The Senior men's race at the 1996 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, at the Danie Craven Stadium on March 23, 1996. A preview on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald, and a report in The New York Times.
Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.
Race results
Senior men's race (12.15 km)
Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Kenenisa Bekele 33:44 Salah Hissou 33:56 Ismael Kirui 33:57 4 Paul Koech 34:10 5 Haile Gebrselassie 34:28 6 Joseph Kimani 34:30 7 Khalid Skah 34:34 8 Smail Sghir 34:34 9 William Kiptum 34:35 10 Josephat Machuka 34:37 11 Abraham Assefa 34:55 12 Jon Brown 34:55 13 Abderrahim Zitouna 35:00 14 Stephen Arusei 35:01 15 Shadrack Hoff 35:04 16 Steve Moneghetti 35:04 17 Habte Jifar 35:05 18 Fita Bayissa 35:09 19 Alejandro Gómez 35:14 20 Mustapha Essaïd 35:15 21 Ayele Mezegebu 35:23 22 José Manuel García 35:25 23 James Songok 35:29 24 John Gilay 35:30 25 Julian Paynter 35:31 26 Domingos Castro 35:33 27 Daniel Ferreira 35:35 28 John Nuttall 35:38 29 Mustapha Bamouh 35:40 30 Kamiel Maase 35:40 31 Arnold Mächler 35:42 32 Antonio Serrano 35:47 33 Antonio Pérez 35:49 34 Andrew Panga 35:50 35 Chala Kelele 35:51 36 Carlos Grisales 35:53 37 Gennaro Di Napoli 35:55 38 António Pinto 35:56 39 Girma Tolla 35:56 40 Khaled Boulami 35:57 41 Brian Baker 35:57 42 Yann Millon 35:59 43 Christian Leuprecht 35:59 44 Owen MacHelm 36:00 45 Rob Denmark 36:01 46 Juan Ramón Muñoz 36:04 47 Marko Hwahu 36:05 48 Stefano Baldini 36:06 49 Shaun Creighton 36:06 50 John Morapedi 36:07 51 Andrew Pearson 36:07 52 Mohamed Issangar 36:11 53 Carlos de la Torre 36:13 54 Abdelaziz Sahere 36:16 55 Julio Rey 36:17 56 Godfrey Koki 36:17 57 Keith Cullen 36:17 58 Róbert Štefko 36:18 59 Darius Burrows 36:19 60 Alfredo Bráz 36:19 61 James Kariuki 36:20 62 Greg van Hest 36:21 63 Takahiro Sunada 36:21 64 Angelo Carosi 36:22 65 Pedro Rojas 36:22 66 Lee Troop 36:27 67 Robbie Johnston 36:27 68 Jason Cameron 36:27 69 Pablo Olmedo 36:31 70 Martin Rodríguez 36:31 71 Nigousse Urge 36:32 72 Tadeo Nada 36:32 73 Faustine Shauri 36:32 74 Sérgio da Silva 36:34 75 Francesco Panetta 36:34 76 Abdellah Béhar 36:35 77 Claes Nyberg 36:36 78 Brahim Boulami 36:37 79 Bertrand Frechard 36:37 80 Fungai Kapanyota 36:37 81 Peter Mavura 36:37 82 Jeff Campbell 36:41 83 Carlos Patrício 36:44 84 José Ramon Moreno 36:48 85 Salvatore Bettiol 36:50 86 Meshack Mogotsi 36:51 87 Chris Sweeney 36:52 88 Kerry Rodger 36:53 89 Sam Molokomme 36:53 90 Adalberto Garcia 36:54 91 Chris Weber 36:56 92 Vítor Almeida 36:58 93 John Mwathiwa 36:58 94 Tim Gannon 36:59 95 Simon Morolong 37:00 96 Ezael Thlobo 37:01 97 Valery Chesak 37:02 98 Joaquim Silva 37:04 99 Peter van der Velden 37:05 100 Aron Shipanga 37:06 101 Phillip Clode 37:06 102 Godfrey Nyombi 37:07 103 Viktor Röthlin 37:09 104 Éder Fialho 37:10 105 Stéphane Rousseau 37:10 106 William Roldán 37:11 107 Noel Cullen 37:12 108 Henry Moyo 37:13 109 Pere Arco 37:15 110 Carlos Peña 37:15 111 Jonathan Wyatt 37:16 112 Ayele Setegne 37:17 113 Alex Malinga 37:18 114 Phil Costley 37:20 115 Petri Kuusinen 37:21 116 Kamfya Kenneth 37:22 117 Jeff Schiebler 37:22 118 Phillip Sly 37:23 119 Daniel Held 37:23 120 Masami Tsujinaka 37:28 121 Bradley Kirk 37:30 122 Marc Vanderstraeten 37:32 123 Darren Lynch 37:32 124 Bhairav Singh 37:33 125 Marcel Laros 37:33 126 Robert Cook Jr. 37:33 127 Jonathan Hume 37:34 128 Dominique Chauvelier 37:35 129 Adrian Passey 37:36 130 Jurmain Mitchell 37:38 131 Ronald Mujuni 37:39 132 Jason Bunston 37:43 133 Bertrand Itsweire 37:43 134 Filip van Damme 37:44 135 Daniel Sibandze 37:45 136 Joseph Tjitunga 37:48 137 Jos Maes 37:50 138 Meck Mothuli 37:50 139 Francis Munthali 37:51 140 Veli-Matti Ranta 37:51 141 José Orlando Sánchez Guerrero 37:53 142 Isaac Simelane 37:54 143 Kabo Gabaseme 37:54 144 Viktor Karpenko 37:55 145 Marcel Versteeg 37:55 146 Adamou Aboubakar 37:56 147 Leonardo Guedes 38:00 148 Elenilson da Silva 38:00 149 Tsungai Mwanengeni 38:02 150 Aleksandr Kuzin 38:02 151 Steve Harris 38:06 152 Ron van Diepen 38:08 153 Stephan Paessens 38:10 154 Sergiy Lebid 38:10 155 Ray Boyd 38:14 156 Thorsten Naumann 38:15 157 Clement Omagoro 38:16 158 Miroslav Vanko 38:17 159 André Green 38:18 160 Benito Mpwewe 38:18 161 Seamus Power 38:19 162 Rafael Muñoz 38:19 163 Sebastiano Mazzara 38:19 164 Mathieu Kouanotso 38:21 165 Oliver Kandiero 38:23 166 Francisco Sanchez 38:23 167 Martin Horacek 38:26 168 Redmal Singh 38:27 169 Gulab Chand 38:27 170 Dinesh Kumar 38:27 171 Jamie Lewis 38:30 172 Hisayuki Okawa 38:31 173 Lesedinyana Lekgoa 38:32 174 Elphas Ginindza 38:33 175 Dragoslav Prpa 38:33 176 Anil Kumar 38:33 177 Ben Chesang 38:37 178 Laurent Mbissah 38:41 179 Brad Schlapak 38:41 180 Paul McCloy 38:42 181 Seamus McElligott 38:42 182 Goran Raičević 38:42 183 Noah Chilongoshi 38:43 184 Bethold Karumendu 38:44 185 Zachariah Ditetso 38:44 186 Abdul Sameer Moos 38:45 187 Simone Zanon 38:48 188 André Bucher 38:49 189 Artur Santiago 38:50 190 Igor Sidorenko 38:50 191 Tom van Hooste 38:52 192 Jukka Vähä-Vahe 38:53 193 Milton Andabati 38:54 194 Sumer Singh 38:56 195 Kokolia Mokonyana 38:56 196 Percy Sephoda 38:56 197 Pauric McKinney 38:56 198 Henno Haava 38:57 199 Menon Ramsamy 39:00 200 Boaz Matsiko 39:03 201 Kefemawg Selogilwe 39:04 202 Tsai Ching-Chou 39:04 203 Jussi Virtanen 39:09 204 Zambis Champi 39:11 205 Yuichi Tajiri 39:17 206 Bhekumusa Simelane 39:21 207 Andrey Gladishev 39:24 208 Makhosonke Fika 39:25 209 Carlos Morelos 39:26 210 Alan Merriman 39:29 211 Eissa Abou Daif 39:30 212 Pierewit Wilders 39:37 213 Jari Venäläinen 39:40 214 Pierre Foka 39:42 215 Marko Kotila 39:46 216 Luke Madongo 39:49 217 Cheikh Boye 39:56 218 Elengha Obvo 39:58 219 Ajay Chuttoo 39:59 220 Bruno Le Stum 40:01 221 Thabang Lebota 40:04 222 Adelino Oliveira 40:08 223 Alex Oldete 40:11 224 Ivan Celic 40:13 225 Emil Roman 40:13 226 Freddy Silva 40:13 227 Radames Bonjele 40:15 228 Jouni Rinne 40:18 229 Linton McKenzie 40:26 230 Abdoulka Soumah 40:27 231 Modise Ndibicha 40:36 232 Satish Huryl 40:37 233 Andrzej Magier 40:38 234 Nils Antonio 40:39 235 Patrick Moonsamy 40:43 236 Pat Mabuza 40:47 237 Robert de Vido 40:57 238 Delmore Delevante 41:00 239 Philip Kamane 41:05 240 Bruno Armance 41:21 241 Mike Felicite 41:22 242 Michael Tomlin 41:25 243 Emmanuel Milonya 41:29 244 Michael Nejedly 41:29 245 Eston Phiri 41:46 246 Morris Manai 41:52 247 Prosnattam Lal 41:54 248 Mohlalefi Sepqane 42:22 249 Sau Wai 42:24 250 Mishack Myula 42:33 251 Robert John 42:34 252 Jeff Lockyer 42:44 253 Delroy Hayden 42:47 254 Davendra Pradesh Singh 43:06 255 Ken Mova 43:09 256 Ashok Kumar 43:37 257 Isireli Naikelekelevesi 44:18 258 Tony Green 44:18 259 Medley Laban 45:10 260 Jitendra Prakash 45:16 261 Bimiesh Kumar 45:33 — Artur Castro DNF — Cormac Finnerty DNF — Paulo Guerra DNF — Philimon Hanneck DNF — Eduardo Henriques DNF — Vincenzo Modica DNF — José Regalo DNF — Teppo Jalonen DNF — René Godlieb DNF — Dale Warrander DNF — Didier Sainthorand DNF — Tesfaye Tafa DNF — John Downes DNF — Alejandro Cuahtepizi DNF — Gairat Nigmatov DNF — David Burke DNF — Anatoli Statskejevitsh DNF — Kennedy Masese DNF — Jevgeni Solovjev DNF — Derick Zhanda DNF
Teams Rank Team Points Paul Tergat 1 Ismael Kirui 3 Paul Koech 4 Joseph Kimani 6 William Kiptum 9 Josephat Machuka 10 (Stephen Arusei) (14) (James Songok) (23) (James Kariuki) (61) 33 Salah Hissou 2 Khalid Skah 7 Smail Sghir 8 Abderrahim Zitouna 13 Mustapha Bamouh 29 Khaled Boulami 40 (Mohamed Issangar) (52) (Abdelaziz Sahere) (54) (Brahim Boulami) (78) 99 Haile Gebrselassie 5 Abraham Assefa 11 Habte Jifar 17 Fita Bayissa 18 Ayele Mezegebu 21 Chala Kelele 35 (Girma Tolla) (39) (Nigousse Urge) (71) (Tesfaye Tafa) (DNF) 107 4 Alejandro Gómez 19 José Manuel García 22 Antonio Serrano 32 Antonio Pérez 33 Juan Ramón Muñoz 46 Carlos de la Torre 53 (Julio Rey) (55) (José Ramon Moreno) (84) (Pere Arco) (109) 205 5 Jon Brown 12 John Nuttall 28 Rob Denmark 45 Andrew Pearson 51 Keith Cullen 57 Darius Burrows 59 (Chris Sweeney) (87) (Adrian Passey) (129) (Steve Harris) (151) 252 6 Gennaro Di Napoli 37 Christian Leuprecht 43 Stefano Baldini 48 Angelo Carosi 64 Francesco Panetta 75 Salvatore Bettiol 85 (Sebastiano Mazzara) (163) (Simone Zanon) (187) (Vincenzo Modica) (DNF) 352 7 Shadrack Hoff 15 Owen MacHelm 44 John Morapedi 50 Meshack Mogotsi 86 Sam Molokomme 89 Simon Morolong 95 (Ezael Thlobo) (96) (Meck Mothuli) (138) (Makhosonke Fika) (208) 379 8 Domingos Castro 26 António Pinto 38 Alfredo Bráz 60 Carlos Patrício 83 Vítor Almeida 92 Joaquim Silva 98 (Paulo Guerra) (DNF) (Eduardo Henriques) (DNF) (José Regalo) (DNF) 397 9 Steve Moneghetti 16 Julian Paynter 25 Shaun Creighton 49 Lee Troop 66 Phillip Sly 118 Darren Lynch 123 (Ray Boyd) (155) 397 10 John Gilay 24 Andrew Panga 34 Marko Hwahu 47 Tadeo Nada 72 Faustine Shauri 73 Benito Mpwewe 160 410 11 Mustapha Essaïd 20 Yann Millon 42 Abdellah Béhar 76 Bertrand Frechard 79 Dominique Chauvelier 128 Bertrand Itsweire 133 (Bruno Le Stum) (220) (Abdoulka Soumah) (230) (Didier Sainthorand) (DNF) 478 12 Robbie Johnston 67 Jason Cameron 68 Kerry Rodger 88 Phillip Clode 101 Jonathan Wyatt 111 Phil Costley 114 (Dale Warrander) (DNF) 549 13 Brian Baker 41 Jeff Campbell 82 Tim Gannon 94 Daniel Held 119 Bradley Kirk 121 Robert Cook Jr. 126 (Jonathan Hume) (127) (Brad Schlapak) (179) (Seamus McElligott) (181) 583 14 Daniel Ferreira 27 Sérgio da Silva 74 Adalberto Garcia 90 Éder Fialho 104 Leonardo Guedes 147 Elenilson da Silva 148 (Artur Castro) (DNF) 590 15 Kamiel Maase 30 Greg van Hest 62 Peter van der Velden 99 Marcel Laros 125 Marcel Versteeg 145 Ron van Diepen 152 (René Godlieb) (DNF) 613 16 Carlos Grisales 36 Pedro Rojas 65 William Roldán 106 José Orlando Sánchez Guerrero 141 Francisco Sanchez 166 Freddy Silva 226 740 17 Stéphane Rousseau 105 Marc Vanderstraeten 122 Filip van Damme 134 Jos Maes 137 Stephan Paessens 153 Tom van Hooste 191 842 18 Godfrey Nyombi 102 Alex Malinga 113 Ronald Mujuni 131 Clement Omagoro 157 Ben Chesang 177 Milton Andabati 193 (Boaz Matsiko) (200) 873 19 Valery Chesak 97 Viktor Karpenko 144 Aleksandr Kuzin 150 Sergiy Lebid 154 Igor Sidorenko 190 Andrey Gladishev 207 942 20 Bhairav Singh 124 Redmal Singh 168 Gulab Chand 169 Dinesh Kumar 170 Anil Kumar 176 Sumer Singh 194 1001 21 Petri Kuusinen 115 Veli-Matti Ranta 140 Jukka Vähä-Vahe 192 Jussi Virtanen 203 Jari Venäläinen 213 Marko Kotila 215 (Jouni Rinne) (228) (Teppo Jalonen) (DNF) 1078 22 John Mwathiwa 93 Henry Moyo 108 Francis Munthali 139 Emmanuel Milonya 243 Eston Phiri 245 Mishack Myula 250 (Kennedy Masese) (DNF) 1078 23 Aron Shipanga 100 Joseph Tjitunga 136 Bethold Karumendu 184 Pierewit Wilders 212 Alex Oldete 223 Emil Roman 225 1080 24 Daniel Sibandze 135 Isaac Simelane 142 Elphas Ginindza 174 Bhekumusa Simelane 206 Luke Madongo 216 Pat Mabuza 236 1109 25 Kabo Gabaseme 143 Lesedinyana Lekgoa 173 Zachariah Ditetso 185 Kefemawg Selogilwe 201 Zambis Champi 204 Modise Ndibicha 231 1137 26 Abdul Sameer Moos 186 Menon Ramsamy 199 Ajay Chuttoo 219 Satish Huryl 232 Patrick Moonsamy 235 Bruno Armance 240 (Mike Felicite) (241) 1311 27 Jurmain Mitchell 130 Linton McKenzie 229 Nils Antonio 234 Delmore Delevante 238 Michael Tomlin 242 Delroy Hayden 253 1326 28 Philip Kamane 239 Morris Manai 246 Sau Wai 249 Robert John 251 Ken Mova 255 Tony Green 258 (Medley Laban) (259) 1498 29 Prosnattam Lal 247 Davendra Pradesh Singh 254 Ashok Kumar 256 Isireli Naikelekelevesi 257 Jitendra Prakash 260 Bimiesh Kumar 261 1535DNF (Godfrey Koki) (56) (Fungai Kapanyota) (80) (Peter Mavura) (81) (Tsungai Mwanengeni) (149) (Oliver Kandiero) (165) (Philimon Hanneck) (DNF) DNFDNF (Pablo Olmedo) (69) (Martin Rodríguez) (70) (Carlos Peña) (110) (Rafael Muñoz) (162) (Carlos Morelos) (209) (Alejandro Cuahtepizi) (DNF) DNFDNF