1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
# 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Durham, United Kingdom, at the University of Durham on March 25, 1995. A report on the event was given in The New York Times and in the Herald.

Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

## Race results

### Junior men's race (8.47 km)

**Individual**

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Assefa Mezegebu | Ethiopia | 24:12 |
| | Dejene Lidetu | Ethiopia | 24:14 |
| | David Chelule | Kenya | 24:16 |
| 4 | Andrew Panga | Tanzania | 24:19 |
| 5 | Philip Mosima | Kenya | 24:23 |
| 6 | Abreham Tsige | Ethiopia | 24:40 |
| 7 | Hezron Otwori | Kenya | 24:43 |
| 8 | Mark Bett | Kenya | 24:48 |
| 9 | Sammy Kipruto | Kenya | 24:58 |
| 10 | Christopher Kelong | Kenya | 25:02 |
| 11 | John Morapedi | South Africa | 25:04 |
| 12 | Marko Hwahu | Tanzania | 25:04 |
| 13 | Hideaki Haraguchi | Japan | 25:09 |
| 14 | Benoît Zwierzchiewski | France | 25:10 |
| 15 | Mohamed El Hattab | Morocco | 25:14 |
| 16 | Lemma Bonsa | Ethiopia | 25:19 |
| 17 | Mohamed Amyn | Morocco | 25:22 |
| 18 | Iván Pérez | Spain | 25:24 |
| 19 | Abderrahman Chmaiti | Morocco | 25:26 |
| 20 | Muneyuki Ojima | Japan | 25:27 |
| 21 | Abdelilah El Marrafe | Morocco | 25:29 |
| 22 | Shinji Yamazaki | Japan | 25:30 |
| 23 | Mizan Mehari | Ethiopia | 25:36 |
| 24 | Baha Tulumbo | Tanzania | 25:38 |
| 25 | Abderrahim Goumri | Morocco | 25:47 |
| 26 | Gunther Methot | Belgium | 25:49 |
| 27 | Grigoriy Generalov | Russia | 25:54 |
| 28 | Gert-Jan Liefers | Netherlands | 25:54 |
| 29 | Akira Kiniwa | Japan | 25:57 |
| 30 | Mohamed Awol | Ethiopia | 25:57 |
| 31 | Miloud Abaoub | Algeria | 26:00 |
| 32 | Salem Messaoui | Algeria | 26:02 |
| 33 | Meck Mothuli | South Africa | 26:02 |
| 34 | Badre din Zioini | France | 26:06 |
| 35 | Tim Briggs | United States | 26:08 |
| 36 | José Antonio Ramallo | Spain | 26:10 |
| 37 | Abdelghani Amraoui | Algeria | 26:11 |
| 38 | Ahmed Ezzobayry | Morocco | 26:15 |
| 39 | Mauricio Ladino | Colombia | 26:16 |
| 40 | Hiroyuki Ogawa | Japan | 26:16 |
| 41 | Viktor Golubev | Belarus | 26:16 |
| 42 | Sun Jiawei | China | 26:17 |
| 43 | Petros Sithole | South Africa | 26:22 |
| 44 | Juan José Gómez | Spain | 26:23 |
| 45 | André Bucher | Switzerland | 26:26 |
| 46 | Matt Kerr | Canada | 26:26 |
| 47 | Abdulaziz Abdulrahman | Yemen | 26:27 |
| 48 | Alexandr Gelesh | Ukraine | 26:27 |
| 49 | Jason Rexing | United States | 26:28 |
| 50 | Lyes Ramoul | Algeria | 26:29 |
| 51 | Malte Stern | Germany | 26:30 |
| 52 | Dalibor Balgac | Croatia | 26:31 |
| 53 | Clodoaldo da Silva | Brazil | 26:32 |
| 54 | Adrian Maghiar | Romania | 26:33 |
| 55 | Antonio da Fonseca | Portugal | 26:34 |
| 56 | Noriyoshi Takasu | Japan | 26:34 |
| 57 | Pieter van Thournhout | Belgium | 26:35 |
| 58 | Márcio da Silva | Brazil | 26:36 |
| 59 | Kamel Boulahfane | Algeria | 26:37 |
| 60 | Michael Vicedo | France | 26:38 |
| 61 | Ali Harezi Al-Ghazali | Yemen | 26:39 |
| 62 | Aleksey Shestakov | Kazakhstan | 26:39 |
| 63 | Khaled Al-Atashi | Yemen | 26:40 |
| 64 | Travis Landreth | United States | 26:42 |
| 65 | Damiano Polti | Italy | 26:44 |
| 66 | Iván Hierro | Spain | 26:45 |
| 67 | Allen Graffin | United Kingdom | 26:46 |
| 68 | Clinton Mackevicius | Australia | 26:46 |
| 69 | Aaron Gabonewe | South Africa | 26:47 |
| 70 | Richard Mncwabe | South Africa | 26:48 |
| 71 | Aleksandr Lukoshenko | Belarus | 26:49 |
| 72 | Chad Walton | Canada | 26:49 |
| 73 | Aleksey Lopaticuk | Ukraine | 26:51 |
| 74 | Sébastien Boiton | France | 26:53 |
| 75 | Martin Brusak | Czech Republic | 26:54 |
| 76 | Tony Forrest | United Kingdom | 26:54 |
| 77 | Janko Bensa | FR Yugoslavia | 26:55 |
| 78 | Davide Becchio | Italy | 26:55 |
| 79 | Matt Farley | United States | 26:56 |
| 80 | Luca Rosa | Italy | 26:57 |
| 81 | Mark Hauser | United States | 26:58 |
| 82 | Klaus Mueller | Canada | 27:01 |
| 83 | Ephraim Mokhotu | South Africa | 27:03 |
| 84 | Jerry Ziak | Canada | 27:04 |
| 85 | Matt O'Dowd | United Kingdom | 27:04 |
| 86 | Lahcene Slimani | Algeria | 27:04 |
| 87 | Alexandr Mulin | Ukraine | 27:05 |
| 88 | Marilson dos Santos | Brazil | 27:06 |
| 89 | Esa Martomaa | Finland | 27:07 |
| 90 | Fouad Obad | Yemen | 27:08 |
| 91 | Paw Nielsen | Denmark | 27:08 |
| 92 | Ben Reese | United Kingdom | 27:10 |
| 93 | Davide Maffei | Italy | 27:11 |
| 94 | Mohamed Al-Khawlani | Yemen | 27:11 |
| 95 | Gábor Domonyik | Hungary | 27:12 |
| 96 | Eduardo Vargas | Spain | 27:13 |
| 97 | Reynald Moulet | France | 27:14 |
| 98 | Bart de Berge | Belgium | 27:14 |
| 99 | Brian Jensen | Denmark | 27:15 |
| 100 | Nicki Olesen | Denmark | 27:17 |
| 101 | Menisan Sanbato | Israel | 27:21 |
| 102 | Ruslan Sukhodolskiy | Moldova | 27:22 |
| 103 | Bart Verkaemer | Belgium | 27:27 |
| 104 | Frank Hoffmeister | Germany | 27:29 |
| 105 | Michael Maechler | Switzerland | 27:30 |
| 106 | José Carrasco | Colombia | 27:31 |
| 107 | Robert Brown | United Kingdom | 27:36 |
| 108 | Ndara Petrus | Namibia | 27:37 |
| 109 | Nico Noe | Belgium | 27:38 |
| 110 | Emanuele Manzi | Italy | 27:39 |
| 111 | Mikhail Potylchak | Belarus | 27:39 |
| 112 | Lars Juhl | Denmark | 27:41 |
| 113 | Chris Severy | United States | 27:42 |
| 114 | Gabriele Valli | Italy | 27:45 |
| 115 | András Juhász | Hungary | 27:48 |
| 116 | Ricardo Santos | Canada | 27:50 |
| 117 | Seppo Simola | Finland | 27:51 |
| 118 | Paulo Lunkes | Brazil | 27:53 |
| 119 | Vitaliy Zhogalskiy | Belarus | 27:54 |
| 120 | Valery Shugayevskiy | Ukraine | 27:55 |
| 121 | László Farkas | Hungary | 27:56 |
| 122 | Juvenal Vásquez | Colombia | 28:00 |
| 123 | Steve Lawrence | Canada | 28:11 |
| 124 | Jeroen van Dijke | Netherlands | 28:12 |
| 125 | Abdelatif Jlil | France | 28:25 |
| 126 | Philipp Nawrocki | Germany | 28:29 |
| 127 | Matthias Weippert | Germany | 28:38 |
| 128 | Nathaniel Lane | United Kingdom | 28:46 |
| 129 | Destao Sevannek | Israel | 28:49 |
| 130 | Denis Simicic | Croatia | 28:53 |
| 131 | Amadou Camara | Sierra Leone | 28:55 |
| 132 | Marck Lanham | Australia | 29:05 |
| 133 | Béla Horváth | Hungary | 29:10 |
| 134 | Kevin Musseliah | Mauritius | 29:11 |
| 135 | Kemal Tuvakuliyev | Turkmenistan | 29:19 |
| 136 | Jurica Posavec | Croatia | 29:29 |
| 137 | Kreso Baric | Croatia | 29:42 |
| 138 | Jhon Beltran | Colombia | 29:45 |
| 139 | Nikolay Volkov | Uzbekistan | 29:51 |
| 140 | Nicolas Natchou | Mauritius | 29:57 |
| 141 | Wang Ping-Chia | Chinese Taipei | 29:58 |
| 142 | Selwyn Bonne | Seychelles | 30:36 |
| 143 | Denis Sorokin | Uzbekistan | 31:38 |
| 144 | Roy Delorie | Seychelles | 32:05 |
| 145 | Nelson Hurst | Seychelles | 33:15 |
| 146 | Jude Bacharie | Seychelles | 35:09 |
| — | Reyes Estévez | Spain | DNF |
| — | Rui Silva | Portugal | DNF |

**Teams**

| Rank | Team | Points |
| - | - | - |
| | Kenya David Chelule3 Philip Mosima5 Hezron Otwori7 Mark Bett8 (Sammy Kipruto)(9) (Christopher Kelong)(10) | 23 |
| | Ethiopia Assefa Mezegebu1 Dejene Lidetu2 Abreham Tsige6 Lemma Bonsa16 (Mizan Mehari)(23) (Mohamed Awol)(30) | 25 |
| | Morocco Mohamed El Hattab15 Mohamed Amyn17 Abderrahman Chmaiti19 Abdelilah El Marrafe21 (Abderrahim Goumri)(25) (Ahmed Ezzobayry)(38) | 72 |
| 4 | Japan Hideaki Haraguchi13 Muneyuki Ojima20 Shinji Yamazaki22 Akira Kiniwa29 (Hiroyuki Ogawa)(40) (Noriyoshi Takasu)(56) | 84 |
| 5 | Algeria Miloud Abaoub31 Salem Messaoui32 Abdelghani Amraoui37 Lyes Ramoul50 (Kamel Boulahfane)(59) (Lahcene Slimani)(86) | 150 |
| 6 | South Africa John Morapedi11 Meck Mothuli33 Petros Sithole43 Aaron Gabonewe69 (Richard Mncwabe)(70) (Ephraim Mokhotu)(83) | 156 |
| 7 | Spain Iván Pérez18 José Antonio Ramallo36 Juan José Gómez44 Iván Hierro66 (Eduardo Vargas)(96) (Reyes Estévez)(DNF) | 164 |
| 8 | France Benoît Zwierzchiewski14 Badre din Zioini34 Michael Vicedo60 Sébastien Boiton74 (Reynald Moulet)(97) (Abdelatif Jlil)(125) | 182 |
| 9 | United States Tim Briggs35 Jason Rexing49 Travis Landreth64 Matt Farley79 (Mark Hauser)(81) (Chris Severy)(113) | 227 |
| 10 | Yemen Abdulaziz Abdulrahman47 Ali Harezi Al-Ghazali61 Khaled Al-Atashi63 Fouad Obad90 (Mohamed Al-Khawlani)(94) | 261 |
| 11 | Canada Matt Kerr46 Chad Walton72 Klaus Mueller82 Jerry Ziak84 (Ricardo Santos)(116) (Steve Lawrence)(123) | 284 |
| 12 | Belgium Gunther Methot26 Pieter van Thournhout57 Bart de Berge98 Bart Verkaemer103 (Nico Noe)(109) | 284 |
| 13 | Italy Damiano Polti65 Davide Becchio78 Luca Rosa80 Davide Maffei93 (Emanuele Manzi)(110) (Gabriele Valli)(114) | 316 |
| 14 | Brazil Clodoaldo da Silva53 Márcio da Silva58 Marilson dos Santos88 Paulo Lunkes118 | 317 |
| 15 | United Kingdom Allen Graffin67 Tony Forrest76 Matt O'Dowd85 Ben Reese92 (Robert Brown)(107) (Nathaniel Lane)(128) | 320 |
| 16 | Ukraine Alexandr Gelesh48 Aleksey Lopaticuk73 Alexandr Mulin87 Valery Shugayevskiy120 | 328 |
| 17 | Belarus Viktor Golubev41 Aleksandr Lukoshenko71 Mikhail Potylchak111 Vitaliy Zhogalskiy119 | 342 |
| 18 | Denmark Paw Nielsen91 Brian Jensen99 Nicki Olesen100 Lars Juhl112 | 402 |
| 19 | Colombia Mauricio Ladino39 José Carrasco106 Juvenal Vásquez122 Jhon Beltran138 | 405 |
| 20 | Germany Malte Stern51 Frank Hoffmeister104 Philipp Nawrocki126 Matthias Weippert127 | 408 |
| 21 | Croatia Dalibor Balgac52 Denis Simicic130 Jurica Posavec136 Kreso Baric137 | 455 |
| 22 | Hungary Gábor Domonyik95 András Juhász115 László Farkas121 Béla Horváth133 | 464 |
| 23 | Seychelles Selwyn Bonne142 Roy Delorie144 Nelson Hurst145 Jude Bacharie146 | 577 |

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

## Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 148 athletes from 43 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

* Algeria (6)
* Australia (2)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (5)
* Brazil (4)
* Canada (6)
* China (1)
* Chinese Taipei (1)
* Colombia (4)
* Croatia (4)
* Czech Republic (1)
* Denmark (4)
* Ethiopia (6)
* Finland (2)
* France (6)
* Germany (4)
* Hungary (4)
* Israel (2)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (6)
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Kenya (6)
* Mauritius (2)
* Moldova (1)
* Morocco (6)
* Namibia (1)
* Netherlands (2)
* Portugal (2)
* Romania (1)
* Russia (1)
* Seychelles (4)
* Sierra Leone (1)
* South Africa (6)
* Spain (6)
* Switzerland (2)
* Tanzania (3)
* Turkmenistan (1)
* Ukraine (4)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (2)
* Yemen (5)
* FR Yugoslavia (1)
