The Senior men's race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Leopardstown Racecourse near Dublin, Ireland, on March 24, 2002. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, in the 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

Senior men's race (11.998 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Kenenisa Bekele 34:52 John Yuda 34:58 Wilberforce Talel 35:20 4 Richard Limo 35:26 5 Charles Kamathi 35:29 6 Albert Chepkurui 35:32 7 Abderrahim Goumri 35:43 8 Yonas Kifle 35:47 9 Enock Mitei 35:49 10 Jaouad Gharib 35:57 11 Abdi Abdirahman 36:03 12 Assefa Mezegebu 36:06 13 Smail Sghir 36:07 14 Meb Keflezighi 36:09 15 Mustapha Essaïd 36:10 16 Habte Jifar 36:11 17 Fita Bayissa 36:14 18 Samson Ramadhani 36:16 19 Eduardo Henriques 36:20 20 Lemma Alemayehu 36:25 21 Saïd Berrioui 36:27 22 Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga 36:29 23 El Hassan Lahssini 36:30 24 Dathan Ritzenhein 36:31 25 Yevgeniy Bozhko 36:33 26 José Manuel García 36:34 27 Elarbi Khattabi 36:34 28 Michael Ngaaseke 36:35 29 Hosea Kogo 36:36 30 Zersenay Tadesse 36:37 31 Obed Mutanya 36:37 32 Kamiel Maase 36:40 33 Mohamed Serbouti 36:40 34 Tom van Hooste 36:40 35 José Manuel Martínez 36:40 36 Makoto Otsu 36:41 37 Dean Cavuoto 36:41 38 Mauricio Díaz 36:41 39 Claes Nyberg 36:42 40 Teodoro Cuñado 36:48 41 Samir Moussaoui 36:49 42 Gabriele De Nard 36:51 43 Sam Haughian 36:53 44 Peter Matthews 36:59 45 Rachid Berradi 37:07 46 Brett Cartwright 37:07 47 Alberto Maravilha 37:08 48 Mark Carroll 37:09 49 Allen Graffin 37:10 50 Iván Sánchez 37:10 51 Ahmed Naïli 37:11 52 Róbert Štefko 37:12 53 Tau Khotso 37:13 54 Dieudonné Disi 37:14 55 Paulo Gomes 37:20 56 George Mofokeng 37:23 57 José Carlos Adán 37:26 58 Abel Chimukoko 37:28 59 Mustapha Benacer 37:30 60 Matt Smith 37:32 61 Tomonori Watanabe 37:32 62 José Rios 37:34 63 Umberto Pusterla 37:35 64 Seamus Power 37:36 65 Habtai Kifletsion 37:36 66 Pacifique Ayabusa 37:36 67 Shinichiro Okuda 37:37 68 Ian Hudspith 37:38 69 Glynn Tromans 37:40 70 Koen van Rie 37:45 71 Daniel Andrew Sipe 37:46 72 Kamel Kohil 37:46 73 Kenjiro Jitsui 37:47 74 Hassan El Ahmadi 37:49 75 Khalid Zoubaa 37:50 76 Brad Tighe 37:51 77 Yukihiro Motoda 37:55 78 Tesfayohannes Mesfen 37:55 79 Egide Manirazika 37:56 80 Abdelkrim Benzai 37:57 81 Rachid Safari 37:57 82 Kim Gillard 37:59 83 Eric Sindayigaya 38:00 84 Azzedine Sakhri 38:02 85 Sisay Bezabeh 38:05 86 Clint Wells 38:08 87 Yuki Yamamoto 38:08 88 Giovanni Gualdi 38:15 89 Jean Bosco Ndagijimana 38:16 90 Hélder Ornelas 38:18 91 Siphesihle Mdluli 38:18 92 Fiachra Lombard 38:21 93 Greg Jimmerson 38:22 94 Sunil Jayaweera 38:25 95 Gianni Crepaldi 38:30 96 Hugo Romero 38:31 97 Alberto Chaíça 38:34 98 Reid Coolsaet 38:36 99 Julian Dwyer 38:37 100 Christian Nemeth 38:38 101 Mesfin Hailu 38:39 102 Matt O'Dowd 38:41 103 Jollyn Kanyika 38:43 104 José Alberto Montenegro 38:51 105 David Milne 38:53 106 Alex Hutchinson 38:56 107 Julius Gidabuday 38:57 108 Mykola Novytskyy 38:59 109 Oscar Cortínez 39:03 110 Scott Simpson 39:05 111 John Burke 39:06 112 Yevgeniy Medvednikov 39:12 113 Andrey Chigidinov 39:20 114 Paul Sumawe 39:21 115 Miguel Melendez 39:25 116 Arturo Malaquias 39:31 117 Julián Peralta 39:33 118 Jerry van den Eede 39:37 119 Carlos Jaramillo 39:38 120 James Finlayson 40:08 121 Frédéric Collignon 40:10 122 Jonathan Monje 40:13 123 Martin McCarthy 40:22 124 Arkadiy Tolstyn 40:36 125 Sujeewa Chandrapala 40:39 126 Yohannes Ghirmai 40:56 127 Ajit Bandara 40:58 128 Khasan Rakhimov 41:45 129 Daniel Herrera 42:24 130 Vasiliy Medvedev 43:58 131 Leonard Ntala Meso 45:16 132 Radik Khubbiev 46:18 133 Abduvahob Nizamov 46:27 — Sergiy Lebid DNF — Mohammed Mourhit DNF — Antonio Silio DNF — Giuliano Battocletti DNF — Hakim Radouan DNF — Matt Downin DNF — Goran Stojiljković DNF — Hamid El Mouaziz DQ† — Arthur Santiago DNS — Juan José Cruz DNS — Vital Gahungu DNS — Mohammed S.M. Albayed DNS — Nader Almassri DNS — Ihab Salama Abdellah DNS — Paulo Guerra DNS — Joseph Kamara DNS — Abubakar Timbo DNS — Sergey Zabavski DNS †: Hamid El Mouaziz from finished 44th in 36:57 min, but was disqualified.

Teams Rank Team Points Wilberforce Talel 3 Richard Limo 4 Charles Kamathi 5 Albert Chepkurui 6 (Enock Mitei) (n/s) (Hosea Kogo) (n/s) 18 Kenenisa Bekele 1 Assefa Mezegebu 11 Habte Jifar 15 Fita Bayissa 16 (Lemma Alemayehu) (n/s) (Mesfin Hailu) (n/s) 43 Abderrahim Goumri 7 Jaouad Gharib 9 Saïd Berrioui 19 Elarbi Khattabi 23 (Hakim Radouan) (DNF) 58 4 Smail Sghir 12 Mustapha Essaïd 14 El Hassan Lahssini 20 Mohamed Serbouti 25 (Hassan El Ahmadi) (n/s) (Khalid Zoubaa) (n/s) 71 5 Abdi Abdirahman 10 Meb Keflezighi 13 Dathan Ritzenhein 21 Clint Wells 63 (Greg Jimmerson) (n/s) (Matt Downin) (DNF) 107 6 José Manuel García 22 José Manuel Martínez 27 Teodoro Cuñado 31 Iván Sánchez 41 (José Carlos Adán) (n/s) (José Rios) (n/s) 121 7 Yonas Kifle 8 Zersenay Tadesse 24 Habtai Kifletsion 50 Tesfayohannes Mesfen 59 (Yohannes Ghirmai) (n/s) 141 8 John Yuda 2 Samson Ramadhani 17 Daniel Andrew Sipe 55 Julius Gidabuday 72 (Paul Sumawe) (n/s) 146 9 Eduardo Henriques 18 Alberto Maravilha 38 Paulo Gomes 44 Hélder Ornelas 66 (Alberto Chaíça) (n/s) 166 10 Sam Haughian 34 Allen Graffin 40 Matt Smith 46 Ian Hudspith 53 (Glynn Tromans) (n/s) (Matt O'Dowd) (n/s) 173 11 Samir Moussaoui 32 Ahmed Naïli 42 Mustapha Benacer 45 Kamel Kohil 56 (Abdelkrim Benzai) (n/s) (Azzedine Sakhri) (n/s) 175 12 Gabriele De Nard 33 Rachid Berradi 36 Umberto Pusterla 48 Giovanni Gualdi 64 (Gianni Crepaldi) (n/s) (Giuliano Battocletti) (DNF) 181 13 Makoto Otsu 28 Tomonori Watanabe 47 Shinichiro Okuda 52 Kenjiro Jitsui 57 (Yukihiro Motoda) (n/s) (Yuki Yamamoto) (n/s) 184 14 Dean Cavuoto 29 Brett Cartwright 37 Kim Gillard 61 Sisay Bezabeh 62 (Julian Dwyer) (n/s) 189 15 Peter Matthews 35 Mark Carroll 39 Seamus Power 49 Fiachra Lombard 67 (John Burke) (n/s) (Martin McCarthy) (n/s) 190 16 Dieudonné Disi 43 Pacifique Ayabusa 51 Rachid Safari 60 Jean Bosco Ndagijimana 65 219 17 Tom van Hooste 26 Koen van Rie 54 Christian Nemeth 69 Jerry van den Eede 74 (Frédéric Collignon) (n/s) (Mohammed Mourhit) (DNF) 223 18 Mauricio Díaz 30 Miguel Melendez 73 Carlos Jaramillo 75 Jonathan Monje 76 (Daniel Herrera) (n/s) 254 19 Brad Tighe 58 Reid Coolsaet 68 David Milne 70 Alex Hutchinson 71 (Scott Simpson) (n/s) (James Finlayson) (n/s) 267 20 Khasan Rakhimov 77 Vasiliy Medvedev 78 Radik Khubbiev 79 Abduvahob Nizamov 80 314DNF José Alberto Montenegro (n/s) Oscar Cortínez (n/s) Julián Peralta (n/s) Antonio Silio (DNF) DNF Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result (n/s: nonscorer)

Participation According to an unofficial count, 141 athletes from 37 countries participated in the Senior men's race. The announced athletes from , , , and did not show.

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See also 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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