1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

International athletics championship event

Senior men's race at the 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	26th
Date	March 22
Host city	Marrakech, Morocco
Venue	Menara district
Events	1
Distances	12 km – Senior men
Participation	181 athletes from 46 nations
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The Senior men's race at the 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Marrakech, Morocco, at the Menara district on March 22, 1998. Reports on the event were given in The New York Times, in the Herald, and for the IAAF.

Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Paul Tergat	Kenya	34:01
	Paul Koech	Kenya	34:06
	Assefa Mezegebu	Ethiopia	34:28
4	Tom Nyariki	Kenya	34:37
5	Wilson Boit Kipketer	Kenya	34:38
6	Christopher Kelong	Kenya	34:41
7	Ismael Kirui	Kenya	34:41
8	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	34:44
9	Domingos Castro	Portugal	34:46
10	Fabián Roncero	Spain	34:50
11	Elarbi Khattabi	Morocco	34:54
12	Paulo Guerra	Portugal	34:59
13	Habte Jifar	Ethiopia	35:08
14	Lahcen Benyoussef	Morocco	35:11
15	Wilbroad Axweso	Tanzania	35:15
16	Bob Kennedy	United States	35:18
17	Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	35:20
18	Khaled Boulami	Morocco	35:21
19	Patrick Ndayisenga	Burundi	35:23
20	Tesfaye Tola	Ethiopia	35:24
21	Ayele Mezegebu	Ethiopia	35:29
22	Shaun Creighton	Australia	35:33
23	Bruno Toledo	Spain	35:34
24	Abraham Assefa	Ethiopia	35:35
25	Eduardo Henriques	Portugal	35:36
26	Benedict Ako	Tanzania	35:37
27	Adam Goucher	United States	35:39
28	José Regalo	Portugal	35:40
29	José Manuel García	Spain	35:43
30	Hideaki Haraguchi	Japan	35:47
31	Reinholdt Iita	Namibia	35:54
32	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	35:57
33	Toshinari Takaoka	Japan	35:58
34	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands	36:00
35	Tarek Zoghmar	Algeria	36:04
36	Hendrick Ramaala	South Africa	36:06
37	Rachid Berradi	Italy	36:14
38	Glynn Tromans	United Kingdom	36:19
39	Alberto Maravilha	Portugal	36:19
40	Cormac Finnerty	Ireland	36:20
41	Tadeo Nada	Tanzania	36:23
42	Francesco Bennici	Italy	36:23
43	Sérgio da Silva	Brazil	36:24
44	Keith Cullen	United Kingdom	36:25
45	Seamus Power	Ireland	36:26
46	Réda Benzine	Algeria	36:26
47	Enoch Skosana	South Africa	36:27
48	Samir Moussaoui	Algeria	36:28
49	Kabo Gabaseme	Botswana	36:31
50	Driss El Himer	France	36:32
51	Kudakwashe Shoko	Zimbabwe	36:32
52	Carlos Peña	Mexico	36:35
53	Abdelilah El Manaia	Morocco	36:35
54	Simone Zanon	Italy	36:36
55	Elijah Mutandiro	Zimbabwe	36:37
56	Jacinto Navarrete	Colombia	36:38
57	Krzysztof Baldyga	Poland	36:38
58	Abdellah Béhar	France	36:39
59	Andrew Pearson	United Kingdom	36:41
60	Lee Troop	Australia	36:46
61	Godfrey Koki	Zimbabwe	36:47
62	Tim Hacker	United States	36:48
63	Julio Rey	Spain	36:49
64	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	36:49
65	Tomohiro Seto	Japan	36:50
66	Alejandro Cuahtepizi	Mexico	36:52
67	Diego Colorado	Colombia	36:55
68	Chris Weber	Canada	36:58
69	Dragoslav Prpa	Yugoslavia	37:00
70	Daniel Ferreira	Brazil	37:00
71	Michele Gamba	Italy	37:01
72	Billy Ntlogelang	Botswana	37:02
73	Janko Bensa	Yugoslavia	37:03
74	Faustin Saktay	Tanzania	37:04
75	John Nuttall	United Kingdom	37:06
76	Hendrick Khumalo	South Africa	37:07
77	Viktor Röthlin	Switzerland	37:09
78	Mohamed Driouche	Algeria	37:13
79	Lahbib Hanini	France	37:16
80	Martin Lauret	Netherlands	37:18
81	Elias Bastos	Brazil	37:19
82	Ville Hautala	Finland	37:20
83	Ahmed Abd El Mangoud	Egypt	37:21
84	Dmitriy Maksimov	Russia	37:24
85	Pavel Loskutov	Estonia	37:25
86	Santtu Mäkinen	Finland	37:25
87	Chris Robison	United Kingdom	37:26
88	Gabriele De Nard	Italy	37:26
89	Pete Julian	United States	37:30
90	Julian Dwyer	Australia	37:35
91	Mamo Kejela	Ethiopia	37:35
92	Ayman Mahmoud	Egypt	37:39
93	Mikaël Thomas	France	37:42
94	David Evans	Australia	37:44
95	Seiji Kushibe	Japan	37:46
96	René Godlieb	Netherlands	37:47
97	Ali El-Zaidi	Libya	37:48
98	Semyon Zhustin	Russia	37:49
99	Jussi Utriainen	Finland	37:50
100	Eric Quiros	Costa Rica	37:53
101	Toomas Tarm	Estonia	37:54
102	Imre Berkovics	Hungary	37:58
103	Jose Duarte	Mexico	38:01
104	Cian McLoughlin	Ireland	38:02
105	Marcel Versteeg	Netherlands	38:03
106	Colin de Burca	Ireland	38:04
107	Joseph Tjitunga	Namibia	38:10
108	Kim Gillard	Australia	38:14
109	Juan Jaranillo	Colombia	38:14
110	Martín Pitayo	Mexico	38:16
111	Spencer Duval	United Kingdom	38:16
112	Lesedinyana Lekgoa	Botswana	38:23
113	Alphonse Munyeshyaka	Rwanda	38:28
114	Menon Ramsamy	Mauritius	38:32
115	Julián Berrio	Colombia	38:33
116	Pacifique Ayabusa	Rwanda	38:37
117	Yan Orlandi	Switzerland	38:39
118	Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed	Egypt	38:42
119	Jussi Virtanen	Finland	38:43
120	James Finlayson	Canada	38:45
121	Glody Dube	Botswana	38:50
122	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	38:52
123	Heiki Sarapuu	Estonia	38:54
124	Paddy McCluskey	Canada	38:56
125	Toni Bernadó	Andorra	38:56
126	Soro Bassirima	Côte d'Ivoire	39:02
127	Wael Anwar	Egypt	39:03
128	Robert Gary	United States	39:04
129	Pauric McKinney	Ireland	39:14
130	Robert Smits	Netherlands	39:15
131	Graham Cocksedge	Canada	39:21
132	Tiyapo Maso	Botswana	39:22
133	Fouly Salem	Egypt	39:28
134	Farag Abdelnaby	Egypt	39:36
135	Meelis Veilberg	Estonia	39:38
136	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	39:45
137	Joseph Nsengiyumya	Rwanda	39:46
138	Bruno Le Stum	France	39:55
139	Margus Pirksaar	Estonia	40:00
140	Mothusi Pelaelo	Botswana	40:13
141	Jumaine Hakizimaha	Rwanda	40:22
142	Rachid Safari	Rwanda	40:23
143	Tiburce Mboumba	Gabon	40:26
144	Tsunake Kalamori	South Africa	40:33
145	Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev	Turkmenistan	40:34
146	Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev	Turkmenistan	40:34
147	Abdullah Fergani	Libya	40:46
148	Leonard Madinda	Gabon	41:15
149	Mahamed Kouerh	Libya	41:24
150	Basile Lendoye	Gabon	41:24
151	Konan Severin N'dri	Côte d'Ivoire	41:51
152	Younes Yousef	Libya	42:04
153	Loasis Boussougou	Gabon	42:17
154	David Kanie	Papua New Guinea	42:25
155	Sergey Zabavskiy	Tajikistan	43:04
156	Souleymane Bamba	Côte d'Ivoire	43:06
157	Guy Schultz	Canada	43:10
158	Gervais Yapo Yapi	Côte d'Ivoire	43:34
159	Alphonse Miuoubi	Gabon	43:41
160	Hugues Kombila	Gabon	43:46
161	Lee Kar-Lun	Hong Kong	43:52
162	Gumsie Taulobi	Papua New Guinea	44:22
163	Ken Mova	Papua New Guinea	45:05
—	Alfredo Bráz	Portugal	DNF
—	Enrique Molina	Spain	DNF
—	Pablo Olmedo	Mexico	DNF
—	Andrew Panga	Tanzania	DNF
—	Smail Sghir	Morocco	DNF
—	Kamel Kohil	Algeria	DNF
—	Benoît Zwierzchiewski	France	DNF
—	Abel Chimukoko	Zimbabwe	DNF
—	Hayk Khojumyan	Armenia	DNF
—	Trent Harlow	Australia	DNF
—	Sergio Couto	Brazil	DNF
—	David Rueben	Papua New Guinea	DNF
—	Robert Cook Jr.	United States	DNF
—	Michael Ngaaseke	Zimbabwe	DNF
—	Shingirai Badza	Zimbabwe	DNF
—	Ian Forsythe	Canada	DNF
—	Gustav Hendricks	Namibia	DNF
—	Baimurad Achirmuradov	Turkmenistan	DNF

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Kenya

Paul Tergat	1
Paul Koech	2
Tom Nyariki	4
Wilson Boit Kipketer	5
(Christopher Kelong)	(6)
(Ismael Kirui)	(7)

Ethiopia

Assefa Mezegebu	3
Habte Jifar	13
Tesfaye Tola	20
Ayele Mezegebu	21
(Abraham Assefa)	(24)
(Mamo Kejela)	(91)

Morocco

Elarbi Khattabi	11
Lahcen Benyoussef	14
Brahim Lahlafi	17
Khaled Boulami	18
(Abdelilah El Manaia)	(53)
(Smail Sghir)	(DNF)

Portugal

Domingos Castro	9
Paulo Guerra	12
Eduardo Henriques	25
José Regalo	28
(Alberto Maravilha)	(39)
(Alfredo Bráz)	(DNF)

Spain

Fabián Roncero	10
Bruno Toledo	23
José Manuel García	29
Alejandro Gómez	32
(Julio Rey)	(63)
(Enrique Molina)	(DNF)

Tanzania

Wilbroad Axweso	15
Benedict Ako	26
Tadeo Nada	41
Faustin Saktay	74
(Andrew Panga)	(DNF)

156

Algeria

Tarek Zoghmar	35
Réda Benzine	46
Samir Moussaoui	48
Azzedine Sakhri	64
(Mohamed Driouche)	(78)
(Kamel Kohil)	(DNF)

193

United States

Bob Kennedy	16
Adam Goucher	27
Tim Hacker	62
Pete Julian	89
(Robert Gary)	(128)
(Robert Cook Jr.)	(DNF)

194

Italy

Rachid Berradi	37
Francesco Bennici	42
Simone Zanon	54
Michele Gamba	71
(Gabriele De Nard)	(88)

204

United Kingdom

Glynn Tromans	38
Keith Cullen	44
Andrew Pearson	59
John Nuttall	75
(Chris Robison)	(87)
(Spencer Duval)	(111)

216

Japan

Hideaki Haraguchi	30
Toshinari Takaoka	33
Tomohiro Seto	65
Seiji Kushibe	95

223

Australia

Shaun Creighton	22
Lee Troop	60
Julian Dwyer	90
David Evans	94
(Kim Gillard)	(108)
(Trent Harlow)	(DNF)

266

France

Driss El Himer	50
Abdellah Béhar	58
Lahbib Hanini	79
Mikaël Thomas	93
(Bruno Le Stum)	(138)
(Benoît Zwierzchiewski)	(DNF)

280

Ireland

Cormac Finnerty	40
Seamus Power	45
Cian McLoughlin	104
Colin de Burca	106
(Pauric McKinney)	(129)

295

South Africa

Hendrick Ramaala	36
Enoch Skosana	47
Hendrick Khumalo	76
Tsunake Kalamori	144

303

Netherlands

Kamiel Maase	34
Martin Lauret	80
René Godlieb	96
Marcel Versteeg	105
(Robert Smits)	(130)

315

Mexico

Carlos Peña	52
Alejandro Cuahtepizi	66
Jose Duarte	103
Martín Pitayo	110
(Pablo Olmedo)	(DNF)

331

Colombia

Jacinto Navarrete	56
Diego Colorado	67
Juan Jaranillo	109
Julián Berrio	115

347

Botswana

Kabo Gabaseme	49
Billy Ntlogelang	72
Lesedinyana Lekgoa	112
Glody Dube	121
(Tiyapo Maso)	(132)
(Mothusi Pelaelo)	(140)

354

Finland

Ville Hautala	82
Santtu Mäkinen	86
Jussi Utriainen	99
Jussi Virtanen	119

386

Egypt

Ahmed Abd El Mangoud	83
Ayman Mahmoud	92
Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed	118
Wael Anwar	127
(Fouly Salem)	(133)
(Farag Abdelnaby)	(134)

420

Canada

Chris Weber	68
James Finlayson	120
Paddy McCluskey	124
Graham Cocksedge	131
(Guy Schultz)	(157)
(Ian Forsythe)	(DNF)

443

Estonia

Pavel Loskutov	85
Toomas Tarm	101
Heiki Sarapuu	123
Meelis Veilberg	135
(Margus Pirksaar)	(139)

444

Rwanda

Alphonse Munyeshyaka	113
Pacifique Ayabusa	116
Dieudonné Disi	136
Joseph Nsengiyumya	137
(Jumaine Hakizimaha)	(141)
(Rachid Safari)	(142)

502

Libya

Ali El-Zaidi	97
Abdullah Fergani	147
Mahamed Kouerh	149
Younes Yousef	152

545

Côte d'Ivoire

Soro Bassirima	126
Konan Severin N'dri	151
Souleymane Bamba	156
Gervais Yapo Yapi	158

591

Gabon

Tiburce Mboumba	143
Leonard Madinda	148
Basile Lendoye	150
Loasis Boussougou	153
(Alphonse Miuoubi)	(159)
(Hugues Kombila)	(160)

594

DNF

Zimbabwe

(Kudakwashe Shoko)	(51)
(Elijah Mutandiro)	(55)
(Godfrey Koki)	(61)
(Abel Chimukoko)	(DNF)
(Michael Ngaaseke)	(DNF)
(Shingirai Badza)	(DNF)

DNF

Brazil

(Sérgio da Silva)	(43)
(Daniel Ferreira)	(70)
(Elias Bastos)	(81)
(Sergio Couto)	(DNF)

DNF

Papua New Guinea

(David Kanie)	(154)
(Gumsie Taulobi)	(162)
(Ken Mova)	(163)
(David Rueben)	(DNF)

DNF

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 181 athletes from 46 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

Algeria (6)
Andorra (1)
Armenia (1)
Australia (6)
Belgium (1)
Botswana (6)
Brazil (4)
Burundi (1)
Canada (6)
Central African Republic (1)
Colombia (4)
Costa Rica (1)
Côte d'Ivoire (4)
Egypt (6)
Estonia (5)
Ethiopia (6)
Finland (4)
France (6)
Gabon (6)
Hong Kong (1)
Hungary (1)
Ireland (5)
Italy (5)
Japan (4)
Kenya (6)
Libya (4)
Mauritius (1)
Mexico (5)
Morocco (6)
Namibia (3)
Netherlands (5)
Papua New Guinea (4)
Poland (1)
Portugal (6)
Russia (2)
Rwanda (6)
South Africa (4)
Spain (6)
Switzerland (2)
Tajikistan (1)
Tanzania (5)
Turkmenistan (3)
United Kingdom (6)
United States (6)
Yugoslavia (2)
Zimbabwe (6)

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