2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

Junior women's race at the 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	29th
Date	March 24
Host city	Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium
Venue	Hippodrome Wellington
Events	1
Distances	5.9 km – Junior women
Participation	126 athletes from 32 nations
← 2000 Vilamoura 2002 Dublin →

The Junior women's race at the 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Hippodrome Wellington in Ostend (Oostende), Belgium, on March 24, 2001. Reports on the event were given in The New York Times , ^{[1] [2]} in the Herald, ^[3] and for the IAAF. ^[4]

Complete results for individuals, ^{[5] [6] [7]} for teams, ^{[5] [8] [9]} medallists, ^[10] and the results of British athletes who took part ^[11] were published.

Race results

Junior women's race (5.9 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Viola Kibiwott	Kenya	22:05
	Abebech Nigussie	Ethiopia	22:05
	Aster Bacha	Ethiopia	22:05
4	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	22:06
5	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia	22:08
6	Tereza Yohanes	Ethiopia	22:10
7	Fridah Domongole	Kenya	22:12
8	Sally Kipyego	Kenya	22:22
9	Peninah Chepchumba	Kenya	22:24
10	Mestawat Tufa	Ethiopia	22:24
11	Naoko Sakata	Japan	22:36
12	Christine Kalmer	South Africa	22:45
13	Tomomi Tagao	Japan	22:46
14	Melissa Rollison	Australia	22:52
15	Anna Ndege	Tanzania	22:53
16	Alice Timbilil	Kenya	22:54
17	Emi Ikeda	Japan	23:00
18	Mika Matsumoto	Japan	23:15
19	Georgie Clarke	Australia	23:21
20	Simret Sultan	Eritrea	23:24
21	Ruth McDonnell	Australia	23:25
22	Elvan Can	Turkey	23:30
23	Emma Ward	United Kingdom	23:31
24	Lina Usmanova	Russia	23:34
25	Mikayo Udo	Japan	23:36
26	Lauren King	Canada	23:37
27	Diane Nukuri	Burundi	23:37
28	Christel Arnold	South Africa	23:44
29	Samira Afettouche	Algeria	23:44
30	Inga Abitova	Russia	23:45
31	Trish Nolan	Canada	23:47
32	Louise Damen	United Kingdom	23:48
33	Fatiha Bahi	Algeria	23:52
34	Maria Yohana Amosi	Tanzania	23:53
35	Hiromi Koga	Japan	23:55
36	Mieke Geens	Belgium	23:58
37	Lize-Mari Venter	South Africa	23:59
38	Collette Fagan	United Kingdom	24:02
39	Simret Asmerom	Eritrea	24:09
40	Evelien Hofmans	Belgium	24:10
41	Tatyana Petrova	Russia	24:11
42	Alicia Craig	United States	24:12
43	Birgül Özcan	Turkey	24:15
44	Julie Coulaud	France	24:16
45	Jane Makombe	Zimbabwe	24:16
46	Elodie Mené	France	24:17
47	Laura Zeigle	United States	24:17
48	Faye Fullerton	United Kingdom	24:18
49	Eleonora Riga	Italy	24:21
50	Isabel Macías	Spain	24:21
51	Fiona Crombie	New Zealand	24:22
52	Amparo Menéndez	Spain	24:22
53	Joanna Wall	Australia	24:23
54	Linda Hadjar	France	24:29
55	Lakshmaiah Manjula	India	24:29
56	Alba García	Spain	24:29
57	Beatrice Lanza	Italy	24:30
58	Saloua Hassani	Algeria	24:33
59	Lynelle Blignaut	South Africa	24:33
60	Francesca Smiderle	Italy	24:34
61	Victoria Chang	United States	24:37
62	Elizabeth Lilley	United Kingdom	24:41
63	Matirinta Mota	Lesotho	24:43
64	Eden Tesfalem	Eritrea	24:43
65	Alisha Williams	United States	24:45
66	Henrietta Freeman	United Kingdom	24:45
67	Arzu Berk	Turkey	24:50
68	Ljiljana Culibrk	Croatia	24:50
69	Marina Ivanova	Russia	24:51
70	Dulce Félix	Portugal	24:53
71	Lebogang Phalula	South Africa	24:56
72	Alicia González	Spain	24:58
73	Michelle Carson	Canada	25:00
74	Emily Blakeslee	United States	25:01
75	Valeria Marinoni	Italy	25:01
76	Türkan Erişmiş	Turkey	25:01
77	Nadia Rodríguez	Argentina	25:02
78	Seham El Agizy	Egypt	25:02
79	Rosemary Grosso	Italy	25:04
80	Carol Henry	Canada	25:09
81	Meriem Benzerga	Algeria	25:10
82	Megan Metcalfe	Canada	25:10
83	Preda Sreedharan	India	25:12
84	Widad Mendil	Algeria	25:14
85	Nagamani Basa	India	25:14
86	Pilar Mendoza	Spain	25:16
87	Patricia Lobo	Brazil	25:20
88	Lesley Shannon	Ireland	25:24
89	Lies Delameilleure	Belgium	25:25
90	Sónia Fernandes	Portugal	25:31
91	Agnès Portier	France	25:33
92	Karina Pérez	Mexico	25:36
93	Yuliya Alyoshina	Turkmenistan	25:38
94	Natalya Alekseyeva	Belarus	25:38
95	Daphrose Ndayikunda	Burundi	25:40
96	Belén Iñigo	Spain	25:42
97	Anne Gauthier	France	25:46
98	Fionnuala Britton	Ireland	25:46
99	Ann Schreurs	Belgium	25:50
100	Natallia Yakhimovich	Belarus	25:51
101	Michelle de la Vina	United States	25:56
102	Sophie Christiaens	Belgium	25:59
103	Eliane Pereira	Brazil	25:59
104	Karina Córdoba	Argentina	25:59
105	Sara Abou Hassan	Egypt	26:12
106	Dimple Naidu	India	26:19
107	Doaa Adel	Egypt	26:20
108	Michaela Lynn	Ireland	26:20
109	Shaimaa Ibrahim	Egypt	26:35
110	Ava Hutchinson	Ireland	26:40
111	Irene González	Mexico	26:40
112	Stephanie Hirtle	Canada	26:46
113	Zulma Morabes	Argentina	26:52
114	Gizelle de Castro	Brazil	27:07
115	Alena Kutskevich	Belarus	27:18
116	Yuliya Krepina	Uzbekistan	27:30
117	Ana Rosa Fuentes	Mexico	28:19
118	Lemlem Bereket	Eritrea	28:33
119	Gulya Imomova	Uzbekistan	28:34
120	Svetlana Barkalova	Uzbekistan	28:43
121	Jorgelina Litterini	Argentina	29:01
122	Svetlana Mansurova	Uzbekistan	30:04
123	Dinara Nerziyeva	Turkmenistan	30:51
—	Wahiba Ifftissen	Algeria	DNF
—	Natallia Tsyvaka	Belarus	DNF
—	Tatiane Sá	Brazil	DNF
—	Anastasiya Pustarnakova	Belarus	DNS
—	Hawa Hussein	Tanzania	DNS
—	Zakia Mrisho	Tanzania	DNS
—	Olivia Chikotore	Zimbabwe	DNS

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Ethiopia Abebech Nigussie 2 Aster Bacha 3 Tirunesh Dibaba 5 Tereza Yohanes 6 (Mestawat Tufa) (10)	16
	Kenya Viola Kibiwott 1 Vivian Cheruiyot 4 Fridah Domongole 7 Sally Kipyego 8 (Peninah Chepchumba) (9) (Alice Timbilil) (16)	20
	Japan Naoko Sakata 11 Tomomi Tagao 13 Emi Ikeda 17 Mika Matsumoto 18 (Mikayo Udo) (25) (Hiromi Koga) (35)	59
4	Australia Melissa Rollison 14 Georgie Clarke 19 Ruth McDonnell 21 Joanna Wall 53	107
5	South Africa Christine Kalmer 12 Christel Arnold 28 Lize-Mari Venter 37 Lynelle Blignaut 59 (Lebogang Phalula) (71)	136
6	United Kingdom Emma Ward 23 Louise Damen 32 Collette Fagan 38 Faye Fullerton 48 (Elizabeth Lilley) (62) (Henrietta Freeman) (66)	141
7	Russia Lina Usmanova 24 Inga Abitova 30 Tatyana Petrova 41 Marina Ivanova 69	164
8	Algeria Samira Afettouche 29 Fatiha Bahi 33 Saloua Hassani 58 Meriem Benzerga 81 (Widad Mendil) (84) (Wahiba Ifftissen) (DNF)	201
9	Turkey Elvan Can 22 Birgül Özcan 43 Arzu Berk 67 Türkan Erişmiş 76	208
10	Canada Lauren King 26 Trish Nolan 31 Michelle Carson 73 Carol Henry 80 (Megan Metcalfe) (82) (Stephanie Hirtle) (112)	210
11	United States Alicia Craig 42 Laura Zeigle 47 Victoria Chang 61 Alisha Williams 65 (Emily Blakeslee) (74) (Michelle de la Vina) (101)	215
12	Spain Isabel Macías 50 Amparo Menéndez 52 Alba García 56 Alicia González 72 (Pilar Mendoza) (86) (Belén Iñigo) (96)	230
13	France Julie Coulaud 44 Elodie Mené 46 Linda Hadjar 54 Agnès Portier 91 (Anne Gauthier) (97)	235
14	Italy Eleonora Riga 49 Beatrice Lanza 57 Francesca Smiderle 60 Valeria Marinoni 75 (Rosemary Grosso) (79)	241
15	Eritrea Simret Sultan 20 Simret Asmerom 39 Eden Tesfalem 64 Lemlem Bereket 118	241
16	Belgium Mieke Geens 36 Evelien Hofmans 40 Lies Delameilleure 89 Ann Schreurs 99 (Sophie Christiaens) (102)	264
17	India Lakshmaiah Manjula 55 Preda Sreedharan 83 Nagamani Basa 85 Dimple Naidu 106	329
18	Egypt Seham El Agizy 78 Sara Abou Hassan 105 Doaa Adel 107 Shaimaa Ibrahim 109	399
19	Ireland Lesley Shannon 88 Fionnuala Britton 98 Michaela Lynn 108 Ava Hutchinson 110	404
20	Argentina Nadia Rodríguez 77 Karina Córdoba 104 Zulma Morabes 113 Jorgelina Litterini 121	415
21	Uzbekistan Yuliya Krepina 116 Gulya Imomova 119 Svetlana Barkalova 120 Svetlana Mansurova 122	477
DNF	Brazil (Patricia Lobo) (87) (Eliane Pereira) (103) (Gizelle de Castro) (114) (Tatiane Sá) (DNF)	DNF
DNF	Belarus (Natalya Alekseyeva) (94) (Natallia Yakhimovich) (100) (Alena Kutskevich) (115) (Natallia Tsyvaka) (DNF)	DNF

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 126 athletes from 32 countries in the Junior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[11]

•   Algeria (6)
•   Argentina (4)
•   Australia (4)
•   Belarus (4)
•   Belgium (5)
•   Brazil (4)
•   Burundi (2)
•   Canada (6)
•   Croatia (1)
•   Egypt (4)
•   Eritrea (4)
•   Ethiopia (5)
•   France (5)
•   India (4)
•   Ireland (4)
•   Italy (5)
•   Japan (6)
•   Kenya (6)
•   Lesotho (1)
•   Mexico (3)
•   New Zealand (1)
•   Portugal (2)
•   Russia (4)
•   South Africa (5)
•   Spain (6)
•   Tanzania (2)
•   Turkey (4)
•   Turkmenistan (2)
•   United Kingdom (6)
•   United States (6)
•   Uzbekistan (4)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race

References

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2. "PLUS: CROSS-COUNTRY; Mourhit Is First But Kenyans Win", The New York Times , March 26, 2001, retrieved October 28, 2013
3. Gillon, Doug (March 24, 2001), "Paula eyes up double header British runner can make lonely training pay off with a victory", Herald , retrieved October 28, 2013
4. Minshull, Phil (March 24, 2001), Kibiwot surprises herself and the pundits, IAAF , retrieved October 28, 2013
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11. 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 28, 2013