The Junior 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

Junior men's race (7.05 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Wilfred Kirochi 22:18 Demeke Bekele 22:18 Debebe Demisse 22:20 4 William Koskei Chemitei 22:27 5 Mathew Rono 22:28 6 Aligaz Alemayehu 22:28 7 Simon Mugglestone 22:33 8 Bedile Kibret 22:37 9 Ararse Fuffa 22:39 10 Thomas Osano 22:55 11 Abel Gisemba 23:01 12 Haydar Dogan 23:07 13 Joseph Otwori 23:11 14 Kenji Ayabe 23:13 15 Mourad Bouldjadj 23:19 16 Darren Klassen 23:19 17 Luc Peerlinck 23:23 18 Yoshinori Yokota 23:24 19 Didier Sainthorand 23:25 20 Masaki Yamamoto 23:26 21 Hideyuki Matsumoto 23:26 22 Zoltán Káldy 23:28 23 Todd Williams 23:30 24 Valery Chesak 23:31 25 Marc Pujol 23:31 26 Marco Rufo 23:31 27 Wayne Larden 23:32 28 Timothy Gargiulo 23:34 29 Robert Henes 23:35 30 Mikhail Puzniak 23:36 31 Alan Lewis 23:37 32 David Wilson 23:38 33 Luca Barzaghi 23:40 34 Clayton Clews 23:40 35 Jesús Gálvez 23:40 36 Alex Mowatt 23:44 37 Mohamed Choumassi 23:44 38 Giuliano Baccani 23:45 39 Francisco Rivera 23:46 40 Marc Davis 23:47 41 Brendan Matthias 23:48 42 Abdelaziz Mahjoubi 23:53 43 James Hynes 23:54 44 Moulay Ali Ouadih 23:56 45 Marco Di Lieto 23:56 46 Salem Chilah 23:57 47 Fermín Cacho 23:58 48 Vladimir Kilnesov 23:59 49 Zoltán Gergely 23:59 50 Martin Amor 24:00 51 Greg Andersen 24:05 52 Mohamed El Bachir 24:07 53 Mehmet Bayram 24:08 54 Brahim Lahlafi 24:09 55 Mauro Biagetti 24:10 56 Károly Vajkovics 24:10 57 Robert Langfeld 24:11 58 Nicholas McCaffrey 24:11 59 Julian Gentry 24:12 60 Miroslaw Plawgo 24:13 61 Carsten Arndt 24:13 62 Mark Mastalir 24:15 63 Tesfayi Dadi 24:16 64 Bernard Bourke 24:17 65 Seamus O'Loan 24:18 66 Davey Wilson 24:18 67 Jan Jonsson 24:20 68 Waldemar Glinka 24:21 69 Valeriy Fedotov 24:21 70 Markus Tischler 24:21 71 Fabian Lacan 24:22 72 Amar Ouerfelli 24:22 73 Rik Stepman 24:22 74 Abderrahim Cherkaoui 24:23 75 Remzi Atli 24:24 76 Zoltán Holba 24:24 77 Justin Hobbs 24:25 78 Philip Hennessy 24:26 79 Laurent Delacenserie 24:26 80 Ali Canpolat 24:27 81 Christoph Ruettiman 24:28 82 Tayeb Benaiche 24:29 83 Andrew Edge 24:30 84 Alastair Russell 24:30 85 Riyouki Murakami 24:31 86 Rafal Walczak 24:32 87 Kevin McKay 24:33 88 Marc Vanderstraeten 24:33 89 Wilfried Liers 24:34 90 Nick Tsioros 24:34 91 Jonas Larsson 24:36 92 Yohinori Sato 24:37 93 Allan Carman 24:38 94 Geoffrey Sheehan 24:40 95 Mariusz Lamch 24:40 96 Mabrouk Trimèche 24:41 97 Lotfi Aoua 24:43 98 Bousmaha Saidi 24:43 99 Bernd Jähnke 24:45 100 Eric Mastalir 24:47 101 Luigi Teodori 24:48 102 Talat Gökce 24:50 103 Craig McFadzean 24:51 104 Mickael Dufermont 24:55 105 Niklas Johnsson 24:56 106 Ferenc Sági 24:57 107 Bobby Farren 24:58 108 Dean Rose 24:59 109 David Jones 24:59 110 Yaswant Rawat Singh 24:59 111 Anatoliy Dimitrov 25:00 112 Juan Abad 25:00 113 Lars Richter 25:03 114 Azzedine Sakhri 25:04 115 Robert Jay 25:06 116 Jamal Ali Al-Hakim 25:08 117 Naceur Hamed 25:09 118 Justin Chaston 25:10 119 Andreas Ahl 25:11 120 Szabolcs Jámbor 25:12 121 David Beyssac 25:13 122 Wendy Hermans 25:14 123 Slim Chérif 25:16 124 Mark Wallace 25:17 125 Per Stjernberg 25:18 126 Hardev Singh 25:18 127 Mel Hilliard 25:24 128 Hans van der Hoeven 25:25 129 Radek Bily 25:25 130 Gennaro Di Napoli 25:29 131 Slawomir Swieczkowski 25:31 132 Cairan McGivern 25:34 133 Piotr Prusik 25:35 134 Hukum Singh 25:35 135 Mohamed Nasser Al-Zaidi 25:39 136 Declan Caddell 25:42 137 Jan Arvidsson 25:44 138 David Donnett 25:49 139 Philip Healey 25:51 140 David Arnott 25:59 141 Steven Tagg 26:17 142 Ithai Luria 26:17 143 Stuart Kennedy 26:18 144 Dafydd Hughes 26:24 145 John Quinn 26:28 146 Gerallt Owen 27:30

Teams Rank Team Points Demeke Bekele 2 Debebe Demisse 3 Aligaz Alemayehu 6 Bedile Kibret 8 (Ararse Fuffa) (9) (Tesfayi Dadi) (63) 19 Wilfred Kirochi 1 William Koskei Chemitei 4 Mathew Rono 5 Thomas Osano 10 (Abel Gisemba) (11) (Joseph Otwori) (13) 20 Kenji Ayabe 14 Yoshinori Yokota 18 Masaki Yamamoto 20 Hideyuki Matsumoto 21 (Riyouki Murakami) (85) (Yohinori Sato) (92) 73 4 Todd Williams 23 Timothy Gargiulo 28 Robert Henes 29 Marc Davis 40 (Mark Mastalir) (62) (Eric Mastalir) (100) 120 5 Darren Klassen 16 Alan Lewis 31 Alex Mowatt 36 Brendan Matthias 41 (Greg Andersen) (51) (Nick Tsioros) (90) 124 6 Marc Pujol 25 Marco Rufo 26 Jesús Gálvez 35 Francisco Rivera 39 (Fermín Cacho) (47) (Juan Abad) (112) 125 7 Luca Barzaghi 33 Giuliano Baccani 38 Marco Di Lieto 45 Mauro Biagetti 55 (Luigi Teodori) (101) (Gennaro Di Napoli) (130) 171 8 Valery Chesak 24 Mikhail Puzniak 30 Vladimir Kilnesov 48 Valeriy Fedotov 69 (Anatoliy Dimitrov) (111) 171 9 Simon Mugglestone 7 Martin Amor 50 Nicholas McCaffrey 58 Julian Gentry 59 (Philip Hennessy) (78) (Kevin McKay) (87) 174 10 Mohamed Choumassi 37 Abdelaziz Mahjoubi 42 Moulay Ali Ouadih 44 Brahim Lahlafi 54 (Abderrahim Cherkaoui) (74) 177 11 Zoltán Káldy 22 Zoltán Gergely 49 Károly Vajkovics 56 Zoltán Holba 76 (Ferenc Sági) (106) (Szabolcs Jámbor) (120) 203 12 Wayne Larden 27 Clayton Clews 34 Bernard Bourke 64 Allan Carman 93 (Dean Rose) (108) (Steven Tagg) (141) 218 13 Haydar Dogan 12 Mehmet Bayram 53 Remzi Atli 75 Ali Canpolat 80 (Talat Gökce) (102) 220 14 David Wilson 32 James Hynes 43 Seamus O'Loan 65 Geoffrey Sheehan 94 (David Jones) (109) (Mel Hilliard) (127) 234 15 Mourad Bouldjadj 15 Mohamed El Bachir 52 Tayeb Benaiche 82 Mabrouk Trimèche 96 (Bousmaha Saidi) (98) (Azzedine Sakhri) (114) 245 16 Luc Peerlinck 17 Rik Stepman 73 Marc Vanderstraeten 88 Wilfried Liers 89 (Wendy Hermans) (122) (Hans van der Hoeven) (128) 267 17 Didier Sainthorand 19 Fabian Lacan 71 Laurent Delacenserie 79 Mickael Dufermont 104 (David Beyssac) (121) 273 18 Robert Langfeld 57 Carsten Arndt 61 Markus Tischler 70 Bernd Jähnke 99 (Lars Richter) (113) 287 19 Miroslaw Plawgo 60 Waldemar Glinka 68 Rafal Walczak 86 Mariusz Lamch 95 (Slawomir Swieczkowski) (131) (Piotr Prusik) (133) 309 20 Salem Chilah 46 Amar Ouerfelli 72 Lotfi Aoua 97 Naceur Hamed 117 (Slim Chérif) (123) 332 21 Jan Jonsson 67 Jonas Larsson 91 Niklas Johnsson 105 Andreas Ahl 119 (Per Stjernberg) (125) (Jan Arvidsson) (137) 382 22 Justin Hobbs 77 Andrew Edge 83 Robert Jay 115 Justin Chaston 118 (Dafydd Hughes) (144) (Gerallt Owen) (146) 393 23 Davey Wilson 66 Bobby Farren 107 Cairan McGivern 132 Declan Caddell 136 (Philip Healey) (139) (Stuart Kennedy) (143) 441 24 Alastair Russell 84 Craig McFadzean 103 Mark Wallace 124 David Donnett 138 (David Arnott) (140) (John Quinn) (145) 449 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 146 athletes from 29 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

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See also 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

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