The Junior men's race at the 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Paris, France, at the Hippodrome de Longchamp on March 9, 1980. A report on the event was given in the Evening Times.

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

Race results

Junior men's race (7.41 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Jordi García 22:17 Valeriy Gryaznov 22:23 Ed Eyestone 22:27 4 Denis Stark 22:34 5 Tom Downs 22:34 6 Sergey Kiselyov 22:36 7 Ildar Denikeyev 22:38 8 Guy Léfèvre 22:41 9 Andrea Prassedi 22:47 10 Paul Davies-Hale 22:52 11 William Graham 22:53 12 Gary Huckwell 22:58 13 Brian O'Keefe 22:58 14 Johan van Oost 22:59 15 Ross Chilton 23:00 16 Gábor Szabó 23:04 17 Brahim Boudina 23:05 18 Henrik Jørgensen 23:08 19 Steve Blakemore 23:10 20 José Fernández 23:10 21 Enrico Ogliar Badessi 23:11 22 Lars-Erik Nilsson 23:12 23 Gyula Balogh 23:13 24 Miguel Rubio 23:13 25 Philip Ledger 23:14 26 Faisal Touzri 23:18 27 Laurent Brosseau 23:18 28 Rabah Aboura 23:19 29 Hichem Oueslati 23:19 30 Mauro Perna 23:21 31 William Van Dijck 23:23 32 Ted Murphy 23:23 33 Jen Emmanuel Lassoie 23:26 34 Julio Perez 23:26 35 Sergey Mishin 23:26 36 Jean-Luc Taif 23:27 37 Yvan Perre 23:27 38 István Bene 23:28 39 Carrey Penner 23:29 40 Kai Röcker 23:29 41 Salvatore Bettiol 23:31 42 Paul Cowell 23:33 43 Dave Reid 23:34 44 Eddy Stevens 23:39 45 Djamel Eddine Galli 23:40 46 Sid-Ali Sakhri 23:41 47 Adrian Callan 23:42 48 John McCreedy 23:44 49 Terry Conlon 23:46 50 Dominique Grandjean 23:47 51 Pedro Garin 23:49 52 Dmitriy Ditlashok 23:50 53 Mohammed Chouri 23:51 54 Carlo Grasso 23:52 55 Martin Grosskopf 23:53 56 Eric Sappenfield 23:53 57 Peter Elliott 23:54 58 Luc Sadones 23:55 59 Philip Llewellyn 23:58 60 Sören Egge Rasmussen 23:58 61 Francisco Erneta 24:00 62 Mohamed Hadj Gasmi 24:03 63 Hocine Guessas 24:05 64 Gerhard Lindner 24:08 65 Ross Copestake 24:10 66 Tom Breen 24:10 67 Simon Axon 24:11 68 Abderrahmane Boumouzia 24:12 69 John Gladwin 24:18 70 Ralf Winter 24:19 71 Jacques Triquet 24:20 72 Nigel Barton 24:20 73 Kim Taylor Hansen 24:21 74 Ross Arbuckle 24:22 75 Marcus O'Sullivan 24:24 76 Jacques le Floch 24:28 77 László Szász 24:31 78 Gary Millar 24:32 79 Andrew Smith 24:33 80 Said Shili 24:33 81 Ole Hansen 24:34 82 Daniel Caprioglio 24:34 83 Brian Roche 24:43 84 Coleman Connelly 24:47 85 Peter Fox 24:49 86 Nigel Stops 24:52 87 Jamel Zriba 24:58 88 Farron Fields 25:03 89 Peter Gylling 25:10 90 Martin Coupland 25:16 91 Tom Melville 25:19 92 Jörg Thoma 25:24 93 Peter Williams 25:36 94 David Lynch 26:00 — John Doherty DNF — Dave Lewis DNF — Luciano Carchesio DNF

Teams Rank Team Points Valeriy Gryaznov 2 Sergey Kiselyov 6 Ildar Denikeyev 7 Sergey Mishin 35 (Dmitriy Ditlashok) (52) 50 Ed Eyestone 3 Tom Downs 5 William Graham 11 Eric Sappenfield 56 (Daniel Caprioglio) (82) (Farron Fields) (88) 75 Jordi García 1 José Fernández 20 Miguel Rubio 24 Julio Perez 34 (Pedro Garin) (51) (Francisco Erneta) (61) 79 4 Guy Léfèvre 8 Johan van Oost 14 William Van Dijck 31 Jen Emmanuel Lassoie 33 (Eddy Stevens) (44) (Luc Sadones) (58) 86 5 Paul Davies-Hale 10 Gary Huckwell 12 Philip Ledger 25 Paul Cowell 42 (Peter Elliott) (57) (Dave Lewis) (DNF) 89 6 Denis Stark 4 Ross Chilton 15 Ted Murphy 32 Carrey Penner 39 (Dave Reid) (43) 90 7 Andrea Prassedi 9 Enrico Ogliar Badessi 21 Mauro Perna 30 Salvatore Bettiol 41 (Carlo Grasso) (54) (Luciano Carchesio) (DNF) 101 8 Brahim Boudina 17 Rabah Aboura 28 Djamel Eddine Galli 45 Sid-Ali Sakhri 46 (Hocine Guessas) (63) (Abderrahmane Boumouzia) (68) 136 9 Laurent Brosseau 27 Jean-Luc Taif 36 Yvan Perre 37 Dominique Grandjean 50 (Jacques Triquet) (71) (Jacques le Floch) (76) 150 10 Gábor Szabó 16 Gyula Balogh 23 István Bene 38 László Szász 77 154 11 Faisal Touzri 26 Hichem Oueslati 29 Mohammed Chouri 53 Mohamed Hadj Gasmi 62 (Said Shili) (80) (Jamel Zriba) (87) 170 12 Brian O'Keefe 13 Terry Conlon 49 Marcus O'Sullivan 75 Brian Roche 83 (Coleman Connelly) (84) (David Lynch) (94) 220 13 Steve Blakemore 19 Philip Llewellyn 59 Simon Axon 67 Andrew Smith 79 (Nigel Stops) (86) (Peter Williams) (93) 224 14 Kai Röcker 40 Martin Grosskopf 55 Gerhard Lindner 64 Ralf Winter 70 (Jörg Thoma) (92) 229 15 Henrik Jørgensen 18 Sören Egge Rasmussen 60 Kim Taylor Hansen 73 Ole Hansen 81 (Peter Gylling) (89) 232 16 Adrian Callan 47 Ross Copestake 65 John Gladwin 69 Ross Arbuckle 74 (Gary Millar) (78) (Peter Fox) (85) 255 17 John McCreedy 48 Tom Breen 66 Nigel Barton 72 Martin Coupland 90 (Tom Melville) (91) (John Doherty) (DNF) 276 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 97 athletes from 18 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

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See also 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

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