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One Month to Go - IAAF World Cross Country Champs - IAAF

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One Month to Go - IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015

Published by IAAF on February 27, 2015

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.

The oldest of the IAAF World Athletics Series competitions, this year’s event will be the 41st staging of the global cross-country contest. It will also be the third time the championships have been held in Asia, following the 2006 edition in Fukuoka and the 2009 event in Amman.

Preliminary entries suggest this year’s championships will be bigger than the past three editions. An expected 460 athletes from 56 countries are set to compete in Guiyang, surpassing the numbers from 2013 (400 athletes from 41 countries), 2011 (423 athletes from 51 countries) and 2010 (437 athletes from 51 countries).

On Sunday 28 March athletes will compete in four races over the conventional distances for the championships: senior men - 12km, senior women and junior men - 8km, junior women - 4km.

In 2013 Kenya won three of the four individual team titles, but seven nations made it on to the medals table; the last time more countries made it on to the podium was back in 2004.



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