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2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

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Name2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Logo2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Logo.png
Size257px
OrganisersIAAF
Edition34th
DateApril 1/2
Host cityFukuoka, Kyushu, Japan Japan
LocationUmi-no-nakamichi Seaside Park
Nations participating59
Athletes participating574
Races6
Distances12 km – Senior men
4 km – Men's short
8 km – Junior men
8 km – Senior women
4 km – Women's short
6 km – Junior women
Previous2005 Saint-Galmier
Next2007 Mombasa

4 km – Men's short 8 km – Junior men 8 km – Senior women 4 km – Women's short 6 km – Junior women The 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on April 1/2, 2006. The races were held at the Umi-no-nakamichi Seaside Park in Fukuoka, Japan, Japan's National Cross Country Course which is the permanent residence of the annual Fukuoka International Cross Country meeting.

The event was once again dominated by Ethiopian and Kenyan runners and also Eritrean runners. Kenenisa Bekele won both men's individual races, proving himself the most successful Cross country runner. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, | access-date = November 2, 2013 and for the IAAF. | access-date = November 2, 2013 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | access-date = November 2, 2013

Complete results for senior men, |access-date=November 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110739/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM2006S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052314/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=M/discCode=XS/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 for senior men's teams,{{Citation | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052338/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=M/discCode=XS/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/team.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 for men's short race, |access-date=November 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110734/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM2006C.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052332/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=M/discCode=XC/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 for men's short race teams,{{Citation | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052320/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=M/discCode=XC/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/team.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 for junior men, |access-date=November 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110218/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_JM2006S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052328/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=M/discCode=XJ/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131105204837/http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/34th-iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-3484/results/men/junior-race/final/result | archive-date = 5 November 2013 | url-status=dead for junior men's teams,{{Citation | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052334/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=M/discCode=XJ/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/team.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131105204922/http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/34th-iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-3484/results/men/junior-race/final/team | archive-date = 5 November 2013 | url-status=dead senior women, |access-date=November 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016111105/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SW2006S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052317/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=W/discCode=XS/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 for senior women's teams,{{Citation | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052325/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=W/discCode=XS/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/team.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 for women's short race, |access-date=November 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016111058/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SW2006C.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052330/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=W/discCode=XC/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 for women's short race teams,{{Citation | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052336/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=W/discCode=XC/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/team.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 for junior women, |access-date=November 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110357/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_JW2006S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052322/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=W/discCode=XJ/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131105204939/http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/34th-iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-3484/results/women/junior-race/final/result | archive-date = 5 November 2013 | url-status=dead for junior women's teams,{{Citation | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131106052318/http://www.iaaf.net/history/WXC/season=2006/eventCode=3484/results/sex=W/discCode=XJ/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/team.html#det | archive-date = November 6, 2013 | url-status=usurped | access-date = November 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131105204829/http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/34th-iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-3484/results/women/junior-race/final/team | archive-date = 5 November 2013 | url-status=dead medallists, | access-date = November 2, 2013 and the results of British athletes who took part |access-date=November 2, 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

Junior womenKEN10ETH29JPN58

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Kenenisa Bekele took his fifth consecutive long race title. At the team competition Eritrea surprisingly beat Ethiopia and lost to Kenya only by four points.

Rankwidth=20%Athletewidth=15%Countrywidth=10%TimeFull results
Kenenisa Bekele
Sileshi Sihine
Martin Mathathi
4Zersenay Tadesse
5Mike Kigen
6Hosea Macharinyang
7Yonas Kifle
8Ali Abdalla
9Tesfayohannes Mesfen
10Simon Arusei
11Abderrahim Goumri
12John Kibowen
(Simion Tuitoek)(58)

|| 24 |-

(Samson Kiflemariam)(19)

|| 28 |-

(Abebe Dinkessa)(71)

|| 42

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

Men's short race (4 km)

Kenenisa Bekele took his fifth consecutive short race title. The 1999 winner, Benjamin Limo of Kenya finished fourth.

Rankwidth=20%Athletewidth=15%Countrywidth=10%TimeFull results
Kenenisa Bekele
Isaac Songok
Adil Kaouch
4Benjamin Limo
5Ali Abdosh
6Adam Goucher
7Augustine Choge
8Edwin Cheruiyot Soi
9Saif Saeed Shaheen
10Sultan Khamis Zaman
11Craig Mottram
12Sileshi Sihine
(Yusuf Kibet Biwot)(20)

|| 21 |-

(Zenbaba Yegezu)(48)

|| 48 |-

(Anis Selmouni)(47)

|| 53

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

Junior men's race (8 km)

Rankwidth=20%Athletewidth=15%Countrywidth=10%TimeFull results
Mang'ata Ndiwa
Leonard Patrick Komon
Tariku Bekele
4Joseph Ebuya
5Ibrahim Jellan
6Habtamu Fikadu
7Kamal Ali Thamer
8Samuel Tsegay
9Bernard Matheka
10Tadesse Tola
11Kidane Tadasse
12Kiflom Slum
(Daniel Gitau)(15)

|| 16 |-

(Demssew Tsega)(16)

|| 24 |-

Teklemariam Medhin13

|| 44

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

Senior women's race (8 km)

Tirunesh Dibaba took her second consecutive long race title.

Rankwidth=20%Athletewidth=15%Countrywidth=10%TimeFull results
Tirunesh Dibaba
Lornah Kiplagat
Meselech Melkamu
4Benita Johnson
5Wude Ayalew
6Kayoko Fukushi
7Mestawat Tufa
8Evelyne Wambui
9Faith Jemutai
10Alice Chelangat
11Blake Russell
12Mercy Njoroge
(Teyiba Erkesso)(46)

|| 16 |-

(Consalater Chemtai Yadaa)(58)

|| 39 |-

(Michiko Ogawa)(65)

|| 80

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

Women's short race (4 km)

Ethiopia won the team competition beating Kenya only by a single point.

Rankwidth=20%Athletewidth=15%Countrywidth=10%TimeFull results
Gelete Burka
Prisca Ngetich
Meselech Melkamu
4Benita Johnson
5Lornah Kiplagat
6Beatrice Chepchumba
7Zhor El Kamch
8Vivian Cheruiyot
9Bezunesh Bekele
10Isabella Ochichi
11Melissa Rollison
12Teyiba Erkesso
(Tirunesh Dibaba)(DNF)

|| 25 |-

(Beatrice Rutto)(41)

|| 26 |-

(Eloise Wellings)(39)

|| 69

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

Junior women's race (6 km)

Rankwidth=20%Athletewidth=15%Countrywidth=10%TimeFull results
Pauline Korikwiang
Veronica Wanjiru
Mercy Kosgei
4Emmy Chepkirui
5Belainesh Zemedkun
6Workitu Ayanu
7Emebt Etea
8Pamela Chesopich Lisoreng
9Gladys Chemweno
10Sian Edwards
11Asselefech Assefa
12Merat Bahta
(Gladys Chemweno)(9)

|| 10 |-

(Derebe Godan)(21)

|| 29 |-

(Aimi Horikoshi)(23)

|| 58

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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

According to an unofficial count, 574 athletes from 59 countries participated. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athlete from did not show.

  • ALG (18)
  • ANG (4)
  • ARG (4)
  • AUS (21)
  • AZE (1)
  • BHR (9)
  • BLR (4)
  • BOL (1)
  • BOT (4)
  • BRA (9)
  • BDI (5)
  • CAN (28)
  • CHI (4)
  • CHN (12)
  • COL (1)
  • Côte d'Ivoire (2)
  • DOM (3)
  • EGY (4)
  • ERI (19)
  • ETH (27)
  • FRA (12)
  • GER (1)
  • GUA (3)
  • IND (3)
  • INA (3)
  • IRI (1)
  • IRL (4)
  • ITA (15)
  • JAM (10)
  • JPN (36)
  • KAZ (4)
  • KEN (36)
  • KGZ (2)
  • MEX (8)
  • MAR (28)
  • NED (1)
  • NZL (9)
  • PER (5)
  • POL (4)
  • POR (17)
  • PUR (2)
  • QAT (14)
  • ROU (2)
  • RUS (10)
  • RWA (12)
  • SEY (1)
  • RSA (18)
  • KOR (8)
  • ESP (22)
  • SRI (2)
  • SUI (3)
  • TJK (3)
  • TAN (4)
  • TUR (1)
  • UGA (13)
  • United Kingdom (31)
  • USA (34)
  • UZB (8)
  • VEN (4)

References

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