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

The Senior 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 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
### Senior men's race (12.3 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Mohammed Mourhit | Belgium | 35:00 |
| | Assefa Mezegebu | Ethiopia | 35:01 |
| | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 35:02 |
| 4 | Patrick Ivuti | Kenya | 35:03 |
| 5 | Wilberforce Talel | Kenya | 35:06 |
| 6 | Paul Koech | Kenya | 35:22 |
| 7 | Charles Kamathi | Kenya | 35:51 |
| 8 | Sergiy Lebid | Ukraine | 35:52 |
| 9 | Abdellah Béhar | France | 35:55 |
| 10 | Eduardo Henriques | Portugal | 35:56 |
| 11 | Abraham Cherono | Kenya | 36:00 |
| 12 | Domingos Castro | Portugal | 36:01 |
| 13 | Karl Keska | United Kingdom | 36:13 |
| 14 | Zebedayo Bayo | Tanzania | 36:15 |
| 15 | John Nada Saya | Tanzania | 36:18 |
| 16 | Lemma Alemayehu | Ethiopia | 36:20 |
| 17 | Enrique Molina | Spain | 36:22 |
| 18 | Venry Hamalila | Zambia | 36:25 |
| 19 | Javier Cortés | Spain | 36:26 |
| 20 | Samir Moussaoui | Algeria | 36:26 |
| 21 | José Manuel Martínez | Spain | 36:27 |
| 22 | António Pinto | Portugal | 36:30 |
| 23 | Tesfaye Tola | Ethiopia | 36:33 |
| 24 | Mustapha Bamouh | Morocco | 36:42 |
| 25 | Paulo Guerra | Portugal | 36:44 |
| 26 | Meb Keflezighi | United States | 36:45 |
| 27 | Amebesse Tolossa | Ethiopia | 36:46 |
| 28 | Michael Ngaaseke | Zimbabwe | 36:48 |
| 29 | Alberto García | Spain | 36:51 |
| 30 | Wilbroad Axweso | Tanzania | 36:53 |
| 31 | Mathias Ntawulikura | Rwanda | 36:53 |
| 32 | Rachid Berradi | Italy | 36:58 |
| 33 | Claes Nyberg | Sweden | 37:01 |
| 34 | Glynn Tromans | United Kingdom | 37:03 |
| 35 | Benedict Ako | Tanzania | 37:05 |
| 36 | Mauricio Díaz | Chile | 37:07 |
| 37 | Sam Mwape | Zambia | 37:08 |
| 38 | Saïd Berrioui | Morocco | 37:15 |
| 39 | Abdelhadi Habassa | Morocco | 37:15 |
| 40 | Alejandro Gómez | Spain | 37:20 |
| 41 | Vincenzo Modica | Italy | 37:21 |
| 42 | Simone Zanon | Italy | 37:22 |
| 43 | Sergey Lukin | Russia | 37:22 |
| 44 | Dereje Tadesse | Ethiopia | 37:23 |
| 45 | Abdi Abdirahman | United States | 37:24 |
| 46 | Kamel Kohil | Algeria | 37:25 |
| 47 | Matt O'Dowd | United Kingdom | 37:26 |
| 48 | Marco Mazza | Italy | 37:28 |
| 49 | Mohamed Driouche | Algeria | 37:29 |
| 50 | Michael Aish | New Zealand | 37:30 |
| 51 | Teodoro Cuñado | Spain | 37:31 |
| 52 | Djamel Selatnia | Algeria | 37:31 |
| 53 | Obed Mutanya | Zambia | 37:31 |
| 54 | Stefan Van Den Broek | Belgium | 37:32 |
| 55 | Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin | Qatar | 37:33 |
| 56 | Alfredo Bráz | Portugal | 37:35 |
| 57 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama | Qatar | 37:35 |
| 58 | Brad Hauser | United States | 37:36 |
| 59 | Toshiya Kono | Japan | 37:36 |
| 60 | Joseph Nsengiyumya | Rwanda | 37:37 |
| 61 | Yonas Kifle | Eritrea | 37:37 |
| 62 | Jon Wild | United Kingdom | 37:43 |
| 63 | Andrew Panga | Tanzania | 37:47 |
| 64 | Benedito Gomes | Brazil | 37:48 |
| 65 | Alberto Maravilha | Portugal | 37:49 |
| 66 | Lahcen Benyoussef | Morocco | 37:52 |
| 67 | Peter Sherry | United States | 37:54 |
| 68 | Sergey Fedotov | Russia | 37:55 |
| 69 | Isidore Nizigiyimana | Burundi | 37:56 |
| 70 | Roberto Antonelli | Italy | 37:57 |
| 71 | Wellington Fraga | Brazil | 37:58 |
| 72 | Peter Matthews | Ireland | 38:00 |
| 73 | Noel Berkeley | Ireland | 38:07 |
| 74 | Debebe Demisse | Ethiopia | 38:09 |
| 75 | Medison Chibwe | Zambia | 38:11 |
| 76 | Nick Rogers | United States | 38:14 |
| 77 | Cian McLoughlin | Ireland | 38:15 |
| 78 | Mikhail Minyukhin | Russia | 38:17 |
| 79 | Angelo Carosi | Italy | 38:21 |
| 80 | Klaus-Peter Hansen | Denmark | 38:22 |
| 81 | George Mofokeng | South Africa | 38:25 |
| 82 | Ahmed Adam Saleh | Qatar | 38:25 |
| 83 | Dermot Donnelly | Ireland | 38:31 |
| 84 | Pacifique Ayabusa | Rwanda | 38:32 |
| 85 | Tau Khotso | Lesotho | 38:33 |
| 86 | Tom van Hooste | Belgium | 38:37 |
| 87 | Dmitriy Maksimov | Russia | 38:43 |
| 88 | Nick Comerford | United Kingdom | 38:45 |
| 89 | Paolo Doglio | Ireland | 38:46 |
| 90 | Faizal Emamaullee | Canada | 38:50 |
| 91 | Fidencio Torres | Mexico | 38:57 |
| 92 | Richard Arias | Ecuador | 38:57 |
| 93 | Takhir Mamashayev | Kazakhstan | 38:57 |
| 94 | Ville Hautala | Finland | 38:58 |
| 95 | Jussi Utriainen | Finland | 38:59 |
| 96 | Tayeb Kalloud | Algeria | 39:01 |
| 97 | Simon Vroemen | Netherlands | 39:06 |
| 98 | Steve Lawrence | Canada | 39:10 |
| 99 | Pasi Mattila | Finland | 39:12 |
| 100 | Marcel Matanin | Slovakia | 39:17 |
| 101 | Seamus Power | Ireland | 39:18 |
| 102 | Aleudo dos Santos | Brazil | 39:21 |
| 103 | Farag Abdelnaby | Egypt | 39:23 |
| 104 | Hiromitsu Sakakieda | Japan | 39:27 |
| 105 | Jerry van den Eede | Belgium | 39:32 |
| 106 | Vladimir Guerra | Ecuador | 39:34 |
| 107 | Rob Denmark | United Kingdom | 39:43 |
| 108 | Néstor Quinapanta | Ecuador | 39:43 |
| 109 | Jamal Abdi Hassan | Qatar | 39:44 |
| 110 | Tesfit Berhe | Eritrea | 39:45 |
| 111 | Shesh Mani | India | 39:46 |
| 112 | Zarislav Gapeyenko | Belarus | 39:50 |
| 113 | Gabriel Mazimpaka | Rwanda | 39:53 |
| 114 | Toni Bernadó | Andorra | 39:54 |
| 115 | Ademir da Silva | Brazil | 39:58 |
| 116 | Scott MacDonald | Canada | 40:03 |
| 117 | K.M. Chinnappa | India | 40:03 |
| 118 | Yoji Yamaguchi | Japan | 40:06 |
| 119 | Mohamed Suleiman | Qatar | 40:09 |
| 120 | José Alberto Montenegro | Argentina | 40:09 |
| 121 | Sipho Dlamini | Eswatini | 40:11 |
| 122 | David Milne | Canada | 40:12 |
| 123 | Santtu Mäkinen | Finland | 40:21 |
| 124 | Stan Rijken | Netherlands | 40:27 |
| 125 | Yam Bahadur Pudasaini | Nepal | 40:30 |
| 126 | José Macias | Mexico | 40:35 |
| 127 | Darwan Singh | India | 41:01 |
| 128 | Igor Salamun | Slovenia | 41:15 |
| 129 | Nazirdin Akylbekov | Kyrgyzstan | 41:15 |
| 130 | Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev | Turkmenistan | 41:17 |
| 131 | Washington Tenorio | Ecuador | 41:25 |
| 132 | Hussein Awada | Lebanon | 41:25 |
| 133 | Joze Ceh | Slovenia | 41:27 |
| 134 | Ivan Kibiryov | Uzbekistan | 41:28 |
| 135 | Nader Al-Nasry | Palestine | 41:36 |
| 136 | Josep Sansa | Andorra | 41:36 |
| 137 | Sergey Zabavskiy | Tajikistan | 41:37 |
| 138 | Ali Awad | Lebanon | 41:40 |
| 139 | Khasan Rakhimov | Uzbekistan | 41:53 |
| 140 | Dashrath Tigga | India | 41:55 |
| 141 | Ahmed El Bahnasawy | Egypt | 42:01 |
| 142 | Mehdi Chebli | Lebanon | 42:04 |
| 143 | Ghirma Woldu | Eritrea | 42:12 |
| 144 | Djamched Rasulov | Tajikistan | 42:33 |
| 145 | António Zeferino | Cape Verde | 42:40 |
| 146 | Vladimir Checha | Belarus | 42:43 |
| 147 | Sokhibdjan Sharipov | Tajikistan | 42:53 |
| 148 | Cesar Condori | Bolivia | 42:58 |
| 149 | Richard Muscat | Gibraltar | 43:26 |
| 150 | Andrey Lavrinovich | Belarus | 43:36 |
| 151 | Chokirjon Irmatov | Tajikistan | 43:50 |
| 152 | Omar Abdel Latif | Lebanon | 44:28 |
| 153 | Michael Breed | Gibraltar | 44:38 |
| 154 | Aleksandr Aniskevich | Belarus | 45:04 |
| 155 | Timur Asanov | Uzbekistan | 45:16 |
| 156 | Serdar Gandymov | Turkmenistan | 45:37 |
| 157 | Rinat Ablyayev | Uzbekistan | 46:06 |
| 158 | Christopher Walker | Gibraltar | 46:48 |
| 159 | Louis Chichon | Gibraltar | 47:28 |
| 160 | Derek Hernández | Gibraltar | 49:30 |
| — | Leszek Bebło | Poland | DNF |
| — | Antonio Silio | Argentina | DNF |
| — | Abderrahim Goumri | Morocco | DNF |
| — | Ihab Salama | Palestine | DNF |
| — | Abdelkrim Benzai | Algeria | DNF |
| — | Craig Kirkwood | New Zealand | DNF |
| — | Richard Tremain | Canada | DNF |
| — | Juuso Rainio | Finland | DNF |
| — | Sigurd Haveland | Gibraltar | DNF |
| — | Artyom Tetenkin | Kyrgyzstan | DNF |
| — | Othman Sulaiman | Qatar | DNF |
| — | Graham Cocksedge | Canada | DNS |
| — | Jafar Babakhani | Iran | DNS |
| — | Mohammed S.M. Albayed | Palestine | DNS |
| — | Abdal Salam Aldabaji | Palestine | DNS |
| — | Patrick Ishyaka | Rwanda | DNS |
| — | Alphonse Munyeshyaka | Rwanda | DNS |
| — | Dovletmammet Nazarov | Turkmenistan | DNS |
| — | Timothy Hacker | United States | DNS |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya Paul Tergat3 Patrick Ivuti4 Wilberforce Talel5 Paul Koech6 (Charles Kamathi)(7) (Abraham Cherono)(11) | 18 |
| | Ethiopia Assefa Mezegebu2 Lemma Alemayehu16 Tesfaye Tola23 Amebesse Tolossa27 (Dereje Tadesse)(44) (Debebe Demisse)(74) | 68 |
| | Portugal Eduardo Henriques10 Domingos Castro12 António Pinto22 Paulo Guerra25 (Alfredo Bráz)(56) (Alberto Maravilha)(65) | 69 |
| 4 | Spain Enrique Molina17 Javier Cortés19 José Manuel Martínez21 Alberto García29 (Alejandro Gómez)(40) (Teodoro Cuñado)(51) | 86 |
| 5 | Tanzania Zebedayo Bayo14 John Nada Saya15 Wilbroad Axweso30 Benedict Ako35 (Andrew Panga)(63) | 94 |
| 6 | United Kingdom Karl Keska13 Glynn Tromans34 Matt O'Dowd47 Jon Wild62 (Nick Comerford)(88) (Rob Denmark)(107) | 156 |
| 7 | Italy Rachid Berradi32 Vincenzo Modica41 Simone Zanon42 Marco Mazza48 (Roberto Antonelli)(70) (Angelo Carosi)(79) | 163 |
| 8 | Algeria Samir Moussaoui20 Kamel Kohil46 Mohamed Driouche49 Djamel Selatnia52 (Tayeb Kalloud)(96) (Abdelkrim Benzai)(DNF) | 167 |
| 9 | Morocco Mustapha Bamouh24 Saïd Berrioui38 Abdelhadi Habassa39 Lahcen Benyoussef66 (Abderrahim Goumri)(DNF) | 167 |
| 10 | Zambia Venry Hamalila18 Sam Mwape37 Obed Mutanya53 Medison Chibwe75 | 183 |
| 11 | United States Meb Keflezighi26 Abdi Abdirahman45 Brad Hauser58 Peter Sherry67 (Nick Rogers)(76) | 196 |
| 12 | Belgium Mohammed Mourhit1 Stefan Van Den Broek54 Tom van Hooste86 Jerry van den Eede105 | 246 |
| 13 | Russia Sergey Lukin43 Sergey Fedotov68 Mikhail Minyukhin78 Dmitriy Maksimov87 | 276 |
| 14 | Rwanda Mathias Ntawulikura31 Joseph Nsengiyumya60 Pacifique Ayabusa84 Gabriel Mazimpaka113 | 288 |
| 15 | Qatar Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin55 Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama57 Ahmed Adam Saleh82 Jamal Abdi Hassan109 (Mohamed Suleiman)(119) (Othman Sulaiman)(DNF) | 303 |
| 16 | Ireland Peter Matthews72 Noel Berkeley73 Cian McLoughlin77 Dermot Donnelly83 (Paolo Doglio)(89) (Seamus Power)(101) | 305 |
| 17 | Brazil Benedito Gomes64 Wellington Fraga71 Aleudo dos Santos102 Ademir da Silva115 | 352 |
| 18 | Finland Ville Hautala94 Jussi Utriainen95 Pasi Mattila99 Santtu Mäkinen123 (Juuso Rainio)(DNF) | 411 |
| 19 | Canada Faizal Emamaullee90 Steve Lawrence98 Scott MacDonald116 David Milne122 (Richard Tremain)(DNF) | 426 |
| 20 | Ecuador Richard Arias92 Vladimir Guerra106 Néstor Quinapanta108 Washington Tenorio131 | 437 |
| 21 | India Shesh Mani111 K.M. Chinnappa117 Darwan Singh127 Dashrath Tigga140 | 495 |
| 22 | Belarus Zarislav Gapeyenko112 Vladimir Checha146 Andrey Lavrinovich150 Aleksandr Aniskevich154 | 562 |
| 23 | Lebanon Hussein Awada132 Ali Awad138 Mehdi Chebli142 Omar Abdel Latif152 | 564 |
| 24 | Tajikistan Sergey Zabavskiy137 Djamched Rasulov144 Sokhibdjan Sharipov147 Chokirjon Irmatov151 | 579 |
| 25 | Uzbekistan Ivan Kibiryov134 Khasan Rakhimov139 Timur Asanov155 Rinat Ablyayev157 | 585 |
| 26 | Gibraltar Richard Muscat149 Michael Breed153 Christopher Walker158 Louis Chichon159 (Derek Hernández)(160) (Sigurd Haveland)(DNF) | 619 |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 171 athletes from 54 countries in the Senior men's race. The announced athlete from Iran did not show.
* Algeria (6)
* Andorra (2)
* Argentina (2)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (4)
* Bolivia (1)
* Brazil (4)
* Burundi (1)
* Canada (5)
* Cape Verde (1)
* Chile (1)
* Denmark (1)
* Ecuador (4)
* Egypt (2)
* Eritrea (3)
* Ethiopia (6)
* Finland (5)
* France (1)
* Gibraltar (6)
* India (4)
* Ireland (6)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (3)
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Kenya (6)
* Kyrgyzstan (2)
* Lebanon (4)
* Lesotho (1)
* Mexico (2)
* Morocco (5)
* Nepal (1)
* Netherlands (2)
* New Zealand (2)
* Palestine (2)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (6)
* Qatar (6)
* Russia (4)
* Rwanda (4)
* Slovakia (1)
* Slovenia (2)
* South Africa (1)
* Spain (6)
* Eswatini (1)
* Sweden (1)
* Tajikistan (4)
* Tanzania (5)
* Turkmenistan (2)
* Ukraine (1)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (5)
* Uzbekistan (4)
* Zambia (4)
* Zimbabwe (1)