# 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Umi-no-nakamichi Seaside Park in Fukuoka, Japan, on April 2, 2006. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, 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 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Mang'ata Ndiwa | Kenya | 23:53 |
| | Leonard Patrick Komon | Kenya | 23:54 |
| | Tariku Bekele | Ethiopia | 23:56 |
| 4 | Joseph Ebuya | Kenya | 23:59 |
| 5 | Ibrahim Jellan | Ethiopia | 24:04 |
| 6 | Habtamu Fikadu | Ethiopia | 24:04 |
| 7 | Kamal Ali Thamer | Qatar | 24:05 |
| 8 | Samuel Tsegay | Eritrea | 24:06 |
| 9 | Bernard Matheka | Kenya | 24:08 |
| 10 | Tadesse Tola | Ethiopia | 24:09 |
| 11 | Kidane Tadasse | Eritrea | 24:21 |
| 12 | Kiflom Slum | Eritrea | 24:22 |
| 13 | Teklemariam Medhin | Eritrea | 24:26 |
| 14 | Geoffrey Kusuro | Uganda | 24:30 |
| 15 | Daniel Gitau | Kenya | 24:34 |
| 16 | Demssew Tsega | Ethiopia | 24:36 |
| 17 | Adam Khamees | Bahrain | 24:41 |
| 18 | Naser Jamal Naser | Qatar | 24:42 |
| 19 | Fred Arapsudi | Uganda | 24:51 |
| 20 | Mouhssine Cherkaoui | Morocco | 24:51 |
| 21 | Belal Ali | Bahrain | 24:52 |
| 22 | Tsuyoshi Ugachi | Japan | 24:52 |
| 23 | Nicholas Kwemoi | Uganda | 24:55 |
| 24 | Stephen Kiprotich | Uganda | 25:02 |
| 25 | Saleh Bakheet | Bahrain | 25:07 |
| 26 | Saad Salem Malek | Qatar | 25:13 |
| 27 | Takuya Fukatsu | Japan | 25:16 |
| 28 | Yuta Takahashi | Japan | 25:18 |
| 29 | Pierre-Célestin Nihorimbere | Burundi | 25:24 |
| 30 | Andrea Lalli | Italy | 25:24 |
| 31 | Mohamed Bouifalloussene | Morocco | 25:28 |
| 32 | Mohammed Abduh Bakhet | Qatar | 25:29 |
| 33 | Takafumi Yanase | Japan | 25:30 |
| 34 | Kiel Uhl | United States | 25:31 |
| 35 | Kodai Matsumoto | Japan | 25:31 |
| 36 | Moussa Karich | Morocco | 25:36 |
| 37 | Abaid Ezzamzami | Morocco | 25:36 |
| 38 | Eshaaq Abdeen | Bahrain | 25:40 |
| 39 | Andrew Bumbalough | United States | 25:41 |
| 40 | Aaron Arias | Mexico | 25:54 |
| 41 | Ezechiel Nizigiyimana | Burundi | 25:56 |
| 42 | Harutomo Kawano | Japan | 25:57 |
| 43 | Abdelghani Aït Bahmad | Morocco | 25:59 |
| 44 | Jake Robertson | New Zealand | 26:02 |
| 45 | Adam Hickey | United Kingdom | 26:02 |
| 46 | Diego Borrego | Mexico | 26:10 |
| 47 | Scott Macpherson | United States | 26:13 |
| 48 | Vitor Reis | Portugal | 26:16 |
| 49 | Mohamed Kathari | Spain | 26:16 |
| 50 | Jordan McDougal | United States | 26:26 |
| 51 | Junior Campos | Brazil | 26:27 |
| 52 | Joilson da Silva | Brazil | 26:28 |
| 53 | Ciprian Suhanea | Romania | 26:35 |
| 54 | Tim Hodge | New Zealand | 26:35 |
| 55 | Zamlandela Esau Nkosi | South Africa | 26:36 |
| 56 | Simone Gariboldi | Italy | 26:37 |
| 57 | Antonio Garavello | Italy | 26:39 |
| 58 | Michael Eaton | United States | 26:39 |
| 59 | Marcus Dillon | Canada | 26:40 |
| 60 | José Luis Galvan | Spain | 26:41 |
| 61 | Javier García | Spain | 26:43 |
| 62 | Lee Carey | United Kingdom | 26:45 |
| 63 | Anton Popov | Kazakhstan | 26:49 |
| 64 | Alvaro Rodríguez | Spain | 26:53 |
| 65 | Shafat Salad | New Zealand | 26:54 |
| 66 | Lewis Timmins | United Kingdom | 26:55 |
| 67 | Ronaldo Rocha | Brazil | 26:56 |
| 68 | Alessandro Salsi | Italy | 26:57 |
| 69 | Iván Fernández | Spain | 27:01 |
| 70 | Nabil Ouhadi | Morocco | 27:06 |
| 71 | Ryu Ji-San | South Korea | 27:07 |
| 72 | Hayden McLaren | New Zealand | 27:19 |
| 73 | Sean Fleming | Canada | 27:22 |
| 74 | Siyabonga Nkonde | South Africa | 27:25 |
| 75 | Allan Brett | Canada | 27:27 |
| 76 | Juan Antonio Pousa | Spain | 27:28 |
| 77 | Vincenzo Stola | Italy | 27:29 |
| 78 | Kris Gauson | United Kingdom | 27:32 |
| 79 | Tom Boardman | United Kingdom | 27:38 |
| 80 | Thuso Ishmael Phaswana | South Africa | 27:45 |
| 81 | António Silva | Portugal | 27:46 |
| 82 | Stephen Scullion | Ireland | 27:52 |
| 83 | Antonio Domingos | Angola | 27:56 |
| 84 | Kyle Boorsma | Canada | 28:00 |
| 85 | Luigi Di Biseglie | Italy | 28:04 |
| 86 | Joseph Brunsting | Canada | 28:05 |
| 87 | Luis Barbosa | Brazil | 28:06 |
| 88 | Nicholas Swinburn | United Kingdom | 28:30 |
| 89 | Nozim Ummatov | Uzbekistan | 29:23 |
| 90 | Firdavs Azizov | Tajikistan | 31:08 |
| — | Stefan Patru | Romania | DNF |
| — | Abdelghani Bensaadi | Algeria | DNF |
| — | Sergey Chabiarak | Belarus | DNF |
| — | Stefan Breit | Switzerland | DNF |
| — | Cory Currie | Canada | DNF |
| — | Chris Barnicle | United States | DNF |
| — | Thomas Longosiwa | Kenya | DQ$^†$ |
| — | Tareq Taher | Bahrain | DQ$^†$ |
| — | Abera Ertiban | Ethiopia | DNS |
$^†$: Thomas Longosiwa of Kenya originally finished 13th in 24:25 and Tareq Taher of Bahrain originally finished 20th in 24:49, but were disqualified for age falsification.

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya Mang'ata Ndiwa1 Leonard Patrick Komon2 Joseph Ebuya4 Bernard Matheka9 (Daniel Gitau)(15) | 16 |
| | Ethiopia Tariku Bekele3 Ibrahim Jellan5 Habtamu Fikadu6 Tadesse Tola10 (Demssew Tsega)(16) | 24 |
| | Eritrea Samuel Tsegay8 Kidane Tadasse11 Kiflom Slum12 Teklemariam Medhin13 | 44 |
| 4 | Uganda Geoffrey Kusuro14 Fred Arapsudi19 Nicholas Kwemoi23 Stephen Kiprotich24 | 80 |
| 5 | Qatar Kamal Ali Thamer7 Naser Jamal Naser18 Saad Salem Malek26 Mohammed Abduh Bakhet32 | 83 |
| 6 | Bahrain Adam Khamees17 Belal Ali21 Saleh Bakheet25 Eshaaq Abdeen38 | 101 |
| 7 | Japan Tsuyoshi Ugachi22 Takuya Fukatsu27 Yuta Takahashi28 Takafumi Yanase33 (Kodai Matsumoto)(35) (Harutomo Kawano)(42) | 110 |
| 8 | Morocco Mouhssine Cherkaoui20 Mohamed Bouifalloussene31 Moussa Karich36 Abaid Ezzamzami37 (Abdelghani Aït Bahmad)(43) (Nabil Ouhadi)(70) | 124 |
| 9 | United States Kiel Uhl34 Andrew Bumbalough39 Scott Macpherson47 Jordan McDougal50 (Michael Eaton)(58) (Chris Barnicle)(DNF) | 170 |
| 10 | Italy Andrea Lalli30 Simone Gariboldi56 Antonio Garavello57 Alessandro Salsi68 (Vincenzo Stola)(77) (Luigi Di Biseglie)(85) | 211 |
| 11 | Spain Mohamed Kathari49 José Luis Galvan60 Javier García61 Alvaro Rodríguez64 (Iván Fernández)(69) (Juan Antonio Pousa)(76) | 234 |
| 12 | New Zealand Jake Robertson44 Tim Hodge54 Shafat Salad65 Hayden McLaren72 | 235 |
| 13 | United Kingdom Adam Hickey45 Lee Carey62 Lewis Timmins66 Kris Gauson78 (Tom Boardman)(79) (Nicholas Swinburn)(88) | 251 |
| 14 | Brazil Junior Campos51 Joilson da Silva52 Ronaldo Rocha67 Luis Barbosa87 | 257 |
| 15 | Canada Marcus Dillon59 Sean Fleming73 Allan Brett75 Kyle Boorsma84 (Joseph Brunsting)(86) (Cory Currie)(DNF) | 291 |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 98 athletes from 29 countries participated in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
* Algeria (1)
* Angola (1)
* Bahrain (5)
* Belarus (1)
* Brazil (4)
* Burundi (2)
* Canada (6)
* Eritrea (4)
* Ethiopia (5)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (6)
* Japan (6)
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Kenya (6)
* Mexico (2)
* Morocco (6)
* New Zealand (4)
* Portugal (2)
* Qatar (4)
* Romania (2)
* South Africa (3)
* South Korea (1)
* Spain (6)
* Switzerland (1)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Uganda (4)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (1)