The Senior men's race at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, at the Hippodrome de Marlioz on March 25, 1990. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.

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

Khalid Skah of Morocco won the race ahead of Kenya's Moses Tanui. Julius M. Korir, unrelated to Olympic steeplechase champion Julius Korir, won the individual bronze medal.

Race results

Senior men's race (12.2 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Khalid Skah 34:21 Moses Tanui 34:21 Julius M. Korir 34:22 4 Haji Bulbula 34:25 5 William Mutwol 34:26 6 Ibrahim Kinuthia 34:30 7 Domingos Castro 34:45 8 Abebe Mekonnen 34:49 9 Paul Kipkoech 34:50 10 Antonio Prieto 34:52 11 Salvatore Antibo 34:55 12 Hammou Boutayeb 34:55 13 Dionísio Castro 34:57 14 Tesfaye Tafa 34:57 15 Martín Fiz 35:02 16 Marti ten Kate 35:07 17 Boniface Merande 35:08 18 Richard Nerurkar 35:12 19 Addis Abebe 35:13 20 John Ngugi 35:14 21 Paul Arpin 35:14 22 Joseph Kiptum 35:16 23 Ed Eyestone 35:16 24 Jillo Dube 35:17 25 Samuel Nyangincha 35:18 26 Jos Maes 35:19 27 Debebe Demisse 35:19 28 Adrian Passey 35:20 29 Mohamed El Massoudi 35:20 30 Brahim Lahlafi 35:21 31 Ezequiel Canario 35:22 32 Alejandro Gómez 35:24 33 Chala Kelele 35:24 34 Carey Nelson 35:25 35 António Pinto 35:27 36 José Manuel García 35:28 37 Aaron Ramirez 35:29 38 Abel Antón 35:31 39 Oleg Strizhakov 35:32 40 Mikhail Khramov 35:33 41 Francisco Pacheco 35:35 42 Pat Carroll 35:36 43 Giuseppe Miccoli 35:36 44 Francis Mukuka 35:37 45 Constantino Esparcia 35:37 46 Peter Brett 35:38 47 Salvatore Bettiol 35:41 48 Jamie Harrison 35:42 49 Oleg Syroyezhko 35:42 50 Henrique Crisostomo 35:43 51 Carlo Terzer 35:45 52 Gino van Geyte 35:46 53 Miloud Djellal 35:46 54 Pablo Cerón 35:47 55 Zdenek Mezulianik 35:47 56 Hideyuki Suzuki 35:47 57 Naomi Okabe 35:48 58 Manuel Matias 35:48 59 Bob Kempainen 35:49 60 Yevgeniy Zherebin 35:51 61 Antonio Serrano 35:51 62 Phillip Clode 35:52 63 Johni Pazin 35:53 64 Angelo Carosi 35:56 65 Bertrand Itsweire 35:58 66 Are Nakkim 36:00 67 Martin Vrabel 36:01 68 Gerry Curtis 36:01 69 Vicente Polo 36:01 70 Andy Bristow 36:01 71 Stephen Bwalya 36:02 72 Frank O'Mara 36:02 73 Raffaello Alliegro 36:02 74 Wami Alemayehu 36:03 75 Ivan Uvizl 36:03 76 Noel Berkeley 36:03 77 Thierry Watrice 36:04 78 Sergey Smirnov 36:05 79 William Taylor 36:06 80 Ivo Claes 36:06 81 Håvard Tveite 36:08 82 Abundio Mondragon 36:08 83 Adalberto Velez 36:09 84 John Woods 36:10 85 Sid-Ali Sakhri 36:12 86 Haydar Dogan 36:14 87 Wilson Theleso 36:14 88 Markus Graf 36:15 89 Markus Pingpank 36:15 90 Melese Feissa 36:15 91 Chris Robison 36:16 92 Paul McCloy 36:16 93 Mark Furlan 36:17 94 Khaled Boulami 36:17 95 Darren Klassen 36:17 96 Juvenal Ribeiro 36:18 97 Marcelo Cascabelo 36:18 98 José da Silva 36:19 99 Thierry Pantel 36:19 100 Shozo Shimoju 36:21 101 Nikolay Chameyev 36:21 102 Hamid Oubadriss 36:22 103 Roberto Ramirez 36:24 104 Salem Majdoubi 36:25 105 Eddy Hellebuyck 36:25 106 Walter Durbano 36:26 107 Artur Castro 36:27 108 Mohamed Difallah 36:29 109 Colin Dalton 36:29 110 Terry Croyle 36:30 111 Clair Wathier 36:30 112 Hansjörg Brücker 36:31 113 Adriano Pezzoli 36:34 114 Jari Venäläinen 36:34 115 Mathias Ntawulikura 36:35 116 Herman Hofstee 36:36 117 Shaun Creighton 36:36 118 Franco Boffi 36:37 119 Goran Raičević 36:38 120 Chris Weber 36:38 121 Mark King 36:39 122 Vesa Siivonen 36:39 123 René Godlieb 36:39 124 Pierre Levisse 36:41 125 Diamantino dos Santos 36:42 126 Geraldo Francisco de Assis 36:44 127 Mamix Declercq 36:44 128 Jonny Danielson 36:45 129 Peter Zrastak 36:45 130 Joseph Mahmoud 36:48 131 Vijay Kumar Mishra 36:49 132 Aissa Remel 36:50 133 William Mangan 36:51 134 Dennis Leck 36:52 135 Shojiro Maeda 36:53 136 Suresh Pandey 36:53 137 Helge Dolsvåg 36:54 138 John Christiansen 36:55 139 Luciano Flores 36:58 140 João de Sousa 36:58 141 Sefa Het 36:58 142 Jerry Kooymans 36:59 143 Marius Hasler 37:00 144 Bruno Le Stum 37:01 145 Norman Tinkham 37:01 146 Örjan Hemström 37:02 147 Arto Kuusisto 37:03 148 Roberto Alonso 37:03 149 Shivkumar Shreshta 37:04 150 Tonnie Dirks 37:04 151 Gennadiy Temnikov 37:04 152 Willy Goddaert 37:06 153 José Carlos Adán 37:07 154 Mohamed Taher Kebaili 37:07 155 Antonio Martins 37:09 156 Claus Clausen 37:09 157 Eirik Hansen 37:10 158 John Lenihan 37:10 159 Rorri Currie 37:14 160 Nigel Adams 37:15 161 Lubomir Tesacek 37:16 162 Moulay Ali Ouadih 37:16 163 Terje Näss 37:17 164 Jukka Tammisuo 37:24 165 Lahcene Babaci 37:25 166 Mahieddine Belhadj 37:25 167 Brian Rushworth 37:29 168 Ruddy Walem 37:33 169 Gabriel Awaseb 37:33 170 Valdenor dos Santos 37:33 171 Mark Coogan 37:34 172 Tomihiro Umetsu 37:36 173 Roy Dooney 37:39 174 Petr Pipa 37:40 175 Julio César Gómez 37:40 176 Martin Ryan 37:42 177 Craig Dickson 37:43 178 Pat Meffan 37:44 179 Seyed Hamid Sadjadi 37:47 180 Nihat Bagci 37:49 181 Aart Stigter 37:52 182 Jörgen Salo 37:52 183 Mourad Bouldjadj 37:52 184 Mohinder Singh 37:53 185 John Vermeule 37:53 186 Jørn Holmen 37:54 187 Nick de Castella 37:54 188 Kaj Ådjers 37:55 189 Henk Gommer 37:57 190 Deon McNeilly 37:57 191 Ebrahim Etta-Ati 37:58 192 Ahmet Altun 37:59 193 Tsutomu Yuda 37:59 194 Richard Charette 38:04 195 Detlef Schwarz 38:05 196 Bernd Bürger 38:06 197 Gunnar Skånøy 38:15 198 Tommy Ekblom 38:24 199 Mohamed Belabbès 38:25 200 Raishimane Kikina 38:26 201 John Downes 38:30 202 Fateh Singh 38:33 203 Manuel Mendoza 38:36 204 Hasan Sabzevari 38:41 205 Kamel Bouhaloufa 38:44 206 Turgay Mese 38:45 207 Leela Ram 38:47 208 Peter Govaerts 38:52 209 Gian Luigi Macina 38:53 210 Robert Kusi 39:08 211 Tsai Ching-Chou 39:10 212 Fatih Cintimar 39:26 213 Enda Fitzpatrick 39:26 214 Chou Hsien-Kuang 39:40 215 Pascal Face 39:42 216 Calvin Dallas 39:45 217 Garry Henry 39:58 218 Kao Chuan-Kuang 39:59 219 Francisco Figueredo 40:34 220 Garfield Westgate 40:42 221 Sudhir Kumar Singh 40:56 222 Mike Felicite 40:59 223 Patrick Moonsamy 41:23 224 Fady Khoury 42:30 225 Greg Johnson 43:11 226 Makudi Mubenga 48:37 — Carlos Monteiro DNF — Risto Ulmala DNF — Joaquim Silva DNF — Paul Taylor DNF

Teams Rank Team Points Moses Tanui 2 Julius M. Korir 3 William Mutwol 5 Ibrahim Kinuthia 6 Paul Kipkoech 9 Boniface Merande 17 (John Ngugi) (20) (Joseph Kiptum) (22) (Samuel Nyangincha) (25) 42 Haji Bulbula 4 Abebe Mekonnen 8 Tesfaye Tafa 14 Addis Abebe 19 Jillo Dube 24 Debebe Demisse 27 (Chala Kelele) (33) (Wami Alemayehu) (74) (Melese Feissa) (90) 96 Antonio Prieto 10 Martín Fiz 15 Alejandro Gómez 32 José Manuel García 36 Abel Antón 38 Constantino Esparcia 45 (Antonio Serrano) (61) (Vicente Polo) (69) (José Carlos Adán) (153) 176 4 Domingos Castro 7 Dionísio Castro 13 Ezequiel Canario 31 António Pinto 35 Henrique Crisostomo 50 Manuel Matias 58 (Juvenal Ribeiro) (96) (Carlos Monteiro) (DNF) (Joaquim Silva) (DNF) 194 5 Khalid Skah 1 Hammou Boutayeb 12 Mohamed El Massoudi 29 Brahim Lahlafi 30 Khaled Boulami 94 Hamid Oubadriss 102 (Salem Majdoubi) (104) (Moulay Ali Ouadih) (162) 268 6 Salvatore Antibo 11 Giuseppe Miccoli 43 Salvatore Bettiol 47 Carlo Terzer 51 Angelo Carosi 64 Raffaello Alliegro 73 (Walter Durbano) (106) (Adriano Pezzoli) (113) (Franco Boffi) (118) 289 7 Oleg Strizhakov 39 Mikhail Khramov 40 Oleg Syroyezhko 49 Yevgeniy Zherebin 60 Sergey Smirnov 78 Nikolay Chameyev 101 (Gennadiy Temnikov) (151) 367 8 Ed Eyestone 23 Aaron Ramirez 37 Bob Kempainen 59 William Taylor 79 Terry Croyle 110 William Mangan 133 (Dennis Leck) (134) (Mark Coogan) (171) (Craig Dickson) (177) 441 9 Richard Nerurkar 18 Adrian Passey 28 Andy Bristow 70 Chris Robison 91 Mark King 121 Nigel Adams 160 (Brian Rushworth) (167) (Deon McNeilly) (190) (Paul Taylor) (DNF) 488 10 Francisco Pacheco 41 Pablo Cerón 54 Abundio Mondragon 82 Adalberto Velez 83 Roberto Ramirez 103 Luciano Flores 139 (Roberto Alonso) (148) (Manuel Mendoza) (203) 502 11 Paul Arpin 21 Bertrand Itsweire 65 Thierry Watrice 77 Thierry Pantel 99 Pierre Levisse 124 Joseph Mahmoud 130 (Bruno Le Stum) (144) (Antonio Martins) (155) (Kamel Bouhaloufa) (205) 516 12 Jos Maes 26 Gino van Geyte 52 Ivo Claes 80 Eddy Hellebuyck 105 Mamix Declercq 127 Willy Goddaert 152 (Ruddy Walem) (168) (Peter Govaerts) (208) 542 13 Pat Carroll 42 Peter Brett 46 Jamie Harrison 48 Colin Dalton 109 Shaun Creighton 117 Nick de Castella 187 (Garry Henry) (217) 549 14 Carey Nelson 34 Paul McCloy 92 Darren Klassen 95 Chris Weber 120 Jerry Kooymans 142 Norman Tinkham 145 (Rorri Currie) (159) (Richard Charette) (194) (Garfield Westgate) (220) 628 15 Johni Pazin 63 José da Silva 98 Artur Castro 107 Clair Wathier 111 Diamantino dos Santos 125 Geraldo Francisco de Assis 126 (João de Sousa) (140) (Valdenor dos Santos) (170) 630 16 Gerry Curtis 68 Frank O'Mara 72 Noel Berkeley 76 John Woods 84 John Lenihan 158 Roy Dooney 173 (Martin Ryan) (176) (John Downes) (201) (Enda Fitzpatrick) (213) 631 17 Zdenek Mezulianik 55 Martin Vrabel 67 Ivan Uvizl 75 Peter Zrastak 129 Lubomir Tesacek 161 Petr Pipa 174 661 18 Miloud Djellal 53 Sid-Ali Sakhri 85 Mohamed Difallah 108 Aissa Remel 132 Mohamed Taher Kebaili 154 Lahcene Babaci 165 (Mahieddine Belhadj) (166) (Mourad Bouldjadj) (183) (Mohamed Belabbès) (199) 697 19 Hideyuki Suzuki 56 Naomi Okabe 57 Shozo Shimoju 100 Shojiro Maeda 135 Tomihiro Umetsu 172 Tsutomu Yuda 193 713 20 Martin ten Kate 16 Herman Hofstee 116 René Godlieb 123 Tonnie Dirks 150 Aart Stigter 181 John Vermeule 185 (Henk Gommer) (189) 771 21 Are Nakkim 66 Håvard Tveite 81 Helge Dolsvåg 137 Eirik Hansen 157 Terje Näss 163 Jørn Holmen 186 (Gunnar Skånøy) (197) 790 22 Jari Venäläinen 114 Vesa Siivonen 122 Arto Kuusisto 147 Jukka Tammisuo 164 Jörgen Salo 182 Kaj Ådjers 188 (Tommy Ekblom) (198) (Risto Ulmala) (DNF) 917 23 Vijay Kumar Mishra 131 Suresh Pandey 136 Shivkumar Shreshta 149 Mohinder Singh 184 Fateh Singh 202 Leela Ram 207 (Sudhir Kumar Singh) (221) 1009 24 Haydar Dogan 86 Sefa Het 141 Nihat Bagci 180 Ahmet Altun 192 Turgay Mese 206 Fatih Cintimar 212 1017 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 230 athletes from 43 countries in the Senior men's race, one athlete (senior men) less than the official number published.

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See also 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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