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Sunday, 02 April 2006

Men's Long Race

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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    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 the Fukuoka’s flat shore on the Genkai Sea.

  • Junior Men's Race

    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.

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    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.

  • Junior Women's Race

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