# 1993 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

The Senior men's race at the 1993 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Amorebieta, Spain, at the Jaureguibarría Course on March 28, 1993. A report on the event was given in The New York Times and in the Herald.
Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

## Race results
### Senior men's race (11.75 km)
#### Individual

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | William Sigei | Kenya | 32:51 |
| | Dominic Kirui | Kenya | 32:56 |
| | Ismael Kirui | Kenya | 32:59 |
| 4 | Moses Tanui | Kenya | 33:14 |
| 5 | Ezequiel Bitok | Kenya | 33:21 |
| 6 | Khalid Skah | Morocco | 33:22 |
| 7 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 33:23 |
| 8 | Addis Abebe | Ethiopia | 33:29 |
| 9 | Worku Bikila | Ethiopia | 33:31 |
| 10 | Paul Tergat | Kenya | 33:35 |
| 11 | Brahim Lahlafi | Morocco | 33:36 |
| 12 | Domingos Castro | Portugal | 33:43 |
| 13 | Ondoro Osoro | Kenya | 33:45 |
| 14 | Martín Fiz | Spain | 33:46 |
| 15 | James Kariuki | Kenya | 33:50 |
| 16 | Fita Bayissa | Ethiopia | 33:53 |
| 17 | Thierry Pantel | France | 33:55 |
| 18 | Tendai Chimusasa | Zimbabwe | 33:58 |
| 19 | Abraham Assefa | Ethiopia | 33:59 |
| 20 | Todd Williams | United States | 34:00 |
| 21 | Paulo Guerra | Portugal | 34:01 |
| 22 | Carlos Monteiro | Portugal | 34:03 |
| 23 | Kidane Gebrmichael | Ethiopia | 34:04 |
| 24 | Mustapha Essaïd | France | 34:08 |
| 25 | Joaquim Pinheiro | Portugal | 34:08 |
| 26 | Alberto Juzdado | Spain | 34:12 |
| 27 | Hammou Boutayeb | Morocco | 34:15 |
| 28 | Fekadu Degefu | Ethiopia | 34:15 |
| 29 | José Carlos Adán | Spain | 34:16 |
| 30 | Anthony Kiprono | Kenya | 34:17 |
| 31 | Abdellah Béhar | France | 34:17 |
| 32 | Andrew Pearson | United Kingdom | 34:18 |
| 33 | Meshack Mogotsi | South Africa | 34:18 |
| 34 | Eamonn Martin | United Kingdom | 34:19 |
| 35 | Róbert Stefko | Slovakia | 34:23 |
| 36 | Patrick Kaotsane | South Africa | 34:23 |
| 37 | Francisco Guerra | Spain | 34:25 |
| 38 | Alejandro Gómez | Spain | 34:27 |
| 39 | Jean-Louis Prianon | France | 34:28 |
| 40 | Jan Pesava | Czech Republic | 34:29 |
| 41 | João Junqueira | Portugal | 34:29 |
| 42 | Nigousse Urge | Ethiopia | 34:29 |
| 43 | Antonio Serrano | Spain | 34:29 |
| 44 | Paul Patrick | Australia | 34:30 |
| 45 | Steve Tunstall | United Kingdom | 34:34 |
| 46 | Carlos Patrício | Portugal | 34:35 |
| 47 | Silvio Guerra | Ecuador | 34:36 |
| 48 | Oleg Strizhakov | Russia | 34:36 |
| 49 | Rod de Highden | Australia | 34:37 |
| 50 | Matt Giusto | United States | 34:37 |
| 51 | Paolo Donati | Italy | 34:38 |
| 52 | Abel Antón | Spain | 34:38 |
| 53 | Tonnie Dirks | Netherlands | 34:39 |
| 54 | Francesco Bennici | Italy | 34:39 |
| 55 | Hamid Essebani | Morocco | 34:41 |
| 56 | Farid Khayrullin | Russia | 34:42 |
| 57 | José Regalo | Portugal | 34:42 |
| 58 | Hideyuki Suzuki | Japan | 34:43 |
| 59 | Pascal Thiébaut | France | 34:43 |
| 60 | Ed Eyestone | United States | 34:44 |
| 61 | Ayele Mezegebu | Ethiopia | 34:44 |
| 62 | Peter O'Donoghue | Australia | 34:45 |
| 63 | Aleksandr Mikitenko | Kazakhstan | 34:45 |
| 64 | Rafael Muñoz | Mexico | 34:45 |
| 65 | Henk Gommer | Netherlands | 34:46 |
| 66 | Terry Croyle | United States | 34:47 |
| 67 | Whaddon Nieuwoudt | South Africa | 34:50 |
| 68 | Yann Millon | France | 34:51 |
| 69 | Andy Bristow | United Kingdom | 34:54 |
| 70 | Shaun Creighton | Australia | 34:55 |
| 71 | Jon Brown | United Kingdom | 34:55 |
| 72 | Antonio Silio | Argentina | 34:56 |
| 73 | Oscar Amaya | Argentina | 34:58 |
| 74 | Visa Orttenvuori | Finland | 34:58 |
| 75 | Fraser Bertram | Canada | 34:58 |
| 76 | Arnold Mächler | Switzerland | 34:59 |
| 77 | Mikhail Dasko | Russia | 34:59 |
| 78 | Luis Ibarra | Brazil | 35:00 |
| 79 | Antonio Pérez | Spain | 35:00 |
| 80 | Salah Hissou | Morocco | 35:00 |
| 81 | Elarbi Khattabi | Morocco | 35:02 |
| 82 | Klaus-Peter Hansen | Denmark | 35:04 |
| 83 | Maximino Ayala | Mexico | 35:05 |
| 84 | Winston Muzini | Zimbabwe | 35:05 |
| 85 | Colin Dalton | Australia | 35:06 |
| 86 | Aaron Ramirez | United States | 35:08 |
| 87 | Wayne Larden | Australia | 35:09 |
| 88 | Meshack Dandane | South Africa | 35:09 |
| 89 | Eduardo Henriques | Portugal | 35:09 |
| 90 | Antonio Martins | France | 35:10 |
| 91 | Julian Paynter | Australia | 35:10 |
| 92 | Jean Verster | South Africa | 35:10 |
| 93 | Art Boileau | Canada | 35:11 |
| 94 | Pat Porter | United States | 35:11 |
| 95 | Yoshikazu Aizawa | Japan | 35:11 |
| 96 | Sergey Fedotov | Russia | 35:12 |
| 97 | René Godlieb | Netherlands | 35:12 |
| 98 | Pere Arco | Spain | 35:13 |
| 99 | Bahadur Prasad | India | 35:13 |
| 100 | Hans Ulin | Belgium | 35:14 |
| 101 | Antonio Ibañez | Argentina | 35:18 |
| 102 | Paul Roden | United Kingdom | 35:20 |
| 103 | Vladimir Gusev | Kazakhstan | 35:20 |
| 104 | Shadrack Hoff | South Africa | 35:22 |
| 105 | Andrea Erni | Switzerland | 35:23 |
| 106 | Renato Gotti | Italy | 35:23 |
| 107 | Miloud Badine | Morocco | 35:24 |
| 108 | Noel Berkeley | Ireland | 35:24 |
| 109 | Eddy Hellebuyck | Belgium | 35:25 |
| 110 | Mark Coogan | United States | 35:25 |
| 111 | Dave Clarke | United Kingdom | 35:28 |
| 112 | Valdenor dos Santos | Brazil | 35:29 |
| 113 | Gabino Apolonio | Mexico | 35:30 |
| 114 | Gerry Curtis | Ireland | 35:31 |
| 115 | Vanderlei de Lima | Brazil | 35:31 |
| 116 | Rodney Higgins | Australia | 35:31 |
| 117 | Nikolay Chameyev | Russia | 35:32 |
| 118 | Robert O'Donnell | Australia | 35:32 |
| 119 | Jonathan Hume | United States | 35:33 |
| 120 | Noriaki Igarashi | Japan | 35:33 |
| 121 | Doug Cronkite | Canada | 35:35 |
| 122 | Eddy de Pauw | Belgium | 35:35 |
| 123 | Jacques van Rensburg | South Africa | 35:36 |
| 124 | Tsuyoshi Yasukawa | Japan | 35:39 |
| 125 | Simon Morolong | South Africa | 35:41 |
| 126 | Alessandro Lambruschini | Italy | 35:41 |
| 127 | Juan Juárez | Argentina | 35:42 |
| 128 | Miguel Ubaldo | Mexico | 35:42 |
| 129 | Geraldo Francisco de Assis | Brazil | 35:45 |
| 130 | Leopold Sirabahenda | Burundi | 35:46 |
| 131 | Jos Maes | Belgium | 35:47 |
| 132 | Carsten Jørgensen | Denmark | 35:48 |
| 133 | Darren Mead | United Kingdom | 35:49 |
| 134 | Yuriy Chizhov | Russia | 35:49 |
| 135 | Brighton Chipere | Zimbabwe | 35:51 |
| 136 | Noel Cullen | Ireland | 35:52 |
| 137 | Aart Stigter | Netherlands | 35:53 |
| 138 | Ronaldo da Costa | Brazil | 35:53 |
| 139 | Chris Weber | Canada | 35:53 |
| 140 | Dinesh Kumar | India | 35:54 |
| 141 | Ram Lal | India | 35:55 |
| 142 | Angel Cardenas | Chile | 35:55 |
| 143 | Pasi Mattila | Finland | 35:55 |
| 144 | Sam Molokomme | South Africa | 35:56 |
| 145 | Hilaire Ntirampeba | Burundi | 35:57 |
| 146 | Shivkumar Shreshta | India | 35:58 |
| 147 | Daniel Castro | Argentina | 36:00 |
| 148 | Richard O'Flynn | Ireland | 36:02 |
| 149 | Anatoliy Bychaev | Kazakhstan | 36:02 |
| 150 | Pasi Jeremejeff | Finland | 36:03 |
| 151 | Néstor Quinapanta | Ecuador | 36:03 |
| 152 | Jose Duarte | Mexico | 36:04 |
| 153 | Koji Numata | Japan | 36:06 |
| 154 | Marcelo Cascabelo | Argentina | 36:09 |
| 155 | Dov Kremer | Israel | 36:10 |
| 156 | Santtu Mäkinen | Finland | 36:10 |
| 157 | Jari Venäläinen | Finland | 36:14 |
| 158 | Zachariah Ditetso | Botswana | 36:15 |
| 159 | Michal Kucera | Czech Republic | 36:15 |
| 160 | Colin Dignum | Canada | 36:16 |
| 161 | Luc Krotwaar | Netherlands | 36:17 |
| 162 | Nestor Jami | Ecuador | 36:18 |
| 163 | Kamiel Maase | Netherlands | 36:20 |
| 164 | Richard Lindroos | New Zealand | 36:23 |
| 165 | Jesús Valdez | Mexico | 36:24 |
| 166 | Oscar Cortínez | Argentina | 36:24 |
| 167 | Aurelio Mitty | Angola | 36:26 |
| 168 | Dario Fegatelli | Italy | 36:27 |
| 169 | James Sullivan | Ireland | 36:28 |
| 170 | Paul Dugdale | United Kingdom | 36:29 |
| 171 | Kaare Sørensen | Denmark | 36:31 |
| 172 | Madan Singh | India | 36:34 |
| 173 | Hitoshi Saotome | Japan | 36:39 |
| 174 | Franklin Tenorio | Ecuador | 36:41 |
| 175 | Norman Tinkham | Canada | 36:42 |
| 176 | Vladimir Mayfat | Kazakhstan | 36:42 |
| 177 | Nestor Cevasco | Argentina | 36:43 |
| 178 | Eddy Punina | Ecuador | 36:52 |
| 179 | Gerard Kiernan | Ireland | 36:55 |
| 180 | Jan Korevaar | Netherlands | 36:57 |
| 181 | Adalberto Garcia | Brazil | 36:58 |
| 182 | Jukka Tammisuo | Finland | 37:02 |
| 183 | Luíz dos Santos | Brazil | 37:06 |
| 184 | Paul McCloy | Canada | 37:09 |
| 185 | Bruno Le Stum | France | 37:15 |
| 186 | Jens Wilky | Germany | 37:18 |
| 187 | Umberto Pusterla | Italy | 37:22 |
| 188 | Henno Haava | Estonia | 37:22 |
| 189 | Mokganedi Bobi | Botswana | 37:23 |
| 190 | Andre Zhulin | Kazakhstan | 37:32 |
| 191 | Janis Mitchoulis | Latvia | 37:36 |
| 192 | Danny Schuermans | Belgium | 37:38 |
| 193 | Redmal Singh | India | 37:40 |
| 194 | Kent Jensen | Denmark | 37:41 |
| 195 | Richard Mulligan | Ireland | 37:47 |
| 196 | Normunds Freimanis | Latvia | 37:51 |
| 197 | Henrik Hardahl | Denmark | 37:53 |
| 198 | Girts Fogels | Latvia | 37:58 |
| 199 | Zhanat Baltabayev | Kazakhstan | 38:04 |
| 200 | Sibangubukhosi Sibanda | Zimbabwe | 38:07 |
| 201 | Julio Chuqui | Ecuador | 38:14 |
| 202 | Michel Jean-Louis | Mauritius | 38:15 |
| 203 | Guntis Rozins | Latvia | 38:25 |
| 204 | Normunds Ivzans | Latvia | 38:34 |
| 205 | Robert Kusi | Botswana | 38:36 |
| 206 | Mohamed Al-Hada | Yemen | 38:43 |
| 207 | Fouad Obad | Yemen | 39:00 |
| 208 | Lee Kar-Lun | Hong Kong | 39:18 |
| 209 | Marly Sopyev | Turkmenistan | 39:52 |
| 210 | Juris Treimanis | Latvia | 40:02 |
| 211 | Prosnattam Lal | Fiji | 40:39 |
| 212 | Christopher Blackburn | Mauritius | 40:55 |
| 213 | Bineshwar Prasad | Fiji | 41:16 |
| 214 | Shiraaz Haroon Shah | Fiji | 41:25 |
| 215 | Ashok Kumar | Fiji | 43:03 |
| 216 | Makudi Mubenga | Zaire | 44:05 |
| 217 | Deepak Dalip Kumar | Fiji | 44:21 |
| — | Stefano Baldini | Italy | DNF |
| — | Arturo Barrios | Mexico | DNF |
| — | John Halvorsen | Norway | DNF |
| — | Vincenzo Modica | Italy | DNF |
| — | Vincent Rousseau | Belgium | DNF |
| — | Davendra Pradesh Singh | Fiji | DNF |
| — | Ruddy Walem | Belgium | DNF |
| — | Jonathan Wyatt | New Zealand | DNF |
| — | Antonio Rapisarda | France | DNF |
| — | Richard Potts | New Zealand | DNF |
| — | Gennadiy Temnikov | Russia | DNF |
| — | Richard Charette | Canada | DNF |
| — | Mike Felicite | Mauritius | DNF |
| — | Charif El Ouardi | Morocco | DNF |
| — | Leonardo Malgor | Argentina | DNF |
| — | Stephen Boyd | Canada | DNF |
| — | Brad Schlapak | United States | DNF |
| — | Mohamed Siti | Morocco | DNF |
| — | Yevgeniy Yeliyev | Turkmenistan | DNF |

#### Teams

| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Kenya William Sigei1 Dominic Kirui2 Ismael Kirui3 Moses Tanui4 Ezequiel Bitok5 Paul Tergat10 (Ondoro Osoro)(13) (James Kariuki)(15) (Anthony Kiprono)(30) | 25 |
| | Ethiopia Haile Gebrselassie7 Addis Abebe8 Worku Bikila9 Fita Bayissa16 Abraham Assefa19 Kidane Gebrmichael23 (Fekadu Degefu)(28) (Nigousse Urge)(42) (Ayele Mezegebu)(61) | 82 |
| | Portugal Domingos Castro12 Paulo Guerra21 Carlos Monteiro22 Joaquim Pinheiro25 João Junqueira41 Carlos Patrício46 (José Regalo)(57) (Eduardo Henriques)(89) | 167 |
| 4 | Spain Martín Fiz14 Alberto Juzdado26 José Carlos Adán29 Francisco Guerra37 Alejandro Gómez38 Antonio Serrano43 (Abel Antón)(52) (Antonio Pérez)(79) (Pere Arco)(98) | 187 |
| 5 | France Thierry Pantel17 Mustapha Essaïd24 Abdellah Béhar31 Jean-Louis Prianon39 Pascal Thiébaut59 Yann Millon68 (Antonio Martins)(90) (Bruno Le Stum)(185) (Antonio Rapisarda)(DNF) | 238 |
| 6 | Morocco Khalid Skah6 Brahim Lahlafi11 Hammou Boutayeb27 Hamid Essebani55 Salah Hissou80 Elarbi Khattabi81 (Miloud Badine)(107) (Charif El Ouardi)(DNF) (Mohamed Siti)(DNF) | 260 |
| 7 | United Kingdom Andrew Pearson32 Eamonn Martin34 Steve Tunstall45 Andy Bristow69 Jon Brown71 Paul Roden102 (Dave Clarke)(111) (Darren Mead)(133) (Paul Dugdale)(170) | 353 |
| 8 | United States Todd Williams20 Matt Giusto50 Ed Eyestone60 Terry Croyle66 Aaron Ramirez86 Pat Porter94 (Mark Coogan)(110) (Jonathan Hume)(119) (Brad Schlapak)(DNF) | 376 |
| 9 | Australia Paul Patrick44 Rod de Highden49 Peter O'Donoghue62 Shaun Creighton70 Colin Dalton85 Wayne Larden87 (Julian Paynter)(91) (Rodney Higgins)(116) (Robert O'Donnell)(118) | 397 |
| 10 | South Africa Meshack Mogotsi33 Patrick Kaotsane36 Whaddon Nieuwoudt67 Meshack Dandane88 Jean Verster92 Shadrack Hoff104 (Jacques van Rensburg)(123) (Simon Morolong)(125) (Sam Molokomme)(144) | 420 |
| 11 | Russia Oleg Strizhakov48 Farid Khayrullin56 Mikhail Dasko77 Sergey Fedotov96 Nikolay Chameyev117 Yuriy Chizhov134 (Gennadiy Temnikov)(DNF) | 528 |
| 12 | Argentina Antonio Silio72 Oscar Amaya73 Antonio Ibañez101 Juan Juárez127 Daniel Castro147 Marcelo Cascabelo154 (Oscar Cortínez)(166) (Nestor Cevasco)(177) (Leonardo Malgor)(DNF) | 674 |
| 13 | Netherlands Tonnie Dirks53 Henk Gommer65 René Godlieb97 Aart Stigter137 Luc Krotwaar161 Kamiel Maase163 (Jan Korevaar)(180) | 676 |
| 14 | Italy Paolo Donati51 Francesco Bennici54 Renato Gotti106 Alessandro Lambruschini126 Dario Fegatelli168 Umberto Pusterla187 (Stefano Baldini)(DNF) (Vincenzo Modica)(DNF) | 692 |
| 15 | Mexico Rafael Muñoz64 Maximino Ayala83 Gabino Apolonio113 Miguel Ubaldo128 Jose Duarte152 Jesús Valdez165 (Arturo Barrios)(DNF) | 705 |
| 16 | Japan Hideyuki Suzuki58 Yoshikazu Aizawa95 Noriaki Igarashi120 Tsuyoshi Yasukawa124 Koji Numata153 Hitoshi Saotome173 | 723 |
| 17 | Brazil Luis Ibarra78 Valdenor dos Santos112 Vanderlei de Lima115 Geraldo Francisco de Assis129 Ronaldo da Costa138 Adalberto Garcia181 (Luíz dos Santos)(183) | 753 |
| 18 | Canada Fraser Bertram75 Art Boileau93 Doug Cronkite121 Chris Weber139 Colin Dignum160 Norman Tinkham175 (Paul McCloy)(184) (Richard Charette)(DNF) (Stephen Boyd)(DNF) | 763 |
| 19 | Ireland Noel Berkeley108 Gerry Curtis114 Noel Cullen136 Richard O'Flynn148 James Sullivan169 Gerard Kiernan179 (Richard Mulligan)(195) | 854 |
| 20 | Finland Visa Orttenvuori74 Pasi Mattila143 Pasi Jeremejeff150 Santtu Mäkinen156 Jari Venäläinen157 Jukka Tammisuo182 | 862 |
| 21 | Kazakhstan Aleksandr Mikitenko63 Vladimir Gusev103 Anatoliy Bychaev149 Vladimir Mayfat176 Andre Zhulin190 Zhanat Baltabayev199 | 880 |
| 22 | India Bahadur Prasad99 Dinesh Kumar140 Ram Lal141 Shivkumar Shreshta146 Madan Singh172 Redmal Singh193 | 891 |
| 23 | Ecuador Silvio Guerra47 Néstor Quinapanta151 Nestor Jami162 Franklin Tenorio174 Eddy Punina178 Julio Chuqui201 | 913 |
| 24 | Latvia Janis Mitchoulis191 Normunds Freimanis196 Girts Fogels198 Guntis Rozins203 Normunds Ivzans204 Juris Treimanis210 | 1202 |
| DNF | Belgium (Hans Ulin)(100) (Eddy Hellebuyck)(109) (Eddy de Pauw)(122) (Jos Maes)(131) (Danny Schuermans)(192) (Vincent Rousseau)(DNF) (Ruddy Walem)(DNF) | DNF |
| DNF | Fiji (Prosnattam Lal)(211) (Bineshwar Prasad)(213) (Shiraaz Haroon Shah)(214) (Ashok Kumar)(215) (Deepak Dalip Kumar)(217) (Davendra Pradesh Singh)(DNF) | DNF |
* Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

## Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 236 athletes from 45 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
* Angola (1)
* Argentina (9)
* Australia (9)
* Belgium (7)
* Botswana (3)
* Brazil (7)
* Burundi (2)
* Canada (9)
* Chile (1)
* Czech Republic (2)
* Denmark (5)
* Ecuador (6)
* Estonia (1)
* Ethiopia (9)
* Fiji (6)
* Finland (6)
* France (9)
* Germany (1)
* Hong Kong (1)
* India (6)
* Ireland (7)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (8)
* Japan (6)
* Kazakhstan (6)
* Kenya (9)
* Latvia (6)
* Mauritius (3)
* Mexico (7)
* Morocco (9)
* Netherlands (7)
* New Zealand (3)
* Norway (1)
* Portugal (8)
* Russia (7)
* Slovakia (1)
* South Africa (9)
* Spain (9)
* Switzerland (2)
* Turkmenistan (2)
* United Kingdom (9)
* United States (9)
* Yemen (2)
* Zaire (1)
* Zimbabwe (4)