The Men's short race at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Sporting Complex in Vilamoura, Portugal, on March 18, 2000. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, in the Glasgow Herald, and for the IAAF.

Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.

Race results

Men's short race (4.18 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time John Kibowen 11:11 Sammy Kipketer 11:12 Paul Kosgei 11:15 4 Leonard Mucheru 11:21 5 Abraham Chebii 11:25 6 Haylu Mekonnen 11:27 7 Philip Mosima 11:29 8 Saïd El Wardi 11:33 9 Laïd Bessou 11:34 10 Sergiy Lebid 11:36 11 Abiyote Abate 11:36 12 Martin Sulle 11:37 13 Ali Ezzine 11:39 14 Dagne Alemu 11:39 15 Million Wolde 11:42 16 Ali Saïdi-Sief 11:44 17 Michael Ngaaseke 11:46 18 Aziz Driouche 11:47 19 Faustin Baha 11:49 20 Whaddon Nieuwoudt 11:50 21 Gennaro Di Napoli 11:50 22 José Ramos 11:51 23 Luís Feiteira 11:51 24 Rui Silva 11:51 25 Kevin Sullivan 11:51 26 Miloud Abaoub 11:52 27 Damian Kallabis 11:52 28 Manuel Pancorbo 11:52 29 Youssef Baba 11:53 30 Sebastian Hallmann 11:55 31 Manuel Damião 11:55 32 Daniel Zegeye 11:55 33 Víctor Morente 11:56 34 Jesús de la Fuente 11:56 35 Yousef El Nasri 11:56 36 Lotfi Turki 11:57 37 Kamel Boulahfane 11:57 38 David Heath 11:57 39 Davide Maffei 11:58 40 Salah El Ghazi 11:58 41 Gert-Jan Liefers 11:59 42 Mourad Benslimani 11:59 43 Mohamed Awol 11:59 44 Miroslav Vanko 12:00 45 Jason Stewart 12:00 46 Hélder Ornelas 12:01 47 Glody Dube 12:01 48 Julius Gidabuday 12:01 49 Salvador Miranda 12:02 50 Scott Strand 12:02 51 Jirka Arndt 12:02 52 Joseph Nsengiyumya 12:03 53 Freddy González 12:03 54 Sean Kaley 12:04 55 Edgar de Oliveira 12:05 56 Massimo Pegoretti 12:05 57 Hussein Abdallah 12:05 58 Stéphane Franke 12:06 59 Mustafa El Ahmadi 12:06 60 Mauricio Ladino 12:06 61 Mikhail Minyukhin 12:06 62 Roland Weissteiner 12:07 63 Gianni Crepaldi 12:07 64 Rob Whalley 12:08 65 Phil Mowbray 12:08 66 Sergey Fedotov 12:08 67 Toshihiro Iwasa 12:08 68 Sergey Lukin 12:09 69 Michael Power 12:09 70 Rafał Wójcik 12:09 71 Phillip Clode 12:10 72 Joël Bourgeois 12:12 73 Pacifique Ayabusa 12:13 74 Mohamed Abdelli 12:14 75 Mohamed Ezzher 12:14 76 Alberto Chaíça 12:15 77 Driss Maazouzi 12:16 78 Andy Graffin 12:17 79 Andy Downin 12:18 80 Igor Murga 12:18 81 Ayele Setegne 12:18 82 Eliseo Martín 12:19 83 Ahmed Abd El Mangoud 12:19 84 Cédric Andres 12:20 85 Sergey Yemelyanov 12:20 86 Jeff Simonich 12:23 87 Néstor Nieves 12:25 88 Chad Pons 12:26 89 Spencer Barden 12:27 90 Emigadio Delgado 12:28 91 Éric Dubus 12:28 92 Ramiro Nogueiro 12:29 93 Samir Benfarès 12:31 94 Frank Bruder 12:31 95 Simon Labiche 12:32 96 Víctor Martínez 12:34 97 Matt Smith 12:34 98 Jeremy Deere 12:35 99 Darin Shearer 12:37 100 Froilan Bonilla 12:39 101 Hans Janssens 12:39 102 Viktor Lomonosov 12:39 103 Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed 12:39 104 Celso Ficagna 12:41 105 Lervis Arias 12:41 106 Farag Abdelnaby 12:42 107 Richard Tremain 12:43 108 Abdelhak El Gorch 12:46 109 Musa Ninga 12:47 110 Raghavan Suresh 12:48 111 Bashimi Maholeste 12:48 112 Modisaotsile Olerile 12:49 113 Wael Anwar 12:50 114 Redmal Singh 12:51 115 Ndabili Bashingili 12:52 116 Kaelo Mosalagae 12:53 117 Simon Maunder 12:55 118 Hidajet Bulic 12:56 119 Daniel das Neves 12:58 120 Amrish Kumar 12:59 121 Yusuf Zepak 13:01 122 Aleksandr Lukoshenko 13:02 123 Hussein Awada 13:02 124 Hannes Mälter 13:03 125 Ruslan Sadovskiy 13:04 126 Sergey Zabavskiy 13:05 127 Zigmund Zilbershtein 13:05 128 Sanjay Gond 13:07 129 Heiki Sarapuu 13:08 130 Abdel Salam Al-Dabajy 13:09 131 Matt Kerr 13:11 132 Fouly Salem 13:12 133 Ali Awad 13:17 134 Djamched Rasulov 13:24 135 Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev 13:25 136 Mark Olivo 13:26 137 Sergey Anokhin 13:27 138 Carlos Almeida 13:29 139 Siarhei Yudenkov 13:34 140 Richard Muscat 13:36 141 Vasiliy Andreyev 13:39 142 Mehdi Chebli 13:41 143 Maximillian Iranqhe 13:53 144 Nazar Begliyev 13:53 145 Liam Byrne 13:54 146 Sokhibdjan Sharipov 13:57 147 Vadim Bondarchuk 13:59 148 Michael Breed 14:06 149 Christopher Walker 14:15 150 Nozimjon Irmatov 14:25 151 Mohamed Al-Bayed 14:26 152 Omar Abdel Latif 14:39 153 Mikhail Gadelshin 14:40 154 Chokirjon Irmatov 14:44 155 Sigurd Haveland 14:53 156 Aleksandr Levdanskiy 15:27 157 James Parody 15:30 158 Manukau Teuribaki 15:38 159 Gairat Nigmatov 15:57 160 Yevgeniy Nujdin 16:04 161 Baimurad Achirmuradov 16:21 162 Kaong Bwebwereiti 17:32 163 Tekooki Teieka 17:33 164 Simon Burennatu 17:41 — Luciano Di Pardo DNF — Selvin Gonzalo Molineros Ardon DNS — José Amado García DNS — José Luis Ebatela Nvó DNS — Sheldon Monderoy DNS

Teams Rank Team Points John Kibowen 1 Sammy Kipketer 2 Paul Kosgei 3 Leonard Mucheru 4 (Abraham Chebii) (5) (Philip Mosima) (7) 10 Haylu Mekonnen 6 Abiyote Abate 11 Dagne Alemu 14 Million Wolde 15 (Daniel Zegeye) (32) (Mohamed Awol) (43) 46 Saïd El Wardi 8 Ali Ezzine 13 Aziz Driouche 18 Youssef Baba 29 (Salah El Ghazi) (40) (Abdelhak El Gorch) (108) 68 4 Laïd Bessou 9 Ali Saïdi-Sief 16 Miloud Abaoub 26 Kamel Boulahfane 37 (Mourad Benslimani) (42) (Mohamed Abdelli) (74) 88 5 José Ramos 22 Luís Feiteira 23 Rui Silva 24 Manuel Damião 31 (Hélder Ornelas) (46) (Alberto Chaíça) (76) 100 6 Manuel Pancorbo 28 Víctor Morente 33 Jesús de la Fuente 34 Yousef El Nasri 35 (Igor Murga) (80) (Eliseo Martín) (82) 130 7 Martin Sulle 12 Faustin Baha 19 Julius Gidabuday 48 Hussein Abdallah 57 (Musa Ninga) (109) (Maximillian Iranqhe) (143) 136 8 Damian Kallabis 27 Sebastian Hallmann 30 Jirka Arndt 51 Stéphane Franke 58 (Frank Bruder) (94) 166 9 Gennaro Di Napoli 21 Davide Maffei 39 Massimo Pegoretti 56 Roland Weissteiner 62 (Gianni Crepaldi) (63) (Luciano Di Pardo) (DNF) 178 10 David Heath 38 Rob Whalley 64 Phil Mowbray 65 Andy Graffin 78 (Spencer Barden) (89) (Matt Smith) (97) 245 11 Kevin Sullivan 25 Sean Kaley 54 Joël Bourgeois 72 Jeremy Deere 98 (Richard Tremain) (107) (Matt Kerr) (131) 249 12 Jason Stewart 45 Scott Strand 50 Andy Downin 79 Jeff Simonich 86 (Chad Pons) (88) (Darin Shearer) (99) 260 13 Mikhail Minyukhin 61 Sergey Fedotov 66 Sergey Lukin 68 Sergey Yemelyanov 85 280 14 Mustafa El Ahmadi 59 Mohamed Ezzher 75 Driss Maazouzi 77 Cédric Andres 84 (Éric Dubus) (91) (Samir Benfarès) (93) 295 15 Freddy González 53 Néstor Nieves 87 Emigadio Delgado 90 Froilan Bonilla 100 (Lervis Arias) (105) (Mark Olivo) (136) 330 16 Edgar de Oliveira 55 Ramiro Nogueiro 92 Celso Ficagna 104 Daniel das Neves 119 370 17 Glody Dube 47 Bashimi Maholeste 111 Modisaotsile Olerile 112 Ndabili Bashingili 115 (Kaelo Mosalagae) (116) 385 18 Ahmed Abd El Mangoud 83 Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed 103 Farag Abdelnaby 106 Wael Anwar 113 (Fouly Salem) (132) 405 19 Raghavan Suresh 110 Redmal Singh 114 Amrish Kumar 120 Sanjay Gond 128 472 20 Viktor Lomonosov 102 Aleksandr Lukoshenko 122 Ruslan Sadovskiy 125 Siarhei Yudenkov 139 488 21 Hussein Awada 123 Ali Awad 133 Mehdi Chebli 142 Omar Abdel Latif 152 550 22 Sergey Zabavskiy 126 Djamched Rasulov 134 Sokhibdjan Sharipov 146 Nozimjon Irmatov 150 (Chokirjon Irmatov) (154) (Gairat Nigmatov) (159) 556 23 Richard Muscat 140 Liam Byrne 145 Michael Breed 148 Christopher Walker 149 (Sigurd Haveland) (155) (James Parody) (157) 582 24 Vasiliy Andreyev 141 Vadim Bondarchuk 147 Mikhail Gadelshin 153 Yevgeniy Nujdin 160 601 25 Manukau Teuribaki 158 Kaong Bwebwereiti 162 Tekooki Teieka 163 Simon Burennatu 164 647 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 165 athletes from 51 countries in the Men's short race. The announced athletes from , , and did not show.

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See also 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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