The Senior men's race at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Madrid, Spain, at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela on March 28, 1981. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.

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

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Craig Virgin 35:05 Mohammed Kedir 35:07 Fernando Mamede 35:09 4 Julian Goater 35:13 5 Antonio Prieto 35:18 6 Rob de Castella 35:20 7 Girma Berhanu 35:22 8 Thom Hunt 35:23 9 Alex Hagelsteens 35:24 10 Pierre Levisse 35:26 11 Rod Dixon 35:30 12 El Hachami Abdenouz 35:34 13 Dereje Nedi 35:39 14 Kebede Balcha 35:40 15 Miruts Yifter 35:42 16 Martti Vainio 35:42 17 Mark Nenow 35:42 18 Bill Donakowski 35:42 19 Bruce Bickford 35:42 20 Roger de Vogel 35:46 21 Lahcene Babaci 35:47 22 Jackson Ruto 35:49 23 Steve Austin 35:50 24 Peter Koech 35:50 25 Alfred Nyasani 35:50 26 Nat Muir 35:50 27 José Luis González 35:50 28 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann 35:50 29 Fernando Cerrada 35:55 30 Eshetu Tura 35:59 31 Steve Jones 35:59 32 Hana Girma 35:59 33 Steve Binns 35:59 34 John Andrews 35:59 35 Marios Kassianidis 35:59 36 Sammy Mogene 35:59 37 Rachid Habchaoui 35:59 38 Dave Clarke 35:59 39 Leonid Moseyev 36:05 40 Bill Britton 36:05 41 Paul Ballinger 36:05 42 Luis Adsuara 36:05 43 Marc Nevens 36:05 44 Eberhard Weyel 36:05 45 Abdelmadjid Mada 36:05 46 Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer 36:05 47 Peter Butler 36:05 48 Allister Hutton 36:05 49 Brian Lewry 36:12 50 Radhouane Bouster 36:12 51 George Malley 36:12 52 Valeriy Sapon 36:12 53 Miroslav Bauckmann 36:20 54 John Robson 36:20 55 Mohamed Zaidi 36:20 56 Wilson Musonik 36:20 57 Some Muge 36:20 58 Euan Robertson 36:20 59 David James 36:20 60 Dave Taylor 36:20 61 Patrick Clabaut 36:20 62 Maxwell Little 36:20 63 Daniel Dillon 36:20 64 Eric de Beck 36:20 65 Klaas Lok 36:30 66 José Sena 36:30 67 Detlef Uhlemann 36:30 68 Joseph Kiptum 36:30 69 Venanzio Ortis 36:30 70 Ken Newton 36:30 71 Yevgeniy Okorokov 36:30 72 Cor Lambregts 36:30 73 Greg Duhaime 36:30 74 Angel Gómez Maeso 36:30 75 Tolossa Kotu 36:30 76 Bernie Ford 36:30 77 Jorge García 36:30 78 Vadim Sidorov 36:30 79 Vern Iwancin 36:30 80 Mike McGuire 36:30 81 Chris Wardlaw 36:30 82 Gerry Deegan 36:30 83 Daniel Janczuk 36:38 84 Alex Gonzalez 36:38 85 François Person 36:38 86 Rafael Marques 36:38 87 Nicolas Halatzis 36:38 88 Vladimir Anisimov 36:38 89 Kyriakos Lazaridis 36:44 90 Ralf Salzmann 36:44 91 Dave Moorcroft 36:44 92 Santiago de la Parte 36:44 93 Jan van Oss 36:44 94 Alberto Cova 36:44 95 Aniceto Simoes 36:44 96 Ryszard Kopijasz 36:44 97 Vesa Kähkölä 36:44 98 Bogumil Kus 36:50 99 Giuseppe Gerbi 36:50 100 Garry Bentley 36:50 101 John Woods 36:50 102 Tommy Persson 36:50 103 Mark Muggleton 36:50 104 Desmond O'Connor 36:50 105 Mehdi Aidet 36:59 106 Ronny Agten 36:59 107 Krzysztof Wesolowski 36:59 108 Christoph Herle 36:59 109 Luigi Zarcone 36:59 110 Hannu Okkola 36:59 111 Bernardo Manuel 36:59 112 Dominique Chauvelier 36:59 113 Fotios Kourtis 36:59 114 Boguslaw Psujek 36:59 115 Adelaziz Bouguerra 36:59 116 Tom Birnie 36:59 117 Tonni Luttikhold 36:59 118 Neil Cusack 36:59 119 Arturo Iacona 36:59 120 John Doherty 36:59 121 John Robertshaw 36:59 122 Ian Gilmour 37:05 123 Valeriy Abramov 37:17 124 Francisco Sánchez 37:17 125 Gary Palmer 37:17 126 Roger Hackney 37:17 127 Filippos Filippou 37:17 128 Helder de Jesús 37:17 129 Mihaíl Koúsis 37:17 130 Kaibou El Hadj 37:17 131 Chris Buckley 37:17 132 Kevin Forster 37:17 133 Claudio Solone 37:17 134 Lawrie Spence 37:17 135 Emiel Puttemans 37:17 136 Barry Ellis 37:17 137 Bram Wassenaar 37:17 138 Günther Zahn 37:17 139 Jef Gees 37:17 140 Art Boileau 37:17 141 Piet Vonck 37:17 142 Alain Bordeleau 37:34 143 Justin Gloden 37:34 144 Yehuda Zadok 37:34 145 Rabah Zaidi 37:34 146 Jacques Boxberger 37:34 147 Adriano Musonye 37:34 148 Willy van Huylenbroeck 37:34 149 Henrik Sandström 37:34 150 Mario Gelli 37:34 151 Alan Thurlow 37:34 152 Peter Daenens 37:34 153 Spiridon Nakos 37:34 154 Abdelkrim Djelassi 37:34 155 Mahmoud Hazzazi 37:34 156 Niels Kim Hjorth 37:34 157 Faisal Touzri 37:34 158 Rob Lonergan 37:34 159 Andreas Weniger 37:50 160 Antonio Leitão 37:50 161 Denis Stark 37:50 162 Ali Ouchene 37:50 163 Alan Cole 37:50 164 Hussein Soltani 37:50 165 Bob Treadwell 37:50 166 Gerry Craig 37:50 167 Juan Torres 37:50 168 John Hartnett 37:50 169 Greg Hannon 37:50 170 Ilpo Jousimaa 37:50 171 Robert Neylon 37:50 172 Tony Simmons 37:50 173 John McLaughlin 37:50 174 Tony Blakewell 37:50 175 Mehmet Yürdadön 37:50 176 Flemming Jensen 37:50 177 Thierry Watrice 38:04 178 Vladimir Kotov 38:04 179 John O'Toole 38:04 180 Donald Greig 38:04 181 Peter Rusman 38:04 182 Dave Edge 38:04 183 Svend-Erik Kristensen 38:15 184 Abdellah Messadia 38:15 185 Keld Johnsen 38:23 186 Michael Lane 38:23 187 Timothy O'Shaughnessy 38:29 188 Danny McDaid 38:37 189 Féthi Baccouche 38:37 190 Nikólaos Argyuropoulos 38:37 191 Erkki Hälikkä 38:37 192 Alastair Douglas 38:37 193 Gerhard Krippner 38:40 194 Klaus Scharnberg Jensen 38:40 195 Henk Mentink 38:51 196 Mansour Guettaya 38:51 197 Kimmo Mattila 39:05 198 Gerhard Hartmann 39:15 199 Gerard Kiernan 39:18 200 John Rotich 39:18 201 Pat McCullough 39:20 202 Pawel Lorens 39:23 203 Piero Selvaggio 39:30 204 Amara Chiha 39:33 205 Paul Craig 39:45 206 Morten Nøddebo 39:45 207 Valeriy Kryulin 39:54 208 Mike McLeod 40:24 209 Antonio Atabao 40:32 210 Nabil Choueiry 40:47 211 Heino Lipsanen 41:10 212 João Carvalho 41:25 213 Musaed Al-Baghi 41:34 214 Luis Muholo 41:45 215 Pedro Luciano 41:51 216 Ernesto José 42:01 217 Nader Al-Outaibi 42:05 218 Pedro Capoca 42:05 219 Atieah Al-Shahrani 42:27 220 Juvenal Minguito 42:27 221 Abdenghani Abdulridola 42:33 222 Hamdan Al-Qahtani 42:40 223 Abdulatif Moharit 42:51 224 Sekou Camara 42:53 225 Manuel Pascoal 43:15 226 Shetoui Aouadh Al-Bishi 43:16 227 Ahmed Al-Thubiani 43:39 228 Mamadou Barry 44:58  — Arye Gamliel DNF — Francis Gonzalez DNF — Carlos Lopes DNF — Kaarlo Maaninka DNF — Bronisław Malinowski DNF — Peter Renner DNF — Graham Williamson DNF — Jim Brown DNF — Fernando Miguel DNF — Fraser Clyne DNF

Teams Rank Team Points Mohammed Kedir 2 Girma Berhanu 7 Dereje Nedi 13 Kebede Balcha 14 Miruts Yifter 15 Eshetu Tura 30 (Hana Girma) (32) (Tolossa Kotu) (75) 81 Craig Virgin 1 Thom Hunt 8 Mark Nenow 17 Bill Donakowski 18 Bruce Bickford 19 George Malley 51 (Daniel Dillon) (63) (Mike McGuire) (80) (Mark Muggleton) (103) 114 Jackson Ruto 22 Peter Koech 24 Alfred Nyasani 25 Sammy Mogene 36 Wilson Musonik 56 Some Muge 57 (Joseph Kiptum) (68) (Adriano Musonye) (147) (John Rotich) (200) 220 4 Antonio Prieto 5 José Luis González 27 Fernando Cerrada 29 Luis Adsuara 42 Angel Gómez Maeso 74 Jorge García 77 (Santiago de la Parte) (92) (Francisco Sánchez) (124) (Juan Torres) (167) 254 5 Rob de Castella 6 Steve Austin 23 John Andrews 34 Brian Lewry 49 Maxwell Little 62 Chris Wardlaw 81 (Garry Bentley) (100) (Robert Neylon) (171) (Timothy O'Shaughnessy) (187) 255 6 Julian Goater 4 Steve Binns 33 Dave Clarke 38 Ken Newton 70 Bernie Ford 76 Dave Moorcroft 91 (Kevin Forster) (132) (Bob Treadwell) (165) (Mike McLeod) (208) 312 7 El Hachami Abdenouz 12 Lahcene Babaci 21 Rachid Habchaoui 37 Abdelmadjid Mada 45 Mehdi Aidet 105 Kaibou El Hadj 130 (Mahmoud Hazzazi) (155) (Ali Ouchene) (162) (Abdellah Messadia) (184) 350 8 Alex Hagelsteens 9 Roger de Vogel 20 Marc Nevens 43 Eric de Beck 64 Ronny Agten 106 Emiel Puttemans 135 (Jef Gees) (139) (Willy van Huylenbroeck) (148) (Peter Daenens) (152) 377 9 Pierre Levisse 10 Radhouane Bouster 50 Patrick Clabaut 61 Alex Gonzalez 84 François Person 85 Dominique Chauvelier 112 (Jacques Boxberger) (146) (Thierry Watrice) (177) (Francis Gonzalez) (DNF) 402 10 Leonid Moseyev 39 Valeriy Sapon 52 Yevgeniy Okorokov 71 Vadim Sidorov 78 Vladimir Anisimov 88 Valeriy Abramov 123 (Vladimir Kotov) (178) (Valeriy Kryulin) (207) 451 11 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann 28 Eberhard Weyel 44 Detlef Uhlemann 67 Ralf Salzmann 90 Christoph Herle 108 Günther Zahn 138 (Andreas Weniger) (159) (Gerhard Krippner) (193) 475 12 Rod Dixon 11 Paul Ballinger 41 Euan Robertson 58 Tom Birnie 116 Gary Palmer 125 Barry Ellis 136 (Alan Thurlow) (151) (Donald Greig) (180) (Peter Renner) (DNF) 487 13 Bill Britton 40 Peter Butler 47 Greg Duhaime 73 Vern Iwancin 79 Art Boileau 140 Alain Bordeleau 142 (Rob Lonergan) (158) (Denis Stark) (161) (Dave Edge) (182) 521 14 Fernando Mamede 3 José Sena 66 Rafael Marques 86 Aniceto Simoes 95 Helder de Jesús 128 Antonio Leitão 160 (Antonio Atabao) (209) (Carlos Lopes) (DNF) (Fernando Miguel) (DNF) 538 15 Nat Muir 26 Allister Hutton 48 John Robson 54 Ian Gilmour 122 Lawrie Spence 134 Alastair Douglas 192 (Graham Williamson) (DNF) (Jim Brown) (DNF) (Fraser Clyne) (DNF) 576 16 Marios Kassianidis 35 Nicolas Halatzis 87 Kyriakos Lazaridis 89 Fotios Kourtis 113 Filippos Filippou 127 Mihaíl Koúsis 129 (Spiridon Nakos) (153) (Nikólaos Argyuropoulos) (190) 580 17 Venanzio Ortis 69 Alberto Cova 94 Giuseppe Gerbi 99 Luigi Zarcone 109 Arturo Iacona 119 Claudio Solone 133 (Mario Gelli) (150) (Piero Selvaggio) (203) 623 18 Klaas Lok 65 Cor Lambregts 72 Jan van Oss 93 Tonni Luttikhold 117 Bram Wassenaar 137 Piet Vonck 141 (Peter Rusman) (181) (Henk Mentink) (195) 625 19 Steve Jones 31 David James 59 John Robertshaw 121 Roger Hackney 126 Chris Buckley 131 Alan Cole 163 (Tony Simmons) (172) (Tony Blakewell) (174) (Michael Lane) (186) 631 20 Dave Taylor 60 Gerry Deegan 82 John Woods 101 Desmond O'Connor 104 Neil Cusack 118 John Hartnett 168 (John O'Toole) (179) (Danny McDaid) (188) (Gerard Kiernan) (199) 633 21 Daniel Janczuk 83 Ryszard Kopijasz 96 Bogumil Kus 98 Krzysztof Wesolowski 107 Boguslaw Psujek 114 Pawel Lorens 202 (Bronisław Malinowski) (DNF) 700 22 Martti Vainio 16 Vesa Kähkölä 97 Hannu Okkola 110 Henrik Sandström 149 Ilpo Jousimaa 170 Erkki Hälikkä 191 (Kimmo Mattila) (197) (Heino Lipsanen) (211) (Kaarlo Maaninka) (DNF) 733 23 Mohamed Zaidi 55 Adelaziz Bouguerra 115 Rabah Zaidi 145 Abdelkrim Djelassi 154 Faisal Touzri 157 Hussein Soltani 164 (Féthi Baccouche) (189) (Mansour Guettaya) (196) (Amara Chiha) (204) 790 24 John Doherty 120 Gerry Craig 166 Greg Hannon 169 John McLaughlin 173 Pat McCullough 201 Paul Craig 205 1034 25 Niels Kim Hjorth 156 Flemming Jensen 176 Svend-Erik Kristensen 183 Keld Johnsen 185 Klaus Scharnberg Jensen 194 Morten Nøddebo 206 1100 26 Bernardo Manuel 111 João Carvalho 212 Luis Muholo 214 Pedro Luciano 215 Ernesto José 216 Pedro Capoca 218 (Juvenal Minguito) (220) (Manuel Pascoal) (225) 1186 27 Musaed Al-Baghi 213 Nader Al-Outaibi 217 Atieah Al-Shahrani 219 Abdenghani Abdulridola 221 Hamdan Al-Qahtani 222 Abdulatif Moharit 223 (Shetoui Aouadh Al-Bishi) (226) (Ahmed Al-Thubiani) (227) 1315 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 238 athletes from 35 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

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See also 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

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