1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Senior men's race at the 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition16th
DateMarch 26
Host cityAuckland, New Zealand New Zealand
VenueEllerslie Racecourse
Events1
Distances12 km – Senior men
Participation204 athletes from
35 nations

The Senior men's race at the 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Auckland, New Zealand, at the Ellerslie Racecourse on March 26, 1988. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.[1]

Complete results,[2] medallists, [3] and the results of British athletes[4] were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Individual

Rank Athlete Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) John Ngugi  Kenya 34:32
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paul Kipkoech  Kenya 34:54
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kipsubai Koskei  Kenya 35:07
4 Boniface Merande  Kenya 35:22
5 Abebe Mekonnen  Ethiopia 35:25
6 Moses Tanui  Kenya 35:25
7 Joseph Kiptum  Kenya 35:46
8 Kip Rono  Kenya 35:46
9 Some Muge  Kenya 35:48
10 Haji Bulbula  Ethiopia 35:49
11 Paul Arpin  France 35:51
12 Habte Negash  Ethiopia 35:54
13 Roger Hackney  United Kingdom 35:59
14 Steve Tunstall  France 36:04
15 John Woods  Ireland 36:07
16 Domingos Castro  Portugal 36:12
17 Jean-Louis Prianon  France 36:12
18 Tommy Ekblom  Finland 36:14
19 Kozu Akutsu  Japan 36:15
20 Debebe Demisse  Ethiopia 36:15
21 Steve Moneghetti  Australia 36:16
22 Giuseppe Miccoli  Italy 36:19
23 Melese Feissa  Ethiopia 36:23
24 Alejandro Gómez  Spain 36:24
25 Joël Lucas  France 36:24
26 Joaquim Pinheiro  Portugal 36:25
27 Steve Binns  United Kingdom 36:26
28 Pat Porter  United States 36:26
29 Antonio Prieto  Spain 36:28
30 Cyrille Laventure  France 36:29
31 Harry Green  United States 36:30
32 Jamie Harrison  Australia 36:32
33 Chala Kelele  Ethiopia 36:33
34 David Buzza  United Kingdom 36:34
35 Salvatore Antibo  Italy 36:35
36 John Campbell  New Zealand 36:35
37 Bruno Levant  France 36:37
38 Tena Negere  Ethiopia 36:39
39 Thierry Pantel  France 36:41
40 Vicente Polo  Spain 36:43
41 Antonio Serrano  Spain 36:45
42 John Andrews  Australia 36:45
43 Eamonn Martin  United Kingdom 36:46
44 Malcolm Norwood  Australia 36:46
45 Derrick Lakeman  United States 36:47
46 George Nicholas  United States 36:47
47 Antonio Silio  Argentina 36:47
48 José Manuel Albentosa  Spain 36:48
49 Salvatore Bettiol  Italy 36:49
50 João de Sousa  Brazil 36:50
51 Franco Boffi  Italy 36:55
52 Francesco Panetta  Italy 36:57
53 Mark Dalloway  United Kingdom 36:58
54 Zhang Guowei  China 36:59
55 Kazuya Wakakura  Japan 36:59
56 Dominique Delattre  France 37:00
57 Lars-Erik Nilsson  Sweden 37:01
58 Andy Bristow  United Kingdom 37:02
59 John Halvorsen  Norway 37:03
60 José Regalo  Portugal 37:05
61 Adauto Domingues  Brazil 37:05
62 Jeff Cannada  United States 37:06
63 Raffaello Alliegro  Italy 37:07
64 Wolde Silasse Melkessa  Ethiopia 37:08
65 Mahieddine Belhadj  Algeria 37:09
66 Masaru Matsuda  Japan 37:10
67 Martti Vainio  Finland 37:12
68 Kazuya Nishimoto  Japan 37:14
69 El Hachami Abdenouz  Algeria 37:15
70 Aissa Remel  Algeria 37:16
71 Fernando Mamede  Portugal 37:16
72 Eliseo Rios  Portugal 37:16
73 Arthur Waddle  United States 37:16
74 Chris Pilone  New Zealand 37:17
75 Brad Camp  Australia 37:18
76 Jonathan Richards  United Kingdom 37:18
77 John Bowden  New Zealand 37:19
78 Pat Carroll  Australia 37:19
79 Stanley Mandebele  Zimbabwe 37:19
80 Martin Stock  Australia 37:20
81 Artur Castro  Brazil 37:22
82 Konrad Dobler  West Germany 37:23
83 Bekele Debele  Ethiopia 37:25
84 Dov Kremer  Israel 37:26
85 Allan Zachariasen  Denmark 37:26
86 Peter Van de Kerkhove  Belgium 37:27
87 Werner Mory  Belgium 37:28
88 Mark Stickley  United States 37:29
89 Ralf Salzmann  West Germany 37:30
90 Tom Birnie  New Zealand 37:31
91 Henrique Crisostomo  Portugal 37:32
92 Dave Taylor  Ireland 37:33
93 Gerry Curtis  Ireland 37:34
94 Phillip Clode  New Zealand 37:34
95 Juan José Rosario  Spain 37:35
96 Robert Schneider  West Germany 37:36
97 Doug Cronkite  Canada 37:38
98 Jos Maes  Belgium 37:38
99 Daniel Mutai  Kenya 37:39
100 António Pinto  Portugal 37:39
101 Ranieri Carenza  Italy 37:40
102 Craig Virgin  United States 37:40
103 Chris Tobin  New Zealand 37:40
104 Roy Dooney  Ireland 37:42
105 Peter Brett  Australia 37:42
106 Carey Nelson  Canada 37:43
107 Darren Klassen  Canada 37:43
108 Paul McCloy  Canada 37:44
109 Chris Robison  United Kingdom 37:51
110 Derek Froude  New Zealand 37:52
111 Håvard Tveite  Norway 37:54
112 Brendan Quinn  Ireland 37:56
113 Patric Nilsson  Sweden 37:57
114 Danvir Singh  India 37:57
115 Sanshiro Kasama  Japan 38:00
116 Miloud Djellal  Algeria 38:01
117 Rod Dixon  New Zealand 38:03
118 Marius Hasler   Switzerland 38:04
119 Constantino Esparcia  Spain 38:05
120 Lasmani Merzougui  Algeria 38:05
121 Ivo Rodrigues  Brazil 38:05
122 Eberhard Weyel  West Germany 38:06
123 Eirik Hansen  Norway 38:07
124 Benny Pollentier  Belgium 38:09
125 Kazuhito Yamada  Japan 38:10
126 Marco Gozzano  Italy 38:11
127 John Treacy  Ireland 38:12
128 Abbès Téhami  Algeria 38:12
129 Helge Dolsvåg  Norway 38:13
130 Francisco Sánchez  Spain 38:14
131 Richard O'Flynn  Ireland 38:22
132 John Bolger  Canada 38:23
133 Gurbachan Singh  India 38:25
134 Guo Yijiang  China 38:27
135 Deon McNeilly  United Kingdom 38:28
136 Damiao Silva  Brazil 38:29
137 Udai Pratap Singh  India 38:29
138 Pär Wallin  Sweden 38:32
139 Thomas Sørensen  Denmark 38:33
140 David O'Keefe  United States 38:34
141 Elói Schleder  Brazil 38:36
142 Peter Govaerts  Belgium 38:38
143 Vijay Kumar Mishra  India 38:39
144 Ari Paunonen  Finland 38:40
145 Axel Hardy  West Germany 38:45
146 Pierre Levisse  France 38:46
147 Niels Kim Hjorth  Denmark 38:48
148 Jari Venäläinen  Finland 38:56
149 Stig Nørregaard  Denmark 38:56
150 El Hadj Mendes  Algeria 38:59
151 Satoshi Kato  Japan 39:01
152 Arnold Mächler   Switzerland 39:05
153 Norman Tinkham  Canada 39:07
154 Jan Ikov  Denmark 39:09
155 Jörgen Salo  Finland 39:12
156 Truls Nygaard  Norway 39:13
157 Michael Halvorsen  Denmark 39:13
158 Engelbert Franz  West Germany 39:16
159 Herman Decoux  Belgium 39:16
160 Lars Bøgh  Denmark 39:26
161 Abdelrazzak Bounour  Algeria 39:28
162 Svein Erik Eide  Norway 39:29
163 Peder Poulsen  Sweden 39:35
164 Allen Hugli  Canada 39:38
165 Alain Boucher  Canada 39:44
166 E. Rajender  India 39:44
167 Hirozumi Kato  Japan 40:02
168 Zephaniah Ncube  Zimbabwe 40:19
169 Marcelo Cascabelo  Argentina 40:21
170 Shivkumar Shreshta  India 40:21
171 Ken Moloney  New Zealand 40:28
172 Anna Durai  India 40:30
173 Hsu Gi-Sheng  Chinese Taipei 40:35
174 Chou Hsien-Kuang  Chinese Taipei 40:39
175 Julio César Gómez  Argentina 40:42
176 Michel Jean-Louis  Mauritius 40:58
177 Abel Antón  Spain 41:20
178 Baikuntha Manandhar    Nepal 41:27
179 Tim Soutar  Hong Kong 41:32
180 Shri Chand  Fiji 41:56
181 Cordova Simon  Antigua and Barbuda 41:57
182 Wong Chung Man  Hong Kong 42:02
183 Krishna Bahadur Basnet    Nepal 42:30
184 Lee Yin-Sheng  Chinese Taipei 42:32
185 Bobby Singh  Fiji 42:46
186 Dac Bahadur Thapa    Nepal 43:14
187 Fitzroy Browne  Antigua and Barbuda 43:35
188 Davendra Pradesh Singh  Fiji 43:56
189 Ganesh Prasad  Fiji 44:34
190 Vikash Kumar Singh  Fiji 44:47
191 Chandra Bahadur Gurung    Nepal 44:47
192 Moses Zarak Khan  Fiji 44:58
193 Hari Bahadur Barwal    Nepal 45:20
194 Semi Vuetibau  Fiji 45:40
195 John Lorri  Vanuatu 46:13
196 Pushpa Raj Ojha    Nepal 46:16
197 Ashok Kumar  Fiji 47:12
198 Samuelu Samuelu  Western Samoa 48:41
199 Esau Polutu  Western Samoa 49:10
— Ezequiel Canario  Portugal DNF
— Dionísio Castro  Portugal DNF
— Rob de Castella  Australia DNF
— Stefano Mei  Italy DNF
— Risto Ulmala  Finland DNF

Teams

Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya
John Ngugi 1
Paul Kipkoech 2
Kipsubai Koskei 3
Boniface Merande 4
Moses Tanui 6
Joseph Kiptum 7
(Kip Rono) (8)
(Some Muge) (9)
(Daniel Mutai) (99)
23
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Ethiopia
Abebe Mekonnen 5
Haji Bulbula 10
Habte Negash 12
Debebe Demisse 20
Melese Feissa 23
Chala Kelele 33
(Tena Negere) (38)
(Wolde Silasse Melkessa) (64)
(Bekele Debele) (83)
103
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France
Paul Arpin 11
Steve Tunstall 14
Jean-Louis Prianon 17
Joël Lucas 25
Cyrille Laventure 30
Bruno Levant 37
(Thierry Pantel) (39)
(Dominique Delattre) (56)
(Pierre Levisse) (146)
134
4  United Kingdom
Roger Hackney 13
Steve Binns 27
David Buzza 34
Eamonn Martin 43
Mark Dalloway 53
Andy Bristow 58
(Jonathan Richards) (76)
(Chris Robison) (109)
(Deon McNeilly) (135)
228
5  Italy
Giuseppe Miccoli 22
Salvatore Antibo 35
Salvatore Bettiol 49
Franco Boffi 51
Francesco Panetta 52
Raffaello Alliegro 63
(Ranieri Carenza) (101)
(Marco Gozzano) (126)
(Stefano Mei) (DNF)
272
6  Spain
Alejandro Gómez 24
Antonio Prieto 29
Vicente Polo 40
Antonio Serrano 41
José Manuel Albentosa 48
Juan José Rosario 95
(Constantino Esparcia) (119)
(Francisco Sánchez) (130)
(Abel Antón) (177)
277
7  United States
Pat Porter 28
Harry Green 31
Derrick Lakeman 45
George Nicholas 46
Jeff Cannada 62
Arthur Waddle 73
(Mark Stickley) (88)
(Craig Virgin) (102)
(David O'Keefe) (140)
285
8  Australia
Steve Moneghetti 21
Jamie Harrison 32
John Andrews 42
Malcolm Norwood 44
Brad Camp 75
Pat Carroll 78
(Martin Stock) (80)
(Peter Brett) (105)
(Rob de Castella) (DNF)
292
9  Portugal
Domingos Castro 16
Joaquim Pinheiro 26
José Regalo 60
Fernando Mamede 71
Eliseo Rios 72
Henrique Crisostomo 91
(António Pinto) (100)
(Ezequiel Canario) (DNF)
(Dionísio Castro) (DNF)
336
10  Japan
Kozu Akutsu 19
Kazuya Wakakura 55
Masaru Matsuda 66
Kazuya Nishimoto 68
Sanshiro Kasama 115
Kazuhito Yamada 125
(Satoshi Kato) (151)
(Hirozumi Kato) (167)
448
11  New Zealand
John Campbell 36
Chris Pilone 74
John Bowden 77
Tom Birnie 90
Phillip Clode 94
Chris Tobin 103
(Derek Froude) (110)
(Rod Dixon) (117)
(Ken Moloney) (171)
474
12  Ireland
John Woods 15
Dave Taylor 92
Gerry Curtis 93
Roy Dooney 104
Brendan Quinn 112
John Treacy 127
(Richard O'Flynn) (131)
543
13  Algeria
Mahieddine Belhadj 65
El Hachami Abdenouz 69
Aissa Remel 70
Miloud Djellal 116
Lasmani Merzougui 120
Abbès Téhami 128
(El Hadj Mendes) (150)
(Abdelrazzak Bounour) (161)
568
14  Brazil
João de Sousa 50
Adauto Domingues 61
Artur Castro 81
Ivo Rodrigues 121
Damiao Silva 136
Elói Schleder 141
590
15  West Germany
Konrad Dobler 82
Ralf Salzmann 89
Robert Schneider 96
Eberhard Weyel 122
Axel Hardy 145
Engelbert Franz 158
692
16  Belgium
Peter Van de Kerkhove 86
Werner Mory 87
Jos Maes 98
Benny Pollentier 124
Peter Govaerts 142
Herman Decoux 159
696
17  Canada
Doug Cronkite 97
Carey Nelson 106
Darren Klassen 107
Paul McCloy 108
John Bolger 132
Norman Tinkham 153
(Allen Hugli) (164)
(Alain Boucher) (165)
703
18  Norway
John Halvorsen 59
Håvard Tveite 111
Eirik Hansen 123
Helge Dolsvåg 129
Truls Nygaard 156
Svein Erik Eide 162
740
19  Denmark
Allan Zachariasen 85
Thomas Sørensen 139
Niels Kim Hjorth 147
Stig Nørregaard 149
Jan Ikov 154
Michael Halvorsen 157
(Lars Bøgh) (160)
831
20  India
Danvir Singh 114
Gurbachan Singh 133
Udai Pratap Singh 137
Vijay Kumar Mishra 143
E. Rajender 166
Shivkumar Shreshta 170
(Anna Durai) (172)
863
21  Fiji
Shri Chand 180
Bobby Singh 185
Davendra Pradesh Singh 188
Ganesh Prasad 189
Vikash Kumar Singh 190
Moses Zarak Khan 192
(Semi Vuetibau) (194)
(Ashok Kumar) (197)
1124
22    Nepal
Baikuntha Manandhar 178
Krishna Bahadur Basnet 183
Dac Bahadur Thapa 186
Chandra Bahadur Gurung 191
Hari Bahadur Barwal 193
Pushpa Raj Ojha 196
1127
DNF  Finland
Tommy Ekblom (18)
Martti Vainio (67)
Ari Paunonen (144)
Jari Venäläinen (148)
Jörgen Salo (155)
Risto Ulmala (DNF)
DNF
  • Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 204 athletes from 35 countries in the Senior men's race, two athletes less than the official number published.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 28, 1988), Cross-country in Britain could be running out of time - The World Championships in Auckland may have signalled the beginning of the death of cross-country running in Britain..., Glasgow Herald, p. 9, retrieved October 23, 2013
  2. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Auckland Elleslie Date: Saturday, March 26, 1988, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 23, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
  4. ^ a b 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013