2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race

Men's short race at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	31st
Date	March 29
Host city	Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Location	L'Institut Équestre National d'Avenches
Nations participating	37
Athletes participating	126
Races	1
Distances	4.03 km – Men's short
← 2002 Dublin 2004 Bruxelles →

The Men's short race at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the L'Institut Équestre National in Avenches near Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 29, 2003. Reports of the event were given in the New York Times,^[1]^[2] in the Herald,^[3] and for the IAAF.^[4]

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

Men's short race (4.03 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
01 !	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	11:01
02 !	John Kibowen	Kenya	11:04
03 !	Benjamin Limo	Kenya	11:06
4	Mike Kipyego	Kenya	11:18
5	Thomas Kiplitany	Kenya	11:20
6	Khalid El Amri	Morocco	11:22
7	Meba Tadesse	Ethiopia	11:24
8	David Kilel	Kenya	11:25
9	Smail Sghir	France	11:27
10	Abderrahim Goumri	Morocco	11:28
11	Yousef El Nasri	Spain	11:28
12	Tessema Absher	Ethiopia	11:29
13	Abiyote Endale	Ethiopia	11:31
14	Driss Maazouzi	France	11:32
15	Ahmed Baday	Morocco	11:34
16	Abdelkader Hachlaf	Morocco	11:35
17	Ketema Nigusse	Ethiopia	11:39
18	Christian Belz	Switzerland	11:39
19	Chris Thompson	United Kingdom	11:40
20	Evans Kipchumba	Kenya	11:42
21	Fethi Meftah	Algeria	11:42
22	Saïd El Wardi	Morocco	11:43
23	Azzedine Zerdoum	Algeria	11:43
24	Ali Abdalla	Eritrea	11:44
25	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	11:44
26	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	11:45
27	Khoudir Aggoune	Algeria	11:45
28	Antonio Manuel Martínez	Spain	11:45
29	Phil Costley	New Zealand	11:46
30	Hassan Oubassour	France	11:46
31	Sandu Rebenciuc	United States	11:47
32	Umberto Pusterla	Italy	11:47
33	Viktor Röthlin	Switzerland	11:47
34	Sergio Gallardo	Spain	11:48
35	Salah Hissou	Morocco	11:48
36	Rachid Chékhémani	France	11:49
37	Dan Browne	United States	11:49
38	Boštjan Buč	Slovenia	11:50
39	Abdelhakim Maazouz	Algeria	11:51
40	Dehe Woyesha	Ethiopia	11:52
41	Adrian Blincoe	New Zealand	11:53
42	Manuel Silva	Portugal	11:54
43	Fernando Silva	Portugal	11:55
44	Rees Buck	New Zealand	11:55
45	Philipp Bandi	Switzerland	11:56
46	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	11:56
47	Steven Vernon	United Kingdom	11:57
48	Abdulhak Zakaria	Bahrain	11:58
49	Tarek Boukensa	Algeria	11:58
50	Clodoaldo da Silva	Brazil	11:59
51	Irba Lakhal	France	12:00
52	Fortunato Yaccob	Eritrea	12:00
53	Mário Teixeira	Portugal	12:01
54	Chris Davies	United Kingdom	12:01
55	Javier Carriqueo	Argentina	12:01
56	Luke Watson	United States	12:02
57	Sean Kaley	Canada	12:02
58	Jesús España	Spain	12:02
59	Karl Savage	United States	12:03
60	Dan Wilson	United States	12:04
61	Ian Connor	United States	12:04
62	Chris Bolt	United Kingdom	12:05
63	Jeremy Deere	Canada	12:05
64	José Ramos	Portugal	12:06
65	Mark Bomba	Canada	12:07
66	Stefano Scaini	Italy	12:07
67	Ahmed Abd El Mangoud	Egypt	12:08
68	Michael Aish	New Zealand	12:09
69	José Luis Blanco	Spain	12:09
70	Sivuyile Dlongwana	South Africa	12:11
71	Jonathan Monje	Chile	12:12
72	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	12:12
73	Martin McCarthy	Ireland	12:13
74	Mo Farah	United Kingdom	12:13
75	Domenico D'Ambrosio	Italy	12:13
76	Rui Silva	Portugal	12:15
77	Yonas Ogbagebriel	Eritrea	12:16
78	David Mokwana	South Africa	12:16
79	Giuliano Battocletti	Italy	12:17
80	Ridouane Es-Saadi	Belgium	12:17
81	Dermot Donnelly	Ireland	12:17
82	Igor Teteryukov	Belarus	12:18
83	Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed	Egypt	12:18
84	Angus MacLean	United Kingdom	12:19
85	Vincent Kuotane	South Africa	12:19
86	Alexander Motone	South Africa	12:20
87	Julius Achon	Uganda	12:20
88	Ruslan Sadovskiy	Belarus	12:21
89	Mandla Maseko	South Africa	12:23
90	Adel Behery	Egypt	12:24
91	Nick Willis	New Zealand	12:24
92	Sveinn Margeirsson	Iceland	12:25
93	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	12:26
94	Jérôme Schaffner	Switzerland	12:27
95	Aleksandr Nikolayuk	Belarus	12:28
96	Tim Clerbout	Belgium	12:28
97	Josep Sansa	Andorra	12:29
98	Stijn van den Velde	Belgium	12:29
99	Noel Berkeley	Ireland	12:30
100	Alibay Shukurov	Azerbaijan	12:32
101	Robert Connolly	Ireland	12:33
102	Aléxis Abraham	France	12:34
103	Ronny Marie	Seychelles	12:34
104	Bonaventure Niyonizigiye	Burundi	12:35
105	Michael Maechler	Switzerland	12:37
106	Luís Feiteira	Portugal	12:37
107	Víctor Martínez	Andorra	12:37
108	Gary Murray	Ireland	12:38
109	Robert Juricic	Croatia	12:38
110	Valeriy Pisarev	Kyrgyzstan	12:38
111	Sergey Berdnik	Belarus	12:39
112	Monder Rizki	Belgium	12:42
113	Denis Bagrev	Kyrgyzstan	12:43
114	Ernest Ndjissipou	Central African Republic	12:46
115	Gauti Jóhannesson	Iceland	12:48
116	Simon Labiche	Seychelles	12:52
117	Ahmed El Feky	Egypt	13:00
118	Anthony Godongwana	South Africa	13:02
119	Nigel Brunton	Ireland	13:03
120	Vasiliy Medvedev	Uzbekistan	13:04
121	Dovran Amandjayev	Turkmenistan	13:12
122	William Boehlke	U.S. Virgin Islands	13:13
123	Ivan Morozov	Uzbekistan	13:19
124	Natnael Amare	Eritrea	14:05
125	Vladimir Escajadillo	Peru	14:52
—	Alberto García	Spain	DQ^†
—	Abdelbeki Zaiter	Algeria	DNS
—	Nzolameso Lufua	Democratic Republic of the Congo	DNS
—	Mbiya Makwenda	Democratic Republic of the Congo	DNS
—	Eddy Assana	Democratic Republic of the Congo	DNS
—	Gabriele De Nard	Italy	DNS
—	Khodor Abdou	Lebanon	DNS
—	Amadu Kamara	Sierra Leone	DNS
—	Dauda Sundufu-Sowa	Sierra Leone	DNS
—	Mohammed Yagoub	Sudan	DNS
—	Rogart John	Tanzania	DNS
—	Jumanne Tluway	Tanzania	DNS
—	Israel Nari	Tanzania	DNS

^†: Alberto García from Spain finished about 20th in 11:42 min, but was disqualified.

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Kenya

John Kibowen	2
Benjamin Limo	3
Mike Kipyego	4
Thomas Kiplitany	5
(David Kilel)	(n/s)
(Evans Kipchumba)	(n/s)

Ethiopia

Kenenisa Bekele	1
Meba Tadesse	7
Tessema Absher	11
Abiyote Endale	12
(Ketema Nigusse)	(n/s)
(Dehe Woyesha)	(n/s)

Morocco

Khalid El Amri	6
Abderrahim Goumri	9
Ahmed Baday	14
Abdelkader Hachlaf	15
(Saïd El Wardi)	(n/s)
(Salah Hissou)	(n/s)

France

Smail Sghir	8
Driss Maazouzi	13
Hassan Oubassour	26
Rachid Chékhémani	31
(Irba Lakhal)	(n/s)
(Aléxis Abraham)	(n/s)

Algeria

Fethi Meftah	18
Azzedine Zerdoum	19
Khoudir Aggoune	23
Abdelhakim Maazouz	33
(Tarek Boukensa)	(n/s)
(Mohamed Khaldi)	(n/s)

Spain

Yousef El Nasri	10
Antonio Manuel Martínez	24
Sergio Gallardo	30
Jesús España	46
(José Luis Blanco)	(n/s)

110

Switzerland

Christian Belz	16
Viktor Röthlin	29
Philipp Bandi	38
Peter Philipp	55
(Jérôme Schaffner)	(n/s)
(Michael Maechler)	(n/s)

138

United Kingdom

Chris Thompson	17
Steven Vernon	40
Chris Davies	43
Chris Bolt	48
(Mo Farah)	(n/s)
(Angus MacLean)	(n/s)

148

New Zealand

Phil Costley	25
Adrian Blincoe	34
Rees Buck	37
Michael Aish	53
(Nick Willis)	(n/s)

149

Canada

Kevin Sullivan	21
Joël Bourgeois	39
Sean Kaley	45
Jeremy Deere	49
(Mark Bomba)	(n/s)

154

Italy

Luciano Di Pardo	22
Umberto Pusterla	28
Stefano Scaini	51
Domenico D'Ambrosio	57
(Giuliano Battocletti)	(n/s)

158

United States

Sandu Rebenciuc	27
Dan Browne	32
Karl Savage	47
Luke Watson	56
(Dan Wilson)	(n/s)
(Ian Connor)	(n/s)

162

Portugal

Manuel Silva	35
Fernando Silva	36
Mário Teixeira	42
José Ramos	50
(Rui Silva)	(n/s)
(Luís Feiteira)	(n/s)

163

Eritrea

Ali Abdalla	20
Fortunato Yaccob	41
Yonas Ogbagebriel	58
Natnael Amare	76

195

South Africa

Sivuyile Dlongwana	54
David Mokwana	59
Vincent Kuotane	64
Alexander Motone	65
(Mandla Maseko)	(n/s)
(Anthony Godongwana)	(n/s)

242

Egypt

Ahmed Abd El Mangoud	52
Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed	63
Adel Behery	67
Ahmed El Feky	75

257

Ireland

Martin McCarthy	56
Dermot Donnelly	61
Noel Berkeley	71
Robert Connolly	72
(Gary Murray)	(n/s)
(Nigel Brunton)	(n/s)

260

Belarus

Igor Teteryukov	62
Ruslan Sadovskiy	66
Aleksandr Nikolayuk	68
Sergey Berdnik	73

269

Belgium

Ridouane Es-Saadi	60
Tim Clerbout	69
Stijn van den Velde	70
Monder Rizki	74

273

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

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 126 athletes from 37 countries participated in the Men's short race. The announced athletes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Tanzania did not show.^[6]^[7]

Algeria (6)
Andorra (2)
Argentina (1)
Azerbaijan (1)
Bahrain (1)
Belarus (4)
Belgium (4)
Brazil (1)
Burundi (1)
Canada (5)
Central African Republic (1)
Chile (1)
Croatia (1)

Egypt (4)
Eritrea (4)
Ethiopia (6)
France (6)
Iceland (2)
Ireland (6)
Italy (5)
Kenya (6)
Kyrgyzstan (2)
Morocco (6)
New Zealand (5)
Peru (1)

References

↑ PLUS: CROSS-COUNTRY; Kidane of Ethiopia Wins World Title, New York Times, March 30, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
↑ PLUS: CROSS-COUNTRY; Bekele and Masai Victorious Again, New York Times, March 31, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
↑ Gillon, Doug (March 31, 2003), Bekele blazes a trail past all others - Ethiopian defends long- and short-course crowns, Herald, retrieved October 31, 2013
↑ Gillon, Doug (March 29, 2003), Invincible Bekele - men's short course race in Lausanne, IAAF, retrieved October 31, 2013
1 2 Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 4.0km CC Men - Lausanne Institut National Equestre Avenches Date: Saturday, March 29, 2003, Athchamps (archived), retrieved October 31, 2013
1 2 Short Race - M Final, IAAF, March 29, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
1 2 Results - 31st IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Lausanne, SWITZERLAND 29 MAR 2003 - 30 MAR 2003 - Short Race - men, IAAF, March 29, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
↑ Official Team Results Short Race - M, IAAF, March 29, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
↑ Results - 31st IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Lausanne, SWITZERLAND 29 MAR 2003 - 30 MAR 2003 - Short Race - men - Final - Team, IAAF, March 29, 2003, retrieved October 31, 2013
↑ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 31, 2013
↑ 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, retrieved October 31, 2013

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