International athletes will take to the hills of Greenmount, Antrim this weekend for the annual Northern Irish cross country event - The IAAF International Cross. The event, which takes place on Saturday 21 January, is part of the McCain UK Cross Challenge Series and is one of only eleven IAAF permitted cross … [Read more...]
UK dominates at Cross Country
In yet another outstanding series of performances - including brilliant individual gold medals from Emelia Gorecka (coach: Mick Woods) and Emma Pallant (Mick Woods) - the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team topped the medal table for the fourth successive year at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships … [Read more...]
Vernon, Dean shine in Liverpool
With arguably one of his greatest ever McCain UK Cross Challenge performances, Andy Vernon won the senior men’s race of the McCain Liverpool Cross Challenge Series incorporating the European Cross Country Trials at Sefton Park this afternoon (Saturday 26 November 2011), while in an equally gripping senior women’s … [Read more...]
Steel, Tickner win Bristol Cross
Gemma Steel (coach: John Nuttall) and Frank Tickner opened their 2011/12 McCain UK Cross Challenge Series accounts with victories in the senior events in the McCain Bristol Cross Challenge - staged by runbristol in partnership with Bristol & West AC and UKA - at the Ashton Court Estate today (Sunday 13 November), … [Read more...]
Purdue 14th at World Cross Country
European junior cross country champion Charlotte Purdue (coach: Mick Woods) continued her exceptional run of form when finishing 14th - first European and the highest-placed British senior woman since 2004 - in 26 degree heat in the 39th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain (Sunday 20 … [Read more...]
UKA World Cross Team 2011
European junior cross country champion Charlotte Purdue (coach: Mick Woods) - the youngest winner of the UK senior World Cross Trial in 20 years - will lead a 24-strong Aviva GB&NI team for the 39th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain on Sunday 20 March 2011. The 19-year-old UK … [Read more...]
Purdue takes UK Cross Challenge Final
Charlotte Purdue (coach: Mick Woods) - in an absolutely dominant display of front running reminiscent of her European Junior Cross Country Championships victory in December - recorded yet another outstanding performance with her first domestic senior cross country title in the McCain UK Cross Challenge Final and World … [Read more...]