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Sunday, 02 April 2006
Men's Long Race, Fukuoka - Bekele's makes it ten but then suggests no more!
2 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan - As Kenenisa Bekele strode the last few yards to the finishing line of the long race at the 34th IAAF World Cross Country Championships here at the windswept Seaside Park in Fukuoka, he held up both hands in front of himself and, without breaking stride, counted out numbers 1 to 10.
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Women's Short Race, Fukuoka - Not even a gale can hold back Burka
2 April 2006 – Fukuoka, Japan – Last year’s World Junior Cross Country champion Gelete Burika Bati today succeeded in adding the senior women’s short race crown despite gale force winds which blasted the course which is situated on th...
Men's Junior Race, Fukuoka - Eight straight for Kenya
2 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan - Mangata Ndiwa led Kenya to its eighth straight junior men's team championship this afternoon at Uminonakamichi Seaside Park in Fukuoka, with his teammate Leonard Komon finishing immediately behind him.
A crossroads for cross country
2 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan - It is unarguable that international cross country reached a turning point at around 3.30 in the afternoon at Fukuoka today.
The downside of dominance
2 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan - Five years after his older brother won the men's World Cross Country junior race in Ostend, Tariku Bekele arrived in Fukuoka looking for a championship of his own. Where Kenenisa had been a family trailblazer, with only his own results to spe...
World Cross - A miler medals at last
1 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan - It took the last running of the short race to finally draw a miler as a medallist. Morocco's Adil Kaouch, who took silver at 1500m in Helsinki, announced after the race that "I regret that there will not be forever a short race."
USA benefits from a little planning
1 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan - If the point needed demonstrating at all, Team USA showed in the last ever IAAF World Cross Country short race men's race (Sat 1 April) what can be achieved with a little bit of forethought and planning.
Women's Long Race, Fukuoka - So near, but yet so far for Kiplagat, as Dibaba sprints clear
1 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan – It was looking so good for European Cross Country Champion Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands for approximately 7.7km of the women’s 8km Long Race on a chilly afternoon on the...
Men's Short Race, Fukuoka - Nine down, one to go.
1 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan - Kenenisa Bekele duly claimed the IAAF World Cross Country Short Race title for the fifth time here on a chilly afternoon at the windswept Seaside Park in Fukuoka, winning a 4km race run at a fearsome pace from the gun
Women's Junior Race, Fukuoka - Kenyan Sweep
1 April 2006 - Fukuoka, Japan - The World Cross Country Championships won't be in Kenya for another year, but you'd be forgiven for thinking this afternoon's first race in Fukuoka's Uminonakamichi Seaside Park was actually in Mombasa, particularly with the...
