1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, at the Hippodrome de Marlioz on March 25, 1990. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.^[1]

Junior men's race at the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	18th
Date	March 25
Host city	Aix-les-Bains, Rhône-Alpes, France
Venue	Hippodrome de Marlioz
Events	1
Distances	8 km – Junior men
Participation	127 athletes from 30 nations
← 1989 Stavanger 1991 Antwerpen →

Complete results,^[2] medallists, ^[3] and the results of British athletes^[4] were published.

Race results

Junior men's race (8 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Kipyego Kororia	Kenya	22:13
	Richard Chelimo	Kenya	22:14
	Fita Bayissa	Ethiopia	22:24
4	Ismael Kirui	Kenya	22:32
5	Samuel Otieno	Kenya	22:35
6	Matthew Birir	Kenya	22:47
7	Abraham Assefa	Ethiopia	22:58
8	Assefa Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	23:04
9	Tesgie Legesse	Ethiopia	23:07
10	Dadi Tamrat	Ethiopia	23:20
11	Yahia Azaidj	Algeria	23:26
12	Salah Hissou	Morocco	23:27
13	Stefano Baldini	Italy	23:30
14	Lemi Erpassa	Ethiopia	23:35
15	Seiji Kushibe	Japan	23:38
16	Ion Avramescu	Romania	23:39
17	Vincenzo Modica	Italy	23:39
18	Francisco Munuera	Spain	23:40
19	Mark Carroll	Ireland	23:42
20	Mark Johansen	United States	23:43
21	Javier Cortés	Spain	23:43
22	Ryuji Takei	Japan	23:44
23	Javier Caballero	Spain	23:54
24	Claes Nyberg	Sweden	23:55
25	Robinson Semolini	Brazil	23:56
26	Abdelkrim Benzai	Algeria	23:57
27	Francesco Bennici	Italy	23:57
28	Christian Leuprecht	Italy	23:59
29	Hiroyuki Nakamura	Japan	24:02
30	Osamu Nara	Japan	24:02
31	Brahim Sassi	Tunisia	24:05
32	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	24:08
33	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	24:08
34	Niall Bruton	Ireland	24:13
35	Steve Green	United Kingdom	24:16
36	Jon Gascoyne	United Kingdom	24:17
37	John Coyle	United States	24:18
38	Hirofumi Katafuchi	Japan	24:19
39	Stephane Picard	France	24:20
40	Rodolfo Lopes	Portugal	24:20
41	Mark Burdis	Ireland	24:21
42	Andrew Pearson	United Kingdom	24:21
43	Stanislav Yordanov	Soviet Union	24:23
44	Janik Lambert	Canada	24:26
45	Nasradine Cherifi	France	24:27
46	Abich Benkhelifa	Tunisia	24:28
47	Malcolm Campbell	United Kingdom	24:28
48	Kazuhiro Kawauchi	Japan	24:29
49	Jason Bunston	Canada	24:32
50	Kamel Kohil	Algeria	24:33
51	Philippe Jacquemin	Belgium	24:33
52	Vladimir Golyas	Soviet Union	24:33
53	Dhahbi Anizi	Tunisia	24:36
54	Kent Claesson	Sweden	24:39
55	José Luis Francisco	Spain	24:40
56	Ryad Gatte	Algeria	24:41
57	Rainer Huth	West Germany	24:41
58	Hartmut Merl	West Germany	24:42
59	Alexandr Litvinov	Soviet Union	24:43
60	Bryan Conway	Ireland	24:44
61	Tom van Hooste	Belgium	24:45
62	Jaroslaw Cichocki	Poland	24:45
63	Marc Dauer	West Germany	24:45
64	Oscar Gilotti	Italy	24:45
65	Chadli Mastouri	France	24:47
66	Paul Logan	Ireland	24:47
67	Roman Korzh	Soviet Union	24:48
68	Awad Saleh Ahmed	North Yemen	24:53
69	Colin de Burca	Ireland	24:56
70	Fabrice Chomaud	France	24:56
71	Stathis Stasi	Cyprus	24:56
72	Krzysztof Baldyga	Poland	24:57
73	David Bretel	France	24:57
74	Jeff Campbell	United States	24:58
75	Antonio Ciucio	Italy	24:58
76	Paul Stoneham	United States	25:00
77	Anatoly Yefremov	Soviet Union	25:01
78	Sami Alanen	Finland	25:03
79	Stelios Marneros	Cyprus	25:03
80	Apolinar Caudillo	Mexico	25:04
81	Abdelhak Lebouazda	Algeria	25:09
82	Graham Hood	Canada	25:09
83	Germano Neves	Portugal	25:12
84	Delfim Conceição	Portugal	25:17
85	Ridha Ghuizani	Tunisia	25:18
86	Jacky Lovis	Switzerland	25:19
87	Elisardo de la Torre	Spain	25:20
88	Alvaro Ramalhete	Portugal	25:25
89	Anwar Al-Harazi	North Yemen	25:25
90	Mokhtar Belaid	Algeria	25:26
91	Jaroslaw Sitarz	Poland	25:26
92	Goim Hussein	North Yemen	25:28
93	Jason Mohr	United States	25:29
94	Donald van Boven	Belgium	25:29
95	Luis Suárez	Spain	25:30
96	Georgios Loucaides	Cyprus	25:30
97	Nicos Marcou	Cyprus	25:31
98	Holger Ahrenberg	West Germany	25:31
99	Bhairav Singh	India	25:31
100	Shawn McKay	Canada	25:35
101	Rachid Benmohamed	Belgium	25:37
102	Jan Everyman	Belgium	25:40
103	Marcio Pazin	Brazil	25:43
104	Jamey Harris	United States	25:44
105	Frank Schouren	West Germany	25:47
106	Mounir Dellali	Tunisia	26:01
107	Nimrod Branka	Israel	26:07
108	Ali Harezi Al-Ghazali	North Yemen	26:07
109	Abdelghawi Fisal	North Yemen	26:15
110	Mario Figueiredo	Portugal	26:21
111	Patrick Grammens	Belgium	26:26
112	Kevin Toher	United Kingdom	26:29
113	Remzi Atli	Turkey	26:31
114	Ahmed Al-Saqaf	North Yemen	26:32
115	Mikaël Thomas	France	26:39
116	K.M. Chinnappa	India	27:07
117	Grzegorz Krystek	Poland	27:20
118	Paul Ignacio	Gibraltar	27:21
119	Tyrone Cano	Gibraltar	27:39
120	Wiktor Malina	Poland	28:03
121	Darren McComb	Gibraltar	28:11
122	Richard Muscat	Gibraltar	28:13
123	Stavros Panagiotou	Cyprus	28:44
124	Gareth Cano	Gibraltar	29:14
125	Anthony Kiprono	Kenya	33:52
126	Damien Muscat	Gibraltar	33:52
—	Julio Figueiredo	Portugal	DNF

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya Kipyego Kororia 1 Richard Chelimo 2 Ismael Kirui 4 Samuel Otieno 5 (Matthew Birir) (6) (Anthony Kiprono) (125)	12
	Ethiopia Fita Bayissa 3 Abraham Assefa 7 Assefa Gebremedhin 8 Tesgie Legesse 9 (Dadi Tamrat) (10) (Lemi Erpassa) (14)	27
	Italy Stefano Baldini 13 Vincenzo Modica 17 Francesco Bennici 27 Christian Leuprecht 28 (Oscar Gilotti) (64) (Antonio Ciucio) (75)	85
4	Japan Seiji Kushibe 15 Ryuji Takei 22 Hiroyuki Nakamura 29 Osamu Nara 30 (Hirofumi Katafuchi) (38) (Kazuhiro Kawauchi) (48)	96
5	Spain Francisco Munuera 18 Javier Cortés 21 Javier Caballero 23 José Luis Francisco 55 (Elisardo de la Torre) (87) (Luis Suárez) (95)	117
6	Algeria Yahia Azaidj 11 Abdelkrim Benzai 26 Kamel Kohil 50 Ryad Gatte 56 (Abdelhak Lebouazda) (81) (Mokhtar Belaid) (90)	143
7	Ireland Mark Carroll 19 Niall Bruton 34 Mark Burdis 41 Bryan Conway 60 (Paul Logan) (66) (Colin de Burca) (69)	154
8	Canada Joël Bourgeois 32 Kevin Sullivan 33 Janik Lambert 44 Jason Bunston 49 (Graham Hood) (82) (Shawn McKay) (100)	158
9	United Kingdom Steve Green 35 Jon Gascoyne 36 Andrew Pearson 42 Malcolm Campbell 47 (Kevin Toher) (112)	160
10	United States Mark Johansen 20 John Coyle 37 Jeff Campbell 74 Paul Stoneham 76 (Jason Mohr) (93) (James Harris) (104)	207
11	Tunisia Brahim Sassi 31 Abich Benkhelifa 46 Dhahbi Anizi 53 Ridha Ghuizani 85 (Mounir Dellali) (106)	215
12	France Stephane Picard 39 Nasradine Cherifi 45 Chadli Mastouri 65 Fabrice Chomaud 70 (David Bretel) (73) (Mikaël Thomas) (115)	219
13	Soviet Union Stanislav Yordanov 43 Vladimir Golyas 52 Alexandr Litvinov 59 Roman Korzh 67 (Anatoly Yefremov) (77)	221
14	West Germany Rainer Huth 57 Hartmut Merl 58 Marc Dauer 63 Holger Ahrenberg 98 (Frank Schouren) (105)	276
15	Portugal Rodolfo Lopes 40 Germano Neves 83 Delfim Conceição 84 Alvaro Ramalhete 88 (Mario Figueiredo) (110) (Julio Figueiredo) (DNF)	295
16	Belgium Philippe Jacquemin 51 Tom van Hooste 61 Donald van Boven 94 Rachid Benmohamed 101 (Jan Everyman) (102) (Patrick Grammens) (111)	307
17	Poland Jaroslaw Cichocki 62 Krzysztof Baldyga 72 Jaroslaw Sitarz 91 Grzegorz Krystek 117 (Wiktor Malina) (120)	342
18	Cyprus Stathis Stasi 71 Stelios Marneros 79 Georgios Loucaides 96 Nicos Marcou 97 (Stavros Panagiotou) (123)	343
19	North Yemen Awad Saleh Ahmed 68 Anwar Al-Harazi 89 Goim Hussein 92 Ali Harezi Al-Ghazali 108 (Abdelghawi Fisal) (109) (Ahmed Al-Saqaf) (114)	357
20	Gibraltar Paul Ignacio 118 Tyrone Cano 119 Darren McComb 121 Richard Muscat 122 (Gareth Cano) (124) (Damien Muscat) (126)	480

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 127 athletes from 30 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[4]

•   Algeria (6)
•   Belgium (6)
•   Brazil (2)
•   Canada (6)
•   Cyprus (5)
•   Ethiopia (6)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (6)
•   Gibraltar (6)
•   India (2)
•   Ireland (6)
•   Israel (1)
•   Italy (6)
•   Japan (6)
•   Kenya (6)
•   Mexico (1)
•   Morocco (1)
•   North Yemen (6)
•   Poland (5)
•   Portugal (6)
•   Romania (1)
•   Soviet Union (5)
•   Spain (6)
•   Sweden (2)
•   Switzerland (1)
•   Tunisia (5)
•   Turkey (1)
•   United Kingdom (5)
•   United States (6)
•   West Germany (5)

See also

• 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

References

1. Morocco has unearthed a new athletics star in Khalid Skah, who won the world cross-country title on Saturday with a style reminiscent of his compatriots, multi world record-holder Said Aouita and Olympic 10,000m champion Brahim Boutayeb..., Glasgow Herald, March 26, 1990, retrieved October 24, 2013
2. Magnusson, Tomas (July 4, 2007), , Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 24, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
3. IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
4. (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013