1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Junior men's race at the 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Junior men's race at the 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	11th
Date	March 20
Host city	Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England
Venue	Riverside Park
Events	1
Distances	8.033 km – Junior men
Participation	107 athletes from ; 25 nations
	← 1982 Rome 1984 East Rutherford →

The Junior men's race at the 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Gateshead, England, at the Riverside Park on March 20, 1983. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald^[1] and in the Evening Times.^[2]

Complete results,^[3] medallists, ^[4] and the results of British athletes^[5] were published.

Race results

Junior men's race (8.033 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Fesseha Abebe	Ethiopia	24:58
	Angaso Telega	Ethiopia	24:59
	Jonathan Richards	England	25:07
4	Gonfa Negere	Ethiopia	25:22
5	José Manuel Albentosa	Spain	25:35
6	Teka Mekonnen	Ethiopia	25:40
7	Cyrille Laventure	France	25:51
8	Marc Olesen	Canada	25:53
9	Asfaw Tadesse	Ethiopia	25:57
10	Richard Carter	England	26:06
11	José Manuel García	Spain	26:10
12	Antonio Pérez	Spain	26:15
13	José Zabaleta	Spain	26:16
14	Mohamed Salah Rajhi	Tunisia	26:17
15	Joseba Sarriegui	Spain	26:19
16	Disso Dissessa	Ethiopia	26:23
17	Alfredo Munoz	Spain	26:26
18	Paul McCaffrey	Northern Ireland	26:29
19	Luis Miguel	Portugal	26:30
20	Clifton Bradeley	England	26:31
21	Nikolay Matyushenko	Soviet Union	26:31
22	Corrado Di Salvatore	Italy	26:32
23	Mustapha El Nechchadi	Morocco	26:33
24	Robert Rice	Canada	26:35
25	Phil Makepeace	England	26:39
26	Luis Soares	Portugal	26:40
27	Joseph Leuchtmann	United States	26:41
28	Gerry Wallace	Ireland	26:46
29	Arnold van Heesvelde	Belgium	26:46
30	Thierry Pantel	France	26:46
31	Paulo Pinhal	Portugal	26:48
32	Abdelkader Belhaied	Tunisia	26:48
33	David Dunne	Ireland	26:53
34	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	26:54
35	Bob Mau	United States	26:56
36	Laroussi Mechi	Tunisia	26:57
37	John Castellano	Canada	26:58
38	Glenn Charanduk	Canada	27:00
39	Paul Taylor	England	27:02
40	Andrew Rodgers	Wales	27:04
41	Steve Diech	United States	27:06
42	Paul Gompers	United States	27:07
43	Walter Bassi	Italy	27:08
44	Miloud Djellal	Algeria	27:12
45	Igor Lotoryev	Soviet Union	27:12
46	Stefan Hendrickx	Belgium	27:12
47	Paul Stogryn	United States	27:12
48	Robert Cameron	Scotland	27:12
49	Sergey Smirnov	Soviet Union	27:14
50	Kai Jenkel	Switzerland	27:15
51	Khaled Aouita	Morocco	27:16
52	Abdellah Boubia	Morocco	27:17
53	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland	27:19
54	Patric Nilsson	Sweden	27:20
55	Martin Vile	England	27:20
56	Aleksandr Burtsev	Soviet Union	27:20
57	Ezzedine Amdouni	Tunisia	27:26
58	Leonard O'Regan	Ireland	27:26
59	Alexandr Sokoholovskiy	Soviet Union	27:26
60	Yehezkel Halifa	Israel	27:26
61	Mark Cutts	Canada	27:26
62	Brian Matthews	Wales	27:26
63	Marc Nelis	Belgium	27:27
64	Peter Conaghan	Scotland	27:27
65	Adam Sarty	Canada	27:28
66	Romdhane Belkhaied	Tunisia	27:29
67	Sergio Bruni	Italy	27:29
68	William Brist	United States	27:30
69	William Lacy	Ireland	27:31
70	Didier Verhaege	France	27:31
71	Ian Williams	Wales	27:32
72	Marcel Versteeg	Netherlands	27:37
73	Angelo Brunetti	Italy	27:40
74	Nigel Gooch	Wales	27:40
75	Luis Serrano	Portugal	27:40
76	Ahmed Lili	Morocco	27:40
77	John McNeil	Scotland	27:41
78	Alan Puckrin	Scotland	27:49
79	Mohamed Moulhine	Morocco	27:50
80	Benny Pollentier	Belgium	27:55
81	Abdelhak Henane	Algeria	27:57
82	Patrick Lingard	France	27:58
83	Johan van Delanotte	Belgium	28:01
84	Pierre Richard	Belgium	28:02
85	Gordan Lang	Northern Ireland	28:04
86	Nazar Habib	Wales	28:06
87	Pat O'Neill	Northern Ireland	28:11
88	Christian Vagner	France	28:14
89	Michael Taggart	Scotland	28:16
90	Cormac O'Riordan	Ireland	28:19
91	Carsten Borgen	Denmark	28:21
92	Pascal Tristant	France	28:26
93	Ali Günes	Turkey	28:29
94	Alwyn Ormond	Wales	28:37
95	Pat McKillop	Northern Ireland	28:42
96	Alan Wilson	Scotland	28:45
97	Mohamed Ahmad	Palestine	28:48
98	Jesper Mathiesen	Denmark	28:54
99	Philip Tweedie	Northern Ireland	28:59
100	Jim Hefferon	Northern Ireland	29:13
101	Mohamed Essahal	Morocco	29:15
102	Abdullah Saud	Kuwait	29:51
103	Khrlio Mourdi	Kuwait	31:19
104	M.Ibrahim Haji	Kuwait	31:22
105	Talal Al-Asfir	Kuwait	31:56
—	José Macedo	Portugal	DNF
—	Fernando Ferreira	Portugal	DNF

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Ethiopia

Fesseha Abebe	1
Angaso Telega	2
Gonfa Negere	4
Teka Mekonnen	6
(Asfaw Tadesse)	(9)
(Disso Dissessa)	(16)

13

Spain

José Manuel Albentosa	5
José Manuel García	11
Antonio Pérez	12
José Zabaleta	13
(Joseba Sarriegui)	(15)
(Alfredo Munoz)	(17)

41

England

Jonathan Richards	3
Richard Carter	10
Clifton Bradeley	20
Phil Makepeace	25
(Paul Taylor)	(39)
(Martin Vile)	(55)

58

4

Canada

Marc Olesen	8
Robert Rice	24
John Castellano	37
Glenn Charanduk	38
(Mark Cutts)	(61)
(Adam Sarty)	(65)

107

5

Tunisia

Mohamed Salah Rajhi	14
Abdelkader Belhaied	32
Laroussi Mechi	36
Ezzedine Amdouni	57
(Romdhane Belkhaied)	(66)

139

6

United States

Joseph Leuchtmann	27
Bob Mau	35
Steve Diech	41
Paul Gompers	42
(Paul Stogryn)	(47)
(William Brist)	(68)

145

7

Portugal

Luis Miguel	19
Luis Soares	26
Paulo Pinhal	31
Luis Serrano	75
(José Macedo)	(DNF)
(Fernando Ferreira)	(DNF)

151

8

Italy

Corrado Di Salvatore	22
Giuseppe D'Urso	34
Walter Bassi	43
Sergio Bruni	67
(Angelo Brunetti)	(73)

166

9

Soviet Union

Nikolay Matyushenko	21
Igor Lotoryev	45
Sergey Smirnov	49
Aleksandr Burtsev	56
(Alexandr Sokoholovskiy)	(59)

171

10

Ireland

Gerry Wallace	28
David Dunne	33
Leonard O'Regan	58
William Lacy	69
(Cormac O'Riordan)	(90)

188

11

France

Cyrille Laventure	7
Thierry Pantel	30
Didier Verhaege	70
Patrick Lingard	82
(Christian Vagner)	(88)
(Pascal Tristant)	(92)

189

12

Morocco

Mustapha El Nechchadi	23
Khaled Aouita	51
Abdellah Boubia	52
Ahmed Lili	76
(Mohamed Moulhine)	(79)
(Mohamed Essahal)	(101)

202

13

Belgium

Arnold van Heesvelde	29
Stefan Hendrickx	46
Marc Nelis	63
Benny Pollentier	80
(Johan van Delanotte)	(83)
(Pierre Richard)	(84)

218

14

Wales

Andrew Rodgers	40
Brian Matthews	62
Ian Williams	71
Nigel Gooch	74
(Nazar Habib)	(86)
(Alwyn Ormond)	(94)

247

15

Scotland

Robert Cameron	48
Peter Conaghan	64
John McNeil	77
Alan Puckrin	78
(Michael Taggart)	(89)
(Alan Wilson)	(96)

267

16

Northern Ireland

Paul McCaffrey	18
Gordan Lang	85
Pat O'Neill	87
Pat McKillop	95
(Philip Tweedie)	(99)
(Jim Hefferon)	(100)

285

17

Kuwait

Abdullah Saud	102
Khrlio Mourdi	103
M.Ibrahim Haji	104
Talal Al-Asfir	105

414

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 107 athletes from 25 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.^[5]

Algeria (2)
Belgium (6)
Canada (6)
Denmark (2)
England (6)
Ethiopia (6)
France (6)
Ireland (5)
Israel (1)
Italy (5)
Kuwait (4)
Morocco (6)
Netherlands (1)
Northern Ireland (6)
Palestine (1)
Portugal (6)
Scotland (6)
Soviet Union (5)
Spain (6)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (2)
Tunisia (5)
Turkey (1)
United States (6)
Wales (6)

References

^ Gillon, Doug (March 21, 1933), Men from the mountains clean up - A glimpse into the seemingly bottomless well of talented distance runners in Ethiopia was given at Gateshead yesterday, when the men from the mountains swept the boards in the world cross country championships..., Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved October 21, 2013
^ Bekele's bombshell - Seeing 20-year-old Ethiopian soldier Bekele Debele win the world cross-country title by beating such stars as Alberto Salazar, and Carlos Lopes it was almost impossible to believe he took up running seriously only a year ago..., Evening Times, March 21, 1933, p. 12, retrieved October 21, 2013
^ Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.0km CC Men - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 21, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
^ ^a ^b 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 (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013

[herald_01-1] Gillon, Doug (March 21, 1933), Men from the mountains clean up - A glimpse into the seemingly bottomless well of talented distance runners in Ethiopia was given at Gateshead yesterday, when the men from the mountains swept the boards in the world cross country championships..., Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved October 21, 2013

[evening_01-2] Bekele's bombshell - Seeing 20-year-old Ethiopian soldier Bekele Debele win the world cross-country title by beating such stars as Alberto Salazar, and Carlos Lopes it was almost impossible to believe he took up running seriously only a year ago..., Evening Times, March 21, 1933, p. 12, retrieved October 21, 2013

[archive_02-3] Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.0km CC Men - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 21, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[gbr_01-4] IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013

[iaaf_01-5] 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 (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013

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