title: 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
text: # 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
  
  The Junior men's race at the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Durham, United Kingdom, at the University of Durham on March 25, 1995. 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
  
  ### Junior men's race (8.47 km)
  
  **Individual**
  
  | Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Assefa Mezegebu | Ethiopia | 24:12 |
  | | Dejene Lidetu | Ethiopia | 24:14 |
  | | David Chelule | Kenya | 24:16 |
  | 4 | Andrew Panga | Tanzania | 24:19 |
  | 5 | Philip Mosima | Kenya | 24:23 |
  | 6 | Abreham Tsige | Ethiopia | 24:40 |
  | 7 | Hezron Otwori | Kenya | 24:43 |
  | 8 | Mark Bett | Kenya | 24:48 |
  | 9 | Sammy Kipruto | Kenya | 24:58 |
  | 10 | Christopher Kelong | Kenya | 25:02 |
  | 11 | John Morapedi | South Africa | 25:04 |
  | 12 | Marko Hwahu | Tanzania | 25:04 |
  | 13 | Hideaki Haraguchi | Japan | 25:09 |
  | 14 | Benoît Zwierzchiewski | France | 25:10 |
  | 15 | Mohamed El Hattab | Morocco | 25:14 |
  | 16 | Lemma Bonsa | Ethiopia | 25:19 |
  | 17 | Mohamed Amyn | Morocco | 25:22 |
  | 18 | Iván Pérez | Spain | 25:24 |
  | 19 | Abderrahman Chmaiti | Morocco | 25:26 |
  | 20 | Muneyuki Ojima | Japan | 25:27 |
  | 21 | Abdelilah El Marrafe | Morocco | 25:29 |
  | 22 | Shinji Yamazaki | Japan | 25:30 |
  | 23 | Mizan Mehari | Ethiopia | 25:36 |
  | 24 | Baha Tulumbo | Tanzania | 25:38 |
  | 25 | Abderrahim Goumri | Morocco | 25:47 |
  | 26 | Gunther Methot | Belgium | 25:49 |
  | 27 | Grigoriy Generalov | Russia | 25:54 |
  | 28 | Gert-Jan Liefers | Netherlands | 25:54 |
  | 29 | Akira Kiniwa | Japan | 25:57 |
  | 30 | Mohamed Awol | Ethiopia | 25:57 |
  | 31 | Miloud Abaoub | Algeria | 26:00 |
  | 32 | Salem Messaoui | Algeria | 26:02 |
  | 33 | Meck Mothuli | South Africa | 26:02 |
  | 34 | Badre din Zioini | France | 26:06 |
  | 35 | Tim Briggs | United States | 26:08 |
  | 36 | José Antonio Ramallo | Spain | 26:10 |
  | 37 | Abdelghani Amraoui | Algeria | 26:11 |
  | 38 | Ahmed Ezzobayry | Morocco | 26:15 |
  | 39 | Mauricio Ladino | Colombia | 26:16 |
  | 40 | Hiroyuki Ogawa | Japan | 26:16 |
  | 41 | Viktor Golubev | Belarus | 26:16 |
  | 42 | Sun Jiawei | China | 26:17 |
  | 43 | Petros Sithole | South Africa | 26:22 |
  | 44 | Juan José Gómez | Spain | 26:23 |
  | 45 | André Bucher | Switzerland | 26:26 |
  | 46 | Matt Kerr | Canada | 26:26 |
  | 47 | Abdulaziz Abdulrahman | Yemen | 26:27 |
  | 48 | Alexandr Gelesh | Ukraine | 26:27 |
  | 49 | Jason Rexing | United States | 26:28 |
  | 50 | Lyes Ramoul | Algeria | 26:29 |
  | 51 | Malte Stern | Germany | 26:30 |
  | 52 | Dalibor Balgac | Croatia | 26:31 |
  | 53 | Clodoaldo da Silva | Brazil | 26:32 |
  | 54 | Adrian Maghiar | Romania | 26:33 |
  | 55 | Antonio da Fonseca | Portugal | 26:34 |
  | 56 | Noriyoshi Takasu | Japan | 26:34 |
  | 57 | Pieter van Thournhout | Belgium | 26:35 |
  | 58 | Márcio da Silva | Brazil | 26:36 |
  | 59 | Kamel Boulahfane | Algeria | 26:37 |
  | 60 | Michael Vicedo | France | 26:38 |
  | 61 | Ali Harezi Al-Ghazali | Yemen | 26:39 |
  | 62 | Aleksey Shestakov | Kazakhstan | 26:39 |
  | 63 | Khaled Al-Atashi | Yemen | 26:40 |
  | 64 | Travis Landreth | United States | 26:42 |
  | 65 | Damiano Polti | Italy | 26:44 |
  | 66 | Iván Hierro | Spain | 26:45 |
  | 67 | Allen Graffin | United Kingdom | 26:46 |
  | 68 | Clinton Mackevicius | Australia | 26:46 |
  | 69 | Aaron Gabonewe | South Africa | 26:47 |
  | 70 | Richard Mncwabe | South Africa | 26:48 |
  | 71 | Aleksandr Lukoshenko | Belarus | 26:49 |
  | 72 | Chad Walton | Canada | 26:49 |
  | 73 | Aleksey Lopaticuk | Ukraine | 26:51 |
  | 74 | Sébastien Boiton | France | 26:53 |
  | 75 | Martin Brusak | Czech Republic | 26:54 |
  | 76 | Tony Forrest | United Kingdom | 26:54 |
  | 77 | Janko Bensa | FR Yugoslavia | 26:55 |
  | 78 | Davide Becchio | Italy | 26:55 |
  | 79 | Matt Farley | United States | 26:56 |
  | 80 | Luca Rosa | Italy | 26:57 |
  | 81 | Mark Hauser | United States | 26:58 |
  | 82 | Klaus Mueller | Canada | 27:01 |
  | 83 | Ephraim Mokhotu | South Africa | 27:03 |
  | 84 | Jerry Ziak | Canada | 27:04 |
  | 85 | Matt O'Dowd | United Kingdom | 27:04 |
  | 86 | Lahcene Slimani | Algeria | 27:04 |
  | 87 | Alexandr Mulin | Ukraine | 27:05 |
  | 88 | Marilson dos Santos | Brazil | 27:06 |
  | 89 | Esa Martomaa | Finland | 27:07 |
  | 90 | Fouad Obad | Yemen | 27:08 |
  | 91 | Paw Nielsen | Denmark | 27:08 |
  | 92 | Ben Reese | United Kingdom | 27:10 |
  | 93 | Davide Maffei | Italy | 27:11 |
  | 94 | Mohamed Al-Khawlani | Yemen | 27:11 |
  | 95 | Gábor Domonyik | Hungary | 27:12 |
  | 96 | Eduardo Vargas | Spain | 27:13 |
  | 97 | Reynald Moulet | France | 27:14 |
  | 98 | Bart de Berge | Belgium | 27:14 |
  | 99 | Brian Jensen | Denmark | 27:15 |
  | 100 | Nicki Olesen | Denmark | 27:17 |
  | 101 | Menisan Sanbato | Israel | 27:21 |
  | 102 | Ruslan Sukhodolskiy | Moldova | 27:22 |
  | 103 | Bart Verkaemer | Belgium | 27:27 |
  | 104 | Frank Hoffmeister | Germany | 27:29 |
  | 105 | Michael Maechler | Switzerland | 27:30 |
  | 106 | José Carrasco | Colombia | 27:31 |
  | 107 | Robert Brown | United Kingdom | 27:36 |
  | 108 | Ndara Petrus | Namibia | 27:37 |
  | 109 | Nico Noe | Belgium | 27:38 |
  | 110 | Emanuele Manzi | Italy | 27:39 |
  | 111 | Mikhail Potylchak | Belarus | 27:39 |
  | 112 | Lars Juhl | Denmark | 27:41 |
  | 113 | Chris Severy | United States | 27:42 |
  | 114 | Gabriele Valli | Italy | 27:45 |
  | 115 | András Juhász | Hungary | 27:48 |
  | 116 | Ricardo Santos | Canada | 27:50 |
  | 117 | Seppo Simola | Finland | 27:51 |
  | 118 | Paulo Lunkes | Brazil | 27:53 |
  | 119 | Vitaliy Zhogalskiy | Belarus | 27:54 |
  | 120 | Valery Shugayevskiy | Ukraine | 27:55 |
  | 121 | László Farkas | Hungary | 27:56 |
  | 122 | Juvenal Vásquez | Colombia | 28:00 |
  | 123 | Steve Lawrence | Canada | 28:11 |
  | 124 | Jeroen van Dijke | Netherlands | 28:12 |
  | 125 | Abdelatif Jlil | France | 28:25 |
  | 126 | Philipp Nawrocki | Germany | 28:29 |
  | 127 | Matthias Weippert | Germany | 28:38 |
  | 128 | Nathaniel Lane | United Kingdom | 28:46 |
  | 129 | Destao Sevannek | Israel | 28:49 |
  | 130 | Denis Simicic | Croatia | 28:53 |
  | 131 | Amadou Camara | Sierra Leone | 28:55 |
  | 132 | Marck Lanham | Australia | 29:05 |
  | 133 | Béla Horváth | Hungary | 29:10 |
  | 134 | Kevin Musseliah | Mauritius | 29:11 |
  | 135 | Kemal Tuvakuliyev | Turkmenistan | 29:19 |
  | 136 | Jurica Posavec | Croatia | 29:29 |
  | 137 | Kreso Baric | Croatia | 29:42 |
  | 138 | Jhon Beltran | Colombia | 29:45 |
  | 139 | Nikolay Volkov | Uzbekistan | 29:51 |
  | 140 | Nicolas Natchou | Mauritius | 29:57 |
  | 141 | Wang Ping-Chia | Chinese Taipei | 29:58 |
  | 142 | Selwyn Bonne | Seychelles | 30:36 |
  | 143 | Denis Sorokin | Uzbekistan | 31:38 |
  | 144 | Roy Delorie | Seychelles | 32:05 |
  | 145 | Nelson Hurst | Seychelles | 33:15 |
  | 146 | Jude Bacharie | Seychelles | 35:09 |
  | — | Reyes Estévez | Spain | DNF |
  | — | Rui Silva | Portugal | DNF |
  
  **Teams**
  
  | Rank | Team | Points |
  | - | - | - |
  | | Kenya David Chelule3 Philip Mosima5 Hezron Otwori7 Mark Bett8 (Sammy Kipruto)(9) (Christopher Kelong)(10) | 23 |
  | | Ethiopia Assefa Mezegebu1 Dejene Lidetu2 Abreham Tsige6 Lemma Bonsa16 (Mizan Mehari)(23) (Mohamed Awol)(30) | 25 |
  | | Morocco Mohamed El Hattab15 Mohamed Amyn17 Abderrahman Chmaiti19 Abdelilah El Marrafe21 (Abderrahim Goumri)(25) (Ahmed Ezzobayry)(38) | 72 |
  | 4 | Japan Hideaki Haraguchi13 Muneyuki Ojima20 Shinji Yamazaki22 Akira Kiniwa29 (Hiroyuki Ogawa)(40) (Noriyoshi Takasu)(56) | 84 |
  | 5 | Algeria Miloud Abaoub31 Salem Messaoui32 Abdelghani Amraoui37 Lyes Ramoul50 (Kamel Boulahfane)(59) (Lahcene Slimani)(86) | 150 |
  | 6 | South Africa John Morapedi11 Meck Mothuli33 Petros Sithole43 Aaron Gabonewe69 (Richard Mncwabe)(70) (Ephraim Mokhotu)(83) | 156 |
  | 7 | Spain Iván Pérez18 José Antonio Ramallo36 Juan José Gómez44 Iván Hierro66 (Eduardo Vargas)(96) (Reyes Estévez)(DNF) | 164 |
  | 8 | France Benoît Zwierzchiewski14 Badre din Zioini34 Michael Vicedo60 Sébastien Boiton74 (Reynald Moulet)(97) (Abdelatif Jlil)(125) | 182 |
  | 9 | United States Tim Briggs35 Jason Rexing49 Travis Landreth64 Matt Farley79 (Mark Hauser)(81) (Chris Severy)(113) | 227 |
  | 10 | Yemen Abdulaziz Abdulrahman47 Ali Harezi Al-Ghazali61 Khaled Al-Atashi63 Fouad Obad90 (Mohamed Al-Khawlani)(94) | 261 |
  | 11 | Canada Matt Kerr46 Chad Walton72 Klaus Mueller82 Jerry Ziak84 (Ricardo Santos)(116) (Steve Lawrence)(123) | 284 |
  | 12 | Belgium Gunther Methot26 Pieter van Thournhout57 Bart de Berge98 Bart Verkaemer103 (Nico Noe)(109) | 284 |
  | 13 | Italy Damiano Polti65 Davide Becchio78 Luca Rosa80 Davide Maffei93 (Emanuele Manzi)(110) (Gabriele Valli)(114) | 316 |
  | 14 | Brazil Clodoaldo da Silva53 Márcio da Silva58 Marilson dos Santos88 Paulo Lunkes118 | 317 |
  | 15 | United Kingdom Allen Graffin67 Tony Forrest76 Matt O'Dowd85 Ben Reese92 (Robert Brown)(107) (Nathaniel Lane)(128) | 320 |
  | 16 | Ukraine Alexandr Gelesh48 Aleksey Lopaticuk73 Alexandr Mulin87 Valery Shugayevskiy120 | 328 |
  | 17 | Belarus Viktor Golubev41 Aleksandr Lukoshenko71 Mikhail Potylchak111 Vitaliy Zhogalskiy119 | 342 |
  | 18 | Denmark Paw Nielsen91 Brian Jensen99 Nicki Olesen100 Lars Juhl112 | 402 |
  | 19 | Colombia Mauricio Ladino39 José Carrasco106 Juvenal Vásquez122 Jhon Beltran138 | 405 |
  | 20 | Germany Malte Stern51 Frank Hoffmeister104 Philipp Nawrocki126 Matthias Weippert127 | 408 |
  | 21 | Croatia Dalibor Balgac52 Denis Simicic130 Jurica Posavec136 Kreso Baric137 | 455 |
  | 22 | Hungary Gábor Domonyik95 András Juhász115 László Farkas121 Béla Horváth133 | 464 |
  | 23 | Seychelles Selwyn Bonne142 Roy Delorie144 Nelson Hurst145 Jude Bacharie146 | 577 |
  
  * Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
  
  ## Participation
  
  An unofficial count yields the participation of 148 athletes from 43 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
  
  * Algeria (6)
  * Australia (2)
  * Belarus (4)
  * Belgium (5)
  * Brazil (4)
  * Canada (6)
  * China (1)
  * Chinese Taipei (1)
  * Colombia (4)
  * Croatia (4)
  * Czech Republic (1)
  * Denmark (4)
  * Ethiopia (6)
  * Finland (2)
  * France (6)
  * Germany (4)
  * Hungary (4)
  * Israel (2)
  * Italy (6)
  * Japan (6)
  * Kazakhstan (1)
  * Kenya (6)
  * Mauritius (2)
  * Moldova (1)
  * Morocco (6)
  * Namibia (1)
  * Netherlands (2)
  * Portugal (2)
  * Romania (1)
  * Russia (1)
  * Seychelles (4)
  * Sierra Leone (1)
  * South Africa (6)
  * Spain (6)
  * Switzerland (2)
  * Tanzania (3)
  * Turkmenistan (1)
  * Ukraine (4)
  * United Kingdom (6)
  * United States (6)
  * Uzbekistan (2)
  * Yemen (5)
  * FR Yugoslavia (1)
  