The Junior 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

Junior men's race (8.031 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Wilfred Kirochi 23:25 Alfonce Muindi 23:39 Bedile Kibret 23:41 4 Mathew Rono 23:51 5 Thomas Makini 23:54 6 William Koskei Chemitei 24:03 7 Demeke Bekele 24:17 8 Juan Abad 24:35 9 Noureddine Morceli 24:45 10 Tadelle Abebe 24:48 11 Zoltán Káldy 24:52 12 Andrea Erni 24:56 13 Lemi Erpassa 25:06 14 Todd Williams 25:08 15 Fermín Cacho 25:09 16 Mariano Campal 25:10 17 Tesfayi Dadi 25:12 18 Naoki Yamagata 25:18 19 Rod de Highden 25:22 20 Jun Hiratsuka 25:22 21 Hirokazu Tatsumi 25:26 22 Jesús Gálvez 25:28 23 Carlos Calado 25:28 24 Hideyuki Matsumoto 25:31 25 Ross Wilson 25:32 26 Neil Panchen 25:32 27 Julian Paynter 25:38 28 Richard Lindroos 25:38 29 Akio Ishizaki 25:40 30 Rorri Currie 25:41 31 John Myers 25:43 32 Carsten Arndt 25:45 33 Ernest Shephard 25:46 34 Jason Bunston 25:47 35 Frank Hanley 25:47 36 Sarinuto Zandonella 25:48 37 Jeffrey Pajak 25:50 38 Alex Davey 25:55 39 Savino Tondo 25:55 40 Fabio Caldirolli 25:58 41 Ricardo Castaño 26:01 42 Ferhat Zaidi 26:03 43 Shinya Kitahara 26:04 44 Dean Rose 26:10 45 Fabrizio de Vincenzi 26:10 46 Mohamed Arab Tadjer 26:11 47 Nick Tsioros 26:13 48 Andrew Hudson 26:16 49 Michael Johnston 26:19 50 Jeremy Forbes 26:21 51 Clarke Murphy 26:22 52 Jon Dennis 26:28 53 David Pujolar 26:30 54 Kameshwar Ravidas 26:31 55 Kamel Khellaf 26:31 56 Steven Brooks 26:33 57 Noel Cullen 26:34 58 Daniel Maas 26:35 59 Baltazar Sousa 26:36 60 John Hansen 26:39 61 Chris Roberts 26:40 62 Faycal Menasria 26:42 63 Alan Lewis 26:48 64 Glen le Gros 26:48 65 Shyan Boodnah 26:48 66 Tsai Ching-Chou 26:53 67 Greg Collier 27:01 68 Spencer Duval 27:01 69 Hwang Chiu-Ping 27:02 70 John Bowden 27:04 71 Paul Logan 27:05 72 Fajinder Rathor 27:06 73 Kevin Gavin 27:14 74 Seamus Power 27:17 75 Eiliv Gjesdal 27:25 76 Dean Ogilvie 27:27 77 Julius Solheim 27:32 78 Luca Serena 28:22 79 Bishen Rouvat 28:23 80 Rajan Khatri 28:46 81 Ithai Luria 28:58 82 Henry Iata 29:26 83 Ancel Nalau 29:31 84 Uraia Koroi 29:46 85 Brendan Matthias 29:52 86 Anand Kumar 29:55 87 Dhani Chowdhary 30:22 88 Lok Rokaya 30:35 89 Shalendra Sagar 30:40 90 Nilesh Narayan 30:52 91 Michael Cecil 31:13 92 Usman Kutty 31:32 93 Chandra Karki 33:40 94 Paul Young 39:10 95 Darren Young 47:30 — Cosmas Ndeti DQ† †:Cosmas Ndeti of finished 2nd in 23:31 min, but was disqualified.

Teams Rank Team Points Wilfred Kirochi 1 Alfonce Muindi 2 Mathew Rono 4 Thomas Makini 5 (William Koskei Chemitei) (6) 12 Bedile Kibret 3 Demeke Bekele 7 Tadelle Abebe 10 Lemi Erpassa 13 (Tesfayi Dadi) (17) 33 Juan Abad 8 Fermín Cacho 15 Mariano Campal 16 Jesús Gálvez 22 (Ricardo Castaño) (41) (David Pujolar) (53) 61 4 Naoki Yamagata 18 Jun Hiratsuka 20 Hirokazu Tatsumi 21 Hideyuki Matsumoto 24 (Akio Ishizaki) (29) (Shinya Kitahara) (43) 83 5 Todd Williams 14 John Myers 31 Ernest Shephard 33 Jeffrey Pajak 37 (Andrew Hudson) (48) (Daniel Maas) (58) 115 6 Rod de Highden 19 Julian Paynter 27 Alex Davey 38 Dean Rose 44 (Greg Collier) (67) 128 7 Ross Wilson 25 Richard Lindroos 28 Michael Johnston 49 Jeremy Forbes 50 (Glen le Gros) (64) (Dean Ogilvie) (76) 152 8 Noureddine Morceli 9 Ferhat Zaidi 42 Mohamed Arab Tadjer 46 Kamel Khellaf 55 (Faycal Menasria) (62) 152 9 Sarinuto Zandonella 36 Savino Tondo 39 Fabio Caldirolli 40 Fabrizio de Vincenzi 45 (Luca Serena) (78) 160 10 Rorri Currie 30 Jason Bunston 34 Nick Tsioros 47 Alan Lewis 63 (John Bowden) (70) (Brendan Matthias) (85) 174 11 Neil Panchen 26 Clarke Murphy 51 Jon Dennis 52 Steven Brooks 56 (Chris Roberts) (61) (Spencer Duval) (68) 185 12 Frank Hanley 35 Noel Cullen 57 Paul Logan 71 Kevin Gavin 73 (Seamus Power) (74) 236 13 Bishen Rouvat 79 Rajan Khatri 80 Dhani Chowdhary 87 Lok Rokaya 88 (Chandra Karki) (93) 334 14 Uraia Koroi 84 Shalendra Sagar 89 Nilesh Narayan 90 Usman Kutty 92 355 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 96 athletes from 25 countries in the Junior men's race, one athlete less than the official number published.

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

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