2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	36th
Date	March 30
Host city	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Venue	Holyrood Park
Events	1
Distances	12 km – Senior men
Participation	179 athletes from 45 nations
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The Senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on March 30, 2008. ^[1] Reports of the event were given in The New York Times , ^[2] in the Herald , ^[3] and for the IAAF. ^[4]

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

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	34:38
	Leonard Patrick Komon	Kenya	34:41
	Zersenay Tadese	Eritrea	34:43
4	Joseph Ebuya	Kenya	34:47
5	Moses Ndiema Masai	Kenya	35:02
6	Felix Kikwai Kibore	Qatar	35:15
7	Gideon Lekumok Ngatuny	Kenya	35:16
8	Ahmad Hassan Abdullah	Qatar	35:18
9	Habtamu Fikadu	Ethiopia	35:19
10	Bernard Kiprop Kipyego	Kenya	35:24
11	Hosea Mwok Macharinyang	Kenya	35:24
12	Augustine Kiprono Choge	Kenya	35:26
13	Moses Kipsiro	Uganda	35:29
14	Mark Kosgei Kiptoo	Kenya	35:39
15	Sileshi Sihine	Ethiopia	35:40
16	Boniface Kiprop	Uganda	35:41
17	Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam	Ethiopia	35:59
18	John Kimondo Thuo	Kenya	36:00
19	Jorge Torres	United States	36:03
20	Yonas Kifle	Eritrea	36:09
21	Dereje Debele	Ethiopia	36:10
22	Sultan Khamis Zaman	Qatar	36:12
23	Teklemariam Medhin	Eritrea	36:13
24	Juan Carlos de la Ossa	Spain	36:15
25	Mubarak Hassan Shami	Qatar	36:17
26	Kidane Tadasse	Eritrea	36:25
27	Cuthbert Nyasango	Zimbabwe	36:28
28	Abdellah Falil	Morocco	36:30
29	Martin Toroitich	Uganda	36:33
30	Jamel Chatbi	Morocco	36:35
31	Craig Mottram	Australia	36:40
32	Anis Selmouni	Morocco	36:42
33	Abdelhadi El Mouaziz	Morocco	36:43
34	Gamal Belal Salem	Qatar	36:43
35	Ahmed Baday	Morocco	36:46
36	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	36:49
37	Brahim Beloua	Morocco	36:49
38	Amanuel Woldeselassie	Eritrea	36:50
39	Khalid Kamal Yaseen	Bahrain	36:51
40	Chakir Boujattaoui	Morocco	36:51
41	Abebe Dinkesa	Ethiopia	36:51
42	Yahia Azaïdj	Algeria	36:52
43	Josh Rohatinsky	United States	36:52
44	Moorosi Soke	South Africa	36:53
45	Edwardo Torres	United States	36:56
46	Wilson Busienei	Uganda	37:02
47	Mourad Marofit	Morocco	37:04
48	Essa Ismail Rashed	Qatar	37:07
49	Moses Aliwa	Uganda	37:08
50	Michael Shelley	Australia	37:09
51	Scott Bauhs	United States	37:15
52	Tewoldeberhan Mengisteab	Eritrea	37:15
53	Marílson Dos Santos	Brazil	37:17
54	Max King	United States	37:20
55	Simon Ayeko	Uganda	37:20
56	José Manuel Martínez	Spain	37:21
57	Zembaba Yigeze	Ethiopia	37:22
58	Gianmarco Buttazzo	Italy	37:24
59	Ahmed Naïli	Algeria	37:27
60	Aadam Ismaeel Khamis	Bahrain	37:27
61	Ali Dawoud Sedam	Qatar	37:27
62	Thomas Humphries	United Kingdom	37:27
63	Nicholas Kiprono	Uganda	37:32
64	Carles Castillejo	Spain	37:34
65	Michael Skinner	United Kingdom	37:35
66	Andrew Ledwith	Ireland	37:37
67	Moustafa Ahmed Shebto	Qatar	37:40
68	David McNeill	Australia	37:41
69	Liam Adams	Australia	37:41
70	Andrea Lalli	Italy	37:44
71	Licinio Pimentel	Portugal	37:44
72	Frank Tickner	United Kingdom	37:49
73	Collis Birmingham	Australia	37:49
74	Stephen Mokoka	South Africa	37:52
75	Al Mustafa Riyadh	Bahrain	37:53
76	Manuel Damião	Portugal	37:55
77	Mike Tebulo	Malawi	37:57
78	Andrew Lemoncello	United Kingdom	37:57
79	Andrew Jones	United Kingdom	37:57
80	Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga	Burundi	38:00
81	Naser Jamal Naser	Qatar	38:02
82	Philip Wicks	United Kingdom	38:02
83	José Luis Blanco	Spain	38:02
84	James Carney	United States	38:04
85	Antonio David Jiménez	Spain	38:06
86	Kiflom Sium	Eritrea	38:07
87	Iván Galán	Spain	38:10
88	Yoshitaka Iwamizu	Japan	38:11
89	Rabie Mekhloufi	Algeria	38:11
90	James Gosselin	Canada	38:12
91	Paulo Gomes	Portugal	38:13
92	Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi	Libya	38:13
93	Yuki Sato	Japan	38:19
94	Tsuyoshi Ugachi	Japan	38:20
95	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	38:23
96	Jonathan Pierce	United States	38:23
97	Rabah Aboud	Algeria	38:24
98	Aïssa Dahmar	Algeria	38:24
99	Daniele Meucci	Italy	38:28
100	José Rocha	Portugal	38:28
101	Boiphemelo Selagaboy	Botswana	38:29
102	Samuel Tsegay	Eritrea	38:30
103	Kaelo Mosalagae	Botswana	38:31
104	Martin Dent	Australia	38:31
105	Makoto Tobimatsu	Japan	38:32
106	Hermano Ferreira	Portugal	38:33
107	Moeketsi Mosuhli	Lesotho	38:34
108	Andrew Letherby	Australia	38:35
109	Ryan Bak	United States	38:36
110	Jonay González	Spain	38:39
111	Cédric Pelissier	France	38:42
112	Brahim Chettah	Algeria	38:43
113	Ihar Tsetserukou	Belarus	38:43
114	Andrew Vernon	United Kingdom	38:43
115	Yuki Nakamura	Japan	38:43
116	Alex Hutchinson	Canada	38:44
117	Roberto Oliveira	Brazil	38:45
118	José Ramos	Portugal	38:45
119	Reyes Estévez	Spain	38:47
120	Satoru Kitamura	Japan	38:48
121	Unaswi Dambe	Botswana	38:48
122	Hiroyoshi Umegae	Japan	38:49
123	Hidekazu Sato	Japan	38:51
124	Damião Ancelmo De Souza	Brazil	39:00
125	James Walsh	United Kingdom	39:01
126	Ben St.Lawrence	Australia	39:02
127	Jesper Faurschou	Denmark	39:03
128	Paul McNamara	Ireland	39:05
129	Dylan Wykes	Canada	39:06
130	Nathan Chebet	Uganda	39:10
131	Ahmed Dali	Algeria	39:11
132	Yang Dinghong	China	39:11
133	Ueli Koch	Switzerland	39:12
134	Rapula Diphoko	Botswana	39:12
135	Mick Clohisey	Ireland	39:13
136	John Beattie	United Kingdom	39:21
137	Abdelatif Chemlal	Morocco	39:25
138	Derek Nakluski	Canada	39:26
139	Solomon Tsige	Ethiopia	39:26
140	Brian Maher	Ireland	39:29
141	Dong Guojian	China	39:33
142	Yuri Chechun	Kyrgyzstan	39:42
143	Spencer Morrison	Canada	39:45
144	Gary Thornton	Ireland	39:50
145	Colin Fewer	Canada	39:52
146	Dimcho Mitsov	Bulgaria	39:53
147	Ahmed Hassein Hassein	Egypt	39:56
148	Sevak Yeghikyan	Armenia	39:57
149	Adel Mahdjoub	Libya	39:58
150	Cleve Thorson	Canada	40:01
151	Alexandra Motone	South Africa	40:18
152	José Eloy	Brazil	40:19
153	Huang Jinhong	China	40:26
154	Cleveland Forde	Guyana	40:27
155	Shepherd Kenatshele	Botswana	40:27
156	Rees Buck	New Zealand	40:34
157	José Maduro	Portugal	40:35
158	Mohammad Al Kafraini	Jordan	41:00
159	Trevor Caldwell	Canada	41:47
160	Ditiro Ramagapu	Botswana	42:03
161	José Ferreira	Brazil	42:23
162	Gaylord Silly	Seychelles	43:03
163	Perhat Annagylyjov	Turkmenistan	43:27
164	Fikret Gafarov	Azerbaijan	45:37
165	Christopher Symonds	Ghana	46:56
—	Ricardo Ribas	Portugal	DNF
—	Mahmoud Abuattaya	Palestine	DNF
—	Cosme Ancelmo De Souza	Brazil	DNF
—	Vincent Mulvey	Ireland	DNF
—	Alistair Ian Cragg	Ireland	DNF
—	Abdulhak Elgorche Zakaria	Bahrain	DNF
—	Ed Moran	United States	DNF
—	Alejandro Suárez	Mexico	DNF
—	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	DNF
—	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	DNF
—	Demssew Tsega	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Hasan Mahboob	Bahrain	DNF
—	Saif Hamad Al-Rashedi	United Arab Emirates	DQ
—	Fathi Meftah	Algeria	DQ†
—	Saleh Besheer Madjed	Bahrain	DNS
—	Roman Prodius	Moldova	DNS
—	Arjun Kumar Basnet	Nepal	DNS
—	Danjuma Kopkuddi	Nigeria	DNS
—	Akhilomeh Joseph	Nigeria	DNS
—	Gervais Hakizimana	Rwanda	DNS
—	Sylvain Rukundo	Rwanda	DNS
—	Jean Baptiste Simukeka	Rwanda	DNS
—	Khamis Sultan Dawood	Bahrain	DNS

^†: Fathi Meftah from   Algeria finished 35th in 36:44 min, but was disqualified because of doping violations. ^[11]

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya Leonard Patrick Komon 2 Joseph Ebuya 4 Moses Ndiema Masai 5 Gideon Lekumok Ngatuny 7 Bernard Kiprop Kipyego 10 Hosea Mwok Macharinyang 11 (Augustine Kiprono Choge) (12) (Mark Kosgei Kiptoo) (14) (John Kimondo Thuo) (18)	39
	Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele 1 Habtamu Fikadu 9 Sileshi Sihine 15 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam 17 Dereje Debele 21 Abebe Dinkesa 41 (Zembaba Yigeze) (57) (Solomon Tsige) (139) (Demssew Tsega) (DNF)	104
	Qatar Felix Kikwai Kibore 6 Ahmad Hassan Abdullah 8 Sultan Khamis Zaman 22 Mubarak Hassan Shami 25 Gamal Belal Salem 34 Essa Ismail Rashed 48 (Ali Dawoud Sedam) (61) (Moustafa Ahmed Shebto) (67) (Naser Jamal Naser) (81)	143
4	Eritrea Zersenay Tadese 3 Yonas Kifle 20 Teklemariam Medhin 23 Kidane Tadasse 26 Amanuel Woldeselassie 38 Tewoldeberhan Mengisteab 52 (Kiflom Sium) (86) (Samuel Tsegay) (102)	162
5	Morocco Abdellah Falil 28 Jamel Chatbi 30 Anis Selmouni 32 Abdelhadi El Mouaziz 33 Ahmed Baday 35 Brahim Beloua 37 (Chakir Boujattaoui) (40) (Mourad Marofit) (47) (Abdelatif Chemlal) (137)	195
6	Uganda Moses Kipsiro 13 Boniface Kiprop 16 Martin Toroitich 29 Wilson Busienei 46 Moses Aliwa 49 Simon Ayeko 55 (Nicholas Kiprono) (63) (Nathan Chebet) (130)	208
7	United States Jorge Torres 19 Josh Rohatinsky 43 Edwardo Torres 45 Scott Bauhs 51 Max King 54 James Carney 84 (Jonathan Pierce) (96) (Ryan Bak) (109) (Ed Moran) (DNF)	296
8	Spain Juan Carlos de la Ossa 24 Ayad Lamdassem 36 José Manuel Martínez 56 Carles Castillejo 64 José Luis Blanco 83 Antonio David Jiménez 85 (Iván Galán) (87) (Jonay González) (110) (Reyes Estévez) (119)	348
9	Australia Craig Mottram 31 Michael Shelley 50 David Mcneill 68 Liam Adams 69 Collis Birmingham 73 Martin Dent 104 (Andrew Letherby) (108) (Ben St.Lawrence) (126)	395
10	United Kingdom Thomas Humphries 62 Michael Skinner 65 Frank Tickner 72 Andrew Lemoncello 78 Andrew Jones 79 Philip Wicks 82 (Andrew Vernon) (114) (James Walsh) (125) (John Beattie) (136)	438
11	Algeria Yahia Azaïdj 42 Ahmed Naïli 59 Rabie Mekhloufi 89 Rabah Aboud 97 Aïssa Dahmar 98 Brahim Chettah 112 (Ahmed Dali) (131) (Fathi Meftah) (DQ)	497
12	Portugal Licinio Pimentel 71 Manuel Damião 76 Paulo Gomes 91 José Rocha 100 Hermano Ferreira 106 José Ramos 118 (José Maduro) (157) (Ricardo Ribas) (DNF)	562
13	Japan Yoshitaka Iwamizu 88 Yuki Sato 93 Tsuyoshi Ugachi 94 Makoto Tobimatsu 105 Yuki Nakamura 115 Satoru Kitamura 120 (Hiroyoshi Umegae) (122) (Hidekazu Sato) (123)	615
14	Canada James Gosselin 90 Joël Bourgeois 95 Alex Hutchinson 116 Dylan Wykes 129 Derek Nakluski 138 Spencer Morrison 143 (Colin Fewer) (145) (Cleve Thorson) (150) (Trevor Caldwell) (159)	711
15	Botswana Boiphemelo Selagaboy 101 Kaelo Mosalagae 103 Unaswi Dambe 121 Rapula Diphoko 134 Shepherd Kenatshele 155 Ditiro Ramagapu 160	774

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

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 179 athletes from 45 countries participated in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. ^[1] The announced athletes from   Moldova,   Nepal, and   Nigeria did not show. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

•   Algeria (8)
•   Armenia (1)
•   Australia (8)
•   Azerbaijan (1)
•   Bahrain (5)
•   Belarus (1)
•   Botswana (6)
•   Brazil (6)
•   Bulgaria (1)
•   Burundi (1)
•   Canada (9)
•   China (3)
•   Denmark (1)
•   Egypt (1)
•   Eritrea (8)
•   Ethiopia (9)
•   France (1)
•   Ghana (1)
•   Guyana (1)
•   Ireland (7)
•   Italy (4)
•   Japan (8)
•   Jordan (1)
•   Kenya (9)
•   Kyrgyzstan (1)
•   Lesotho (1)
•   Libya (2)
•   Malawi (1)
•   Mexico (1)
•   Morocco (9)
•   New Zealand (1)
•   Palestine (1)
•   Portugal (8)
•   Qatar (9)
•   Rwanda (1)
•   Seychelles (1)
•   South Africa (3)
•   Spain (9)
•    Switzerland (1)
•   Turkmenistan (1)
•   Uganda (8)
•   United Arab Emirates (1)
•   United Kingdom (9)
•   United States (9)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

References

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