# 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race

The Men's short race at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Sporting Complex in Vilamoura, Portugal, on March 18, 2000. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, in the Glasgow Herald, and for the IAAF.
Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.

## Race results
### Men's short race (4.18 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | John Kibowen | Kenya | 11:11 |
| | Sammy Kipketer | Kenya | 11:12 |
| | Paul Kosgei | Kenya | 11:15 |
| 4 | Leonard Mucheru | Kenya | 11:21 |
| 5 | Abraham Chebii | Kenya | 11:25 |
| 6 | Haylu Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 11:27 |
| 7 | Philip Mosima | Kenya | 11:29 |
| 8 | Saïd El Wardi | Morocco | 11:33 |
| 9 | Laïd Bessou | Algeria | 11:34 |
| 10 | Sergiy Lebid | Ukraine | 11:36 |
| 11 | Abiyote Abate | Ethiopia | 11:36 |
| 12 | Martin Sulle | Tanzania | 11:37 |
| 13 | Ali Ezzine | Morocco | 11:39 |
| 14 | Dagne Alemu | Ethiopia | 11:39 |
| 15 | Million Wolde | Ethiopia | 11:42 |
| 16 | Ali Saïdi-Sief | Algeria | 11:44 |
| 17 | Michael Ngaaseke | Zimbabwe | 11:46 |
| 18 | Aziz Driouche | Morocco | 11:47 |
| 19 | Faustin Baha | Tanzania | 11:49 |
| 20 | Whaddon Nieuwoudt | South Africa | 11:50 |
| 21 | Gennaro Di Napoli | Italy | 11:50 |
| 22 | José Ramos | Portugal | 11:51 |
| 23 | Luís Feiteira | Portugal | 11:51 |
| 24 | Rui Silva | Portugal | 11:51 |
| 25 | Kevin Sullivan | Canada | 11:51 |
| 26 | Miloud Abaoub | Algeria | 11:52 |
| 27 | Damian Kallabis | Germany | 11:52 |
| 28 | Manuel Pancorbo | Spain | 11:52 |
| 29 | Youssef Baba | Morocco | 11:53 |
| 30 | Sebastian Hallmann | Germany | 11:55 |
| 31 | Manuel Damião | Portugal | 11:55 |
| 32 | Daniel Zegeye | Ethiopia | 11:55 |
| 33 | Víctor Morente | Spain | 11:56 |
| 34 | Jesús de la Fuente | Spain | 11:56 |
| 35 | Yousef El Nasri | Spain | 11:56 |
| 36 | Lotfi Turki | Tunisia | 11:57 |
| 37 | Kamel Boulahfane | Algeria | 11:57 |
| 38 | David Heath | United Kingdom | 11:57 |
| 39 | Davide Maffei | Italy | 11:58 |
| 40 | Salah El Ghazi | Morocco | 11:58 |
| 41 | Gert-Jan Liefers | Netherlands | 11:59 |
| 42 | Mourad Benslimani | Algeria | 11:59 |
| 43 | Mohamed Awol | Ethiopia | 11:59 |
| 44 | Miroslav Vanko | Slovakia | 12:00 |
| 45 | Jason Stewart | United States | 12:00 |
| 46 | Hélder Ornelas | Portugal | 12:01 |
| 47 | Glody Dube | Botswana | 12:01 |
| 48 | Julius Gidabuday | Tanzania | 12:01 |
| 49 | Salvador Miranda | Mexico | 12:02 |
| 50 | Scott Strand | United States | 12:02 |
| 51 | Jirka Arndt | Germany | 12:02 |
| 52 | Joseph Nsengiyumya | Rwanda | 12:03 |
| 53 | Freddy González | Venezuela | 12:03 |
| 54 | Sean Kaley | Canada | 12:04 |
| 55 | Edgar de Oliveira | Brazil | 12:05 |
| 56 | Massimo Pegoretti | Italy | 12:05 |
| 57 | Hussein Abdallah | Tanzania | 12:05 |
| 58 | Stéphane Franke | Germany | 12:06 |
| 59 | Mustafa El Ahmadi | France | 12:06 |
| 60 | Mauricio Ladino | Colombia | 12:06 |
| 61 | Mikhail Minyukhin | Russia | 12:06 |
| 62 | Roland Weissteiner | Italy | 12:07 |
| 63 | Gianni Crepaldi | Italy | 12:07 |
| 64 | Rob Whalley | United Kingdom | 12:08 |
| 65 | Phil Mowbray | United Kingdom | 12:08 |
| 66 | Sergey Fedotov | Russia | 12:08 |
| 67 | Toshihiro Iwasa | Japan | 12:08 |
| 68 | Sergey Lukin | Russia | 12:09 |
| 69 | Michael Power | Australia | 12:09 |
| 70 | Rafał Wójcik | Poland | 12:09 |
| 71 | Phillip Clode | New Zealand | 12:10 |
| 72 | Joël Bourgeois | Canada | 12:12 |
| 73 | Pacifique Ayabusa | Rwanda | 12:13 |
| 74 | Mohamed Abdelli | Algeria | 12:14 |
| 75 | Mohamed Ezzher | France | 12:14 |
| 76 | Alberto Chaíça | Portugal | 12:15 |
| 77 | Driss Maazouzi | France | 12:16 |
| 78 | Andy Graffin | United Kingdom | 12:17 |
| 79 | Andy Downin | United States | 12:18 |
| 80 | Igor Murga | Spain | 12:18 |
| 81 | Ayele Setegne | Israel | 12:18 |
| 82 | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 12:19 |
| 83 | Ahmed Abd El Mangoud | Egypt | 12:19 |
| 84 | Cédric Andres | France | 12:20 |
| 85 | Sergey Yemelyanov | Russia | 12:20 |
| 86 | Jeff Simonich | United States | 12:23 |
| 87 | Néstor Nieves | Venezuela | 12:25 |
| 88 | Chad Pons | United States | 12:26 |
| 89 | Spencer Barden | United Kingdom | 12:27 |
| 90 | Emigadio Delgado | Venezuela | 12:28 |
| 91 | Éric Dubus | France | 12:28 |
| 92 | Ramiro Nogueiro | Brazil | 12:29 |
| 93 | Samir Benfarès | France | 12:31 |
| 94 | Frank Bruder | Germany | 12:31 |
| 95 | Simon Labiche | Seychelles | 12:32 |
| 96 | Víctor Martínez | Andorra | 12:34 |
| 97 | Matt Smith | United Kingdom | 12:34 |
| 98 | Jeremy Deere | Canada | 12:35 |
| 99 | Darin Shearer | United States | 12:37 |
| 100 | Froilan Bonilla | Venezuela | 12:39 |
| 101 | Hans Janssens | Belgium | 12:39 |
| 102 | Viktor Lomonosov | Belarus | 12:39 |
| 103 | Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed | Egypt | 12:39 |
| 104 | Celso Ficagna | Brazil | 12:41 |
| 105 | Lervis Arias | Venezuela | 12:41 |
| 106 | Farag Abdelnaby | Egypt | 12:42 |
| 107 | Richard Tremain | Canada | 12:43 |
| 108 | Abdelhak El Gorch | Morocco | 12:46 |
| 109 | Musa Ninga | Tanzania | 12:47 |
| 110 | Raghavan Suresh | India | 12:48 |
| 111 | Bashimi Maholeste | Botswana | 12:48 |
| 112 | Modisaotsile Olerile | Botswana | 12:49 |
| 113 | Wael Anwar | Egypt | 12:50 |
| 114 | Redmal Singh | India | 12:51 |
| 115 | Ndabili Bashingili | Botswana | 12:52 |
| 116 | Kaelo Mosalagae | Botswana | 12:53 |
| 117 | Simon Maunder | New Zealand | 12:55 |
| 118 | Hidajet Bulic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 12:56 |
| 119 | Daniel das Neves | Brazil | 12:58 |
| 120 | Amrish Kumar | India | 12:59 |
| 121 | Yusuf Zepak | Turkey | 13:01 |
| 122 | Aleksandr Lukoshenko | Belarus | 13:02 |
| 123 | Hussein Awada | Lebanon | 13:02 |
| 124 | Hannes Mälter | Estonia | 13:03 |
| 125 | Ruslan Sadovskiy | Belarus | 13:04 |
| 126 | Sergey Zabavskiy | Tajikistan | 13:05 |
| 127 | Zigmund Zilbershtein | Georgia | 13:05 |
| 128 | Sanjay Gond | India | 13:07 |
| 129 | Heiki Sarapuu | Estonia | 13:08 |
| 130 | Abdel Salam Al-Dabajy | Palestine | 13:09 |
| 131 | Matt Kerr | Canada | 13:11 |
| 132 | Fouly Salem | Egypt | 13:12 |
| 133 | Ali Awad | Lebanon | 13:17 |
| 134 | Djamched Rasulov | Tajikistan | 13:24 |
| 135 | Charygeldiy Allaberdiyev | Turkmenistan | 13:25 |
| 136 | Mark Olivo | Venezuela | 13:26 |
| 137 | Sergey Anokhin | Azerbaijan | 13:27 |
| 138 | Carlos Almeida | Cape Verde | 13:29 |
| 139 | Siarhei Yudenkov | Belarus | 13:34 |
| 140 | Richard Muscat | Gibraltar | 13:36 |
| 141 | Vasiliy Andreyev | Uzbekistan | 13:39 |
| 142 | Mehdi Chebli | Lebanon | 13:41 |
| 143 | Maximillian Iranqhe | Tanzania | 13:53 |
| 144 | Nazar Begliyev | Turkmenistan | 13:53 |
| 145 | Liam Byrne | Gibraltar | 13:54 |
| 146 | Sokhibdjan Sharipov | Tajikistan | 13:57 |
| 147 | Vadim Bondarchuk | Uzbekistan | 13:59 |
| 148 | Michael Breed | Gibraltar | 14:06 |
| 149 | Christopher Walker | Gibraltar | 14:15 |
| 150 | Nozimjon Irmatov | Tajikistan | 14:25 |
| 151 | Mohamed Al-Bayed | Palestine | 14:26 |
| 152 | Omar Abdel Latif | Lebanon | 14:39 |
| 153 | Mikhail Gadelshin | Uzbekistan | 14:40 |
| 154 | Chokirjon Irmatov | Tajikistan | 14:44 |
| 155 | Sigurd Haveland | Gibraltar | 14:53 |
| 156 | Aleksandr Levdanskiy | Kyrgyzstan | 15:27 |
| 157 | James Parody | Gibraltar | 15:30 |
| 158 | Manukau Teuribaki | Kiribati | 15:38 |
| 159 | Gairat Nigmatov | Tajikistan | 15:57 |
| 160 | Yevgeniy Nujdin | Uzbekistan | 16:04 |
| 161 | Baimurad Achirmuradov | Turkmenistan | 16:21 |
| 162 | Kaong Bwebwereiti | Kiribati | 17:32 |
| 163 | Tekooki Teieka | Kiribati | 17:33 |
| 164 | Simon Burennatu | Kiribati | 17:41 |
| — | Luciano Di Pardo | Italy | DNF |
| — | Selvin Gonzalo Molineros Ardon | Guatemala | DNS |
| — | José Amado García | Guatemala | DNS |
| — | José Luis Ebatela Nvó | Equatorial Guinea | DNS |
| — | Sheldon Monderoy | Trinidad and Tobago | DNS |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya John Kibowen1 Sammy Kipketer2 Paul Kosgei3 Leonard Mucheru4 (Abraham Chebii)(5) (Philip Mosima)(7) | 10 |
| | Ethiopia Haylu Mekonnen6 Abiyote Abate11 Dagne Alemu14 Million Wolde15 (Daniel Zegeye)(32) (Mohamed Awol)(43) | 46 |
| | Morocco Saïd El Wardi8 Ali Ezzine13 Aziz Driouche18 Youssef Baba29 (Salah El Ghazi)(40) (Abdelhak El Gorch)(108) | 68 |
| 4 | Algeria Laïd Bessou9 Ali Saïdi-Sief16 Miloud Abaoub26 Kamel Boulahfane37 (Mourad Benslimani)(42) (Mohamed Abdelli)(74) | 88 |
| 5 | Portugal José Ramos22 Luís Feiteira23 Rui Silva24 Manuel Damião31 (Hélder Ornelas)(46) (Alberto Chaíça)(76) | 100 |
| 6 | Spain Manuel Pancorbo28 Víctor Morente33 Jesús de la Fuente34 Yousef El Nasri35 (Igor Murga)(80) (Eliseo Martín)(82) | 130 |
| 7 | Tanzania Martin Sulle12 Faustin Baha19 Julius Gidabuday48 Hussein Abdallah57 (Musa Ninga)(109) (Maximillian Iranqhe)(143) | 136 |
| 8 | Germany Damian Kallabis27 Sebastian Hallmann30 Jirka Arndt51 Stéphane Franke58 (Frank Bruder)(94) | 166 |
| 9 | Italy Gennaro Di Napoli21 Davide Maffei39 Massimo Pegoretti56 Roland Weissteiner62 (Gianni Crepaldi)(63) (Luciano Di Pardo)(DNF) | 178 |
| 10 | United Kingdom David Heath38 Rob Whalley64 Phil Mowbray65 Andy Graffin78 (Spencer Barden)(89) (Matt Smith)(97) | 245 |
| 11 | Canada Kevin Sullivan25 Sean Kaley54 Joël Bourgeois72 Jeremy Deere98 (Richard Tremain)(107) (Matt Kerr)(131) | 249 |
| 12 | United States Jason Stewart45 Scott Strand50 Andy Downin79 Jeff Simonich86 (Chad Pons)(88) (Darin Shearer)(99) | 260 |
| 13 | Russia Mikhail Minyukhin61 Sergey Fedotov66 Sergey Lukin68 Sergey Yemelyanov85 | 280 |
| 14 | France Mustafa El Ahmadi59 Mohamed Ezzher75 Driss Maazouzi77 Cédric Andres84 (Éric Dubus)(91) (Samir Benfarès)(93) | 295 |
| 15 | Venezuela Freddy González53 Néstor Nieves87 Emigadio Delgado90 Froilan Bonilla100 (Lervis Arias)(105) (Mark Olivo)(136) | 330 |
| 16 | Brazil Edgar de Oliveira55 Ramiro Nogueiro92 Celso Ficagna104 Daniel das Neves119 | 370 |
| 17 | Botswana Glody Dube47 Bashimi Maholeste111 Modisaotsile Olerile112 Ndabili Bashingili115 (Kaelo Mosalagae)(116) | 385 |
| 18 | Egypt Ahmed Abd El Mangoud83 Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed103 Farag Abdelnaby106 Wael Anwar113 (Fouly Salem)(132) | 405 |
| 19 | India Raghavan Suresh110 Redmal Singh114 Amrish Kumar120 Sanjay Gond128 | 472 |
| 20 | Belarus Viktor Lomonosov102 Aleksandr Lukoshenko122 Ruslan Sadovskiy125 Siarhei Yudenkov139 | 488 |
| 21 | Lebanon Hussein Awada123 Ali Awad133 Mehdi Chebli142 Omar Abdel Latif152 | 550 |
| 22 | Tajikistan Sergey Zabavskiy126 Djamched Rasulov134 Sokhibdjan Sharipov146 Nozimjon Irmatov150 (Chokirjon Irmatov)(154) (Gairat Nigmatov)(159) | 556 |
| 23 | Gibraltar Richard Muscat140 Liam Byrne145 Michael Breed148 Christopher Walker149 (Sigurd Haveland)(155) (James Parody)(157) | 582 |
| 24 | Uzbekistan Vasiliy Andreyev141 Vadim Bondarchuk147 Mikhail Gadelshin153 Yevgeniy Nujdin160 | 601 |
| 25 | Kiribati Manukau Teuribaki158 Kaong Bwebwereiti162 Tekooki Teieka163 Simon Burennatu164 | 647 |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 165 athletes from 51 countries in the Men's short race. The announced athletes from Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, and Trinidad and Tobago did not show.
* Algeria (6)
* Andorra (1)
* Australia (1)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (1)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
* Botswana (5)
* Brazil (4)
* Canada (6)
* Cape Verde (1)
* Colombia (1)
* Egypt (5)
* Estonia (2)
* Ethiopia (6)
* France (6)
* Georgia (1)
* Germany (5)
* Gibraltar (6)
* India (4)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (1)
* Kenya (6)
* Kiribati (4)
* Kyrgyzstan (1)
* Lebanon (4)
* Mexico (1)
* Morocco (6)
* Netherlands (1)
* New Zealand (2)
* Palestine (2)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (6)
* Russia (4)
* Rwanda (2)
* Seychelles (1)
* Slovakia (1)
* South Africa (1)
* Spain (6)
* Tajikistan (6)
* Tanzania (6)
* Tunisia (1)
* Turkey (1)
* Turkmenistan (3)
* Ukraine (1)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (4)
* Venezuela (6)
* Zimbabwe (1)