1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Junior men's race at the 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	11th
Date	March 20
Host city	Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England
Venue	Riverside Park
Events	1
Distances	8.033 km – Junior men
Participation	107 athletes from 25 nations
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The Junior men's race at the 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Gateshead, England, at the Riverside Park on March 20, 1983. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald ^[1] and in the Evening Times. ^[2]

Complete results, ^[3] medallists, ^[4] and the results of British athletes ^[5] were published.

Race results

Junior men's race (8.033 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Fesseha Abebe	Ethiopia	24:58
	Angaso Telega	Ethiopia	24:59
	Jonathan Richards	England	25:07
4	Gonfa Negere	Ethiopia	25:22
5	José Manuel Albentosa	Spain	25:35
6	Teka Mekonnen	Ethiopia	25:40
7	Cyrille Laventure	France	25:51
8	Marc Olesen	Canada	25:53
9	Asfaw Tadesse	Ethiopia	25:57
10	Richard Carter	England	26:06
11	José Manuel García	Spain	26:10
12	Antonio Pérez	Spain	26:15
13	José Zabaleta	Spain	26:16
14	Mohamed Salah Rajhi	Tunisia	26:17
15	Joseba Sarriegui	Spain	26:19
16	Disso Dissessa	Ethiopia	26:23
17	Alfredo Munoz	Spain	26:26
18	Paul McCaffrey	Northern Ireland	26:29
19	Luis Miguel	Portugal	26:30
20	Clifton Bradeley	England	26:31
21	Nikolay Matyushenko	Soviet Union	26:31
22	Corrado Di Salvatore	Italy	26:32
23	Mustapha El Nechchadi	Morocco	26:33
24	Robert Rice	Canada	26:35
25	Phil Makepeace	England	26:39
26	Luis Soares	Portugal	26:40
27	Joseph Leuchtmann	United States	26:41
28	Gerry Wallace	Ireland	26:46
29	Arnold van Heesvelde	Belgium	26:46
30	Thierry Pantel	France	26:46
31	Paulo Pinhal	Portugal	26:48
32	Abdelkader Belhaied	Tunisia	26:48
33	David Dunne	Ireland	26:53
34	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	26:54
35	Bob Mau	United States	26:56
36	Laroussi Mechi	Tunisia	26:57
37	John Castellano	Canada	26:58
38	Glenn Charanduk	Canada	27:00
39	Paul Taylor	England	27:02
40	Andrew Rodgers	Wales	27:04
41	Steve Diech	United States	27:06
42	Paul Gompers	United States	27:07
43	Walter Bassi	Italy	27:08
44	Miloud Djellal	Algeria	27:12
45	Igor Lotoryev	Soviet Union	27:12
46	Stefan Hendrickx	Belgium	27:12
47	Paul Stogryn	United States	27:12
48	Robert Cameron	Scotland	27:12
49	Sergey Smirnov	Soviet Union	27:14
50	Kai Jenkel	Switzerland	27:15
51	Khaled Aouita	Morocco	27:16
52	Abdellah Boubia	Morocco	27:17
53	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland	27:19
54	Patric Nilsson	Sweden	27:20
55	Martin Vile	England	27:20
56	Aleksandr Burtsev	Soviet Union	27:20
57	Ezzedine Amdouni	Tunisia	27:26
58	Leonard O'Regan	Ireland	27:26
59	Alexandr Sokoholovskiy	Soviet Union	27:26
60	Yehezkel Halifa	Israel	27:26
61	Mark Cutts	Canada	27:26
62	Brian Matthews	Wales	27:26
63	Marc Nelis	Belgium	27:27
64	Peter Conaghan	Scotland	27:27
65	Adam Sarty	Canada	27:28
66	Romdhane Belkhaied	Tunisia	27:29
67	Sergio Bruni	Italy	27:29
68	William Brist	United States	27:30
69	William Lacy	Ireland	27:31
70	Didier Verhaege	France	27:31
71	Ian Williams	Wales	27:32
72	Marcel Versteeg	Netherlands	27:37
73	Angelo Brunetti	Italy	27:40
74	Nigel Gooch	Wales	27:40
75	Luis Serrano	Portugal	27:40
76	Ahmed Lili	Morocco	27:40
77	John McNeil	Scotland	27:41
78	Alan Puckrin	Scotland	27:49
79	Mohamed Moulhine	Morocco	27:50
80	Benny Pollentier	Belgium	27:55
81	Abdelhak Henane	Algeria	27:57
82	Patrick Lingard	France	27:58
83	Johan van Delanotte	Belgium	28:01
84	Pierre Richard	Belgium	28:02
85	Gordan Lang	Northern Ireland	28:04
86	Nazar Habib	Wales	28:06
87	Pat O'Neill	Northern Ireland	28:11
88	Christian Vagner	France	28:14
89	Michael Taggart	Scotland	28:16
90	Cormac O'Riordan	Ireland	28:19
91	Carsten Borgen	Denmark	28:21
92	Pascal Tristant	France	28:26
93	Ali Günes	Turkey	28:29
94	Alwyn Ormond	Wales	28:37
95	Pat McKillop	Northern Ireland	28:42
96	Alan Wilson	Scotland	28:45
97	Mohamed Ahmad	Palestine	28:48
98	Jesper Mathiesen	Denmark	28:54
99	Philip Tweedie	Northern Ireland	28:59
100	Jim Hefferon	Northern Ireland	29:13
101	Mohamed Essahal	Morocco	29:15
102	Abdullah Saud	Kuwait	29:51
103	Khrlio Mourdi	Kuwait	31:19
104	M.Ibrahim Haji	Kuwait	31:22
105	Talal Al-Asfir	Kuwait	31:56
—	José Macedo	Portugal	DNF
—	Fernando Ferreira	Portugal	DNF

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Ethiopia Fesseha Abebe 1 Angaso Telega 2 Gonfa Negere 4 Teka Mekonnen 6 (Asfaw Tadesse) (9) (Disso Dissessa) (16)	13
	Spain José Manuel Albentosa 5 José Manuel García 11 Antonio Pérez 12 José Zabaleta 13 (Joseba Sarriegui) (15) (Alfredo Munoz) (17)	41
	England Jonathan Richards 3 Richard Carter 10 Clifton Bradeley 20 Phil Makepeace 25 (Paul Taylor) (39) (Martin Vile) (55)	58
4	Canada Marc Olesen 8 Robert Rice 24 John Castellano 37 Glenn Charanduk 38 (Mark Cutts) (61) (Adam Sarty) (65)	107
5	Tunisia Mohamed Salah Rajhi 14 Abdelkader Belhaied 32 Laroussi Mechi 36 Ezzedine Amdouni 57 (Romdhane Belkhaied) (66)	139
6	United States Joseph Leuchtmann 27 Bob Mau 35 Steve Diech 41 Paul Gompers 42 (Paul Stogryn) (47) (William Brist) (68)	145
7	Portugal Luis Miguel 19 Luis Soares 26 Paulo Pinhal 31 Luis Serrano 75 (José Macedo) (DNF) (Fernando Ferreira) (DNF)	151
8	Italy Corrado Di Salvatore 22 Giuseppe D'Urso 34 Walter Bassi 43 Sergio Bruni 67 (Angelo Brunetti) (73)	166
9	Soviet Union Nikolay Matyushenko 21 Igor Lotoryev 45 Sergey Smirnov 49 Aleksandr Burtsev 56 (Alexandr Sokoholovskiy) (59)	171
10	Ireland Gerry Wallace 28 David Dunne 33 Leonard O'Regan 58 William Lacy 69 (Cormac O'Riordan) (90)	188
11	France Cyrille Laventure 7 Thierry Pantel 30 Didier Verhaege 70 Patrick Lingard 82 (Christian Vagner) (88) (Pascal Tristant) (92)	189
12	Morocco Mustapha El Nechchadi 23 Khaled Aouita 51 Abdellah Boubia 52 Ahmed Lili 76 (Mohamed Moulhine) (79) (Mohamed Essahal) (101)	202
13	Belgium Arnold van Heesvelde 29 Stefan Hendrickx 46 Marc Nelis 63 Benny Pollentier 80 (Johan van Delanotte) (83) (Pierre Richard) (84)	218
14	Wales Andrew Rodgers 40 Brian Matthews 62 Ian Williams 71 Nigel Gooch 74 (Nazar Habib) (86) (Alwyn Ormond) (94)	247
15	Scotland Robert Cameron 48 Peter Conaghan 64 John McNeil 77 Alan Puckrin 78 (Michael Taggart) (89) (Alan Wilson) (96)	267
16	Northern Ireland Paul McCaffrey 18 Gordan Lang 85 Pat O'Neill 87 Pat McKillop 95 (Philip Tweedie) (99) (Jim Hefferon) (100)	285
17	Kuwait Abdullah Saud 102 Khrlio Mourdi 103 M.Ibrahim Haji 104 Talal Al-Asfir 105	414

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 107 athletes from 25 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[5]

•   Algeria (2)
•   Belgium (6)
•   Canada (6)
•   Denmark (2)
•   England (6)
•   Ethiopia (6)
•   France (6)
•   Ireland (5)
•   Israel (1)
•   Italy (5)
•   Kuwait (4)
•   Morocco (6)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   Northern Ireland (6)
•   Palestine (1)
•   Portugal (6)
•   Scotland (6)
•   Soviet Union (5)
•   Spain (6)
•   Sweden (1)
•    Switzerland (2)
•   Tunisia (5)
•   Turkey (1)
•   United States (6)
•   Wales (6)

See also

• 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

References

1. Gillon, Doug (March 21, 1933), Men from the mountains clean up - A glimpse into the seemingly bottomless well of talented distance runners in Ethiopia was given at Gateshead yesterday, when the men from the mountains swept the boards in the world cross country championships..., Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved October 21, 2013
2. Bekele's bombshell - Seeing 20-year-old Ethiopian soldier Bekele Debele win the world cross-country title by beating such stars as Alberto Salazar, and Carlos Lopes it was almost impossible to believe he took up running seriously only a year ago..., Evening Times, March 21, 1933, p. 12, retrieved October 21, 2013
3. Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.0km CC Men - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 21, 2013
4. IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
5. 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 on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013