The 2016
African Cross Country Championships
The African Cross Country Championships is a regional cross country running competition for athletes from Africa.
History
The competition had a one off edition in 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, and the medallists were mostly from the host nation. was the fourth edition of the international
cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open coun ...
competition for
Africa
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n athletes organised by the
Confederation of African Athletics
The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA; French: ''Confédération Africaine d'Athlétisme'') is the continental association for the sport of athletics in Africa. It is headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. It organises the African Championships in ...
. It was held on 12 March at the Yaounde Golf Club in
Yaoundé
Yaoundé (; , ) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala. It lies in the Centre Region of the nation at an elevation of about 750 metres (2,50 ...
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Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
– the first time a West African nation had hosted the event since its re-launch in 2011. There were four races on the program: 10 km for senior men, 8 km for senior women, 7 km for junior men and 5.5 km for junior women.
For a fourth successive time,
Kenya
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dominated the event, led by men's winner
James Gitahi Rungaru and women's winner
Alice Aprot Nawowuna. The country also provided the junior winners (
Miriam Cherop and
Isaac Kipsang) and topped the team podium in all four races. Only two non-Kenyans won an individual medal:
Phillip Kipyeko of Uganda was the men's runner-up and Eritrea's
Aron Kifle
Aron Kifle Teklu (born 20 February 1998) is an Eritrean long-distance runner. He is the bronze medallist from the 2018 World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia. Aron is also the silver medallist in the 10000m from both the 2016 World U20 ...
took third in the men's junior race. Kenya swept the medals on the women's side, including a perfect score of ten in the junior race.
There were 151 racers in all, including 46 men who finished the senior race, 43 men who finished the junior race, 29 women who finished the senior race, and 33 women who finished the junior race. The competition had reduced international participation, with only 16 nations sending athletes – eight fewer than had done so in
2014.
Kenya rules at African Cross Country Championships
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Medallists
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See also
* 2016 Asian Cross Country Championships
* 2016 European Cross Country Championships
References
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African Cross-Country Championships, Yaounde (Cameroon) 12/03/2016
Africa Athle. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
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