1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Junior men's race at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition15th
DateMarch 22
Host cityWarsaw, Poland
VenueSłużewiec Racecourse
Events1
Distances7.05 km – Junior men
Participation146 athletes from
29 nations

The Junior men's race at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Warsaw, Poland, at the Służewiec Racecourse on March 22, 1987. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald[1] and in the Evening Times.[2]

Complete results,[3] medallists, [4] and the results of British athletes[5] were published.

Race results

Junior men's race (7.05 km)

Individual

Rank Athlete Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Wilfred Kirochi  Kenya 22:18
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Demeke Bekele  Ethiopia 22:18
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Debebe Demisse  Ethiopia 22:20
4 William Koskei Chemitei  Kenya 22:27
5 Mathew Rono  Kenya 22:28
6 Aligaz Alemayehu  Ethiopia 22:28
7 Simon Mugglestone  England 22:33
8 Bedile Kibret  Ethiopia 22:37
9 Ararse Fuffa  Ethiopia 22:39
10 Thomas Osano  Kenya 22:55
11 Abel Gisemba  Kenya 23:01
12 Haydar Dogan  Turkey 23:07
13 Joseph Otwori  Kenya 23:11
14 Kenji Ayabe  Japan 23:13
15 Mourad Bouldjadj  Algeria 23:19
16 Darren Klassen  Canada 23:19
17 Luc Peerlinck  Belgium 23:23
18 Yoshinori Yokota  Japan 23:24
19 Didier Sainthorand  France 23:25
20 Masaki Yamamoto  Japan 23:26
21 Hideyuki Matsumoto  Japan 23:26
22 Zoltán Káldy  Hungary 23:28
23 Todd Williams  United States 23:30
24 Valery Chesak  Soviet Union 23:31
25 Marc Pujol  Spain 23:31
26 Marco Rufo  Spain 23:31
27 Wayne Larden  Australia 23:32
28 Timothy Gargiulo  United States 23:34
29 Robert Henes  United States 23:35
30 Mikhail Puzniak  Soviet Union 23:36
31 Alan Lewis  Canada 23:37
32 David Wilson  Ireland 23:38
33 Luca Barzaghi  Italy 23:40
34 Clayton Clews  Australia 23:40
35 Jesús Gálvez  Spain 23:40
36 Alex Mowatt  Canada 23:44
37 Mohamed Choumassi  Morocco 23:44
38 Giuliano Baccani  Italy 23:45
39 Francisco Rivera  Spain 23:46
40 Marc Davis  United States 23:47
41 Brendan Matthias  Canada 23:48
42 Abdelaziz Mahjoubi  Morocco 23:53
43 James Hynes  Ireland 23:54
44 Moulay Ali Ouadih  Morocco 23:56
45 Marco Di Lieto  Italy 23:56
46 Salem Chilah  Tunisia 23:57
47 Fermín Cacho  Spain 23:58
48 Vladimir Kilnesov  Soviet Union 23:59
49 Zoltán Gergely  Hungary 23:59
50 Martin Amor  England 24:00
51 Greg Andersen  Canada 24:05
52 Mohamed El Bachir  Algeria 24:07
53 Mehmet Bayram  Turkey 24:08
54 Brahim Lahlafi  Morocco 24:09
55 Mauro Biagetti  Italy 24:10
56 Károly Vajkovics  Hungary 24:10
57 Robert Langfeld  West Germany 24:11
58 Nicholas McCaffrey  England 24:11
59 Julian Gentry  England 24:12
60 Miroslaw Plawgo  Poland 24:13
61 Carsten Arndt  West Germany 24:13
62 Mark Mastalir  United States 24:15
63 Tesfayi Dadi  Ethiopia 24:16
64 Bernard Bourke  Australia 24:17
65 Seamus O'Loan  Ireland 24:18
66 Davey Wilson  Northern Ireland 24:18
67 Jan Jonsson  Sweden 24:20
68 Waldemar Glinka  Poland 24:21
69 Valeriy Fedotov  Soviet Union 24:21
70 Markus Tischler  West Germany 24:21
71 Fabian Lacan  France 24:22
72 Amar Ouerfelli  Tunisia 24:22
73 Rik Stepman  Belgium 24:22
74 Abderrahim Cherkaoui  Morocco 24:23
75 Remzi Atli  Turkey 24:24
76 Zoltán Holba  Hungary 24:24
77 Justin Hobbs  Wales 24:25
78 Philip Hennessy  England 24:26
79 Laurent Delacenserie  France 24:26
80 Ali Canpolat  Turkey 24:27
81 Christoph Ruettiman   Switzerland 24:28
82 Tayeb Benaiche  Algeria 24:29
83 Andrew Edge  Wales 24:30
84 Alastair Russell  Scotland 24:30
85 Riyouki Murakami  Japan 24:31
86 Rafal Walczak  Poland 24:32
87 Kevin McKay  England 24:33
88 Marc Vanderstraeten  Belgium 24:33
89 Wilfried Liers  Belgium 24:34
90 Nick Tsioros  Canada 24:34
91 Jonas Larsson  Sweden 24:36
92 Yohinori Sato  Japan 24:37
93 Allan Carman  Australia 24:38
94 Geoffrey Sheehan  Ireland 24:40
95 Mariusz Lamch  Poland 24:40
96 Mabrouk Trimèche  Algeria 24:41
97 Lotfi Aoua  Tunisia 24:43
98 Bousmaha Saidi  Algeria 24:43
99 Bernd Jähnke  West Germany 24:45
100 Eric Mastalir  United States 24:47
101 Luigi Teodori  Italy 24:48
102 Talat Gökce  Turkey 24:50
103 Craig McFadzean  Scotland 24:51
104 Mickael Dufermont  France 24:55
105 Niklas Johnsson  Sweden 24:56
106 Ferenc Sági  Hungary 24:57
107 Bobby Farren  Northern Ireland 24:58
108 Dean Rose  Australia 24:59
109 David Jones  Ireland 24:59
110 Yaswant Rawat Singh  India 24:59
111 Anatoliy Dimitrov  Soviet Union 25:00
112 Juan Abad  Spain 25:00
113 Lars Richter  West Germany 25:03
114 Azzedine Sakhri  Algeria 25:04
115 Robert Jay  Wales 25:06
116 Jamal Ali Al-Hakim  North Yemen 25:08
117 Naceur Hamed  Tunisia 25:09
118 Justin Chaston  Wales 25:10
119 Andreas Ahl  Sweden 25:11
120 Szabolcs Jámbor  Hungary 25:12
121 David Beyssac  France 25:13
122 Wendy Hermans  Belgium 25:14
123 Slim Chérif  Tunisia 25:16
124 Mark Wallace  Scotland 25:17
125 Per Stjernberg  Sweden 25:18
126 Hardev Singh  India 25:18
127 Mel Hilliard  Ireland 25:24
128 Hans van der Hoeven  Belgium 25:25
129 Radek Bily  Czechoslovakia 25:25
130 Gennaro Di Napoli  Italy 25:29
131 Slawomir Swieczkowski  Poland 25:31
132 Cairan McGivern  Northern Ireland 25:34
133 Piotr Prusik  Poland 25:35
134 Hukum Singh  India 25:35
135 Mohamed Nasser Al-Zaidi  North Yemen 25:39
136 Declan Caddell  Northern Ireland 25:42
137 Jan Arvidsson  Sweden 25:44
138 David Donnett  Scotland 25:49
139 Philip Healey  Northern Ireland 25:51
140 David Arnott  Scotland 25:59
141 Steven Tagg  Australia 26:17
142 Ithai Luria  Israel 26:17
143 Stuart Kennedy  Northern Ireland 26:18
144 Dafydd Hughes  Wales 26:24
145 John Quinn  Scotland 26:28
146 Gerallt Owen  Wales 27:30

Teams

Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Ethiopia
Demeke Bekele 2
Debebe Demisse 3
Aligaz Alemayehu 6
Bedile Kibret 8
(Ararse Fuffa) (9)
(Tesfayi Dadi) (63)
19
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Kenya
Wilfred Kirochi 1
William Koskei Chemitei 4
Mathew Rono 5
Thomas Osano 10
(Abel Gisemba) (11)
(Joseph Otwori) (13)
20
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Japan
Kenji Ayabe 14
Yoshinori Yokota 18
Masaki Yamamoto 20
Hideyuki Matsumoto 21
(Riyouki Murakami) (85)
(Yohinori Sato) (92)
73
4  United States
Todd Williams 23
Timothy Gargiulo 28
Robert Henes 29
Marc Davis 40
(Mark Mastalir) (62)
(Eric Mastalir) (100)
120
5  Canada
Darren Klassen 16
Alan Lewis 31
Alex Mowatt 36
Brendan Matthias 41
(Greg Andersen) (51)
(Nick Tsioros) (90)
124
6  Spain
Marc Pujol 25
Marco Rufo 26
Jesús Gálvez 35
Francisco Rivera 39
(Fermín Cacho) (47)
(Juan Abad) (112)
125
7  Italy
Luca Barzaghi 33
Giuliano Baccani 38
Marco Di Lieto 45
Mauro Biagetti 55
(Luigi Teodori) (101)
(Gennaro Di Napoli) (130)
171
8  Soviet Union
Valery Chesak 24
Mikhail Puzniak 30
Vladimir Kilnesov 48
Valeriy Fedotov 69
(Anatoliy Dimitrov) (111)
171
9  England
Simon Mugglestone 7
Martin Amor 50
Nicholas McCaffrey 58
Julian Gentry 59
(Philip Hennessy) (78)
(Kevin McKay) (87)
174
10  Morocco
Mohamed Choumassi 37
Abdelaziz Mahjoubi 42
Moulay Ali Ouadih 44
Brahim Lahlafi 54
(Abderrahim Cherkaoui) (74)
177
11  Hungary
Zoltán Káldy 22
Zoltán Gergely 49
Károly Vajkovics 56
Zoltán Holba 76
(Ferenc Sági) (106)
(Szabolcs Jámbor) (120)
203
12  Australia
Wayne Larden 27
Clayton Clews 34
Bernard Bourke 64
Allan Carman 93
(Dean Rose) (108)
(Steven Tagg) (141)
218
13  Turkey
Haydar Dogan 12
Mehmet Bayram 53
Remzi Atli 75
Ali Canpolat 80
(Talat Gökce) (102)
220
14  Ireland
David Wilson 32
James Hynes 43
Seamus O'Loan 65
Geoffrey Sheehan 94
(David Jones) (109)
(Mel Hilliard) (127)
234
15  Algeria
Mourad Bouldjadj 15
Mohamed El Bachir 52
Tayeb Benaiche 82
Mabrouk Trimèche 96
(Bousmaha Saidi) (98)
(Azzedine Sakhri) (114)
245
16  Belgium
Luc Peerlinck 17
Rik Stepman 73
Marc Vanderstraeten 88
Wilfried Liers 89
(Wendy Hermans) (122)
(Hans van der Hoeven) (128)
267
17  France
Didier Sainthorand 19
Fabian Lacan 71
Laurent Delacenserie 79
Mickael Dufermont 104
(David Beyssac) (121)
273
18  West Germany
Robert Langfeld 57
Carsten Arndt 61
Markus Tischler 70
Bernd Jähnke 99
(Lars Richter) (113)
287
19  Poland
Miroslaw Plawgo 60
Waldemar Glinka 68
Rafal Walczak 86
Mariusz Lamch 95
(Slawomir Swieczkowski) (131)
(Piotr Prusik) (133)
309
20  Tunisia
Salem Chilah 46
Amar Ouerfelli 72
Lotfi Aoua 97
Naceur Hamed 117
(Slim Chérif) (123)
332
21  Sweden
Jan Jonsson 67
Jonas Larsson 91
Niklas Johnsson 105
Andreas Ahl 119
(Per Stjernberg) (125)
(Jan Arvidsson) (137)
382
22  Wales
Justin Hobbs 77
Andrew Edge 83
Robert Jay 115
Justin Chaston 118
(Dafydd Hughes) (144)
(Gerallt Owen) (146)
393
23  Northern Ireland
Davey Wilson 66
Bobby Farren 107
Cairan McGivern 132
Declan Caddell 136
(Philip Healey) (139)
(Stuart Kennedy) (143)
441
24  Scotland
Alastair Russell 84
Craig McFadzean 103
Mark Wallace 124
David Donnett 138
(David Arnott) (140)
(John Quinn) (145)
449
  • Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 146 athletes from 29 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 23, 1987), Lynch's supreme effort just fails in Polish mud - Liz Lynch gave everything she had, and then found a little more, but it was not quite enough to capture the world cross-country title on the freezing muddy wastes of Sluzewiac racecourse this afternoon..., Glasgow Herald, p. 10, retrieved October 22, 2013
  2. ^ Sad Lynch comes out second best - Not even the consolidation of the silver medal could bring a smile to the face of Scotland's Liz Lynch after the World Cross Cross Country Championships in Warsaw.., Evening Times, March 23, 1987, p. 17, retrieved October 22, 2013
  3. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.1km CC Men - Warszawa Sluzewiec Date: Sunday, March 22, 1987, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 22, 2013{citation}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
  5. ^ 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