The Men's short race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 20, 2004. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, 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 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Kenenisa Bekele 11:31 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam 11:36 Maregu Zewdie 11:42 4 Abdullah Ahmed Hassan 11:44 5 Saif Saeed Shaheen 11:44 6 Eliud Kirui 11:45 7 Isaac Songok 11:45 8 Sultan Khamis Zaman 11:50 9 Craig Mottram 11:51 10 Adil Kaouch 11:56 11 Dejene Berhanu 11:56 12 Tarek Boukensa 11:56 13 Alejandro Suárez 11:57 14 Carlos García 11:58 15 Bouabdallah Tahri 11:58 16 Alistair Cragg 11:58 17 Kevin Sullivan 11:58 18 Paul Morrison 11:59 19 Abraham Chebii 11:59 20 Kiplimo Muneria 12:00 21 Boniface Kiprotich Songok 12:01 22 Abdulaziz Al-Ameri 12:03 23 Ali Al-Dawoodi 12:05 24 Ridouane Es-Saadi 12:06 25 Michael Power 12:06 26 Samir Moussaoui 12:06 27 Damian Paul Chopa 12:07 28 Zouhair Ouerdi 12:09 29 Hussen Adilo 12:10 30 Hamid Ezzine 12:11 31 Mohamed Awol 12:12 32 John Kibowen 12:12 33 Robert Gary 12:12 34 Benoit Nicolas 12:14 35 Umberto Pusterla 12:15 36 Luke Watson 12:17 37 Andy Graffin 12:19 38 Mohamed Khaldi 12:20 39 Amanuel Waldeselassie 12:21 40 Mário Teixeira 12:22 41 Joël Bourgeois 12:23 42 Nick Willis 12:23 43 Nourreddine Bourfaa 12:23 44 Cosimo Caliandro 12:23 45 Manuel Damião 12:23 46 Sandu Rebenciuc 12:23 47 Wim Borms 12:24 48 Jared Cordes 12:24 49 Antonio David Jiménez 12:25 50 Ali Abdalla 12:25 51 Ali Ezzine 12:26 52 Ryan Hayden 12:26 53 Rafał Wójcik 12:27 54 Mourad Marofit 12:27 55 José Maduro 12:27 56 Cutbert Nyasango 12:27 57 Ahmed Naïli 12:28 58 Ian Connor 12:29 59 José Luis Blanco 12:30 60 Isaiah Festa 12:30 61 Egide Manirazika 12:31 62 Reid Coolsaet 12:31 63 Byron Piedra 12:32 64 Robert Connolly 12:32 65 Lorenzo Perrone 12:33 66 Rui Silva 12:33 67 Francis Munthali 12:34 68 Aleksandr Sekletov 12:35 69 Habtai Kifletsion 12:36 70 Thomas Benz 12:36 71 Antonio Manuel Martínez 12:36 72 Isaac Viciosa 12:37 73 Daniel Vögeli 12:37 74 Gianni Crepaldi 12:38 75 Abdelhalim Zahraoui 12:38 76 Jay Cantin 12:38 77 Licinio Pimentel 12:39 78 Stijn van den Velde 12:39 79 Sveinn Margeirsson 12:40 80 El-Mokhtar Benhari 12:40 81 Aléxis Abraham 12:40 82 Walter Jenni 12:41 83 Musa Ninga 12:42 84 Cesar Pilaluisa 12:42 85 Boštjan Buč 12:43 86 Pavel Shapovalov 12:43 87 Rob Birchall 12:44 88 Celso Ficagna 12:45 89 Philipp Bandi 12:45 90 Rees Buck 12:45 91 Johan Vermeiren 12:45 92 Aleksandr Orlov 12:46 93 Andrew Baddeley 12:46 94 Nabil Ghoulam 12:46 95 Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin 12:49 96 Yoshitaka Iwamizu 12:50 97 Jonathan Morales 12:50 98 Aleksey Gurkin 12:51 99 Pedro Ribeiro 12:52 100 Edgar Chancusig 12:53 101 Alastair Stevenson 12:54 102 Néstor Nieves 12:56 103 Michael Shelley 13:00 104 Frédéric Desmedt 13:01 105 Abrha Adhanom 13:03 106 Halil Akkaş 13:03 107 Yair Cedazo 13:03 108 Víctor Martínez 13:06 109 Michael Maechler 13:06 110 Denis Bagrev 13:08 111 Richard Arias 13:09 112 Cayetano Hernandez 13:09 113 Sergio Gallardo 13:12 114 Micxhael Tesfay 13:14 115 David Ruschena 13:17 116 Tom van Rooy 13:18 117 Miguel Ángel García 13:19 118 Björn Margeirsson 13:20 119 Alexandr Sinitsyn 13:21 120 Hussein Awada 13:23 121 Stephen Rogart 13:24 122 Josep Sansa 13:24 123 Pius Stucki 13:26 124 Nader Al-Nasry 13:27 125 Alexander Greaux 13:28 126 Simon Labiche 13:29 127 Moisés Iñiguez 13:29 128 Nozimjon Irmatov 13:31 129 Dario Nemec 13:31 130 Agzam Aliyev 13:33 131 Misgina Kifleyesus 13:45 132 Vladimir Tonchinskiy 13:50 133 Mario Jorge Santivañez Beltran 13:55 134 Fikret Gafarov 13:56 135 Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga 13:57 136 Ronny Marie 13:58 137 Sigurbjörn Arni Arngrímson 14:02 138 Serdar Nurmuradov 14:22 139 Vladimir Escajadillo 14:43 — Noureddine Athamna DNF — Julius Gidabuday DNS — Freddy González DNS — Kelvin Pangiso DNS

Teams Rank Team Points Kenenisa Bekele 1 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam 2 Maregu Zewdie 3 Dejene Berhanu 11 (Hussen Adilo) (29) (Mohamed Awol) (31) 17 Abdullah Ahmed Hassan 4 Saif Saeed Shaheen 5 Sultan Khamis Zaman 8 Abdulaziz Al-Ameri 22 (Ali Al-Dawoodi) (23) (Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin) (95) 39 Eliud Kirui 6 Isaac Songok 7 Abraham Chebii 19 Kiplimo Muneria 20 (Boniface Kiprotich Songok) (21) (John Kibowen) (32) 52 4 Tarek Boukensa 12 Samir Moussaoui 26 Mohamed Khaldi 38 Nourreddine Bourfaa 43 (Ahmed Naïli) (57) (Noureddine Athamna) (DNF) 119 5 Adil Kaouch 10 Zouhair Ouerdi 28 Hamid Ezzine 30 Ali Ezzine 51 (Mourad Marofit) (54) (Abdelhalim Zahraoui) (75) 119 6 Kevin Sullivan 17 Paul Morrison 18 Joël Bourgeois 41 Ryan Hayden 52 (Reid Coolsaet) (62) (Jay Cantin) (76) 128 7 Robert Gary 33 Luke Watson 36 Sandu Rebenciuc 46 Jared Cordes 48 (Ian Connor) (58) (Isaiah Festa) (60) 163 8 Carlos García 14 Antonio David Jiménez 49 José Luis Blanco 59 Antonio Manuel Martínez 71 (Isaac Viciosa) (72) (Sergio Gallardo) (113) 193 9 Mário Teixeira 40 Manuel Damião 45 José Maduro 55 Rui Silva 66 (Licinio Pimentel) (77) (Pedro Ribeiro) (99) 206 10 Bouabdallah Tahri 15 Benoit Nicolas 34 El-Mokhtar Benhari 80 Aléxis Abraham 81 (Nabil Ghoulam) (94) 210 11 Umberto Pusterla 35 Cosimo Caliandro 44 Lorenzo Perrone 65 Gianni Crepaldi 74 218 12 Craig Mottram 9 Michael Power 25 Alastair Stevenson 101 Michael Shelley 103 (David Ruschena) (115) 238 13 Ridouane Es-Saadi 24 Wim Borms 47 Stijn van den Velde 78 Johan Vermeiren 91 (Frédéric Desmedt) (104) (Tom van Rooy) (116) 240 14 Amanuel Waldeselassie 39 Ali Abdalla 50 Habtai Kifletsion 69 Abrha Adhanom 105 (Micxhael Tesfay) (114) (Misgina Kifleyesus) (131) 263 15 Thomas Benz 70 Daniel Vögeli 73 Walter Jenni 82 Philipp Bandi 89 (Michael Maechler) (109) (Pius Stucki) (123) 314 16 Alejandro Suárez 13 Jonathan Morales 97 Yair Cedazo 107 Cayetano Hernandez 112 (Moisés Iñiguez) (127) 329 17 Aleksandr Sekletov 68 Pavel Shapovalov 86 Aleksandr Orlov 92 Aleksey Gurkin 98 344 18 Byron Piedra 63 Cesar Pilaluisa 84 Edgar Chancusig 100 Richard Arias 111 358 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation According to an unofficial count, 140 athletes from 47 countries participated in the Men's short race.

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See also 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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