2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Junior men's race at the 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	35th
Date	March 24
Host city	Mombasa, Kenya
Venue	Mombasa Golf Course
Events	1
Distances	8 km – Junior men
Participation	126 athletes from 34 nations
← 2006 Fukuoka 2008 Edinburgh →

The Junior men's race at the 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Mombasa Golf Course in Mombasa, Kenya, on March 24, 2007. ^[1] Reports of the event were given in the Herald, ^[2] and for the IAAF. ^[3]

Complete results for individuals, ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} and for teams ^{[4] [8] [9] [10]} were published.

Race results

Junior men's race (8 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Asbel Kiprop	Kenya	24:07
	Vincent Kiprop Chepkok	Kenya	24:12
	Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio	Kenya	24:23
4	Leonard Patrick Komon	Kenya	24:25
5	Benjamin Kiplagat	Uganda	24:31
6	Issak Sibhatu	Eritrea	24:38
7	Imane Merga	Ethiopia	24:41
8	Samuel Tsegay	Eritrea	24:42
9	Tonny Wamulwa	Zambia	24:43
10	Geofrey Kusuro	Uganda	24:48
11	Nicholas Mulinge Makau	Kenya	24:50
12	Demssew Tsega	Ethiopia	24:52
13	Abraham Niyonkuru	Burundi	24:56
14	Teklemariam Medhin	Eritrea	24:56
15	Abreham Cherkos	Ethiopia	24:59
16	Amanuel Mesel	Eritrea	25:00
17	Tsegai Tewelde	Eritrea	25:00
18	Jean Claude Niyonizigiye	Burundi	25:06
19	Stephen Kiprotich	Uganda	25:07
20	Tola Bane	Ethiopia	25:15
21	Isaac Ayeko	Uganda	25:17
22	Marco Joseph	Tanzania	25:35
23	Dickson Huru	Uganda	25:35
24	Lukinga Uwezo	Tanzania	25:36
25	Abihorera Bora	Tanzania	25:39
26	Jordan Chipangama	Zambia	25:50
27	Mouhssine Cherkaoui	Morocco	25:51
28	Habtamu Fikadu	Ethiopia	26:01
29	Lesole Zim	South Africa	26:02
30	Hicham El Amrani	Morocco	26:04
31	Naser Jamal Naser	Qatar	26:07
32	Pierre-Célestin Nihorimbere	Burundi	26:07
33	Pascal Mombo Sarwat	Tanzania	26:13
34	Keisuke Tanaka	Japan	26:18
35	Adil Rached	Morocco	26:22
36	Edris Yousif	Sudan	26:23
37	Wilyam Filiph Rabih	Sudan	26:23
38	Morhad Amdouni	France	26:24
39	Ezechiel Nizigiyimana	Burundi	26:26
40	Yuki Yagi	Japan	26:28
41	Nail El Dod	Sudan	26:28
42	Moussa Karich	Morocco	26:28
43	Prosper Nkunzimana	Burundi	26:31
44	Goodson Chungu	Zambia	26:33
45	Xolisa Tyali	South Africa	26:41
46	Jake Robertson	New Zealand	26:46
47	Cansas Nhlapo	South Africa	26:54
48	Mohamed Elbendir	Spain	26:59
49	Ciprian Suhanea	Romania	27:02
50	Abdelmadjed Touil	Algeria	27:02
51	Ben Guest	Australia	27:03
52	Lotfi Chebli	Algeria	27:04
53	Shun Kurihara	Japan	27:05
54	Takuya Noguchi	Japan	27:07
55	Mahamoud Farah	Djibouti	27:10
56	Kenny Klotz	United States	27:11
57	Thorsten Baumeister	Germany	27:15
58	Lee Carey	United Kingdom	27:17
59	Takuya Nakayama	Japan	27:18
60	Merihun Crespi	Italy	27:19
61	Hassan Chahdi	France	27:20
62	Nasereldein Jalap	Sudan	27:28
63	Abdelghani Aït Bahmad	Morocco	27:30
64	Matthew Leeder	Canada	27:30
65	Rico Schwarz	Germany	27:33
66	Jefferson Peña	Colombia	27:35
67	Jonas Matti Markowski	Germany	27:37
68	Hichem Benkhalouf	Algeria	27:38
69	Manuel Stöckert	Germany	27:42
70	Fred Arapsudi	Uganda	27:44
71	Ricardo Mateus	Portugal	27:46
72	Andrew Livingstone	United Kingdom	27:47
73	Alessandro Turroni	Italy	27:48
74	Bentamra Boucherit	Algeria	27:51
75	Javier Peña	Colombia	27:51
76	Ben Ashkettle	Australia	27:56
77	Conor McNulty	United Kingdom	28:00
78	Diaaeldin Ahmed	Sudan	28:07
79	Massaoud Pedotti	Italy	28:08
80	Luis Alberto Orta	Venezuela	28:10
81	Matthew Hughes	Canada	28:13
82	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	28:18
83	Wesley Mancilla	Colombia	28:20
84	Guillem Duran	Spain	28:24
85	Dean Brummer	South Africa	28:24
86	Ryan McNiff	United States	28:28
87	Ben Lindsay	United Kingdom	28:31
88	Mathew Mildenhall	New Zealand	28:31
89	David Forrester	United Kingdom	28:33
90	Alessandro Brancato	Italy	28:34
91	Pedro Cirne	Portugal	28:35
92	Fabio Pirillo	Italy	28:41
93	Takuro Nakanishi	Japan	28:45
94	Mohammed Al-Juraid	Yemen	28:46
95	Dmitry Zubkov	Russia	28:54
96	Greg Miller	Canada	28:59
97	Christian Hengmith	Germany	29:19
98	Christian Molitor	Luxembourg	29:38
99	Matthew Bruce	Canada	29:41
100	Matthew Tebo	United States	30:56
101	Andrea Seppi	Italy	31:04
102	Sebastian Martos	Spain	31:20
103	José Mario García	Spain	31:34
104	Makhmud Zaripov	Tajikistan	32:13
105	Ahmed Al-Rumaim	Yemen	32:19
—	Adam Hickey	United Kingdom	DNF
—	Javier García	Spain	DNF
—	Samuel Crowther	Australia	DNF
—	Christopher Hamer	Australia	DNF
—	Joshua Edmonds	United States	DNF
—	Noel Bateman	United States	DNF
—	Ahmed Sarhan	Yemen	DNF
—	Mugahed Al-Omal	Yemen	DNF
—	Dunken Mabvuto Matumbo	Zambia	DNF
—	Juan A. Pérez	Spain	DNF
—	Mohamed Bahri	Algeria	DNF
—	Abdelali Ech Challaouy	Morocco	DNF
—	Mark Henshaw	Canada	DNF
—	Mohamed Rashed Mubarak Al-Dhahri	United Arab Emirates	DNF
—	Emmanuel Giniki	Tanzania	DNF
—	Pascal Goti	Tanzania	DNF
—	Ibrahim Jeilan	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Dawid Szewczyk	Poland	DNF
—	Mark Tolstikhin	Russia	DNF
—	Leeto Hlalele	Lesotho	DNF
—	Paul Muteru Kuria	Kenya	DNF
—	Mohamed Abdule Abdi	Somalia	DNS
—	Sakila Lufumba	DR Congo	DNS

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya Asbel Kiprop 1 Vincent Kiprop Chepkok 2 Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio 3 Leonard Patrick Komon 4 (Nicholas Mulinge Makau) (11) (Paul Muteru Kuria) (DNF)	10
	Eritrea Issak Sibhatu 6 Samuel Tsegay 8 Teklemariam Medhin 14 Amanuel Mesel 16 (Tsegai Tewelde) (17)	44
	Ethiopia Imane Merga 7 Demssew Tsega 12 Abreham Cherkos 15 Tola Bane 20 (Habtamu Fikadu) (28) (Ibrahim Jeilan) (DNF)	54
4	Uganda Benjamin Kiplagat 5 Geofrey Kusuro 10 Stephen Kiprotich 19 Isaac Ayeko 21 (Dickson Huru) (23) (Fred Arapsudi) (70)	55
5	Burundi Abraham Niyonkuru 13 Jean Claude Niyonizigiye 18 Pierre-Célestin Nihorimbere 32 Ezechiel Nizigiyimana 39 (Prosper Nkunzimana) (43)	102
6	Tanzania Marco Joseph 22 Lukinga Uwezo 24 Abihorera Bora 25 Pascal Mombo Sarwat 33 (Emmanuel Giniki) (DNF) (Pascal Goti) (DNF)	104
7	Morocco Mouhssine Cherkaoui 27 Hicham El Amrani 30 Adil Rached 35 Moussa Karich 42 (Abdelghani Aït Bahmad) (63) (Abdelali Ech Challaouy) (DNF)	134
8	Sudan Edris Yousif 36 Wilyam Filiph Rabih 37 Nail El Dod 41 Nasereldein Jalap 62 (Diaaeldin Ahmed) (78)	176
9	Japan Keisuke Tanaka 34 Yuki Yagi 40 Shun Kurihara 53 Takuya Noguchi 54 (Takuya Nakayama) (59) (Takuro Nakanishi) (93)	181
10	South Africa Lesole Zim 29 Xolisa Tyali 45 Cansas Nhlapo 47 Dean Brummer 85	206
11	Algeria Abdelmadjed Touil 50 Lotfi Chebli 52 Hichem Benkhalouf 68 Bentamra Boucherit 74 (Taoufik Makhloufi) (82) (Mohamed Bahri) (DNF)	244
12	Germany Thorsten Baumeister 57 Rico Schwarz 65 Jonas Matti Markowski 67 Manuel Stöckert 69 (Christian Hengmith) (97)	258
13	United Kingdom Lee Carey 58 Andrew Livingstone 72 Conor McNulty 77 Ben Lindsay 87 (David Forrester) (89) (Adam Hickey) (DNF)	294
14	Italy Merihun Crespi 60 Alessandro Turroni 73 Massaoud Pedotti 79 Alessandro Brancato 90 (Fabio Pirillo) (92) (Andrea Seppi) (101)	302
15	Spain Mohamed Elbendir 48 Guillem Duran 84 Sebastian Martos 102 José Mario García 103 (Javier García) (DNF) (Juan A. Pérez) (DNF)	337
16	Canada Matthew Leeder 64 Matthew Hughes 81 Greg Miller 96 Matthew Bruce 99 (Mark Henshaw) (DNF)	340

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

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 126 athletes from 34 countries participated in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[1] The announced athletes from the   Democratic Republic of the Congo and   Somalia did not show. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

•   Algeria (6)
•   Australia (4)
•   Burundi (5)
•   Canada (5)
•   Colombia (3)
•   Djibouti (1)
•   Eritrea (5)
•   Ethiopia (6)
•   France (2)
•   Germany (5)
•   Italy (6)
•   Japan (6)
•   Kenya (6)
•   Lesotho (1)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Morocco (6)
•   New Zealand (2)
•   Poland (1)
•   Portugal (2)
•   Qatar (1)
•   Romania (1)
•   Russia (2)
•   South Africa (4)
•   Spain (6)
•   Sudan (5)
•   Tajikistan (1)
•   Tanzania (6)
•   Uganda (6)
•   United Arab Emirates (1)
• United Kingdom (6)
•   United States (5)
•   Venezuela (1)
•   Yemen (4)
•   Zambia (4)

See also

• 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

References

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