Posts tagged with: world xc champs

World champ Geb comes to Scotland

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Tue 24 Nov '09

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…
From Portugal to...Portugal

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Tue 17 Nov '09

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…
World XC to go biennial

Posted in The Sweat by Matt Ward on Thu 13 Aug '09

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…
"I should take the blame" - Kirwa

Posted in The Sweat by Matt Ward on Tue 31 Mar '09

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…
Letsrun.com bring you Amman in photos

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Mon 30 Mar '09

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…
2009 World XC - the course

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Fri 27 Mar '09

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…
Kenyan team heads for Jordan

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Tue 24 Mar '09

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…
World XC trials - Kenya and Ethiopia

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Mon 23 Feb '09

The Kenyan and Ethiopian teams for the World XC in Amman in March are one step closer after their respective national championships (the trials races) took place this weekend. With athletes absent at both events the racing was wide open… Read more…
Kenyan XC Champs - it's time!

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Thu 19 Feb '09

The KCB Nairobi Cross, which acts as the national trials and is an IAAF Cross Country permit meeting, takes place this Saturday at Nairobi’s Ngong Racecourse. Thoroughbreds on show include Linet Masai and Eliud Kipchoge, vying for places on the plane to Jordan. Read more…
UK and the World shape up for Amman

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Wed 04 Feb '09

With the announcement by UKA they are to have a holding camp in Aldershot prior to this year’s World XC in Amman, Jordan, the news also comes from the IAAF that there will be 63 nations represented at the event. Read more…
Legend Tergat castigates the shirkers

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Wed 03 Dec '08

In an article in the East African newspaper the Daily Nation 5-time World XC champ Paul Tergat and Athletics Kenya secretary David Okeyo are more than displeased that the lack of home quality at the Kenyan AK series races so far. Read more…
IAAF Global XC news

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Thu 13 Nov '08

As a new service (so as you dont have to leave the comfort of your seat!) the nice people at the IAAF (thanks Chris) have agreed to a direct MST link for breaking cross-country news stories from around the world. So, each week we’ll bring you the rich pickings from their site, fresh-filtered, so you get only the best beans! Read more…
Kenyan XC - this is where it all starts

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Sun 09 Nov '08

The first steps of the long road to stardom started for many up-and-coming Kenyan athletes this weekend. On Saturday the Eastern Kenya town of Machakos staged Meet 1 of the AK XC Series, and the link-report from Elias Makori on IAAF.org is a reminder that the future of Kenyan cross country is in very good hands. Read more…