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British teams fared well at the 2010 FISU World Student Cross Country champs in Ortario over the weekend – however it was Portugal’s Sara Moriera and Japan’s Tetsuya Yoroizaka who took individual honours… Read more…
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I am afraid that a weekend elsewhere, with no online connection meant that the MST World cross country coverage didn’t materialise! Good job then that the likes of Athletics Weekly’s Jason Henderson were on the ground in Poland top bring us some to coverage… Read more…
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As reported earlier today on MST (we hadn’t seen this AW article) this weekend’s World Cross Country will not be aired on the BBC. This Athletics Weekly article suggests that a contractual breakdown is the root cause… Read more…
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Going into a major championship race on the world stage always concentrates the mind of the UK’s endurance runners, this this weekend will be no different as the cream of British XC head for Poland, and the World XC… Read more…
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Unlike in the women’s race, the mens event at this weekend’s World Cross Country Championships should be a wide-open race. 2009 champion Gebre Gebremariam will be back to defend his title in Poland… Read more…
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It has been a tough few months out there for mountain, xc and road runner Sarah Tunstall. With no races to her name for the whole of 20009/10 cross country campaign, and a range of injuries that have held her back, the Kendal athlete is looking forward to the summer. Read more…
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IAAF Ambassador Wilson Kipketer was in Bydgoszcz last weekend to promote next Sunday’s IAAF World Cross Country Championships (28 March). Kipketer’s positive personality lit up the dull sky above Bydgoszcz. Following on from a rainy day on Saturday… Read more…
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Famous for producing future GB internationals, the 50th English Schools XC took place at Heaton Park, Manchester earlier today. The course was heavy in places, a real cross country affair, and there were some surprise winners in the six categories… Read more…
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After the dust-bowl of Jordan in 2009 the 2010 world cross country returns to something like a purist sport as the annual circus hits Poland in a week or so. One of the most debated aspects of any world cross is the course… Read more…
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The UKA selectors have announced their selections for the forthcoming World XC champs in Bydgoszcz on the 28th March. Interestingly the powers-that-be have deemed that only 4 men are worthy of the trip… Read more…
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Mo Farah turned up and spoiled the party at Cofton Park yesterday as he ran away with the men’s race at yesterday’s UK Inter-Counties cross country, doubling up as the UK trials for the World XC in a few weeks… Read more…
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For many of the UK’s elite endurance athletes who like a bit of XC in their programme, it’s the big one this weekend. Many can only hope of making a dent in the front half of the World XC results sheet come late March… Read more…
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Mark Keneally broke his silver Duck at this weekend’s Irish National Senior/Junior XC and led his team Clonliffe to another title in this year’s Irish cross-country season. The Clonliffe man took the expected win by 14 seconds from Galway’s Gary Thornton… Read more…
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After Kenyan Mark Bett romped away with the 33rd Algarve International Almond Blossom Cross Country, it was up to the Portuguese World XC hopefuls to book their places for Poland at the final meeting of the IAAF 2010 Cross Country Permit series. Read more…
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The Portuguese XC selectors will need to get their thinking caps on come Monday, as those hoping to make the plane to Bydgoszcz, Poland for this year’s World Champs on 28 March go into battle at the Algarve International Almond Blossom Cross Country. Read more…
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Unlike some other national XC events, the English National attracted record numbers of competitors to last weekend’s championships in Leeds, according to a report over at England Athletics. A total of 4303 runners finished in the ten races that were staged… Read more…
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Athletics fans are in for a treat this weekend when the Woodie’s DIY Inter Club Championships of Ireland take place in the Phoenix Park over a spectator friendly course. Mark Kenneally of Clonliffe Harriers will start as favourite to win the men’s Senior title on Sunday. Read more…
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Inov-8 athlete and top all-rounder Jethro Lennox has had a busy start to 2010. On his Inov-8 blog he documents a mix of fell and cross country racing, and loading in the miles (100 a week at the mo’) for mountain marathons later in the summer… Read more…
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As previewed on Friday the pre-race favourites dominated across senior and age-group races at Saturday’s English National XC champs. Both Steph Twell and Andy Vernon ran away with the senior crowns… Read more…
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Kenyan Levy Matebo and sisters Mimi and Almenesh Belete will start as the favourites as Luxembourg’s Eurocross, the penultimate IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting of 2010, celebrates its 40th anniversary on Sunday (28). Read more…
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Scottish Athletics have posted a highlights video on their You Tube page from last weekend’s Scottish National Cross Country Championships. Nice work. Read more…
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An excellent preview on this weekend’s English National Cross Country Championships at the famous Roundhay Park in Leeds, by Athletics Weekly’s Steven Mills. This year’s racing should be highly competitive across age groups… Read more…
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Despite some confusion among runners as the mooted 10k course was changed to an 8k course on the day, the crowds in Lough Key, Roscommon, were served to an enthralling spectacle as 21-year-old Brendan O’Neill of Dundrum South Dublin ran home from halfway. Read more…
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GB international Freya Murray showed why she is entering world class when it comes to cross country running, as she won the Scottish National Cross Country Championships by a street at Callander Park on Saturday… Read more…
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Great report here from John Griffiths on Saturday’s Welsh Cross Country Championships in Swansea. With Andrea Whitcombe now an adopted Welsh girl there was only ever going to be one winner in the women’s event. Alex Hains comfortably won the men’s crown, romping away from Nat Lane… Read more…
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The Kenyan Cross Country Championships took place on Saturday in Nairobi, and whilst the women’s event produced a relatively predictable winner in Linet Masai (World cross champ Florence Kiplagat is injured), the men’s race produced a new star… Read more…
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Defending champion Freya Murray (Edinburgh AC), who finished ninth overall when representing the British women’s team in December’s European XC Championships, returns to Falkirk this weekend to defend her Scottish XC crown… Read more…
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Reigning womens World Cross Country champion Florence Kiplagat will not be on the start line in Poland for the 38th edition, on the 28th of March. Understandable really when you consider that the Kenyan has not run in anger since last year… Read more…
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The US national XC championships and selection race for the World Cross Country Championships, take place this weekend in Indianapolis. Read more…
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All points of the continental compass were represented among the gold medallists at the 2010 European Clubs Cup Cross Country in Bilbao. Spain won the senior men’s individual and team titles, Russia’s Sports Club Luch Moscow took both women’s team competitions and Turkish athletes romping to three individual victories… Read more…
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This next few weeks will see many National XC championships take place in Africa and Europe, ahead of next month’s World XC. Moses Kipsiro defeated 2009 World Mountain Running champion Joseph Kusuro at Saturday’s Ugandan championships on a dry course in the Amuria district. Read more…
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St.Mary’s students Steph Twell and Andy Vernon took expected wins at Saturday’s BUCS cross country championships in Sterling. With Twell facing little in the way of international class opponents, her win looked a formality. Read more…
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Spain’s recently crowned SPAR European Cross Country Championships gold medallist Alemayehu Bezabeh will be out to defend his European Champions Clubs Cup Cross Country title on home soil in Bilbao on Sunday… Read more…
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After winning in Antrim just over a week ago Kenya’s Mike Kigen underlined why he is being hailed as one of the contenders for this years World XC champs, with a demolition job on some top class African and European opposition at the Cross Internacional de San Sebastián on Sunday (31). Read more…
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Emerging as one of the best young XC prospects in the UK, Jess Sparke ran away with the coveted Southern Cross Country Championships this weekend at the home of XC in the south, Parliament Hill. Bedford’s Neilson Hall took the men’s title. Read more…
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Huge crowds appear to have greeted the racers at this weekend’s Discovery Kenya XC championships in Eldoret. Yet another name was served up on the east-African conveyor belt in the form of Joel Kimurer, who ran away from top marathon man Sammy Kitwara to take the win. Read more…
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Ethiopian Humegaw Mesfin took his second major Cross Country win this year at the 78th edition of the Cinque Mulini in San Vittore Olona on a sunny but chilly morning. The women’s race went to reigning 1500m Olympic champion Nancy Langat who beat young Ethiopian Tizita Bogale by five seconds. Read more…
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For top UK youngster Nick Goolab the last month or so has been a trying time. A lack of racing due to postponements and the poor weather has left the Belgrave man chomping at the bit to get out there and test himself in the competitive arena… Read more…
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Most XC runners (outside of Africa) don’t really associate the discipline with flat, grassy courses and warm sunshine, but this is what the runners got at this weekend’s Kenyan Police champs in Nairobi… Read more…
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African cross country is really ramping-up its act as 2010 creeps towards the IAAF World Cross Country in Bydgoszcz, with Kenya holding its annual police and forces championships and Ethiopia’s 3rd Sululta Cross Country meeting… Read more…
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After her despondent weekend in Dublin back in December, Mary Cullen gave Euro champ Hayley Yelling a taste of her own medicine at the Antrim International XC on Saturday. The leading Irish XC runner romped her way to a 31 second gun-to-tape win on the Greenmount course… Read more…
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Commonwealth Games 10,000m champion Boniface Kiprop may be a late withdrawal, but there is still a formidable field for the Antrim International, the sixth IAAF Cross Country Permit race of the season, which takes place on Saturday (23). Read more…
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Mary Cullen and Ana Dulce Felix will head to Northern Ireland this weekend in an attempt to revenge surprise Euro XC winner Hayley Yelling at the Antrim International Cross Country. The race will also be an opportunity for Cullen to put the disappointment of Dublin behind her, where 12th place was well short of expectations. Read more…
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The 2010 world XC circuit was back on track last weekend, with racing in Seville, Rovereto, Cardiff, Eldoret and Victoria (Australia). Wins for Benita Johnson at the Aussie Nat champs, Linet Masai in Seville and Abere Chane in Italy, plus much more… Read more…
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Andy Vernon crushed the opposition at today’s McCains Cross Challenge in Cardiff. The Aldershot athlete delivered a 30 second defeat to the feet of Stroud runner Tom Russell. Hatti Dean was also comfortable in her victory of the women’s 6km race. Read more…
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The premier UK cross country race series, the McCain Cross Challenge, arrives Cardiff this weekend. GB internationals Jessica Sparke and Andy Vernon are in great form and should start as favourites as the series comes to the Principality on Sunday (17 Jan)… Read more…
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Kenya’s Linet Masai and reigning world XC champ Gebre Gebremariam head up the women’s and men’s line-ups for this weekend’s top international cross country event, the Cross Internacional de Itálica, in Seville on Sunday (17 Jan) Read more…
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Most of the UK fell programme remains badly affected by the snow and ice, albeit a thaw is expected this weekend. White Holme Circular, K.G.S.M.R. (Kielder) are canceled / postponed respectively, with Ashurst Beacon leaving it til the last minute... Read more…
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Boniface Kiprop is the latest addition to a classy field getting ready to assemble itself in Northern Ireland in just over a week. As reported on MST a few days back, many GB athletes will be making the trip west to Antrim for some quality competition and a taste of international cross country running… Read more…
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21 year-old Teessider Ricky Stevenson hasn’t yet set the world on fire, in world class terms. But the 2009 / 10 XC season has seen Stevenson emerge as one of the UK’s brightest young talents on the country, culminating with his big win at the weekend… Read more…
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Nicola Bamford profiles Edinburgh XC winner Joseph Ebuya for the IAAF and unearths yet another world-class talent from east-Africa who has found fame and fortune through athletics. After a time in the Army and then traveling to Europe without shoes or food Ebuya was (inevitably) snapped up by Ricky Simms... Read more…
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During a weekend that stopped most of the programme in its tracks those gritty Lancastrians showed the rest of the UK that the show must go on – whatever the weather. The Lancashire AA Country Cross Country Championships went ahead as planned at a snowy at Witton Park on Saturday… Read more…
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The head of endurance running at UKA, Ian Stewart, doesn’t think that there is too much wrong with Mo Farah, but none the less still sees the need to send the Brit distance ace off to see the UKA specialists to make sure that he is physically sound… Read more…
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There must be something in the air in Europe right now. The weekend of XC shocks continued as Ethiopia’s Humegaw Mesfin outgunned world cross country champ Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam in the last few yards of the Cross Internacional Zornotza in Amorebieta, Spain yesterday… Read more…
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Erm, it didn’t quite go to script this afternoon at the BUPA Great Edinburgh International cross country. Kenenisa Bekele had made it clear beforehand that his recent layoffs and moves into business had not affected his running, and was in good shape… Read more…
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Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba stormed through the snow to take victory at the Great Edinburgh International XC. The Olympic 5 and 10,000 metre champion, made a surging break in the final lap to romp to victory on the frozen course… Read more…
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Abraham Cherkos Feleke from Ethiopia, the reigning World Junior 5000m champion, won the 53rd edition of the Campaccio International Cross Country race – EA Permit – which took place today (6) in San Giorgio su Legnano. Read more…
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The great Ethiopian graces the Scottish capital on Saturday at the BUPA Great Edinburgh international XC. In a super little interview with Herald Scotland Kenenisa talks about his first race of 2010 and his expanding business empire back in Addis… Read more…
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The current conditions in the UK are having an impact on running events across the board, with cross country running being hit up and down the country. This weekend is Area champs weekend and it looks like many will be postponed… Read more…
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The citizens of Bydgoszcz are taking to their feet each week to promote the 38th IAAF World Cross Country Championships which will be held in the Polish city on Sunday 28 March 2010. Read more…
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After a highly disappointing run at the SPAR Euro XC in December, UK endurance hope Steph Twell will look to make amends and put 2009 behind her as she takes on the likes of Euro champ Hayley Yelling and Olympic champ Tirunesh Dibaba at this weekends BUPA Great Edinburgh International cross country… Read more…
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The Bupa Great Edinburgh International XC is shaping up to be quite an event. Edinburgh will see some of the world’s best endurance athletes descend on Holyrood Park, with Tirunesh Dibaba the latest to be added to the glittering list… Read more…
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Outside of big BUPA Edinburgh XC in Jan the only other notable IAAF cross country event within the home nations is in Northern Ireland. The Antrim International has long been a staple on the XC calendar and attracts many of the big hitters from the world XC stage… Read more…
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Spain’s Sergio Sánchez and Kenya’s Veronica Nyaruai clinched convincing victories at the ‘30th Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños’ held Sunday (20) on a sunny but frozen morning with the thermometer marking 9ºC below zero! Read more…
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Andrea Lalli from Italy was the best of a leading group of four to win the Iris Lotto CrossCup in Brussels – IAAF Permit – today (20). The women’s race was won by Adrienne Herzog who proved to be the strongest in an ultimate duel against Jessica Augusto. Read more…
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Three-times race winner Kenenisa Bekele will bid to regain the BUPA Great Edinburgh International Cross Country title next month. The greatest-ever cross country performer, with six IAAF World Championships long and five short course victories to his credit, took little persuading to return to Holyrood Park… Read more…
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In what could only be described as one of the greatest ever international XC runs by a British athlete, Hayley Yelling has won the 2009 SPAR European Cross Country Championships for the second time in 4 years. Read more…
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Always glad to see the mainstream press and media pull something out of the bag on the eve of a big race – well I suppose that they have a lot of bases to cover don’t they? With a couple of good interviews the telegraph.co.uk and the BBC focus on two of the ‘home’ athletes… Read more…
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It is a rare day indeed to get cross country on the box these days, especially terrestrial telly. Sunday sees a day of Euro XC live racing across BBC2 and BBC Red button. Crammy and Bren will be on hand to give their views and observations on all of the action from Santry Park, Dublin… Read more…
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Just two days away now for the biggest athletics event to hit the shores of Ireland in recent years. The SPAR European Cross Country Championships will bring a host of colour to the emerald isle and some hot racing to boot… Read more…
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Local athlete Mary Cullen is confident that with a little help from the partisan Dublin crowd on Sunday she can race to a podium spot at Santry Park. Talking down his chances is GB runner Ricky Stevenson, who is clear that track-is-where-it-is-at for him… Read more…
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Known in the cycling fraternity as the ‘espoirs’. An odd category in my opinion as many U23’s are already well established seniors in their own right. Still, the younger guys and girls race should make for some hot racing at this weekend’s Euro XC. Read more…
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As we enter the the last few days before Sunday’s SPAR European Cross Country Championships today we have the first of the previews. European Athletics supply us with the goods, as they hold all of the aces when it comes to championship insight… Read more…
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On the 13th December Ireland will host its first major European athletics event, the SPAR European Cross Country Championships. For a country with such a proud tradition in cross country running, including John Treacy, Sonia O’Sullivan and Catherina McKiernan… Read more…
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The successful Stewarts Cross Country Grand Prix is back again 2010, as part of the Scottish national XC calendar. The ‘umbrella’ covers four of Scotland’s biggest XC races, including the prestigious BUPA Great Edinburgh International in January… Read more…
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Following an exciting trial event at the McCain UK Cross Challenge, in Liverpool’s Sefton Park on Saturday 28 November, UKA have announced the thirty six athletes that will cross the Irish sea to Dublin for the European XC Championships on 13 December. Read more…
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A recent Runner’s World article lamented the loss of the traditional cross-country race as more and more races have moved to neatly kept fairways in local parks and away from the old-fashioned mud-drenched farmer’s field. Cue the Dublin Intermediates. Read more…
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The world of cross country running is certainly taking centre-stage these days with the AK (Athletics Kenya) league in full swing, European Athletics and IAAF Permit races and top domestic action in the UK, plus all of the build up to the highlight of the European season in Dublin on December 13… Read more…
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Top fell tog Gywnfor James was at sea level on Saturday to get some great XC shots. James can normally be found with fellow snapper Al Tye capturing every last runner on the mountains of Wales and the Marches, and then uploaded at fellrunningpictures.co.uk Read more…
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Liverpool hosts the 2009 SPAR European XC Championships trials this weekend, as the cream of UK cross country running hits Sefton Park. As well as being round two of the McCain Cross Challenge series the event doubles-up as the official trial race for the Euro champs in two weeks time. Read more…
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Martin Fagan and Mary Cullen have been named as the team leaders of the Ireland men’s and women’s Euro XC teams, destined for Dublin in a little over two weeks time. Cullen is in super form, and will be gunning for a high placing in the women’s 8km race… Read more…
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The Cardiff X Challenge is back where it belongs! The Cardiff X Challenge has been invited back into the McCain Cross Challenge Series which includes these other prestigious races: Gateshead, Liverpool, Antrim and Birmingham. Read more…
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World Cross Country champion Gebre Gebremariam is coming to Edinburgh to take part in the Great Edinburgh International Cross Country on 9 January. The Ethiopian will be honing his form in readiness for his title defence in Poland on March 28th. Read more…
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The Irish National Inter-Counties cross country took place on Kilbeggan Race Course in Mullingar, Westmeath, this weekend, and for this occasion athletes were running for county over club… Read more…
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The MST pre-NCAA predictions got the men’s winner right, as Sam Chelanga romped to a crushing win in Indiana. We were a little shy of the mark on the women’s race though, as pre-race favourite Jenny Barringer blew a gasket, collapsing her way to 163rd!! Read more…
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Looking around the world of cross country running (US NCAA’s, European Permit races) there is a distinct lack of mud! So, when I was sent this set by Gwynfor James, from this weekend’s NW XC League, in Bangor, it made me realise that there is a large gulf between the world’s elite races and what I would call grass roots. It’s all good though… Read more…
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Italy’s Andrea Lalli won the SPAR European XC Championships under 23 men’s title 12 months ago but instead of attempting a unique defence of his crown the 22-year-old has elected to stand on the start line with the big boys in Dublin on 13 December. Read more…
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Fresh news as it happens from Stateside site Down the Backstretch on all of the action at this weekend’s NCAA XC champs in Indiana. The Division I big race is on Monday… Read more…
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Many of Ireland’s top cross country runners will be in action on Sunday at the Woodie’s DIY Inter County Cross Country Championships looking to secure their place on the Irish team for the European Cross Country Championships. Read more…
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Ethiopian Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam, current World Cross Country champion, will be targeting the IAAF Cross Country Permit Series 2009/10 which takes place Saturday (21) at the Finibanco Oeiras Cross Country in Oeiras, Portugal. Read more…
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With just over three weeks to go the Irish organising team behind next month’s SPAR European Cross Country Champs are pulling out all of the stops to get the media hyped and get the fans along to watch, with a stream of stories and press releases this last 2-3 weeks… Read more…
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Women’s Mountain Region champion Jenny Barringer and men’s Southern Region champion Sam Chelanga could be the ones to watch at next Monday’s NCAA National XC championships to be held in Terre Haute, Indiana… Read more…
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The kids were alright last weekend at the McCain Gateshead International XC races. Thanks to top local news outlet ChronicleLive.co.uk and their intrepid hack Bill McGuirk we also have some excellent in-depth races reviews too… Read more…
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The series of 12 individual meetings which make up the calendar of IAAF Cross Country Permit Series 2009/10 begin next weekend in Oeiras, Portugal, on Saturday 21 November 2009. he Permit series concludes in Albufeira, Portugal on Sunday 7 March 2010… Read more…
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The British and Irish Masters Cross Country took place on Saturday in, Birmingham, African XC from Ethiopia, the Torres Vedras XC took place in Lisbon on Sunday, and Mary Cullen calls on Ireland to get behind the Euro XC champs in December… Read more…
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Great local report exclusive to the men’s 9km race and Mike Skinner, from Saturday’s Gateshead International XC at the Riverside Bowl. Bill McGuirk scribes his event report for local North-East news outlet Chronicle Live and also gets an interview with the Bromley and Blackheath Harrier… Read more…
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One week out from the NCAA National XC championships all of the regional divisions were decided over the weekend, forming the teams to compete at Indiana State University hosted Championships… Read more…
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In the opening ‘big’ cross country event of the 2009 /10 season the Gateshead International XC races took place on Saturday (14) at a blustery Riverside Bowl. As with the corresponding meet some 12 months previous GB international Steph Twell came out on top… Read more…
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Judging by this headline I think we can guess what the underlying feeling of Kenyan national daily newspaper the Daily Nation feels about Athletics Kenya Read more…
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The timer has pinged, and it’s time to get those spikes out of the oven. The first race of the 2009/2010 McCain Cross Challenge is off (well on Saturday) at the Riverside Bowl, Gateshead. Local press think it’s a local club turn-off, however UKA is pretty excited... Read more…
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With just over 30 days to go before this year’s SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Dublin, UK Athletics preparations are well under way for the event. The conditions in Santry will be very similar to that in Britain… Read more…
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There is no denying the fact that the first Athletics Kenya Cross Country Series meeting in Machakos belonged to the locals. Training partners John Mwangangi and Caleb Mwangangi swept the senior men’s and junior men’s races in style… Read more…
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Denmark took a clean sweep in the Men’s 9km at the Nordic Cross Country Championships in the southwestern city of Perniö, Finland on Saturday. Morten Munkholm took the win in 26:18, only one second ahead of Andreas Bueno. Read more…
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The 2009-10 European Athletics Cross Country permit series starts on Sunday with the 6th Cross de Atapuerca in the Spanish town of Burgos. The first race of the nine-meet series will also mark the unofficial beginning of the XC season in Europe Read more…
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Spanish title defender Alemayehu Bezabeh narrowly lost out to current World XC Champion Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia over 8.76km on Sunday at the 6th Cross de Atapuerca – the opening EA Cross Country permit meeting of the season. Read more…
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In the bid to prepare for next month’s SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Dublin on 13 December, several of Ireland’s top Cross Country runners will be in action across Europe this weekend. Four Irish athletes will compete at the European Athletics Cross Country Permit race… Read more…
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As the world’s finest cross country runners prepare for the beginning of the upcoming season, so too is the northwestern Polish city of Bydgoszcz as it prepares to host the 38th IAAF World Cross Country Championships on 28 March 2010. Read more…
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Interesting to see UKA encouraging blogs from some of it’s talented youngsters. Also interesting to see prospective future champions loathe the discipline of cross country as much as their forefathers. The likes of Steve Ovett outwardly exclaimed their dislike for the muddy sport, yet equally realised that it was as essential part of their endurance base… Read more…
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Considered one of the top road, track and XC clubs in the UK Belgrave Harriers are a club steeped in a 120 year+ history. However, their challenge for honours at last weekend’s ECCA relays couldn’t have been more farcical or unfortunate after a fall from opening leg man Steve Sharp… Read more…
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We reported a little prematurely on this one on Monday. However the authoritative take in the Saturday’s Dublin Seniors XC comes from our man across the Irish Sea, Rene Borg. With great detail and links to some excellent images Rene delivers (and even had the time to race himself!). (Ed.) Read on… Read more…
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Maria McCambridge, now based in Letterkenny, regained the women’s senior title at the Dublin Cross-Country Championships in Sat Ann’s Park after leading from the start. In the men’s race, Tallaght’s Sean Connolly took a decisive lead on the final lap after the lead had changed hands several times. Read more…
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Mark Hanrahan overcame the tough conditions to win his third Cork senior cross country title at The Showgrounds Clonakilty yesterday. Heavy overnight rain made underfoot conditions tough and a heavy shower during the last lap ensured athletes would have plenty to talk about… Read more…
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Britain’s Mo Farah has indicated his intention to compete at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Dublin on 13 December. After winning Sunday’s Great South Run in Portsmouth, Farah spoke of his desire to compete in Ireland. Read more…
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The men’s race was won by Jean Ndayesinga (Birchfield) in 30:25 from Tom Humphreys (Cannock & Stafford) 30:45 and Chris Davies (Telford) 30:52. In the women’s race Kate Avery (Shildon U20) started her season in fine form with victory in 22:38 from Kirsty Milner and Sara Treacy… Read more…
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Preparations for Ireland’s first SPAR European Cross Country Championship are now in full swing, with just 50 days left until the event, which is taking place on the 13th of December. Read more…
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From Kent to Gwent, from the Chilterns to the Highlands. From local league, to big league and everything in between. If you are a cross country league, race, series organiser… Read more…
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Irish internationals Mary Cullen and Mark Christie proved too strong for some quality opposition at the first big XC event of the 2009/10 season, the Aviva Health Gerry Farnan Cross Country held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Sunday (18). Read more…
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There was an abundance of pre-NCAA collegiate cross country action over in the US at the weekend. Women’s hot favourite Jenny Barringer was in scintillating form yet again, winning at Terre Haute in Indiana. Read more…
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A recent report on the Guardian website states that school children in China are just as reluctant to get out there and run as the youngsters of the Western world. Read more…
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The Halcyon days – its enough to make a grown man cry! When I recently stumbled across this photo I saw two things. Read more…
