The Senior men's race at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Umi-no-nakamichi Seaside Park in Fukuoka, Japan, on April 2, 2006. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, and for the IAAF.

Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Kenenisa Bekele 35:40 Sileshi Sihine 35:43 Martin Mathathi 35:44 4 Zersenay Tadesse 35:47 5 Mike Kigen 35:54 6 Hosea Macharinyang 36:02 7 Yonas Kifle 36:05 8 Ali Abdalla 36:18 9 Tesfayohannes Mesfen 36:18 10 Simon Arusei 36:18 11 Abderrahim Goumri 36:20 12 John Kibowen 36:21 13 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam 36:24 14 Abdullah Ahmed Hassan 36:25 15 Mohamed Amyn 36:28 16 Khalid El Amri 36:31 17 Juan Carlos de la Ossa 36:35 18 Jamal Bilal Salem 36:40 19 Samson Kiflemariam 36:41 20 Aïssa Dghoughi 36:42 21 Wilson Busienei 36:42 22 Boniface Kiprop 36:45 23 Moses Kipsiro 36:52 24 Khalid Zoubaa 36:54 25 Fernando Silva 36:57 26 Ketema Nigusse 36:58 27 Eduardo Henriques 37:04 28 Alejandro Suárez 37:05 29 Carles Castillejo 37:06 30 Teodoro Vega 37:06 31 Eshetu Gezhagne 37:07 32 Mubarak Hassan Shami 37:09 33 Gabriele De Nard 37:17 34 Brahim Beloua 37:18 35 Kazuyoshi Tokumoto 37:20 36 Isaac Kiprop 37:21 37 Samir Moussaoui 37:22 38 Ahmed Naïli 37:24 39 Tomoyuki Sato 37:26 40 Dieudonné Disi 37:27 41 David Galván 37:28 42 Gian Marco Buttazzo 37:28 43 Ryan Hall 37:29 44 Moses Aliwa 37:35 45 Martin Dent 37:36 46 Samuel Kosgei 37:37 47 Ricardo Ribas 37:40 48 Terukazu Omori 37:40 49 Kensuke Takezawa 37:43 50 Ahmed Baday 37:43 51 Patrick Gildea 37:45 52 Moustafa Ahmed Shebto 37:48 53 Alfredo Bráz 37:50 54 Brett Cartwright 37:52 55 Brandon Leslie 37:58 56 Vinny Mulvey 37:58 57 Max King 38:03 58 Simion Tuitoek 38:04 59 Saïd Belaout 38:06 60 Giovanni Gualdi 38:09 61 Han Gang 38:11 62 Nicholas Kemboi 38:14 63 Masato Imai 38:15 64 Manuel Silva 38:17 65 Ricardo Serrano 38:17 66 Abdelhakim Maazouz 38:17 67 Hideaki Date 38:17 68 Stefano Scaini 38:18 69 James Theuri 38:18 70 Fabio Cesari 38:19 71 Abebe Dinkessa 38:19 72 Jean Baptiste Simukeka 38:22 73 Sergio da Silva 38:22 74 Jason Hartmann 38:23 75 Rachid Safari 38:25 76 Ryan McKenzie 38:29 77 Gavin Thompson 38:31 78 Norman Dlomo 38:34 79 Jeffrey Gwebu 38:34 80 Dominic Bannister 38:35 81 Benedito Gomes 38:40 82 Jonathan Monje 38:41 83 Frank Tickner 38:42 84 Gabalebe Moloko 38:44 85 Valens Bivahagumye 38:45 86 Sylvain Rukundo 38:49 87 Kaelo Mosalagae 38:49 88 Roberto Echeverría 38:51 89 Nabil Benkrama 38:54 90 Ma Jifu 38:54 91 Omid Mehrabi 38:59 92 Steve Osadiuk 39:01 93 Alfredo Arévalo 39:10 94 Su Wei 39:11 95 Cristiano Mauricio 39:12 96 Boiphemelo Selagaboy 39:19 97 Shin Younggun 39:19 98 Javier Guarin 39:25 99 Jeff Scull 39:25 100 Cesar Javier Jiménez 39:27 101 Ndabili Bashingili 39:31 102 Claudir Rodrigues 39:31 103 Chen Mingfu 39:32 104 José Amado García 39:35 105 Lee Du-Haeng 39:35 106 Takhir Mamashayev 39:48 107 Li Zhuhong 39:53 108 Enzo Yañez 40:08 109 Li Youcai 40:08 110 Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed 40:14 111 Bae Sungmin 40:14 112 Russell Dessaix-Chin 40:17 113 Víctor Hernández 40:18 114 Ajit Bandara 40:24 115 Mohamed El Gayar 40:31 116 Tom Humphries 40:33 117 Ruslan Nasyrov 40:41 118 Sergio Lobos 40:45 119 Michael Tomlin 40:51 120 Simon Labiche 40:56 121 David Ruschena 41:05 122 Yasser Moustafa 41:07 123 Carlos Cangengele 41:15 124 Jauhari Johan 41:16 125 James Nielsen 41:31 126 Ahmed Bakry 41:32 127 Irappa Dundappa Akki 43:01 128 Nozimjon Irmatov 43:34 129 Jesús Ramírez 43:59 130 Phillip Edward 44:20 131 Konan Severin N'dri 44:28 132 Kevin Campbell 45:18 — Delfim Conceição DNF — Luciano Di Pardo DNF — Ben Noad DNF — Merzak Ouldbouchiba DNF — Matt Gabrielson DNF — Heo Jang-Kyu DNF — José Eloy DNF — Hurley Stewart DNF — Craig Mottram DNS — Wainard Talbert DNS — Juan Luis Barrios DNS — Saif Saaeed Shaheen DNS

Teams Rank Team Points Martin Mathathi 3 Mike Kigen 5 Hosea Macharinyang 6 Simon Arusei 10 (John Kibowen) (12) (Simion Tuitoek) (58) 24 Zersenay Tadesse 4 Yonas Kifle 7 Ali Abdalla 8 Tesfayohannes Mesfen 9 (Samson Kiflemariam) (19) 28 Kenenisa Bekele 1 Sileshi Sihine 2 Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam 13 Ketema Nigusse 26 (Eshetu Gezhagne) (31) (Abebe Dinkessa) (71) 42 4 Abderrahim Goumri 11 Mohamed Amyn 15 Khalid El Amri 16 Aïssa Dghoughi 20 (Brahim Beloua) (34) (Ahmed Baday) (50) 62 5 Wilson Busienei 21 Boniface Kiprop 22 Moses Kipsiro 23 Isaac Kiprop 36 (Moses Aliwa) (44) (Samuel Kosgei) (46) 102 6 Abdullah Ahmed Hassan 14 Jamal Bilal Salem 18 Mubarak Hassan Shami 32 Moustafa Ahmed Shebto 52 (Nicholas Kemboi) (62) 116 7 Fernando Silva 25 Eduardo Henriques 27 Ricardo Ribas 47 Alfredo Bráz 53 (Manuel Silva) (64) (Delfim Conceição) (DNF) 152 8 Kazuyoshi Tokumoto 35 Tomoyuki Sato 39 Terukazu Omori 48 Kensuke Takezawa 49 (Masato Imai) (63) (Hideaki Date) (67) 171 9 Alejandro Suárez 28 Teodoro Vega 30 David Galván 41 Cesar Javier Jiménez 100 199 10 Samir Moussaoui 37 Ahmed Naïli 38 Saïd Belaout 59 Abdelhakim Maazouz 66 (Nabil Benkrama) (89) (Merzak Ouldbouchiba) (DNF) 200 11 Gabriele De Nard 33 Gian Marco Buttazzo 42 Giovanni Gualdi 60 Stefano Scaini 68 (Fabio Cesari) (70) (Luciano Di Pardo) (DNF) 203 12 Ryan Hall 43 Patrick Gildea 51 Brandon Leslie 55 Max King 57 (Jason Hartmann) (74) (Matt Gabrielson) (DNF) 206 13 Dieudonné Disi 40 Jean Baptiste Simukeka 72 Rachid Safari 75 Valens Bivahagumye 85 (Sylvain Rukundo) (86) 272 14 Martin Dent 45 Brett Cartwright 54 Russell Dessaix-Chin 112 David Ruschena 121 332 15 Han Gang 61 Ma Jifu 90 Su Wei 94 Chen Mingfu 103 (Li Zhuhong) (107) (Li Youcai) (109) 348 16 Gavin Thompson 77 Dominic Bannister 80 Frank Tickner 83 Tom Humphries 116 (Ben Noad) (DNF) 356 17 Ryan McKenzie 76 Steve Osadiuk 92 Cristiano Mauricio 95 Jeff Scull 99 (James Nielsen) (125) 362 18 Gabalebe Moloko 84 Kaelo Mosalagae 87 Boiphemelo Selagaboy 96 Ndabili Bashingili 101 368 19 Jonathan Monje 82 Roberto Echeverria 88 Enzo Yañez 108 Sergio Lobos 118 396 20 Abd Al-Rasool Ahmed 110 Mohamed El Gayar 115 Yasser Moustafa 122 Ahmed Bakry 126 473DNF (Sergio da Silva) (73) (Benedito Gomes) (81) (Claudir Rodrigues) (102) (José Eloy) (DNF) DNFDNF (Shin Younggun) (97) (Lee Du-Haeng) (105) (Bae Sungmin) (111) (Heo Jang-Kyu) (DNF) DNFDNF (Michael Tomlin) (119) (Phillip Edward) (130) (Kevin Campbell) (132) (Hurley Stewart) (DNF) DNF Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Participation According to an unofficial count, 140 athletes from 40 countries participated in the Senior men's race.

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See also 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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