1977 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Junior men's race at the 1977 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Junior men's race at the 1977 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	5th
Date	March 20
Host city	Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, West Germany
Venue	Galopprennbahn Düsseldorf-Grafenberg
Events	1
Distances	7.5 km – Junior men
Participation	81 athletes from ; 15 nations
	← 1976 Chepstow 1978 Glasgow →

The Junior men's race at the 1977 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Düsseldorf, West Germany, at the Galopprennbahn Düsseldorf-Grafenberg on March 20, 1977. 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 (7.5 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Thom Hunt	United States	23:15
	Santiago Llorente	Spain	23:28
	Ari Paunonen	Finland	23:39
4	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	23:43
5	Mark Spilsbury	United States	23:44
6	Nick Lees	England	23:48
7	Peter Butler	Canada	23:49
8	Nat Muir	Scotland	23:55
9	José Manuel Abascal	Spain	23:56
10	Tommy Ekblom	Finland	23:57
11	Rob Evans	Canada	23:58
12	Marty Froelick	United States	24:04
13	Elie Aubertin	Belgium	24:04.6
14	Luis Sastre	Spain	24:05
15	Antonio Prieto	Spain	24:08
16	Robert Swann	England	24:13
17	Paolo Fattori	Italy	24:14
18	Chris Fox	United States	24:19
19	Colin Clarkson	Wales	24:21
20	David Peckham	Canada	24:22
21	Harry Servranckx	Belgium	24:24
22	Hermann Kramer	West Germany	24:27
23	Dave Clarke	England	24:28
24	Domingo Ramón	Spain	24:29
25	Guido de Pauw	Belgium	24:30
26	Volkmar Betz	West Germany	24:32
27	Vesa Kähkölä	Finland	24:33
28	Anthony Conroy	Ireland	24:34
29	Roland Brack	Canada	24:35
30	Philippe Legrand	France	24:36
31	Alfredo Bonetti	Italy	24:37
32	Dirk Mattheus	Belgium	24:38
33	Harold Schulz	United States	24:39
34	Jeff Creer	United States	24:40
35	Mike O'Reilly	England	24:42
36	Alan Cummings	Wales	24:44
37	Gerardo Manso	Spain	24:51
38	Mauro Pappacena	Italy	24:52
39	Brian McSloy	Scotland	24:53
40	Hugh Shakeshaft	Wales	24:54
41	Francois Willems	Belgium	24:55
42	Chris Bunyan	England	24:56
43	Graham Williamson	Scotland	24:57
44	Mick Morton	England	24:58
45	Jürgen Dächert	West Germany	24:59
46	Charles Marr	Scotland	25:00
47	Fernando Miguel	Portugal	25:02
48	James Connell	Ireland	25:04
49	Wolf-Ulrich Schneider	West Germany	25:06
50	Ralf Fleischmann	West Germany	25:08
51	Fulvio Costa	Italy	25:13
52	Adrian Leek	Wales	25:15
53	Nourredine Benamor	Tunisia	25:18
54	Serge Libessart	France	25:19
55	Rob Earl	Canada	25:21
56	Denis Toussaint	France	25:22
57	Ahmen Jerad	Tunisia	25:24
58	Vesa Laukkanen	Finland	25:28
59	Alastair Douglas	Scotland	25:32
60	Vincent Jacot	Switzerland	25:33
61	Markus Joerg	Switzerland	25:34
62	Yvan Eriau	France	25:35
63	Gin Piero Meregaglia	Italy	25:36
64	José Costa	Portugal	25:37
65	Martin Kuster	Switzerland	25:38
66	Raymond Paulins	Canada	25:42
67	Ronny Agten	Belgium	25:43
68	Ian Brown	Scotland	25:44
69	Dominique Vernochet	France	25:47
70	Wahid Ayari	Tunisia	26:03
71	Pascal Brosseau	France	26:08
72	Martin McGeady	Ireland	26:09
73	José Frias	Portugal	26:18
74	Eamonn McMahon	Ireland	26:22
75	João Pereira	Portugal	26:24
76	Arto Virtanen	Finland	26:25
77	Féthi Baccouche	Tunisia	26:26
78	David Ball	Ireland	26:27
79	Roger Butty	Switzerland	27:08
80	James Fallon	Ireland	27:10
—	João Campos	Portugal	DNF

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

United States

Thom Hunt	1
Mark Spilsbury	5
Marty Froelick	12
Chris Fox	18
(Harold Schulz)	(33)
(Jeff Creer)	(34)

36

Spain

Santiago Llorente	2
José Manuel Abascal	9
Luis Sastre	14
Antonio Prieto	15
(Domingo Ramón)	(24)
(Gerardo Manso)	(37)

40

Canada

Peter Butler	7
Rob Evans	11
David Peckham	20
Roland Brack	29
(Rob Earl)	(55)
(Raymond Paulins)	(66)

67

4

England

Nick Lees	6
Robert Swann	16
Dave Clarke	23
Mike O'Reilly	35
(Chris Bunyan)	(42)
(Mick Morton)	(44)

80

5

Belgium

Elie Aubertin	13
Harry Servranckx	21
Guido de Pauw	25
Dirk Mattheus	32
(Francois Willems)	(41)
(Ronny Agten)	(67)

91

6

Finland

Ari Paunonen	3
Tommy Ekblom	10
Vesa Kähkölä	27
Vesa Laukkanen	58
(Arto Virtanen)	(76)

98

7

Scotland

Nat Muir	8
Brian McSloy	39
Graham Williamson	43
Charles Marr	46
(Alastair Douglas)	(59)
(Ian Brown)	(68)

136

8

Italy

Paolo Fattori	17
Alfredo Bonetti	31
Mauro Pappacena	38
Fulvio Costa	51
(Gin Piero Meregaglia)	(63)

137

9

West Germany

Hermann Kramer	22
Volkmar Betz	26
Jürgen Dächert	45
Wolf-Ulrich Schneider	49
(Ralf Fleischmann)	(50)

142

10

Wales

Colin Clarkson	19
Alan Cummings	36
Hugh Shakeshaft	40
Adrian Leek	52

147

11

Switzerland

Pierre Délèze	4
Vincent Jacot	60
Markus Joerg	61
Martin Kuster	65
(Roger Butty)	(79)

190

12

France

Philippe Legrand	30
Serge Libessart	54
Denis Toussaint	56
Yvan Eriau	62
(Dominique Vernochet)	(69)
(Pascal Brosseau)	(71)

202

13

Ireland

Anthony Conroy	28
James Connell	48
Martin McGeady	72
Eamonn McMahon	74
(David Ball)	(78)
(James Fallon)	(80)

222

14

Tunisia

Nourredine Benamor	53
Ahmen Jerad	57
Wahid Ayari	70
Féthi Baccouche	77

257

15

Portugal

Fernando Miguel	47
José Costa	64
José Frias	73
João Pereira	75
(João Campos)	(DNF)

259

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]

Belgium (6)
Canada (6)
England (6)
Finland (5)
France (6)
Ireland (6)
Italy (5)
Portugal (5)
Scotland (6)
Spain (6)
Switzerland (5)
Tunisia (4)
United States (6)
Wales (4)
West Germany (5)

References

^ Muir out of the hunt - Nat Muir, Scotland's big hope for a medal at the workld cross country championships in Dusseldorf yesterday was unable to stop Thom Hunt of the USA from improving on the silver medal he won last year..., Glasgow Herald, March 21, 1977, p. 17, retrieved October 17, 2013
^ Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.5km CC Men - Düsseldorf Graffenberg Date: Sunday, March 20, 1977, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 17, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 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 September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013

[herald_01-1] Muir out of the hunt - Nat Muir, Scotland's big hope for a medal at the workld cross country championships in Dusseldorf yesterday was unable to stop Thom Hunt of the USA from improving on the silver medal he won last year..., Glasgow Herald, March 21, 1977, p. 17, retrieved October 17, 2013

[archive_02-2] Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.5km CC Men - Düsseldorf Graffenberg Date: Sunday, March 20, 1977, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 17, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[gbr_01-3] IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 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 September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013

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