1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Senior men's race at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	15th
Date	March 22
Host city	Warsaw, Poland
Venue	Służewiec Racecourse
Events	1
Distances	11.95 km – Senior men
Participation	278 athletes from 38 nations
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The Senior men's race at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Warsaw, Poland, at the Służewiec Racecourse on March 22, 1987. 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

Senior men's race (11.95 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	John Ngugi	Kenya	36:07
	Paul Kipkoech	Kenya	36:07
	Paul Arpin	France	36:51
4	Abebe Mekonnen	Ethiopia	36:53
5	Some Muge	Kenya	36:54
6	Andrew Masai	Kenya	37:01
7	Pat Porter	United States	37:04
8	Paul McCloy	Canada	37:08
9	Bruno Le Stum	France	37:09
10	Dave Clarke	England	37:10
11	Steve Moneghetti	Australia	37:11
12	Ed Eyestone	United States	37:11
13	Francesco Panetta	Italy	37:12
14	José Regalo	Portugal	37:13
15	Pierre Levisse	France	37:13
16	John Halvorsen	Norway	37:14
17	Haji Bulbula	Ethiopia	37:14
18	Moses Tanui	Kenya	37:17
19	Vincent Rousseau	Belgium	37:25
20	Carl Thackery	England	37:25
21	Sisa Kirati	Kenya	37:28
22	Kevin Forster	England	37:30
23	Steve Binns	England	37:31
24	Steve Plasencia	United States	37:31
25	Constantino Esparcia	Spain	37:31
26	Gelindo Bordin	Italy	37:33
27	Wodajo Bulti	Ethiopia	37:37
28	Vicente Polo	Spain	37:38
29	Wolde Silasse Melkessa	Ethiopia	37:39
30	David Burridge	New Zealand	37:42
31	Stanley Mandebele	Zimbabwe	37:42
32	Marco Gozzano	Italy	37:43
33	Craig Mochrie	England	37:43
34	Kazuya Nishimoto	Japan	37:43
35	John Woods	Ireland	37:44
36	Severino Bernardini	Italy	37:45
37	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	37:46
38	Jonathan Richards	England	37:47
39	Melese Feissa	Ethiopia	37:48
40	Nat Muir	Scotland	37:49
41	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal	37:49
42	Abel Antón	Spain	37:51
43	Tim Hutchings	England	37:51
44	Konrad Dobler	West Germany	37:52
45	Bekele Debele	Ethiopia	37:53
46	Paul Roden	England	37:56
47	Jos Maes	Belgium	37:57
48	Boniface Merande	Kenya	37:57
49	Habib Romdani	Tunisia	37:58
50	Ezequiel Canario	Portugal	37:59
51	El Hachami Abdenouz	Algeria	38:00
52	Arnold Mächler	Switzerland	38:01
53	Habte Negash	Ethiopia	38:01
54	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	38:02
55	Emmanuel Goulin	France	38:02
56	Fethi Manai	Tunisia	38:03
57	Lars-Erik Nilsson	Sweden	38:04
58	Jarl Gaute Aase	Norway	38:04
59	Martin McLoughlin	England	38:05
60	Krzysztof Wesołowski	Poland	38:08
61	Juan José Rosario	Spain	38:08
62	Franco Boffi	Italy	38:09
63	Dionísio Castro	Portugal	38:10
64	Eddy De Pauw	Belgium	38:11
65	Peter Butler	Canada	38:11
66	Abderrazak Gtari	Tunisia	38:11
67	Samuel Nyangincha	Kenya	38:11
68	Thierry Pantel	France	38:12
69	Martin Vrabel	Czechoslovakia	38:12
70	Chala Urgessa	Ethiopia	38:12
71	Kozu Akutsu	Japan	38:14
72	Ralf Salzmann	West Germany	38:15
73	Erik De Beck	Belgium	38:16
74	Ken Moloney	New Zealand	38:17
75	Shuichi Yoneshige	Japan	38:17
76	John Jenkins	Wales	38:18
77	Mats Erixon	Sweden	38:18
78	Peter Van de Kerkhove	Belgium	38:19
79	Rex Wilson	New Zealand	38:19
80	Mahieddine Belhadj	Algeria	38:20
81	Valentin Rodríguez	Spain	38:22
82	Bogusław Mamiński	Poland	38:26
83	Jan Huruk	Poland	38:27
84	Peter Brett	Australia	38:28
85	Bernd Bürger	West Germany	38:30
86	Helge Dolsvåg	Norway	38:30
87	George Nicholas	United States	38:30
88	Shuzo Nakajima	Japan	38:31
89	Mahmoud Hazzazi	Algeria	38:33
90	Jan Hagelbrand	Sweden	38:34
91	Gregor Cameron	New Zealand	38:34
92	Paul O'Callaghan	Ireland	38:35
93	Tonnie Dirks	Netherlands	38:36
94	Art Boileau	Canada	38:36
95	Jean-Yves Berau	France	38:36
96	Negatu Seyoum	Ethiopia	38:36
97	William Vanhuylenbroek	Belgium	38:37
98	Graeme Fell	Canada	38:37
99	Paul Wheeler	Wales	38:38
100	Roy Dooney	Ireland	38:38
101	Hans-Jürgen Orthmann	West Germany	38:39
102	Abdelhak Henane	Algeria	38:40
103	Santiago Llorente	Spain	38:42
104	António Pinto	Portugal	38:43
105	Aart Stigter	Netherlands	38:44
106	Cándido Alario	Spain	38:45
107	Steve Jones	Wales	38:45
108	Brad Camp	Australia	38:46
109	Rob Lonergan	Canada	38:46
110	Diamantino dos Santos	Brazil	38:46
111	Giuseppe Miccoli	Italy	38:47
112	Zdenek Mezulianik	Czechoslovakia	38:47
113	Doug Cronkite	Canada	38:47
114	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	38:48
115	Spiridon Andreopoulos	Greece	38:49
116	Lasmani Merzougui	Algeria	38:49
117	Marc Borghans	Netherlands	38:49
118	Axel Hardy	West Germany	38:50
119	Sławomir Gurny	Poland	38:50
120	Mike Bishop	Wales	38:50
121	Dag Øxnevad	Norway	38:50
122	Jonny Danielson	Sweden	38:51
123	Vincent Kibiwott	Kenya	38:51
124	Mohamed Difallah	Algeria	38:52
125	Truls Nygaard	Norway	38:52
126	Gianni Demadonna	Italy	38:52
127	David Barney	United States	38:54
128	Peter McColgan	Northern Ireland	38:54
129	Fernando Couto	Portugal	38:55
130	Mohamed Salah Rajhi	Tunisia	38:56
131	Antonio Prieto	Spain	38:57
132	Melusi Ndhlela	Zimbabwe	38:57
133	Farai Kamucheka	Zimbabwe	38:59
134	Chris Buckley	Wales	39:02
135	Willy Goddaert	Belgium	39:03
136	Ieuan Ellis	Wales	39:03
137	Terence Mitchell	Scotland	39:07
138	Jacques Krähenbühl	Switzerland	39:09
139	Gerry Deegan	Ireland	39:09
140	Patric Nilsson	Sweden	39:10
141	Herman Hofstee	Netherlands	39:10
142	Zdenek Moravcik	Czechoslovakia	39:10
143	Alain Bordeleau	Canada	39:12
144	Brahim Ayachi	Tunisia	39:12
145	Bogusław Psujek	Poland	39:14
146	John Robson	Scotland	39:15
147	Pierre-Andre Gobet	Switzerland	39:16
148	Michel Franssen	Netherlands	39:19
149	Chris Robison	Scotland	39:19
150	Cyrille Laventure	France	39:20
151	Rebai Settouh	Algeria	39:20
152	Tommy Murray	Scotland	39:20
153	Tadayoshi Kametaka	Japan	39:22
154	James Fallon	Ireland	39:22
155	David Rush	New Zealand	39:23
156	Adam Hoyle	Australia	39:23
157	Andrzej Malicki	Poland	39:23
158	Oddmund Roalkvam	Norway	39:26
159	Adelaziz Bouguerra	Tunisia	39:26
160	Marius Hasler	Switzerland	39:26
161	Douglas Tolson	United States	39:30
162	Brahim Boudina	Algeria	39:30
163	Miroslav Bauckmann	Czechoslovakia	39:31
164	Kazimierz Lasecki	Poland	39:31
165	Håkan Börjesson	Sweden	39:31
166	Martin Stock	Australia	39:32
167	Niels Kim Hjorth	Denmark	39:33
168	Rainer Gutschank	West Germany	39:34
169	Gentil de Mello	Brazil	39:35
170	Kerry Rodger	New Zealand	39:36
171	Fotios Kourtis	Greece	39:37
172	Nicos Vasiliou	Cyprus	39:38
173	Luis Horta	Portugal	39:39
174	Thierry Watrice	France	39:42
175	James Mutsimba	Zimbabwe	39:43
176	Nicolas Nyengerai	Zimbabwe	39:43
177	Gerard Barrett	Australia	39:44
178	Gerry Craig	Ireland	39:46
179	Chris Tobin	New Zealand	39:48
180	Neil Tennant	Scotland	39:48
181	Charles Haskett	Scotland	39:49
182	Shane Marshall	New Zealand	39:54
183	Khristos Papakhristos	Greece	39:55
184	Satoshi Yano	Japan	39:55
185	Clovis Estevam	Brazil	39:56
186	Alberto Cova	Italy	39:57
187	Konstantin Kyriazis	Greece	39:58
188	Mark Kirk	Northern Ireland	39:59
189	Markus Graf	Switzerland	40:00
190	Deon McNeilly	Northern Ireland	40:01
191	Geoffrey Wade	Northern Ireland	40:03
192	Ross Copestake	Scotland	40:04
193	Norman Tinkham	Canada	40:05
194	Thomas Sørensen	Denmark	40:08
195	Raymond Pannier	France	40:09
196	Allister Hutton	Scotland	40:10
197	Zephaniah Ncube	Zimbabwe	40:10
198	Robert Hodge	United States	40:13
199	Tony Simmons	Wales	40:16
200	Hichem Oueslati	Tunisia	40:19
201	Peter Govaerts	Belgium	40:19
202	Jolar de Azevedo	Brazil	40:20
203	Hari Singh	India	40:21
204	John Christiansen	Denmark	40:24
205	Gerald Neely	Northern Ireland	40:25
206	Emmanuel Handzos	Greece	40:25
207	Elias de Moura	Brazil	40:26
208	Philippe Lahuerte	Canada	40:28
209	Romuald Krupanek	Poland	40:29
210	Richard Mulligan	Ireland	40:29
211	Tomasz Kozłowski	Poland	40:31
212	Brendan Downey	Ireland	40:33
213	Kurt Huerst	Switzerland	40:33
214	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland	40:36
215	Ezzedine Amdouni	Tunisia	40:36
216	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	40:37
217	John McDowell	Northern Ireland	40:39
218	Jamie Harrison	Australia	40:39
219	Anastasiou Psathas	Greece	40:44
220	Jan-Erik Arvidsson	Sweden	40:45
221	Guido Sasse	Netherlands	40:47
222	Chauhan Jagat Singh	India	40:49
223	Randy Reina	United States	40:51
224	Mohamed Hammami	Tunisia	40:57
225	Hsu Gi-Sheng	Chinese Taipei	41:01
226	Gregorio Lavandoski	Brazil	41:06
227	Savas Koubouras	Greece	41:08
228	Basil Brown	Jamaica	41:09
229	Marc van Rooy	Netherlands	41:11
230	Gerard Kiernan	Ireland	41:13
231	Ernie Cunningham	Northern Ireland	41:14
232	Shivkumar Shreshta	India	41:15
233	Amit Ne'eman	Israel	41:31
234	Linton McKenzie	Jamaica	41:37
235	Mohamed Idriss	Egypt	41:39
236	Ashok Kumar	India	41:40
237	Isao Saito	Japan	41:40
238	Surender Pal Singh	India	41:41
239	Prem Singh	India	41:43
240	Fotios Bourkoulas	Greece	41:51
241	Liu Chang-Chung	Chinese Taipei	41:56
242	João Pereira	Brazil	41:58
243	Pyara Singh	India	41:59
244	Derick Adamson	Jamaica	42:03
245	Nigel Adams	Wales	42:05
246	Ho Hsin-Ye	Chinese Taipei	42:06
247	David Lonnen	Northern Ireland	42:08
248	Kenji Ide	Japan	42:21
249	Mark Elliott	Jamaica	42:39
250	Chou Hsien-Kuang	Chinese Taipei	42:48
251	Tim Soutar	Hong Kong	42:56
252	Demetrios Thephylactou	Cyprus	42:57
253	Lee Yin-Sheng	Chinese Taipei	43:05
254	Cebert Cooper	Jamaica	43:12
255	Vasilios Chimonis	Cyprus	43:14
256	Kharalambos Pratsis	Cyprus	43:20
257	Wu Yu-Chia	Chinese Taipei	43:42
258	Kamel Amine Taha	Egypt	43:43
259	John Walsh	Northern Ireland	43:44
260	Mohamed Haremes	Egypt	43:50
261	Efthymious Loizi	Cyprus	43:52
262	Joseph Crossley	Hong Kong	43:55
263	Maurice Szeto-Jan	Hong Kong	44:05
264	Paul Smith	Jamaica	44:13
265	Nikólaos Leonidou	Cyprus	44:18
266	Alvin Bernard	Jamaica	44:23
267	Hsu Kuang-Piao	Chinese Taipei	44:37
268	Wong Chung Man	Hong Kong	45:00
269	Hon Kwai Kwok	Hong Kong	45:13
270	Andreas Anastasoiu	Cyprus	45:24
271	Wong Ip Chor	Hong Kong	45:27
272	Georgios Kyriacou	Cyprus	45:37
273	Wong Sai Hine	Hong Kong	45:39
274	Ming Kuen Hon	Hong Kong	46:31
—	Domingos Castro	Portugal	DNF
—	Peder Poulsen	Sweden	DNF
—	Engelbert Franz	West Germany	DNF
—	Thorsten Jakobsson	Sweden	DNF

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya John Ngugi 1 Paul Kipkoech 2 Some Muge 5 Andrew Masai 6 Moses Tanui 18 Sisa Kirati 21 (Boniface Merande) (48) (Samuel Nyangincha) (67) (Vincent Kibiwott) (123)	53
	England Dave Clarke 10 Carl Thackery 20 Kevin Forster 22 Steve Binns 23 Craig Mochrie 33 Jonathan Richards 38 (Tim Hutchings) (43) (Paul Roden) (46) (Martin McLoughlin) (59)	146
	Ethiopia Abebe Mekonnen 4 Haji Bulbula 17 Wodajo Bulti 27 Wolde Silasse Melkessa 29 Melese Feissa 39 Bekele Debele 45 (Habte Negash) (53) (Chala Urgessa) (70) (Negatu Seyoum) (96)	161
4	Italy Francesco Panetta 13 Gelindo Bordin 26 Marco Gozzano 32 Severino Bernardini 36 Salvatore Bettiol 54 Franco Boffi 62 (Giuseppe Miccoli) (111) (Gianni Demadonna) (126) (Alberto Cova) (186)	223
5	France Paul Arpin 3 Bruno Le Stum 9 Pierre Levisse 15 Emmanuel Goulin 55 Thierry Pantel 68 Jean-Yves Berau 95 (Cyrille Laventure) (150) (Thierry Watrice) (174) (Raymond Pannier) (195)	245
6	Portugal José Regalo 14 Fernando Mamede 37 Joaquim Pinheiro 41 Ezequiel Canario 50 Dionísio Castro 63 António Pinto 104 (Fernando Couto) (129) (Luis Horta) (173) (Domingos Castro) (DNF)	309
7	Spain Constantino Esparcia 25 Vicente Polo 28 Abel Antón 42 Juan José Rosario 61 Valentin Rodríguez 81 Santiago Llorente 103 (Cándido Alario) (106) (Alejandro Gómez) (114) (Antonio Prieto) (131)	340
8	Belgium Vincent Rousseau 19 Jos Maes 47 Eddy de Pauw 64 Eric de Beck 73 Peter Van de Kerkhove 78 Willy van Huylenbroeck 97 (Willy Goddaert) (135) (Peter Govaerts) (201)	378
9	United States Pat Porter 7 Ed Eyestone 12 Steve Plasencia 24 George Nicholas 87 David Barney 127 Douglas Tolson 161 (Robert Hodge) (198) (Randy Reina) (223)	418
10	Canada Paul McCloy 8 Peter Butler 65 Art Boileau 94 Graeme Fell 98 Rob Lonergan 109 Doug Cronkite 113 (Alain Bordeleau) (143) (Norman Tinkham) (193) (Philippe Lahuerte) (208)	487
11	Algeria El Hachami Abdenouz 51 Mahieddine Belhadj 80 Mahmoud Hazzazi 89 Abdelhak Henane 102 Lasmani Merzougui 116 Mohamed Difallah 124 (Rebai Settouh) (151) (Brahim Boudina) (162)	562
12	Norway John Halvorsen 16 Jarl Gaute Aase 58 Helge Dolsvåg 86 Dag Øxnevad 121 Truls Nygaard 125 Oddmund Roalkvam 158	564
13	West Germany Konrad Dobler 44 Ralf Salzmann 72 Bernd Bürger 85 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann 101 Axel Hardy 118 Rainer Gutschank 168 (Engelbert Franz) (DNF)	588
14	New Zealand David Burridge 30 Ken Moloney 74 Rex Wilson 79 Gregor Cameron 91 David Rush 155 Kerry Rodger 170 (Chris Tobin) (179) (Shane Marshall) (182)	599
15	Tunisia Habib Romdani 49 Fethi Manai 56 Abderrazak Gtari 66 Mohamed Salah Rajhi 130 Brahim Ayachi 144 Adelaziz Bouguerra 159 (Hichem Oueslati) (200) (Ezzedine Amdouni) (215) (Mohamed Hammami) (224)	604
16	Japan Kazuya Nishimoto 34 Kozu Akutsu 71 Shuichi Yoneshige 75 Shuzo Nakajima 88 Tadayoshi Kametaka 153 Satoshi Yano 184 (Isao Saito) (237) (Kenji Ide) (248)	605
17	Poland Krzysztof Wesołowski 60 Bogusław Mamiński 82 Jan Huruk 83 Sławomir Gurny 119 Bogusław Psujek 145 Andrzej Malicki 157 (Kazimierz Lasecki) (164) (Romuald Krupanek) (209) (Tomasz Kozłowski) (211)	646
18	Sweden Lars-Erik Nilsson 57 Mats Erixon 77 Jan Hagelbrand 90 Jonny Danielson 122 Patric Nilsson 140 Håkan Börjesson 165 (Jan-Erik Arvidsson) (220) (Peder Poulsen) (DNF) (Thorsten Jakobsson) (DNF)	651
19	Wales John Jenkins 76 Paul Wheeler 99 Steve Jones 107 Mike Bishop 120 Chris Buckley 134 Ieuan Ellis 136 (Tony Simmons) (199) (Nigel Adams) (245)	672
20	Ireland John Woods 35 Paul O'Callaghan 92 Roy Dooney 100 Gerry Deegan 139 James Fallon 154 Gerry Craig 178 (Richard Mulligan) (210) (Brendan Downey) (212) (Gerard Kiernan) (230)	698
21	Australia Steve Moneghetti 11 Peter Brett 84 Brad Camp 108 Adam Hoyle 156 Martin Stock 166 Gerard Barrett 177 (Jamie Harrison) (218)	702
22	Scotland Nat Muir 40 Terence Mitchell 137 John Robson 146 Chris Robison 149 Tommy Murray 152 Neil Tennant 180 (Charles Haskett) (181) (Ross Copestake) (192) (Allister Hutton) (196)	804
23	Netherlands Tonnie Dirks 93 Aart Stigter 105 Marc Borghans 117 Herman Hofstee 141 Michel Franssen 148 Guido Sasse 221 (Marc van Rooy) (229)	825
24	Zimbabwe Stanley Mandebele 31 Melusi Ndhlela 132 Farai Kamucheka 133 James Mutsimba 175 Nicolas Nyengerai 176 Zephaniah Ncube 197	844
25	Switzerland Arnold Mächler 52 Jacques Krähenbühl 138 Pierre-Andre Gobet 147 Marius Hasler 160 Markus Graf 189 Kurt Huerst 213 (Markus Hacksteiner) (214)	899
26	Greece Spiridon Andreopoulos 115 Fotios Kourtis 171 Khristos Papakhristos 183 Konstantin Kyriazis 187 Emmanuel Handzos 206 Anastasiou Psathas 219 (Savas Koubouras) (227) (Fotios Bourkoulas) (240)	1081
27	Brazil Diamantino dos Santos 110 Gentil de Mello 169 Clovis Estevam 185 Jolar de Azevedo 202 Elias de Moura 207 Gregorio Lavandoski 226 (João Pereira) (242)	1099
28	Northern Ireland Peter McColgan 128 Mark Kirk 188 Deon McNeilly 190 Geoffrey Wade 191 Gerald Neely 205 John McDowell 217 (Ernie Cunningham) (231) (David Lonnen) (247) (John Walsh) (259)	1119
29	India Hari Singh 203 Chauhan Jagat Singh 222 Shivkumar Shreshta 232 Ashok Kumar 236 Surender Pal Singh 238 Prem Singh 239 (Pyara Singh) (243)	1370
30	Cyprus Nicos Vasiliou 172 Demetrios Thephylactou 252 Vasilios Chimonis 255 Kharalambos Pratsis 256 Efthymious Loizi 261 Nikólaos Leonidou 265 (Andreas Anastasoiu) (270) (Georgios Kyriacou) (272)	1461
31	Chinese Taipei Hsu Gi-Sheng 225 Liu Chang-Chung 241 Ho Hsin-Ye 246 Chou Hsien-Kuang 250 Lee Yin-Sheng 253 Wu Yu-Chia 257 (Hsu Kuang-Piao) (267)	1472
32	Jamaica Basil Brown 228 Linton McKenzie 234 Derick Adamson 244 Mark Elliott 249 Cebert Cooper 254 Paul Smith 264 (Alvin Bernard) (266)	1473
33	Hong Kong Tim Soutar 251 Joseph Crossley 262 Maurice Szeto-Jan 263 Wong Chung Man 268 Hon Kwai Kwok 269 Wong Ip Chor 271 (Wong Sai Hine) (273) (Ming Kuen Hon) (274)	1584

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 278 athletes from 38 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[5]

•   Algeria (8)
•   Australia (7)
•   Belgium (8)
•   Brazil (7)
•   Canada (9)
•   Chinese Taipei (7)
•   Cyprus (8)
•   Czechoslovakia (4)
•   Denmark (3)
•   Egypt (3)
•   England (9)
•   Ethiopia (9)
•   France (9)
•   Greece (8)
•   Hong Kong (8)
•   India (7)
•   Ireland (9)
•   Israel (1)
•   Italy (9)
•   Jamaica (7)
•   Japan (8)
•   Kenya (9)
•   Netherlands (7)
•   New Zealand (8)
•   Northern Ireland (9)
•   Norway (6)
•   Poland (9)
•   Portugal (9)
•   Scotland (9)
•   Spain (9)
•   Sweden (9)
•    Switzerland (7)
•   Tunisia (9)
•   Turkey (1)
•   United States (8)
•   Wales (8)
•   West Germany (7)
•   Zimbabwe (6)

See also

• 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

References

1. Gillon, Doug (March 23, 1987), Lynch's supreme effort just fails in Polish mud - Liz Lynch gave everything she had, and then found a little more, but it was not quite enough to capture the world cross-country title on the freezing muddy wastes of Sluzewiac racecourse this afternoon..., Glasgow Herald, p. 10, retrieved October 22, 2013
2. Sad Lynch comes out second best - Not even the consolidation of the silver medal could bring a smile to the face of Scotland's Liz Lynch after the World Cross Cross Country Championships in Warsaw., Evening Times, March 23, 1987, p. 17, retrieved October 22, 2013
3. Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Warszawa Sluzewiec Date: Sunday, March 22, 1987, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 22, 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