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

Senior men's race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	30th
Date	March 24
Host city	Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Location	Leopardstown Racecourse
Nations participating	37
Athletes participating	141
Races	1
Distances	11.998 km – Senior men
← 2001 Oostende 2003 Lausanne →

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

Senior men's race (11.998 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
01 !	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	34:52
02 !	John Yuda	Tanzania	34:58
03 !	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	Swaziland	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	Democratic Republic of the 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)

Ethiopia

Kenenisa Bekele	1
Assefa Mezegebu	11
Habte Jifar	15
Fita Bayissa	16
(Lemma Alemayehu)	(n/s)
(Mesfin Hailu)	(n/s)

Morocco

Abderrahim Goumri	7
Jaouad Gharib	9
Saïd Berrioui	19
Elarbi Khattabi	23
(Hakim Radouan)	(DNF)

France

Smail Sghir	12
Mustapha Essaïd	14
El Hassan Lahssini	20
Mohamed Serbouti	25
(Hassan El Ahmadi)	(n/s)
(Khalid Zoubaa)	(n/s)

United States

Abdi Abdirahman	10
Meb Keflezighi	13
Dathan Ritzenhein	21
Clint Wells	63
(Greg Jimmerson)	(n/s)
(Matt Downin)	(DNF)

107

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

Eritrea

Yonas Kifle	8
Zersenay Tadesse	24
Habtai Kifletsion	50
Tesfayohannes Mesfen	59
(Yohannes Ghirmai)	(n/s)

141

Tanzania

John Yuda	2
Samson Ramadhani	17
Daniel Andrew Sipe	55
Julius Gidabuday	72
(Paul Sumawe)	(n/s)

146

Portugal

Eduardo Henriques	18
Alberto Maravilha	38
Paulo Gomes	44
Hélder Ornelas	66
(Alberto Chaíça)	(n/s)

166

United Kingdom

Sam Haughian	34
Allen Graffin	40
Matt Smith	46
Ian Hudspith	53
(Glynn Tromans)	(n/s)
(Matt O'Dowd)	(n/s)

173

Algeria

Samir Moussaoui	32
Ahmed Naïli	42
Mustapha Benacer	45
Kamel Kohil	56
(Abdelkrim Benzai)	(n/s)
(Azzedine Sakhri)	(n/s)

175

Italy

Gabriele De Nard	33
Rachid Berradi	36
Umberto Pusterla	48
Giovanni Gualdi	64
(Gianni Crepaldi)	(n/s)
(Giuliano Battocletti)	(DNF)

181

Japan

Makoto Otsu	28
Tomonori Watanabe	47
Shinichiro Okuda	52
Kenjiro Jitsui	57
(Yukihiro Motoda)	(n/s)
(Yuki Yamamoto)	(n/s)

184

Australia

Dean Cavuoto	29
Brett Cartwright	37
Kim Gillard	61
Sisay Bezabeh	62
(Julian Dwyer)	(n/s)

189

Ireland

Peter Matthews	35
Mark Carroll	39
Seamus Power	49
Fiachra Lombard	67
(John Burke)	(n/s)
(Martin McCarthy)	(n/s)

190

Rwanda

Dieudonné Disi	43
Pacifique Ayabusa	51
Rachid Safari	60
Jean Bosco Ndagijimana	65

219

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

Chile

Mauricio Díaz	30
Miguel Melendez	73
Carlos Jaramillo	75
Jonathan Monje	76
(Daniel Herrera)	(n/s)

254

Canada

Brad Tighe	58
Reid Coolsaet	68
David Milne	70
Alex Hutchinson	71
(Scott Simpson)	(n/s)
(James Finlayson)	(n/s)

267

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]

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)
Swaziland (1)
Sweden (1)
Tanzania (5)
Ukraine (3)
United Kingdom (6)
United States (6)
Uzbekistan (4)
Yugoslavia (1)
Zambia (2)
Zimbabwe (2)

References

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↑ Wallace-Jones, Sean (March 24, 2001), Bekele defies pundits to take historic double gold in Dublin, IAAF, retrieved October 30, 2013
1 2 Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Dublin Leopardstown Date: Sunday, March 24, 2002, Athchamps (archived), retrieved October 30, 2013
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↑ Official Results - CROSS LONG RACE Men - Team - Sunday, March 24, 2002, IAAF, March 24, 2002, retrieved October 30, 2013
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