2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
# 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

The Senior men's race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Leopardstown Racecourse near Dublin, Ireland, on March 24, 2002. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, in the Herald, and for the IAAF.

Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.

## Race results

### Senior men's race (11.998 km)

**Individual**

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Kenenisa Bekele | Ethiopia | 34:52 |
| | John Yuda | Tanzania | 34:58 |
| | Wilberforce Talel | Kenya | 35:20 |
| 4 | Richard Limo | Kenya | 35:26 |
| 5 | Charles Kamathi | Kenya | 35:29 |
| 6 | Albert Chepkurui | Kenya | 35:32 |
| 7 | Abderrahim Goumri | Morocco | 35:43 |
| 8 | Yonas Kifle | Eritrea | 35:47 |
| 9 | Enock Mitei | Kenya | 35:49 |
| 10 | Jaouad Gharib | Morocco | 35:57 |
| 11 | Abdi Abdirahman | United States | 36:03 |
| 12 | Assefa Mezegebu | Ethiopia | 36:06 |
| 13 | Smail Sghir | France | 36:07 |
| 14 | Meb Keflezighi | United States | 36:09 |
| 15 | Mustapha Essaïd | France | 36:10 |
| 16 | Habte Jifar | Ethiopia | 36:11 |
| 17 | Fita Bayissa | Ethiopia | 36:14 |
| 18 | Samson Ramadhani | Tanzania | 36:16 |
| 19 | Eduardo Henriques | Portugal | 36:20 |
| 20 | Lemma Alemayehu | Ethiopia | 36:25 |
| 21 | Saïd Berrioui | Morocco | 36:27 |
| 22 | Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga | Burundi | 36:29 |
| 23 | El Hassan Lahssini | France | 36:30 |
| 24 | Dathan Ritzenhein | United States | 36:31 |
| 25 | Yevgeniy Bozhko | Ukraine | 36:33 |
| 26 | José Manuel García | Spain | 36:34 |
| 27 | Elarbi Khattabi | Morocco | 36:34 |
| 28 | Michael Ngaaseke | Zimbabwe | 36:35 |
| 29 | Hosea Kogo | Kenya | 36:36 |
| 30 | Zersenay Tadesse | Eritrea | 36:37 |
| 31 | Obed Mutanya | Zambia | 36:37 |
| 32 | Kamiel Maase | Netherlands | 36:40 |
| 33 | Mohamed Serbouti | France | 36:40 |
| 34 | Tom van Hooste | Belgium | 36:40 |
| 35 | José Manuel Martínez | Spain | 36:40 |
| 36 | Makoto Otsu | Japan | 36:41 |
| 37 | Dean Cavuoto | Australia | 36:41 |
| 38 | Mauricio Díaz | Chile | 36:41 |
| 39 | Claes Nyberg | Sweden | 36:42 |
| 40 | Teodoro Cuñado | Spain | 36:48 |
| 41 | Samir Moussaoui | Algeria | 36:49 |
| 42 | Gabriele De Nard | Italy | 36:51 |
| 43 | Sam Haughian | United Kingdom | 36:53 |
| 44 | Peter Matthews | Ireland | 36:59 |
| 45 | Rachid Berradi | Italy | 37:07 |
| 46 | Brett Cartwright | Australia | 37:07 |
| 47 | Alberto Maravilha | Portugal | 37:08 |
| 48 | Mark Carroll | Ireland | 37:09 |
| 49 | Allen Graffin | United Kingdom | 37:10 |
| 50 | Iván Sánchez | Spain | 37:10 |
| 51 | Ahmed Naïli | Algeria | 37:11 |
| 52 | Róbert Štefko | Slovakia | 37:12 |
| 53 | Tau Khotso | Lesotho | 37:13 |
| 54 | Dieudonné Disi | Rwanda | 37:14 |
| 55 | Paulo Gomes | Portugal | 37:20 |
| 56 | George Mofokeng | South Africa | 37:23 |
| 57 | José Carlos Adán | Spain | 37:26 |
| 58 | Abel Chimukoko | Zimbabwe | 37:28 |
| 59 | Mustapha Benacer | Algeria | 37:30 |
| 60 | Matt Smith | United Kingdom | 37:32 |
| 61 | Tomonori Watanabe | Japan | 37:32 |
| 62 | José Rios | Spain | 37:34 |
| 63 | Umberto Pusterla | Italy | 37:35 |
| 64 | Seamus Power | Ireland | 37:36 |
| 65 | Habtai Kifletsion | Eritrea | 37:36 |
| 66 | Pacifique Ayabusa | Rwanda | 37:36 |
| 67 | Shinichiro Okuda | Japan | 37:37 |
| 68 | Ian Hudspith | United Kingdom | 37:38 |
| 69 | Glynn Tromans | United Kingdom | 37:40 |
| 70 | Koen van Rie | Belgium | 37:45 |
| 71 | Daniel Andrew Sipe | Tanzania | 37:46 |
| 72 | Kamel Kohil | Algeria | 37:46 |
| 73 | Kenjiro Jitsui | Japan | 37:47 |
| 74 | Hassan El Ahmadi | France | 37:49 |
| 75 | Khalid Zoubaa | France | 37:50 |
| 76 | Brad Tighe | Canada | 37:51 |
| 77 | Yukihiro Motoda | Japan | 37:55 |
| 78 | Tesfayohannes Mesfen | Eritrea | 37:55 |
| 79 | Egide Manirazika | Burundi | 37:56 |
| 80 | Abdelkrim Benzai | Algeria | 37:57 |
| 81 | Rachid Safari | Rwanda | 37:57 |
| 82 | Kim Gillard | Australia | 37:59 |
| 83 | Eric Sindayigaya | Burundi | 38:00 |
| 84 | Azzedine Sakhri | Algeria | 38:02 |
| 85 | Sisay Bezabeh | Australia | 38:05 |
| 86 | Clint Wells | United States | 38:08 |
| 87 | Yuki Yamamoto | Japan | 38:08 |
| 88 | Giovanni Gualdi | Italy | 38:15 |
| 89 | Jean Bosco Ndagijimana | Rwanda | 38:16 |
| 90 | Hélder Ornelas | Portugal | 38:18 |
| 91 | Siphesihle Mdluli | Eswatini | 38:18 |
| 92 | Fiachra Lombard | Ireland | 38:21 |
| 93 | Greg Jimmerson | United States | 38:22 |
| 94 | Sunil Jayaweera | Sri Lanka | 38:25 |
| 95 | Gianni Crepaldi | Italy | 38:30 |
| 96 | Hugo Romero | Mexico | 38:31 |
| 97 | Alberto Chaíça | Portugal | 38:34 |
| 98 | Reid Coolsaet | Canada | 38:36 |
| 99 | Julian Dwyer | Australia | 38:37 |
| 100 | Christian Nemeth | Belgium | 38:38 |
| 101 | Mesfin Hailu | Ethiopia | 38:39 |
| 102 | Matt O'Dowd | United Kingdom | 38:41 |
| 103 | Jollyn Kanyika | Zambia | 38:43 |
| 104 | José Alberto Montenegro | Argentina | 38:51 |
| 105 | David Milne | Canada | 38:53 |
| 106 | Alex Hutchinson | Canada | 38:56 |
| 107 | Julius Gidabuday | Tanzania | 38:57 |
| 108 | Mykola Novytskyy | Ukraine | 38:59 |
| 109 | Oscar Cortínez | Argentina | 39:03 |
| 110 | Scott Simpson | Canada | 39:05 |
| 111 | John Burke | Ireland | 39:06 |
| 112 | Yevgeniy Medvednikov | Kazakhstan | 39:12 |
| 113 | Andrey Chigidinov | Kazakhstan | 39:20 |
| 114 | Paul Sumawe | Tanzania | 39:21 |
| 115 | Miguel Melendez | Chile | 39:25 |
| 116 | Arturo Malaquias | Mexico | 39:31 |
| 117 | Julián Peralta | Argentina | 39:33 |
| 118 | Jerry van den Eede | Belgium | 39:37 |
| 119 | Carlos Jaramillo | Chile | 39:38 |
| 120 | James Finlayson | Canada | 40:08 |
| 121 | Frédéric Collignon | Belgium | 40:10 |
| 122 | Jonathan Monje | Chile | 40:13 |
| 123 | Martin McCarthy | Ireland | 40:22 |
| 124 | Arkadiy Tolstyn | Kyrgyzstan | 40:36 |
| 125 | Sujeewa Chandrapala | Sri Lanka | 40:39 |
| 126 | Yohannes Ghirmai | Eritrea | 40:56 |
| 127 | Ajit Bandara | Sri Lanka | 40:58 |
| 128 | Khasan Rakhimov | Uzbekistan | 41:45 |
| 129 | Daniel Herrera | Chile | 42:24 |
| 130 | Vasiliy Medvedev | Uzbekistan | 43:58 |
| 131 | Leonard Ntala Meso | DR Congo | 45:16 |
| 132 | Radik Khubbiev | Uzbekistan | 46:18 |
| 133 | Abduvahob Nizamov | Uzbekistan | 46:27 |
| — | Sergiy Lebid | Ukraine | DNF |
| — | Mohammed Mourhit | Belgium | DNF |
| — | Antonio Silio | Argentina | DNF |
| — | Giuliano Battocletti | Italy | DNF |
| — | Hakim Radouan | Morocco | DNF |
| — | Matt Downin | United States | DNF |
| — | Goran Stojiljković | FR Yugoslavia | DNF |
| — | Hamid El Mouaziz | Morocco | $DQ^†$ |
| — | Arthur Santiago | Angola | DNS |
| — | Juan José Cruz | Argentina | DNS |
| — | Vital Gahungu | Burundi | DNS |
| — | Mohammed S.M. Albayed | Palestine | DNS |
| — | Nader Almassri | Palestine | DNS |
| — | Ihab Salama Abdellah | Palestine | DNS |
| — | Paulo Guerra | Portugal | DNS |
| — | Joseph Kamara | Sierra Leone | DNS |
| — | Abubakar Timbo | Sierra Leone | DNS |
| — | Sergey Zabavski | Tajikistan | DNS |

$^†:$ Hamid El Mouaziz from Morocco finished 44th in 36:57 min, but was disqualified.

**Teams**

| Rank | Team | Points |
| - | - | - |
| | Kenya Wilberforce Talel3 Richard Limo4 Charles Kamathi5 Albert Chepkurui6 (Enock Mitei)(n/s) (Hosea Kogo)(n/s) | 18 |
| | Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele1 Assefa Mezegebu11 Habte Jifar15 Fita Bayissa16 (Lemma Alemayehu)(n/s) (Mesfin Hailu)(n/s) | 43 |
| | Morocco Abderrahim Goumri7 Jaouad Gharib9 Saïd Berrioui19 Elarbi Khattabi23 (Hakim Radouan)(DNF) | 58 |
| 4 | France Smail Sghir12 Mustapha Essaïd14 El Hassan Lahssini20 Mohamed Serbouti25 (Hassan El Ahmadi)(n/s) (Khalid Zoubaa)(n/s) | 71 |
| 5 | United States Abdi Abdirahman10 Meb Keflezighi13 Dathan Ritzenhein21 Clint Wells63 (Greg Jimmerson)(n/s) (Matt Downin)(DNF) | 107 |
| 6 | Spain José Manuel García22 José Manuel Martínez27 Teodoro Cuñado31 Iván Sánchez41 (José Carlos Adán)(n/s) (José Rios)(n/s) | 121 |
| 7 | Eritrea Yonas Kifle8 Zersenay Tadesse24 Habtai Kifletsion50 Tesfayohannes Mesfen59 (Yohannes Ghirmai)(n/s) | 141 |
| 8 | Tanzania John Yuda2 Samson Ramadhani17 Daniel Andrew Sipe55 Julius Gidabuday72 (Paul Sumawe)(n/s) | 146 |
| 9 | Portugal Eduardo Henriques18 Alberto Maravilha38 Paulo Gomes44 Hélder Ornelas66 (Alberto Chaíça)(n/s) | 166 |
| 10 | United Kingdom Sam Haughian34 Allen Graffin40 Matt Smith46 Ian Hudspith53 (Glynn Tromans)(n/s) (Matt O'Dowd)(n/s) | 173 |
| 11 | Algeria Samir Moussaoui32 Ahmed Naïli42 Mustapha Benacer45 Kamel Kohil56 (Abdelkrim Benzai)(n/s) (Azzedine Sakhri)(n/s) | 175 |
| 12 | Italy Gabriele De Nard33 Rachid Berradi36 Umberto Pusterla48 Giovanni Gualdi64 (Gianni Crepaldi)(n/s) (Giuliano Battocletti)(DNF) | 181 |
| 13 | Japan Makoto Otsu28 Tomonori Watanabe47 Shinichiro Okuda52 Kenjiro Jitsui57 (Yukihiro Motoda)(n/s) (Yuki Yamamoto)(n/s) | 184 |
| 14 | Australia Dean Cavuoto29 Brett Cartwright37 Kim Gillard61 Sisay Bezabeh62 (Julian Dwyer)(n/s) | 189 |
| 15 | Ireland Peter Matthews35 Mark Carroll39 Seamus Power49 Fiachra Lombard67 (John Burke)(n/s) (Martin McCarthy)(n/s) | 190 |
| 16 | Rwanda Dieudonné Disi43 Pacifique Ayabusa51 Rachid Safari60 Jean Bosco Ndagijimana65 | 219 |
| 17 | Belgium Tom van Hooste26 Koen van Rie54 Christian Nemeth69 Jerry van den Eede74 (Frédéric Collignon)(n/s) (Mohammed Mourhit)(DNF) | 223 |
| 18 | Chile Mauricio Díaz30 Miguel Melendez73 Carlos Jaramillo75 Jonathan Monje76 (Daniel Herrera)(n/s) | 254 |
| 19 | Canada Brad Tighe58 Reid Coolsaet68 David Milne70 Alex Hutchinson71 (Scott Simpson)(n/s) (James Finlayson)(n/s) | 267 |
| 20 | Uzbekistan Khasan Rakhimov77 Vasiliy Medvedev78 Radik Khubbiev79 Abduvahob Nizamov80 | 314 |
| DNF | Argentina José Alberto Montenegro(n/s) Oscar Cortínez(n/s) Julián Peralta(n/s) Antonio Silio(DNF) | DNF |

* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result (n/s: nonscorer)

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 141 athletes from 37 countries participated in the Senior men's race. The announced athletes from Angola, Palestine, Sierra Leone, and Tajikistan did not show.

* Algeria (6)
* Argentina (4)
* Australia (5)
* Belgium (6)
* Burundi (3)
* Canada (6)
* Chile (5)
* DR Congo (1)
* Eritrea (5)
* Ethiopia (6)
* France (6)
* Ireland (6)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (6)
* Kazakhstan (2)
* Kenya (6)
* Kyrgyzstan (1)
* Lesotho (1)
* Mexico (2)
* Morocco (6)
* Netherlands (1)
* Portugal (5)
* Rwanda (4)
* Slovakia (1)
* South Africa (1)
* Spain (6)
* Sri Lanka (3)
* Eswatini (1)
* Sweden (1)
* Tanzania (5)
* Ukraine (3)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (4)
* FR Yugoslavia (1)
* Zambia (2)
* Zimbabwe (2)
