1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Junior men's race at the 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	16th
Date	March 26
Host city	Auckland, New Zealand
Venue	Ellerslie Racecourse
Events	1
Distances	8.031 km – Junior men
Participation	96 athletes from 25 nations
← 1987 Warszawa 1989 Stavanger →

The Junior men's race at the 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Auckland, New Zealand, at the Ellerslie Racecourse on March 26, 1988. 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 (8.031 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	23:25
	Alfonce Muindi	Kenya	23:39
	Bedile Kibret	Ethiopia	23:41
4	Mathew Rono	Kenya	23:51
5	Thomas Makini	Kenya	23:54
6	William Koskei Chemitei	Kenya	24:03
7	Demeke Bekele	Ethiopia	24:17
8	Juan Abad	Spain	24:35
9	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	24:45
10	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	24:48
11	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	24:52
12	Andrea Erni	Switzerland	24:56
13	Lemi Erpassa	Ethiopia	25:06
14	Todd Williams	United States	25:08
15	Fermín Cacho	Spain	25:09
16	Mariano Campal	Spain	25:10
17	Tesfayi Dadi	Ethiopia	25:12
18	Naoki Yamagata	Japan	25:18
19	Rod de Highden	Australia	25:22
20	Jun Hiratsuka	Japan	25:22
21	Hirokazu Tatsumi	Japan	25:26
22	Jesús Gálvez	Spain	25:28
23	Carlos Calado	Portugal	25:28
24	Hideyuki Matsumoto	Japan	25:31
25	Ross Wilson	New Zealand	25:32
26	Neil Panchen	United Kingdom	25:32
27	Julian Paynter	Australia	25:38
28	Richard Lindroos	New Zealand	25:38
29	Akio Ishizaki	Japan	25:40
30	Rorri Currie	Canada	25:41
31	John Myers	United States	25:43
32	Carsten Arndt	West Germany	25:45
33	Ernest Shephard	United States	25:46
34	Jason Bunston	Canada	25:47
35	Frank Hanley	Ireland	25:47
36	Sarinuto Zandonella	Italy	25:48
37	Jeffrey Pajak	United States	25:50
38	Alex Davey	Australia	25:55
39	Savino Tondo	Italy	25:55
40	Fabio Caldirolli	Italy	25:58
41	Ricardo Castaño	Spain	26:01
42	Ferhat Zaidi	Algeria	26:03
43	Shinya Kitahara	Japan	26:04
44	Dean Rose	Australia	26:10
45	Fabrizio de Vincenzi	Italy	26:10
46	Mohamed Arab Tadjer	Algeria	26:11
47	Nick Tsioros	Canada	26:13
48	Andrew Hudson	United States	26:16
49	Michael Johnston	New Zealand	26:19
50	Jeremy Forbes	New Zealand	26:21
51	Clarke Murphy	United Kingdom	26:22
52	Jon Dennis	United Kingdom	26:28
53	David Pujolar	Spain	26:30
54	Kameshwar Ravidas	India	26:31
55	Kamel Khellaf	Algeria	26:31
56	Steven Brooks	United Kingdom	26:33
57	Noel Cullen	Ireland	26:34
58	Daniel Maas	United States	26:35
59	Baltazar Sousa	Portugal	26:36
60	John Hansen	Norway	26:39
61	Chris Roberts	United Kingdom	26:40
62	Faycal Menasria	Algeria	26:42
63	Alan Lewis	Canada	26:48
64	Glen le Gros	New Zealand	26:48
65	Shyan Boodnah	Mauritius	26:48
66	Tsai Ching-Chou	Chinese Taipei	26:53
67	Greg Collier	Australia	27:01
68	Spencer Duval	United Kingdom	27:01
69	Hwang Chiu-Ping	Chinese Taipei	27:02
70	John Bowden	Canada	27:04
71	Paul Logan	Ireland	27:05
72	Fajinder Rathor	India	27:06
73	Kevin Gavin	Ireland	27:14
74	Seamus Power	Ireland	27:17
75	Eiliv Gjesdal	Norway	27:25
76	Dean Ogilvie	New Zealand	27:27
77	Julius Solheim	Norway	27:32
78	Luca Serena	Italy	28:22
79	Bishen Rouvat	Nepal	28:23
80	Rajan Khatri	Nepal	28:46
81	Ithai Luria	Israel	28:58
82	Henry Iata	Vanuatu	29:26
83	Ancel Nalau	Vanuatu	29:31
84	Uraia Koroi	Fiji	29:46
85	Brendan Matthias	Canada	29:52
86	Anand Kumar	India	29:55
87	Dhani Chowdhary	Nepal	30:22
88	Lok Rokaya	Nepal	30:35
89	Shalendra Sagar	Fiji	30:40
90	Nilesh Narayan	Fiji	30:52
91	Michael Cecil	Vanuatu	31:13
92	Usman Kutty	Fiji	31:32
93	Chandra Karki	Nepal	33:40
94	Paul Young	Western Samoa	39:10
95	Darren Young	Western Samoa	47:30
—	Cosmas Ndeti	Kenya	DQ†

^†:Cosmas Ndeti of   Kenya finished 2nd in 23:31 min, but was disqualified.

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya Wilfred Kirochi 1 Alfonce Muindi 2 Mathew Rono 4 Thomas Makini 5 (William Koskei Chemitei) (6)	12
	Ethiopia Bedile Kibret 3 Demeke Bekele 7 Tadelle Abebe 10 Lemi Erpassa 13 (Tesfayi Dadi) (17)	33
	Spain Juan Abad 8 Fermín Cacho 15 Mariano Campal 16 Jesús Gálvez 22 (Ricardo Castaño) (41) (David Pujolar) (53)	61
4	Japan Naoki Yamagata 18 Jun Hiratsuka 20 Hirokazu Tatsumi 21 Hideyuki Matsumoto 24 (Akio Ishizaki) (29) (Shinya Kitahara) (43)	83
5	United States Todd Williams 14 John Myers 31 Ernest Shephard 33 Jeffrey Pajak 37 (Andrew Hudson) (48) (Daniel Maas) (58)	115
6	Australia Rod de Highden 19 Julian Paynter 27 Alex Davey 38 Dean Rose 44 (Greg Collier) (67)	128
7	New Zealand Ross Wilson 25 Richard Lindroos 28 Michael Johnston 49 Jeremy Forbes 50 (Glen le Gros) (64) (Dean Ogilvie) (76)	152
8	Algeria Noureddine Morceli 9 Ferhat Zaidi 42 Mohamed Arab Tadjer 46 Kamel Khellaf 55 (Faycal Menasria) (62)	152
9	Italy Sarinuto Zandonella 36 Savino Tondo 39 Fabio Caldirolli 40 Fabrizio de Vincenzi 45 (Luca Serena) (78)	160
10	Canada Rorri Currie 30 Jason Bunston 34 Nick Tsioros 47 Alan Lewis 63 (John Bowden) (70) (Brendan Matthias) (85)	174
11	United Kingdom Neil Panchen 26 Clarke Murphy 51 Jon Dennis 52 Steven Brooks 56 (Chris Roberts) (61) (Spencer Duval) (68)	185
12	Ireland Frank Hanley 35 Noel Cullen 57 Paul Logan 71 Kevin Gavin 73 (Seamus Power) (74)	236
13	Nepal Bishen Rouvat 79 Rajan Khatri 80 Dhani Chowdhary 87 Lok Rokaya 88 (Chandra Karki) (93)	334
14	Fiji Uraia Koroi 84 Shalendra Sagar 89 Nilesh Narayan 90 Usman Kutty 92	355

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 96 athletes from 25 countries in the Junior men's race, one athlete less than the official number published. ^[4]

•   Algeria (5)
•   Australia (5)
•   Canada (6)
•   Chinese Taipei (2)
•   Ethiopia (5)
•   Fiji (4)
•   Hungary (1)
•   India (3)
•   Ireland (5)
•   Israel (1)
•   Italy (5)
•   Japan (6)
•   Kenya (6)
•   Mauritius (1)
•     Nepal (5)
•   New Zealand (6)
•   Norway (3)
•   Portugal (2)
•   Spain (6)
•    Switzerland (1)
•   United Kingdom (6)
•   United States (6)
•   Vanuatu (3)
•   Western Samoa (2)
•   West Germany (1)

See also

• 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

References

1. Gillon, Doug (March 28, 1988), Cross-country in Britain could be running out of time - The World Championships in Auckland may have signalled the beginning of the death of cross-country running in Britain..., Glasgow Herald, p. 9, retrieved October 23, 2013
2. Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.0km CC Men - Auckland Elleslie Date: Saturday, March 26, 1988, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 23, 2013
3. IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
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 on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013