Domingos Castro	Portugal	36:01
13	Karl Keska	United Kingdom	36:13
14	Zebedayo Bayo	Tanzania	36:15
15	John Nada Saya	Tanzania	36:18
16	Lemma Alemayehu	Ethiopia	36:20
17	Enrique Molina	Spain	36:22
18	Venry Hamalila	Zambia	36:25
19	Javier Cortés	Spain	36:26
20	Samir Moussaoui	Algeria	36:26
21	José Manuel Martínez	Spain	36:27
22	António Pinto	Portugal	36:30
23	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia	36:33
24	Mustapha Bamouh	Morocco	36:42
25	Paulo Guerra	Portugal	36:44
26	Meb Keflezighi	United States	36:45
27	Amebesse Tolossa	Ethiopia	36:46
28	Michael Ngaaseke	Zimbabwe	36:48
29	Alberto García	Spain	36:51
30	Wilbroad Axweso	Tanzania	36:53
31	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	36:53
32	Rachid Berradi	Italy	36:58
33	Claes Nyberg	Sweden	37:01
34	Glynn Tromans	United Kingdom	37:03
35	Benedict Ako	Tanzania	37:05
36	Mauricio Díaz	Chile	37:07
37	Sam Mwape	Zambia	37:08
38	Saïd Berrioui	Morocco	37:15
39	Abdelhadi Habassa	Morocco	37:15
40	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	37:20
41	Vincenzo Modica	Italy	37:21
42	Simone Zanon	Italy	37:22
43	Sergey Lukin	Russia	37:22
44	Dereje Tadesse	Ethiopia	37:23
45	Abdi Abdirahman	United States	37:24
46	Kamel Kohil	Algeria	37:25
47	Matt O'Dowd	United Kingdom	37:26
48	Marco Mazza	Italy	37:28
49	Mohamed Driouche	Algeria	37:29
50	Michael Aish	New Zealand	37:30
51	Teodoro Cuñado	Spain	37:31
52	Djamel Selatnia	Algeria	37:31
53	Obed Mutanya	Zambia	37:31
54	Stefan Van Den Broek	Belgium	37:32
55	Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin	Qatar	37:33
56	Alfredo Bráz	Portugal	37:35
57	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama	Qatar	37:35
58	Brad Hauser	United States	37:36
59	Toshiya Kono	Japan	37:36
60	Joseph Nsengiyumya	Rwanda	37:37
61	Yonas Kifle	Eritrea	37:37
62	Jon Wild	United Kingdom	37:43
63	Andrew Panga	Tanzania	37:47
64	Benedito Gomes	Brazil	37:48
65	Alberto Maravilha	Portugal	37:49
66	Lahcen Benyoussef	Morocco	37:52
67	Peter Sherry	United States	37:54
68	Sergey Fedotov	Russia	37:55
69	Isidore Nizigiyimana	Burundi	37:56
70	Roberto Antonelli	Italy	37:57
71	Wellington Fraga	Brazil	37:58
72	Peter Matthews	Ireland	38:00
73	Noel Berkeley	Ireland	38:07
74	Debebe Demisse	Ethiopia	38:09
75	Medison Chibwe	Zambia	38:11
76	Nick Rogers	United States	38:14
77	Cian McLoughlin	Ireland	38:15
78	Mikhail Minyukhin	Russia	38:17
79	Angelo Carosi	Italy	38:21
80	Klaus-Peter Hansen	Denmark	38:22
81	George Mofokeng	South Africa	38:25
82	Ahmed Adam Saleh	Qatar	38:25
83	Dermot Donnelly	Ireland	38:31
84	Pacifique Ayabusa	Rwanda	38:32
85	Tau Khotso	Lesotho	38:33
86	Tom van Hooste	Belgium	38:37
87	Dmitriy Maksimov	Russia	38:43
88	Nick Comerford	United Kingdom	38:45
89	Paolo Doglio	Ireland	38:46
90	Faizal Emamaullee	Canada	38:50
91	Fidencio Torres	Mexico	38:57
92	Richard Arias	Ecuador	38:57
93	Takhir Mamashayev	Kazakhstan	38:57
94	Ville Hautala	Finland	38:58
95	Jussi Utriainen	Finland	38:59
96	Tayeb Kalloud	Algeria	39:01
97	Simon Vroemen	Netherlands	39:06
98	Steve Lawrence	Canada	39:10
99	Pasi Mattila	Finland	39:12
100	Marcel Matanin	Slovakia	39:17
101	Seamus Power	Ireland	39:18
102	Aleudo dos Santos	Brazil	39:21
103	Farag Abdelnaby	Egypt	39:23
104	Hiromitsu Sakakieda	Japan	39:27
105	Jerry van den Eede	Belgium	39:32
106	Vladimir Guerra	Ecuador	39:34
107	Rob Denmark	United Kingdom	39:43
108	Néstor Quinapanta	Ecuador	39:43
109	Jamal Abdi Hassan	Qatar	39:44
110	Tesfit Berhe	Eritrea	39:45
111	Shesh Mani	India	39:46
112	Zarislav Gapeyenko	Belarus	39:50
113	Gabriel Mazimpaka	Rwanda	39:53
114	Toni Bernadó	Andorra	39:54
115	Ademir da Silva	Brazil	39:58
116	Scott MacDonald	Canada	40:03
117	K.M. Chinnappa	India	40:03
118	Yoji Yamaguchi	Japan	40:06
119	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	40:09
120	José Alberto Montenegro	Argentina	40:09
121	Sipho Dlamini	Eswatini	40:11
122	David Milne	Canada	40:12
123	Santtu Mäkinen	Finland	40:21
124	Stan Rijken	Netherlands	40:27
125	Yam Bahadur Pudasaini	Nepal	40:30
126	José Macias	Mexico	40:35
127	Darwan Singh	India	41:01
128	Igor Salamun	Slovenia	41:15
129	Nazirdin Akylbekov	Kyrgyzstan	41:15
130	Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev	Turkmenistan	41:17
131	Washington Tenorio	Ecuador	41:25
132	Hussein Awada	Lebanon	41:25
133	Joze Ceh	Slovenia	41:27
134	Ivan Kibiryov	Uzbekistan	41:28
135	Nader Al-Nasry	Palestine	41:36
136	Josep Sansa	Andorra	41:36
137	Sergey Zabavskiy	Tajikistan	41:37
138	Ali Awad	Lebanon	41:40
139	Khasan Rakhimov	Uzbekistan	41:53
140	Dashrath Tigga	India	41:55
141	Ahmed El Bahnasawy	Egypt	42:01
142	Mehdi Chebli	Lebanon	42:04
143	Ghirma Woldu	Eritrea	42:12
144	Djamched Rasulov	Tajikistan	42:33
145	António Zeferino	Cape Verde	42:40
146	Vladimir Checha	Belarus	42:43
147	Sokhibdjan Sharipov	Tajikistan	42:53
148	Cesar Condori	Bolivia	42:58
149	Richard Muscat	Gibraltar	43:26
150	Andrey Lavrinovich	Belarus	43:36
151	Chokirjon Irmatov	Tajikistan	43:50
152	Omar Abdel Latif	Lebanon	44:28
153	Michael Breed	Gibraltar	44:38
154	Aleksandr Aniskevich	Belarus	45:04
155	Timur Asanov	Uzbekistan	45:16
156	Serdar Gandymov	Turkmenistan	45:37
157	Rinat Ablyayev	Uzbekistan	46:06
158	Christopher Walker	Gibraltar	46:48
159	Louis Chichon	Gibraltar	47:28
160	Derek Hernández	Gibraltar	49:30
—	Leszek Bebło	Poland	DNF
—	Antonio Silio	Argentina	DNF
—	Abderrahim Goumri	Morocco	DNF
—	Ihab Salama	Palestine	DNF
—	Abdelkrim Benzai	Algeria	DNF
—	Craig Kirkwood	New Zealand	DNF
—	Richard Tremain	Canada	DNF
—	Juuso Rainio	Finland	DNF
—	Sigurd Haveland	Gibraltar	DNF
—	Artyom Tetenkin	Kyrgyzstan	DNF
—	Othman Sulaiman	Qatar	DNF
—	Graham Cocksedge	Canada	DNS
—	Jafar Babakhani	Iran	DNS
—	Mohammed S.M. Albayed	Palestine	DNS
—	Abdal Salam Aldabaji	Palestine	DNS
—	Patrick Ishyaka	Rwanda	DNS
—	Alphonse Munyeshyaka	Rwanda	DNS
—	Dovletmammet Nazarov	Turkmenistan	DNS
—	Timothy Hacker	United States	DNS

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Kenya

Paul Tergat	3
Patrick Ivuti	4
Wilberforce Talel	5
Paul Koech	6
(Charles Kamathi)	(7)
(Abraham Cherono)	(11)

18

Ethiopia

Assefa Mezegebu	2
Lemma Alemayehu	16
Tesfaye Tola	23
Amebesse Tolossa	27
(Dereje Tadesse)	(44)
(Debebe Demisse)	(74)

68

Portugal

Eduardo Henriques	10
Domingos Castro	12
António Pinto	22
Paulo Guerra	25
(Alfredo Bráz)	(56)
(Alberto Maravilha)	(65)

69

4

Spain

Enrique Molina	17
Javier Cortés	19
José Manuel Martínez	21
Alberto García	29
(Alejandro Gómez)	(40)
(Teodoro Cuñado)	(51)

86

5

Tanzania

Zebedayo Bayo	14
John Nada Saya	15
Wilbroad Axweso	30
Benedict Ako	35
(Andrew Panga)	(63)

94

6

United Kingdom

Karl Keska	13
Glynn Tromans	34
Matt O'Dowd	47
Jon Wild	62
(Nick Comerford)	(88)
(Rob Denmark)	(107)

156

7

Italy

Rachid Berradi	32
Vincenzo Modica	41
Simone Zanon	42
Marco Mazza	48
(Roberto Antonelli)	(70)
(Angelo Carosi)	(79)

163

8

Algeria

Samir Moussaoui	20
Kamel Kohil	46
Mohamed Driouche	49
Djamel Selatnia	52
(Tayeb Kalloud)	(96)
(Abdelkrim Benzai)	(DNF)

167

9

Morocco

Mustapha Bamouh	24
Saïd Berrioui	38
Abdelhadi Habassa	39
Lahcen Benyoussef	66
(Abderrahim Goumri)	(DNF)

167

10

Zambia

Venry Hamalila	18
Sam Mwape	37
Obed Mutanya	53
Medison Chibwe	75

183

11

United States

Meb Keflezighi	26
Abdi Abdirahman	45
Brad Hauser	58
Peter Sherry	67
(Nick Rogers)	(76)

196

12

Belgium

Mohammed Mourhit	1
Stefan Van Den Broek	54
Tom van Hooste	86
Jerry van den Eede	105

246

13

Russia

Sergey Lukin	43
Sergey Fedotov	68
Mikhail Minyukhin	78
Dmitriy Maksimov	87

276

14

Rwanda

Mathias Ntawulikura	31
Joseph Nsengiyumya	60
Pacifique Ayabusa	84
Gabriel Mazimpaka	113

288

15

Qatar

Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin	55
Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama	57
Ahmed Adam Saleh	82
Jamal Abdi Hassan	109
(Mohamed Suleiman)	(119)
(Othman Sulaiman)	(DNF)

303

16

Ireland

Peter Matthews	72
Noel Berkeley	73
Cian McLoughlin	77
Dermot Donnelly	83
(Paolo Doglio)	(89)
(Seamus Power)	(101)

305

17

Brazil

Benedito Gomes	64
Wellington Fraga	71
Aleudo dos Santos	102
Ademir da Silva	115

352

18

Finland

Ville Hautala	94
Jussi Utriainen	95
Pasi Mattila	99
Santtu Mäkinen	123
(Juuso Rainio)	(DNF)

411

19

Canada

Faizal Emamaullee	90
Steve Lawrence	98
Scott MacDonald	116
David Milne	122
(Richard Tremain)	(DNF)

426

20

Ecuador

Richard Arias	92
Vladimir Guerra	106
Néstor Quinapanta	108
Washington Tenorio	131

437

21

India

Shesh Mani	111
K.M. Chinnappa	117
Darwan Singh	127
Dashrath Tigga	140

495

22

Belarus

Zarislav Gapeyenko	112
Vladimir Checha	146
Andrey Lavrinovich	150
Aleksandr Aniskevich	154

562

23

Lebanon

Hussein Awada	132
Ali Awad	138
Mehdi Chebli	142
Omar Abdel Latif	152

564

24

Tajikistan

Sergey Zabavskiy	137
Djamched Rasulov	144
Sokhibdjan Sharipov	147
Chokirjon Irmatov	151

579

25

Uzbekistan

Ivan Kibiryov	134
Khasan Rakhimov	139
Timur Asanov	155
Rinat Ablyayev	157

585

26

Gibraltar

Richard Muscat	149
Michael Breed	153
Christopher Walker	158
Louis Chichon	159
(Derek Hernández)	(160)
(Sigurd Haveland)	(DNF)

619

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 171 athletes from 54 countries in the Senior men's race. The announced athlete from Iran did not show.^[5]^[7]

Algeria (6)
Andorra (2)
Argentina (2)
Belarus (4)
Belgium (4)
Bolivia (1)
Brazil (4)
Burundi (1)
Canada (5)
Cape Verde (1)
Chile (1)
Denmark (1)
Ecuador (4)
Egypt (2)
Eritrea (3)
Ethiopia (6)
Finland (5)
France (1)
Gibraltar (6)
India (4)
Ireland (6)
Italy (6)
Japan (3)
Kazakhstan (1)
Kenya (6)
Kyrgyzstan (2)
Lebanon (4)
Lesotho (1)
Mexico (2)
Morocco (5)
Nepal (1)
Netherlands (2)
New Zealand (2)
Palestine (2)
Poland (1)
Portugal (6)
Qatar (6)
Russia (4)
Rwanda (4)
Slovakia (1)
Slovenia (2)
South Africa (1)
Spain (6)
Eswatini (1)
Sweden (1)
Tajikistan (4)
Tanzania (5)
Turkmenistan (2)
Ukraine (1)
United Kingdom (6)
United States (5)
Uzbekistan (4)
Zambia (4)
Zimbabwe (1)

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