The Senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on March 30, 2008. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, in the Herald, and for the IAAF.

Complete results for individuals, and for teams were published.

Race results Senior men's race (12 km) Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Kenenisa Bekele 34:38 Leonard Patrick Komon 34:41 Zersenay Tadese 34:43 4 Joseph Ebuya 34:47 5 Moses Ndiema Masai 35:02 6 Felix Kikwai Kibore 35:15 7 Gideon Lekumok Ngatuny 35:16 8 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah 35:18 9 Habtamu Fikadu 35:19 10 Bernard Kiprop Kipyego 35:24 11 Hosea Mwok Macharinyang 35:24 12 Augustine Kiprono Choge 35:26 13 Moses Kipsiro 35:29 14 Mark Kosgei Kiptoo 35:39 15 Sileshi Sihine 35:40 16 Boniface Kiprop 35:41 17 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam 35:59 18 John Kimondo Thuo 36:00 19 Jorge Torres 36:03 20 Yonas Kifle 36:09 21 Dereje Debele 36:10 22 Sultan Khamis Zaman 36:12 23 Teklemariam Medhin 36:13 24 Juan Carlos de la Ossa 36:15 25 Mubarak Hassan Shami 36:17 26 Kidane Tadasse 36:25 27 Cuthbert Nyasango 36:28 28 Abdellah Falil 36:30 29 Martin Toroitich 36:33 30 Jamel Chatbi 36:35 31 Craig Mottram 36:40 32 Anis Selmouni 36:42 33 Abdelhadi El Mouaziz 36:43 34 Gamal Belal Salem 36:43 35 Ahmed Baday 36:46 36 Ayad Lamdassem 36:49 37 Brahim Beloua 36:49 38 Amanuel Woldeselassie 36:50 39 Khalid Kamal Yaseen 36:51 40 Chakir Boujattaoui 36:51 41 Abebe Dinkesa 36:51 42 Yahia Azaïdj 36:52 43 Josh Rohatinsky 36:52 44 Moorosi Soke 36:53 45 Edwardo Torres 36:56 46 Wilson Busienei 37:02 47 Mourad Marofit 37:04 48 Essa Ismail Rashed 37:07 49 Moses Aliwa 37:08 50 Michael Shelley 37:09 51 Scott Bauhs 37:15 52 Tewoldeberhan Mengisteab 37:15 53 Marílson Dos Santos 37:17 54 Max King 37:20 55 Simon Ayeko 37:20 56 José Manuel Martínez 37:21 57 Zembaba Yigeze 37:22 58 Gianmarco Buttazzo 37:24 59 Ahmed Naïli 37:27 60 Aadam Ismaeel Khamis 37:27 61 Ali Dawoud Sedam 37:27 62 Thomas Humphries 37:27 63 Nicholas Kiprono 37:32 64 Carles Castillejo 37:34 65 Michael Skinner 37:35 66 Andrew Ledwith 37:37 67 Moustafa Ahmed Shebto 37:40 68 David McNeill 37:41 69 Liam Adams 37:41 70 Andrea Lalli 37:44 71 Licinio Pimentel 37:44 72 Frank Tickner 37:49 73 Collis Birmingham 37:49 74 Stephen Mokoka 37:52 75 Al Mustafa Riyadh 37:53 76 Manuel Damião 37:55 77 Mike Tebulo 37:57 78 Andrew Lemoncello 37:57 79 Andrew Jones 37:57 80 Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga 38:00 81 Naser Jamal Naser 38:02 82 Philip Wicks 38:02 83 José Luis Blanco 38:02 84 James Carney 38:04 85 Antonio David Jiménez 38:06 86 Kiflom Sium 38:07 87 Iván Galán 38:10 88 Yoshitaka Iwamizu 38:11 89 Rabie Mekhloufi 38:11 90 James Gosselin 38:12 91 Paulo Gomes 38:13 92 Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi 38:13 93 Yuki Sato 38:19 94 Tsuyoshi Ugachi 38:20 95 Joël Bourgeois 38:23 96 Jonathan Pierce 38:23 97 Rabah Aboud 38:24 98 Aïssa Dahmar 38:24 99 Daniele Meucci 38:28 100 José Rocha 38:28 101 Boiphemelo Selagaboy 38:29 102 Samuel Tsegay 38:30 103 Kaelo Mosalagae 38:31 104 Martin Dent 38:31 105 Makoto Tobimatsu 38:32 106 Hermano Ferreira 38:33 107 Moeketsi Mosuhli 38:34 108 Andrew Letherby 38:35 109 Ryan Bak 38:36 110 Jonay González 38:39 111 Cédric Pelissier 38:42 112 Brahim Chettah 38:43 113 Ihar Tsetserukou 38:43 114 Andrew Vernon 38:43 115 Yuki Nakamura 38:43 116 Alex Hutchinson 38:44 117 Roberto Oliveira 38:45 118 José Ramos 38:45 119 Reyes Estévez 38:47 120 Satoru Kitamura 38:48 121 Unaswi Dambe 38:48 122 Hiroyoshi Umegae 38:49 123 Hidekazu Sato 38:51 124 Damião Ancelmo De Souza 39:00 125 James Walsh 39:01 126 Ben St.Lawrence 39:02 127 Jesper Faurschou 39:03 128 Paul McNamara 39:05 129 Dylan Wykes 39:06 130 Nathan Chebet 39:10 131 Ahmed Dali 39:11 132 Yang Dinghong 39:11 133 Ueli Koch 39:12 134 Rapula Diphoko 39:12 135 Mick Clohisey 39:13 136 John Beattie 39:21 137 Abdelatif Chemlal 39:25 138 Derek Nakluski 39:26 139 Solomon Tsige 39:26 140 Brian Maher 39:29 141 Dong Guojian 39:33 142 Yuri Chechun 39:42 143 Spencer Morrison 39:45 144 Gary Thornton 39:50 145 Colin Fewer 39:52 146 Dimcho Mitsov 39:53 147 Ahmed Hassein Hassein 39:56 148 Sevak Yeghikyan 39:57 149 Adel Mahdjoub 39:58 150 Cleve Thorson 40:01 151 Alexandra Motone 40:18 152 José Eloy 40:19 153 Huang Jinhong 40:26 154 Cleveland Forde 40:27 155 Shepherd Kenatshele 40:27 156 Rees Buck 40:34 157 José Maduro 40:35 158 Mohammad Al Kafraini 41:00 159 Trevor Caldwell 41:47 160 Ditiro Ramagapu 42:03 161 José Ferreira 42:23 162 Gaylord Silly 43:03 163 Perhat Annagylyjov 43:27 164 Fikret Gafarov 45:37 165 Christopher Symonds 46:56 — Ricardo Ribas DNF — Mahmoud Abuattaya DNF — Cosme Ancelmo De Souza DNF — Vincent Mulvey DNF — Alistair Ian Cragg DNF — Abdulhak Elgorche Zakaria DNF — Ed Moran DNF — Alejandro Suárez DNF — Dieudonné Disi DNF — Stefano La Rosa DNF — Demssew Tsega DNF — Hasan Mahboob DNF — Saif Hamad Al-Rashedi DQ — Fathi Meftah DQ† — Saleh Besheer Madjed DNS — Roman Prodius DNS — Arjun Kumar Basnet DNS — Danjuma Kopkuddi DNS — Akhilomeh Joseph DNS — Gervais Hakizimana DNS — Sylvain Rukundo DNS — Jean Baptiste Simukeka DNS — Khamis Sultan Dawood DNS †: Fathi Meftah from finished 35th in 36:44 min, but was disqualified because of doping violations.

Teams Rank Team Points Leonard Patrick Komon 2 Joseph Ebuya 4 Moses Ndiema Masai 5 Gideon Lekumok Ngatuny 7 Bernard Kiprop Kipyego 10 Hosea Mwok Macharinyang 11 (Augustine Kiprono Choge) (12) (Mark Kosgei Kiptoo) (14) (John Kimondo Thuo) (18) 39 Kenenisa Bekele 1 Habtamu Fikadu 9 Sileshi Sihine 15 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam 17 Dereje Debele 21 Abebe Dinkesa 41 (Zembaba Yigeze) (57) (Solomon Tsige) (139) (Demssew Tsega) (DNF) 104 Felix Kikwai Kibore 6 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah 8 Sultan Khamis Zaman 22 Mubarak Hassan Shami 25 Gamal Belal Salem 34 Essa Ismail Rashed 48 (Ali Dawoud Sedam) (61) (Moustafa Ahmed Shebto) (67) (Naser Jamal Naser) (81) 143 4 Zersenay Tadese 3 Yonas Kifle 20 Teklemariam Medhin 23 Kidane Tadasse 26 Amanuel Woldeselassie 38 Tewoldeberhan Mengisteab 52 (Kiflom Sium) (86) (Samuel Tsegay) (102) 162 5 Abdellah Falil 28 Jamel Chatbi 30 Anis Selmouni 32 Abdelhadi El Mouaziz 33 Ahmed Baday 35 Brahim Beloua 37 (Chakir Boujattaoui) (40) (Mourad Marofit) (47) (Abdelatif Chemlal) (137) 195 6 Moses Kipsiro 13 Boniface Kiprop 16 Martin Toroitich 29 Wilson Busienei 46 Moses Aliwa 49 Simon Ayeko 55 (Nicholas Kiprono) (63) (Nathan Chebet) (130) 208 7 Jorge Torres 19 Josh Rohatinsky 43 Edwardo Torres 45 Scott Bauhs 51 Max King 54 James Carney 84 (Jonathan Pierce) (96) (Ryan Bak) (109) (Ed Moran) (DNF) 296 8 Juan Carlos de la Ossa 24 Ayad Lamdassem 36 José Manuel Martínez 56 Carles Castillejo 64 José Luis Blanco 83 Antonio David Jiménez 85 (Iván Galán) (87) (Jonay González) (110) (Reyes Estévez) (119) 348 9 Craig Mottram 31 Michael Shelley 50 David Mcneill 68 Liam Adams 69 Collis Birmingham 73 Martin Dent 104 (Andrew Letherby) (108) (Ben St.Lawrence) (126) 395 10 Thomas Humphries 62 Michael Skinner 65 Frank Tickner 72 Andrew Lemoncello 78 Andrew Jones 79 Philip Wicks 82 (Andrew Vernon) (114) (James Walsh) (125) (John Beattie) (136) 438 11 Yahia Azaïdj 42 Ahmed Naïli 59 Rabie Mekhloufi 89 Rabah Aboud 97 Aïssa Dahmar 98 Brahim Chettah 112 (Ahmed Dali) (131) (Fathi Meftah) (DQ) 497 12 Licinio Pimentel 71 Manuel Damião 76 Paulo Gomes 91 José Rocha 100 Hermano Ferreira 106 José Ramos 118 (José Maduro) (157) (Ricardo Ribas) (DNF) 562 13 Yoshitaka Iwamizu 88 Yuki Sato 93 Tsuyoshi Ugachi 94 Makoto Tobimatsu 105 Yuki Nakamura 115 Satoru Kitamura 120 (Hiroyoshi Umegae) (122) (Hidekazu Sato) (123) 615 14 James Gosselin 90 Joël Bourgeois 95 Alex Hutchinson 116 Dylan Wykes 129 Derek Nakluski 138 Spencer Morrison 143 (Colin Fewer) (145) (Cleve Thorson) (150) (Trevor Caldwell) (159) 711 15 Boiphemelo Selagaboy 101 Kaelo Mosalagae 103 Unaswi Dambe 121 Rapula Diphoko 134 Shepherd Kenatshele 155 Ditiro Ramagapu 160 774 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Participation According to an unofficial count, 179 athletes from 45 countries participated in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athletes from , , and did not show.

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See also 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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