World Athletics and the local organising committee (LOC) for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 2022 have agreed to postpone the championships, which was scheduled to be held in Bathurst, Australia on 19 February 2022. [Read more…]
Royal start to World Cross Country Championships in Denmark
Denmark – Saturday 30th March, when the world’s best runners line up for the start of the IAAF/Mikkeller World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, they will be joined by no less than His Royal Highness The Crown Prince of Denmark who will run alongside crowds of recreational runners. [Read more…]
Back to the Roots Course 2019
Aarhus, Denmark – “Crazy project – in a fun way!” and “Never thought I could get up nor down” were some of the cross-runners’ immediate comments on the extreme and unique World Championship course approved by The International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF, on Wednesday’s test race. [Read more…]
New direction for Cross Country Competition
Cross country running should move towards a more extreme, edgier style to attract new audiences as well as a new breed of cross country runner to the discipline. [Read more…]
Kampala World Cross 2017 Large Prize Money at stake
A total of US$310,000 in prize money will be awarded by the IAAF to the leading runners in the senior races at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017 on Sunday 26 March. [Read more…]
Guiyang 2015 World Champs, month to go
There is little more than a month to go to the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 on Sunday 28 March when the spotlight will be shone on the Chinese city. [Read more…]
Emelia Gorecka wins Great Edinburgh XCountry
Emelia Gorecka provided the highlight of the day for the GB & NI team at the Great Edinburgh XCountry winning the senior women’s race by over seven seconds. [Read more…]
Africa dominates Atrim
Ethiopian-born athlete, Mimi Belete, takes the women’s event at the Antrim International Cross Country in Northern Ireland [Read more…]
Global Seminar on Cross Country
Monaco – The IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running will take place on 9 December 2013 in the Serbian capital Belgrade and will discuss the major issues facing Cross Country participation, and Cross Country running in general. [Read more…]
Belete wins in Roeselare
Almensch Belete cruised to victory on home soil at the European Athletics Cross Country Permit race in the Belgian town of Roeselare on Sunday.
Belete, 23, pulled away midway through the 6.25km race to cross the line in 21:26 ahead of Kenya’s Cynthia Kosgei and the fellow country woman Veerle Dejaeghere. [Read more…]