The Senior men's race at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Warsaw, Poland, at the Służewiec Racecourse on March 22, 1987. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald and in the Evening Times.
Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.
Race results
Senior men's race (11.95 km) Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
+IndividualRankAthleteCountryTime John Ngugi 36:07 Paul Kipkoech 36:07 Paul Arpin 36:51 4 Abebe Mekonnen 36:53 5 Some Muge 36:54 6 Andrew Masai 37:01 7 Pat Porter 37:04 8 Paul McCloy 37:08 9 Bruno Le Stum 37:09 10 Dave Clarke 37:10 11 Steve Moneghetti 37:11 12 Ed Eyestone 37:11 13 Francesco Panetta 37:12 14 José Regalo 37:13 15 Pierre Levisse 37:13 16 John Halvorsen 37:14 17 Haji Bulbula 37:14 18 Moses Tanui 37:17 19 Vincent Rousseau 37:25 20 Carl Thackery 37:25 21 Sisa Kirati 37:28 22 Kevin Forster 37:30 23 Steve Binns 37:31 24 Steve Plasencia 37:31 25 Constantino Esparcia 37:31 26 Gelindo Bordin 37:33 27 Wodajo Bulti 37:37 28 Vicente Polo 37:38 29 Wolde Silasse Melkessa 37:39 30 David Burridge 37:42 31 Stanley Mandebele 37:42 32 Marco Gozzano 37:43 33 Craig Mochrie 37:43 34 Kazuya Nishimoto 37:43 35 John Woods 37:44 36 Severino Bernardini 37:45 37 Fernando Mamede 37:46 38 Jonathan Richards 37:47 39 Melese Feissa 37:48 40 Nat Muir 37:49 41 Joaquim Pinheiro 37:49 42 Abel Antón 37:51 43 Tim Hutchings 37:51 44 Konrad Dobler 37:52 45 Bekele Debele 37:53 46 Paul Roden 37:56 47 Jos Maes 37:57 48 Boniface Merande 37:57 49 Habib Romdani 37:58 50 Ezequiel Canario 37:59 51 El Hachami Abdenouz 38:00 52 Arnold Mächler 38:01 53 Habte Negash 38:01 54 Salvatore Bettiol 38:02 55 Emmanuel Goulin 38:02 56 Fethi Manai 38:03 57 Lars-Erik Nilsson 38:04 58 Jarl Gaute Aase 38:04 59 Martin McLoughlin 38:05 60 Krzysztof Wesołowski 38:08 61 Juan José Rosario 38:08 62 Franco Boffi 38:09 63 Dionísio Castro 38:10 64 Eddy De Pauw 38:11 65 Peter Butler 38:11 66 Abderrazak Gtari 38:11 67 Samuel Nyangincha 38:11 68 Thierry Pantel 38:12 69 Martin Vrabel 38:12 70 Chala Urgessa 38:12 71 Kozu Akutsu 38:14 72 Ralf Salzmann 38:15 73 Erik De Beck 38:16 74 Ken Moloney 38:17 75 Shuichi Yoneshige 38:17 76 John Jenkins 38:18 77 Mats Erixon 38:18 78 Peter Van de Kerkhove 38:19 79 Rex Wilson 38:19 80 Mahieddine Belhadj 38:20 81 Valentin Rodríguez 38:22 82 Bogusław Mamiński 38:26 83 Jan Huruk 38:27 84 Peter Brett 38:28 85 Bernd Bürger 38:30 86 Helge Dolsvåg 38:30 87 George Nicholas 38:30 88 Shuzo Nakajima 38:31 89 Mahmoud Hazzazi 38:33 90 Jan Hagelbrand 38:34 91 Gregor Cameron 38:34 92 Paul O'Callaghan 38:35 93 Tonnie Dirks 38:36 94 Art Boileau 38:36 95 Jean-Yves Berau 38:36 96 Negatu Seyoum 38:36 97 William Vanhuylenbroek 38:37 98 Graeme Fell 38:37 99 Paul Wheeler 38:38 100 Roy Dooney 38:38 101 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann 38:39 102 Abdelhak Henane 38:40 103 Santiago Llorente 38:42 104 António Pinto 38:43 105 Aart Stigter 38:44 106 Cándido Alario 38:45 107 Steve Jones 38:45 108 Brad Camp 38:46 109 Rob Lonergan 38:46 110 Diamantino dos Santos 38:46 111 Giuseppe Miccoli 38:47 112 Zdenek Mezulianik 38:47 113 Doug Cronkite 38:47 114 Alejandro Gómez 38:48 115 Spiridon Andreopoulos 38:49 116 Lasmani Merzougui 38:49 117 Marc Borghans 38:49 118 Axel Hardy 38:50 119 38:50 120 Mike Bishop 38:50 121 Dag Øxnevad 38:50 122 Jonny Danielson 38:51 123 Vincent Kibiwott 38:51 124 Mohamed Difallah 38:52 125 Truls Nygaard 38:52 126 Gianni Demadonna 38:52 127 David Barney 38:54 128 Peter McColgan 38:54 129 Fernando Couto 38:55 130 Mohamed Salah Rajhi 38:56 131 Antonio Prieto 38:57 132 Melusi Ndhlela 38:57 133 Farai Kamucheka 38:59 134 Chris Buckley 39:02 135 Willy Goddaert 39:03 136 Ieuan Ellis 39:03 137 Terence Mitchell 39:07 138 Jacques Krähenbühl 39:09 139 Gerry Deegan 39:09 140 Patric Nilsson 39:10 141 Herman Hofstee 39:10 142 Zdenek Moravcik 39:10 143 Alain Bordeleau 39:12 144 Brahim Ayachi 39:12 145 Bogusław Psujek 39:14 146 John Robson 39:15 147 Pierre-Andre Gobet 39:16 148 Michel Franssen 39:19 149 Chris Robison 39:19 150 Cyrille Laventure 39:20 151 Rebai Settouh 39:20 152 Tommy Murray 39:20 153 Tadayoshi Kametaka 39:22 154 James Fallon 39:22 155 David Rush 39:23 156 Adam Hoyle 39:23 157 39:23 158 Oddmund Roalkvam 39:26 159 Adelaziz Bouguerra 39:26 160 Marius Hasler 39:26 161 Douglas Tolson 39:30 162 Brahim Boudina 39:30 163 Miroslav Bauckmann 39:31 164 39:31 165 Håkan Börjesson 39:31 166 Martin Stock 39:32 167 Niels Kim Hjorth 39:33 168 Rainer Gutschank 39:34 169 Gentil de Mello 39:35 170 Kerry Rodger 39:36 171 Fotios Kourtis 39:37 172 Nicos Vasiliou 39:38 173 Luis Horta 39:39 174 Thierry Watrice 39:42 175 James Mutsimba 39:43 176 Nicolas Nyengerai 39:43 177 Gerard Barrett 39:44 178 Gerry Craig 39:46 179 Chris Tobin 39:48 180 Neil Tennant 39:48 181 Charles Haskett 39:49 182 Shane Marshall 39:54 183 Khristos Papakhristos 39:55 184 Satoshi Yano 39:55 185 Clovis Estevam 39:56 186 Alberto Cova 39:57 187 Konstantin Kyriazis 39:58 188 Mark Kirk 39:59 189 Markus Graf 40:00 190 Deon McNeilly 40:01 191 Geoffrey Wade 40:03 192 Ross Copestake 40:04 193 Norman Tinkham 40:05 194 Thomas Sørensen 40:08 195 Raymond Pannier 40:09 196 Allister Hutton 40:10 197 Zephaniah Ncube 40:10 198 Robert Hodge 40:13 199 Tony Simmons 40:16 200 Hichem Oueslati 40:19 201 Peter Govaerts 40:19 202 Jolar de Azevedo 40:20 203 Hari Singh 40:21 204 John Christiansen 40:24 205 Gerald Neely 40:25 206 Emmanuel Handzos 40:25 207 Elias de Moura 40:26 208 Philippe Lahuerte 40:28 209 40:29 210 Richard Mulligan 40:29 211 40:31 212 Brendan Downey 40:33 213 Kurt Huerst 40:33 214 Markus Hacksteiner 40:36 215 Ezzedine Amdouni 40:36 216 Zeki Öztürk 40:37 217 John McDowell 40:39 218 Jamie Harrison 40:39 219 Anastasiou Psathas 40:44 220 Jan-Erik Arvidsson 40:45 221 Guido Sasse 40:47 222 Chauhan Jagat Singh 40:49 223 Randy Reina 40:51 224 Mohamed Hammami 40:57 225 Hsu Gi-Sheng 41:01 226 Gregorio Lavandoski 41:06 227 Savas Koubouras 41:08 228 Basil Brown 41:09 229 Marc van Rooy 41:11 230 Gerard Kiernan 41:13 231 Ernie Cunningham 41:14 232 Shivkumar Shreshta 41:15 233 Amit Ne'eman 41:31 234 Linton McKenzie 41:37 235 Mohamed Idriss 41:39 236 Ashok Kumar 41:40 237 Isao Saito 41:40 238 Surender Pal Singh 41:41 239 Prem Singh 41:43 240 Fotios Bourkoulas 41:51 241 Liu Chang-Chung 41:56 242 João Pereira 41:58 243 Pyara Singh 41:59 244 Derick Adamson 42:03 245 Nigel Adams 42:05 246 Ho Hsin-Ye 42:06 247 David Lonnen 42:08 248 Kenji Ide 42:21 249 Mark Elliott 42:39 250 Chou Hsien-Kuang 42:48 251 Tim Soutar 42:56 252 Demetrios Thephylactou 42:57 253 Lee Yin-Sheng 43:05 254 Cebert Cooper 43:12 255 Vasilios Chimonis 43:14 256 Kharalambos Pratsis 43:20 257 Wu Yu-Chia 43:42 258 Kamel Amine Taha 43:43 259 John Walsh 43:44 260 Mohamed Haremes 43:50 261 Efthymious Loizi 43:52 262 Joseph Crossley 43:55 263 Maurice Szeto-Jan 44:05 264 Paul Smith 44:13 265 Nikólaos Leonidou 44:18 266 Alvin Bernard 44:23 267 Hsu Kuang-Piao 44:37 268 Wong Chung Man 45:00 269 Hon Kwai Kwok 45:13 270 Andreas Anastasoiu 45:24 271 Wong Ip Chor 45:27 272 Georgios Kyriacou 45:37 273 Wong Sai Hine 45:39 274 Ming Kuen Hon 46:31 — Domingos Castro DNF — Peder Poulsen DNF — Engelbert Franz DNF — Thorsten Jakobsson DNF
+TeamsRankTeamPoints John Ngugi 1Paul Kipkoech 2Some Muge 5Andrew Masai 6Moses Tanui 18Sisa Kirati 21(Boniface Merande) (48)(Samuel Nyangincha) (67)(Vincent Kibiwott) (123) 53 Dave Clarke 10 Carl Thackery 20 Kevin Forster 22 Steve Binns 23 Craig Mochrie 33 Jonathan Richards 38 (Tim Hutchings) (43) (Paul Roden) (46) (Martin McLoughlin) (59) 146 Abebe Mekonnen 4 Haji Bulbula 17 Wodajo Bulti 27 Wolde Silasse Melkessa 29 Melese Feissa 39 Bekele Debele 45 (Habte Negash) (53) (Chala Urgessa) (70) (Negatu Seyoum) (96) 161 4 Francesco Panetta 13 Gelindo Bordin 26 Marco Gozzano 32 Severino Bernardini 36 Salvatore Bettiol 54 Franco Boffi 62 (Giuseppe Miccoli) (111) (Gianni Demadonna) (126) (Alberto Cova) (186) 223 5 Paul Arpin 3 Bruno Le Stum 9 Pierre Levisse 15 Emmanuel Goulin 55 Thierry Pantel 68 Jean-Yves Berau 95 (Cyrille Laventure) (150) (Thierry Watrice) (174) (Raymond Pannier) (195) 245 6 José Regalo 14 Fernando Mamede 37 Joaquim Pinheiro 41 Ezequiel Canario 50 Dionísio Castro 63 António Pinto 104 (Fernando Couto) (129) (Luis Horta) (173) (Domingos Castro) (DNF) 309 7 Constantino Esparcia 25 Vicente Polo 28 Abel Antón 42 Juan José Rosario 61 Valentin Rodríguez 81 Santiago Llorente 103 (Cándido Alario) (106) (Alejandro Gómez) (114) (Antonio Prieto) (131) 340 8 Vincent Rousseau 19 Jos Maes 47 Eddy de Pauw 64 Eric de Beck 73 Peter Van de Kerkhove 78 Willy van Huylenbroeck 97 (Willy Goddaert) (135) (Peter Govaerts) (201) 378 9 Pat Porter 7 Ed Eyestone 12 Steve Plasencia 24 George Nicholas 87 David Barney 127 Douglas Tolson 161 (Robert Hodge) (198) (Randy Reina) (223) 418 10 Paul McCloy 8 Peter Butler 65 Art Boileau 94 Graeme Fell 98 Rob Lonergan 109 Doug Cronkite 113 (Alain Bordeleau) (143) (Norman Tinkham) (193) (Philippe Lahuerte) (208) 487 11 El Hachami Abdenouz 51 Mahieddine Belhadj 80 Mahmoud Hazzazi 89 Abdelhak Henane 102 Lasmani Merzougui 116 Mohamed Difallah 124 (Rebai Settouh) (151) (Brahim Boudina) (162) 562 12 John Halvorsen 16 Jarl Gaute Aase 58 Helge Dolsvåg 86 Dag Øxnevad 121 Truls Nygaard 125 Oddmund Roalkvam 158 564 13 Konrad Dobler 44 Ralf Salzmann 72 Bernd Bürger 85 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann 101 Axel Hardy 118 Rainer Gutschank 168 (Engelbert Franz) (DNF) 588 14 David Burridge 30 Ken Moloney 74 Rex Wilson 79 Gregor Cameron 91 David Rush 155 Kerry Rodger 170 (Chris Tobin) (179) (Shane Marshall) (182) 599 15 Habib Romdani 49 Fethi Manai 56 Abderrazak Gtari 66 Mohamed Salah Rajhi 130 Brahim Ayachi 144 Adelaziz Bouguerra 159 (Hichem Oueslati) (200) (Ezzedine Amdouni) (215) (Mohamed Hammami) (224) 604 16 Kazuya Nishimoto 34Kozu Akutsu 71Shuichi Yoneshige 75Shuzo Nakajima 88Tadayoshi Kametaka 153Satoshi Yano 184 (Isao Saito) (237) (Kenji Ide) (248) 605 17 Krzysztof Wesołowski 60Bogusław Mamiński 82Jan Huruk 83 119Bogusław Psujek 145 157() (164)() (209)() (211) 646 18 Lars-Erik Nilsson 57 Mats Erixon 77 Jan Hagelbrand 90 Jonny Danielson 122 Patric Nilsson 140 Håkan Börjesson 165 (Jan-Erik Arvidsson) (220) (Peder Poulsen) (DNF) (Thorsten Jakobsson) (DNF) 651 19 John Jenkins 76 Paul Wheeler 99 Steve Jones 107 Mike Bishop 120 Chris Buckley 134 Ieuan Ellis 136 (Tony Simmons) (199) (Nigel Adams) (245) 672 20 John Woods 35 Paul O'Callaghan 92 Roy Dooney 100 Gerry Deegan 139 James Fallon 154 Gerry Craig 178 (Richard Mulligan) (210) (Brendan Downey) (212) (Gerard Kiernan) (230) 698 21 Steve Moneghetti 11 Peter Brett 84 Brad Camp 108 Adam Hoyle 156 Martin Stock 166 Gerard Barrett 177 (Jamie Harrison) (218) 702 22 Nat Muir 40 Terence Mitchell 137 John Robson 146 Chris Robison 149 Tommy Murray 152 Neil Tennant 180 (Charles Haskett) (181) (Ross Copestake) (192) (Allister Hutton) (196) 804 23 Tonnie Dirks 93 Aart Stigter 105 Marc Borghans 117 Herman Hofstee 141 Michel Franssen 148 Guido Sasse 221 (Marc van Rooy) (229) 825 24 Stanley Mandebele 31 Melusi Ndhlela 132 Farai Kamucheka 133 James Mutsimba 175 Nicolas Nyengerai 176 Zephaniah Ncube 197 844 25 Arnold Mächler 52 Jacques Krähenbühl 138 Pierre-Andre Gobet 147 Marius Hasler 160 Markus Graf 189 Kurt Huerst 213 (Markus Hacksteiner) (214) 899 26 Spiridon Andreopoulos 115 Fotios Kourtis 171 Khristos Papakhristos 183 Konstantin Kyriazis 187 Emmanuel Handzos 206 Anastasiou Psathas 219 (Savas Koubouras) (227) (Fotios Bourkoulas) (240) 1081 27