The Senior men's race at the 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Auckland, New Zealand, at the Ellerslie Racecourse on March 26, 1988. 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 John Ngugi 34:32 Paul Kipkoech 34:54 Kipsubai Koskei 35:07 4 Boniface Merande 35:22 5 Abebe Mekonnen 35:25 6 Moses Tanui 35:25 7 Joseph Kiptum 35:46 8 Kip Rono 35:46 9 Some Muge 35:48 10 Haji Bulbula 35:49 11 Paul Arpin 35:51 12 Habte Negash 35:54 13 Roger Hackney 35:59 14 Steve Tunstall 36:04 15 John Woods 36:07 16 Domingos Castro 36:12 17 Jean-Louis Prianon 36:12 18 Tommy Ekblom 36:14 19 Kozu Akutsu 36:15 20 Debebe Demisse 36:15 21 Steve Moneghetti 36:16 22 Giuseppe Miccoli 36:19 23 Melese Feissa 36:23 24 Alejandro Gómez 36:24 25 Joël Lucas 36:24 26 Joaquim Pinheiro 36:25 27 Steve Binns 36:26 28 Pat Porter 36:26 29 Antonio Prieto 36:28 30 Cyrille Laventure 36:29 31 Harry Green 36:30 32 Jamie Harrison 36:32 33 Chala Kelele 36:33 34 David Buzza 36:34 35 Salvatore Antibo 36:35 36 John Campbell 36:35 37 Bruno Levant 36:37 38 Tena Negere 36:39 39 Thierry Pantel 36:41 40 Vicente Polo 36:43 41 Antonio Serrano 36:45 42 John Andrews 36:45 43 Eamonn Martin 36:46 44 Malcolm Norwood 36:46 45 Derrick Lakeman 36:47 46 George Nicholas 36:47 47 Antonio Silio 36:47 48 José Manuel Albentosa 36:48 49 Salvatore Bettiol 36:49 50 João de Sousa 36:50 51 Franco Boffi 36:55 52 Francesco Panetta 36:57 53 Mark Dalloway 36:58 54 Zhang Guowei 36:59 55 Kazuya Wakakura 36:59 56 Dominique Delattre 37:00 57 Lars-Erik Nilsson 37:01 58 Andy Bristow 37:02 59 John Halvorsen 37:03 60 José Regalo 37:05 61 Adauto Domingues 37:05 62 Jeff Cannada 37:06 63 Raffaello Alliegro 37:07 64 Wolde Silasse Melkessa 37:08 65 Mahieddine Belhadj 37:09 66 Masaru Matsuda 37:10 67 Martti Vainio 37:12 68 Kazuya Nishimoto 37:14 69 El Hachami Abdenouz 37:15 70 Aissa Remel 37:16 71 Fernando Mamede 37:16 72 Eliseo Rios 37:16 73 Arthur Waddle 37:16 74 Chris Pilone 37:17 75 Brad Camp 37:18 76 Jonathan Richards 37:18 77 John Bowden 37:19 78 Pat Carroll 37:19 79 Stanley Mandebele 37:19 80 Martin Stock 37:20 81 Artur Castro 37:22 82 Konrad Dobler 37:23 83 Bekele Debele 37:25 84 Dov Kremer 37:26 85 Allan Zachariasen 37:26 86 Peter Van de Kerkhove 37:27 87 Werner Mory 37:28 88 Mark Stickley 37:29 89 Ralf Salzmann 37:30 90 Tom Birnie 37:31 91 Henrique Crisostomo 37:32 92 Dave Taylor 37:33 93 Gerry Curtis 37:34 94 Phillip Clode 37:34 95 Juan José Rosario 37:35 96 Robert Schneider 37:36 97 Doug Cronkite 37:38 98 Jos Maes 37:38 99 Daniel Mutai 37:39 100 António Pinto 37:39 101 Ranieri Carenza 37:40 102 Craig Virgin 37:40 103 Chris Tobin 37:40 104 Roy Dooney 37:42 105 Peter Brett 37:42 106 Carey Nelson 37:43 107 Darren Klassen 37:43 108 Paul McCloy 37:44 109 Chris Robison 37:51 110 Derek Froude 37:52 111 Håvard Tveite 37:54 112 Brendan Quinn 37:56 113 Patric Nilsson 37:57 114 Danvir Singh 37:57 115 Sanshiro Kasama 38:00 116 Miloud Djellal 38:01 117 Rod Dixon 38:03 118 Marius Hasler 38:04 119 Constantino Esparcia 38:05 120 Lasmani Merzougui 38:05 121 Ivo Rodrigues 38:05 122 Eberhard Weyel 38:06 123 Eirik Hansen 38:07 124 Benny Pollentier 38:09 125 Kazuhito Yamada 38:10 126 Marco Gozzano 38:11 127 John Treacy 38:12 128 Abbès Téhami 38:12 129 Helge Dolsvåg 38:13 130 Francisco Sánchez 38:14 131 Richard O'Flynn 38:22 132 John Bolger 38:23 133 Gurbachan Singh 38:25 134 Guo Yijiang 38:27 135 Deon McNeilly 38:28 136 Damiao Silva 38:29 137 Udai Pratap Singh 38:29 138 Pär Wallin 38:32 139 Thomas Sørensen 38:33 140 David O'Keefe 38:34 141 Elói Schleder 38:36 142 Peter Govaerts 38:38 143 Vijay Kumar Mishra 38:39 144 Ari Paunonen 38:40 145 Axel Hardy 38:45 146 Pierre Levisse 38:46 147 Niels Kim Hjorth 38:48 148 Jari Venäläinen 38:56 149 Stig Nørregaard 38:56 150 El Hadj Mendes 38:59 151 Satoshi Kato 39:01 152 Arnold Mächler 39:05 153 Norman Tinkham 39:07 154 Jan Ikov 39:09 155 Jörgen Salo 39:12 156 Truls Nygaard 39:13 157 Michael Halvorsen 39:13 158 Engelbert Franz 39:16 159 Herman Decoux 39:16 160 Lars Bøgh 39:26 161 Abdelrazzak Bounour 39:28 162 Svein Erik Eide 39:29 163 Peder Poulsen 39:35 164 Allen Hugli 39:38 165 Alain Boucher 39:44 166 E. Rajender 39:44 167 Hirozumi Kato 40:02 168 Zephaniah Ncube 40:19 169 Marcelo Cascabelo 40:21 170 Shivkumar Shreshta 40:21 171 Ken Moloney 40:28 172 Anna Durai 40:30 173 Hsu Gi-Sheng 40:35 174 Chou Hsien-Kuang 40:39 175 Julio César Gómez 40:42 176 Michel Jean-Louis 40:58 177 Abel Antón 41:20 178 Baikuntha Manandhar 41:27 179 Tim Soutar 41:32 180 Shri Chand 41:56 181 Cordova Simon 41:57 182 Wong Chung Man 42:02 183 Krishna Bahadur Basnet 42:30 184 Lee Yin-Sheng 42:32 185 Bobby Singh 42:46 186 Dac Bahadur Thapa 43:14 187 Fitzroy Browne 43:35 188 Davendra Pradesh Singh 43:56 189 Ganesh Prasad 44:34 190 Vikash Kumar Singh 44:47 191 Chandra Bahadur Gurung 44:47 192 Moses Zarak Khan 44:58 193 Hari Bahadur Barwal 45:20 194 Semi Vuetibau 45:40 195 John Lorri 46:13 196 Pushpa Raj Ojha 46:16 197 Ashok Kumar 47:12 198 Samuelu Samuelu 48:41 199 Esau Polutu 49:10 — Ezequiel Canario DNF — Dionísio Castro DNF — Rob de Castella DNF — Stefano Mei DNF — Risto Ulmala DNF

Teams Rank Team Points John Ngugi 1 Paul Kipkoech 2 Kipsubai Koskei 3 Boniface Merande 4 Moses Tanui 6 Joseph Kiptum 7 (Kip Rono) (8) (Some Muge) (9) (Daniel Mutai) (99) 23 Abebe Mekonnen 5 Haji Bulbula 10 Habte Negash 12 Debebe Demisse 20 Melese Feissa 23 Chala Kelele 33 (Tena Negere) (38) (Wolde Silasse Melkessa) (64) (Bekele Debele) (83) 103 Paul Arpin 11 Steve Tunstall 14 Jean-Louis Prianon 17 Joël Lucas 25 Cyrille Laventure 30 Bruno Levant 37 (Thierry Pantel) (39) (Dominique Delattre) (56) (Pierre Levisse) (146) 134 4 Roger Hackney 13 Steve Binns 27 David Buzza 34 Eamonn Martin 43 Mark Dalloway 53 Andy Bristow 58 (Jonathan Richards) (76) (Chris Robison) (109) (Deon McNeilly) (135) 228 5 Giuseppe Miccoli 22 Salvatore Antibo 35 Salvatore Bettiol 49 Franco Boffi 51 Francesco Panetta 52 Raffaello Alliegro 63 (Ranieri Carenza) (101) (Marco Gozzano) (126) (Stefano Mei) (DNF) 272 6 Alejandro Gómez 24 Antonio Prieto 29 Vicente Polo 40 Antonio Serrano 41 José Manuel Albentosa 48 Juan José Rosario 95 (Constantino Esparcia) (119) (Francisco Sánchez) (130) (Abel Antón) (177) 277 7 Pat Porter 28 Harry Green 31 Derrick Lakeman 45 George Nicholas 46 Jeff Cannada 62 Arthur Waddle 73 (Mark Stickley) (88) (Craig Virgin) (102) (David O'Keefe) (140) 285 8 Steve Moneghetti 21 Jamie Harrison 32 John Andrews 42 Malcolm Norwood 44 Brad Camp 75 Pat Carroll 78 (Martin Stock) (80) (Peter Brett) (105) (Rob de Castella) (DNF) 292 9 Domingos Castro 16 Joaquim Pinheiro 26 José Regalo 60 Fernando Mamede 71 Eliseo Rios 72 Henrique Crisostomo 91 (António Pinto) (100) (Ezequiel Canario) (DNF) (Dionísio Castro) (DNF) 336 10 Kozu Akutsu 19 Kazuya Wakakura 55 Masaru Matsuda 66 Kazuya Nishimoto 68 Sanshiro Kasama 115 Kazuhito Yamada 125 (Satoshi Kato) (151) (Hirozumi Kato) (167) 448 11 John Campbell 36 Chris Pilone 74 John Bowden 77 Tom Birnie 90 Phillip Clode 94 Chris Tobin 103 (Derek Froude) (110) (Rod Dixon) (117) (Ken Moloney) (171) 474 12 John Woods 15 Dave Taylor 92 Gerry Curtis 93 Roy Dooney 104 Brendan Quinn 112 John Treacy 127 (Richard O'Flynn) (131) 543 13 Mahieddine Belhadj 65 El Hachami Abdenouz 69 Aissa Remel 70 Miloud Djellal 116 Lasmani Merzougui 120 Abbès Téhami 128 (El Hadj Mendes) (150) (Abdelrazzak Bounour) (161) 568 14 João de Sousa 50 Adauto Domingues 61 Artur Castro 81 Ivo Rodrigues 121 Damiao Silva 136 Elói Schleder 141 590 15 Konrad Dobler 82 Ralf Salzmann 89 Robert Schneider 96 Eberhard Weyel 122 Axel Hardy 145 Engelbert Franz 158 692 16 Peter Van de Kerkhove 86 Werner Mory 87 Jos Maes 98 Benny Pollentier 124 Peter Govaerts 142 Herman Decoux 159 696 17 Doug Cronkite 97 Carey Nelson 106 Darren Klassen 107 Paul McCloy 108 John Bolger 132 Norman Tinkham 153 (Allen Hugli) (164) (Alain Boucher) (165) 703 18 John Halvorsen 59 Håvard Tveite 111 Eirik Hansen 123 Helge Dolsvåg 129 Truls Nygaard 156 Svein Erik Eide 162 740 19 Allan Zachariasen 85 Thomas Sørensen 139 Niels Kim Hjorth 147 Stig Nørregaard 149 Jan Ikov 154 Michael Halvorsen 157 (Lars Bøgh) (160) 831 20 Danvir Singh 114 Gurbachan Singh 133 Udai Pratap Singh 137 Vijay Kumar Mishra 143 E. Rajender 166 Shivkumar Shreshta 170 (Anna Durai) (172) 863 21 Shri Chand 180 Bobby Singh 185 Davendra Pradesh Singh 188 Ganesh Prasad 189 Vikash Kumar Singh 190 Moses Zarak Khan 192 (Semi Vuetibau) (194) (Ashok Kumar) (197) 1124 22 Baikuntha Manandhar 178 Krishna Bahadur Basnet 183 Dac Bahadur Thapa 186 Chandra Bahadur Gurung 191 Hari Bahadur Barwal 193 Pushpa Raj Ojha 196 1127DNF Tommy Ekblom (18) Martti Vainio (67) Ari Paunonen (144) Jari Venäläinen (148) Jörgen Salo (155) Risto Ulmala (DNF) DNF Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 204 athletes from 35 countries in the Senior men's race, two athletes less than the official number published.

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See also 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

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