# 1992 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

The Senior men's race at the 1992 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, at the Franklin Park on March 21, 1992. A report on the event was given in The New York Times.
Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

## Race results
### Senior men's race (12.53 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | John Ngugi | Kenya | 37:05 |
| | William Mutwol | Kenya | 37:17 |
| | Fita Bayissa | Ethiopia | 37:18 |
| 4 | Khalid Skah | Morocco | 37:20 |
| 5 | Richard Chelimo | Kenya | 37:21 |
| 6 | Steve Moneghetti | Australia | 37:23 |
| 7 | Dominic Kirui | Kenya | 37:26 |
| 8 | William Sigei | Kenya | 37:27 |
| 9 | Thierry Pantel | France | 37:30 |
| 10 | Bruno Le Stum | France | 37:33 |
| 11 | Domingos Castro | Portugal | 37:35 |
| 12 | Antonio Martins | France | 37:37 |
| 13 | Mathias Ntawulikura | Rwanda | 37:39 |
| 14 | José Regalo | Portugal | 37:41 |
| 15 | Richard Nerurkar | United Kingdom | 37:43 |
| 16 | Pere Arco | Spain | 37:44 |
| 17 | Eamonn Martin | United Kingdom | 37:49 |
| 18 | Vincent Rousseau | Belgium | 37:50 |
| 19 | Todd Williams | United States | 37:51 |
| 20 | Dave Clarke | United Kingdom | 37:52 |
| 21 | Pascal Thiébaut | France | 37:53 |
| 22 | Hammou Boutayeb | Morocco | 37:54 |
| 23 | Ondoro Osoro | Kenya | 37:55 |
| 24 | Martín Fiz | Spain | 37:56 |
| 25 | António Pinto | Portugal | 37:57 |
| 26 | Andy Bristow | United Kingdom | 37:58 |
| 27 | José Manuel García | Spain | 37:59 |
| 28 | José Carlos Adán | Spain | 38:00 |
| 29 | Renato Gotti | Italy | 38:01 |
| 30 | Rainer Wachenbrunner | Germany | 38:02 |
| 31 | Francesco Bennici | Italy | 38:03 |
| 32 | Christian Leuprecht | Italy | 38:04 |
| 33 | Paul Dugdale | United Kingdom | 38:05 |
| 34 | Mark Coogan | United States | 38:09 |
| 35 | Salvatore Bettiol | Italy | 38:11 |
| 36 | Mark Dalloway | United Kingdom | 38:12 |
| 37 | Carlos de la Torre | Spain | 38:15 |
| 38 | Umberto Pusterla | Italy | 38:16 |
| 39 | Antonio Pérez | Spain | 38:17 |
| 40 | Tendai Chimusasa | Zimbabwe | 38:18 |
| 41 | Kenneth Martin | United States | 38:19 |
| 42 | Mohamed El Massoudi | Morocco | 38:19 |
| 43 | John Halvorsen | Norway | 38:20 |
| 44 | Paul Aufdemberge | United States | 38:21 |
| 45 | Jean-Louis Prianon | France | 38:22 |
| 46 | Gerry Curtis | Ireland | 38:23 |
| 47 | Pat Carroll | Australia | 38:23 |
| 48 | Antonio Rapisarda | France | 38:24 |
| 49 | William Taylor | United States | 38:24 |
| 50 | Bernd Bürger | Germany | 38:25 |
| 51 | Risto Ulmala | Finland | 38:27 |
| 52 | Dieter Baumann | Germany | 38:29 |
| 53 | Herder Vázquez | Colombia | 38:30 |
| 54 | Richard Potts | New Zealand | 38:30 |
| 55 | John Downes | Ireland | 38:31 |
| 56 | Brahim Boutayeb | Morocco | 38:31 |
| 57 | Salah Hissou | Morocco | 38:32 |
| 58 | Shaun Creighton | Australia | 38:32 |
| 59 | Getaneh Tessema | Ethiopia | 38:33 |
| 60 | Aloÿs Nizigama | Burundi | 38:34 |
| 61 | Róbert Štefko | Czechoslovakia | 38:34 |
| 62 | Dionísio Castro | Portugal | 38:35 |
| 63 | Ruddy Walem | Belgium | 38:36 |
| 64 | Sean Dollman | Ireland | 38:36 |
| 65 | Rodney Higgins | Australia | 38:36 |
| 66 | Lahoussine Siba | Morocco | 38:37 |
| 67 | Oleg Strizhakov | Commonwealth of Independent States | 38:37 |
| 68 | Fernando Couto | Portugal | 38:38 |
| 69 | Juvenal Ribeiro | Portugal | 38:39 |
| 70 | José Ramon Moreno | Spain | 38:39 |
| 71 | Benedito Gomes | Brazil | 38:40 |
| 72 | Seamus Power | Ireland | 38:41 |
| 73 | Chala Kelele | Ethiopia | 38:42 |
| 74 | Kenjiro Jitsui | Japan | 38:43 |
| 75 | Noel Berkeley | Ireland | 38:44 |
| 76 | Brad Barquist | United States | 38:44 |
| 77 | Sammy Lelei | Kenya | 38:45 |
| 78 | Markus Graf | Switzerland | 38:46 |
| 79 | Jens Karrass | Germany | 38:46 |
| 80 | Francisco Guerra | Spain | 38:47 |
| 81 | Vincenzo Modica | Italy | 38:48 |
| 82 | Carsten Jørgensen | Denmark | 38:49 |
| 83 | Colin Dalton | Australia | 38:50 |
| 84 | Paulo Guerra | Portugal | 38:50 |
| 85 | Paul Roden | United Kingdom | 38:51 |
| 86 | Enrico Vivian | Italy | 38:52 |
| 87 | Addis Abebe | Ethiopia | 38:52 |
| 88 | Ivo Claes | Belgium | 38:53 |
| 89 | Joël Bourgeois | Canada | 38:53 |
| 90 | Valdenor dos Santos | Brazil | 38:53 |
| 91 | Herman Decoux | Belgium | 38:54 |
| 92 | Jorge Márquez | Mexico | 38:54 |
| 93 | Jos Maes | Belgium | 38:55 |
| 94 | Shannon Butler | United States | 38:55 |
| 95 | Peter Brett | Australia | 38:56 |
| 96 | Worku Bikila | Ethiopia | 38:57 |
| 97 | Doug Cronkite | Canada | 38:57 |
| 98 | Marcel Versteeg | Netherlands | 38:58 |
| 99 | Klaus-Peter Hansen | Denmark | 38:59 |
| 100 | Boay Akoney | Tanzania | 39:00 |
| 101 | David Evans | Australia | 39:01 |
| 102 | Leonardo Malgor | Argentina | 39:02 |
| 103 | Henk Gommer | Netherlands | 39:02 |
| 104 | Tommy Murray | United Kingdom | 39:03 |
| 105 | Chris Weber | Canada | 39:04 |
| 106 | Raf Wijns | Belgium | 39:05 |
| 107 | Abraham Assefa | Ethiopia | 39:08 |
| 108 | Art Boileau | Canada | 39:10 |
| 109 | Hamid Essebani | Morocco | 39:12 |
| 110 | Steffen Dittmann | Germany | 39:14 |
| 111 | Werner Schildhauer | Germany | 39:15 |
| 112 | Farid Khayrullin | Commonwealth of Independent States | 39:16 |
| 113 | Simretu Alemayehu | Ethiopia | 39:17 |
| 114 | Rafael Muñoz | Mexico | 39:18 |
| 115 | Chris Robison | United Kingdom | 39:19 |
| 116 | Manuel Matias | Portugal | 39:20 |
| 117 | Andrea Erni | Switzerland | 39:21 |
| 118 | Frank Hanley | Ireland | 39:21 |
| 119 | Aleksandr Burtsev | Commonwealth of Independent States | 39:22 |
| 120 | Dan Nelson | United States | 39:23 |
| 121 | Martin Bremer | Germany | 39:24 |
| 122 | Luis Ibarra | Brazil | 39:26 |
| 123 | Visa Orttenvuori | Finland | 39:27 |
| 124 | Aart Stigter | Netherlands | 39:29 |
| 125 | Aleksandr Mikitenko | Commonwealth of Independent States | 39:30 |
| 126 | Rod de Highden | Australia | 39:34 |
| 127 | Paul O'Callaghan | Ireland | 39:36 |
| 128 | Antoni Niemczak | Poland | 39:37 |
| 129 | Milfred Tewawina | United States | 39:40 |
| 130 | Hansjörg Brücker | Switzerland | 39:41 |
| 131 | Kidane Gebrmichael | Ethiopia | 39:41 |
| 132 | Vanderlei de Lima | Brazil | 39:42 |
| 133 | Sergey Maksimov | Commonwealth of Independent States | 39:43 |
| 134 | Paul McCloy | Canada | 39:43 |
| 135 | Oscar Amaya | Argentina | 39:44 |
| 136 | Koji Numata | Japan | 39:44 |
| 137 | Oscar González | Venezuela | 39:44 |
| 138 | Markku Kyyrönen | Finland | 39:45 |
| 139 | Maximino Ayala | Mexico | 39:45 |
| 140 | Rolando Vera | Ecuador | 39:47 |
| 141 | Herman Hofstee | Netherlands | 39:48 |
| 142 | Michał Bartoszak | Poland | 39:51 |
| 143 | Abderrahim Zitouna | Morocco | 39:53 |
| 144 | Jan Korevaar | Netherlands | 39:54 |
| 145 | Arnold Mächler | Switzerland | 39:55 |
| 146 | Akira Nakamura | Japan | 39:56 |
| 147 | Juan Ramón Muñoz | Spain | 39:56 |
| 148 | Juma Mnyampanda | Tanzania | 39:57 |
| 149 | Sven Schottman | Germany | 39:58 |
| 150 | Richard Mulligan | Ireland | 39:59 |
| 151 | Clair Wathier | Brazil | 39:59 |
| 152 | Rob Lonergan | Canada | 40:00 |
| 153 | Arturo Benavides | Mexico | 40:01 |
| 154 | Takeharu Honda | Japan | 40:02 |
| 155 | Winston Muzini | Zimbabwe | 40:02 |
| 156 | Marco Gielen | Netherlands | 40:03 |
| 157 | Jürg Stalder | Switzerland | 40:03 |
| 158 | Mark Elliott | Jamaica | 40:04 |
| 159 | Marcelo Cascabelo | Argentina | 40:09 |
| 160 | James Stafford | Canada | 40:11 |
| 161 | Nico Hamers | Netherlands | 40:13 |
| 162 | Brighton Chipere | Zimbabwe | 40:16 |
| 163 | Ikaji Salum | Tanzania | 40:19 |
| 164 | Noel Richardson | Ireland | 40:21 |
| 165 | Paul Arthur | Australia | 40:27 |
| 166 | Elarbi Khattabi | Morocco | 40:33 |
| 167 | Stéphane Franke | Germany | 40:35 |
| 168 | Toshinari Takaoka | Japan | 40:36 |
| 169 | Antanas Stancius | Lithuania | 40:38 |
| 170 | Andrey Usachov | Commonwealth of Independent States | 40:42 |
| 171 | Patrick Billette | Canada | 40:54 |
| 172 | Otoniel dos Santos | Brazil | 40:57 |
| 173 | Pascal Fetizon | France | 40:59 |
| 174 | Mike McGowan | Canada | 41:01 |
| 175 | Carlos Naput | Argentina | 41:02 |
| 176 | Adalberto Garcia | Brazil | 41:05 |
| 177 | Linton McKenzie | Jamaica | 41:12 |
| 178 | Geraldo Francisco de Assis | Brazil | 41:20 |
| 179 | Thomas Robert Naali | Tanzania | 41:27 |
| 180 | Hideyuki Suzuki | Japan | 41:41 |
| 181 | Paolo Donati | Italy | 41:44 |
| 182 | Ally Jumbe | Tanzania | 41:46 |
| 183 | Igor Sidorenko | Commonwealth of Independent States | 41:52 |
| 184 | Einius Vadapolas | Lithuania | 41:58 |
| 185 | Kuan Yuan-Shun | Chinese Taipei | 42:09 |
| 186 | Madan Singh | India | 42:12 |
| 187 | Bahadur Prasad | India | 42:19 |
| 188 | Passmore Furusa | Zimbabwe | 42:25 |
| 189 | Daniel Dasta | Israel | 42:26 |
| 190 | Miguel Ubaldo | Mexico | 42:46 |
| 191 | Delroy Hayden | Jamaica | 43:03 |
| 192 | Tsai Ching-Chou | Chinese Taipei | 43:06 |
| 193 | Osias Kamlase | Indonesia | 43:08 |
| 194 | Norval Jones | Jamaica | 43:20 |
| 195 | Georgios Loucaides | Cyprus | 43:23 |
| 196 | Kavin Smith | Bermuda | 43:25 |
| 197 | Gray Maverha | Zimbabwe | 43:28 |
| 198 | Derick Adamson | Jamaica | 43:30 |
| 199 | Kenneth Richards | Jamaica | 43:33 |
| 200 | Davendra Pradesh Singh | Fiji | 43:35 |
| 201 | Syarifudin | Indonesia | 43:37 |
| 202 | Ethel Hudzon | Indonesia | 43:39 |
| 203 | U.I. Saini | India | 44:20 |
| 204 | Patrick Moonsamy | Mauritius | 44:23 |
| 205 | Hon Kwai Kwok | Hong Kong | 44:26 |
| 206 | Pascal Face | Mauritius | 44:29 |
| 207 | Parluatan Siregar | Indonesia | 44:31 |
| 208 | Tracy Wright | Bermuda | 44:50 |
| 209 | Leela Ram | India | 44:57 |
| 210 | Eduard Nabunone | Indonesia | 45:53 |
| 211 | Ram Lal | India | 46:32 |
| 212 | Atmaram | India | 46:33 |
| 213 | Ashok Kumar | Fiji | 46:34 |
| 214 | Subeno | Indonesia | 46:41 |
| 215 | Bineshwar Prasad | Fiji | 46:45 |
| 216 | Moses Zarak Khan | Fiji | 46:48 |
| 217 | Prosnattam Lal | Fiji | 47:02 |
| 218 | Harsur Jiva | Fiji | 48:11 |
| 219 | Mahendra Prasad | Fiji | 48:54 |
| — | Paul Arpin | France | DNF |
| — | Arturo Barrios | Mexico | DNF |
| — | Aïssa Belaout | Algeria | DNF |
| — | Philimon Hanneck | Zimbabwe | DNF |
| — | Stefano Mei | Italy | DNF |
| — | Joaquim Pinheiro | Portugal | DNF |
| — | Jörgen Salo | Finland | DNF |
| — | Andrew Sambu | Tanzania | DNF |
| — | Antonio Silio | Argentina | DNF |
| — | Diomede Cishahayo | Burundi | DNF |
| — | Are Nakkim | Norway | DNF |
| — | Mickael Dufermont | France | DNF |
| — | Ricky Waichoon | Mauritius | DNF |
| — | Arega Aberaha | Ethiopia | DNF |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya John Ngugi1 William Mutwol2 Richard Chelimo5 Dominic Kirui7 William Sigei8 Ondoro Osoro23 (Sammy Lelei)(77) | 46 |
| | France Thierry Pantel9 Bruno Le Stum10 Antonio Martins12 Pascal Thiébaut21 Jean-Louis Prianon45 Antonio Rapisarda48 (Pascal Fetizon)(173) (Paul Arpin)(DNF) (Mickael Dufermont)(DNF) | 145 |
| | United Kingdom Richard Nerurkar15 Eamonn Martin17 Dave Clarke20 Andy Bristow26 Paul Dugdale33 Mark Dalloway36 (Paul Roden)(85) (Tommy Murray)(104) (Chris Robison)(115) | 147 |
| 4 | Spain Pere Arco16 Martín Fiz24 José Manuel García27 José Carlos Adán28 Carlos de la Torre37 Antonio Pérez39 (José Ramon Moreno)(70) (Francisco Guerra)(80) (Juan Ramón Muñoz)(147) | 171 |
| 5 | Italy Renato Gotti29 Francesco Bennici31 Christian Leuprecht32 Salvatore Bettiol35 Umberto Pusterla38 Vincenzo Modica81 (Enrico Vivian)(86) (Paolo Donati)(181) (Stefano Mei)(DNF) | 246 |
| 6 | Morocco Khalid Skah4 Hammou Boutayeb22 Mohamed El Massoudi42 Brahim Boutayeb56 Salah Hissou57 Lahoussine Siba66 (Hamid Essebani)(109) (Abderrahim Zitouna)(143) (Elarbi Khattabi)(166) | 247 |
| 7 | Portugal Domingos Castro11 José Regalo14 António Pinto25 Dionísio Castro62 Fernando Couto68 Juvenal Ribeiro69 (Paulo Guerra)(84) (Manuel Matias)(116) (Joaquim Pinheiro)(DNF) | 249 |
| 8 | United States Todd Williams19 Mark Coogan34 Kenneth Martin41 Paul Aufdemberge44 William Taylor49 Brad Barquist76 (Shannon Butler)(94) (Dan Nelson)(120) (Milfred Tewawina)(129) | 263 |
| 9 | Australia Steve Moneghetti6 Pat Carroll47 Shaun Creighton58 Rodney Higgins65 Colin Dalton83 Peter Brett95 (David Evans)(101) (Rod de Highden)(126) (Paul Arthur)(165) | 354 |
| 10 | Ethiopia Fita Bayissa3 Getaneh Tessema59 Chala Kelele73 Addis Abebe87 Worku Bikila96 Abraham Assefa107 (Simretu Alemayehu)(113) (Kidane Gebrmichael)(131) (Arega Aberaha)(DNF) | 425 |
| 11 | Ireland Gerry Curtis46 John Downes55 Sean Dollman64 Seamus Power72 Noel Berkeley75 Frank Hanley118 (Paul O'Callaghan)(127) (Richard Mulligan)(150) (Noel Richardson)(164) | 430 |
| 12 | Germany Rainer Wachenbrunner30 Bernd Bürger50 Dieter Baumann52 Jens Karrass79 Steffen Dittmann110 Werner Schildhauer111 (Martin Bremer)(121) (Sven Schottman)(149) (Stéphane Franke)(167) | 432 |
| 13 | Belgium Vincent Rousseau18 Ruddy Walem63 Ivo Claes88 Herman Decoux91 Jos Maes93 Raf Wijns106 | 459 |
| 14 | Canada Joël Bourgeois89 Doug Cronkite97 Chris Weber105 Art Boileau108 Paul McCloy134 Rob Lonergan152 (James Stafford)(160) (Patrick Billette)(171) (Mike McGowan)(174) | 685 |
| 15 | Commonwealth of Independent States Oleg Strizhakov67 Farid Khayrullin112 Aleksandr Burtsev119 Aleksandr Mikitenko125 Sergey Maksimov133 Andrey Usachov170 (Igor Sidorenko)(183) | 726 |
| 16 | Brazil Benedito Gomes71 Valdenor dos Santos90 Luis Ibarra122 Vanderlei de Lima132 Clair Wathier151 Otoniel dos Santos172 (Adalberto Garcia)(176) (Geraldo Francisco de Assis)(178) | 738 |
| 17 | Netherlands Marcel Versteeg98 Henk Gommer103 Aart Stigter124 Herman Hofstee141 Jan Korevaar144 Marco Gielen156 (Nico Hamers)(161) | 766 |
| 18 | Japan Kenjiro Jitsui74 Koji Numata136 Akira Nakamura146 Takeharu Honda154 Toshinari Takaoka168 Hideyuki Suzuki180 | 858 |
| 19 | Jamaica Mark Elliott158 Linton McKenzie177 Delroy Hayden191 Norval Jones194 Derick Adamson198 Kenneth Richards199 | 1117 |
| 20 | India Madan Singh186 Bahadur Prasad187 U.I. Saini203 Leela Ram209 Ram Lal211 Atmaram212 | 1208 |
| 21 | Indonesia Osias Kamlase193 Syarifudin201 Ethel Hudzon202 Parluatan Siregar207 Eduard Nabunone210 Subeno214 | 1227 |
| 22 | Fiji Davendra Pradesh Singh200 Ashok Kumar213 Bineshwar Prasad215 Moses Zarak Khan216 Prosnattam Lal217 Harsur Jiva218 (Mahendra Prasad)(219) | 1279 |
| DNF | Mexico Jorge Márquez(92) Rafael Muñoz(114) Maximino Ayala(139) Arturo Benavides(153) Miguel Ubaldo(190) Arturo Barrios(DNF) | DNF |
| DNF | Zimbabwe Tendai Chimusasa(40) Winston Muzini(155) Brighton Chipere(162) Passmore Furusa(188) Gray Maverha(197) Philimon Hanneck(DNF) | DNF |
| DNF | Tanzania Boay Akoney(100) Juma Mnyampanda(148) Ikaji Salum(163) Thomas Robert Naali(179) Ally Jumbe(182) Andrew Sambu(DNF) | DNF |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 233 athletes from 46 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
* Algeria (1)
* Argentina (5)
* Australia (9)
* Belgium (6)
* Bermuda (2)
* Brazil (8)
* Burundi (2)
* Canada (9)
* Chinese Taipei (2)
* Colombia (1)
* Commonwealth of Independent States (7)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czechoslovakia (1)
* Denmark (2)
* Ecuador (1)
* Ethiopia (9)
* Fiji (7)
* Finland (4)
* France (9)
* Germany (9)
* Hong Kong (1)
* India (6)
* Indonesia (6)
* Ireland (9)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (9)
* Jamaica (6)
* Japan (6)
* Kenya (7)
* Lithuania (2)
* Mauritius (3)
* Mexico (6)
* Morocco (9)
* Netherlands (7)
* New Zealand (1)
* Norway (2)
* Poland (2)
* Portugal (9)
* Rwanda (1)
* Spain (9)
* Switzerland (5)
* Tanzania (6)
* United Kingdom (9)
* United States (9)
* Venezuela (1)
* Zimbabwe (6)