# 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Sporting Complex in Vilamoura, Portugal, on March 19, 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
### Junior men's race (8.08 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Robert Kipchumba | Kenya | 22:49 |
| | Duncan Lebo | Kenya | 22:52 |
| | John Cheruiyot Korir | Kenya | 22:55 |
| 4 | Philemon Kemei | Kenya | 23:04 |
| 5 | Martin Sulle | Tanzania | 23:14 |
| 6 | Faustin Baha | Tanzania | 23:27 |
| 7 | Edwin Koech | Kenya | 23:33 |
| 8 | Beruk Debrework | Ethiopia | 23:40 |
| 9 | Teref Dessalege | Ethiopia | 23:51 |
| 10 | Kiplimo Muneria | Kenya | 24:03 |
| 11 | Martin Toroitich | Uganda | 24:08 |
| 12 | Alemayehu Lema | Ethiopia | 24:14 |
| 13 | Aboubaker Kamal | Qatar | 24:19 |
| 14 | Masakazu Fujiwara | Japan | 24:20 |
| 15 | Paul Wakou | Uganda | 24:23 |
| 16 | Abdelkrim Kabbouri | Morocco | 24:23 |
| 17 | Abdulaziz Al-Ameri | Qatar | 24:24 |
| 18 | Midekssa Diriba | Ethiopia | 24:24 |
| 19 | Sivuyile Dlongwana | South Africa | 24:27 |
| 20 | Job Sikoria | Uganda | 24:29 |
| 21 | Aleksandr Sekletov | Russia | 24:29 |
| 22 | Johnny Okello | Uganda | 24:29 |
| 23 | Daniel Andrew Sipe | Tanzania | 24:32 |
| 24 | Khoudir Aggoune | Algeria | 24:34 |
| 25 | Mo Farah | United Kingdom | 24:37 |
| 26 | Abdelhakim Fahli | Morocco | 24:38 |
| 27 | Boniface Kiprop | Uganda | 24:39 |
| 28 | Franklin Sanchez | United States | 24:45 |
| 29 | Ridouane Harroufi | Morocco | 24:52 |
| 30 | Majid Aman Awadh | Qatar | 24:54 |
| 31 | Demissie Girma | Ethiopia | 24:54 |
| 32 | Sandile Lembetha | South Africa | 24:56 |
| 33 | Yoshihiro Murata | Japan | 24:57 |
| 34 | Aissam Gtaib | Morocco | 24:58 |
| 35 | Malik Balhoul | France | 24:59 |
| 36 | Masaru Takamizawa | Japan | 25:02 |
| 37 | Louis Luchini | United States | 25:09 |
| 38 | Jamal Noor | Qatar | 25:11 |
| 39 | Rabah Aboud | Algeria | 25:11 |
| 40 | Chad Pearson | United States | 25:13 |
| 41 | Chris Thompson | United Kingdom | 25:14 |
| 42 | Shuichi Fujii | Japan | 25:15 |
| 43 | Nebay Habtegiorgis | Eritrea | 25:17 |
| 44 | Abdelatif Chemlal | Morocco | 25:19 |
| 45 | Friedel Maans | South Africa | 25:20 |
| 46 | Ionut Bura | Romania | 25:22 |
| 47 | Ryuji Sorayama | Japan | 25:23 |
| 48 | Gunnars Osmundsen | Norway | 25:25 |
| 49 | Robert Maycock | United Kingdom | 25:25 |
| 50 | Elias Daudi | Tanzania | 25:27 |
| 51 | James Vidal | Colombia | 25:27 |
| 52 | Bruno Silva | Portugal | 25:30 |
| 53 | Aleksandr Orlov | Russia | 25:31 |
| 54 | Aleksandr Sergeyev | Russia | 25:31 |
| 55 | Jeffrey Gwebu | South Africa | 25:34 |
| 56 | Bencherki Kafkaf | Algeria | 25:35 |
| 57 | Tarek Boukensa | Algeria | 25:36 |
| 58 | Guillaume Eraud | France | 25:39 |
| 59 | Andrey Khramov | Russia | 25:40 |
| 60 | Abderrezak Bahat | Algeria | 25:41 |
| 61 | Mahmoud Deria | Qatar | 25:43 |
| 62 | José Abascal | Spain | 25:45 |
| 63 | Adelino Monteiro | Portugal | 25:46 |
| 64 | Naoto Kato | Japan | 25:49 |
| 65 | Tadesse Feyissa | Ethiopia | 25:49 |
| 66 | Jason Hartmann | United States | 25:50 |
| 67 | Benoit Charpantier | France | 25:51 |
| 68 | Jonathan Monje | Chile | 25:52 |
| 69 | Hugo Silveira | Portugal | 25:53 |
| 70 | Yannick Cloux | Belgium | 25:55 |
| 71 | Mark Smyth | Ireland | 25:56 |
| 72 | Hakim Mokhtari | France | 25:57 |
| 73 | Krijn Van Koolwyk | Belgium | 25:59 |
| 74 | Cesar Pilaluisa | Ecuador | 25:59 |
| 75 | Roberto González | Spain | 26:00 |
| 76 | Selim Issaoui | Tunisia | 26:01 |
| 77 | Vitaliy Moroz | Belarus | 26:01 |
| 78 | Matthew Spring | United States | 26:02 |
| 79 | Stefan Beumer | Netherlands | 26:03 |
| 80 | Lorenzo Perrone | Italy | 26:04 |
| 81 | Angel Campos | Ecuador | 26:04 |
| 82 | Gaym Berhane | Eritrea | 26:04 |
| 83 | Ala Al-Sakkaf | Yemen | 26:06 |
| 84 | Juan Martínez | Spain | 26:07 |
| 85 | Ali Tachour | Algeria | 26:08 |
| 86 | Esmail Al-Dawla | Yemen | 26:08 |
| 87 | Byron Piedra | Ecuador | 26:09 |
| 88 | João Nunes | Portugal | 26:12 |
| 89 | Andrea Sorgato | Italy | 26:13 |
| 90 | Patrick Stitzinger | Netherlands | 26:15 |
| 91 | Ryan Hayden | Canada | 26:15 |
| 92 | Victor Ocampo | Colombia | 26:16 |
| 93 | Simon Bairu | Canada | 26:16 |
| 94 | Jaime Baquero | Colombia | 26:16 |
| 95 | Mohamed Abu Hassira | Palestine | 26:19 |
| 96 | Luigi La Bella | Italy | 26:19 |
| 97 | Nélson Oliveira | Portugal | 26:20 |
| 98 | Valerio Gulli | Italy | 26:21 |
| 99 | Farid Kebaili | France | 26:24 |
| 100 | Cosimo Caliandro | Italy | 26:28 |
| 101 | Paul Shaw | United Kingdom | 26:29 |
| 102 | David Solis | Spain | 26:29 |
| 103 | Andrew Alley | Canada | 26:33 |
| 104 | Moses Faku | South Africa | 26:35 |
| 105 | Mirko Petrović | Yugoslavia | 26:36 |
| 106 | Salah Juaim | Yemen | 26:37 |
| 107 | Ahmed Hussein | Egypt | 26:38 |
| 108 | Koen Wilssens | Belgium | 26:40 |
| 109 | Sergey Denis | Belarus | 26:41 |
| 110 | Brandon Young | Canada | 26:42 |
| 111 | Andy Sherman | United Kingdom | 26:42 |
| 112 | Rui Silva | Portugal | 26:46 |
| 113 | Henrik Ahnström | Sweden | 26:47 |
| 114 | Ayad Lamdassam | Morocco | 26:51 |
| 115 | Abraham Gebreigziabhier | Eritrea | 26:51 |
| 116 | Nick McCormick | United Kingdom | 26:54 |
| 117 | Mike Thorson | Canada | 26:55 |
| 118 | Ingemund Askeland | Norway | 27:01 |
| 119 | Tom van Rooy | Belgium | 27:04 |
| 120 | José Luis Santos | Mexico | 27:07 |
| 121 | Martin Fagan | Ireland | 27:08 |
| 122 | Barend Derriks | Netherlands | 27:09 |
| 123 | Cristian Gaeta | Italy | 27:09 |
| 124 | Aleksey Volkov | Belarus | 27:10 |
| 125 | Mesías Zapata | Ecuador | 27:14 |
| 126 | Santiago Curto | Spain | 27:24 |
| 127 | Patrick Guidera | Ireland | 27:26 |
| 128 | Andrey Pleskach | Turkmenistan | 27:27 |
| 129 | Umit Koclardan | Turkey | 27:34 |
| 130 | Mark Pacqué | Netherlands | 27:35 |
| 131 | Andrew Hill | United States | 27:35 |
| 132 | Thomas Frazier | Ireland | 27:42 |
| 133 | Damien Derobert | France | 27:43 |
| 134 | Borut Veber | Slovenia | 27:49 |
| 135 | Robert Connolly | Ireland | 27:55 |
| 136 | Awadh Al-Sakkaf | Yemen | 28:00 |
| 137 | Yamil Iskanderov | Azerbaijan | 28:03 |
| 138 | Nozimjon Irmatov | Tajikistan | 28:06 |
| 139 | Anis Ltifi | Tunisia | 28:08 |
| 140 | Dmitriy Posled | Belarus | 28:20 |
| 141 | Rasul Saydaliyev | Uzbekistan | 28:22 |
| 142 | Meretdurdy Kereguliev | Turkmenistan | 28:36 |
| 143 | Sodir Nabiyev | Uzbekistan | 28:42 |
| 144 | Khodor Abdou | Lebanon | 28:48 |
| 145 | Will Thrift | Canada | 28:55 |
| 146 | Dario Nemec | Croatia | 29:07 |
| 147 | Jahongir Tolibjonov | Uzbekistan | 29:07 |
| 148 | Boris Spes | Slovenia | 29:25 |
| 149 | Roy Bilan | Lebanon | 30:05 |
| 150 | Jacques Francis | Lebanon | 30:05 |
| 151 | Rami Karlas | Lebanon | 30:06 |
| 152 | Ruslan Kurbanov | Turkmenistan | 30:13 |
| 153 | Helal Essa Saeed | Qatar | 30:37 |
| 154 | Yevgeniy Trusov | Uzbekistan | 30:42 |
| 155 | Sopy Ashyrov | Turkmenistan | 31:45 |
| 156 | Michael Sanchez | Gibraltar | 32:40 |
| 157 | Timothy Garcia | Gibraltar | 33:02 |
| 158 | Lee Taylor | Gibraltar | 33:21 |
| 159 | Dominic Carroll | Gibraltar | 34:55 |
| — | Jaihson Caucali | Colombia | DNF |
| — | Job Dusch | Netherlands | DNF |
| — | José Moreno | Spain | DNF |
| — | Sergio de León Solís | Guatemala | DNS |
| — | Gonzalo Iquite | Guatemala | DNS |
| — | Francisco José Sáenz | Guatemala | DNS |
| — | Víctor Jacobo Solís | Guatemala | DNS |
| — | Chithu Kumar | India | DNS |
| — | Ajith Singh | India | DNS |
| — | Joga Singh | India | DNS |
| — | R. Yalappa | India | DNS |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya Robert Kipchumba1 Duncan Lebo2 John Cheruiyot Korir3 Philemon Kemei4 (Edwin Koech)(7) (Kiplimo Muneria)(10) | 10 |
| | Ethiopia Beruk Debrework8 Teref Dessalege9 Alemayehu Lema12 Midekssa Diriba18 (Demissie Girma)(31) (Tadesse Feyissa)(65) | 47 |
| | Uganda Martin Toroitich11 Paul Wakou15 Job Sikoria20 Johnny Okello22 (Boniface Kiprop)(27) | 68 |
| 4 | Tanzania Martin Sulle5 Faustin Baha6 Daniel Andrew Sipe23 Elias Daudi50 | 84 |
| 5 | Qatar Aboubaker Kamal13 Abdulaziz Al-Ameri17 Majid Aman Awadh30 Jamal Noor38 (Mahmoud Deria)(61) (Helal Essa Saeed)(153) | 98 |
| 6 | Morocco Abdelkrim Kabbouri16 Abdelhakim Fahli26 Ridouane Harroufi29 Aissam Gtaib34 (Abdelatif Chemlal)(44) (Ayad Lamdassam)(114) | 105 |
| 7 | Japan Masakazu Fujiwara14 Yoshihiro Murata33 Masaru Takamizawa36 Shuichi Fujii42 (Ryuji Sorayama)(47) (Naoto Kato)(64) | 125 |
| 8 | South Africa Sivuyile Dlongwana19 Sandile Lembetha32 Friedel Maans45 Jeffrey Gwebu55 (Moses Faku)(104) | 151 |
| 9 | United States Franklin Sanchez28 Louis Luchini37 Chad Pearson40 Jason Hartmann66 (Matthew Spring)(78) (Andrew Hill)(131) | 171 |
| 10 | Algeria Khoudir Aggoune24 Rabah Aboud39 Bencherki Kafkaf56 Tarek Boukensa57 (Abderrezak Bahat)(60) (Ali Tachour)(85) | 176 |
| 11 | Russia Aleksandr Sekletov21 Aleksandr Orlov53 Aleksandr Sergeyev54 Andrey Khramov59 | 187 |
| 12 | United Kingdom Mo Farah25 Chris Thompson41 Robert Maycock49 Paul Shaw101 (Andy Sherman)(111) (Nick McCormick)(116) | 216 |
| 13 | France Malik Balhoul35 Guillaume Eraud58 Benoit Charpantier67 Hakim Mokhtari72 (Farid Kebaili)(99) (Damien Derobert)(133) | 232 |
| 14 | Portugal Bruno Silva52 Adelino Monteiro63 Hugo Silveira69 João Nunes88 (Nélson Oliveira)(97) (Rui Silva)(112) | 272 |
| 15 | Spain José Abascal62 Roberto González75 Juan Martínez84 David Solis102 (Santiago Curto)(126) (José Moreno)(DNF) | 323 |
| 16 | Italy Lorenzo Perrone80 Andrea Sorgato89 Luigi La Bella96 Valerio Gulli98 (Cosimo Caliandro)(100) (Cristian Gaeta)(123) | 363 |
| 17 | Ecuador Cesar Pilaluisa74 Angel Campos81 Byron Piedra87 Mesias Zapata125 | 367 |
| 18 | Belgium Yannick Cloux70 Krijn Van Koolwyk73 Koen Wilssens108 Tom van Rooy119 | 370 |
| 19 | Canada Ryan Hayden91 Simon Bairu93 Andrew Alley103 Brandon Young110 (Mike Thorson)(117) (Will Thrift)(145) | 397 |
| 20 | Yemen Ala Al-Sakkaf83 Esmail Al-Dawla86 Salah Juaim106 Awadh Al-Sakkaf136 | 411 |
| 21 | Netherlands Stefan Beumer79 Patrick Stitzinger90 Barend Derriks122 Mark Pacqué130 (Job Dusch)(DNF) | 421 |
| 22 | Belarus Vitaliy Moroz77 Sergey Denis109 Aleksey Volkov124 Dmitriy Posled140 | 450 |
| 23 | Ireland Mark Smyth71 Martin Fagan121 Patrick Guidera127 Thomas Frazier132 (Robert Connolly)(135) | 451 |
| 24 | Turkmenistan Andrey Pleskach128 Meretdurdy Kereguliev142 Ruslan Kurbanov152 Sopy Ashyrov155 | 577 |
| 25 | Uzbekistan Rasul Saydaliyev141 Sodir Nabiyev143 Jahongir Tolibjonov147 Yevgeniy Trusov154 | 585 |
| 26 | Lebanon Khodor Abdou144 Roy Bilan149 Jacques Francis150 Rami Karlas151 | 594 |
| 27 | Gibraltar Michael Sanchez156 Timothy Garcia157 Lee Taylor158 Dominic Carroll159 | 630 |
| DNF | Colombia (James Vidal)(51) (Victor Ocampo)(92) (Jaime Baquero)(94) (Jaihson Caucali)(DNF) | DNF |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 162 athletes from 43 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athletes from Guatemala and India did not show.
* Algeria (6)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (4)
* Canada (6)
* Chile (1)
* Colombia (4)
* Croatia (1)
* Ecuador (4)
* Egypt (1)
* Eritrea (3)
* Ethiopia (6)
* France (6)
* Gibraltar (4)
* Ireland (5)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (6)
* Kenya (6)
* Lebanon (4)
* Mexico (1)
* Morocco (6)
* Netherlands (5)
* Norway (2)
* Palestine (1)
* Portugal (6)
* Qatar (6)
* Romania (1)
* Russia (4)
* Slovenia (2)
* South Africa (5)
* Spain (6)
* Sweden (1)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Tanzania (4)
* Tunisia (2)
* Turkey (1)
* Turkmenistan (4)
* Uganda (5)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (4)
* Yemen (4)
* Yugoslavia (1)