1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Senior men's race at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
OrganisersIAAF
Edition9th
DateMarch 28
Host cityMadrid, Spain
VenueHipódromo de la Zarzuela
Events1
Distances12 km – Senior men
Participation238 athletes from
36 nations

The Senior men's race at the 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Madrid, Spain, at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela on March 28, 1981. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.[1]

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

Race results

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Senior men's race (12 km)

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Individual

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Rank Athlete Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Craig Virgin  United States 35:05
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mohammed Kedir  Ethiopia 35:07
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Fernando Mamede  Portugal 35:09
4 Julian Goater  England 35:13
5 Antonio Prieto  Spain 35:18
6 Rob de Castella  Australia 35:20
7 Girma Berhanu  Ethiopia 35:22
8 Thom Hunt  United States 35:23
9 Alex Hagelsteens  Belgium 35:24
10 Pierre Levisse  France 35:26
11 Rod Dixon  New Zealand 35:30
12 El Hachami Abdenouz  Algeria 35:34
13 Dereje Nedi  Ethiopia 35:39
14 Kebede Balcha  Ethiopia 35:40
15 Miruts Yifter  Ethiopia 35:42
16 Martti Vainio  Finland 35:42
17 Mark Nenow  United States 35:42
18 Bill Donakowski  United States 35:42
19 Bruce Bickford  United States 35:42
20 Roger de Vogel  Belgium 35:46
21 Lahcene Babaci  Algeria 35:47
22 Jackson Ruto  Kenya 35:49
23 Steve Austin  Australia 35:50
24 Peter Koech  Kenya 35:50
25 Alfred Nyasani  Kenya 35:50
26 Nat Muir  Scotland 35:50
27 José Luis González  Spain 35:50
28 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann  West Germany 35:50
29 Fernando Cerrada  Spain 35:55
30 Eshetu Tura  Ethiopia 35:59
31 Steve Jones  Wales 35:59
32 Hana Girma  Ethiopia 35:59
33 Steve Binns  England 35:59
34 John Andrews  Australia 35:59
35 Marios Kassianidis  Greece 35:59
36 Sammy Mogene  Kenya 35:59
37 Rachid Habchaoui  Algeria 35:59
38 Dave Clarke  England 35:59
39 Leonid Moseyev  Soviet Union 36:05
40 Bill Britton  Canada 36:05
41 Paul Ballinger  New Zealand 36:05
42 Luis Adsuara  Spain 36:05
43 Marc Nevens  Belgium 36:05
44 Eberhard Weyel  West Germany 36:05
45 Abdelmadjid Mada  Algeria 36:05
46 Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer  Czechoslovakia 36:05
47 Peter Butler  Canada 36:05
48 Allister Hutton  Scotland 36:05
49 Brian Lewry  Australia 36:12
50 Radhouane Bouster  France 36:12
51 George Malley  United States 36:12
52 Valeriy Sapon  Soviet Union 36:12
53 Miroslav Bauckmann  Czechoslovakia 36:20
54 John Robson  Scotland 36:20
55 Mohamed Zaidi  Tunisia 36:20
56 Wilson Musonik  Kenya 36:20
57 Some Muge  Kenya 36:20
58 Euan Robertson  New Zealand 36:20
59 David James  Wales 36:20
60 Dave Taylor  Ireland 36:20
61 Patrick Clabaut  France 36:20
62 Maxwell Little  Australia 36:20
63 Daniel Dillon  United States 36:20
64 Eric de Beck  Belgium 36:20
65 Klaas Lok  Netherlands 36:30
66 José Sena  Portugal 36:30
67 Detlef Uhlemann  West Germany 36:30
68 Joseph Kiptum  Kenya 36:30
69 Venanzio Ortis  Italy 36:30
70 Ken Newton  England 36:30
71 Yevgeniy Okorokov  Soviet Union 36:30
72 Cor Lambregts  Netherlands 36:30
73 Greg Duhaime  Canada 36:30
74 Angel Gómez Maeso  Spain 36:30
75 Tolossa Kotu  Ethiopia 36:30
76 Bernie Ford  England 36:30
77 Jorge García  Spain 36:30
78 Vadim Sidorov  Soviet Union 36:30
79 Vern Iwancin  Canada 36:30
80 Mike McGuire  United States 36:30
81 Chris Wardlaw  Australia 36:30
82 Gerry Deegan  Ireland 36:30
83 Daniel Janczuk  Poland 36:38
84 Alex Gonzalez  France 36:38
85 François Person  France 36:38
86 Rafael Marques  Portugal 36:38
87 Nicolas Halatzis  Greece 36:38
88 Vladimir Anisimov  Soviet Union 36:38
89 Kyriakos Lazaridis  Greece 36:44
90 Ralf Salzmann  West Germany 36:44
91 Dave Moorcroft  England 36:44
92 Santiago de la Parte  Spain 36:44
93 Jan van Oss  Netherlands 36:44
94 Alberto Cova  Italy 36:44
95 Aniceto Simoes  Portugal 36:44
96 Ryszard Kopijasz  Poland 36:44
97 Vesa Kähkölä  Finland 36:44
98 Bogumil Kus  Poland 36:50
99 Giuseppe Gerbi  Italy 36:50
100 Garry Bentley  Australia 36:50
101 John Woods  Ireland 36:50
102 Tommy Persson  Sweden 36:50
103 Mark Muggleton  United States 36:50
104 Desmond O'Connor  Ireland 36:50
105 Mehdi Aidet  Algeria 36:59
106 Ronny Agten  Belgium 36:59
107 Krzysztof Wesolowski  Poland 36:59
108 Christoph Herle  West Germany 36:59
109 Luigi Zarcone  Italy 36:59
110 Hannu Okkola  Finland 36:59
111 Bernardo Manuel  Angola 36:59
112 Dominique Chauvelier  France 36:59
113 Fotios Kourtis  Greece 36:59
114 Boguslaw Psujek  Poland 36:59
115 Adelaziz Bouguerra  Tunisia 36:59
116 Tom Birnie  New Zealand 36:59
117 Tonni Luttikhold  Netherlands 36:59
118 Neil Cusack  Ireland 36:59
119 Arturo Iacona  Italy 36:59
120 John Doherty  Northern Ireland 36:59
121 John Robertshaw  Wales 36:59
122 Ian Gilmour  Scotland 37:05
123 Valeriy Abramov  Soviet Union 37:17
124 Francisco Sánchez  Spain 37:17
125 Gary Palmer  New Zealand 37:17
126 Roger Hackney  Wales 37:17
127 Filippos Filippou  Greece 37:17
128 Helder de Jesús  Portugal 37:17
129 Mihaíl Koúsis  Greece 37:17
130 Kaibou El Hadj  Algeria 37:17
131 Chris Buckley  Wales 37:17
132 Kevin Forster  England 37:17
133 Claudio Solone  Italy 37:17
134 Lawrie Spence  Scotland 37:17
135 Emiel Puttemans  Belgium 37:17
136 Barry Ellis  New Zealand 37:17
137 Bram Wassenaar  Netherlands 37:17
138 Günther Zahn  West Germany 37:17
139 Jef Gees  Belgium 37:17
140 Art Boileau  Canada 37:17
141 Piet Vonck  Netherlands 37:17
142 Alain Bordeleau  Canada 37:34
143 Justin Gloden  Luxembourg 37:34
144 Yehuda Zadok  Israel 37:34
145 Rabah Zaidi  Tunisia 37:34
146 Jacques Boxberger  France 37:34
147 Adriano Musonye  Kenya 37:34
148 Willy van Huylenbroeck  Belgium 37:34
149 Henrik Sandström  Finland 37:34
150 Mario Gelli  Italy 37:34
151 Alan Thurlow  New Zealand 37:34
152 Peter Daenens  Belgium 37:34
153 Spiridon Nakos  Greece 37:34
154 Abdelkrim Djelassi  Tunisia 37:34
155 Mahmoud Hazzazi  Algeria 37:34
156 Niels Kim Hjorth  Denmark 37:34
157 Faisal Touzri  Tunisia 37:34
158 Rob Lonergan  Canada 37:34
159 Andreas Weniger  West Germany 37:50
160 Antonio Leitão  Portugal 37:50
161 Denis Stark  Canada 37:50
162 Ali Ouchene  Algeria 37:50
163 Alan Cole  Wales 37:50
164 Hussein Soltani  Tunisia 37:50
165 Bob Treadwell  England 37:50
166 Gerry Craig  Northern Ireland 37:50
167 Juan Torres  Spain 37:50
168 John Hartnett  Ireland 37:50
169 Greg Hannon  Northern Ireland 37:50
170 Ilpo Jousimaa  Finland 37:50
171 Robert Neylon  Australia 37:50
172 Tony Simmons  Wales 37:50
173 John McLaughlin  Northern Ireland 37:50
174 Tony Blakewell  Wales 37:50
175 Mehmet Yürdadön  Turkey 37:50
176 Flemming Jensen  Denmark 37:50
177 Thierry Watrice  France 38:04
178 Vladimir Kotov  Soviet Union 38:04
179 John O'Toole  Ireland 38:04
180 Donald Greig  New Zealand 38:04
181 Peter Rusman  Netherlands 38:04
182 Dave Edge  Canada 38:04
183 Svend-Erik Kristensen  Denmark 38:15
184 Abdellah Messadia  Algeria 38:15
185 Keld Johnsen  Denmark 38:23
186 Michael Lane  Wales 38:23
187 Timothy O'Shaughnessy  Australia 38:29
188 Danny McDaid  Ireland 38:37
189 Féthi Baccouche  Tunisia 38:37
190 Nikólaos Argyuropoulos  Greece 38:37
191 Erkki Hälikkä  Finland 38:37
192 Alastair Douglas  Scotland 38:37
193 Gerhard Krippner  West Germany 38:40
194 Klaus Scharnberg Jensen  Denmark 38:40
195 Henk Mentink  Netherlands 38:51
196 Mansour Guettaya  Tunisia 38:51
197 Kimmo Mattila  Finland 39:05
198 Gerhard Hartmann  Austria 39:15
199 Gerard Kiernan  Ireland 39:18
200 John Rotich  Kenya 39:18
201 Pat McCullough  Northern Ireland 39:20
202 Pawel Lorens  Poland 39:23
203 Piero Selvaggio  Italy 39:30
204 Amara Chiha  Tunisia 39:33
205 Paul Craig  Northern Ireland 39:45
206 Morten Nøddebo  Denmark 39:45
207 Valeriy Kryulin  Soviet Union 39:54
208 Mike McLeod  England 40:24
209 Antonio Atabao  Portugal 40:32
210 Nabil Choueiry  Lebanon 40:47
211 Heino Lipsanen  Finland 41:10
212 João Carvalho  Angola 41:25
213 Musaed Al-Baghi  Saudi Arabia 41:34
214 Luis Muholo  Angola 41:45
215 Pedro Luciano  Angola 41:51
216 Ernesto José  Angola 42:01
217 Nader Al-Outaibi  Saudi Arabia 42:05
218 Pedro Capoca  Angola 42:05
219 Atieah Al-Shahrani  Saudi Arabia 42:27
220 Juvenal Minguito  Angola 42:27
221 Abdenghani Abdulridola  Saudi Arabia 42:33
222 Hamdan Al-Qahtani  Saudi Arabia 42:40
223 Abdulatif Moharit  Saudi Arabia 42:51
224 Sekou Camara  Guinea 42:53
225 Manuel Pascoal  Angola 43:15
226 Shetoui Aouadh Al-Bishi  Saudi Arabia 43:16
227 Ahmed Al-Thubiani  Saudi Arabia 43:39
228 Mamadou Barry  Guinea 44:58
 — Arye Gamliel  Israel DNF
— Francis Gonzalez  France DNF
— Carlos Lopes  Portugal DNF
— Kaarlo Maaninka  Finland DNF
— Bronisław Malinowski  Poland DNF
— Peter Renner  New Zealand DNF
— Graham Williamson  Scotland DNF
— Jim Brown  Scotland DNF
— Fernando Miguel  Portugal DNF
— Fraser Clyne  Scotland DNF

Teams

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Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Ethiopia
Mohammed Kedir 2
Girma Berhanu 7
Dereje Nedi 13
Kebede Balcha 14
Miruts Yifter 15
Eshetu Tura 30
(Hana Girma) (32)
(Tolossa Kotu) (75)
81
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States
Craig Virgin 1
Thom Hunt 8
Mark Nenow 17
Bill Donakowski 18
Bruce Bickford 19
George Malley 51
(Daniel Dillon) (63)
(Mike McGuire) (80)
(Mark Muggleton) (103)
114
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Kenya
Jackson Ruto 22
Peter Koech 24
Alfred Nyasani 25
Sammy Mogene 36
Wilson Musonik 56
Some Muge 57
(Joseph Kiptum) (68)
(Adriano Musonye) (147)
(John Rotich) (200)
220
4  Spain
Antonio Prieto 5
José Luis González 27
Fernando Cerrada 29
Luis Adsuara 42
Angel Gómez Maeso 74
Jorge García 77
(Santiago de la Parte) (92)
(Francisco Sánchez) (124)
(Juan Torres) (167)
254
5  Australia
Rob de Castella 6
Steve Austin 23
John Andrews 34
Brian Lewry 49
Maxwell Little 62
Chris Wardlaw 81
(Garry Bentley) (100)
(Robert Neylon) (171)
(Timothy O'Shaughnessy) (187)
255
6  England
Julian Goater 4
Steve Binns 33
Dave Clarke 38
Ken Newton 70
Bernie Ford 76
Dave Moorcroft 91
(Kevin Forster) (132)
(Bob Treadwell) (165)
(Mike McLeod) (208)
312
7  Algeria
El Hachami Abdenouz 12
Lahcene Babaci 21
Rachid Habchaoui 37
Abdelmadjid Mada 45
Mehdi Aidet 105
Kaibou El Hadj 130
(Mahmoud Hazzazi) (155)
(Ali Ouchene) (162)
(Abdellah Messadia) (184)
350
8  Belgium
Alex Hagelsteens 9
Roger de Vogel 20
Marc Nevens 43
Eric de Beck 64
Ronny Agten 106
Emiel Puttemans 135
(Jef Gees) (139)
(Willy van Huylenbroeck) (148)
(Peter Daenens) (152)
377
9  France
Pierre Levisse 10
Radhouane Bouster 50
Patrick Clabaut 61
Alex Gonzalez 84
François Person 85
Dominique Chauvelier 112
(Jacques Boxberger) (146)
(Thierry Watrice) (177)
(Francis Gonzalez) (DNF)
402
10  Soviet Union
Leonid Moseyev 39
Valeriy Sapon 52
Yevgeniy Okorokov 71
Vadim Sidorov 78
Vladimir Anisimov 88
Valeriy Abramov 123
(Vladimir Kotov) (178)
(Valeriy Kryulin) (207)
451
11  West Germany
Hans-Jürgen Orthmann 28
Eberhard Weyel 44
Detlef Uhlemann 67
Ralf Salzmann 90
Christoph Herle 108
Günther Zahn 138
(Andreas Weniger) (159)
(Gerhard Krippner) (193)
475
12  New Zealand
Rod Dixon 11
Paul Ballinger 41
Euan Robertson 58
Tom Birnie 116
Gary Palmer 125
Barry Ellis 136
(Alan Thurlow) (151)
(Donald Greig) (180)
(Peter Renner) (DNF)
487
13  Canada
Bill Britton 40
Peter Butler 47
Greg Duhaime 73
Vern Iwancin 79
Art Boileau 140
Alain Bordeleau 142
(Rob Lonergan) (158)
(Denis Stark) (161)
(Dave Edge) (182)
521
14  Portugal
Fernando Mamede 3
José Sena 66
Rafael Marques 86
Aniceto Simoes 95
Helder de Jesús 128
Antonio Leitão 160
(Antonio Atabao) (209)
(Carlos Lopes) (DNF)
(Fernando Miguel) (DNF)
538
15  Scotland
Nat Muir 26
Allister Hutton 48
John Robson 54
Ian Gilmour 122
Lawrie Spence 134
Alastair Douglas 192
(Graham Williamson) (DNF)
(Jim Brown) (DNF)
(Fraser Clyne) (DNF)
576
16  Greece
Marios Kassianidis 35
Nicolas Halatzis 87
Kyriakos Lazaridis 89
Fotios Kourtis 113
Filippos Filippou 127
Mihaíl Koúsis 129
(Spiridon Nakos) (153)
(Nikólaos Argyuropoulos) (190)
580
17  Italy
Venanzio Ortis 69
Alberto Cova 94
Giuseppe Gerbi 99
Luigi Zarcone 109
Arturo Iacona 119
Claudio Solone 133
(Mario Gelli) (150)
(Piero Selvaggio) (203)
623
18  Netherlands
Klaas Lok 65
Cor Lambregts 72
Jan van Oss 93
Tonni Luttikhold 117
Bram Wassenaar 137
Piet Vonck 141
(Peter Rusman) (181)
(Henk Mentink) (195)
625
19  Wales
Steve Jones 31
David James 59
John Robertshaw 121
Roger Hackney 126
Chris Buckley 131
Alan Cole 163
(Tony Simmons) (172)
(Tony Blakewell) (174)
(Michael Lane) (186)
631
20  Ireland
Dave Taylor 60
Gerry Deegan 82
John Woods 101
Desmond O'Connor 104
Neil Cusack 118
John Hartnett 168
(John O'Toole) (179)
(Danny McDaid) (188)
(Gerard Kiernan) (199)
633
21  Poland
Daniel Janczuk 83
Ryszard Kopijasz 96
Bogumil Kus 98
Krzysztof Wesolowski 107
Boguslaw Psujek 114
Pawel Lorens 202
(Bronisław Malinowski) (DNF)
700
22  Finland
Martti Vainio 16
Vesa Kähkölä 97
Hannu Okkola 110
Henrik Sandström 149
Ilpo Jousimaa 170
Erkki Hälikkä 191
(Kimmo Mattila) (197)
(Heino Lipsanen) (211)
(Kaarlo Maaninka) (DNF)
733
23  Tunisia
Mohamed Zaidi 55
Adelaziz Bouguerra 115
Rabah Zaidi 145
Abdelkrim Djelassi 154
Faisal Touzri 157
Hussein Soltani 164
(Féthi Baccouche) (189)
(Mansour Guettaya) (196)
(Amara Chiha) (204)
790
24  Northern Ireland
John Doherty 120
Gerry Craig 166
Greg Hannon 169
John McLaughlin 173
Pat McCullough 201
Paul Craig 205
1034
25  Denmark
Niels Kim Hjorth 156
Flemming Jensen 176
Svend-Erik Kristensen 183
Keld Johnsen 185
Klaus Scharnberg Jensen 194
Morten Nøddebo 206
1100
26  Angola
Bernardo Manuel 111
João Carvalho 212
Luis Muholo 214
Pedro Luciano 215
Ernesto José 216
Pedro Capoca 218
(Juvenal Minguito) (220)
(Manuel Pascoal) (225)
1186
27  Saudi Arabia
Musaed Al-Baghi 213
Nader Al-Outaibi 217
Atieah Al-Shahrani 219
Abdenghani Abdulridola 221
Hamdan Al-Qahtani 222
Abdulatif Moharit 223
(Shetoui Aouadh Al-Bishi) (226)
(Ahmed Al-Thubiani) (227)
1315
  • Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation

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An unofficial count yields the participation of 238 athletes from 35 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Gillon, Doug (March 19, 1973), "Muir dream is shattered in Madrid – Nat Muir, who went to Madrid with dreams of becoming world cross-county champion, spent yesterday with his coach trying to work out why it became a nichtmare...", Glasgow Herald, p. 20, retrieved October 18, 2013
  2. ^ Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships – 12.0km CC Men – Madrid Hippodromo de la Zarzuela Date: Saturday, March 28, 1981, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 18, 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS", Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
  4. ^ 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
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