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1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

World Cross Country Championships

Field	Value
Name	1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	9th
Date	March 28
Host city	Madrid, Spain Spain
Location	La Zarzuela Hippodrome
Nations participating	39
Athletes participating	460
Races	3
Distances	12 km – Senior men
7.25 km – Junior men
4.41 km – Senior women
Previous	1980 Paris
Next	1982 Rome

7.25 km – Junior men 4.41 km – Senior women 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. | access-date = October 18, 2013

Complete results for men, |access-date=October 18, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110447/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1981S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 junior men, |access-date=October 18, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110012/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_JM1981S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 women, |access-date=October 18, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110830/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SW1981S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 medallists, | access-date = October 9, 2013 and the results of British athletes |access-date=October 9, 2013 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091955/http://www.iaaf.net/mm/Document/Competitions/Competition/2008WXC_Facts_Figures_1816.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2013 were published.

Medallists

Senior women	Soviet Union	24	United States	36	Italy	89

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Main article: 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	Craig Virgin
	Mohammed Kedir
	Fernando Mamede
4	Julian Goater
5	Antonio Prieto
6	Rob de Castella
7	Girma Berhanu
8	Thom Hunt
9	Alex Hagelsteens
10	Pierre Levisse
11	Rod Dixon
12	El Hachami Abdenouz

(Tolossa Kotu)	(75)

|| 81 |-

(Mark Muggleton)	(103)

|| 114 |-

(John Rotich)	(200)

|| 220

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

Junior men's race (7.25 km)

Main article: 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	Mohammed Chouri
	Yevgeniy Zherebin
	Keith Brantly
4	George Nicholas
5	Paul Davies-Hale
6	John Butler
7	Vincent Rousseau
8	Salvatore Antibo
9	Francesco Panetta
10	Chris Hamilton
11	Jonathan Richards
12	Dave Reid

(Michael Pyeatt)	(23)

|| 23 |-

(Neil Rimmer)	(88)

|| 61 |-

(Mark Orzel)	(63)

|| 66

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

Senior women's race (4.41 km)

Main article: 1981 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	Grete Waitz
	Jan Merrill
	Yelena Sipatova
4	Agnese Possamai
5	Tatyana Sychova
6	Betty Springs
7	Svetlana Ulmasova
8	Debbie Scott
9	Tatyana Pozdnyakova
10	Asunción Sinobas
11	Dorthe Rasmussen
12	Dianne Zorn

(Giana Romanova)	(32)

|| 24 |-

(Francie Larrieu)	(36)

|| 36 |-

(Marina Loddo)	(49)

|| 89

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

Medal table (unofficial)

Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 460 athletes from 39 countries. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

(15)
(14)
Australia (15)
(6)
Belgium (21)
Canada (21)
(2)
(16)
England (21)
ETH (8)
(13)
France (20)
(8)
(2)
(21)
(3)
Italy (20)
(9)
(1)
(1)
(5)
Netherlands (14)
New Zealand (15)
(10)
(6)
Poland (7)
(21)
ROU (1)
(14)
(20)
(19)
ESP (21)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (6)
(13)
(1)
United States (21)
(20)
(8)

References

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