# 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race

The Men's short race at the 2001 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Hippodrome Wellington in Ostend (Oostende), Belgium, on March 24, 2001. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, in the 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 (4.1 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Enock Koech | Kenya | 12:40 |
| | Kenenisa Bekele | Ethiopia | 12:42 |
| | Benjamin Limo | Kenya | 12:43 |
| 4 | Sammy Kipketer | Kenya | 12:44 |
| 5 | Cyrus Kataron | Kenya | 12:45 |
| 6 | Albert Chepkurui | Kenya | 12:46 |
| 7 | John Kibowen | Kenya | 12:49 |
| 8 | Craig Mottram | Australia | 12:49 |
| 9 | Brahim Boulami | Morocco | 13:00 |
| 10 | Haylu Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 13:03 |
| 11 | Adil Kaouch | Morocco | 13:06 |
| 12 | Saïd El Wardi | Morocco | 13:08 |
| 13 | Dagne Alemu | Ethiopia | 13:08 |
| 14 | John Yuda | Tanzania | 13:09 |
| 15 | Brad Hauser | United States | 13:09 |
| 16 | Mohamed Amyn | Morocco | 13:09 |
| 17 | Alejandro Suárez | Mexico | 13:10 |
| 18 | Tim Broe | United States | 13:10 |
| 19 | Andy Downin | United States | 13:16 |
| 20 | Luciano Di Pardo | Italy | 13:18 |
| 21 | Miroslav Vanko | Slovakia | 13:19 |
| 22 | Youssef Baba | Morocco | 13:19 |
| 23 | Luis Jesús | Portugal | 13:20 |
| 24 | Michael Power | Australia | 13:21 |
| 25 | Lotfi Turki | Tunisia | 13:23 |
| 26 | Alemayehu Girma | Ethiopia | 13:24 |
| 27 | Spencer Barden | United Kingdom | 13:25 |
| 28 | Wirimai Juwawo | Zimbabwe | 13:26 |
| 29 | Kevin Sullivan | Canada | 13:27 |
| 30 | Beruk Debrework | Ethiopia | 13:27 |
| 31 | Antonio Jiménez | Spain | 13:28 |
| 32 | John Nada Saya | Tanzania | 13:28 |
| 33 | Samir Benfarès | France | 13:29 |
| 34 | Salvador Miranda | Mexico | 13:29 |
| 35 | José Luis Blanco | Spain | 13:29 |
| 36 | Blair Martin | New Zealand | 13:29 |
| 37 | José Manuel Martínez | Spain | 13:30 |
| 38 | Christian Stephenson | United Kingdom | 13:30 |
| 39 | Tony Cosey | United States | 13:30 |
| 40 | Rustam Yakupov | Russia | 13:31 |
| 41 | Clint Wells | United States | 13:31 |
| 42 | João Junqueira | Portugal | 13:32 |
| 43 | Javier Carriqueo | Argentina | 13:32 |
| 44 | Joël Bourgeois | Canada | 13:33 |
| 45 | Hamish Thorpe | New Zealand | 13:34 |
| 46 | Dmitriy Maksimov | Russia | 13:34 |
| 47 | Oscar Cortínez | Argentina | 13:35 |
| 48 | José Ramos | Portugal | 13:35 |
| 49 | Roland Weissteiner | Italy | 13:35 |
| 50 | Godfrey Khahohle | South Africa | 13:36 |
| 51 | Sergey Lukin | Russia | 13:36 |
| 52 | Sean Kaley | Canada | 13:37 |
| 53 | Lorenzo Perrone | Italy | 13:37 |
| 54 | Gareth Turnbull | Ireland | 13:38 |
| 55 | Badre din Zioini | France | 13:38 |
| 56 | Glen Stewart | United Kingdom | 13:38 |
| 57 | Adrian Blincoe | New Zealand | 13:41 |
| 58 | Simon Maunder | New Zealand | 13:43 |
| 59 | Jean Bosco Ndagijimana | Rwanda | 13:43 |
| 60 | Mykola Novytskyy | Ukraine | 13:43 |
| 61 | Sergey Drygin | Russia | 13:44 |
| 62 | Jeremy Deere | Canada | 13:45 |
| 63 | Pacifique Ayabusa | Rwanda | 13:46 |
| 64 | Fabrice Chomaud | France | 13:47 |
| 65 | Tom Compernolle | Belgium | 13:48 |
| 66 | Rached Amor | Tunisia | 13:49 |
| 67 | Abdulkadir Türk | Turkey | 13:49 |
| 68 | Anacleto Jiménez | Spain | 13:49 |
| 69 | Ahmed Abd El Mangoud | Egypt | 13:50 |
| 70 | Manuel Silva | Portugal | 13:50 |
| 71 | Christian Obrist | Italy | 13:50 |
| 72 | Ahmed Issaoui | Tunisia | 13:51 |
| 73 | Hedi Khalfallah | Tunisia | 13:52 |
| 74 | Julius Gidabuday | Tanzania | 13:54 |
| 75 | Rob Whalley | United Kingdom | 13:55 |
| 76 | Jeroen van Dijke | Netherlands | 13:56 |
| 77 | Angus MacLean | United Kingdom | 13:57 |
| 78 | Matt Kerr | Canada | 13:57 |
| 79 | Musa Ninga | Tanzania | 13:58 |
| 80 | Jim Svenøy | Norway | 13:58 |
| 81 | Mesfin Hailu | Ethiopia | 13:58 |
| 82 | Vijay Pal | India | 13:59 |
| 83 | Domenico D'Ambrosio | Italy | 14:00 |
| 84 | Fiachra Lombard | Ireland | 14:02 |
| 85 | Dan Browne | United States | 14:02 |
| 86 | Pablo Villalobos | Spain | 14:03 |
| 87 | Carlos Calado | Portugal | 14:04 |
| 88 | Raúl Mora | Chile | 14:05 |
| 89 | Brahim Jabbour | Morocco | 14:05 |
| 90 | Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed | Egypt | 14:06 |
| 91 | Fabián Campanini | Argentina | 14:07 |
| 92 | Makoto Michiura | Japan | 14:07 |
| 93 | Arun D'Souza | India | 14:10 |
| 94 | Carlos Jaramillo | Chile | 14:11 |
| 95 | Sander Schutgens | Netherlands | 14:12 |
| 96 | Ridouane Es-Saadi | Belgium | 14:13 |
| 97 | Khalid Zoubaa | France | 14:14 |
| 98 | Kuldeep Kumar | India | 14:14 |
| 99 | Mauro Casagrande | Italy | 14:14 |
| 100 | Frédéric Desmedt | Belgium | 14:15 |
| 101 | Maurice van Veldhoven | Netherlands | 14:18 |
| 102 | Víctor Martínez | Andorra | 14:19 |
| 103 | Cristian Hidalgo | Chile | 14:20 |
| 104 | Jonathan Monje | Chile | 14:21 |
| 105 | Fouly Salem | Egypt | 14:22 |
| 106 | Eelco de Voogt | Netherlands | 14:22 |
| 107 | Simon Labiche | Seychelles | 14:23 |
| 108 | Mehdi Khelifi | Tunisia | 14:24 |
| 109 | Ivan Kibiryov | Uzbekistan | 14:24 |
| 110 | Zigmund Zilbershtein | Georgia | 14:25 |
| 111 | Jesús España | Spain | 14:27 |
| 112 | Aleksandr Busel | Belarus | 14:28 |
| 113 | Patrick Grammens | Belgium | 14:29 |
| 114 | Heiki Sarapuu | Estonia | 14:30 |
| 115 | Ad Verweij | Netherlands | 14:32 |
| 116 | Daniel Gidombada | Tanzania | 14:34 |
| 117 | Toomas Tarm | Estonia | 14:35 |
| 118 | José Mansilla | Argentina | 14:36 |
| 119 | Jürgen Vandewiele | Belgium | 14:37 |
| 120 | Mohamad Ayache | Lebanon | 14:40 |
| 121 | Sergey Zabavskiy | Tajikistan | 14:40 |
| 122 | Joeri Jansen | Belgium | 14:46 |
| 123 | Mostafa Shalaby | Egypt | 14:46 |
| 124 | Viktor Vasilyonok | Belarus | 14:46 |
| 125 | Denis Bagrev | Kyrgyzstan | 14:47 |
| 126 | Terukazu Omori | Japan | 14:48 |
| 127 | Yevgeniy Yurkevich | Belarus | 14:51 |
| 128 | Bahadur Singh | India | 14:52 |
| 129 | Bakhodur Boimuradov | Tajikistan | 14:58 |
| 130 | Mark Miles | United Kingdom | 14:58 |
| 131 | Joel Rosario | Puerto Rico | 15:04 |
| 132 | Uldar Nuraliev | Uzbekistan | 15:05 |
| 133 | Mahmoud Ayach | Lebanon | 15:05 |
| 134 | Gairat Nigmatov | Tajikistan | 15:12 |
| 135 | Albert Shamsiyev | Uzbekistan | 15:19 |
| 136 | Djamched Rasulov | Tajikistan | 15:21 |
| 137 | Ahmad El Darkouchi | Lebanon | 15:21 |
| 138 | Aleksandr Voran | Belarus | 15:23 |
| 139 | Fortunato Yaccob | Eritrea | 15:26 |
| 140 | Nozimjon Irmatov | Tajikistan | 15:34 |
| 141 | Kemal Tuvakuliyev | Turkmenistan | 15:37 |
| 142 | Richard Muscat | Gibraltar | 15:42 |
| 143 | Junji Konomi | Japan | 15:44 |
| 144 | Serdar Gandymov | Turkmenistan | 15:53 |
| 145 | Jacques Diab | Lebanon | 15:57 |
| 146 | Liam Byrne | Gibraltar | 15:57 |
| 147 | Mohamed Al-Bayed | Palestine | 16:05 |
| 148 | Nazar Begliyev | Turkmenistan | 16:10 |
| 149 | Sergey Yakovlev | Turkmenistan | 16:19 |
| 150 | Vladimir Escajadillo | Peru | 16:27 |
| 151 | Salimjon Ortykov | Tajikistan | 16:28 |
| 152 | Desimir Gajic | Yugoslavia | 17:16 |
| 153 | Lee Calderon | Gibraltar | 17:30 |
| 154 | Louis Chichon | Gibraltar | 17:41 |
| 155 | James Parody | Gibraltar | 18:02 |
| 156 | Yevgeniy Nujdin | Uzbekistan | 18:54 |
| — | Sergio López | Chile | DNF |
| — | Antonio Fabián Silio | Argentina | DNS |
| — | José Alberto Montenegro | Argentina | DNS |
| — | Jean-Paul Gahimbaré | Burundi | DNS |
| — | Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga | Burundi | DNS |
| — | Hilaire Ntirampeba | Burundi | DNS |
| — | Emmanuel Murenzi | Rwanda | DNS |
| — | Jean Baptiste Simukeka | Rwanda | DNS |
| — | Ahmed Saeed Hassan | Somalia | DNS |
| — | Maximillian Iranqe | Tanzania | DNS |
| — | Alí Hakimi | Tunisia | DNS |
| — | Mike Fokorani | Zimbabwe | DNS |
| — | Farai Nemahwedza | Zimbabwe | DNS |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya Enock Koech1 Benjamin Limo3 Sammy Kipketer4 Cyrus Kataron5 (Albert Chepkurui)(6) (John Kibowen)(7) | 13 |
| | Morocco Brahim Boulami9 Adil Kaouch11 Saïd El Wardi12 Mohamed Amyn16 (Youssef Baba)(22) (Brahim Jabbour)(89) | 48 |
| | Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele2 Haylu Mekonnen10 Dagne Alemu13 Alemayehu Girma26 (Beruk Debrework)(30) (Mesfin Hailu)(81) | 51 |
| 4 | United States Brad Hauser15 Tim Broe18 Andy Downin19 Tony Cosey39 (Clint Wells)(41) (Dan Browne)(85) | 91 |
| 5 | Spain Antonio Jiménez31 José Luis Blanco35 José Manuel Martínez37 Anacleto Jiménez68 (Pablo Villalobos)(86) (Jesús España)(111) | 171 |
| 6 | Portugal Luis Jesús23 João Junqueira42 José Ramos48 Manuel Silva70 (Carlos Calado)(87) | 183 |
| 7 | Canada Kevin Sullivan29 Joël Bourgeois44 Sean Kaley52 Jeremy Deere62 (Matt Kerr)(78) | 187 |
| 8 | Italy Luciano Di Pardo20 Roland Weissteiner49 Lorenzo Perrone53 Christian Obrist71 (Domenico D'Ambrosio)(83) (Mauro Casagrande)(99) | 193 |
| 9 | New Zealand Blair Martin36 Hamish Thorpe45 Adrian Blincoe57 Simon Maunder58 | 196 |
| 10 | United Kingdom Spencer Barden27 Christian Stephenson38 Glen Stewart56 Rob Whalley75 (Angus MacLean)(77) (Mark Miles)(130) | 196 |
| 11 | Russia Rustam Yakupov40 Dmitriy Maksimov46 Sergey Lukin51 Sergey Drygin61 | 198 |
| 12 | Tanzania John Yuda14 John Nada Saya32 Julius Gidabuday74 Musa Ninga79 (Daniel Gidombada)(116) | 199 |
| 13 | Tunisia Lotfi Turki25 Rached Amor66 Ahmed Issaoui72 Hedi Khalfallah73 (Mehdi Khelifi)(108) | 236 |
| 14 | France Samir Benfarès33 Badre din Zioini55 Fabrice Chomaud64 Khalid Zoubaa97 | 249 |
| 15 | Argentina Javier Carriqueo43 Oscar Cortínez47 Fabián Campanini91 José Mansilla118 | 299 |
| 16 | Belgium Tom Compernolle65 Ridouane Es-Saadi96 Frédéric Desmedt100 Patrick Grammens113 (Jürgen Vandewiele)(119) (Joeri Jansen)(122) | 374 |
| 17 | Netherlands Jeroen van Dijke76 Sander Schutgens95 Maurice van Veldhoven101 Eelco de Voogt106 (Ad Verweij)(115) | 378 |
| 18 | Egypt Ahmed Abd El Mangoud69 Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed90 Fouly Salem105 Mostafa Shalaby123 | 387 |
| 19 | Chile Raúl Mora88 Carlos Jaramillo94 Cristian Hidalgo103 Jonathan Monje104 (Sergio López)(DNF) | 389 |
| 20 | India Vijay Pal82 Arun D'Souza93 Kuldeep Kumar98 Bahadur Singh128 | 401 |
| 21 | Belarus Aleksandr Busel112 Viktor Vasilyonok124 Yevgeniy Yurkevich127 Aleksandr Voran138 | 501 |
| 22 | Tajikistan Sergey Zabavskiy121 Bakhodur Boimuradov129 Gairat Nigmatov134 Djamched Rasulov136 (Nozimjon Irmatov)(140) (Salimjon Ortykov)(151) | 520 |
| 23 | Uzbekistan Ivan Kibiryov109 Uldar Nuraliev132 Albert Shamsiyev135 Yevgeniy Nujdin156 | 532 |
| 24 | Lebanon Mohamad Ayache120 Mahmoud Ayach133 Ahmad El Darkouchi137 Jacques Diab145 | 535 |
| 25 | Turkmenistan Kemal Tuvakuliyev141 Serdar Gandymov144 Nazar Begliyev148 Sergey Yakovlev149 | 582 |
| 26 | Gibraltar Richard Muscat142 Liam Byrne146 Lee Calderon153 Louis Chichon154 (James Parody)(155) | 595 |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 157 athletes from 47 countries in the Men's short race. The announced athletes from Burundi and Somalia did not show.
* Andorra (1)
* Argentina (4)
* Australia (2)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (6)
* Canada (5)
* Chile (5)
* Egypt (4)
* Eritrea (1)
* Estonia (2)
* Ethiopia (6)
* France (4)
* Georgia (1)
* Gibraltar (5)
* India (4)
* Ireland (2)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (3)
* Kenya (6)
* Kyrgyzstan (1)
* Lebanon (4)
* Mexico (2)
* Morocco (6)
* Netherlands (5)
* New Zealand (4)
* Norway (1)
* Peru (1)
* Palestine (1)
* Portugal (5)
* Puerto Rico (1)
* Russia (4)
* Rwanda (2)
* Seychelles (1)
* Slovakia (1)
* South Africa (1)
* Spain (6)
* Tajikistan (6)
* Tanzania (5)
* Tunisia (5)
* Turkey (1)
* Turkmenistan (4)
* Ukraine (1)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (4)
* Yugoslavia (1)
* Zimbabwe (1)