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

The Senior 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
### Senior men's race (12 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Kenenisa Bekele | Ethiopia | 35:52 |
| | Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam | Ethiopia | 36:10 |
| | Sileshi Sihine | Ethiopia | 36:11 |
| 4 | Eliud Kipchoge | Kenya | 36:34 |
| 5 | Charles Kamathi | Kenya | 36:36 |
| 6 | Zersenay Tadesse | Eritrea | 36:37 |
| 7 | Fabiano Joseph | Tanzania | 36:49 |
| 8 | Yibeltal Admassu | Ethiopia | 36:52 |
| 9 | Yonas Kifle | Eritrea | 36:53 |
| 10 | Wilberforce Talel | Kenya | 37:01 |
| 11 | John Cheruiyot Korir | Kenya | 37:03 |
| 12 | Hicham Chatt | Morocco | 37:09 |
| 13 | Craig Mottram | Australia | 37:10 |
| 14 | Abderrahim Goumri | Morocco | 37:17 |
| 15 | Tibebu Yenew | Ethiopia | 37:26 |
| 16 | Saïd El Wardi | Morocco | 37:29 |
| 17 | El Hassan Lahssini | France | 37:30 |
| 18 | Dieudonné Disi | Rwanda | 37:36 |
| 19 | Jon Brown | United Kingdom | 37:38 |
| 20 | Stephen Rogart | Tanzania | 37:41 |
| 21 | Lee Troop | Australia | 37:43 |
| 22 | Tesfayohannes Mesfen | Eritrea | 37:45 |
| 23 | Daniel Andrew Sipe | Tanzania | 37:50 |
| 24 | Ridha El Amri | Tunisia | 37:52 |
| 25 | Cutbert Nyasango | Zimbabwe | 37:52 |
| 26 | Ahmed Baday | Morocco | 37:54 |
| 27 | Simion Tuitoek | Kenya | 37:54 |
| 28 | Giuliano Battocletti | Italy | 37:58 |
| 29 | Samson Kiflemariam | Eritrea | 37:59 |
| 30 | Steve Moneghetti | Australia | 38:01 |
| 31 | Tom Compernolle | Belgium | 38:02 |
| 32 | Richard Limo | Kenya | 38:03 |
| 33 | Ricardo Serrano | Spain | 38:08 |
| 34 | Abdi Abdirahman | United States | 38:09 |
| 35 | Jean Baptiste Simukeka | Rwanda | 38:10 |
| 36 | Ketema Nigusse | Ethiopia | 38:14 |
| 37 | Brett Cartwright | Australia | 38:15 |
| 38 | Khalid Zoubaa | France | 38:22 |
| 39 | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 38:23 |
| 40 | Makoto Otsu | Japan | 38:23 |
| 41 | Mauricio Díaz | Chile | 38:25 |
| 42 | José Manuel Martínez | Spain | 38:27 |
| 43 | Ben Noad | United Kingdom | 38:27 |
| 44 | Bob Kennedy | United States | 38:28 |
| 45 | Andrew Letherby | Australia | 38:28 |
| 46 | Michael Ngaaseke | Zimbabwe | 38:30 |
| 47 | Fernando Silva | Portugal | 38:33 |
| 48 | Boiphemelo Selagaboy | Botswana | 38:35 |
| 49 | Jean Bosco Ndagijimana | Rwanda | 38:36 |
| 50 | Glynn Tromans | United Kingdom | 38:36 |
| 51 | Richard Brinker | United States | 38:36 |
| 52 | Alejandro Gómez | Spain | 38:37 |
| 53 | Kaelo Mosalagae | Botswana | 38:39 |
| 54 | Augusto Gomes | France | 38:39 |
| 55 | Obed Mutanya | Zambia | 38:42 |
| 56 | Manuel Silva | Portugal | 38:44 |
| 57 | Carles Castillejo | Spain | 38:46 |
| 58 | Rob Whalley | United Kingdom | 38:47 |
| 59 | Loïc Letellier | France | 38:49 |
| 60 | Rik Ceulemans | Belgium | 38:50 |
| 61 | Alfredo Bráz | Portugal | 38:52 |
| 62 | Rachid Safari | Rwanda | 38:53 |
| 63 | Ridouane Harroufi | Morocco | 38:57 |
| 64 | Piet Desmet | Belgium | 38:58 |
| 65 | Francis Khanje | Malawi | 39:00 |
| 66 | Joseph Simuchimba | Zambia | 39:00 |
| 67 | Joël Bourgeois | Canada | 39:01 |
| 68 | Musa Ninga | Tanzania | 39:01 |
| 69 | Hans Janssens | Belgium | 39:08 |
| 70 | Luís Feiteira | Portugal | 39:10 |
| 71 | Gabalebe Moloko | Botswana | 39:16 |
| 72 | Mark Kenneally | Ireland | 39:17 |
| 73 | Yu Mitsuya | Japan | 39:20 |
| 74 | Tekle Menghisteab | Eritrea | 39:20 |
| 75 | Peter Matthews | Ireland | 39:21 |
| 76 | Quentin Jarmuszewicz | France | 39:23 |
| 77 | Keenetse Moswasi | Botswana | 39:25 |
| 78 | Kenta Oshima | Japan | 39:25 |
| 79 | Patrick Stitzinger | Netherlands | 39:28 |
| 80 | Han Gang | China | 39:29 |
| 81 | Matt Johnston | Canada | 39:29 |
| 82 | Dave Davis | United States | 39:30 |
| 83 | Vinny Mulvey | Ireland | 39:30 |
| 84 | Valens Bivahagumye | Rwanda | 39:31 |
| 85 | Krijn Van Koolwyk | Belgium | 39:33 |
| 86 | Masayuki Obata | Japan | 39:33 |
| 87 | Tiyapo Maso | Botswana | 39:34 |
| 88 | Claudir Rodrigues | Brazil | 39:43 |
| 89 | Koen van Rie | Belgium | 39:46 |
| 90 | Rees Buck | New Zealand | 39:48 |
| 91 | Billy Farquharson | United Kingdom | 39:55 |
| 92 | Shane Nankervis | Australia | 40:02 |
| 93 | Nolan Swanson | United States | 40:03 |
| 94 | Vincent Hatuleke | Zambia | 40:03 |
| 95 | Ernest Ndjissipou | Central African Republic | 40:04 |
| 96 | Faustin Baha | Tanzania | 40:04 |
| 97 | Ahmed El Asery | France | 40:09 |
| 98 | Chris Thompson | United Kingdom | 40:09 |
| 99 | Richard Arias | Ecuador | 40:10 |
| 100 | Cesar Pilaluisa | Ecuador | 40:12 |
| 101 | Chen Mingfu | China | 40:15 |
| 102 | Dermot Donnelly | Ireland | 40:22 |
| 103 | Andrey Chigidinov | Kazakhstan | 40:25 |
| 104 | Edgar Chancusig | Ecuador | 40:29 |
| 105 | Ricardo Ribas | Portugal | 40:30 |
| 106 | Killian Lonergan | Ireland | 40:33 |
| 107 | Jeremy Deere | Canada | 40:43 |
| 108 | Joshua Eberly | United States | 41:03 |
| 109 | Mcmillan Mwansa | Zambia | 41:05 |
| 110 | Steve Osadiuk | Canada | 41:11 |
| 111 | Taylor Murphy | Canada | 41:12 |
| 112 | Cirino Abong | Uganda | 41:16 |
| 113 | Santiago Reyes | Guatemala | 41:38 |
| 114 | Maxim Malenkih | Kyrgyzstan | 41:57 |
| 115 | Ananda Man Shrestha | Nepal | 42:23 |
| 116 | Vasiliy Medvedev | Uzbekistan | 42:24 |
| 117 | Sokhibdjan Sharipov | Tajikistan | 42:28 |
| 118 | Marcos Rivera | Puerto Rico | 42:33 |
| 119 | Nariman Mammodov | Azerbaijan | 42:39 |
| 120 | Jan Kreisinger | Czech Republic | 42:48 |
| 121 | Omar Abdel Latif | Lebanon | 43:05 |
| 122 | Yang Weize | China | 43:08 |
| 123 | Deng Haiyang | China | 43:12 |
| 124 | William Boehlke | U.S. Virgin Islands | 43:16 |
| 125 | Kemal Tuvakuliyev | Turkmenistan | 43:19 |
| 126 | Mohamed Salama | Palestine | 43:20 |
| 127 | Michael Booth | Canada | 43:21 |
| 128 | Cesar Condori | Bolivia | 45:31 |
| 129 | Wong Keng Fai | Macau | 49:51 |
| 130 | Wong Wang Keung | Hong Kong | 52:19 |
| — | Delfim Conceição | Portugal | DNF |
| — | Edgardo Caban | Puerto Rico | DNF |
| — | Byron Piedra | Ecuador | DNF |
| — | Alejandro Suárez | Mexico | DNF |
| — | Buenaventura Yanez | Equatorial Guinea | DNF |
| — | Abdellah Falil | Morocco | DNF |
| — | Egide Manirazika | Burundi | DNS |
| — | Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga | Burundi | DNS |
| — | Ghirma Woldu | Eritrea | DNS |
| — | Yoshitaka Iwamizu | Japan | DNS |
| — | Luis Alberto Miguel | Spain | DNS |
| — | Julius Gidabuday | Tanzania | DNS |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele1 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam2 Sileshi Sihine3 Yibeltal Admassu8 (Tibebu Yenew)(15) (Ketema Nigusse)(36) | 14 |
| | Kenya Eliud Kipchoge4 Charles Kamathi5 Wilberforce Talel10 John Cheruiyot Korir11 (Simion Tuitoek)(27) (Richard Limo)(32) | 30 |
| | Eritrea Zersenay Tadesse6 Yonas Kifle9 Tesfayohannes Mesfen22 Samson Kiflemariam29 (Tekle Menghisteab)(74) | 66 |
| 4 | Morocco Hicham Chatt12 Abderrahim Goumri14 Saïd El Wardi16 Ahmed Baday26 (Ridouane Harroufi)(63) (Abdellah Falil)(DNF) | 68 |
| 5 | Australia Craig Mottram13 Lee Troop21 Steve Moneghetti30 Brett Cartwright37 (Andrew Letherby)(45) (Shane Nankervis)(92) | 101 |
| 6 | Tanzania Fabiano Joseph7 Stephen Rogart20 Daniel Andrew Sipe23 Musa Ninga68 (Faustin Baha)(96) | 118 |
| 7 | Rwanda Dieudonné Disi18 Jean Baptiste Simukeka35 Jean Bosco Ndagijimana49 Rachid Safari62 (Valens Bivahagumye)(84) | 164 |
| 8 | Spain Ricardo Serrano33 Eliseo Martín39 José Manuel Martínez42 Alejandro Gómez52 (Carles Castillejo)(57) | 166 |
| 9 | France El Hassan Lahssini17 Khalid Zoubaa38 Augusto Gomes54 Loïc Letellier59 (Quentin Jarmuszewicz)(76) (Ahmed El Asery)(97) | 168 |
| 10 | United Kingdom Jon Brown19 Ben Noad43 Glynn Tromans50 Rob Whalley58 (Billy Farquharson)(91) (Chris Thompson)(98) | 170 |
| 11 | United States Abdi Abdirahman34 Bob Kennedy44 Richard Brinker51 Dave Davis82 (Nolan Swanson)(93) (Joshua Eberly)(108) | 211 |
| 12 | Belgium Tom Compernolle31 Rik Ceulemans60 Piet Desmet64 Hans Janssens69 (Krijn Van Koolwyk)(85) (Koen van Rie)(89) | 224 |
| 13 | Portugal Fernando Silva47 Manuel Silva56 Alfredo Bráz61 Luís Feiteira70 (Ricardo Ribas)(105) (Delfim Conceição)(DNF) | 234 |
| 14 | Botswana Boiphemelo Selagaboy48 Kaelo Mosalagae53 Gabalebe Moloko71 Keenetse Moswasi77 (Tiyapo Maso)(87) | 249 |
| 15 | Japan Makoto Otsu40 Yu Mitsuya73 Kenta Oshima78 Masayuki Obata86 | 277 |
| 16 | Zambia Obed Mutanya55 Joseph Simuchimba66 Vincent Hatuleke94 Mcmillan Mwansa109 | 324 |
| 17 | Ireland Mark Kenneally72 Peter Matthews75 Vinny Mulvey83 Dermot Donnelly102 (Killian Lonergan)(106) | 332 |
| 18 | Canada Joël Bourgeois67 Matt Johnston81 Jeremy Deere107 Steve Osadiuk110 (Taylor Murphy)(111) (Michael Booth)(127) | 365 |
| 19 | China Han Gang80 Chen Mingfu101 Yang Weize122 Deng Haiyang123 | 426 |
| DNF | Ecuador (Richard Arias)(99) (Cesar Pilaluisa)(100) (Edgar Chancusig)(104) (Byron Piedra)(DNF) | DNF |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 136 athletes from 48 countries participated in the Senior men's race. The announced athletes from Burundi did not show.
* Australia (6)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Belgium (6)
* Bolivia (1)
* Botswana (5)
* Brazil (1)
* Canada (6)
* Central African Republic (1)
* Chile (1)
* China (4)
* Czech Republic (1)
* Ecuador (4)
* Equatorial Guinea (1)
* Eritrea (5)
* Ethiopia (6)
* France (6)
* Guatemala (1)
* Hong Kong (1)
* Ireland (5)
* Italy (1)
* Japan (4)
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Kenya (6)
* Kyrgyzstan (1)
* Lebanon (1)
* Macau (1)
* Malawi (1)
* Mexico (1)
* Morocco (6)
* Nepal (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* Palestine (1)
* Portugal (6)
* Puerto Rico (2)
* Rwanda (5)
* Spain (5)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Tanzania (5)
* Tunisia (1)
* Turkmenistan (1)
* Uganda (1)
* United Kingdom (6)
* United States (6)
* U.S. Virgin Islands (1)
* Uzbekistan (1)
* Zambia (4)
* Zimbabwe (2)