1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	35:46.4
	Mariano Haro	Spain	35:46.5
	Rod Dixon	New Zealand	36:00
4	Tapio Kantanen	Finland	36:05
5	Willy Polleunis	Belgium	36:05
6	Roger Clark	England	36:08
7	Juan Hidalgo	Spain	36:12
8	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	36:13
9	Nikolay Sviridov	Soviet Union	36:19
10	Noel Tijou	France	36:21
11	Grenville Tuck	England	36:24
12	Dick Tayler	New Zealand	36:26
Full results

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Belgium Willy Polleunis 5 Gaston Roelants 8 Eric de Beck 18 Erik Gijselinck 19 Karel Lismont 28 Marc Smet 31 (Edgard Salvé) (40) (Herman Parmentier) (98)	109
	Soviet Union Nikolay Sviridov 9 Pavel Andreyev 17 Nikolay Puklakov 21 Boris Olyanitskiy 22 Valentin Zotov 23 Vladimir Merkushin 27 (Petras Simonelis) (53) (Vadim Mokalov) (73)	119
	New Zealand Rod Dixon 3 Dick Tayler 12 Bryan Rose 14 Euan Robertson 15 Eddie Gray 38 Nathan Healey 54 (John Sheddan) (59) (Howard Healey) (130)	136
4	Finland	180
5	England	181
6	Spain	260
7	France	273
8	Scotland	291
Full results

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

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Jim Brown	Scotland	20:52.8
	José Haro	Spain	21:00.6
	Léon Schots	Belgium	21:07.2
4	Franco Fava	Italy	21:15.2
5	Aldo Tomasini	Italy	21:27.6
6	Dennis Coates	England	21:27.6
7	José Luis Ruiz	Spain	21:32.2
8	Barry Smith	England	21:32.3
9	Fernando Cerrada	Spain	21:45
10	Tony Staynings	England	21:49
11	Reinosa Miramontes	Spain	21:49
12	Neil Coupland	England	21:49.1
Full results

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Spain José Haro 2 José Luis Ruiz 7 Fernando Cerrada 9 (Reinosa Miramontes) (11)	18
	Italy Franco Fava 4 Aldo Tomasini 5 Luca Bigatello 13 (Enrico Cantoreggi) (19) (Gabriele Beretta) (25)	22
	England Dennis Coates 6 Barry Smith 8 Tony Staynings 10 (Neil Coupland) (12) (Philip Jeffrey) (18)	24
4	Scotland	32
5	France	55
6	Belgium	57
7	Ireland	89
8	Switzerland	100
Full results

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

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Paola Pigni	Italy	13:45.2
	Joyce Smith	England	13:58
	Josee van Santberghe	Belgium	14:01
4	Rita Ridley	England	14:02
5	Sinikka Tyynelä	Finland	14:09
6	Jean Lochhead	Wales	14:12
7	Marijke Moser	Switzerland	14:13
8	Irja Pettinen	Finland	14:14
9	Anne Garrett	New Zealand	14:15
10	Nina Holmén	Finland	14:16
11	Annie van de Kerkhof	Netherlands	14:20
12	Marleen Mols	Belgium	14:21
Full results

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	England Joyce Smith 2 Rita Ridley 4 Penny Yule 14 Carol Gould 20 (Barbara Banks) (23) (Norine Braithwaite) (37)	40
	Finland Sinikka Tyynelä 5 Irja Pettinen 8 Nina Holmén 10 Aila Koivistoinen 50	73
	United States Doris Brown 15 Francie Larrieu 16 Vicki Foltz 29 Caroline Walker 30 (Valerie Eberley) (32) (Katy McIntyre) (40)	90
4	Italy	96
5	West Germany	99
6	New Zealand	103
7	Belgium	107
8	Ireland	115
Full results

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

  *   Host nation (Belgium)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain	1	2	0	3
2	England	1	1	1	3
3	Finland	1	1	0	2
	Italy	1	1	0	2
5	Belgium*	1	0	2	3
6	Scotland	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
8	New Zealand	0	0	2	2
9	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		6	6	6	18

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

An unofficial count yields the participation of 286 athletes from 21 countries.