1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Senior men's race at the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships IAAF 1st 17 March Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium Belgium Hippodroom Waregem 19 156 1 11.98 km – Senior men 1974 Monza The Senior men's race at the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Waregem, Belgium, at the Hippodroom Waregem on 17 March 1973. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald. 19 March 1973 'Brawn' breaks clear and lives up his name - A goodly ration of champagne in their hotel here last night, strictly speaking to celebrate Jim Brown's crushing win in the junior race, washed away much of the bitterness and frustration that had clung for several hours to the Scottish Senior cross country team... https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q-I9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=VkgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5238%2C3921142 Glasgow Herald 2 October 9, 2013 Complete results,Magnusson Tomas 24 March 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Waregem Date: Saturday 17 March 1973 http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1973S.html Athchamps (archived) October 9, 2013 bot: unknown https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110408/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1973S.html October 16, 2007 medallists, IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/xc.htm Athletics Weekly October 9, 2013 and the results of British athletes36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS http://www.iaaf.net/mm/Document/Competitions/Competition/2008WXC_Facts_Figures_1816.pdf IAAF 2ff October 9, 2013 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091955/http://www.iaaf.net/mm/Document/Competitions/Competition/2008WXC_Facts_Figures_1816.pdf September 27, 2013 were published. Protest and assault The race consisted of separate Northern Ireland and Ireland teams. During the race, Irish rebel athletes disrupted the race in protest as they wanted Ireland to be represented by a unified team. Protesters entered the race at the one mile marker dressed in running gear and physically assaulted runners from several nations. Rod Dixon and Roger Clark fought back, giving the Irish protestors "bruised and battered" bodies.'Rebels' run riot in Belgium https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-post-merseyside-ed-rebels-run/208408907/ Liverpool Daily Post 16 October 2026 14 19 Mar 1973 Race results Senior men's race (11.98 km) Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Pekka Päivärinta FIN 35:46.4 Mariano Haro ESP 1945 35:46.5 Rod Dixon NZL 36:00 4 Tapio Kantanen FIN 36:05 5 Willy Polleunis BEL 36:05 6 Roger Clark ENG 36:08 7 Juan Hidalgo ESP 1945 36:12 8 Gaston Roelants BEL 36:13 9 Nikolay Sviridov URS 36:19 10 Noel Tijou FRA 36:21 11 Grenville Tuck ENG 36:24 12 Dick Tayler NZL 36:26 13 Norman Morrison SCO 36:31 14 Bryan Rose NZL 36:38 15 Euan Robertson NZL 36:45 16 Egbert Nijstad NED 36:46 17 Pavel Andreyev URS 36:47 18 Eric de Beck BEL 19 Erik Gijselinck BEL 20 Abdelkader Zaddem TUN 21 Nikolay Puklakov URS 22 Boris Olyanitskiy URS 23 Valentin Zotov URS 24 Carlos Lopes POR 25 Eddie Leddy IRL 36:56 26 Malcolm Thomas WAL 27 Vladimir Merkushin URS 28 Karel Lismont BEL 29 Steve Kenyon ENG 30 Andrew McKean SCO 31 Marc Smet BEL 32 Tony Simmons ENG 33 Bernie Plain WAL 34 Seppo Tuominen FIN 35 Giuseppe Cindolo ITA 36 Santiago de la Parte ESP 1945 37 Adelaziz Bouguerra TUN 38 Eddie Gray NZL 39 Roelof Veld NED 40 Edgard Salvé BEL 41 Pierre Liardet FRA 42 Mike Baxter ENG 43 Seppo Nikkari FIN 44 Detlef Uhlemann FRG 45 Lachie Stewart SCO 46 Bernard Caraby FRA 47 Olavi Suomalainen FIN 48 Haico Scharn NED 49 Daniel Fossé FRA 50 Dennis Fowles WAL 51 Pekka Tiihonen FIN 52 John van der Wansem NED 53 Petras Simonelis URS 54 Nathan Healey NZL 55 John Jones WAL 56 Gerd Frähmcke FRG 57 Jim Alder SCO 58 José Maiz ESP 1945 59 John Sheddan NZL 60 Risto Ala-Korpi FIN 61 Ricky Wilde ENG 62 Jean-Yves Le Flohic FRA 63 Donal Walsh IRL 64 John McLaughlin NIR 65 René Jourdan FRA 66 Mohamed Ben Abdelsalem MAR 67 Danny McDaid IRL 68 Cherif Hannchi TUN 69 Paddy Coyle IRL 70 Bill Robinson ENG 71 Fernand Kolbeck FRA 72 Adrian Weatherhead SCO 73 Vadim Mokalov URS 74 Ian Gilmour SCO 75 Mike Beevor ENG 76 Renato Martini ITA 77 Mansour Guettaya TUN 78 Saturnino Arcones ESP 1945 79 Javier Álvarez ESP 1945 80 Franco Veronese ITA 81 Jean-Paul Gomez FRA 82 Miloud Chenna MAR 83 John Myatt SCO 84 Tom O'Riordan IRL 85 Dick Crowley IRL 86 Bernie Ford ENG 87 Albrecht Moser SUI 88 Wilhelm Jungbluth FRG 89 Tony Ashton WAL 90 Gaetano Pusterla ITA 91 Hamdouni Sghaier TUN 92 David Hopkins WAL 93 Moumoh Haddou MAR 94 Karl-Heinz Betz FRG 95 Mohamed Benbaraka MAR 96 Luigi Zarcone ITA 97 Gabriele Barbaro ITA 98 Herman Parmentier BEL 99 Labidi Ayachi TUN 100 Gerry Hannon NIR 101 Amakdouf Layachi MAR 102 Ruben San Martin ESP 1945 103 Ludwig Niedermeier FRG 104 Esa Laitinen FIN 105 David Logue NIR 106 Clive Thomas WAL 107 Dahou Belghazi MAR 108 Anacleto Pinto POR 109 Eddie Spillane IRL 110 Brunello Bertolin ITA 111 Mustapha Oulghazi MAR 112 Gérard Vervoort FRA 113 Julio Marujo POR 114 Mike Critchley WAL 115 Colin Falconer SCO 116 Americo Barros POR 117 Pat Gilseman IRL 118 Hussein Soltani TUN 119 Aniceto Simoes POR 120 Dick Wedlock SCO 121 Piet Vonck NED 122 Cidalio Caetano POR 123 Falko Will FRG 124 Geert Jansen NED 125 Roy Kernoghan NIR 126 Ian Morrison NIR 127 Mohamed Sghir MAR 128 Brian Donovan WAL 129 Mario Binato ITA 130 Howard Healey NZL 131 Jos Hermens NED 132 Abdelkrim Djelassi TUN 133 Vasco Pereira POR 134 Fernando Fernandez ESP 1945 135 Peter Helmer DEN 136 Armando Aldegalega POR 137 Tom Annett NIR 138 Arne Stigsen DEN 139 Jean-Pierre Berset SUI 140 Hans Ruiter NED 141 Jim McGuinness NIR 142 Jörgen Trangbaek DEN 143 Erik Laursen DEN 144 Bent Larsson DEN 145 Dan Engell DEN 146 Gerd Larsen DEN 147 Dan Michaelsen DEN 148 Arne Möller DEN – Neil Cusack IRL DNF – Fernando Mamede POR DNF – Umberto Risi ITA DNF – Willi Wagner FRG DNF – Julio Gude ESP 1945 DNF – Wolfgang Krüger FRG DNF – Haddou Jaddour MAR DNF – Esko Lipsonen FIN DNF Teams Rank Team Points BEL Willy Polleunis 5 Gaston Roelants 8 Eric de Beck 18 Erik Gijselinck 19 Karel Lismont 28 Marc Smet 31 (Edgard Salvé) (40) (Herman Parmentier) (98) 109 URS Nikolay Sviridov 9 Pavel Andreyev 17 Nikolay Puklakov 21 Boris Olyanitskiy 22 Valentin Zotov 23 Vladimir Merkushin 27 (Petras Simonelis) (53) (Vadim Mokalov) (73) 119 NZL Rod Dixon 3 Dick Tayler 12 Bryan Rose 14 Euan Robertson 15 Eddie Gray 38 Nathan Healey 54 (John Sheddan) (59) (Howard Healey) (130) 136 4 FIN Pekka Päivärinta 1 Tapio Kantanen 4 Seppo Tuominen 34 Seppo Nikkari 43 Olavi Suomalainen 47 Pekka Tiihonen 51 (Risto Ala-Korpi) (60) (Esa Laitinen) (104) (Esko Lipsonen) (DNF) 180 5 ENG Roger Clark 6 Grenville Tuck 11 Steve Kenyon 29 Tony Simmons 32 Mike Baxter 42 Ricky Wilde 61 (Bill Robinson) (70) (Mike Beevor) (75) (Bernie Ford) (86) 181 6 ESP Mariano Haro 2 Juan Hidalgo 7 Santiago de la Parte 36 José Maiz 58 Saturnino Arcones 78 Javier Alvarez 79 (Ruben San Martin) (102) (Fernando Fernandez) (134) (Julio Gude) (DNF) 260 7 FRA Noel Tijou 10 Pierre Liardet 41 Bernard Caraby 46 Daniel Fossé 49 Jean-Yves Le Flohic 62 René Jourdan 65 (Fernand Kolbeck) (71) (Jean-Paul Gomez) (81) (Gérard Vervoort) (112) 273 8 SCO Norman Morrison 13 Andrew McKean 30 Lachie Stewart 45 Jim Alder 57 Adrian Weatherhead 72 Ian Gilmour 74 (John Myatt) (83) (Colin Falconer) (115) (Dick Wedlock) (120) 291 9 WAL Malcolm Thomas 26 Bernie Plain 33 Dennis Fowles 50 John Jones 55 Tony Ashton 89 David Hopkins 92 (Clive Thomas) (106) (Mike Critchley) (114) (Brian Donovan) (128) 345 10 TUN Abdelkader Zaddem 20 Adelaziz Bouguerra 37 Cherif Hannchi 68 Mansour Guettaya 77 Hamdouni Sghaier 91 Labidi Ayachi 99 (Hussein Soltani) (118) (Abdelkrim Djelassi) (132) 392 11 IRL Eddie Leddy 25 Donal Walsh 63 Danny McDaid 67 Paddy Coyle 69 Tom O'Riordan 84 Dick Crowley 85 (Eddie Spillane) (109) (Pat Gilseman) (117) (Neil Cusack) (DNF) 393 12 NED Egbert Nijstad 16 Roelof Veld 39 Haico Scharn 48 John van der Wansem 52 Piet Vonck 121 Geert Jansen 124 (Jos Hermens) (131) (Hans Ruiter) (140) 400 13 ITA Giuseppe Cindolo 35 Renato Martini 76 Franco Veronese 80 Gaetano Pusterla 90 Luigi Zarcone 96 Gabriele Barbaro 97 (Brunello Bertolin) (110) (Mario Binato) (129) (Umberto Risi) (DNF) 474 14 FRG Detlef Uhlemann 44 Gerd Frähmcke 56 Wilhelm Jungbluth 88 Karl-Heinz Betz 94 Ludwig Niedermeier 103 Falko Will 123 (Willi Wagner) (DNF) (Wolfgang Krüger) (DNF) 508 15 MAR Mohamed Ben Abdelsalem 66 Miloud Chenna 82 Moumoh Haddou 93 Mohamed Benbaraka 95 Amakdouf Layachi 101 Dahou Belghazi 107 (Mustapha Oulghazi) (111) (Mohamed Sghir) (127) (Haddou Jaddour) (DNF) 544 16 POR Carlos Lopes 24 Anacleto Pinto 108 Julio Marujo 113 Americo Barros 116 Aniceto Simoes 119 Cidalio Caetano 122 (Vasco Pereira) (133) (Armando Aldegalega) (136) (Fernando Mamede) (DNF) 602 17 NIR John McLaughlin 64 Gerry Hannon 100 David Logue 105 Roy Kernoghan 125 Ian Morrison 126 Tom Annett 137 (Jim McGuinness) (141) 657 18 DEN Peter Helmer 135 Arne Stigsen 138 Jörgen Trangbaek 142 Erik Laursen 143 Bent Larsson 144 Dan Engell 145 (Gerd Larsen) (146) (Dan Michaelsen) (147) (Arne Möller) (148) 847 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 156 athletes from 19 countries in the Senior men's race, one athlete less than the official number published. 22em BEL (8) DEN (9) ENG (9) FIN (9) FRA (9) IRL (9) ITA (9) MAR (9) NED (8) NZL (8) NIR (7) POR (9) SCO (9) ESP 1945 (9) URS (8) SUI (2) TUN (8) WAL (9) FRG (8) See also 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race References Category:Senior men's race at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships IAAF World Cross Country Championships Category:1973 in men's international sport