1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Junior men's race at the 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Junior men's race at the 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	4th
Date	February 28
Host city	Chepstow, Wales, UK
Venue	Chepstow Racecourse
Events	1
Distances	7.8 km – Junior men
Participation	81 athletes from ; 15 nations
	← 1975 Rabat 1977 Düsseldorf →

The Junior men's race at the 1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Chepstow, Wales, at the Chepstow Racecourse on February 28, 1996. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.^[1]

Complete results,^[2] medallists, ^[3] and the results of British athletes^[4] were published.

Race results

Junior men's race (7.8 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Eric Hulst	United States	23:53.8
	Thom Hunt	United States	24:06.8
	Nat Muir	Scotland	24:17
4	Thierry Watrice	France	24:23
5	Alberto Salazar	United States	24:36
6	Yahia Hadka	Morocco	24:38
7	Nick Lees	England	24:42
8	Don Moses	United States	24:43
9	Santiago Llorente	Spain	24:45
10	Harry Servranckx	Belgium	24:46
11	Marty Froelick	United States	24:47
12	José Luis González	Spain	24:49
13	Volkmar Betz	West Germany	24:50
14	Vesa Laukkanen	Finland	24:51
15	Rafael Nunez	Spain	24:56
16	Enrico Bosca	Italy	24:58
17	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	25:00
18	Abdeslem Jaddor	Morocco	25:01
19	Ralph Serna	United States	25:02
20	Adrian Leek	Wales	25:03
21	Luca Consigli	Italy	25:03
22	Mike Dixon	Canada	25:03
23	Paul Roberts	Canada	25:03
24	Antonio Prieto	Spain	25:03
25	Mathias Plank	West Germany	25:07
26	Jeremy Lothian	England	25:08
27	Nigel Field	England	25:09
28	Mauro Pappacena	Italy	25:11
29	Dirk Vanderherten	Belgium	25:12
30	Harald Hudak	West Germany	25:13
31	Nick Brawn	England	25:17
32	Arturo Iacona	Italy	25:27
33	Mohamed Rajmi	Morocco	25:27
34	Markku Kantola	Finland	25:27
35	Andrew Smith	Scotland	25:29
36	Lyle Kuchmack	Canada	25:31
37	Lasse Mikkelsson	Finland	25:32
38	Francois Willems	Belgium	25:33
39	Terry Goodenough	Canada	25:34
40	José Calderón	Spain	25:35
41	Remigio della Monta	Italy	25:36
42	Kenneth McCartney	Scotland	25:37
43	Abdelrazzak Bounour	Algeria	25:38
44	Anthony Conroy	Ireland	25:39
45	Cyril Donnellan	Ireland	25:40
46	Paul Bettridge	England	25:40
47	Konrad Dobler	West Germany	25:49
48	Alan de Boeck	Belgium	25:56
49	Olivier Arnoux	France	25:58
50	Omar Arab	Morocco	26:02
51	David Carr	Wales
52	Salim Atache	Algeria
53	Gilles Garcia	France
54	Serge Libessart	France
55	David James	Wales
56	Lahcene Babaci	Algeria
57	David Murphy	England
58	Gerhard Krippner	West Germany
59	Arto Virtanen	Finland
60	Francois Santmann	France
61	Howard Norman	Wales
62	Tom Lobsinger	Canada
63	Brian McSloy	Scotland
64	Ahmed Boutemdjet	Algeria
65	Abdelaziz Khamel	Morocco
66	Elie Aubertin	Belgium
67	Alan Cummings	Wales
68	Brendan Hillard	Ireland
69	Charles Haskett	Scotland
70	Byron Davies	Wales
71	Peter Butler	Canada
72	Raine Lehto	Finland
73	Abdellah Ghabbi	Morocco
74	Didier Combes	France
75	Michael Lawther	Northern Ireland
76	Axel Dietrich	West Germany
77	Willy Max	Belgium
78	John Maher	Ireland
79	James Ross	Northern Ireland
80	Ray Butler	Northern Ireland
81	Eddie Patterson	Northern Ireland

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

United States

Eric Hulst	1
Thom Hunt	2
Alberto Salazar	5
Don Moses	8
(Marty Froelick)	(11)
(Ralph Serna)	(19)

16

Spain

Santiago Llorente	9
José Luis González	12
Rafael Nunez	15
Antonio Prieto	24
(José Calderón)	(40)

60

England

Nick Lees	7
Jeremy Lothian	26
Nigel Field	27
Nick Brawn	31
(Paul Bettridge)	(46)
(David Murphy)	(57)

91

4

Italy

Enrico Bosca	16
Luca Consigli	21
Mauro Pappacena	28
Arturo Iacona	32
(Remigio della Monta)	(41)

97

5

Morocco

Yahia Hadka	6
Abdeslem Jaddor	18
Mohamed Rajmi	33
Omar Arab	50
(Abdelaziz Khamel)	(65)
(Abdellah Ghabbi)	(73)

107

6

West Germany

Volkmar Betz	13
Mathias Plank	25
Harald Hudak	30
Konrad Dobler	47
(Gerhard Krippner)	(58)
(Axel Dietrich)	(76)

115

7

Canada

Mike Dixon	22
Paul Roberts	23
Lyle Kuchmack	36
Terry Goodenough	39
(Tom Lobsinger)	(62)
(Peter Butler)	(71)

120

8

Belgium

Harry Servranckx	10
Dirk Vanderherten	29
Francois Willems	38
Alan de Boeck	48
(Elie Aubertin)	(66)
(Willy Max)	(77)

125

9

Scotland

Nat Muir	3
Andrew Smith	35
Kenneth McCartney	42
Brian McSloy	63
(Charles Haskett)	(69)

143

10

Finland

Vesa Laukkanen	14
Markku Kantola	34
Lasse Mikkelsson	37
Arto Virtanen	59
(Raine Lehto)	(72)

144

11

France

Thierry Watrice	4
Olivier Arnoux	49
Gilles Garcia	53
Serge Libessart	54
(Francois Santmann)	(60)
(Didier Combes)	(74)

160

12

Algeria

Abderrahmane Morceli	17
Abdelrazzak Bounour	43
Salim Atache	52
Lahcene Babaci	56
(Ahmed Boutemdjet)	(64)

168

13

Wales

Adrian Leek	20
David Carr	51
David James	55
Howard Norman	61
(Alan Cummings)	(67)
(Byron Davies)	(70)

187

14

Ireland

Anthony Conroy	44
Cyril Donnellan	45
Brendan Hillard	68
John Maher	78

235

15

Northern Ireland

Michael Lawther	75
James Ross	79
Ray Butler	80
Eddie Patterson	81

315

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 81 athletes from 15 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[4]

Algeria (5)
Belgium (6)
Canada (6)
England (6)
Finland (5)
France (6)
Ireland (4)
Italy (5)
Morocco (6)
Northern Ireland (4)
Scotland (5)
Spain (5)
United States (6)
Wales (6)
West Germany (6)

References

^ Marshall, Ron (1 March 1976), Scots are left behind in big race - When England walked off with the team awards at the first International Cross-Country Championship, in 1903 at Hamilton, a Scottish official, in writing of the trophy up for annual competition, said: "It is very handsome and I am only sorry that so far as Scotland is concerned we have probably seen the last of it for a number of years"..., Glasgow Herald, p. 17, retrieved 17 October 2013
^ Magnusson, Tomas (8 September 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.8km CC Men - Chepstow Date: Saturday, February 28, 1976, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 17 October 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved 9 October 2013
^ ^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 27 September 2013, retrieved 9 October 2013

[herald_01-1] Marshall, Ron (1 March 1976), Scots are left behind in big race - When England walked off with the team awards at the first International Cross-Country Championship, in 1903 at Hamilton, a Scottish official, in writing of the trophy up for annual competition, said: "It is very handsome and I am only sorry that so far as Scotland is concerned we have probably seen the last of it for a number of years"..., Glasgow Herald, p. 17, retrieved 17 October 2013

[archive_02-2] Magnusson, Tomas (8 September 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.8km CC Men - Chepstow Date: Saturday, February 28, 1976, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 17 October 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[gbr_01-3] IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved 9 October 2013

[iaaf_01-4] 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 27 September 2013, retrieved 9 October 2013

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