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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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The senior women’s race at this year’s World Cross Country champs should be one of the most exciting in whole of the programme as one of world endurance running’s rising stars meets one of the greatest women’s distance runner of the current era… 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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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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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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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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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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Dathan Ritzenhein won his third senior USATF xc title in Indianapolis today, running away from a select group with around 3km to go. With many top athletes choosing to sit the race out ‘Ritz’ was always going to be head and shoulders above the rest… 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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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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Alemayehu Bezabeh was still full of running at the end of the SPAR European Cross Country Championships, after becoming Spain’s first ever senior men’s champion in the 16 years of the event, and he has hardly stopped moving since crossing the line in Dublin on Sunday. 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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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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Ten athletes have been pre-selected by Athletics New Zealand for 38th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland which takes place on 28 March 2010. The selections are: Kimberley Smith, Fiona Crombie, Kellie Palmer and Sarah Biss… Read more…
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This little piece of news was probably lost in the more heady news of false starts and World Athletics Champs fever, but the IAAF motion for the World XC champs to be held every two years (instead of annually) has been passed unanimously by 132 votes to 22. Read more…
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If the 2008 World XC’s visit to Edinburgh is a yardstick then we should be encouraged to hear that major events can leave a legacy, which benefits future generations. As this article outlined some weeks back, legacy planning doesn’t always come off… Read more…
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A report in this week’s Athletics Weekly says that the IAAF will create a bi-annual staging of the World Cross-Country Championships due to the of dominance from east Africa, coupled with a fall in sponsorship revenues and dropping European TV audiences. Read more…
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Tim Hutchings says that until UK athletes approach something like ‘competitive’ against the African and Eastern nations they should not be sent to events such as the World Cross Country championships. Read more…
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Kenyan newspaper The Standard reports that the World Cross Country Championships could go biennial due to a lack of sponsors. As yet this is not fully confirmed, however this may be no bad thing in our view. Read more…
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There wasn’t a happy Kenyan face in the house after the men’s race at this weekends World XC. The post-race reflection will go on deep into the summer for their task-master Julius Kirwa, who yesterday blamed himself for not triumphing in Jordan. Read more…
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The super-site’s guys on the ground have delivered a superb set of images, detailing the spoils of the race day. With coverage of all 4 races, and some apres-run shots too, we think that this is the most comprehensive photo-chronicle of the 2009 World XC you will see on the net. Read more…
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Gebre Gebremariam secretly picked his way to this title, not showing his hand until 100m from the finish when his devastating finishing kick left Moses Kipsoro in his wake. Kenya’s losing streak is now ten years, dating back to Paul Tergat’s win in 1999. Read more…
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With a burst of pace in the last 200m akin to that of a track race, Kenyan Florence Kiplagat stole the women’s World XC title from under the nose of long-time leader Linet Masai, her consolation was a team gold medal. Read more…
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The 8km junior men’s race was an affair dominated by the Africans. USA athletes tried hard to stay in contention, but had to relent when the speed really picked up around the 6km mark. The pace was the fiercest of the day and young American German Fernandez can leave Jordan happy. Read more…
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After a valiant effort from Kenya’s Mercy Cherono her form on the last hill was left wanting as defending champion, and sister of the great Tirunesh, Genzebe Dibaba strode up the hill to take the junior women’s title by a few metres. Kenyan faces were left even longer as the Ethiopians took the team prize too. Read more…
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Those kindred spirits at Letsrun.com have recce’d the Amman course ahead of tomorrow’s championships. Having had a good look at these photos, the course profile and the weather, all should suit the African contingent. It’s cross-country Jim, but not as we know it. Read more…
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With Formula One dominating the BBC this weekend, the World XC doesn’t get a look-in on standard terrestrial telly. Neither does it seem to get listed on Eurosport, which is a bit odd. Anyway, live coverage of the racing starts at 11.15 GMT on BBCinteractive. Read more…
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With extensive previews on the men’s, women’s and junior races at Saturday’s World Cross Country Championships, there is nothing more to add. The IAAF’s Len Johnson and David Powell have the inside line and leave no stone unturned as they look forward to the festival of XC racing in prospect. Read more…
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The Kenyans really are taking the World Cross seriously. With incentives from the KCB to the tune of $30,000 for an individual winner in either the men’s or women’s races. The Kenyan Sports Minister was also there to wave them off to Amman. Read more…
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The domestic races have been won, and now it’s time for Steph Twell to step up to world-class. The Aldershot athlete’s improvement curve has been dramatic over the last 12 -18 months, to the point where she must now be considered in the top 3 European cross country runners. Read more…
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As World XC fever begins to take hold the Kenyan XC team will leave their high-altitude holding camp at Mt. Kenya on Tuesday evening and head for the heat of Jordan, with temps forecast for the mid twenties, come the weekend. Read more…
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This guy is special. He has carried all before him on the indoor track this winter, running an unbelievable 3:55:02 for the mile, gun to tape on his own, smashing his world junior record – yet again. Read more…
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Kenyan XC coach Julius Kirwa doesn’t want to just beat their closest rivals (we presume he means Ethiopia!) next week in Amman, he wants to crush them too! Read more…
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Times may be hard when it comes to bankers bonus’, but cross country runners need not worry. With over a quarter of a million dollars on offer at next weeks World Cross Country championships the incentives to perform for more than a medal are there. Read more…
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Germany’s great hope for the World Cross, Sabrina Mockenhaupt, convincingly win her home XC title on Saturday with Arne Gabius taking the men’s in a similar fashion. They will now both head-up the German teams heading out to Amman next week. Read more…
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The IAAF looks back at its Permits meetings this winter, as they continue to build towards the World Cross a week on Saturday. We will bring you views galore between now and then in an effort to capture the drama of what is the pinnacle of the sport. Read more…
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The UK team for Amman next weekend has been announced. The team will travel to Jordan in the hope of ‘mixing it’ with the world’s best endurance runners and can expect tough racing in the very different middle-eastern conditions. Read more…
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Japan and Australia have released their squads for Amman. They are both looking to their youth to deliver the goods, Japan being hopeful in the junior women’s race and Australia in the junior men’s with Ryan Gregson leading the charge in the hope for a top ten. Read more…
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After hitting the world scene hard as a junior Sentayehu Ejigu has spent some hard years in the running wilderness. However, after a superb win at the Boston Games last month she has now set her sights firmly on a medal the World Cross Country Championships. Read more…
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Steph Twell took her first senior title at Saturday’s Inter-Counties XC champs in Nottingham, which doubled as the trials race for the World XC. Frank Tickner was aiming to carry on where he left off in London at the National XC, however Andy Vernon had different thoughts and overturned Tickner by 3 seconds Read more…
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After the National, after all of the talk on MST, it’s time for the UK to decide who will represent them at the 37th IAAF World Cross Country Champs. This weekend’s Inter Counties XC champs will act as the selection race. Read more…
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Rikuren has announced the elite field for the 23rd Fukuoka International Cross Country Meet, to be held Mar. 7 in Fukuoka’s Uminonakamichi Park. Fukuoka serves as a selection race for the national team which will compete in the Mar. 28 World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan. Read more…
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After last years’ clean sweep of the titles Ethiopia has once again selected a squad full of quality for the forthcoming World Cross Country Championships. But the question remains – after his injury and subsequent low profile, will Kenenisa Bekele be there? The Kenyans aren’t so sure... Read more…
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Whether its the 2012 London Olympics, the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 or the World Cross Country championships, its all about the legacy. What will be left behind, once the last caravan departs from any given sporting traveling-circus? Read more…
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He has been to the Olympic Games, World Championship and the World Cross Country Championship on six occasions in total, but he is yet to secure the one coveted medal. Since he emerged on the international scene in 2002 as a junior at the Dublin World Cross Country Championships, Moses Mosop has successfully carved out a niche… Read more…
