The Junior men's race at the 1978 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Glasgow, Scotland, at the Bellahouston Park on March 25, 1978. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.

Complete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.

Race results

Junior men's race (7.036 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Mick Morton 22:57 Rob Earl 23:10 Francisco Alario 23:11 4 Constantino Esparcia 23:12 5 Ronnie Carroll 23:14 6 Aleksandr Pasaryuk 23:15 7 Viktor Zinovyev 23:20 8 Kevin Dillon 23:22 9 Eddy de Pauw 23:23 10 Rod Berry 23:24 11 Brendan Quinn 23:25 12 Yevgeniy Okorokov 23:27 13 Eddie White 23:27 14 Rob Lonergan 23:27 15 David Beaver 23:29 16 Argimiro González 23:30 17 Ian Brown 23:31 18 Dirk Mattheus 23:35 19 Gelindo Bordin 23:36 20 Antonio Leitão 23:37 21 Pietro Pani 23:40 22 Peter Daenens 23:43 23 Marc de Blander 23:46 24 Peter Elletson 23:47 25 Paul Schultz 23:48 26 Dave Taylor 23:50 27 Ian Campbell 23:52 28 Patrick Deliveyne 23:54 29 Jim Groves 23:55 30 Fulvio Costa 23:56 31 Valentin Rodríguez 23:57 32 Raymond Paulins 23:58 33 Fernando Miguel 23:59 34 Saïd Aouita 24:02 35 Andrey Kuznetsov 24:04 36 Alastair Douglas 24:05 37 Kevin Byrne 24:06 38 Jeff Millieman 24:06 39 Habib Romdani 24:08 40 Pascal Thiébaut 24:09 41 Roberto Visini 24:11 42 James Fallon 24:12 43 Nikolay Yavorskiy 24:17 44 Simon Catchpole 24:20 45 Gaetano Erba 24:21 46 Ezequiel Canario 24:22 47 Assila Tebai 24:30 48 Mohamed Maazaoui 24:31 49 Abdellah Benbaraka 24:32 50 Tony Hatherly 24:33 51 Humberto Sequeira 24:38 52 José Frias 24:39 53 Francisco Cortés 24:41 54 Tim O'Neill 24:42 55 Steve Ferri 24:42 56 John Griffin 24:43 57 Carlos Quirce 58 Nourredine Benamor 59 Adrian Stewart 24:48 60 Nigel Jones 24:50 61 Carlos Pereira 24:53 62 Keith Gallivan 24:54 63 Jean-Louis Carrel 24:57 64 John Gray 25:02 65 Philippe Cros 25:04 66 Féthi Baccouche 25:05 67 Mohamed Ngueri 25:07 68 Eddie Patterson 25:11 69 Mark Donnelly 25:11 70 Steve Blakemore 25:12 71 Ali Daasa 25:13 72 Jean-Baptiste Protais 25:22 73 Mohamed Benaissa 25:23 74 Tom Breen 25:24 75 Sean Miller 25:24 76 Patrick Hiron 25:33 77 Dominique Vernochet 25:36 78 David Norris 25:38 79 Simon Axon 25:43 80 Ieuan Ellis 25:46 81 Robert McWatt 25:48 82 Tom Melville 25:49 83 Mohamed El Bali 25:55 84 Paul Moloney 26:32 85 Sani Jeji 26:42 86 Sallah Abashi 27:30 87 John Davou 28:41 88 Gyane Davou 28:52 89 Mbok Likita 29:52 90 James Tsenment 30:08 — Colin Clarkson DNF

Teams Rank Team Points Mick Morton 1 Eddie White 13 David Beaver 15 Peter Elletson 24 (Simon Catchpole) (44) (Adrian Stewart) (59) 53 Rob Earl 2 Kevin Dillon 8 Rob Lonergan 14 Jim Groves 29 (Raymond Paulins) (32) (Tony Hatherly) (50) 53 Francisco Alario 3 Constantino Esparcia 4 Argimiro González 16 Valentin Rodríguez 31 (Francisco Cortés) (53) (Carlos Quirce) (57) 54 4 Aleksandr Pasaryuk 6 Viktor Zinovyev 7 Yevgeniy Okorokov 12 Andrey Kuznetsov 35 (Nikolay Yavorskiy) (43) 60 5 Eddy de Pauw 9 Dirk Mattheus 18 Peter Daenens 22 Marc de Blander 23 (Patrick Deliveyne) (28) 72 6 Ronnie Carroll 5 Brendan Quinn 11 Dave Taylor 26 James Fallon 42 (John Griffin) (56) (Paul Moloney) (84) 84 7 Rod Berry 10 Paul Schultz 25 Kevin Byrne 37 Jeff Millieman 38 (Tim O'Neill) (54) (Steve Ferri) (55) 110 8 Gelindo Bordin 19 Pietro Pani 21 Fulvio Costa 30 Roberto Visini 41 (Gaetano Erba) (45) 111 9 Ian Brown 17 Ian Campbell 27 Alastair Douglas 36 Nigel Jones 60 (John Gray) (64) (Robert McWatt) (81) 140 10 Antonio Leitão 20 Fernando Miguel 33 Ezequiel Canario 46 Humberto Sequeira 51 (José Frias) (52) (Carlos Pereira) (61) 150 11 Saïd Aouita 34 Mohamed Maazaoui 48 Abdellah Benbaraka 49 Mohamed Ngueri 67 (Mohamed Benaissa) (73) (Mohamed El Bali) (83) 198 12 Habib Romdani 39 Assila Tebai 47 Nourredine Benamor 58 Féthi Baccouche 66 (Ali Daasa) (71) 210 13 Pascal Thiébaut 40 Jean-Louis Carrel 63 Philippe Cros 65 Jean-Baptiste Protais 72 (Patrick Hiron) (76) (Dominique Vernochet) (77) 240 14 Keith Gallivan 62 Mark Donnelly 69 Steve Blakemore 70 Steve Axon 79 (Ieuan Ellis) (80) (Colin Clarkson) (DNF) 280 15 Eddie Patterson 68 Tom Breen 74 Sean Miller 75 David Norris 78 (Tom Melville) (82) 295 16 Sani Jeji 85 Sallah Abashi 86 John Davou 87 Gyane Davou 88 (Mbok Likita) (89) (James Tsenment) (90) 346 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 91 athletes from 16 countries in the Junior men's race, one athlete less than the official number published.

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See also 1978 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race 1978 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

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