2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Hippodrome Wellington in Ostend (Oostende), Belgium, on March 25, 2001. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times,^[1][2] in the Herald,^[3] and for the IAAF.^[4]

Junior men's race at the 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	29th
Date	March 25
Host city	Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium
Venue	Hippodrome Wellington
Events	1
Distances	7.7 km – Junior men
Participation	152 athletes from 38 nations
← 2000 Vilamoura 2002 Dublin →

Complete results for individuals,^[5][6][7] for teams,^[5][8][9] medallists,^[10] and the results of British athletes who took part^[11] were published.

Race results

Junior men's race (7.7 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	25:04
	Duncan Lebo	Kenya	25:37
	Dathan Ritzenhein	United States	25:46
4	Nicholas Kemboi	Kenya	25:52
5	Matt Tegenkamp	United States	25:55
6	Robert Kipchumba	Kenya	26:00
7	Alemayehu Tedla	Ethiopia	26:02
8	Maregu Zewdie	Ethiopia	26:14
9	Beruk Debrework	Ethiopia	26:15
10	Paul Wakou	Uganda	26:17
11	Jean Baptiste Simukeka	Rwanda	26:22
12	Edwin Koech	Kenya	26:37
13	Wilson Chelal	Kenya	26:43
14	Takashi Otsu	Japan	26:43
15	Aissam Gtaib	Morocco	26:43
16	Johnny Okello	Uganda	26:44
17	Samson Ramadhani	Tanzania	26:44
18	Atif Agebli	Morocco	26:46
19	Francis Musani	Uganda	26:54
20	Tibebu Yenew	Ethiopia	26:54
21	Kiplimo Muneria	Kenya	26:56
22	Adil El Bannouri	Morocco	26:57
23	Moses Mpanga	Uganda	26:58
24	Josh Spiker	United States	27:02
25	Francis Yiga	Uganda	27:04
26	Daniel Andrew Sipe	Tanzania	27:06
27	Ryan Hayden	Canada	27:07
28	Nathan Brannen	Canada	27:08
29	Stephen Rogart	Tanzania	27:08
30	Simon Bairu	Canada	27:15
31	Salah Habib	Algeria	27:16
32	Ali Abdalla	Eritrea	27:18
33	Fekadu Gemeda	Ethiopia	27:24
34	Habtai Kifletsion	Eritrea	27:25
35	Mircea Bogdan	Romania	27:30
36	Keving Tingaud	France	27:31
37	Piet Desmet	Belgium	27:32
38	Bruno Saramago	Portugal	27:33
39	Ian Dobson	United States	27:34
40	Bouazza Saji	Morocco	27:37
41	Salah Juaim	Yemen	27:38
42	Hani Meguellati	Algeria	27:43
43	Patrick Guidera	Ireland	27:48
44	Francis Melo	Chile	27:50
45	Arturo Casado	Spain	27:52
46	Cutbert Nyasango	Zimbabwe	27:52
47	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	27:53
48	Philippe Verleyen	Belgium	27:54
49	Anouar Assila	Morocco	27:54
50	Valerio Gulli	Italy	27:56
51	Vladimir Checha	Belarus	27:58
52	Shuichi Fujii	Japan	27:59
53	Ian Hornabrook	Australia	28:00
54	Teshome Woldegaber	Eritrea	28:00
55	Jérôme Collot	Belgium	28:03
56	Nabil Zerrouak	Algeria	28:04
57	Francis Khanje	Malawi	28:05
58	Fernando Fernandes	Brazil	28:05
59	Mo Farah	United Kingdom	28:06
60	Muhammet Matpay	Turkey	28:06
61	Luca Massimino	Italy	28:06
62	Aurelien Demailly	France	28:07
63	Alberto Ramírez	Spain	28:08
64	Henrik Nyström	Sweden	28:10
65	William Harty	Ireland	28:12
66	Liberato Pellecchia	Italy	28:12
67	Carlos Silva	Portugal	28:14
68	Cosimo Caliandro	Italy	28:15
69	Benjamin Barbier	Belgium	28:15
70	Nebay Habtegiorgis	Eritrea	28:16
71	Fernando Cabada Jr.	United States	28:16
72	Antonio Lagares	Spain	28:17
73	Tim Stessens	Belgium	28:17
74	Abram Miya	South Africa	28:18
75	Franck de Almeida	Brazil	28:18
76	Martin Fagan	Ireland	28:19
77	Abdelkader Bakhtache	Algeria	28:22
78	Noel Cutillas	Spain	28:22
79	Selahattin Selçuk	Turkey	28:24
80	Andrew Baddeley	United Kingdom	28:27
81	Abdelatif Chemlal	Morocco	28:30
82	Hakim Mokhtari	France	28:30
83	Sergio Sánchez	Spain	28:31
84	Friedel Maans	South Africa	28:32
85	Kenichi Shiraishi	Japan	28:32
86	Joe Dionne	Canada	28:33
87	Sandile Lembetha	South Africa	28:34
88	Richard Jeremiah	Australia	28:35
89	Javier Guerra	Spain	28:37
90	Cristian Gaeta	Italy	28:37
91	Yoshiyuki Tatsuta	Japan	28:39
92	Germán Sánchez	Chile	28:40
93	Matt Maline	United States	28:42
94	Sean Connolly	Ireland	28:45
95	Adam Bowden	United Kingdom	28:45
96	Luigi La Bella	Italy	28:47
97	Abdulaziz Ali Abdulaziz	Yemen	28:48
98	Paul Shaw	United Kingdom	28:49
99	Hicham Chahib	France	28:50
100	Pieter Sollier	Belgium	28:50
101	Serdar Durer	Turkey	28:51
102	Arnoud Okken	Netherlands	28:58
103	Luke Taylor	Australia	29:01
104	Brandon Young	Canada	29:02
105	José Luis Santos	Mexico	29:03
106	Brad Dyson	Australia	29:09
107	George Mkupatira	Malawi	29:11
108	Abdurrahman Kara	Turkey	29:12
109	Andrey Anisimov	Belarus	29:12
110	Diarmuid Grant	Ireland	29:13
111	Arturo Merced	Mexico	29:13
112	Watson Magobo	Malawi	29:15
113	Abdelmoumene Bouchicha	Algeria	29:18
114	Muresh Kumar Yadav	India	29:18
115	Moses Faku	South Africa	29:20
116	Date Mteketa	Malawi	29:20
117	Mohammed Al-Nehmi	Yemen	29:22
118	Steven Ablitt	United Kingdom	29:24
119	Igor Daronin	Belarus	29:25
120	Luis Gamin	Chile	29:34
121	Naoto Kato	Japan	29:35
122	Naoki Shibata	Japan	29:47
123	Jacob Selebalo	South Africa	29:51
124	Ed Jackson	United Kingdom	29:54
125	Dharmender Kumar	India	29:56
126	Pavel Somich	Belarus	30:06
127	Michael Sanchez	Gibraltar	30:07
128	Sebastián Pino	Chile	30:15
129	Cláudio da Cruz	Brazil	30:15
130	Jeremy Valat	France	30:21
131	Ahmed Nasr Ali Al-Ragami	Yemen	30:24
132	Azeet Kumar	India	30:38
133	Jahongir Tolibjonov	Uzbekistan	30:43
134	Meretdurdy Kereguliev	Turkmenistan	30:47
135	Nozimjon Irmatov	Tajikistan	30:57
136	Kenneth Otarola	Costa Rica	31:03
137	Nurridin Irmatov	Tajikistan	31:06
138	Rasul Saydaliyev	Uzbekistan	31:28
139	Rustam Irmatov	Tajikistan	31:48
140	Khodor Abdou	Lebanon	31:55
141	Ruslan Kurbanov	Turkmenistan	31:56
142	Kamoliddin Fakhritdinov	Tajikistan	32:06
143	Vadim Bezyanov	Uzbekistan	32:23
144	Suleyman Jumakuliyev	Turkmenistan	32:35
145	Jacques Francis	Lebanon	32:49
146	Salimjan Yangibayev	Turkmenistan	32:54
147	Dominic Carroll	Gibraltar	34:34
148	Sarvar Akhmatov	Uzbekistan	35:47
149	Lee Taylor	Gibraltar	35:47
—	Noureddine Athamna	Algeria	DNF
—	Cleyton Aguiar	Brazil	DNF
—	Suresh Kumar Yadav	India	DNF
—	Nigel Wray	Canada	DNS
—	Phaustin Baha Sulle	Tanzania	DNS

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya Duncan Lebo 2 Nicholas Kemboi 4 Robert Kipchumba 6 Edwin Koech 12 (Wilson Chelal) (13) (Kiplimo Muneria) (21)	24
	Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele 1 Alemayehu Tedla 7 Maregu Zewdie 8 Beruk Debrework 9 (Tibebu Yenew) (20) (Fekadu Gemeda) (33)	25
	Uganda Paul Wakou 10 Johnny Okello 16 Francis Musani 19 Moses Mpanga 23 (Francis Yiga) (25)	68
4	United States Dathan Ritzenhein 3 Matt Tegenkamp 5 Josh Spiker 24 Ian Dobson 39 (Fernando Cabada Jr.) (71) (Matt Maline) (93)	71
5	Morocco Aissam Gtaib 15 Atif Agebli 18 Adil El Bannouri 22 Bouazza Saji 40 (Anouar Assila) (49) (Abdelatif Chemlal) (81)	95
6	Canada Ryan Hayden 27 Nathan Brannen 28 Simon Bairu 30 Joe Dionne 86 (Brandon Young) (104)	171
7	Eritrea Ali Abdalla 32 Habtai Kifletsion 34 Teshome Woldegaber 54 Nebay Habtegiorgis 70	190
8	Algeria Salah Habib 31 Hani Meguellati 42 Nabil Zerrouak 56 Abdelkader Bakhtache 77 (Abdelmoumene Bouchicha) (113) (Noureddine Athamna) (DNF)	206
9	Belgium Piet Desmet 37 Philippe Verleyen 48 Jérôme Collot 55 Benjamin Barbier 69 (Tim Stessens) (73) (Pieter Sollier) (100)	209
10	Japan Takashi Otsu 14 Shuichi Fujii 52 Kenichi Shiraishi 85 Yoshiyuki Tatsuta 91 (Naoto Kato) (121) (Naoki Shibata) (122)	242
11	Italy Valerio Gulli 50 Luca Massimino 61 Liberato Pellecchia 66 Cosimo Caliandro 68 (Cristian Gaeta) (90) (Luigi La Bella) (96)	245
12	Spain Arturo Casado 45 Alberto Ramírez 63 Antonio Lagares 72 Noel Cutillas 78 (Sergio Sánchez) (83) (Javier Guerra) (89)	258
13	Ireland Patrick Guidera 43 William Harty 65 Martin Fagan 76 Sean Connolly 94 (Diarmuid Grant) (110)	278
14	France Keving Tingaud 36 Aurelien Demailly 62 Hakim Mokhtari 82 Hicham Chahib 99 (Jeremy Valat) (130)	279
15	United Kingdom Mo Farah 59 Andrew Baddeley 80 Adam Bowden 95 Paul Shaw 98 (Steven Ablitt) (118) (Ed Jackson) (124)	332
16	Turkey Muhammet Matpay 60 Selahattin Selçuk 79 Serdar Durer 101 Abdurrahman Kara 108	348
17	Australia Ian Hornabrook 53 Richard Jeremiah 88 Luke Taylor 103 Brad Dyson 106	350
18	South Africa Abram Miya 74 Friedel Maans 84 Sandile Lembetha 87 Moses Faku 115 (Jacob Selebalo) (123)	360
19	Chile Francis Melo 44 Germán Sánchez 92 Luis Gamin 120 Sebastián Pino 128	384
20	Yemen Salah Juaim 41 Abdulaziz Ali Abdulaziz 97 Mohammed Al-Nehmi 117 Ahmed Nasr Ali Al-Ragami 131	386
21	Malawi Francis Khanje 57 George Mkupatira 107 Watson Magobo 112 Date Mteketa 116	392
22	Belarus Vladimir Checha 51 Andrey Anisimov 109 Igor Daronin 119 Pavel Somich 126	405
23	Tajikistan Nozimjon Irmatov 135 Nurridin Irmatov 137 Rustam Irmatov 139 Kamoliddin Fakhritdinov 142	553
24	Uzbekistan Jahongir Tolibjonov 133 Rasul Saydaliyev 138 Vadim Bezyanov 143 Sarvar Akhmatov 148	562
25	Turkmenistan Meretdurdy Kereguliev 134 Ruslan Kurbanov 141 Suleyman Jumakuliyev 144 Salimjan Yangibayev 146	565
DNF	Brazil (Fernando Fernandes) (58) (Franck de Almeida) (75) (Cláudio da Cruz) (129) (Cleyton Aguiar) (DNF)	DNF
DNF	India (Muresh Kumar Yadav) (114) (Dharmender Kumar) (125) (Azeet Kumar) (132) (Suresh Kumar Yadav) (DNF)	DNF

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 152 athletes from 38 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[11]

•  Algeria (6)
•  Australia (4)
•  Belarus (4)
•  Belgium (6)
•  Brazil (4)
•  Canada (5)
•  Chile (4)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Eritrea (4)
•  Ethiopia (6)
•  France (5)
•  Gibraltar (3)
•  India (4)
•  Ireland (5)
•  Italy (6)
•  Japan (6)
•  Kenya (6)
•  Lebanon (2)
•  Malawi (4)
•  Mexico (3)
•  Morocco (6)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Portugal (2)
•  Romania (1)
•  Rwanda (1)
•  South Africa (5)
•  Spain (6)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Tajikistan (4)
•  Tanzania (3)
•  Turkey (4)
•  Turkmenistan (4)
•  Uganda (5)
• United Kingdom (6)
•  United States (6)
•  Uzbekistan (4)
•  Yemen (4)
•  Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race