# 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 21, 2004. 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 |
| | Meba Tadesse | Ethiopia | 24:01 |
| | Boniface Kiprop | Uganda | 24:03 |
| | Ernest Meli Kimeli | Kenya | 24:16 |
| 4 | Barnabas Kosgei | Kenya | 24:24 |
| 5 | Mulugeta Wendimu | Ethiopia | 24:44 |
| 6 | Hosea Macharinyang | Kenya | 24:51 |
| 7 | Ronald Rutto | Kenya | 25:04 |
| 8 | Moses Aliwa | Uganda | 25:08 |
| 9 | Tessema Absher | Ethiopia | 25:12 |
| 10 | Yirefu Birhanu | Ethiopia | 25:18 |
| 11 | Harbert Okuti | Uganda | 25:21 |
| 12 | Nicholas Kwemoi | Uganda | 25:22 |
| 13 | Said El Medouly | Morocco | 25:22 |
| 14 | Mohamed Moustaoui | Morocco | 25:25 |
| 15 | Mohamed Kallouche | Morocco | 25:29 |
| 16 | Moses Masai | Kenya | 25:31 |
| 17 | Hidekazu Sato | Japan | 25:36 |
| 18 | Yegeniy Rybakov | Russia | 25:36 |
| 19 | Yassine Mandour | Morocco | 25:43 |
| 20 | Kabtamu Reta | Ethiopia | 25:45 |
| 21 | Stanley Kipkosgei Salil | Kenya | 25:50 |
| 22 | Henok Lechebo | Canada | 26:00 |
| 23 | Moulay Abdelhak Sabhi | Morocco | 26:01 |
| 24 | Satoru Kitamura | Japan | 26:03 |
| 25 | Nkosinoxolo Sonqibido | South Africa | 26:04 |
| 26 | Aïssa Dahmar | Algeria | 26:07 |
| 27 | Yonas Mebrahtu | Eritrea | 26:14 |
| 28 | Yuki Matsuoka | Japan | 26:17 |
| 29 | Mandla Maseko | South Africa | 26:19 |
| 30 | Marcin Chabowski | Poland | 26:19 |
| 31 | Driss Bouaoui | Morocco | 26:21 |
| 32 | Ahmed Bakry | Egypt | 26:24 |
| 33 | Mohamed El Gayar | Egypt | 26:26 |
| 34 | Ryan Deak | United States | 26:27 |
| 35 | Abdelhalim Boukandoul | Algeria | 26:27 |
| 36 | Yuichiro Ueno | Japan | 26:28 |
| 37 | Forrest Tahdooahnippah | United States | 26:29 |
| 38 | Anatoliy Rybakov | Russia | 26:30 |
| 39 | Amer Ayyad Helil | Egypt | 26:37 |
| 40 | Hideaki Date | Japan | 26:38 |
| 41 | Mike Tebulo | Malawi | 26:39 |
| 42 | Mario van Wayenberghe | Belgium | 26:40 |
| 43 | Mark Christie | Ireland | 26:42 |
| 44 | Łukasz Parszczyński | Poland | 26:44 |
| 45 | Djelloul Aggoun | Algeria | 26:45 |
| 46 | Yuki Sato | Japan | 26:47 |
| 47 | Illya Sukharyev | Ukraine | 26:47 |
| 48 | Andrew Ledwith | Ireland | 26:50 |
| 49 | Joshua McDougal | United States | 26:50 |
| 50 | Keith Gerrard | United Kingdom | 26:52 |
| 51 | Samir Khadar | Algeria | 26:56 |
| 52 | Stefan Patru | Romania | 26:58 |
| 53 | Alejandro Fernández | Spain | 26:59 |
| 54 | Mogos Ahferom | Eritrea | 27:01 |
| 55 | John Janson | United States | 27:03 |
| 56 | Hamza Djeghima | Algeria | 27:04 |
| 57 | Gilialdo Koball | Brazil | 27:06 |
| 58 | Tadesse Abrham | Eritrea | 27:07 |
| 59 | Dmitriy Matiushkin | Russia | 27:07 |
| 60 | Trent Hoerr | United States | 27:08 |
| 61 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 27:08 |
| 62 | Yohan Durand | France | 27:09 |
| 63 | Gary Davenport | United Kingdom | 27:11 |
| 64 | Aleksey Tolstenkov | Russia | 27:11 |
| 65 | Andrew Vernon | United Kingdom | 27:12 |
| 66 | Nuno Costa | Portugal | 27:14 |
| 67 | Michael Brandenbourg | Belgium | 27:21 |
| 68 | Javier García | Spain | 27:22 |
| 69 | Sergiy Trokhymenko | Ukraine | 27:25 |
| 70 | Yauheni Muchynski | Belarus | 27:27 |
| 71 | Barae Hhera | Tanzania | 27:28 |
| 72 | Bernard Dematteis | Italy | 27:30 |
| 73 | Samuel Pawluk | Canada | 27:32 |
| 74 | Simon Tesfai | Eritrea | 27:32 |
| 75 | Ruslan Nasyrov | Uzbekistan | 27:35 |
| 76 | Luis Alberto Marco | Spain | 27:37 |
| 77 | Abderrahmen Kherfouce | Algeria | 27:38 |
| 78 | Chris Lamb | United Kingdom | 27:39 |
| 79 | Gert van Poucke | Belgium | 27:40 |
| 80 | Nkululeko Zamisa | South Africa | 27:42 |
| 81 | Ian Burrell | United States | 27:42 |
| 82 | David Wishart | Canada | 27:43 |
| 83 | Ahmed Abod | Egypt | 27:45 |
| 84 | Ajmal Amirov | Tajikistan | 27:48 |
| 85 | Michel Butter | Netherlands | 27:51 |
| 86 | Franky Hernould | Belgium | 27:53 |
| 87 | Chris Winter | Canada | 27:53 |
| 88 | Shaaun Krawitz | New Zealand | 27:54 |
| 89 | Mike Woods | Canada | 27:56 |
| 90 | Cene Subic | Slovenia | 27:59 |
| 91 | Sebastien Dewitte | Belgium | 28:00 |
| 92 | Antoine de Wilde | France | 28:03 |
| 93 | Kemal Koyunku | Turkey | 28:05 |
| 94 | Dovran Amandjayev | Turkmenistan | 28:08 |
| 95 | Tomás Tajadura | Spain | 28:13 |
| 96 | Alois Moutardier | France | 28:16 |
| 97 | Aaron Robson | Canada | 28:22 |
| 98 | Piet Mokoena | South Africa | 28:22 |
| 99 | Oleksandr Perepecha | Ukraine | 28:23 |
| 100 | José Alberto Martin | Spain | 28:29 |
| 101 | Denides Vélez | Puerto Rico | 28:33 |
| 102 | Denis Kochetkov | Russia | 28:44 |
| 103 | José Antonio Uribe | Mexico | 28:44 |
| 104 | Balázs Ott | Hungary | 28:49 |
| 105 | Alfred Moyakhe | South Africa | 28:50 |
| 106 | Alexander de Jesús | Puerto Rico | 28:51 |
| 107 | Anthony Moran | United Kingdom | 28:55 |
| 108 | Jean-Pierre Weerts | Belgium | 29:00 |
| 109 | Godfrey Ramokone | South Africa | 29:06 |
| 110 | Juan C. Morales | Puerto Rico | 29:08 |
| 111 | Jonathan Thewlis | United Kingdom | 29:13 |
| 112 | Vladyslav Taran | Ukraine | 29:19 |
| 113 | Juan Bote | Spain | 29:28 |
| 114 | Alain McLaren | Switzerland | 29:54 |
| 115 | Blaz Zelic | Croatia | 30:17 |
| 116 | Omar Abusaid | Palestine | 30:18 |
| 117 | Ricardo Estremera | Puerto Rico | 31:14 |
| 118 | Radheshyam Kawang | Nepal | 31:24 |
| — | Stefano La Rosa | Italy | DNF |
| — | Abdellatif Kamal | France | DNF |
| — | Dema Weyessa | Ethiopia | DNS |
| — | Sory Fofana | Guinea | DNS |
| — | Ivan Muhwezi | Uganda | DNS |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya Ernest Meli Kimeli3 Barnabas Kosgei4 Hosea Macharinyang6 Ronald Rutto7 (Moses Masai)(16) (Stanley Kipkosgei Salil)(21) | 20 |
| | Ethiopia Meba Tadesse1 Mulugeta Wendimu5 Tessema Absher9 Yirefu Birhanu10 (Kabtamu Reta)(20) | 25 |
| | Uganda Boniface Kiprop2 Moses Aliwa8 Harbert Okuti11 Nicholas Kwemoi12 | 33 |
| 4 | Morocco Said El Medouly13 Mohamed Moustaoui14 Mohamed Kallouche15 Yassine Mandour19 (Moulay Abdelhak Sabhi)(23) (Driss Bouaoui)(31) | 61 |
| 5 | Japan Hidekazu Sato17 Satoru Kitamura24 Yuki Matsuoka28 Yuichiro Ueno36 (Hideaki Date)(40) (Yuki Sato)(46) | 105 |
| 6 | Algeria Aïssa Dahmar26 Abdelhalim Boukandoul35 Djelloul Aggoun45 Samir Khadar51 (Hamza Djeghima)(56) (Abderrahmen Kherfouce)(77) | 157 |
| 7 | United States Ryan Deak34 Forrest Tahdooahnippah37 Joshua McDougal49 John Janson55 (Trent Hoerr)(60) (Ian Burrell)(81) | 175 |
| 8 | Russia Yegeniy Rybakov18 Anatoliy Rybakov38 Dmitriy Matiushkin59 Aleksey Tolstenkov64 (Denis Kochetkov)(102) | 179 |
| 9 | Egypt Ahmed Bakry32 Mohamed El Gayar33 Amer Ayyad Helil39 Ahmed Abod83 | 187 |
| 10 | Eritrea Yonas Mebrahtu27 Mogos Ahferom54 Tadesse Abrham58 Simon Tesfai74 | 213 |
| 11 | South Africa Nkosinoxolo Sonqibido25 Mandla Maseko29 Nkululeko Zamisa80 Piet Mokoena98 (Alfred Moyakhe)(105) (Godfrey Ramokone)(109) | 232 |
| 12 | United Kingdom Keith Gerrard50 Gary Davenport63 Andrew Vernon65 Chris Lamb78 (Anthony Moran)(107) (Jonathan Thewlis)(111) | 256 |
| 13 | Canada Henok Lechebo22 Samuel Pawluk73 David Wishart82 Chris Winter87 (Mike Woods)(89) (Aaron Robson)(97) | 264 |
| 14 | Belgium Mario van Wayenberghe42 Michael Brandenbourg67 Gert van Poucke79 Franky Hernould86 (Sebastien Dewitte)(91) (Jean-Pierre Weerts)(108) | 274 |
| 15 | Spain Alejandro Fernández53 Javier García68 Luis Alberto Marco76 Tomás Tajadura95 (José Alberto Martin)(100) (Juan Bote)(113) | 292 |
| 16 | France Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad61 Yohan Durand62 Antoine de Wilde92 Alois Moutardier96 (Abdellatif Kamal)(DNF) | 311 |
| 17 | Ukraine Illya Sukharyev47 Sergiy Trokhymenko69 Oleksandr Perepecha99 Vladyslav Taran112 | 327 |
| 18 | Puerto Rico Denides Vélez101 Alexander de Jesús106 Juan C. Morales110 Ricardo Estremera117 | 434 |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 120 athletes from 40 countries participated in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athlete from Guinea did not show.
* Algeria (6)
* Belarus (1)
* Belgium (6)
* Brazil (1)
* Canada (6)
* Croatia (1)
* Egypt (4)
* Eritrea (4)
* Ethiopia (5)
* France (5)
* Hungary (1)
* Ireland (2)
* Italy (2)
* Japan (6)
* Kenya (6)
* Malawi (1)
* Mexico (1)
* Morocco (6)
* Nepal (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* Palestine (1)
* Poland (2)
* Portugal (1)
* Puerto Rico (4)
* Romania (1)
* Russia (5)
* Slovenia (1)
* South Africa (6)
* Spain (6)
* Switzerland (1)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Tanzania (1)
* Turkey (1)
* Turkmenistan (1)
* Uganda (4)
* Ukraine (4)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (1)