1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

The Senior men's race at the 1997 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Turin, Italy, at the Parco del Valentino on March 23, 1997. A report on the event was given in The New York Times, in the Herald, and for the IAAF.

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

Race results

Senior men's race (12.333 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Paul Tergat 35:11 Salah Hissou 35:13 Tom Nyariki 35:20 4 Paul Koech 35:23 5 Mohammed Mourhit 35:35 6 Bernard Barmasai† 35:35 7 Joseph Kibor 35:37 8 Smail Sghir 35:56 9 Julio Rey 35:57 10 Khaled Boulami 35:59 11 Habte Jifar 35:59 12 El Hassan Lahssini 36:01 13 Assefa Mezegebu 36:06 14 Jon Brown 36:08 15 Domingos Castro 36:16 16 Elarbi Khattabi 36:18 17 Joshua Chelanga 36:19 18 Ayele Mezegebu 36:33 19 Shem Kororia 36:34 20 Abdellah Béhar 36:37 21 José Manuel García 36:38 22 Brahim Boulami 36:40 23 Abraham Assefa 36:40 24 Benjamin Koskei 36:43 25 Benedict Ako 36:43 26 Paulo Guerra 36:46 27 Girma Tolla 36:47 28 William Kiptum 36:47 29 Mustapha Essaïd 36:47 30 Eduardo Henriques 36:48 31 Kamiel Maase 36:49 32 Giuliano Battocletti 36:56 33 Tegenu Abebe 37:00 34 Abel Chimukoko 37:02 35 Abderrahim Zitouna 37:04 36 Ibrahim Seid 37:04 37 Elenilson da Silva 37:05 38 Christian Stephenson 37:05 39 Alejandro Gómez 37:07 40 Simone Zanon 37:08 41 Faustin Saktay 37:09 42 José Manuel Martínez 37:09 43 Steffan White 37:10 44 Yoshinori Shindo 37:10 45 Azzedine Sakhri 37:10 46 Steve Moneghetti 37:11 47 John Kosgei 37:12 48 Sérgio da Silva 37:13 49 Patrick Kaotsane 37:14 50 Seamus Power 37:14 51 Scott Larson 37:15 52 Umberto Pusterla 37:15 53 Alfredo Bráz 37:16 54 Gabino Apolonio 37:16 55 Shaun Creighton 37:17 56 Andrew Pearson 37:18 57 Mark Coogan 37:19 58 Reinholdt Iita 37:22 59 Imre Berkovics 37:24 60 Abdelhak Lebouazda 37:24 61 Laban Nkete 37:25 62 Mikaël Thomas 37:26 63 Yahia Azaidj 37:27 64 Róbert Štefko 37:28 65 Rachid Berradi 37:28 66 Vítor Almeida 37:31 67 René Godlieb 37:31 68 Lemi Erpassa 37:32 69 Andy Bristow 37:32 70 Abdelaziz Sahere 37:33 71 Sergey Fedotov 37:34 72 Tadeo Nada 37:35 73 Rui Vieira 37:35 74 Ezael Thlobo 37:36 75 José Santos 37:36 76 Gabriele De Nard 37:37 77 Samir Moussaoui 37:38 78 Alejandro Méndez 37:38 79 Vincenzo Modica 37:39 80 José Carlos Adán 37:39 81 Adam Motlagale 37:39 82 Mustapha Bamouh 37:40 83 Claes Nyberg 37:40 84 Andrés Pérez 37:41 85 Joseph LeMay 37:42 86 Pete Julian 37:42 87 Sid-Ali Sakhri 37:42 88 Alejandro Cuahtepizi 37:43 89 Jürg Stalder 37:44 90 Darren Wilson 37:44 91 Réda Benzine 37:44 92 Jacinto Navarrete 37:45 93 Patrick Ndayisenga 37:46 94 Pedro Cunha 37:47 95 Makhosonke Fika 37:47 96 Alberto Maravilha 37:48 97 José Villanueva 37:49 98 Brian Baker 37:50 99 Jason Cameron 37:51 100 Julian Dwyer 37:51 101 Tom van Hooste 37:53 102 Daisuke Arakawa 37:53 103 Jean-François Bertron 37:54 104 Ville Hautala 37:54 105 Justin Pugsley 37:55 106 Santtu Mäkinen 37:55 107 John Gilay 37:58 108 Yoshinori Yokota 37:59 109 Chris Weber 37:59 110 Tim Hacker 38:00 111 Pablo Olmedo 38:01 112 Yuki Yamamoto 38:02 113 Greg van Hest 38:02 114 Xia Fengyuan 38:03 115 John Morapedi 38:03 116 Paul Roden 38:04 117 Duncan Ross 38:04 118 Benedito Gomes 38:04 119 Cedric Dehouck 38:05 120 Rod de Highden 38:06 121 Paul Smith 38:07 122 Julius Gidabuday 38:07 123 Pacifique Ayabusa 38:08 124 Marcel Laros 38:08 125 Sergio Couto 38:09 126 Stephen Phofi 38:09 127 Cao Changhai 38:10 128 Joseph Nsengiyumya 38:11 129 Tesgie Legesse 38:11 130 Yann Millon 38:12 131 Tsunake Kalamori 38:18 132 Domenico D'Ambrosio 38:19 133 Tim de Cock 38:21 134 Shawn Found 38:22 135 Elias Bastos 38:23 136 Neema Tuluway 38:24 137 Sean Quilty 38:29 138 Loïc van Mackenbergh 38:30 139 Amrish Kumar 38:31 140 Philip Starr 38:31 141 Bruno Toledo 38:34 142 Aleksandr Kuzin 38:34 143 Eric Bouffioux 38:36 144 Kabo Gabaseme 38:37 145 Zoltán Káldy 38:38 146 Carlos Peña 38:39 147 Joël Bourgeois 38:41 148 Abdulkadir Türk 38:42 149 Simon Vroemen 38:43 150 Péter Jager 38:44 151 Phil Costley 38:46 152 Abdelkrim Benzai 38:47 153 Ayele Setegne 38:48 154 Steve Isbel 38:49 155 Martin Lauret 38:50 156 Fraser Bertram 38:51 157 Gianni Crepaldi 38:54 158 Robert Cook Jr. 38:55 159 Juuso Rainio 38:56 160 William Vasquez 38:56 161 Glynn Tromans 38:57 162 José Amaro Lourenço 38:59 163 Igor Salamun 39:00 164 Jussi Virtanen 39:06 165 Mauricio Ladino 39:07 166 Wang Zhicheng 39:07 167 Hendrick Ramaala 39:08 168 Viktor Röthlin 39:10 169 Ernest Ndjissipou 39:11 170 Pasi Mattila 39:13 171 Alphonse Munyeshyaka 39:13 172 Percy Sephoda 39:16 173 Keith Dowling 39:18 174 Marko Kotila 39:18 175 Zoltán Kadlót 39:20 176 Aron Shipanga 39:21 177 Guy Schultz 39:21 178 Bhairav Singh 39:22 179 Trent Harlow 39:23 180 Zoltán Holba 39:23 181 Salah Zereg 39:30 182 Lesedinyana Lekgoa 39:32 183 Sukru Onat 39:32 184 Tom McGrath 39:33 185 Nihat Bagci 39:34 186 Jason Bunston 39:34 187 János Szemán 39:36 188 Kevin Christiani 39:37 189 Toomas Tarm 39:41 190 Menon Ramsamy 39:44 191 Ma Hongsheng 39:44 192 Patrick Ishyaka 39:44 193 Justin Rutaba 39:53 194 Heiki Sarapuu 39:54 195 Julián Berrio 39:55 196 Rustam Radjapov 39:57 197 Samir Benfarès 40:02 198 Khristo Stefanov 40:03 199 Khauta Ntsoele 40:07 200 Thabiso Moqhali 40:09 201 Adamou Aboubakar 40:10 202 Jeremy Deere 40:12 203 Min Ahebaike 40:14 204 Alagawadi Shivananda 40:15 205 Mehmet Günen 40:16 206 Nazirdin Akylbekov 40:19 207 Francisco Mondragon 40:22 208 Satilmis Atmaca 40:24 209 Manbir Singh 40:27 210 Peter Cardle 40:31 211 Pasi Jeremejeff 40:33 212 Soro Bassirima 40:34 213 David Galindo 40:35 214 Dashrath Tigga 40:35 215 Leonid Pykhteyev 40:41 216 Remzi Atli 40:41 217 Mathieu Kouanotso 40:44 218 Michiel Otten 40:45 219 Bayan Batyrbekov 40:46 220 Lalan Kumar 40:50 221 Simon Labiche 40:54 222 Petrus Adolf 40:56 223 Bethold Karumendu 40:56 224 Jacinto López 40:58 225 Pierre Foka 41:04 226 Atadjan Duzdyev 41:06 227 Bertus Bock 41:08 228 Nedeljko Ravic 41:10 229 Frederick Baldacchino 41:15 230 Mohamed Al-Malki 41:32 231 Abdul Sameer Moos 41:33 232 Risto Utsmuts 41:37 233 Xandru Grech 41:40 234 Pierre Kenzo 41:40 235 Urmas Sadam 41:41 236 Mohamed Al-Atashi 41:54 237 Bruno Armance 41:57 238 William Roldán 42:02 239 Gustave Ombouma 42:04 240 John Buhagiar 42:06 241 Patrick Moonsamy 42:10 242 Jaanus Gross 42:11 243 Fatih Cintimar 42:16 244 Anwar Al-Harazi 42:18 245 Sentso Retere 42:20 246 Khauta Khotle 42:27 247 Meelis Minn 42:37 248 Sergey Zabavskiy 42:51 249 Gervais Yapo Yapi 43:02 250 Kopamo Pekile 43:03 251 Mohamed Al-Hada 43:03 252 Robert Attard 43:10 253 Andrew Tafagnda 43:12 254 Jean Paul Louise 43:17 255 Ali Yahya 43:19 256 Celestin Nguepnang 43:23 257 Christopher Blackburn 43:48 258 Joseph Pace 43:53 259 Lee Kar-Lun 44:04 260 Peter Azzopardi 44:11 261 Goim Hussein 44:28 262 André Camilleri 44:38 263 Diosdado Ndemensogo 44:52 264 Norbert Hariba 45:08 265 Salim Servina 45:10 — Tendai Chimusasa DNF — Keith Cullen DNF — Gennaro Di Napoli DNF — Mohamed Ezzher DNF — Mathias Ntawulikura DNF — Julian Paynter DNF — Miroslav Vanko DNF — Kamel Kohil DNF — Leonardo Guedes DNF — Linton McKenzie DNF — Antonio Pérez DNF — Emerson Bem DNF — Ferenc Sági DNF — Sergey Kamayev DNF — Gairat Nigmatov DNF — Carlos de la Torre DNS — Ihab Abdalah Salama DNS — Francis Akpan DNS — Mohamed Bangura DNS — Alfred Dura DNS — Peter Kanyako DNS †: Athlete marked in the results list as nonscorer.

Teams Rank Team Points Paul Tergat 1 Tom Nyariki 3 Paul Koech 4 Joseph Kibor 7 Joshua Chelanga 17 Shem Kororia 19 (Benjamin Koskei) (24) (William Kiptum) (28) (John Kosgei) (47) 51 Salah Hissou 2 Smail Sghir 8 Khaled Boulami 10 El Hassan Lahssini 12 Elarbi Khattabi 16 Brahim Boulami 22 (Abderrahim Zitouna) (35) (Abdelaziz Sahere) (70) (Mustapha Bamouh) (82) 70 Habte Jifar 11 Assefa Mezegebu 13 Ayele Mezegebu 18 Abraham Assefa 23 Girma Tolla 27 Tegenu Abebe 33 (Ibrahim Seid) (36) (Lemi Erpassa) (68) (Tesgie Legesse) (129) 125 4 Domingos Castro 15 Paulo Guerra 26 Eduardo Henriques 30 Alfredo Bráz 53 Vítor Almeida 66 Rui Vieira 73 (José Santos) (75) (Pedro Cunha) (94) (Alberto Maravilha) (96) 263 5 Julio Rey 9 José Manuel García 21 Alejandro Gómez 39 José Manuel Martínez 42 José Carlos Adán 80 Andrés Pérez 84 (Bruno Toledo) (141) (Antonio Pérez) (DNF) 275 6 Jon Brown 14 Christian Stephenson 38 Steffan White 43 Andrew Pearson 56 Andy Bristow 69 Justin Pugsley 105 (Paul Roden) (116) (Glynn Tromans) (161) (Keith Cullen) (DNF) 325 7 Giuliano Battocletti 32 Simone Zanon 40 Umberto Pusterla 52 Rachid Berradi 65 Gabriele De Nard 76 Vincenzo Modica 79 (Domenico D'Ambrosio) (132) (Gianni Crepaldi) (157) (Gennaro Di Napoli) (DNF) 344 8 Azzedine Sakhri 45 Abdelhak Lebouazda 60 Yahia Azaidj 63 Samir Moussaoui 77 Sid-Ali Sakhri 87 Réda Benzine 91 (Abdelkrim Benzai) (152) (Salah Zereg) (181) (Kamel Kohil) (DNF) 423 9 Abdellah Béhar 20 Mustapha Essaïd 29 Mikaël Thomas 62 Jean-François Bertron 103 Cedric Dehouck 119 Yann Millon 130 (Loïc van Mackenbergh) (138) (Samir Benfarès) (197) (Mohamed Ezzher) (DNF) 463 10 Patrick Kaotsane 49 Laban Nkete 61 Ezael Thlobo 74 Adam Motlagale 81 Makhosonke Fika 95 John Morapedi 115 (Stephen Phofi) (126) (Tsunake Kalamori) (131) (Hendrick Ramaala) (167) 475 11 Scott Larson 51 Mark Coogan 57 Joseph LeMay 85 Pete Julian 86 Brian Baker 98 Tim Hacker 110 (Shawn Found) (134) (Robert Cook Jr.) (158) (Keith Dowling) (173) 487 12 Benedict Ako 25 Faustin Saktay 41 Tadeo Nada 72 John Gilay 107 Julius Gidabuday 122 Neema Tuluway 136 503 13 Steve Moneghetti 46 Shaun Creighton 55 Darren Wilson 90 Julian Dwyer 100 Rod de Highden 120 Sean Quilty 137 (Steve Isbel) (154) (Trent Harlow) (179) (Julian Paynter) (DNF) 548 14 Gabino Apolonio 54 Alejandro Méndez 78 Alejandro Cuahtepizi 88 José Villanueva 97 Pablo Olmedo 111 Carlos Peña 146 (Francisco Mondragon) (207) (David Galindo) (213) 574 15 Kamiel Maase 31 René Godlieb 67 Greg van Hest 113 Marcel Laros 124 Simon Vroemen 149 Martin Lauret 155 (Michiel Otten) (218) 639 16 Ville Hautala 104 Santtu Mäkinen 106 Juuso Rainio 159 Jussi Virtanen 164 Pasi Mattila 170 Marko Kotila 174 (Pasi Jeremejeff) (211) 877 17 Imre Berkovics 59 Zoltán Káldy 145 Péter Jager 150 Zoltán Kadlót 175 Zoltán Holba 180 János Szemán 187 (Ferenc Sági) (DNF) 896 18 Chris Weber 109 Joël Bourgeois 147 Fraser Bertram 156 Guy Schultz 177 Jason Bunston 186 Kevin Christiani 188 (Jeremy Deere) (202) (Peter Cardle) (210) 963 19 Jacinto Navarrete 92 William Vasquez 160 Mauricio Ladino 165 Julián Berrio 195 Jacinto López 224 William Roldán 238 1074 20 Abdulkadir Türk 148 Sukru Onat 183 Nihat Bagci 185 Mehmet Günen 205 Satilmis Atmaca 208 Remzi Atli 216 (Fatih Cintimar) (243) 1145 21 Amrish Kumar 139 Bhairav Singh 178 Alagawadi Shivananda 204 Manbir Singh 209 Dashrath Tigga 214 Lalan Kumar 220 1164 22 Percy Sephoda 172 Khauta Ntsoele 199 Thabiso Moqhali 200 Sentso Retere 245 Khauta Khotle 246 Kopamo Pekile 250 1312 23 Toomas Tarm 189 Heiki Sarapuu 194 Risto Utsmuts 232 Urmas Sadam 235 Jaanus Gross 242 Meelis Minn 247 1339 24 Adamou Aboubakar 201 Mathieu Kouanotso 217 Pierre Foka 225 Pierre Kenzo 234 Andrew Tafagnda 253 Celestin Nguepnang 256 1386 25 Menon Ramsamy 190 Abdul Sameer Moos 231 Bruno Armance 237 Patrick Moonsamy 241 Jean Paul Louise 254 Christopher Blackburn 257 1410 26 Frederick Baldacchino 229 Xandru Grech 233 John Buhagiar 240 Robert Attard 252 Joseph Pace 258 Peter Azzopardi 260 (André Camilleri) (262) 1472 27 Mohamed Al-Malki 230 Mohamed Al-Atashi 236 Anwar Al-Harazi 244 Mohamed Al-Hada 251 Ali Yahya 255 Goim Hussein 261 1477DNF (Elenilson da Silva) (37) (Sérgio da Silva) (48) (Benedito Gomes) (118) (Sergio Couto) (125) (Elias Bastos) (135) (Leonardo Guedes) (DNF) (Emerson Bem) (DNF) DNFDNF (Pacifique Ayabusa) (123) (Joseph Nsengiyumya) (128) (Alphonse Munyeshyaka) (171) (Patrick Ishyaka) (192) (Justin Rutaba) (193) (Mathias Ntawulikura) (DNF) DNF Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation