# 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race

The Men's short race at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the L'Institut Équestre National in Avenches near Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 29, 2003. 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 (4.03 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Kenenisa Bekele | Ethiopia | 11:01 |
| | John Kibowen | Kenya | 11:04 |
| | Benjamin Limo | Kenya | 11:06 |
| 4 | Mike Kipyego | Kenya | 11:18 |
| 5 | Thomas Kiplitany | Kenya | 11:20 |
| 6 | Khalid El Amri | Morocco | 11:22 |
| 7 | Meba Tadesse | Ethiopia | 11:24 |
| 8 | David Kilel | Kenya | 11:25 |
| 9 | Smail Sghir | France | 11:27 |
| 10 | Abderrahim Goumri | Morocco | 11:28 |
| 11 | Yousef El Nasri | Spain | 11:28 |
| 12 | Tessema Absher | Ethiopia | 11:29 |
| 13 | Abiyote Endale | Ethiopia | 11:31 |
| 14 | Driss Maazouzi | France | 11:32 |
| 15 | Ahmed Baday | Morocco | 11:34 |
| 16 | Abdelkader Hachlaf | Morocco | 11:35 |
| 17 | Ketema Nigusse | Ethiopia | 11:39 |
| 18 | Christian Belz | Switzerland | 11:39 |
| 19 | Chris Thompson | United Kingdom | 11:40 |
| 20 | Evans Kipchumba | Kenya | 11:42 |
| 21 | Fethi Meftah | Algeria | 11:42 |
| 22 | Saïd El Wardi | Morocco | 11:43 |
| 23 | Azzedine Zerdoum | Algeria | 11:43 |
| 24 | Ali Abdalla | Eritrea | 11:44 |
| 25 | Kevin Sullivan | Canada | 11:44 |
| 26 | Luciano Di Pardo | Italy | 11:45 |
| 27 | Khoudir Aggoune | Algeria | 11:45 |
| 28 | Antonio Manuel Martínez | Spain | 11:45 |
| 29 | Phil Costley | New Zealand | 11:46 |
| 30 | Hassan Oubassour | France | 11:46 |
| 31 | Sandu Rebenciuc | United States | 11:47 |
| 32 | Umberto Pusterla | Italy | 11:47 |
| 33 | Viktor Röthlin | Switzerland | 11:47 |
| 34 | Sergio Gallardo | Spain | 11:48 |
| 35 | Salah Hissou | Morocco | 11:48 |
| 36 | Rachid Chékhémani | France | 11:49 |
| 37 | Dan Browne | United States | 11:49 |
| 38 | Boštjan Buč | Slovenia | 11:50 |
| 39 | Abdelhakim Maazouz | Algeria | 11:51 |
| 40 | Dehe Woyesha | Ethiopia | 11:52 |
| 41 | Adrian Blincoe | New Zealand | 11:53 |
| 42 | Manuel Silva | Portugal | 11:54 |
| 43 | Fernando Silva | Portugal | 11:55 |
| 44 | Rees Buck | New Zealand | 11:55 |
| 45 | Philipp Bandi | Switzerland | 11:56 |
| 46 | Joël Bourgeois | Canada | 11:56 |
| 47 | Steven Vernon | United Kingdom | 11:57 |
| 48 | Abdulhak Zakaria | Bahrain | 11:58 |
| 49 | Tarek Boukensa | Algeria | 11:58 |
| 50 | Clodoaldo da Silva | Brazil | 11:59 |
| 51 | Irba Lakhal | France | 12:00 |
| 52 | Fortunato Yaccob | Eritrea | 12:00 |
| 53 | Mário Teixeira | Portugal | 12:01 |
| 54 | Chris Davies | United Kingdom | 12:01 |
| 55 | Javier Carriqueo | Argentina | 12:01 |
| 56 | Luke Watson | United States | 12:02 |
| 57 | Sean Kaley | Canada | 12:02 |
| 58 | Jesús España | Spain | 12:02 |
| 59 | Karl Savage | United States | 12:03 |
| 60 | Dan Wilson | United States | 12:04 |
| 61 | Ian Connor | United States | 12:04 |
| 62 | Chris Bolt | United Kingdom | 12:05 |
| 63 | Jeremy Deere | Canada | 12:05 |
| 64 | José Ramos | Portugal | 12:06 |
| 65 | Mark Bomba | Canada | 12:07 |
| 66 | Stefano Scaini | Italy | 12:07 |
| 67 | Ahmed Abd El Mangoud | Egypt | 12:08 |
| 68 | Michael Aish | New Zealand | 12:09 |
| 69 | José Luis Blanco | Spain | 12:09 |
| 70 | Sivuyile Dlongwana | South Africa | 12:11 |
| 71 | Jonathan Monje | Chile | 12:12 |
| 72 | Peter Philipp | Switzerland | 12:12 |
| 73 | Martin McCarthy | Ireland | 12:13 |
| 74 | Mo Farah | United Kingdom | 12:13 |
| 75 | Domenico D'Ambrosio | Italy | 12:13 |
| 76 | Rui Silva | Portugal | 12:15 |
| 77 | Yonas Ogbagebriel | Eritrea | 12:16 |
| 78 | David Mokwana | South Africa | 12:16 |
| 79 | Giuliano Battocletti | Italy | 12:17 |
| 80 | Ridouane Es-Saadi | Belgium | 12:17 |
| 81 | Dermot Donnelly | Ireland | 12:17 |
| 82 | Igor Teteryukov | Belarus | 12:18 |
| 83 | Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed | Egypt | 12:18 |
| 84 | Angus MacLean | United Kingdom | 12:19 |
| 85 | Vincent Kuotane | South Africa | 12:19 |
| 86 | Alexander Motone | South Africa | 12:20 |
| 87 | Julius Achon | Uganda | 12:20 |
| 88 | Ruslan Sadovskiy | Belarus | 12:21 |
| 89 | Mandla Maseko | South Africa | 12:23 |
| 90 | Adel Behery | Egypt | 12:24 |
| 91 | Nick Willis | New Zealand | 12:24 |
| 92 | Sveinn Margeirsson | Iceland | 12:25 |
| 93 | Mohamed Khaldi | Algeria | 12:26 |
| 94 | Jérôme Schaffner | Switzerland | 12:27 |
| 95 | Aleksandr Nikolayuk | Belarus | 12:28 |
| 96 | Tim Clerbout | Belgium | 12:28 |
| 97 | Josep Sansa | Andorra | 12:29 |
| 98 | Stijn van den Velde | Belgium | 12:29 |
| 99 | Noel Berkeley | Ireland | 12:30 |
| 100 | Alibay Shukurov | Azerbaijan | 12:32 |
| 101 | Robert Connolly | Ireland | 12:33 |
| 102 | Aléxis Abraham | France | 12:34 |
| 103 | Ronny Marie | Seychelles | 12:34 |
| 104 | Bonaventure Niyonizigiye | Burundi | 12:35 |
| 105 | Michael Maechler | Switzerland | 12:37 |
| 106 | Luís Feiteira | Portugal | 12:37 |
| 107 | Víctor Martínez | Andorra | 12:37 |
| 108 | Gary Murray | Ireland | 12:38 |
| 109 | Robert Juricic | Croatia | 12:38 |
| 110 | Valeriy Pisarev | Kyrgyzstan | 12:38 |
| 111 | Sergey Berdnik | Belarus | 12:39 |
| 112 | Monder Rizki | Belgium | 12:42 |
| 113 | Denis Bagrev | Kyrgyzstan | 12:43 |
| 114 | Ernest Ndjissipou | Central African Republic | 12:46 |
| 115 | Gauti Jóhannesson | Iceland | 12:48 |
| 116 | Simon Labiche | Seychelles | 12:52 |
| 117 | Ahmed El Feky | Egypt | 13:00 |
| 118 | Anthony Godongwana | South Africa | 13:02 |
| 119 | Nigel Brunton | Ireland | 13:03 |
| 120 | Vasiliy Medvedev | Uzbekistan | 13:04 |
| 121 | Dovran Amandjayev | Turkmenistan | 13:12 |
| 122 | William Boehlke | U.S. Virgin Islands | 13:13 |
| 123 | Ivan Morozov | Uzbekistan | 13:19 |
| 124 | Natnael Amare | Eritrea | 14:05 |
| 125 | Vladimir Escajadillo | Peru | 14:52 |
| — | Alberto García | Spain | DQ$^†$ |
| — | Abdelbeki Zaiter | Algeria | DNS |
| — | Nzolameso Lufua | DR Congo | DNS |
| — | Mbiya Makwenda | DR Congo | DNS |
| — | Eddy Assana | DR Congo | DNS |
| — | Gabriele De Nard | Italy | DNS |
| — | Khodor Abdou | Lebanon | DNS |
| — | Amadu Kamara | Sierra Leone | DNS |
| — | Dauda Sundufu-Sowa | Sierra Leone | DNS |
| — | Mohammed Yagoub | Sudan | DNS |
| — | Rogart John | Tanzania | DNS |
| — | Jumanne Tluway | Tanzania | DNS |
| — | Israel Nari | Tanzania | DNS |
$^†$: Alberto García from Spain finished about 20th in 11:42 min, but was disqualified.

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya John Kibowen2 Benjamin Limo3 Mike Kipyego4 Thomas Kiplitany5 (David Kilel)(n/s) (Evans Kipchumba)(n/s) | 14 |
| | Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele1 Meba Tadesse7 Tessema Absher11 Abiyote Endale12 (Ketema Nigusse)(n/s) (Dehe Woyesha)(n/s) | 31 |
| | Morocco Khalid El Amri6 Abderrahim Goumri9 Ahmed Baday14 Abdelkader Hachlaf15 (Saïd El Wardi)(n/s) (Salah Hissou)(n/s) | 44 |
| 4 | France Smail Sghir8 Driss Maazouzi13 Hassan Oubassour26 Rachid Chékhémani31 (Irba Lakhal)(n/s) (Aléxis Abraham)(n/s) | 78 |
| 5 | Algeria Fethi Meftah18 Azzedine Zerdoum19 Khoudir Aggoune23 Abdelhakim Maazouz33 (Tarek Boukensa)(n/s) (Mohamed Khaldi)(n/s) | 93 |
| 6 | Spain Yousef El Nasri10 Antonio Manuel Martínez24 Sergio Gallardo30 Jesús España46 (José Luis Blanco)(n/s) | 110 |
| 7 | Switzerland Christian Belz16 Viktor Röthlin29 Philipp Bandi38 Peter Philipp55 (Jérôme Schaffner)(n/s) (Michael Maechler)(n/s) | 138 |
| 8 | United Kingdom Chris Thompson17 Steven Vernon40 Chris Davies43 Chris Bolt48 (Mo Farah)(n/s) (Angus MacLean)(n/s) | 148 |
| 9 | New Zealand Phil Costley25 Adrian Blincoe34 Rees Buck37 Michael Aish53 (Nick Willis)(n/s) | 149 |
| 10 | Canada Kevin Sullivan21 Joël Bourgeois39 Sean Kaley45 Jeremy Deere49 (Mark Bomba)(n/s) | 154 |
| 11 | Italy Luciano Di Pardo22 Umberto Pusterla28 Stefano Scaini51 Domenico D'Ambrosio57 (Giuliano Battocletti)(n/s) | 158 |
| 12 | United States Sandu Rebenciuc27 Dan Browne32 Karl Savage47 Luke Watson56 (Dan Wilson)(n/s) (Ian Connor)(n/s) | 162 |
| 13 | Portugal Manuel Silva35 Fernando Silva36 Mário Teixeira42 José Ramos50 (Rui Silva)(n/s) (Luís Feiteira)(n/s) | 163 |
| 14 | Eritrea Ali Abdalla20 Fortunato Yaccob41 Yonas Ogbagebriel58 Natnael Amare76 | 195 |
| 15 | South Africa Sivuyile Dlongwana54 David Mokwana59 Vincent Kuotane64 Alexander Motone65 (Mandla Maseko)(n/s) (Anthony Godongwana)(n/s) | 242 |
| 16 | Egypt Ahmed Abd El Mangoud52 Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed63 Adel Behery67 Ahmed El Feky75 | 257 |
| 17 | Ireland Martin McCarthy56 Dermot Donnelly61 Noel Berkeley71 Robert Connolly72 (Gary Murray)(n/s) (Nigel Brunton)(n/s) | 260 |
| 18 | Belarus Igor Teteryukov62 Ruslan Sadovskiy66 Aleksandr Nikolayuk68 Sergey Berdnik73 | 269 |
| 19 | Belgium Ridouane Es-Saadi60 Tim Clerbout69 Stijn van den Velde70 Monder Rizki74 | 273 |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result (n/s: nonscorer)

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 126 athletes from 37 countries participated in the Men's short race. The announced athletes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Tanzania did not show.
* Algeria (6)
* Andorra (2)
* Argentina (1)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Bahrain (1)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (4)
* Brazil (1)
* Burundi (1)
* Canada (5)
* Central African Republic (1)
* Chile (1)
* Croatia (1)
* Egypt (4)
* Eritrea (4)
* Ethiopia (6)
* France (6)
* Iceland (2)
* Ireland (6)
* Italy (5)
* Kenya (6)
* Kyrgyzstan (2)
* Morocco (6)
* New Zealand (5)
* Peru (1)
* Portugal (6)
* Seychelles (2)
* Slovenia (1)
* South Africa (6)
* Spain (6)
* Switzerland (6)
* Turkmenistan (1)
* Uganda (1)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
* Uzbekistan (2)