Cross Country Competitive Runs

Cross Country is a team running event in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain.

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In a competitive run Junior men compete on an 8-kilometre course.

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In a competitive run Junior women compete on an 5-kilometre course

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Races are scored by assigning a point value for the place a runner finishes in.

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Cross country is similar to golf in that the highest score wins

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Cross country was contested as a team and individual event at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.

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During the 1912 race in the Spain heat wave, only 12 of the 36 competitors reached the finish. Ten of those were taken away on stretchers

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Following the 1924 Cross Country Competition Olympic officials decided to ban cross country running from future Games

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Beginning in 1973, the IAAF began hosting the renamed World Cross Country Championships each year.

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Ethiopia or Kenya has captured every men's title since 1981 and every women's title since 2001.

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