After topping the medal table at the European Cross Country Championships in December, a 23-strong GB & NI team has been named for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Sunday 24 March. … [Read more...]
UK World Cross Trials
March 8, 2013
The UK’s best cross country runners will battle it out for a place on the GB & NI team for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships as they line up at the World Cross Country Trials & Inter County Championships inc. McCain Challenge final at Birmingham’s Cofton Park on Saturday. … [Read more...]
Farah wins New Orleans Half
February 25, 2013
NEW ORLEANS - February, 24, 2013 - Running competitively on the roads for the first time since winning two gold medals at the London Olympics last summer, Mo Farah didn't have time to acknowledge all the well-wishers along the half-marathon route of Sunday's Rock 'n' Roll New Orleans Marathon & Half Marathon. … [Read more...]
Farah on New Year’s Honours List
December 29, 2012
Some of the names that have been responsible for making 2012 the biggest summer of sport this country has ever seen have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list. … [Read more...]
UK Cross Challenge 2012/13
October 7, 2012
The McCain UK Cross Challenge is back for 2012 - 2013, taking in five key cross country fixtures across the UK throughout the autumn/winter season. … [Read more...]
Talbot takes Euro Bronze
July 1, 2012
It was a mixed bag of results at the end of day four at the 21st European Athletics Championship in Helsinki. Danny Talbot (coach: Daniel Cossins) claimed the only Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland medal – bronze in the 200m. … [Read more...]
UK Challenge Titles Awarded
March 15, 2012
The McCain UK Cross Challenge Series came to an exciting finale at Cofton Park, Birmingham on Saturday 10 March. … [Read more...]
Vernon, Dean shine in Liverpool
November 28, 2011
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
November 16, 2011
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...]
