1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

The Senior men's race at the 1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at the Kincsem Park on March 26, 1994. A preview on the event was given in the Herald, and a report in The New York Times.

Senior men's race at the 1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	22nd
Date	March 26
Host city	Budapest, Hungary
Venue	Kincsem Park
Events	1
Distances	12.06 km – Senior men
Participation	281 athletes from 57 nations
← 1993 Amorebieta 1995 Durham →

Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (12.06 km)

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	William Sigei	Kenya	34:29
	Simon Chemoiywo	Kenya	34:30
	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	34:32
4	Paul Tergat	Kenya	34:36
5	Khalid Skah	Morocco	34:59
6	James Songok	Kenya	35:02
7	Addis Abebe	Ethiopia	35:11
8	Ayele Mezegebu	Ethiopia	35:14
9	Shem Kororia	Kenya	35:15
10	Mathias Ntawulikura	Rwanda	35:19
11	Salah Hissou	Morocco	35:23
12	Dominic Kirui	Kenya	35:26
13	Paulo Guerra	Portugal	35:27
14	Elarbi Khattabi	Morocco	35:34
15	Khaled Boulami	Morocco	35:39
16	Mohamed Issangar	Morocco	35:40
17	Wilson Omwoyo	Kenya	35:41
18	Mustapha Essaïd	France	35:41
19	Pere Arco	Spain	35:42
20	Vincenzo Modica	Italy	35:42
21	Martín Fiz	Spain	35:43
22	Brahim Lahlafi	Morocco	35:43
23	José Manuel García	Spain	35:44
24	Domingos Castro	Portugal	35:48
25	Yahia Azaidj	Algeria	35:56
26	Brahim Boutayeb	Morocco	35:57
27	Carlos de la Torre	Spain	35:58
28	Róbert Štefko	Slovakia	35:58
29	Julian Paynter	Australia	35:59
30	William Kiptum	Kenya	35:59
31	Hammou Boutayeb	Morocco	35:59
32	John Nuttall	United Kingdom	36:00
33	Alberto Maravilha	Portugal	36:00
34	Antonio Martins	France	36:01
35	Ibrahim Seid	Ethiopia	36:01
36	Ruddy Walem	Belgium	36:02
37	Tegenu Abebe	Ethiopia	36:05
38	Antonio Serrano	Spain	36:07
39	Thierry Pantel	France	36:08
40	Umberto Pusterla	Italy	36:09
41	Tendai Chimusasa	Zimbabwe	36:10
42	Fernando Couto	Portugal	36:11
43	Lemi Erpassa	Ethiopia	36:11
44	Owen MacHelm	South Africa	36:12
45	Brighton Chipere	Zimbabwe	36:12
46	Henrique Crisostomo	Portugal	36:13
47	Francisco Guerra	Spain	36:13
48	Joseph Kariuki	Kenya	36:14
49	Bertrand Frechard	France	36:18
50	Marcel Versteeg	Netherlands	36:20
51	Francesco Panetta	Italy	36:20
52	Stefano Baldini	Italy	36:21
53	Sergey Fedotov	Russia	36:22
54	João Junqueira	Portugal	36:23
55	Dave Clarke	United Kingdom	36:24
56	Imre Berkovics	Hungary	36:26
57	Yuriy Chizhov	Russia	36:27
58	Andrea Erni	Switzerland	36:27
59	Arnold Mächler	Switzerland	36:28
60	Tetiani Moyo	Zimbabwe	36:28
61	Oleg Strizhakov	Russia	36:28
62	Artur Castro	Brazil	36:32
63	Vanderlei de Lima	Brazil	36:32
64	Martin Jones	United Kingdom	36:33
65	Alejandro Gómez	Spain	36:33
66	Antonio Pérez	Spain	36:35
67	Aloys Nyandwi	Rwanda	36:36
68	Adalberto Garcia	Brazil	36:38
69	Mourad Bouldjadj	Algeria	36:41
70	Arthur Osman	Poland	36:42
71	José Carlos Adán	Spain	36:43
72	Dominic Bannister	United Kingdom	36:44
73	Benjamín Paredes	Mexico	36:44
74	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	36:45
75	Meshack Mogotsi	South Africa	36:46
76	Yann Millon	France	36:48
77	Musa Gwanzura	Zimbabwe	36:48
78	Markku Hildén	Finland	36:49
79	Renato Gotti	Italy	36:49
80	Azzedine Sediki	Morocco	36:50
81	Michal Kucera	Czech Republic	36:50
82	Aleksandr Mikitenko	Kazakhstan	36:50
83	Yuichi Tajiri	Japan	36:51
84	Mikhail Dasko	Russia	36:52
85	Jillo Dube	Ethiopia	36:52
86	Miroslav Vanko	Slovakia	36:53
87	Abundio Mondragon	Mexico	36:53
88	Khristo Stefanov	Bulgaria	36:53
89	Markus Graf	Switzerland	36:53
90	Wayne Larden	Australia	36:54
91	Paul Patrick	Australia	36:54
92	Seamus Power	Ireland	36:54
93	Stephen Phofi	South Africa	36:55
94	Melese Feissa	Ethiopia	36:55
95	Shadrack Hoff	South Africa	36:55
96	Eamonn Martin	United Kingdom	36:56
97	Assefa Debele	Ethiopia	36:56
98	Vladimir Afanasyev	Russia	36:56
99	Timothy Gargiulo	United States	36:57
100	Rafael Muñoz	Mexico	36:58
101	Gennadiy Panin	Russia	36:59
102	Keith Dowling	United States	36:59
103	Piotr Gładki	Poland	37:00
104	Daniel Ferreira	Brazil	37:02
105	Craig Dickson	United States	37:02
106	François Barreau	France	37:02
107	Delmir dos Santos	Brazil	37:03
108	Jeff Schiebler	Canada	37:05
109	Jan Mokhalo	South Africa	37:05
110	Hans Ulin	Belgium	37:06
111	José Santos	Portugal	37:06
112	Krzysztof Baldyga	Poland	37:06
113	Winston Muzini	Zimbabwe	37:07
114	Antonio Ibañez	Argentina	37:07
115	Ion Avramescu	Romania	37:09
116	Oscar Amaya	Argentina	37:10
117	Jim Westphal	United States	37:11
118	Farid Khayrullin	Russia	37:11
119	Jonathan Hume	United States	37:13
120	Mohamed Ezzher	France	37:14
121	Andrey Kuznetsov	Russia	37:14
122	Mark Coogan	United States	37:15
123	Tayeb Kalloud	Algeria	37:15
124	Isaac Opperman	South Africa	37:16
125	Barry Royden	United Kingdom	37:16
126	Valery Chesak	Ukraine	37:16
127	Martin Rodriguez Flores	Mexico	37:17
128	Viktor Rogovoy	Ukraine	37:19
129	Klaus-Peter Hansen	Denmark	37:20
130	Laban Nkete	South Africa	37:22
131	Leonardo Malgor	Argentina	37:23
132	Yoshikazu Aizawa	Japan	37:23
133	Darren Mead	United Kingdom	37:24
134	Kamel Zegaar	Algeria	37:26
135	Vladimir Tsyamchik	Belarus	37:27
136	Toshinori Tachizako	Japan	37:27
137	Ferenc Sági	Hungary	37:29
138	Paolo Donati	Italy	37:29
139	Luc Krotwaar	Netherlands	37:30
140	Bruno Le Stum	France	37:30
141	Simon Modise	South Africa	37:31
142	Tomix da Costa	Brazil	37:31
143	Marco Gielen	Netherlands	37:32
144	Pasi Mattila	Finland	37:32
145	Silvio Guerra	Ecuador	37:33
146	Brad Barquist	United States	37:33
147	Steve Tunstall	United Kingdom	37:33
148	Doug Cronkite	Canada	37:33
149	Hideyuki Suzuki	Japan	37:34
150	Goran Raičević	Yugoslavia	37:34
151	Masafurai Nakano	Japan	37:35
152	Rod de Highden	Australia	37:35
153	Paul McCloy	Canada	37:35
154	Marcelo Cascabelo	Argentina	37:35
155	Dmitriy Kapitonov	Russia	37:37
156	Dov Kremer	Israel	37:37
157	Belkheir Sayah	Algeria	37:38
158	Andrey Zhulin	Kazakhstan	37:39
159	Mahieddine Belhadj	Algeria	37:41
160	Marcel Laros	Netherlands	37:41
161	Eduardo do Nascimento	Brazil	37:42
162	Peter Matthews	Ireland	37:44
163	Mohamed Belabbès	Algeria	37:46
164	Santos Ortega	Mexico	37:47
165	Fritz Awoseb	Namibia	37:47
166	Jamie Lewis	Ireland	37:48
167	Daniel Castro	Argentina	37:48
168	Norihiko Oda	Japan	37:48
169	Fraser Bertram	Canada	37:49
170	Tarek Zoghmar	Algeria	37:49
171	Greg van Hest	Netherlands	37:49
172	Roberto Alonso	Mexico	37:50
173	Bruno Heuberger	Switzerland	37:51
174	Vladimir Gusev	Kazakhstan	37:51
175	John Andrews	Australia	37:52
176	Péter Jager	Hungary	37:52
177	Andrey Gladishev	Ukraine	37:52
178	Izudin Hrapic	Slovenia	37:54
179	Stane Rozman	Slovenia	37:55
180	Vladimir Kiselyov	Kyrgyzstan	37:57
181	Walter Durbano	Italy	38:02
182	Rodney Higgins	Australia	38:03
183	István Pintér	Hungary	38:04
184	Florin Ionescu	Romania	38:05
185	Bahadur Prasad	India	38:06
186	Petros Dzadagu	Zimbabwe	38:08
187	Raishimane Kikina	Botswana	38:09
188	Ray Boyd	Australia	38:10
189	Juan Juárez	Argentina	38:10
190	Oleg Saveliey	Belarus	38:11
191	Grigoriy Nikolayenya	Belarus	38:12
192	Modise Mosarwa	Botswana	38:13
193	Tibor Molnár	Hungary	38:14
194	Jan Pesava	Czech Republic	38:15
195	Ion Danou	Moldova	38:15
196	Pasi Jeremejeff	Finland	38:16
197	Marius Hasler	Switzerland	38:16
198	Yoichiro Kan	Japan	38:17
199	Kasimir Kunz	Switzerland	38:18
200	Miroslav Vindis	Slovenia	38:18
201	Mikhail Berezin	Belarus	38:18
202	Zoltán Kadlót	Hungary	38:21
203	Sugar Singh	India	38:22
204	Aleksey Tarasyuk	Belarus	38:23
205	Timo-Pekka Kalermo	Finland	38:23
206	Cheikh Boye	Senegal	38:24
207	Rens Eising	Netherlands	38:25
208	Luis Reyes	Mexico	38:26
209	John Scherer	United States	38:27
210	József Kovács	Hungary	38:27
211	Patrick Rama	South Africa	38:28
212	Santtu Mäkinen	Finland	38:29
213	Jeff Campbell	United States	38:29
214	Sasa Ljubojevic	Croatia	38:30
215	Noel Richardson	Ireland	38:31
216	Thierry Constantin	Switzerland	38:35
217	Allan Klassen	Canada	38:36
218	Gerry Healy	Ireland	38:36
219	Roman Kejzar	Slovenia	38:37
220	Jean-Francois Cünnet	Switzerland	38:39
221	Pauric McKinney	Ireland	38:41
222	Yuri Pushko	Belarus	38:43
223	Vitaly Melcayev	Ukraine	38:44
224	Philip Rist	Switzerland	38:45
225	Sergey Polikarpov	Kazakhstan	38:46
226	Madan Singh	India	38:48
227	Anatoliy Bychaev	Kazakhstan	38:52
228	Muzaffer Cintimar	Turkey	38:54
229	Tiyapo Maso	Botswana	38:58
230	Aleksandr Kuzin	Ukraine	38:59
231	Marijan Krempl	Slovenia	39:02
232	Amit Ne'eman	Israel	39:06
233	Joseph Kibur	Canada	39:07
234	Antal Szücs	Hungary	39:07
235	Sbaa Smati	Algeria	39:08
236	Mehmet Günen	Turkey	39:10
237	William Roldán	Colombia	39:11
238	Rein Valdmaa	Estonia	39:15
239	Arkadiy Nikitin	Kyrgyzstan	39:17
240	Nazirdin Akylbekov	Kyrgyzstan	39:18
241	Geza Grabar	Slovenia	39:18
242	Krishnan Shankar	India	39:19
243	Mansukh Singh	India	39:20
244	Muslim Shansharbekov	Kazakhstan	39:26
245	Patrick Ndayisenga	Burundi	39:27
246	Marly Sopyev	Turkmenistan	39:29
247	Kailash Mane	India	39:30
248	Leonid Pykhteyev	Kyrgyzstan	39:37
249	Bonnie Gare	Botswana	40:08
250	Sukru Onat	Turkey	40:09
251	Jakob Kodric	Slovenia	40:14
252	Mike Felicite	Mauritius	40:21
253	Denis O'Mahony	Ireland	40:24
254	Patrick Moonsamy	Mauritius	40:25
255	Lesedinyana Lekgoa	Botswana	40:28
256	Mohamed Al-Hada	Yemen	40:38
257	Gerben Ypelaar	Netherlands	40:51
258	Fouad Obad	Yemen	40:57
259	Janik Lambert	Canada	41:13
260	Igor Surla	Ukraine	41:30
261	Lee Kar-Lun	Hong Kong	41:56
262	Zachariah Ditetso	Botswana	42:03
263	Christopher Blackburn	Mauritius	42:27
264	Sergey Kamayev	Turkmenistan	42:35
265	Tofik Inger	Turkmenistan	43:47
266	Makudi Mubenga	Zaire	44:31
267	Gairat Nigmatov	Tajikistan	44:46
—	Abdellah Béhar	France	DNF
—	Andy Bristow	United Kingdom	DNF
—	Ezequiel Canario	Portugal	DNF
—	Shaun Creighton	Australia	DNF
—	Luis Jesús	Portugal	DNF
—	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	DNF
—	Antonio Silio	Argentina	DNF
—	Andrea Arlati	Italy	DNF
—	Jari Venäläinen	Finland	DNF
—	Khalid Al-Hajjar	Palestine	DNF
—	Nasser Al-Zahama	Palestine	DNF
—	Tamal Mahmood	Palestine	DNF
—	Mohamed Tubaila	Palestine	DNF
—	Mutaz Saidum	Palestine	DNF

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Kenya William Sigei 1 Simon Chemoiywo 2 Paul Tergat 4 James Songok 6 Shem Kororia 9 Dominic Kirui 12 (Wilson Omwoyo) (17) (William Kiptum) (30) (Joseph Kariuki) (48)	34
	Morocco Khalid Skah 5 Salah Hissou 11 Elarbi Khattabi 14 Khaled Boulami 15 Mohamed Issangar 16 Brahim Lahlafi 22 (Brahim Boutayeb) (26) (Hammou Boutayeb) (31) (Azzedine Sediki) (80)	83
	Ethiopia Haile Gebrselassie 3 Addis Abebe 7 Ayele Mezegebu 8 Ibrahim Seid 35 Tegenu Abebe 37 Lemi Erpassa 43 (Jillo Dube) (85) (Melese Feissa) (94) (Assefa Debele) (97)	133
4	Spain Pere Arco 19 Martín Fiz 21 José Manuel García 23 Carlos de la Torre 27 Antonio Serrano 38 Francisco Guerra 47 (Alejandro Gómez) (65) (Antonio Pérez) (66) (José Carlos Adán) (71)	175
5	Portugal Paulo Guerra 13 Domingos Castro 24 Alberto Maravilha 33 Fernando Couto 42 Henrique Crisostomo 46 João Junqueira 54 (José Santos) (111) (Ezequiel Canario) (DNF) (Luis Jesús) (DNF)	212
6	Italy Vincenzo Modica 20 Umberto Pusterla 40 Francesco Panetta 51 Stefano Baldini 52 Salvatore Bettiol 74 Renato Gotti 79 (Paolo Donati) (138) (Walter Durbano) (181) (Andrea Arlati) (DNF)	316
7	France Mustapha Essaïd 18 Antonio Martins 34 Thierry Pantel 39 Bertrand Frechard 49 Yann Millon 76 François Barreau 106 (Mohamed Ezzher) (120) (Bruno Le Stum) (140) (Abdellah Béhar) (DNF)	322
8	United Kingdom John Nuttall 32 Dave Clarke 55 Martin Jones 64 Dominic Bannister 72 Eamonn Martin 96 Barry Royden 125 (Darren Mead) (133) (Steve Tunstall) (147) (Andy Bristow) (DNF)	444
9	Russia Sergey Fedotov 53 Yuriy Chizhov 57 Oleg Strizhakov 61 Mikhail Dasko 84 Vladimir Afanasyev 98 Gennadiy Panin 101 (Farid Khayrullin) (118) (Andrey Kuznetsov) (121) (Dmitriy Kapitonov) (155)	454
10	Zimbabwe Tendai Chimusasa 41 Brighton Chipere 45 Tetiani Moyo 60 Musa Gwanzura 77 Winston Muzini 113 Petros Dzadagu 186	522
11	South Africa Owen MacHelm 44 Meshack Mogotsi 75 Stephen Phofi 93 Shadrack Hoff 95 Jan Mokhalo 109 Isaac Opperman 124 (Laban Nkete) (130) (Simon Modise) (141) (Patrick Rama) (211)	540
12	Brazil Artur Castro 62 Vanderlei de Lima 63 Adalberto Garcia 68 Daniel Ferreira 104 Delmir dos Santos 107 Tomix da Costa 142 (Eduardo do Nascimento) (161) (Clodoaldo do Carmo) (DNF)	546
13	United States Timothy Gargiulo 99 Keith Dowling 102 Craig Dickson 105 Jim Westphal 117 Jonathan Hume 119 Mark Coogan 122 (Brad Barquist) (146) (John Scherer) (209) (Jeff Campbell) (213)	664
14	Algeria Yahia Azaidj 25 Mourad Bouldjadj 69 Tayeb Kalloud 123 Kamel Zegaar 134 Belkheir Sayah 157 Mahieddine Belhadj 159 (Mohamed Belabbès) (163) (Tarek Zoghmar) (170) (Sbaa Smati) (235)	667
15	Australia Julian Paynter 29 Wayne Larden 90 Paul Patrick 91 Rod de Highden 152 John Andrews 175 Rodney Higgins 182 (Ray Boyd) (188) (Shaun Creighton) (DNF)	719
16	Mexico Benjamín Paredes 73 Abundio Mondragon 87 Rafael Muñoz 100 Martin Rodriguez Flores 127 Santos Ortega 164 Roberto Alonso 172 (Luis Reyes) (208)	723
17	Switzerland Andrea Erni 58 Arnold Mächler 59 Markus Graf 89 Bruno Heuberger 173 Marius Hasler 197 Kasimir Kunz 199 (Thierry Constantin) (216) (Jean-Francois Cünnet) (220) (Philip Rist) (224)	775
18	Japan Yuichi Tajiri 83 Yoshikazu Aizawa 132 Toshinori Tachizako 136 Hideyuki Suzuki 149 Masafurai Nakano 151 Norihiko Oda 168 (Yoichiro Kan) (198)	819
19	Netherlands Marcel Versteeg 50 Luc Krotwaar 139 Marco Gielen 143 Marcel Laros 160 Greg van Hest 171 Rens Eising 207 (Gerben Ypelaar) (257)	870
20	Argentina Antonio Ibañez 114 Oscar Amaya 116 Leonardo Malgor 131 Marcelo Cascabelo 154 Daniel Castro 167 Juan Juárez 189 (Antonio Silio) (DNF)	871
21	Hungary Imre Berkovics 56 Ferenc Sági 137 Péter Jager 176 István Pintér 183 Tibor Molnár 193 Zoltán Kadlót 202 (József Kovács) (210) (Antal Szücs) (234)	947
22	Canada Jeff Schiebler 108 Doug Cronkite 148 Paul McCloy 153 Fraser Bertram 169 Allan Klassen 217 Joseph Kibur 233 (Janik Lambert) (259)	1028
23	Ireland Seamus Power 92 Peter Matthews 162 Jamie Lewis 166 Noel Richardson 215 Gerry Healy 218 Pauric McKinney 221 (Denis O'Mahony) (253)	1074
24	Kazakhstan Aleksandr Mikitenko 82 Andre Zhulin 158 Vladimir Gusev 174 Sergey Polikarpov 225 Anatoliy Bychaev 227 Muslim Shansharbekov 244	1110
25	Belarus Vladimir Tsyamchik 135 Oleg Saveliey 190 Grigoriy Nikolayenya 191 Mikhail Berezin 201 Aleksey Tarasyuk 204 Yuri Pushko 222	1143
26	Ukraine Valery Chesak 126 Viktor Rogovoy 128 Andrey Gladishev 177 Vitaly Melcayev 223 Aleksandr Kuzin 230 Igor Surla 260	1144
27	Slovenia Izudin Hrapic 178 Stane Rozman 179 Miroslav Vindis 200 Roman Kejzar 219 Marijan Krempl 231 Geza Grabar 241 (Jakob Kodric) (251)	1248
28	India Bahadur Prasad 185 Sugar Singh 203 Madan Singh 226 Krishnan Shankar 242 Mansukh Singh 243 Kailash Mane 247	1346
29	Botswana Raishimane Kikina 187 Modise Mosarwa 192 Tiyapo Maso 229 Bonnie Gare 249 Lesedinyana Lekgoa 255 Zachariah Ditetso 262	1374
DNF	Finland (Markku Hildén) (78) (Pasi Mattila) (144) (Pasi Jeremejeff) (196) (Timo-Pekka Kalermo) (205) (Santtu Mäkinen) (212) (Jari Venäläinen) (DNF)	DNF

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 281 athletes from 57 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

• Algeria (9)
• Argentina (7)
• Australia (8)
• Belarus (6)
• Belgium (2)
• Botswana (6)
• Brazil (8)
• Bulgaria (1)
• Burundi (1)
• Canada (7)
• Colombia (1)
• Croatia (1)
• Czech Republic (2)
• Denmark (1)
• Ecuador (1)
• Estonia (1)
• Ethiopia (9)
• Finland (6)
• France (9)
• Hong Kong (1)
• Hungary (8)
• India (6)
• Ireland (7)
• Israel (2)
• Italy (9)
• Japan (7)
• Kazakhstan (6)
• Kenya (9)
• Kyrgyzstan (4)
• Mauritius (3)
• Mexico (7)
• Moldova (1)
• Morocco (9)
• Namibia (1)
• Netherlands (7)
• Palestine (5)
• Poland (3)
• Portugal (9)
• Romania (2)
• Russia (9)
• Rwanda (2)
• Senegal (1)
• Slovakia (2)
• Slovenia (7)
• South Africa (9)
• Spain (9)
• Switzerland (9)
• Tajikistan (1)
• Turkey (3)
• Turkmenistan (3)
• Ukraine (6)
• United Kingdom (9)
• United States (9)
• Yemen (2)
• Yugoslavia (1)
• Zaire (1)
• Zimbabwe (6)

See also

• 1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
• 1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
• 1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race