# 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race

The Men's short race at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Ossegem Park in Brussels, Belgium, on March 20, 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
### Men's short race (4 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Kenenisa Bekele | Ethiopia | 11:31 |
| | Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam | Ethiopia | 11:36 |
| | Maregu Zewdie | Ethiopia | 11:42 |
| 4 | Abdullah Ahmed Hassan | Qatar | 11:44 |
| 5 | Saif Saeed Shaheen | Qatar | 11:44 |
| 6 | Eliud Kirui | Kenya | 11:45 |
| 7 | Isaac Songok | Kenya | 11:45 |
| 8 | Sultan Khamis Zaman | Qatar | 11:50 |
| 9 | Craig Mottram | Australia | 11:51 |
| 10 | Adil Kaouch | Morocco | 11:56 |
| 11 | Dejene Berhanu | Ethiopia | 11:56 |
| 12 | Tarek Boukensa | Algeria | 11:56 |
| 13 | Alejandro Suárez | Mexico | 11:57 |
| 14 | Carlos García | Spain | 11:58 |
| 15 | Bouabdallah Tahri | France | 11:58 |
| 16 | Alistair Cragg | Ireland | 11:58 |
| 17 | Kevin Sullivan | Canada | 11:58 |
| 18 | Paul Morrison | Canada | 11:59 |
| 19 | Abraham Chebii | Kenya | 11:59 |
| 20 | Kiplimo Muneria | Kenya | 12:00 |
| 21 | Boniface Kiprotich Songok | Kenya | 12:01 |
| 22 | Abdulaziz Al-Ameri | Qatar | 12:03 |
| 23 | Ali Al-Dawoodi | Qatar | 12:05 |
| 24 | Ridouane Es-Saadi | Belgium | 12:06 |
| 25 | Michael Power | Australia | 12:06 |
| 26 | Samir Moussaoui | Algeria | 12:06 |
| 27 | Damian Paul Chopa | Tanzania | 12:07 |
| 28 | Zouhair Ouerdi | Morocco | 12:09 |
| 29 | Hussen Adilo | Ethiopia | 12:10 |
| 30 | Hamid Ezzine | Morocco | 12:11 |
| 31 | Mohamed Awol | Ethiopia | 12:12 |
| 32 | John Kibowen | Kenya | 12:12 |
| 33 | Robert Gary | United States | 12:12 |
| 34 | Benoit Nicolas | France | 12:14 |
| 35 | Umberto Pusterla | Italy | 12:15 |
| 36 | Luke Watson | United States | 12:17 |
| 37 | Andy Graffin | United Kingdom | 12:19 |
| 38 | Mohamed Khaldi | Algeria | 12:20 |
| 39 | Amanuel Waldeselassie | Eritrea | 12:21 |
| 40 | Mário Teixeira | Portugal | 12:22 |
| 41 | Joël Bourgeois | Canada | 12:23 |
| 42 | Nick Willis | New Zealand | 12:23 |
| 43 | Nourreddine Bourfaa | Algeria | 12:23 |
| 44 | Cosimo Caliandro | Italy | 12:23 |
| 45 | Manuel Damião | Portugal | 12:23 |
| 46 | Sandu Rebenciuc | United States | 12:23 |
| 47 | Wim Borms | Belgium | 12:24 |
| 48 | Jared Cordes | United States | 12:24 |
| 49 | Antonio David Jiménez | Spain | 12:25 |
| 50 | Ali Abdalla | Eritrea | 12:25 |
| 51 | Ali Ezzine | Morocco | 12:26 |
| 52 | Ryan Hayden | Canada | 12:26 |
| 53 | Rafał Wójcik | Poland | 12:27 |
| 54 | Mourad Marofit | Morocco | 12:27 |
| 55 | José Maduro | Portugal | 12:27 |
| 56 | Cutbert Nyasango | Zimbabwe | 12:27 |
| 57 | Ahmed Naïli | Algeria | 12:28 |
| 58 | Ian Connor | United States | 12:29 |
| 59 | José Luis Blanco | Spain | 12:30 |
| 60 | Isaiah Festa | United States | 12:30 |
| 61 | Egide Manirazika | Burundi | 12:31 |
| 62 | Reid Coolsaet | Canada | 12:31 |
| 63 | Byron Piedra | Ecuador | 12:32 |
| 64 | Robert Connolly | Ireland | 12:32 |
| 65 | Lorenzo Perrone | Italy | 12:33 |
| 66 | Rui Silva | Portugal | 12:33 |
| 67 | Francis Munthali | Malawi | 12:34 |
| 68 | Aleksandr Sekletov | Russia | 12:35 |
| 69 | Habtai Kifletsion | Eritrea | 12:36 |
| 70 | Thomas Benz | Switzerland | 12:36 |
| 71 | Antonio Manuel Martínez | Spain | 12:36 |
| 72 | Isaac Viciosa | Spain | 12:37 |
| 73 | Daniel Vögeli | Switzerland | 12:37 |
| 74 | Gianni Crepaldi | Italy | 12:38 |
| 75 | Abdelhalim Zahraoui | Morocco | 12:38 |
| 76 | Jay Cantin | Canada | 12:38 |
| 77 | Licinio Pimentel | Portugal | 12:39 |
| 78 | Stijn van den Velde | Belgium | 12:39 |
| 79 | Sveinn Margeirsson | Iceland | 12:40 |
| 80 | El-Mokhtar Benhari | France | 12:40 |
| 81 | Aléxis Abraham | France | 12:40 |
| 82 | Walter Jenni | Switzerland | 12:41 |
| 83 | Musa Ninga | Tanzania | 12:42 |
| 84 | Cesar Pilaluisa | Ecuador | 12:42 |
| 85 | Boštjan Buč | Slovenia | 12:43 |
| 86 | Pavel Shapovalov | Russia | 12:43 |
| 87 | Rob Birchall | United Kingdom | 12:44 |
| 88 | Celso Ficagna | Brazil | 12:45 |
| 89 | Philipp Bandi | Switzerland | 12:45 |
| 90 | Rees Buck | New Zealand | 12:45 |
| 91 | Johan Vermeiren | Belgium | 12:45 |
| 92 | Aleksandr Orlov | Russia | 12:46 |
| 93 | Andrew Baddeley | United Kingdom | 12:46 |
| 94 | Nabil Ghoulam | France | 12:46 |
| 95 | Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin | Qatar | 12:49 |
| 96 | Yoshitaka Iwamizu | Japan | 12:50 |
| 97 | Jonathan Morales | Mexico | 12:50 |
| 98 | Aleksey Gurkin | Russia | 12:51 |
| 99 | Pedro Ribeiro | Portugal | 12:52 |
| 100 | Edgar Chancusig | Ecuador | 12:53 |
| 101 | Alastair Stevenson | Australia | 12:54 |
| 102 | Néstor Nieves | Venezuela | 12:56 |
| 103 | Michael Shelley | Australia | 13:00 |
| 104 | Frédéric Desmedt | Belgium | 13:01 |
| 105 | Abrha Adhanom | Eritrea | 13:03 |
| 106 | Halil Akkaş | Turkey | 13:03 |
| 107 | Yair Cedazo | Mexico | 13:03 |
| 108 | Víctor Martínez | Andorra | 13:06 |
| 109 | Michael Maechler | Switzerland | 13:06 |
| 110 | Denis Bagrev | Kyrgyzstan | 13:08 |
| 111 | Richard Arias | Ecuador | 13:09 |
| 112 | Cayetano Hernandez | Mexico | 13:09 |
| 113 | Sergio Gallardo | Spain | 13:12 |
| 114 | Micxhael Tesfay | Eritrea | 13:14 |
| 115 | David Ruschena | Australia | 13:17 |
| 116 | Tom van Rooy | Belgium | 13:18 |
| 117 | Miguel Ángel García | Venezuela | 13:19 |
| 118 | Björn Margeirsson | Iceland | 13:20 |
| 119 | Alexandr Sinitsyn | Kazakhstan | 13:21 |
| 120 | Hussein Awada | Lebanon | 13:23 |
| 121 | Stephen Rogart | Tanzania | 13:24 |
| 122 | Josep Sansa | Andorra | 13:24 |
| 123 | Pius Stucki | Switzerland | 13:26 |
| 124 | Nader Al-Nasry | Palestine | 13:27 |
| 125 | Alexander Greaux | Puerto Rico | 13:28 |
| 126 | Simon Labiche | Seychelles | 13:29 |
| 127 | Moisés Iñiguez | Mexico | 13:29 |
| 128 | Nozimjon Irmatov | Tajikistan | 13:31 |
| 129 | Dario Nemec | Croatia | 13:31 |
| 130 | Agzam Aliyev | Uzbekistan | 13:33 |
| 131 | Misgina Kifleyesus | Eritrea | 13:45 |
| 132 | Vladimir Tonchinskiy | Belarus | 13:50 |
| 133 | Mario Jorge Santivañez Beltran | Bolivia | 13:55 |
| 134 | Fikret Gafarov | Azerbaijan | 13:56 |
| 135 | Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga | Burundi | 13:57 |
| 136 | Ronny Marie | Seychelles | 13:58 |
| 137 | Sigurbjörn Arni Arngrímson | Iceland | 14:02 |
| 138 | Serdar Nurmuradov | Turkmenistan | 14:22 |
| 139 | Vladimir Escajadillo | Peru | 14:43 |
| — | Noureddine Athamna | Algeria | DNF |
| — | Julius Gidabuday | Tanzania | DNS |
| — | Freddy González | Venezuela | DNS |
| — | Kelvin Pangiso | Zimbabwe | DNS |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Ethiopia Kenenisa Bekele1 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam2 Maregu Zewdie3 Dejene Berhanu11 (Hussen Adilo)(29) (Mohamed Awol)(31) | 17 |
| | Qatar Abdullah Ahmed Hassan4 Saif Saeed Shaheen5 Sultan Khamis Zaman8 Abdulaziz Al-Ameri22 (Ali Al-Dawoodi)(23) (Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin)(95) | 39 |
| | Kenya Eliud Kirui6 Isaac Songok7 Abraham Chebii19 Kiplimo Muneria20 (Boniface Kiprotich Songok)(21) (John Kibowen)(32) | 52 |
| 4 | Algeria Tarek Boukensa12 Samir Moussaoui26 Mohamed Khaldi38 Nourreddine Bourfaa43 (Ahmed Naïli)(57) (Noureddine Athamna)(DNF) | 119 |
| 5 | Morocco Adil Kaouch10 Zouhair Ouerdi28 Hamid Ezzine30 Ali Ezzine51 (Mourad Marofit)(54) (Abdelhalim Zahraoui)(75) | 119 |
| 6 | Canada Kevin Sullivan17 Paul Morrison18 Joël Bourgeois41 Ryan Hayden52 (Reid Coolsaet)(62) (Jay Cantin)(76) | 128 |
| 7 | United States Robert Gary33 Luke Watson36 Sandu Rebenciuc46 Jared Cordes48 (Ian Connor)(58) (Isaiah Festa)(60) | 163 |
| 8 | Spain Carlos García14 Antonio David Jiménez49 José Luis Blanco59 Antonio Manuel Martínez71 (Isaac Viciosa)(72) (Sergio Gallardo)(113) | 193 |
| 9 | Portugal Mário Teixeira40 Manuel Damião45 José Maduro55 Rui Silva66 (Licinio Pimentel)(77) (Pedro Ribeiro)(99) | 206 |
| 10 | France Bouabdallah Tahri15 Benoit Nicolas34 El-Mokhtar Benhari80 Aléxis Abraham81 (Nabil Ghoulam)(94) | 210 |
| 11 | Italy Umberto Pusterla35 Cosimo Caliandro44 Lorenzo Perrone65 Gianni Crepaldi74 | 218 |
| 12 | Australia Craig Mottram9 Michael Power25 Alastair Stevenson101 Michael Shelley103 (David Ruschena)(115) | 238 |
| 13 | Belgium Ridouane Es-Saadi24 Wim Borms47 Stijn van den Velde78 Johan Vermeiren91 (Frédéric Desmedt)(104) (Tom van Rooy)(116) | 240 |
| 14 | Eritrea Amanuel Waldeselassie39 Ali Abdalla50 Habtai Kifletsion69 Abrha Adhanom105 (Micxhael Tesfay)(114) (Misgina Kifleyesus)(131) | 263 |
| 15 | Switzerland Thomas Benz70 Daniel Vögeli73 Walter Jenni82 Philipp Bandi89 (Michael Maechler)(109) (Pius Stucki)(123) | 314 |
| 16 | Mexico Alejandro Suárez13 Jonathan Morales97 Yair Cedazo107 Cayetano Hernandez112 (Moisés Iñiguez)(127) | 329 |
| 17 | Russia Aleksandr Sekletov68 Pavel Shapovalov86 Aleksandr Orlov92 Aleksey Gurkin98 | 344 |
| 18 | Ecuador Byron Piedra63 Cesar Pilaluisa84 Edgar Chancusig100 Richard Arias111 | 358 |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 140 athletes from 47 countries participated in the Men's short race.
* Algeria (6)
* Andorra (2)
* Australia (5)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Belarus (1)
* Belgium (6)
* Bolivia (1)
* Brazil (1)
* Burundi (2)
* Canada (6)
* Croatia (1)
* Ecuador (4)
* Eritrea (6)
* Ethiopia (6)
* France (5)
* Iceland (3)
* Ireland (2)
* Italy (4)
* Japan (1)
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Kenya (6)
* Kyrgyzstan (1)
* Lebanon (1)
* Malawi (1)
* Mexico (5)
* Morocco (6)
* New Zealand (2)
* Palestine (1)
* Peru (1)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (6)
* Puerto Rico (1)
* Qatar (6)
* Russia (4)
* Seychelles (2)
* Slovenia (1)
* Spain (6)
* Switzerland (6)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Tanzania (3)
* Turkey (1)
* Turkmenistan (1)
* United Kingdom (3)
* United States (6)
* Uzbekistan (1)
* Venezuela (2)
* Zimbabwe (1)