1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Barnett Demesne/Queen’s University Playing Fields in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, on March 28, 1999. 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 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition27th
DateMarch 28
Host cityBelfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom United Kingdom
VenueBarnett Demesne/Queen’s University Playing Fields
Events1
Distances8.012 km – Junior men
Participation154 athletes from
43 nations

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 edit

Junior men's race (8.012 km) edit

Individual edit

Rank Athlete Country Time
  Haylu Mekonnen   Ethiopia 25:38
  Richard Limo   Kenya 25:43
  Kipchumba Mitei   Kenya 25:45
4 Abiyote Abate   Ethiopia 25:46
5 Albert Chepkurui   Kenya 26:01
6 Sammy Kipketer   Kenya 26:06
7 Duncan Lebo   Kenya 26:14
8 Faustin Baha   Tanzania 26:15
9 Kenenisa Bekele   Ethiopia 26:27
10 Yibeltal Admassu   Ethiopia 26:28
11 Hailemariam Tegafaw   Ethiopia 26:59
12 Alene Emere   Ethiopia 27:00
13 Michael Hiiti   Tanzania 27:21
14 Christopher Soget   Kenya 27:27
15 Martin Sulle   Tanzania 27:29
16 Driss Benismail   Morocco 27:41
17 Craig Mottram   Australia 27:49
18 Ahmed El Hamzaoui   Morocco 27:51
19 Aïssa Dghoughi   Morocco 27:53
20 Fethi Meftah   Algeria 27:54
21 Jeffrey Gwebu   South Africa 27:58
22 Kazuyoshi Yamamoto   Japan 27:59
23 Seddik Sersar   Algeria 28:01
24 Fasil Bizuneh   United States 28:02
25 Martin Fedmowski   Australia 28:05
26 Abdelatif Chemlal   Morocco 28:05
27 Gustav Svedbrant   Sweden 28:08
28 Bencherki Kafkaf   Algeria 28:10
29 Isaiah Festa   United States 28:13
30 Filipe Pedro   Portugal 28:15
31 Pedro Nimo   Spain 28:16
32 Steven Vernon   United Kingdom 28:16
33 Luke Watson   United States 28:18
34 Makoto Tobimatsu   Japan 28:18
35 Henrik Ahnström   Sweden 28:18
36 Fernando Rey   Spain 28:19
37 Zolani Ntongana   South Africa 28:24
38 Sofiane Beddiaf   France 28:28
39 Roberto González   Spain 28:29
40 Steve Slattery   United States 28:29
41 Jumanne Tuluway   Tanzania 28:30
42 Aleksandr Sekletov   Russia 28:30
43 Joe McAlister   Ireland 28:30
44 Ionut Bura   Romania 28:34
45 Nourreddine Bourfaa   Algeria 28:35
46 Ricardo Franzon   Argentina 28:38
47 Tomonori Onitsuka   Japan 28:38
48 Ridouane Harroufi   Morocco 28:39
49 Kevin Paulsen   France 28:42
50 Oliver Laws   United Kingdom 28:43
51 Hans Janssens   Belgium 28:45
52 Timothy Clarke   Australia 28:45
53 Yousri Hamdi   Tunisia 28:46
54 Ricardo Serrano   Spain 28:47
55 Adam Tenforde   United States 28:48
56 Alistair Cragg   South Africa 28:48
57 Wirimai Juwawo   Zimbabwe 28:49
58 Gavin Thompson   United Kingdom 28:52
59 Sakir Kaya   Turkey 28:55
60 Lorenzo Perrone   Italy 28:56
61 James Vidal   Colombia 28:57
62 Sedat Karatas   Turkey 28:58
63 Willie McComb   Canada 29:00
64 Jorge Torres   United States 29:01
65 Mattia Maccagnan   Italy 29:02
66 Christian Obrist   Italy 29:05
67 Abdelkrim Kabbouri   Morocco 29:07
68 Turo Inkiläinen   Finland 29:09
69 Samuel Boden   United Kingdom 29:10
70 Jaime Baquero   Colombia 29:10
71 Bruno Mazzotta   Canada 29:10
72 Bahattin Ince   Turkey 29:11
73 Radu Stroia   Romania 29:12
74 Koen Raymaekers   Netherlands 29:13
75 Shinichiro Okuda   Japan 29:14
76 Masataka Inaka   Japan 29:16
77 Robert Maycock   United Kingdom 29:21
78 Yoshifumi Nomura   Japan 29:25
79 Rudy van der Oetelaar   Netherlands 29:25
80 Wajdi Adassi   Tunisia 29:26
81 Siyami Türkmen   Turkey 29:27
82 Brian Keane   Ireland 29:28
83 Lorenzo Cannata   Italy 29:30
84 Aman Saini   India 29:30
85 Boštjan Buč   Slovenia 29:31
86 Jamie Epp   Canada 29:34
87 Arbey Rivera   Colombia 29:34
88 Reda Khaldi   Algeria 29:39
89 Westley Alkin   Canada 29:39
90 Honest Dandara   Zimbabwe 29:40
91 Mohamed Ghodhbani   Tunisia 29:41
92 Ruben Díez   Spain 29:42
93 Lennon Wicks   Australia 29:43
94 Mika Oksanen   Finland 29:44
95 Guilherme Pizzirani   Brazil 29:46
96 Gary Murray   Ireland 29:46
97 Matthieu Vandiest   Belgium 29:50
98 Sivuyile Dlongwana   South Africa 29:51
99 Jonathan Matos   Brazil 29:52
100 Esmail Al-Dawla   Yemen 29:52
101 Ahmed Hussein   Egypt 29:53
102 Beniamino Lubrini   Italy 29:54
103 Fergal Feeney   Ireland 29:55
104 Stefan Beumer   Netherlands 29:57
105 Tuomas Inkiläinen   Finland 29:57
106 Sergey Denis   Belarus 29:57
107 Chris Thompson   United Kingdom 29:58
108 Lachlan Chisholm   Australia 30:03
109 Jukka Keskisalo   Finland 30:04
110 Joshua Zealand   Canada 30:06
111 Djamel Ahmadi   Algeria 30:07
112 Klaas Ramulutsi   South Africa 30:12
113 Mikko Suihkonen   Finland 30:14
114 Thiago Cecatto   Brazil 30:16
115 Joep Tigchelaar   Netherlands 30:17
116 Sergio Solis   Guatemala 30:17
117 Lorris Williams   Canada 30:18
118 Sylvester Mokalakane   South Africa 30:22
119 Francisco Alves   Spain 30:25
120 Fabio Lettieri   Italy 30:26
121 Kerem Karatas   Turkey 30:28
122 Moti Mizrahy   Israel 30:33
123 Simon Ward   Ireland 30:33
124 Shashi Prakash   India 30:36
125 Aleksey Volkov   Belarus 30:37
126 Touhami Abassi   Tunisia 30:45
127 Noel Kavanagh   Ireland 30:48
128 Denis Bagrev   Kyrgyzstan 30:50
129 Adel Gharsalli   Tunisia 30:56
130 Ala Al-Sakkaf   Yemen 31:00
131 Mohamed Al-Bayed   Palestine 31:01
132 Hassan Eisa   Egypt 31:02
133 Siarhei Yudenkov   Belarus 31:02
134 Sergey Milyutin   Kazakhstan 31:06
135 Farag Amer Fuad   Egypt 31:10
136 Nabil Al-Soufi   Yemen 31:12
137 Marcos Osorio   Guatemala 31:13
138 Dmitriy Baranovskiy   Belarus 31:16
139 Awad Abdallah   Egypt 31:23
140 Ivan Paz   Guatemala 31:26
141 Mobarock Mondal   India 31:35
142 Victor Ocampo   Colombia 31:36
143 Mustafa Al-Muhaya   Yemen 31:46
144 Manjunatha Basappa   India 31:56
145 Serdar Gandymov   Turkmenistan 32:08
146 Hoi Nam So   Hong Kong 32:11
147 Nader Al-Nasry   Palestine 32:50
148 Alex Lobos   Guatemala 32:50
149 Soondurnam Vardeyen   Mauritius 33:08
André da Silva   Brazil DNF
Slavko Petrovic   Croatia DNF
Ruben Indonga   Namibia DNF
Andrey Pleskach   Turkmenistan DNF
Mesfin Hailu   Ethiopia DQ

Teams edit

Rank Team Points
    Kenya
Richard Limo 2
Kipchumba Mitei 3
Albert Chepkurui 5
Sammy Kipketer 6
(Duncan Lebo) (7)
(Christopher Soget) (14)
16
    Ethiopia
Haylu Mekonnen 1
Abiyote Abate 4
Kenenisa Bekele 9
Yibeltal Admassu 10
(Hailemariam Tegafaw) (11)
(Alene Emere) (12)
24
    Tanzania
Faustin Baha 8
Michael Hiiti 13
Martin Sulle 15
Jumanne Tuluway 41
77
4   Morocco
Driss Benismail 16
Ahmed El Hamzaoui 18
Aïssa Dghoughi 19
Abdelatif Chemlal 26
(Ridouane Harroufi) (48)
(Abdelkrim Kabbouri) (67)
79
5   Algeria
Fethi Meftah 20
Seddik Sersar 23
Bencherki Kafkaf 28
Nourreddine Bourfaa 45
(Reda Khaldi) (88)
(Djamel Ahmadi) (111)
116
6   United States
Fasil Bizuneh 24
Isaiah Festa 29
Luke Watson 33
Steve Slattery 40
(Adam Tenforde) (55)
(Jorge Torres) (64)
126
7   Spain
Pedro Nimo 31
Fernando Rey 36
Roberto González 39
Ricardo Serrano 54
(Ruben Díez) (92)
(Francisco Alves) (119)
160
8   Japan
Kazuyoshi Yamamoto 22
Makoto Tobimatsu 34
Tomonori Onitsuka 47
Shinichiro Okuda 75
(Masataka Inaka) (76)
(Yoshifumi Nomura) (78)
178
9   Australia
Craig Mottram 17
Martin Fedmowski 25
Timothy Clarke 52
Lennon Wicks 93
(Lachlan Chisholm) (108)
187
10   United Kingdom
Steven Vernon 32
Oliver Laws 50
Gavin Thompson 58
Samuel Boden 69
(Robert Maycock) (77)
(Chris Thompson) (107)
209
11   South Africa
Jeffrey Gwebu 21
Zolani Ntongana 37
Alistair Cragg 56
Sivuyile Dlongwana 98
(Klaas Ramulutsi) (112)
(Sylvester Mokalakane) (118)
212
12   Turkey
Sakir Kaya 59
Sedat Karatas 62
Bahattin Ince 72
Siyami Türkmen 81
(Kerem Karatas) (121)
274
13   Italy
Lorenzo Perrone 60
Mattia Maccagnan 65
Christian Obrist 66
Lorenzo Cannata 83
(Beniamino Lubrini) (102)
(Fabio Lettieri) (120)
274
14   Canada
Willie McComb 63
Bruno Mazzotta 71
Jamie Epp 86
Westley Alkin 89
(Joshua Zealand) (110)
(Lorris Williams) (117)
309
15   Ireland
Joe McAlister 43
Brian Keane 82
Gary Murray 96
Fergal Feeney 103
(Simon Ward) (123)
(Noel Kavanagh) (127)
324
16   Tunisia
Yousri Hamdi 53
Wajdi Adassi 80
Mohamed Ghodhbani 91
Touhami Abassi 126
(Adel Gharsalli) (129)
350
17   Colombia
James Vidal 61
Jaime Baquero 70
Arbey Rivera 87
Victor Ocampo 142
360
18   Netherlands
Koen Raymaekers 74
Rudy van der Oetelaar 79
Stefan Beumer 104
Joep Tigchelaar 115
372
19   Finland
Turo Inkiläinen 68
Mika Oksanen 94
Tuomas Inkiläinen 105
Jukka Keskisalo 109
(Mikko Suihkonen) (113)
376
20   India
Aman Saini 84
Shashi Prakash 124
Mobarock Mondal 141
Manjunatha Basappa 144
493
21   Belarus
Sergey Denis 106
Aleksey Volkov 125
Siarhei Yudenkov 133
Dmitriy Baranovskiy 138
502
22   Egypt
Ahmed Hussein 101
Hassan Eisa 132
Farag Amer Fuad 135
Awad Abdallah 139
507
23   Yemen
Esmail Al-Dawla 100
Ala Al-Sakkaf 130
Nabil Al-Soufi 136
Mustafa Al-Muhaya 143
509
24   Guatemala
Sergio Solis 116
Marcos Osorio 137
Ivan Paz 140
Alex Lobos 148
541
DNF   Brazil
(Guilherme Pizzirani) (95)
(Jonathan Matos) (99)
(Thiago Cecatto) (114)
(André da Silva) (DNF)
DNF
  • Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation edit

An unofficial count yields the participation of 154 athletes from 43 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[11]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "PLUS: CROSS-COUNTRY -- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS; African Women And Men Dominate", The New York Times, March 28, 1999, retrieved October 28, 2013
  2. ^ "PLUS: CROSS-COUNTRY -- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS; Winning Streak Grows for Tergat", The New York Times, March 29, 1999, retrieved October 28, 2013
  3. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 29, 1999), "Tergat runs away with the championship in rainy Belfast", Glasgow Herald, retrieved October 28, 2013
  4. ^ Minshull, Phil (March 28, 1999), Hailu goes one better than Haile, IAAF, archived from the original on 2013-10-29, retrieved October 28, 2013
  5. ^ a b Magnusson, Tomas (July 4, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.0km CC Men - Belfast Barnett Demesne/Queen's University Playing Fields Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 28, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ Official Results - CROSS JUNIOR Men - Sunday, March 28, 1999, IAAF, March 28, 1999, archived from the original on 2013-10-29, retrieved October 28, 2013
  7. ^ Results - 27th IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Belfast, GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. 27 MAR 1999 - 28 MAR 1999 - Junior Race - men, IAAF, 28 Mar 1999, archived from the original on 2013-10-29, retrieved October 28, 2013
  8. ^ Official Results - CROSS JUNIOR Men - Team - Sunday, March 28, 1999, IAAF, March 28, 1999, archived from the original on 2013-10-29, retrieved October 28, 2013
  9. ^ Results - 27th IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Belfast, GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. 27 MAR 1999 - 28 MAR 1999 - Junior Race - men - Final - Team, IAAF, 28 Mar 1999, archived from the original on 2013-10-30, retrieved October 28, 2013
  10. ^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 28, 2013
  11. ^ 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 28, 2013