1984 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 1984 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States, at the Meadowlands Racetrack on March 25, 1984. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.[1]

Junior men's race at the 1984 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	12th
Date	March 25
Host city	East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
Venue	Meadowlands Racetrack
Events	1
Distances	8 km – Junior men
Participation	94 athletes from 22 nations
← 1983 Gateshead 1985 Lisbon →

Complete results,[2] medallists, [3] and the results of British athletes[4] were published.

Race results

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Pere Casacuberta	Spain	21:32
	Doju Tessema	Ethiopia	21:34
	John Castellano	Canada	21:37
4	Belaye Teshome	Ethiopia	21:42
5	Antonio Pérez	Spain	21:48
6	Paul Roden	England	21:49
7	Kalcha Abcha	Ethiopia	21:49
8	Wolde Silasse Melkessa	Ethiopia	21:50
9	Robert Rice	Canada	21:53
10	David Miles	England	22:00
11	Joseba Sarriegui	Spain	22:02
12	Patrick Piper	United States	22:04
13	Nikolay Matyushenko	Soviet Union	22:05
14	Jo Slagmolen	Belgium	22:06
15	Enda Fitzpatrick	Ireland	22:06
16	Simon Gutierrez	United States	22:07
17	José Sanchez	Spain	22:10
18	Walter Merlo	Italy	22:11
19	Samuel Okemwa	Kenya	22:11
20	Bobby Quinn	Scotland	22:11
21	Ronald Harris	United States	22:16
22	Karl Palmer	England	22:16
23	Dan Foley	United States	22:17
24	Peter Govaerts	Belgium	22:18
25	Luis Prieto	Spain	22:18
26	Seamus McCann	Northern Ireland	22:18
27	Edward Hanratty	Ireland	22:19
28	Carlos Monteiro	Portugal	22:20
29	Dennis Cullinane	United States	22:23
30	David Robinson	England	22:23
31	Valentinas Patapas	Soviet Union	22:23
32	Luigi Falvo	Italy	22:28
33	Glenn Charanduk	Canada	22:33
34	Brian Hayes	Ireland	22:34
35	Paolo Tagliapietra	Italy	22:34
36	Pascal Fressard	France	22:35
37	Angelo Brunetti	Italy	22:35
38	Peter Van de Kerkhove	Belgium	22:36
39	José Manuel García	Spain	22:36
40	Arnold van Heesvelde	Belgium	22:36
41	Aleksandr Burtsev	Soviet Union	22:38
42	Massimo Della Pietra	Italy	22:39
43	Trevor Sargent	Ireland	22:42
44	Johan Gillis	Belgium	22:42
45	Dale Rixon	Wales	22:42
46	Neil Horsfield	Wales	22:43
47	Ben Bebognies	Belgium	22:44
48	William Mangan	United States	22:44
49	Mauro Grigorio	Italy	22:44
50	Christian Vagner	France	22:45
51	Patrick Lonjou	France	22:46
52	José Azevedo	Portugal	22:47
53	Vladimir Kolpakov	Soviet Union	22:47
54	Antonio Peira	Portugal	22:49
55	Steve Marshall	Scotland	22:50
56	Scott McDonald	Canada	22:50
57	Vladimir Turbakov	Soviet Union	22:51
58	Cari Bessai	Canada	22:51
59	Paul Williams	Wales	22:52
60	Remy Rampteau	France	22:52
61	Andrew Rodgers	Wales	22:54
62	Bernd Bürger	West Germany	22:58
63	Michael Lewis	Wales	23:00
64	James Orr	Scotland	23:01
65	Mark Wood	Canada	23:02
66	Steve Begen	Scotland	23:04
67	Nazar Habib	Wales	23:12
68	Saïd Aballache	France	23:12
69	Joao Valente	Portugal	23:13
70	Antonio Resende	Portugal	23:15
71	Philip Tweedie	Northern Ireland	23:20
72	Juan Isaais Leon	Dominican Republic	23:22
73	Edwin Cruz	Puerto Rico	23:22
74	Orlando Santiago	Puerto Rico	23:23
75	Lars Bang Nielsen	Denmark	23:26
76	David McShane	Scotland	23:29
77	Rui Moreira	Portugal	23:30
78	Paul Taylor	England	23:37
79	Antonio Ortiz	Puerto Rico	23:38
80	Beat Nyffenegger	Switzerland	23:41
81	Gerry Conway	Northern Ireland	23:42
82	Walter Maldonado	Puerto Rico	23:44
83	Markus Schoni	Switzerland	23:49
84	Ciaran Rogan	Northern Ireland	23:52
85	Jesper Mathiesen	Denmark	23:53
86	Bertrand Itsweire	France	23:54
87	Mark Keller	Ireland	23:56
88	Paul Rodgers	Northern Ireland	23:59
89	David Dudley	England	24:02
90	Alastair Currie	Scotland	24:06
91	Ramon Ortero	Puerto Rico	24:12
92	Ahmed Al-Said	Palestine	24:42
93	Manahy Falah Al-Azhni	Kuwait	24:50
94	H.Tareq Khalifa	Kuwait	25:26

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Ethiopia Doju Tessema 2 Belaye Teshome 4 Kalcha Abcha 7 Wolde Silasse Melkessa 8	21
	Spain Pere Casacuberta 1 Antonio Pérez 5 Joseba Sarriegui 11 José Sanchez 17 (Luis Prieto) (25) (José Manuel García) (39)	34
	England Paul Roden 6 David Miles 10 Karl Palmer 22 David Robinson 30 (Paul Taylor) (78) (David Dudley) (89)	68
4	United States Patrick Piper 12 Simon Gutierrez 16 Ronald Harris 21 Dan Foley 23 (Dennis Cullinane) (29) (William Mangan) (48)	72
5	Canada John Castellano 3 Robert Rice 9 Glenn Charanduk 33 Scott McDonald 56 (Cari Bessai) (58) (Mark Wood) (65)	101
6	Belgium Jo Slagmolen 14 Peter Govaerts 24 Peter Van de Kerkhove 38 Arnold van Heesvelde 40 (Johan Gillis) (44) (Ben Debognies) (47)	116
7	Ireland Enda Fitzpatrick 15 Edward Hanratty 27 Brian Hayes 34 Trevor Sargent 43 (Mark Keller) (87)	119
8	Italy Walter Merlo 18 Luigi Falvo 32 Paolo Tagliapietra 35 Angelo Brunetti 37 (Massimo Della Pietra) (42) (Mauro Grigorio) (49)	122
9	Soviet Union Nikolay Matyushenko 13 Valentinas Patapas 31 Aleksandr Burtsev 41 Vladimir Kolpakov 53 (Vladimir Turbakov) (57)	138
10	France Pascal Fressard 36 Christian Vagner 50 Patrick Lonjou 51 Remy Rampteau 60 (Saïd Aballache) (68) (Bertrand Itsweire) (86)	197
11	Portugal Carlos Monteiro 28 José Azevedo 52 Antonio Peira 54 Joao Valente 69 (Antonio Resende) (70) (Rui Moreira) (77)	203
12	Scotland Bobby Quinn 20 Steve Marshall 55 James Orr 64 Steve Begen 66 (David McShane) (76) (Alastair Currie) (90)	205
13	Wales Dale Rixon 45 Neil Horsfield 46 Paul Williams 59 Andrew Rodgers 61 (Michael Lewis) (63) (Nazar Habib) (67)	211
14	Northern Ireland Seamus McCann 26 Philip Tweedie 71 Gerry Conway 81 Ciaran Rogan 84 (Paul Rodgers) (88)	262
15	Puerto Rico Edwin Cruz 73 Orlando Santiago 74 Antonio Ortiz 79 Walter Maldonado 82 (Ramon Ortero) (91)	308

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 94 athletes from 22 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[4]

Belgium (6)  Canada (6)  Denmark (2)  Dominican Republic (1)  England (6)  Ethiopia (4)  France (6)  Ireland (5)

Italy (6)  Kenya (1)  Kuwait (2)  Northern Ireland (5)  Palestine (1)  Portugal (6)  Puerto Rico (5)

Scotland (6)  Soviet Union (5)  Spain (6)   Switzerland (2)  United States (6)  Wales (6)  West Germany (1)

See also

• 1984 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 1984 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

References

1. Athletics - Carlos Lopes of Portugal won the world cross-country title over seven-and-a-half miles of Meadowlands Racecourse in New York yesterday in a time of 33 minutes 25 seconds, but Scotland's best medal hope Shettleston Harrier Nat Muir, was forced to watch the race on television, confined to bed with a bronchial virus and a temperature of 103..., Glasgow Herald, March 26, 1984, p. 15, retrieved October 21, 2013
2. Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.0km CC Men - New York The Meadowlands Date: Sunday, March 25, 1984, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 21, 2013CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
3. IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
4. 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2013, retrieved October 9, 2013