1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships | |
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Organisers | IAAF |
Edition | 9th |
Date | March 28 |
Host city | Madrid, Spain ![]() |
Venue | La Zarzuela Hippodrome |
Events | 3 |
Distances | 12 km – Senior men 7.25 km – Junior men 4.41 km – Senior women |
Participation | 460 athletes from 39 nations |
The 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Madrid, Spain, at the Hipódromo de la Zarzuela on March 28, 1981. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.[1]
Complete results for men,[2] junior men,[3] women,[4] medallists, [5] and the results of British athletes[6] were published.
Medallists
[edit]Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Individual | ||||||
Senior men (12 km) |
Craig Virgin![]() |
35:05 | Mohammed Kedir![]() |
35:07 | Fernando Mamede![]() |
35:09 |
Junior men (7.25 km) |
Mohammed Chouri![]() |
22:04 | Yevgeniy Zherebin![]() |
22:06 | Keith Brantly![]() |
22:07 |
Senior women (4.41 km) |
Grete Waitz![]() |
14:07 | Jan Merrill![]() |
14:22 | Yelena Sipatova![]() |
14:22 |
Team | ||||||
Senior men | ![]() |
81 | ![]() |
114 | ![]() |
220 |
Junior men | ![]() |
23 | ![]() |
61 | ![]() |
66 |
Senior women | ![]() |
24 | ![]() |
36 | ![]() |
89 |
Race results
[edit]Senior men's race (12 km)
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
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Craig Virgin | ![]() |
35:05 |
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Mohammed Kedir | ![]() |
35:07 |
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Fernando Mamede | ![]() |
35:09 |
4 | Julian Goater | ![]() |
35:13 |
5 | Antonio Prieto | ![]() |
35:18 |
6 | Rob de Castella | ![]() |
35:20 |
7 | Girma Berhanu | ![]() |
35:22 |
8 | Thom Hunt | ![]() |
35:23 |
9 | Alex Hagelsteens | ![]() |
35:24 |
10 | Pierre Levisse | ![]() |
35:26 |
11 | Rod Dixon | ![]() |
35:30 |
12 | El Hachami Abdenouz | ![]() |
35:34 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||||||||
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81 | ||||||||||||||||||
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114 | ||||||||||||||||||
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220 | ||||||||||||||||||
4 | ![]() |
254 | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | ![]() |
255 | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | ![]() |
312 | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | ![]() |
350 | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | ![]() |
377 | ||||||||||||||||||
Full results |
- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Junior men's race (7.25 km)
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
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Mohammed Chouri | ![]() |
22:04 |
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Yevgeniy Zherebin | ![]() |
22:06 |
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Keith Brantly | ![]() |
22:07 |
4 | George Nicholas | ![]() |
22:08 |
5 | Paul Davies-Hale | ![]() |
22:19 |
6 | John Butler | ![]() |
22:21 |
7 | Vincent Rousseau | ![]() |
22:23 |
8 | Salvatore Antibo | ![]() |
22:29 |
9 | Francesco Panetta | ![]() |
22:32 |
10 | Chris Hamilton | ![]() |
22:32 |
11 | Jonathan Richards | ![]() |
22:33 |
12 | Dave Reid | ![]() |
22:37 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||
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23 | ||||||||||||
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61 | ||||||||||||
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66 | ||||||||||||
4 | ![]() |
80 | ||||||||||||
5 | ![]() |
118 | ||||||||||||
6 | ![]() |
130 | ||||||||||||
7 | ![]() |
135 | ||||||||||||
8 | ![]() |
137 | ||||||||||||
Full results |
- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Senior women's race (4.41 km)
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
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Grete Waitz | ![]() |
14:07 |
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Jan Merrill | ![]() |
14:22 |
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Yelena Sipatova | ![]() |
14:22 |
4 | Agnese Possamai | ![]() |
14:25 |
5 | Tatyana Sychova | ![]() |
14:25 |
6 | Betty Springs | ![]() |
14:28 |
7 | Svetlana Ulmasova | ![]() |
14:28 |
8 | Debbie Scott | ![]() |
14:31 |
9 | Tatyana Pozdnyakova | ![]() |
14:34 |
10 | Asunción Sinobas | ![]() |
14:38 |
11 | Dorthe Rasmussen | ![]() |
14:39 |
12 | Dianne Zorn | ![]() |
14:39 |
Full results |
Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||
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24 | ||||||||||||
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36 | ||||||||||||
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89 | ||||||||||||
4 | ![]() |
90 | ||||||||||||
5 | ![]() |
96 | ||||||||||||
6 | ![]() |
106 | ||||||||||||
7 | ![]() |
123 | ||||||||||||
8 | ![]() |
167 | ||||||||||||
Full results |
- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Medal table (unofficial)
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (10 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
- Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.
Participation
[edit]An unofficial count yields the participation of 460 athletes from 39 countries. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[6]
Algeria (15)
Angola (14)
Australia (15)
Austria (6)
Belgium (21)
Canada (21)
Czechoslovakia (2)
Denmark (16)
England (21)
Ethiopia (8)
Finland (13)
France (20)
Greece (8)
Guinea (2)
Ireland (21)
Israel (3)
Italy (20)
Kenya (9)
Lebanon (1)
Luxembourg (1)
Morocco (5)
Netherlands (14)
New Zealand (15)
Northern Ireland (10)
Norway (6)
Poland (7)
Portugal (21)
Romania (1)
Saudi Arabia (14)
Scotland (20)
Soviet Union (19)
Spain (21)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (6)
Tunisia (13)
Turkey (1)
United States (21)
Wales (20)
West Germany (8)
See also
[edit]- 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
- 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
- 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
- 1981 in athletics (track and field)
References
[edit]- ^ Gillon, Doug (March 19, 1973), "Muir dream is shattered in Madrid – Nat Muir, who went to Madrid with dreams of becoming world cross-county champion, spent yesterday with his coach trying to work out why it became a nichtmare...", Glasgow Herald, p. 20, retrieved October 18, 2013
- ^
Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships – 12.0km CC Men – Madrid Hippodromo de la Zarzuela Date: Saturday, March 28, 1981, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 18, 2013
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Magnusson, Tomas (March 24, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships – 7.0km CC Men – Madrid Hippodromo de la Zarzuela Date: Saturday, March 28, 1981, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 18, 2013
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Magnusson, Tomas (February 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships – 4.4km CC Women – Madrid Hippodromo de la Zarzuela Date: Saturday, March 28, 1981, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 18, 2013
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS", Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 9, 2013
- ^ a b 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
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