2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	36th
Date	March 30
Host city	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Location	Holyrood Park
Nations participating	45
Athletes participating	179
Races	1
Distances	12 km – Senior men
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The Senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on March 30, 2008.^[1] Reports of the event were given in the New York Times,^[2] in the Herald,^[3] and for the IAAF.^[4]

Complete results for individuals,^[5]^[6]^[7] and for teams^[8]^[9]^[10] were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
01 !	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	34:38
02 !	Leonard Patrick Komon	Kenya	34:41
03 !	Zersenay Tadese	Eritrea	34:43
4	Joseph Ebuya	Kenya	34:47
5	Moses Ndiema Masai	Kenya	35:02
6	Felix Kikwai Kibore	Qatar	35:15
7	Gideon Lekumok Ngatuny	Kenya	35:16
8	Ahmad Hassan Abdullah	Qatar	35:18
9	Habtamu Fikadu	Ethiopia	35:19
10	Bernard Kiprop Kipyego	Kenya	35:24
11	Hosea Mwok Macharinyang	Kenya	35:24
12	Augustine Kiprono Choge	Kenya	35:26
13	Moses Kipsiro	Uganda	35:29
14	Mark Kosgei Kiptoo	Kenya	35:39
15	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia	35:40
16	Boniface Kiprop	Uganda	35:41
17	Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam	Ethiopia	35:59
18	John Kimondo Thuo	Kenya	36:00
19	Jorge Torres	United States	36:03
20	Yonas Kifle	Eritrea	36:09
21	Dereje Debele	Ethiopia	36:10
22	Sultan Khamis Zaman	Qatar	36:12
23	Teklemariam Medhin	Eritrea	36:13
24	Juan Carlos de la Ossa	Spain	36:15
25	Mubarak Hassan Shami	Qatar	36:17
26	Kidane Tadasse	Eritrea	36:25
27	Cuthbert Nyasango	Zimbabwe	36:28
28	Abdellah Falil	Morocco	36:30
29	Martin Toroitich	Uganda	36:33
30	Jamel Chatbi	Morocco	36:35
31	Craig Mottram	Australia	36:40
32	Anis Selmouni	Morocco	36:42
33	Abdelhadi El Mouaziz	Morocco	36:43
34	Gamal Belal Salem	Qatar	36:43
35	Ahmed Baday	Morocco	36:46
36	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	36:49
37	Brahim Beloua	Morocco	36:49
38	Amanuel Woldeselassie	Eritrea	36:50
39	Khalid Kamal Yaseen	Bahrain	36:51
40	Chakir Boujattaoui	Morocco	36:51
41	Abebe Dinkesa	Ethiopia	36:51
42	Yahia Azaïdj	Algeria	36:52
43	Josh Rohatinsky	United States	36:52
44	Moorosi Soke	South Africa	36:53
45	Edwardo Torres	United States	36:56
46	Wilson Busienei	Uganda	37:02
47	Mourad Marofit	Morocco	37:04
48	Essa Ismail Rashed	Qatar	37:07
49	Moses Aliwa	Uganda	37:08
50	Michael Shelley	Australia	37:09
51	Scott Bauhs	United States	37:15
52	Tewoldeberhan Mengisteab	Eritrea	37:15
53	Marílson Dos Santos	Brazil	37:17
54	Max King	United States	37:20
55	Simon Ayeko	Uganda	37:20
56	José Manuel Martínez	Spain	37:21
57	Zembaba Yigeze	Ethiopia	37:22
58	Gianmarco Buttazzo	Italy	37:24
59	Ahmed Naïli	Algeria	37:27
60	Aadam Ismaeel Khamis	Bahrain	37:27
61	Ali Dawoud Sedam	Qatar	37:27
62	Thomas Humphries	United Kingdom	37:27
63	Nicholas Kiprono	Uganda	37:32
64	Carles Castillejo	Spain	37:34
65	Michael Skinner	United Kingdom	37:35
66	Andrew Ledwith	Ireland	37:37
67	Moustafa Ahmed Shebto	Qatar	37:40
68	David McNeill	Australia	37:41
69	Liam Adams	Australia	37:41
70	Andrea Lalli	Italy	37:44
71	Licinio Pimentel	Portugal	37:44
72	Frank Tickner	United Kingdom	37:49
73	Collis Birmingham	Australia	37:49
74	Stephen Mokoka	South Africa	37:52
75	Al Mustafa Riyadh	Bahrain	37:53
76	Manuel Damião	Portugal	37:55
77	Mike Tebulo	Malawi	37:57
78	Andrew Lemoncello	United Kingdom	37:57
79	Andrew Jones	United Kingdom	37:57
80	Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga	Burundi	38:00
81	Naser Jamal Naser	Qatar	38:02
82	Philip Wicks	United Kingdom	38:02
83	José Luis Blanco	Spain	38:02
84	James Carney	United States	38:04
85	Antonio David Jiménez	Spain	38:06
86	Kiflom Sium	Eritrea	38:07
87	Iván Galán	Spain	38:10
88	Yoshitaka Iwamizu	Japan	38:11
89	Rabie Mekhloufi	Algeria	38:11
90	James Gosselin	Canada	38:12
91	Paulo Gomes	Portugal	38:13
92	Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi	Libya	38:13
93	Yuki Sato	Japan	38:19
94	Tsuyoshi Ugachi	Japan	38:20
95	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	38:23
96	Jonathan Pierce	United States	38:23
97	Rabah Aboud	Algeria	38:24
98	Aïssa Dahmar	Algeria	38:24
99	Daniele Meucci	Italy	38:28
100	José Rocha	Portugal	38:28
101	Boiphemelo Selagaboy	Botswana	38:29
102	Samuel Tsegay	Eritrea	38:30
103	Kaelo Mosalagae	Botswana	38:31
104	Martin Dent	Australia	38:31
105	Makoto Tobimatsu	Japan	38:32
106	Hermano Ferreira	Portugal	38:33
107	Moeketsi Mosuhli	Lesotho	38:34
108	Andrew Letherby	Australia	38:35
109	Ryan Bak	United States	38:36
110	Jonay González	Spain	38:39
111	Cédric Pelissier	France	38:42
112	Brahim Chettah	Algeria	38:43
113	Ihar Tsetserukou	Belarus	38:43
114	Andrew Vernon	United Kingdom	38:43
115	Yuki Nakamura	Japan	38:43
116	Alex Hutchinson	Canada	38:44
117	Roberto Oliveira	Brazil	38:45
118	José Ramos	Portugal	38:45
119	Reyes Estévez	Spain	38:47
120	Satoru Kitamura	Japan	38:48
121	Unaswi Dambe	Botswana	38:48
122	Hiroyoshi Umegae	Japan	38:49
123	Hidekazu Sato	Japan	38:51
124	Damião Ancelmo De Souza	Brazil	39:00
125	James Walsh	United Kingdom	39:01
126	Ben St.Lawrence	Australia	39:02
127	Jesper Faurschou	Denmark	39:03
128	Paul McNamara	Ireland	39:05
129	Dylan Wykes	Canada	39:06
130	Nathan Chebet	Uganda	39:10
131	Ahmed Dali	Algeria	39:11
132	Yang Dinghong	China	39:11
133	Ueli Koch	Switzerland	39:12
134	Rapula Diphoko	Botswana	39:12
135	Mick Clohissey	Ireland	39:13
136	John Beattie	United Kingdom	39:21
137	Abdelatif Chemlal	Morocco	39:25
138	Derek Nakluski	Canada	39:26
139	Solomon Tsige	Ethiopia	39:26
140	Brian Maher	Ireland	39:29
141	Dong Guojian	China	39:33
142	Yuri Chechun	Kyrgyzstan	39:42
143	Spencer Morrison	Canada	39:45
144	Gary Thornton	Ireland	39:50
145	Colin Fewer	Canada	39:52
146	Dimcho Mitsov	Bulgaria	39:53
147	Ahmed Hassein Hassein	Egypt	39:56
148	Sevak Yeghikyan	Armenia	39:57
149	Adel Mahdjoub	Libya	39:58
150	Cleve Thorson	Canada	40:01
151	Alexandra Motone	South Africa	40:18
152	José Eloy	Brazil	40:19
153	Huang Jinhong	China	40:26
154	Cleveland Forde	Guyana	40:27
155	Shepherd Kenatshele	Botswana	40:27
156	Rees Buck	New Zealand	40:34
157	José Maduro	Portugal	40:35
158	Mohammad Al Kafraini	Jordan	41:00
159	Trevor Caldwell	Canada	41:47
160	Ditiro Ramagapu	Botswana	42:03
161	José Ferreira	Brazil	42:23
162	Gaylord Silly	Seychelles	43:03
163	Perhat Annagylyjov	Turkmenistan	43:27
164	Fikret Gafarov	Azerbaijan	45:37
165	Christopher Symonds	Ghana	46:56
—	Ricardo Ribas	Portugal	DNF
—	Mahmoud Abuattaya	Palestine	DNF
—	Cosme Ancelmo De Souza	Brazil	DNF
—	Vincent Mulvey	Ireland	DNF
—	Alistair Ian Cragg	Ireland	DNF
—	Abdulhak Elgorche Zakaria	Bahrain	DNF
—	Ed Moran	United States	DNF
—	Alejandro Suárez	Mexico	DNF
—	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	DNF
—	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	DNF
—	Demssew Tsega	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Hasan Mahboob	Bahrain	DNF
—	Saif Hamad Al-Rashedi	United Arab Emirates	DQ
—	Fathi Meftah	Algeria	DQ^†
—	Saleh Besheer Madjed	Bahrain	DNS
—	Roman Prodius	Moldova	DNS
—	Arjun Kumar Basnet	Nepal	DNS
—	Danjuma Kopkuddi	Nigeria	DNS
—	Akhilomeh Joseph	Nigeria	DNS
—	Gervais Hakizimana	Rwanda	DNS
—	Sylvain Rukundo	Rwanda	DNS
—	Jean Baptiste Simukeka	Rwanda	DNS
—	Khamis Sultan Dawood	Bahrain	DNS

^†: Fathi Meftah from Algeria finished 35th in 36:44 min, but was disqualified because of doping violations.^[11]

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Kenya

Leonard Patrick Komon	2
Joseph Ebuya	4
Moses Ndiema Masai	5
Gideon Lekumok Ngatuny	7
Bernard Kiprop Kipyego	10
Hosea Mwok Macharinyang	11
(Augustine Kiprono Choge)	(12)
(Mark Kosgei Kiptoo)	(14)
(John Kimondo Thuo)	(18)

Ethiopia

Kenenisa Bekele	1
Habtamu Fikadu	9
Sileshi Sihine	15
Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam	17
Dereje Debele	21
Abebe Dinkesa	41
(Zembaba Yigeze)	(57)
(Solomon Tsige)	(139)
(Demssew Tsega)	(DNF)

104

Qatar

Felix Kikwai Kibore	6
Ahmad Hassan Abdullah	8
Sultan Khamis Zaman	22
Mubarak Hassan Shami	25
Gamal Belal Salem	34
Essa Ismail Rashed	48
(Ali Dawoud Sedam)	(61)
(Moustafa Ahmed Shebto)	(67)
(Naser Jamal Naser)	(81)

143

Eritrea

Zersenay Tadese	3
Yonas Kifle	20
Teklemariam Medhin	23
Kidane Tadasse	26
Amanuel Woldeselassie	38
Tewoldeberhan Mengisteab	52
(Kiflom Sium)	(86)
(Samuel Tsegay)	(102)

162

Morocco

Abdellah Falil	28
Jamel Chatbi	30
Anis Selmouni	32
Abdelhadi El Mouaziz	33
Ahmed Baday	35
Brahim Beloua	37
(Chakir Boujattaoui)	(40)
(Mourad Marofit)	(47)
(Abdelatif Chemlal)	(137)

195

Uganda

Moses Kipsiro	13
Boniface Kiprop	16
Martin Toroitich	29
Wilson Busienei	46
Moses Aliwa	49
Simon Ayeko	55
(Nicholas Kiprono)	(63)
(Nathan Chebet)	(130)

208

United States

Jorge Torres	19
Josh Rohatinsky	43
Edwardo Torres	45
Scott Bauhs	51
Max King	54
James Carney	84
(Jonathan Pierce)	(96)
(Ryan Bak)	(109)
(Ed Moran)	(DNF)

296

Spain

Juan Carlos de la Ossa	24
Ayad Lamdassem	36
José Manuel Martínez	56
Carles Castillejo	64
José Luis Blanco	83
Antonio David Jiménez	85
(Iván Galán)	(87)
(Jonay González)	(110)
(Reyes Estévez)	(119)

348

Australia

Craig Mottram	31
Michael Shelley	50
David Mcneill	68
Liam Adams	69
Collis Birmingham	73
Martin Dent	104
(Andrew Letherby)	(108)
(Ben St.Lawrence)	(126)

395

United Kingdom

Thomas Humphries	62
Michael Skinner	65
Frank Tickner	72
Andrew Lemoncello	78
Andrew Jones	79
Philip Wicks	82
(Andrew Vernon)	(114)
(James Walsh)	(125)
(John Beattie)	(136)

438

Algeria

Yahia Azaïdj	42
Ahmed Naïli	59
Rabie Mekhloufi	89
Rabah Aboud	97
Aïssa Dahmar	98
Brahim Chettah	112
(Ahmed Dali)	(131)
(Fathi Meftah)	(DQ)

497

Portugal

Licinio Pimentel	71
Manuel Damião	76
Paulo Gomes	91
José Rocha	100
Hermano Ferreira	106
José Ramos	118
(José Maduro)	(157)
(Ricardo Ribas)	(DNF)

562

Japan

Yoshitaka Iwamizu	88
Yuki Sato	93
Tsuyoshi Ugachi	94
Makoto Tobimatsu	105
Yuki Nakamura	115
Satoru Kitamura	120
(Hiroyoshi Umegae)	(122)
(Hidekazu Sato)	(123)

615

Canada

James Gosselin	90
Joël Bourgeois	95
Alex Hutchinson	116
Dylan Wykes	129
Derek Nakluski	138
Spencer Morrison	143
(Colin Fewer)	(145)
(Cleve Thorson)	(150)
(Trevor Caldwell)	(159)

711

Botswana

Boiphemelo Selagaboy	101
Kaelo Mosalagae	103
Unaswi Dambe	121
Rapula Diphoko	134
Shepherd Kenatshele	155
Ditiro Ramagapu	160

774

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

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 179 athletes from 45 countries participated in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[1] The announced athletes from Moldova, Nepal, and Nigeria did not show.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Algeria (8)
Armenia (1)
Australia (8)
Azerbaijan (1)
Bahrain (5)
Belarus (1)
Botswana (6)
Brazil (6)
Bulgaria (1)
Burundi (1)
Canada (9)
China (3)
Denmark (1)
Egypt (1)
Eritrea (8)

Ethiopia (9)
France (1)
Ghana (1)
Guyana (1)
Ireland (7)
Italy (4)
Japan (8)
Jordan (1)
Kenya (9)
Kyrgyzstan (1)
Lesotho (1)
Libya (2)
Malawi (1)
Mexico (1)
Morocco (9)

References

1 2 IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - BYDGOSZCZ 2013 - FACTS & FIGURES - SUMMARY OF PAST CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2, retrieved November 4, 2013
↑ Athletics - World cross-country championships - Bekele wins sixth world cross-country title; Dibaba also wins, New York Times, March 30, 2008, retrieved November 4, 2013
↑ Gillon, Doug (March 31, 2008), Coronation of King Kenenisa, Herald, retrieved November 4, 2013
↑ Powell, David (March 30, 2008), No ‘sole’ can stop Bekele – Edinburgh 2008, IAAF, retrieved November 4, 2013
1 2 Senior Race - M Final, IAAF, March 30, 2008, retrieved November 4, 2013
1 2 Results - 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Edinburgh, GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. 30 MAR 2008 - Senior Race - men, IAAF, March 30, 2008, retrieved November 4, 2013
1 2 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Edinburgh - Sunday 30 March 2008 - Senior Race - Men - Results (PDF), IAAF, March 30, 2008, retrieved November 4, 2013
↑ Official Team Results Senior Race - M, IAAF, March 30, 2008, retrieved November 4, 2013
↑ Results - 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Edinburgh, GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. 30 MAR 2008 - Senior Race - men - Final - Team, IAAF, March 30, 2008, retrieved November 4, 2013
↑ 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships - Edinburgh - Sunday 30 March 2008 - Senior Race - Men - Team Standings (PDF), IAAF, March 30, 2008, retrieved November 4, 2013
↑ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - BYDGOSZCZ 2013 - FACTS & FIGURES - DOPING VIOLATIONS AT THE WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 11, retrieved November 2, 2013

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