1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

The Junior men's race at the 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Paris, France, at the Hippodrome de Longchamp on March 9, 1980. A report on the event was given in the Evening Times.[1]

Junior men's race at the 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	8th
Date	March 9
Host city	Paris, France
Venue	Hippodrome de Longchamp
Events	1
Distances	7.41 km – Junior men
Participation	97 athletes from 18 nations
← 1979 Limerick 1981 Madrid →

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

Race results

Individual

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Jorge García	Spain	22:17
	Valeriy Gryaznov	Soviet Union	22:23
	Ed Eyestone	United States	22:27
4	Denis Stark	Canada	22:34
5	Tom Downs	United States	22:34
6	Sergey Kiselyov	Soviet Union	22:36
7	Ildar Denikeyev	Soviet Union	22:38
8	Guy Léfèvre	Belgium	22:41
9	Andrea Prassedi	Italy	22:47
10	Paul Davies-Hale	England	22:52
11	William Graham	United States	22:53
12	Gary Huckwell	England	22:58
13	Brian O'Keefe	Ireland	22:58
14	Johan van Oost	Belgium	22:59
15	Ross Chilton	Canada	23:00
16	Gábor Szabó	Hungary	23:04
17	Brahim Boudina	Algeria	23:05
18	Henrik Jørgensen	Denmark	23:08
19	Steve Blakemore	Wales	23:10
20	José Fernández	Spain	23:10
21	Enrico Ogliar Badessi	Italy	23:11
22	Lars-Erik Nilsson	Sweden	23:12
23	Gyula Balogh	Hungary	23:13
24	Miguel Rubio	Spain	23:13
25	Philip Ledger	England	23:14
26	Faisal Touzri	Tunisia	23:18
27	Laurent Brosseau	France	23:18
28	Rabah Aboura	Algeria	23:19
29	Hichem Oueslati	Tunisia	23:19
30	Mauro Perna	Italy	23:21
31	William Van Dijck	Belgium	23:23
32	Ted Murphy	Canada	23:23
33	Jen Emmanuel Lassoie	Belgium	23:26
34	Julio Perez	Spain	23:26
35	Sergey Mishin	Soviet Union	23:26
36	Jean-Luc Taif	France	23:27
37	Yvan Perre	France	23:27
38	István Bene	Hungary	23:28
39	Carrey Penner	Canada	23:29
40	Kai Röcker	West Germany	23:29
41	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	23:31
42	Paul Cowell	England	23:33
43	Dave Reid	Canada	23:34
44	Eddy Stevens	Belgium	23:39
45	Djamel Eddine Galli	Algeria	23:40
46	Sid-Ali Sakhri	Algeria	23:41
47	Adrian Callan	Scotland	23:42
48	John McCreedy	Northern Ireland	23:44
49	Terry Conlon	Ireland	23:46
50	Dominique Grandjean	France	23:47
51	Pedro Garin	Spain	23:49
52	Dmitriy Ditlashok	Soviet Union	23:50
53	Mohammed Chouri	Tunisia	23:51
54	Carlo Grasso	Italy	23:52
55	Martin Grosskopf	West Germany	23:53
56	Eric Sappenfield	United States	23:53
57	Peter Elliott	England	23:54
58	Luc Sadones	Belgium	23:55
59	Philip Llewellyn	Wales	23:58
60	Sören Egge Rasmussen	Denmark	23:58
61	Francisco Erneta	Spain	24:00
62	Mohamed Hadj Gasmi	Tunisia	24:03
63	Hocine Guessas	Algeria	24:05
64	Gerhard Lindner	West Germany	24:08
65	Ross Copestake	Scotland	24:10
66	Tom Breen	Northern Ireland	24:10
67	Simon Axon	Wales	24:11
68	Abderrahmane Boumouzia	Algeria	24:12
69	John Gladwin	Scotland	24:18
70	Ralf Winter	West Germany	24:19
71	Jacques Triquet	France	24:20
72	Nigel Barton	Northern Ireland	24:20
73	Kim Taylor Hansen	Denmark	24:21
74	Ross Arbuckle	Scotland	24:22
75	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	24:24
76	Jacques le Floch	France	24:28
77	László Szász	Hungary	24:31
78	Gary Millar	Scotland	24:32
79	Andrew Smith	Wales	24:33
80	Said Shili	Tunisia	24:33
81	Ole Hansen	Denmark	24:34
82	Daniel Caprioglio	United States	24:34
83	Brian Roche	Ireland	24:43
84	Coleman Connelly	Ireland	24:47
85	Peter Fox	Scotland	24:49
86	Nigel Stops	Wales	24:52
87	Jamel Zriba	Tunisia	24:58
88	Farron Fields	United States	25:03
89	Peter Gylling	Denmark	25:10
90	Martin Coupland	Northern Ireland	25:16
91	Tom Melville	Northern Ireland	25:19
92	Jörg Thoma	West Germany	25:24
93	Peter Williams	Wales	25:36
94	David Lynch	Ireland	26:00
—	John Doherty	Northern Ireland	DNF
—	Dave Lewis	England	DNF
—	Luciano Carchesio	Italy	DNF

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Soviet Union Valeriy Gryaznov 2 Sergey Kiselyov 6 Ildar Denikeyev 7 Sergey Mishin 35 (Dmitriy Ditlashok) (52)	50
	United States Ed Eyestone 3 Tom Downs 5 William Graham 11 Eric Sappenfield 56 (Daniel Caprioglio) (82) (Farron Fields) (88)	75
	Spain Jorge García 1 José Fernández 20 Miguel Rubio 24 Julio Perez 34 (Pedro Garin) (51) (Francisco Erneta) (61)	79
4	Belgium Guy Léfèvre 8 Johan van Oost 14 William Van Dijck 31 Jen Emmanuel Lassoie 33 (Eddy Stevens) (44) (Luc Sadones) (58)	86
5	England Paul Davies-Hale 10 Gary Huckwell 12 Philip Ledger 25 Paul Cowell 42 (Peter Elliott) (57) (Dave Lewis) (DNF)	89
6	Canada Denis Stark 4 Ross Chilton 15 Ted Murphy 32 Carrey Penner 39 (Dave Reid) (43)	90
7	Italy Andrea Prassedi 9 Enrico Ogliar Badessi 21 Mauro Perna 30 Salvatore Bettiol 41 (Carlo Grasso) (54) (Luciano Carchesio) (DNF)	101
8	Algeria Brahim Boudina 17 Rabah Aboura 28 Djamel Eddine Galli 45 Sid-Ali Sakhri 46 (Hocine Guessas) (63) (Abderrahmane Boumouzia) (68)	136
9	France Laurent Brosseau 27 Jean-Luc Taif 36 Yvan Perre 37 Dominique Grandjean 50 (Jacques Triquet) (71) (Jacques le Floch) (76)	150
10	Hungary Gábor Szabó 16 Gyula Balogh 23 István Bene 38 László Szász 77	154
11	Tunisia Faisal Touzri 26 Hichem Oueslati 29 Mohammed Chouri 53 Mohamed Hadj Gasmi 62 (Said Shili) (80) (Jamel Zriba) (87)	170
12	Ireland Brian O'Keefe 13 Terry Conlon 49 Marcus O'Sullivan 75 Brian Roche 83 (Coleman Connelly) (84) (David Lynch) (94)	220
13	Wales Steve Blakemore 19 Philip Llewellyn 59 Simon Axon 67 Andrew Smith 79 (Nigel Stops) (86) (Peter Williams) (93)	224
14	West Germany Kai Röcker 40 Martin Grosskopf 55 Gerhard Lindner 64 Ralf Winter 70 (Jörg Thoma) (92)	229
15	Denmark Henrik Jørgensen 18 Sören Egge Rasmussen 60 Kim Taylor Hansen 73 Ole Hansen 81 (Peter Gylling) (89)	232
16	Scotland Adrian Callan 47 Ross Copestake 65 John Gladwin 69 Ross Arbuckle 74 (Gary Millar) (78) (Peter Fox) (85)	255
17	Northern Ireland John McCreedy 48 Tom Breen 66 Nigel Barton 72 Martin Coupland 90 (Tom Melville) (91) (John Doherty) (DNF)	276

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

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 97 athletes from 18 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[4]

Algeria (6)  Belgium (6)  Canada (5)  Denmark (5)  England (6)  France (6)

Hungary (4)  Ireland (6)  Italy (6)  Northern Ireland (6)  Scotland (6)  Soviet Union (5)

Spain (6)  Sweden (1)  Tunisia (6)  United States (6)  Wales (6)  West Germany (5)

See also

• 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
• 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

References

1. Robson fifth - Scotland's John Robson finished fifth in the world cross country championship at Longchamp racecourse in Paris yesterday..., Evening Times, March 10, 1980, p. 16, retrieved October 18, 2013
2. Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 7.0km CC Men - Paris Lonchamp Date: Sunday, March 9, 1980, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 18, 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