1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

The Senior men's race at the 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Antwerp, Belgium, at the Linkeroever Racecourse on March 24, 1991. A report on the event was given in The New York Times.

Senior men's race at the 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	19th
Date	March 24
Host city	Antwerp, Antwerp Province, Belgium
Venue	Linkeroever Racecourse
Events	1
Distances	11.764 km – Senior men
Participation	237 athletes from 44 nations
← 1990 Aix-les-Bains 1992 Boston →

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

Race results

Senior men's race (11.764 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Khalid Skah	Morocco	33:53
	Moses Tanui	Kenya	33:54
	Simon Karori	Kenya	33:54
4	Richard Chelimo	Kenya	33:57
5	Ondoro Osoro†	Kenya	33:57
6	Stephenson Nyamau	Kenya	34:01
7	Chala Kelele	Ethiopia	34:06
8	Ezequiel Bitok†	Kenya	34:19
9	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia	34:24
10	Hammou Boutayeb	Morocco	34:28
11	Boniface Merande	Kenya	34:31
12	William Mutwol	Kenya	34:32
13	Melese Feissa	Ethiopia	34:34
14	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	34:36
15	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	34:37
16	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal	34:40
17	Antonio Silio	Argentina	34:42
18	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	34:43
19	Eamonn Martin	United Kingdom	34:45
20	Martín Fiz	Spain	34:47
21	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	34:49
22	Tekeye Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	34:51
23	Bedile Kibret	Ethiopia	34:52
24	William Koech	Kenya	34:55
25	José Carlos Adán	Spain	34:56
26	Giuseppe Miccoli	Italy	34:57
27	Oleg Strizhakov	Soviet Union	35:00
28	Dan Nelson	United States	35:01
29	Tonnie Dirks	Netherlands	35:02
30	Habte Negash	Ethiopia	35:04
31	José Manuel García	Spain	35:04
32	Mikhail Dasko	Soviet Union	35:04
33	Domingos Castro	Portugal	35:05
34	Andrew Masai	Kenya	35:06
35	Mohamed El Massoudi	Morocco	35:07
36	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	35:08
37	Antonio Serrano	Spain	35:10
38	Christian Leuprecht	Italy	35:10
39	Tendai Chimusasa	Zimbabwe	35:13
40	Artur Castro	Brazil	35:13
41	Andy Bristow	United Kingdom	35:13
42	Ezequiel Canario	Portugal	35:14
43	Mustapha Essaïd	France	35:14
44	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	35:14
45	Henk Gommer	Netherlands	35:15
46	Antonio Martins	France	35:15
47	Peter Brett	Australia	35:16
48	Carey Nelson	Canada	35:16
49	John Nuttall	United Kingdom	35:17
50	Henrique Crisostomo	Portugal	35:17
51	Ibrahim Kinuthia†	Kenya	35:18
52	Richard Nerurkar	United Kingdom	35:18
53	Steve Tunstall	United Kingdom	35:19
54	Ruddy Walem	Belgium	35:19
55	Arnold Mächler	Switzerland	35:19
56	Juvenal Ribeiro	Portugal	35:20
57	Jacinto Navarrete	Colombia	35:20
58	Darren Klassen	Canada	35:23
59	Hamid Essebani	Morocco	35:23
60	Carlo Terzer	Italy	35:24
61	Are Nakkim	Norway	35:25
62	Paul Williams	Canada	35:25
63	Phillip Clode	New Zealand	35:26
64	Manuel Matias	Portugal	35:27
65	Benedito Gomes	Brazil	35:28
66	Robert de Brouwer	Netherlands	35:28
67	Paul Roden	United Kingdom	35:29
68	Pat Porter	United States	35:29
69	Yosuke Osawa	Japan	35:30
70	Marcelo Cascabelo	Argentina	35:31
71	Abel Antón	Spain	35:32
72	Boay Akoney	Tanzania	35:33
73	Aleksandr Burtsev	Soviet Union	35:35
74	Mohamed Choumassi	Morocco	35:36
75	John Halvorsen	Norway	35:36
76	Francesco Bennici	Italy	35:38
77	Luíz dos Santos	Brazil	35:39
78	Dan Reese	United States	35:39
79	Nikolay Chameyev	Soviet Union	35:41
80	Nigousse Urge	Ethiopia	35:41
81	Rodney Higgins	Australia	35:42
82	Rex Wilson	New Zealand	35:42
83	Bob Kempainen	United States	35:43
84	Jos Maes	Belgium	35:43
85	Mark Coogan	United States	35:44
86	Mohammed Mourhit	Morocco	35:45
87	Shozo Shimoju	Japan	35:45
88	Delmir dos Santos	Brazil	35:46
89	Graeme Fell	Canada	35:46
90	Gennadiy Temnikov	Soviet Union	35:47
91	Feyissa Abebe	Ethiopia	35:48
92	Franco Boffi	Italy	35:49
93	Pat Carroll	Australia	35:50
94	Julio Hernandez	Colombia	35:51
95	Rod de Highden	Australia	35:51
96	Róbert Stefko	Czechoslovakia	35:52
97	Pierre Levisse	France	35:52
98	Antonio Prieto	Spain	35:52
99	Alberto Maravilha	Portugal	35:53
100	Henrik Jørgensen	Denmark	35:53
101	Felix Mbuye	Zambia	35:54
102	Pascal Depret	France	35:55
103	Martin McLoughlin	United Kingdom	35:56
104	Eddy de Pauw	Belgium	35:56
105	Angelo Carosi	Italy	35:57
106	Kimball Reynierse	Aruba	35:58
107	Rafael Zepeda	Mexico	35:58
108	Mikhail Khramov	Soviet Union	36:00
109	Abdallah Hafid	Morocco	36:00
110	Diamantino dos Santos	Brazil	36:01
111	Hansjörg Brücker	Switzerland	36:01
112	Clair Wathier	Brazil	36:02
113	Carlos Grisales	Colombia	36:03
114	Herman Hofstee	Netherlands	36:04
115	William Taylor	United States	36:05
116	Brendan Matthias	Canada	36:05
117	Luis Ibarra	Brazil	36:06
118	Paul Smith	New Zealand	36:06
119	Constantino Esparcia	Spain	36:07
120	Vincenzo Modica	Italy	36:08
121	Aaron Ramirez	United States	36:09
122	Dave Lewis	United Kingdom	36:10
123	Gerry Curtis	Ireland	36:14
124	Juma Mnyampanda	Tanzania	36:14
125	Malcolm Norwood	Australia	36:15
126	Rafael Muñoz	Mexico	36:16
127	Magnus Bergman	Sweden	36:17
128	Akira Nakamura	Japan	36:18
129	Thomas Wood	United States	36:18
130	Håvard Tveite	Norway	36:18
131	Othmar Schoop	Switzerland	36:19
132	Luis Soares	France	36:19
133	Oscar Amaya	Argentina	36:20
134	Petr Pipa	Czechoslovakia	36:20
135	Victor Ndlovu	Zimbabwe	36:21
136	Koji Hirata	Japan	36:22
137	Pyotr Sarafynyuk	Soviet Union	36:23
138	Marc Vanderstraeten	Belgium	36:23
139	Jiří Švec	Czechoslovakia	36:23
140	Noel Richardson	Ireland	36:24
141	Steven Brooks	United Kingdom	36:24
142	Jacob Muunga	Zambia	36:25
143	Shaun Creighton	Australia	36:26
144	Luc Krotwaar	Netherlands	36:27
145	Robert O'Donnell	Australia	36:28
146	Bjørn Nordheggen	Norway	36:28
147	Godfrey Siamusiye	Zambia	36:29
148	Stig Nørregaard	Denmark	36:30
149	Tetiani Moyo	Zimbabwe	36:30
150	Oleg Syroyezhko	Soviet Union	36:34
151	Philippe Rémond	France	36:35
152	Terje Näss	Norway	36:36
153	Shivkumar Shreshta	India	36:37
154	Gerardo Reyes	Mexico	36:37
155	Stanislav Tabor	Czechoslovakia	36:38
156	Bernd Bürger	Germany	36:39
157	Raf Wijns	Belgium	36:40
158	Jozef Vybostok	Czechoslovakia	36:41
159	Diomede Cishahayo	Burundi	36:42
160	Marcel Versteeg	Netherlands	36:44
161	Martin Ryan	Ireland	36:46
162	Angel Cardenas	Chile	36:47
163	Juan Carlos Paul	Spain	36:47
164	Amar Benaceur	France	36:49
165	João Ataide	Brazil	36:49
166	Wilson Theleso	Botswana	36:50
167	Muchapiwa Mazano	Zimbabwe	36:50
168	Viktor Gural	Soviet Union	36:51
169	Maximino Ayala	Mexico	36:51
170	Vit Chrbolka	Czechoslovakia	36:52
171	Cusimiro Reyes	Mexico	36:53
172	Sean Wade	New Zealand	36:57
173	Ivan Uvizl	Czechoslovakia	36:58
174	Brighton Chipere	Zimbabwe	36:59
175	Kasimir Kunz	Switzerland	37:02
176	Mickael Dufermont	France	37:03
177	Marius Hasler	Switzerland	37:04
178	Mark Furlan	New Zealand	37:05
179	Roy Dooney	Ireland	37:07
180	Winford Munthali	Zambia	37:09
181	Abhay Singh	India	37:11
182	Jean Mahatana	Madagascar	37:12
183	Lubos Cesnek	Czechoslovakia	37:14
184	Ivo Claes	Belgium	37:15
185	Dinesh Kumar	India	37:17
186	Raymond van Paemel	Belgium	37:22
187	Udai Pratap Singh	India	37:23
188	René Godlieb	Netherlands	37:24
189	Leonardo Malgor	Argentina	37:26
190	Adriano Pezzoli	Italy	37:27
191	Jose Duarte	Mexico	37:28
192	Tom Maher	Ireland	37:29
193	João N'tyamba	Angola	37:30
194	Rod DeHaven	United States	37:34
195	Andrea Erni	Switzerland	37:35
196	Jafar Babakhani	Iran	37:39
197	Robbie Johnston	New Zealand	37:40
198	Dominique Chauvelier	France	37:41
199	Noel Cullen	Ireland	37:42
200	Knut Bakken	Norway	37:48
201	Martin Simeon	Namibia	37:50
202	Richard Charette	Canada	37:52
203	Redson Munsanje	Zambia	37:53
204	Richard Potts	New Zealand	37:54
205	Marc van Rooy	Netherlands	37:54
206	Benjamin Keleketu	Botswana	37:55
207	Gino van Geyte	Belgium	37:57
208	Toribio Gutierres	Argentina	38:05
209	Carlos Naput	Argentina	38:08
210	Jamie Harrison	Australia	38:15
211	Alain Bordeleau	Canada	38:19
212	Mohinder Singh	India	38:20
213	Mike Felicite	Mauritius	38:24
214	Michel Jean-Louis	Mauritius	38:40
215	Hasan Sabzevari	Iran	38:46
216	Brian Gillatt	New Zealand	38:55
217	Ali Movahedpoor	Iran	39:01
218	Wang Chen-Hui	Chinese Taipei	39:02
219	Hsu Gi-Sheng	Chinese Taipei	39:11
220	Shiv Kumar Yadav	India	39:18
221	Hsu Yi-Chung	Chinese Taipei	39:21
222	Patrick Moonsamy	Mauritius	39:25
223	Jean Newk-See	Mauritius	39:30
224	Clement Pirogue	Mauritius	39:33
225	Robert Kusi	Botswana	39:36
226	Paddy McCluskey	Canada	39:53
227	Pascal Face	Mauritius	39:55
228	Ajay Chuttoo	Mauritius	40:03
229	Calvin Dallas	U.S. Virgin Islands	40:18
230	Dominique Huryl	Mauritius	40:19
—	John Campbell	New Zealand	DNF
—	Paul McCloy	Canada	DNF
—	John Ngugi	Kenya	DNF
—	John Downes	Ireland	DNF
—	Bernt Eltervaag	Norway	DNF
—	Tom Fineda	Guam	DNF
—	Joaquim Silva	Portugal	DNF

^†: Athlete marked in the results list as nonscorer.

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya Moses Tanui 2 Simon Karori 3 Richard Chelimo 4 Stephenson Nyamau 6 Boniface Merande 11 William Mutwol 12 (William Koech) (24) (Andrew Masai) (34) (John Ngugi) (DNF)	38
	Ethiopia Chala Kelele 7 Addis Abebe 9 Melese Feissa 13 Tekeye Gebrselassie 22 Bedile Kibret 23 Habte Negash 30 (Nigousse Urge) (80) (Feyissa Abebe) (91)	104
	Spain Alejandro Gómez 14 Martín Fiz 20 José Carlos Adán 25 José Manuel García 31 Antonio Serrano 37 Abel Antón 71 (Antonio Prieto) (98) (Constantino Esparcia) (119) (Juan Carlos Paul) (163)	198
4	Portugal Joaquim Pinheiro 16 Domingos Castro 33 Dionísio Castro 36 Ezequiel Canario 42 Henrique Crisostomo 50 Juvenal Ribeiro 56 (Manuel Matias) (64) (Alberto Maravilha) (99) (Joaquim Silva) (DNF)	233
5	Morocco Khalid Skah 1 Hammou Boutayeb 10 Mohamed El Massoudi 35 Hamid Essebani 59 Mohamed Choumassi 74 Mohammed Mourhit 86 (Abdallah Hafid) (109)	265
6	United Kingdom Eamonn Martin 19 Andy Bristow 41 John Nuttall 49 Richard Nerurkar 52 Steve Tunstall 53 Paul Roden 67 (Martin McLoughlin) (103) (Dave Lewis) (122) (Steven Brooks) (141)	281
7	Italy Giuseppe Miccoli 26 Christian Leuprecht 38 Salvatore Bettiol 44 Carlo Terzer 60 Francesco Bennici 76 Franco Boffi 92 (Angelo Carosi) (105) (Vincenzo Modica) (120) (Adriano Pezzoli) (190)	336
8	Soviet Union Oleg Strizhakov 27 Mikhail Dasko 32 Aleksandr Burtsev 73 Nikolay Chameyev 79 Gennadiy Temnikov 90 Mikhail Khramov 108 (Pyotr Sarafynyuk) (137) (Oleg Syroyezhko) (150) (Viktor Gural) (168)	409
9	Australia Steve Moneghetti 15 Peter Brett 47 Rodney Higgins 81 Pat Carroll 93 Rod de Highden 95 Malcolm Norwood 125 (Shaun Creighton) (143) (Robert O'Donnell) (145) (Jamie Harrison) (210)	456
10	United States Dan Nelson 28 Pat Porter 68 Dan Reese 78 Bob Kempainen 83 Mark Coogan 85 William Taylor 115 (Aaron Ramirez) (121) (Thomas Wood) (129) (Rod DeHaven) (194)	457
11	Brazil Artur Castro 40 Benedito Gomes 65 Luíz dos Santos 77 Delmir dos Santos 88 Diamantino dos Santos 110 Clair Wathier 112 (Luis Ibarra) (117) (João Ataide) (165)	492
12	Belgium Vincent Rousseau 21 Ruddy Walem 54 Jos Maes 84 Eddy de Pauw 104 Marc Vanderstraeten 138 Raf Wijns 157 (Ivo Claes) (184) (Raymond van Paemel) (186) (Gino van Geyte) (207)	558
13	Netherlands Tonnie Dirks 29 Henk Gommer 45 Robert de Brouwer 66 Herman Hofstee 114 Luc Krotwaar 144 Marcel Versteeg 160 (René Godlieb) (188) (Marc van Rooy) (205)	558
14	France Mustapha Essaïd 43 Antonio Martins 46 Pierre Levisse 97 Pascal Depret 102 Luis Soares 132 Philippe Rémond 151 (Amar Benaceur) (164) (Mickael Dufermont) (176) (Dominique Chauvelier) (198)	571
15	Canada Carey Nelson 48 Darren Klassen 58 Paul Williams 62 Graeme Fell 89 Brendan Matthias 116 Richard Charette 202 (Alain Bordeleau) (211) (Paddy McCluskey) (226) (Paul McCloy) (DNF)	575
16	Norway Are Nakkim 61 John Halvorsen 75 Håvard Tveite 130 Bjørn Nordheggen 146 Terje Näss 152 Knut Bakken 200 (Bernt Eltervaag) (DNF)	764
17	New Zealand Phillip Clode 63 Rex Wilson 82 Paul Smith 118 Sean Wade 172 Mark Furlan 178 Robbie Johnston 197 (Richard Potts) (204) (Brian Gillatt) (216) (John Campbell) (DNF)	810
18	Argentina Antonio Silio 17 Marcelo Cascabelo 70 Oscar Amaya 133 Leonardo Malgor 189 Toribio Gutierres 208 Carlos Naput 209	826
19	Switzerland Arnold Mächler 55 Hansjörg Brücker 111 Othmar Schoop 131 Kasimir Kunz 175 Marius Hasler 177 Andrea Erni 195	844
20	Czechoslovakia Róbert Stefko 96 Petr Pipa 134 Jiří Švec 139 Stanislav Tabor 155 Jozef Vybostok 158 Vit Chrbolka 170 (Ivan Uvizl) (173) (Lubos Cesnek) (183)	852
21	Mexico Rafael Zepeda 107 Rafael Muñoz 126 Gerardo Reyes 154 Maximino Ayala 169 Cusimiro Reyes 171 Jose Duarte 191	918
22	Ireland Gerry Curtis 123 Noel Richardson 140 Martin Ryan 161 Roy Dooney 179 Tom Maher 192 Noel Cullen 199 (John Downes) (DNF)	994
23	India Shivkumar Shreshta 153 Abhay Singh 181 Dinesh Kumar 185 Udai Pratap Singh 187 Mohinder Singh 212 Shiv Kumar Yadav 220	1138
24	Mauritius Mike Felicite 213 Michel Jean-Louis 214 Patrick Moonsamy 222 Jean Newk-See 223 Clement Pirogue 224 Pascal Face 227 (Ajay Chuttoo) (228) (Dominique Huryl) (230)	1323

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 237 athletes from 44 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

• Angola (1)
• Argentina (6)
• Aruba (1)
• Australia (9)
• Belgium (9)
• Botswana (3)
• Brazil (8)
• Burundi (1)
• Canada (9)
• Chile (1)
• Chinese Taipei (3)
• Colombia (3)
• Czechoslovakia (8)
• Denmark (2)
• Ethiopia (8)
• France (9)
• Germany (1)
• Guam (1)
• India (6)
• Iran (3)
• Ireland (7)
• Italy (9)
• Japan (4)
• Kenya (12)
• Madagascar (1)
• Mauritius (8)
• Mexico (6)
• Morocco (7)
• Namibia (1)
• Netherlands (8)
• New Zealand (9)
• Norway (7)
• Portugal (9)
• Rwanda (1)
• Soviet Union (9)
• Spain (9)
• Sweden (1)
• Switzerland (6)
• Tanzania (2)
• United Kingdom (9)
• United States (9)
• U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
• Zambia (5)
• Zimbabwe (5)

See also

• 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race