1985 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

The Senior men's race at the 1985 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Sports Complex of Jamor on March 24, 1985. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.

Senior men's race at the 1985 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	13th
Date	March 24
Host city	Lisbon, Portugal
Venue	Sports Complex of Jamor
Events	1
Distances	12.19 km – Senior men
Participation	298 athletes from 47 nations
← 1984 East Rutherford 1986 Colombier →

Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (12.19 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	33:33
	Paul Kipkoech	Kenya	33:37
	Wodajo Bulti	Ethiopia	33:38
4	Bekele Debele	Ethiopia	33:45
5	John Treacy	Ireland	33:48
6	Kassa Balcha	Ethiopia	33:51
7	Christoph Herle	West Germany	33:53
8	Abdelrazzak Bounour	Algeria	33:54
9	Pierre Levisse	France	33:56
10	Bruce Bickford	United States	33:57
11	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	33:59
12	Pat Porter	United States	34:02
13	Antonio Leitão	Portugal	34:04
14	Andrew Masai	Kenya	34:06
15	Viktor Chumakov	Soviet Union	34:08
16	Ed Eyestone	United States	34:09
17	Boniface Merande	Kenya	34:10
18	Dave Lewis	England	34:12
19	Craig Virgin	United States	34:12
20	Rob de Castella	Australia	34:17
21	Antonio Prieto	Spain	34:19
22	Joshua Kipkemboi	Kenya	34:20
23	Franco Boffi	Italy	34:21
24	David Murphy	England	34:21
25	Tommy Ekblom	Finland	34:22
26	Dave Clarke	England	34:23
27	Gelindo Bordin	Italy	34:24
28	Girma Berhanu	Ethiopia	34:24
29	John Woods	Ireland	34:24
30	Stanley Mandebele	Zimbabwe	34:25
31	José da Silva	Brazil	34:26
32	Vicente Polo	Spain	34:27
33	Chala Urgessa	Ethiopia	34:28
34	Jean-Louis Prianon	France	34:29
35	Richard O'Flynn	Ireland	34:30
36	Francesco Panetta	Italy	34:33
37	Steve Jones	Wales	34:34
38	Féthi Baccouche	Tunisia	34:34
39	Salvatore Nicosia	Italy	34:35
40	Mark Curp	United States	34:36
41	Jackson Ruto	Kenya	34:38
42	John Robson	Scotland	34:39
43	Garry Briggs	Australia	34:39
44	João de Sousa	Brazil	34:42
45	James Kipngetich	Kenya	34:44
46	Gianni Demadonna	Italy	34:45
47	Lars-Erik Nilsson	Sweden	34:47
48	Nat Muir	Scotland	34:48
49	Klaas Lok	Netherlands	34:48
50	Eddy de Pauw	Belgium	34:49
51	Wang Helin	China	34:50
52	Pere Arco	Spain	34:50
53	Constantino Esparcia	Spain	34:52
54	Rex Wilson	New Zealand	34:52
55	Hailu Wolde Tsadik	Ethiopia	34:52
56	Jeff Drenth	United States	34:53
57	Hans-Jürgen Orthmann	West Germany	34:54
58	Mark Stickley	United States	34:55
59	Satoshi Kato	Japan	34:55
60	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	34:56
61	Graham Clews	Australia	34:56
62	Abdellah Boubia	Morocco	34:57
63	Brian Sheriff	Zimbabwe	34:58
64	Hannu Okkola	Finland	34:59
65	Jos Maes	Belgium	34:59
66	Ari Paunonen	Finland	35:00
67	Ivan Konovalov	Soviet Union	35:00
68	Emmanuel Handzos	Greece	35:01
69	Mats Erixon	Sweden	35:01
70	Ronnie Carroll	Ireland	35:02
71	Vesa Kähkölä	Finland	35:02
72	John Bowden	New Zealand	35:02
73	Paul McCloy	Canada	35:02
74	Francisco Sánchez	Spain	35:03
75	Michael Scheytt	West Germany	35:03
76	David Barney	United States	35:04
77	Konrad Dobler	West Germany	35:04
78	Alain Bordeleau	Canada	35:05
79	Antonio Humberto	Colombia	35:08
80	Habib Romdani	Tunisia	35:08
81	Jan Hagelbrand	Sweden	35:09
82	Eloi Schleder	Brazil	35:10
83	Fernando Couto	Portugal	35:10
84	Dominique Coux	France	35:11
85	Paul Arpin	France	35:11
86	Carey Nelson	Canada	35:12
87	Marti ten Kate	Netherlands	35:13
88	Marco Gozzano	Italy	35:16
89	Abel Antón	Spain	35:16
90	Miloud Djellal	Algeria	35:17
91	Jean-Pierre Paumen	Belgium	35:17
92	Mohamed El Bali	Morocco	35:18
93	Larbi El Mouadden	Morocco	35:18
94	Andrew Lloyd	Australia	35:19
95	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	35:19
96	Valentin Rodríguez	Spain	35:19
97	Gerard Kiernan	Ireland	35:19
98	Michihiko Narita	Japan	35:20
99	Marius Hasler	Switzerland	35:21
100	Zoltán Kadlót	Hungary	35:21
101	Tommy Persson	Sweden	35:21
102	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	35:22
103	Abdelkader Kada	Morocco	35:22
104	Ieuan Ellis	Wales	35:22
105	Oddmund Roalkvam	Norway	35:23
106	Adugna Lema	Ethiopia	35:23
107	Peter Rusman	Netherlands	35:23
108	Robert Schneider	West Germany	35:23
109	Patrick Clabaut	France	35:23
110	Marty Froelick	United States	35:24
111	Cui Yulin	China	35:24
112	Barry Knight	England	35:24
113	Rebai Settouh	Algeria	35:25
114	Giuseppe Miccoli	Italy	35:25
115	Michael Gilchrist	New Zealand	35:26
116	Derek Froude	New Zealand	35:26
117	Michael Spöttel	West Germany	35:26
118	Kari Kananen	Finland	35:27
119	Garry Henry	Australia	35:27
120	Emmanuel Goulin	France	35:27
121	Helder de Jesús	Portugal	35:28
122	Shuichi Yoneshige	Japan	35:29
123	José Luis González	Spain	35:30
124	Theo van den Abeele	Belgium	35:31
125	Tom Birnie	New Zealand	35:31
126	Julian Goater	England	35:31
127	John O'Toole	Ireland	35:32
128	Joseph Otieno	Kenya	35:32
129	Spiridon Andreopoulos	Greece	35:32
130	Benedito Porto	Brazil	35:33
131	Nick Brawn	England	35:34
132	Bernhard Mosigisi	Kenya	35:35
133	Ken Moloney	New Zealand	35:35
134	Pascal Debacker	France	35:36
135	John Bolger	Canada	35:37
136	Keld Johnsen	Denmark	35:38
137	Mike Quinn	Hong Kong	35:40
138	Ralf Salzmann	West Germany	35:42
139	Cidalio Caetano	Portugal	35:42
140	Bruce Rattray	New Zealand	35:43
141	John Vermeule	Netherlands	35:43
142	Masami Otsuka	Japan	35:44
143	Ahmed Chantibou	Morocco	35:45
144	Steve Martin	Northern Ireland
145	Neil Tennant	Scotland
146	Abderrazak Gtari	Tunisia
147	Gert de Rudder	Belgium
148	Colin Hume	Scotland
149	Mohamed Nekkachi	Morocco
150	Gord Christie	Canada
151	Alan Cole	Wales
152	Roy Dooney	Ireland
153	Chris Buckley	Wales
154	Thomas Sørensen	Denmark
155	Yoshitsigu Iwanga	Japan
156	Rafael Marques	Portugal
157	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria
158	Fotios Kourtis	Greece
159	Herbert Stephan	West Germany
160	Lahcene Babaci	Algeria
161	Bruno Lafranchi	Switzerland
162	Peder Poulsen	Sweden
163	George Braidwood	Scotland
164	Savas Koubouras	Greece
165	Charles Haskett	Scotland
166	Esa Liedes	Finland
167	Tonnie Dirks	Netherlands
168	Henrik Sandström	Finland
169	Nourredine Benzaoui	Algeria
170	Mike Bishop	England
171	Hajima Nagasato	Japan
172	Abdellah El Hatimi	Morocco
173	Dominique Chauvelier	France
174	Philippe Lahuerte	Canada
175	Neil Cusack	Ireland
176	Tore Axelsson	Sweden
177	Ranieri Carenza	Italy
178	Hichem Oueslati	Tunisia
179	Jorge Suarez	Colombia
180	Paul Wheeler	Wales
181	Adrie Hartveld	Netherlands
182	Mahieddine Belhadj	Algeria
183	Mustapha El Nechchadi	Morocco
184	David Tavares	Portugal
185	Hernando Hernandez	Colombia
186	Gentil de Mello	Brazil
187	Fethi Manai	Tunisia
188	Lasmani Merzougui	Algeria
189	Mike Deegan	England
190	Philip Llewellyn	Wales
191	Gregor Cameron	New Zealand
192	Herman Hofstee	Netherlands
193	Kai Jenkel	Switzerland
194	Sisa Kirati	Kenya
195	Marc Olesen	Canada
196	Othmar Schoop	Switzerland
197	Lars Bo Sørensen	Denmark
198	Bobby Quinn	Scotland
199	Chris Robison	England
200	Bo Orrsveden	Sweden
201	Ezzedine Amdouni	Tunisia
202	Helio Aguiar	Brazil
203	John Jenkins	Wales
204	Deon McNeilly	Northern Ireland
205	Ralph Petersen	Denmark
206	Shozo Shimoju	Japan
207	Nick de Castella	Australia
208	Jean-Yves Berau	France
209	Mohamed Ahmad	Palestine
210	Adam Hoyle	Australia
211	John Walsh	Northern Ireland
212	Hwang Wen-Cheng	Chinese Taipei
213	Pedro Luciano	Angola
214	Jim Dingwall	Scotland
215	Jaime López	Spain
216	Konstantin Kyriazis	Greece
217	Norman Tinkham	Canada
218	Advaldo Neves	Brazil
219	Feyissa Abebe	Ethiopia
220	Paul O'Callaghan	Ireland
221	Werner Meier	Switzerland
222	Faycal M'hamdi	Tunisia
223	Alvaro Palacios	Colombia
224	Rom Tomer	Israel
225	Paul Lawther	Northern Ireland
226	Shayi Saad Al-Shahrani Mubarak	Saudi Arabia
227	Gerard Barrett	Australia
228	Mahmoud Hazzazi	Algeria
229	Jean-Pierre Berset	Switzerland
230	Moacir Marconi	Brazil
231	Lucio Pereira	Portugal
232	Osama El Sayed	Egypt
233	Yeóryios Malliaris	Greece
234	Palmireno Benjamin	Brazil
235	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland
236	Kurt Thor Straten	Denmark
237	Sigurdur Sigmundsson	Iceland
238	James Stafford	Canada
239	Jean-Pierre de Ville	Belgium
240	Tom Breen	Northern Ireland
241	Raymond Curran	Northern Ireland
242	John Christiansen	Denmark
243	Paul Spowage	Hong Kong
244	Panayiótis Karahalios	Greece
245	Carlos José	Angola
246	Mohamed Idriss	Egypt
247	Ahmad Al-Hajry	Kuwait
248	Jairo Cubillos Ramirez	Colombia
249	Liu Chang-Chung	Chinese Taipei
250	João Carvalho	Angola
251	Ernesto José	Angola
252	Ahmad Gharib	Kuwait
253	Antonio Andrade	Angola
254	John Chappory	Gibraltar
255	Paul Stapleton	Hong Kong
256	Hsu Gi-Sheng	Chinese Taipei
257	Kenneth Davies	Wales
258	Meree Al-Shahrani	Saudi Arabia
259	Tim Soutar	Hong Kong
260	Salem Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia
261	Mouteb Al-Faouri	Jordan
262	Andy Cullen	Gibraltar
263	Chen Chang-Ming	Chinese Taipei
264	Lee Yin-Sheng	Chinese Taipei
265	Per Hoffmann	Denmark
266	Hon Kwai Kwok	Hong Kong
267	Francisco Silvestre	Angola
268	Lin Hon-Long	Chinese Taipei
269	Aurelio Falero	Gibraltar
270	John Cunningham	Northern Ireland
271	Ateya Al-Khashami	Saudi Arabia
272	Mahdi Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia
273	Gualter de Ceita	São Tomé and Príncipe
274	Fahmi Abdul Wahab	North Yemen
275	David Griffiths	Hong Kong
276	Kao Chuan-Kuang	Chinese Taipei
277	Aita Bdr. Limbu	Hong Kong
278	Saleh Yacine	Palestine
279	Keith Cawley	Hong Kong
280	Joseph Falero	Gibraltar
281	Saleh Darwish Ismail	Kuwait
282	James Parody	Gibraltar
283	Saad Al-Qahtani Kammah	Saudi Arabia
284	Ahmed Al-Said	Palestine
285	Wong Ip Chor	Hong Kong
286	Mark Carreras	Gibraltar
287	Ahmed Ali Al-Iqari	North Yemen
288	Fabian Franco	Gibraltar
289	Joseph Lane	Gibraltar
290	Faisal Al-Tuwairqi	Saudi Arabia
291	Saif Al-Shahrani	Saudi Arabia
292	Hector Romero	Gibraltar
293	Khaled Al-Safar	Saudi Arabia
—	Mohammed Kedir	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Håkan Börjesson	Sweden	DNF
—	Juha Moilanen	Sweden	DNF
—	Ross Copestake	Scotland	DNF
—	Micah Boinett	Kenya	DQ†

^†: Micah Boinett from Kenya was initially 45th in 34:43 min, but disqualified.

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Ethiopia Wodajo Bulti 3 Bekele Debele 4 Kassa Balcha 6 Girma Berhanu 28 Chala Urgessa 33 Hailu Wolde Tsadik 55 (Adugna Lema) (106) (Feyissa Abebe) (219) (Mohammed Kedir) (DNF)	129
	Kenya Paul Kipkoech 2 Andrew Masai 14 Boniface Merande 17 Joshua Kipkemboi 22 Jackson Ruto 41 James Kipngetich 45 (Joseph Otieno) (128) (Bernhard Mosigisi) (132) (Sisa Kirati) (194)	141
	United States Bruce Bickford 10 Pat Porter 12 Ed Eyestone 16 Craig Virgin 19 Mark Curp 40 Jeff Drenth 56 (Mark Stickley) (58) (David Barney) (76) (Marty Froelick) (110)	153
4	Italy Franco Boffi 23 Gelindo Bordin 27 Francesco Panetta 36 Salvatore Nicosia 39 Gianni Demadonna 46 Marco Gozzano 88 (Giuseppe Miccoli) (114) (Ranieri Carenza) (177)	259
5	Spain Antonio Prieto 21 Vicente Polo 32 Pere Arco 52 Constantino Esparcia 53 Francisco Sánchez 74 Abel Antón 89 (Valentin Rodríguez) (96) (José Luis González) (123) (Jaime López) (215)	321
6	Ireland John Treacy 5 John Woods 29 Richard O'Flynn 35 Ronnie Carroll 70 Gerard Kiernan 97 John O'Toole 127 (Roy Dooney) (152) (Neil Cusack) (175) (Paul O'Callaghan) (220)	363
7	Portugal Carlos Lopes 1 Fernando Mamede 11 Antonio Leitão 13 Fernando Couto 83 Helder de Jesús 121 Cidalio Caetano 139 (Rafael Marques) (156) (David Tavares) (184) (Lucio Pereira) (231)	368
8	England Dave Lewis 18 David Murphy 24 Dave Clarke 26 Barry Knight 112 Julian Goater 126 Nick Brawn 131 (Mike Bishop) (170) (Mike Deegan) (189) (Chris Robison) (199)	437
9	Finland Tommy Ekblom 25 Hannu Okkola 64 Ari Paunonen 66 Vesa Kähkölä 71 Antti Loikkanen 95 Kari Kananen 118 (Esa Liedes) (166) (Henrik Sandström) (168)	439
10	Australia Rob de Castella 20 Garry Briggs 43 Graham Clews 61 Andrew Lloyd 94 Steve Moneghetti 102 Garry Henry 119 (Nick de Castella) (207) (Adam Hoyle) (210) (Gerard Barrett) (227)	439
11	West Germany Christoph Herle 7 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann 57 Michael Scheytt 75 Konrad Dobler 77 Robert Schneider 108 Michael Spöttel 117 (Ralf Salzmann) (138) (Herbert Stephan) (159)	441
12	France Pierre Levisse 9 Jean-Louis Prianon 34 Dominique Coux 84 Paul Arpin 85 Patrick Clabaut 109 Emmanuel Goulin 120 (Pascal Debacker) (134) (Dominique Chauvelier) (173) (Jean-Yves Berau) (208)	441
13	New Zealand Rex Wilson 54 John Bowden 72 Michael Gilchrist 115 Derek Froude 116 Tom Birnie 125 Ken Moloney 133 (Bruce Rattray) (140) (Gregor Cameron) (191)	615
14	Sweden Lars-Erik Nilsson 47 Mats Erixon 69 Jan Hagelbrand 81 Tommy Persson 101 Peder Poulsen 162 Tore Axelsson 176 (Bo Orrsveden) (200) (Håkan Börjesson) (DNF) (Juha Moilanen) (DNF)	636
15	Morocco Abdellah Boubia 62 Mohamed El Bali 92 Larbi El Mouadden 93 Abdelkader Kada 103 Ahmed Chantibou 143 Mohamed Nekkachi 149 (Abdellah El Hatimi) (172) (Mustapha El Nechchadi) (183)	642
16	Brazil José da Silva 31 João de Sousa 44 Eloi Schleder 82 Benedito Porto 130 Gentil de Mello 186 Helio Aguiar 202 (Advaldo Neves) (218) (Moacir Marconi) (230) (Palmireno Benjamin) (234)	675
17	Canada Paul McCloy 73 Alain Bordeleau 78 Carey Nelson 86 John Bolger 135 Gord Christie 150 Philippe Lahuerte 174 (Marc Olesen) (195) (Norman Tinkham) (217) (James Stafford) (238)	696
18	Algeria Abdelrazzak Bounour 8 Miloud Djellal 90 Rebai Settouh 113 Abderrahmane Morceli 157 Lahcene Babaci 160 Nourredine Benzaoui 169 (Mahieddine Belhadj) (182) (Lasmani Merzougui) (188) (Mahmoud Hazzazi) (228)	697
19	Scotland John Robson 42 Nat Muir 48 Neil Tennant 145 Colin Hume 148 George Braidwood 163 Charles Haskett 165 (Bobby Quinn) (198) (Jim Dingwall) (214) (Ross Copestake) (DNF)	711
20	Belgium Eddy de Pauw 50 Jos Maes 65 Jean-Pierre Paumen 91 Theo van den Abeele 124 Gert de Rudder 147 Jean-Pierre de Ville 239	716
21	Netherlands Klaas Lok 49 Martin ten Kate 87 Peter Rusman 107 John Vermeule 141 Tonnie Dirks 167 Adrie Hartveld 181 (Herman Hofstee) (192)	732
22	Japan Satoshi Kato 59 Michihiko Narita 98 Shuichi Yoneshige 122 Masami Otsuka 142 Yoshitsigu Iwanga 155 Hajima Nagasato 171 (Shozo Shimoju) (206)	747
23	Wales Steve Jones 37 Ieuan Ellis 104 Alan Cole 151 Chris Buckley 153 Paul Wheeler 180 Philip Llewellyn 190 (John Jenkins) (203) (Kenneth Davies) (257)	815
24	Tunisia Féthi Baccouche 38 Habib Romdani 80 Abderrazak Gtari 146 Hichem Oueslati 178 Fethi Manai 187 Ezzedine Amdouni 201 (Faycal M'hamdi) (222)	830
25	Greece Emmanuel Handzos 68 Spiridon Andreopoulos 129 Fotios Kourtis 158 Savas Koubouras 164 Konstantin Kyriazis 216 Yeóryios Malliaris 233 (Panayiótis Karahalios) (244)	968
26	Switzerland Marius Hasler 99 Bruno Lafranchi 161 Kai Jenkel 193 Othmar Schoop 196 Werner Meier 221 Jean-Pierre Berset 229 (Markus Hacksteiner) (235)	1099
27	Denmark Keld Johnsen 136 Thomas Sørensen 154 Lars Bo Sørensen 197 Ralph Petersen 205 Kurt Thor Straten 236 John Christiansen 242 (Per Hoffmann) (265)	1170
28	Northern Ireland Steve Martin 144 Deon McNeilly 204 John Walsh 211 Paul Lawther 225 Tom Breen 240 Raymond Curran 241 (John Cunningham) (270)	1265
29	Hong Kong Mike Quinn 137 Paul Spowage 243 Paul Stapleton 255 Tim Soutar 259 Hon Kwai Kwok 266 David Griffiths 275 (Aita Bdr. Limbu) (277) (Keith Cawley) (279) (Wong Ip Chor) (285)	1435
30	Angola Pedro Luciano 213 Carlos José 245 João Carvalho 250 Ernesto José 251 Antonio Andrade 253 Francisco Silvestre 267	1479
31	Chinese Taipei Hwang Wen-Cheng 212 Liu Chang-Chung 249 Hsu Gi-Sheng 256 Chen Chang-Ming 263 Lee Yin-Sheng 264 Lin Hon-Long 268 (Kao Chuan-Kuang) (276)	1512
32	Saudi Arabia Shayi Saad Al-Shahrani Mubarak 226 Meree Al-Shahrani 258 Salem Al-Qahtani 260 Ateya Al-Khashami 271 Mahdi Al-Qahtani 272 Saad Al-Qahtani Kammah 283 (Faisal Al-Tuwairqi) (290) (Saif Al-Shahrani) (291) (Khaled Al-Safar) (293)	1570
33	Gibraltar John Chappory 254 Andy Cullen 262 Aurelio Falero 269 Joseph Falero 280 James Parody 282 Mark Carreras 286 (Fabian Franco) (288) (Joseph Lane) (289) (Hector Romero) (292)	1633

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 297 athletes from 47 countries in the Senior men's race, two athletes less than the official number published.

• Algeria (9)
• Angola (6)
• Australia (9)
• Belgium (6)
• Brazil (9)
• Canada (9)
• China (2)
• Chinese Taipei (7)
• Colombia (5)
• Denmark (7)
• Egypt (2)
• England (9)
• Ethiopia (9)
• Finland (8)
• France (9)
• Gibraltar (9)
• Greece (7)
• Hong Kong (9)
• Hungary (1)
• Iceland (1)
• Ireland (9)
• Israel (1)
• Italy (8)
• Japan (7)
• Jordan (1)
• Kenya (10)
• Kuwait (3)
• Morocco (8)
• Netherlands (7)
• New Zealand (8)
• Northern Ireland (7)
• North Yemen (2)
• Norway (1)
• Palestine (3)
• Portugal (9)
• São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
• Saudi Arabia (9)
• Scotland (9)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Spain (9)
• Sweden (9)
• Switzerland (7)
• Tunisia (7)
• United States (9)
• Wales (8)
• West Germany (8)
• Zimbabwe (3)

See also

• 1985 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 1985 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race