2016 African Cross Country Championships

IV Africa Cross Country Championships
Organisers CAA
Edition 4th
Date 12 March 2016
Host city Yaoundé, Cameroon
Nations participating 16
Athletes participating 151
Races 4
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The 2016 African Cross Country Championships was the fourth edition of the international cross country running competition for African athletes organised by the Confederation of African Athletics. It was held on 12 March at the Yaounde Golf Club in Yaoundé, Cameroon – 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.[1]

For a fourth successive time, Kenya 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 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.[2][3]

The men's race had 46 finishers, the men's junior race 43 finishers, 29 women finished the senior race, while the women's junior race had 33 finishers, making a total of 151 competitors. The competition had reduced international participation, with only 16 nations sending athletes – eight fewer than had done so in 2014.[4]

Medallists

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Senior men's 10 km  James Gitahi Rungaru (KEN) 26:34  Phillip Kipyeko (UGA) 26:35  Charles Yosei Muneria (KEN) 26:46
Senior women's 8 km  Alice Aprot Nawowuna (KEN) 29:52  Sheila Chepkirui (KEN) 30:44  Beatrice Mutai (KEN) 31:08
Junior men's 7 km  Isaac Kipsang (KEN) 21:33  Ronald Kiprotich (KEN) 21:44  Aron Kifle (ERI) 21:48
Junior women's 5.5 km  Miriam Cherop (KEN) 18:31  Gloria Kite (KEN) 18:39  Winfredah Mbithe (KEN) 18:40

Team

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Senior men's 10 km  Kenya (KEN)
Rungaru
Muneria
Cleophas Ngetich
Geoffrey Koech		 13  Uganda (UGA)
Kipyeko
Abdallah Mande
Daniel Rotich
Moses Kurong 		30  Ethiopia (ETH)
Getaneh Tamire
Birhan Nebebew
Mogos Tuemay
Yihunilign Adane 		41
Senior women's 8 km  Kenya (KEN)
Nawowuna
Chepkirui
Mutai
Daisy Jepkemei 		11  Ethiopia (ETH)
Dera Yami
Kidsan Alema
Alamerew Tirusew
Fotyen Tesfay 		33  South Africa (RSA)
Dina Lebo Phalula
Dinahrose Lebogang Phalula
Andrea Steyn
Murhendwa Dhavanha 		65
Junior men's 7 km  Kenya (KEN)
Kipsang
Kiprotich
Anthony Kiptoo
Andrew Lorot 		12  Ethiopia (ETH)
Tefera Mosisa
Solomon Berihum
Gurmessa Nega
Biyazen Alehegn 		38  South Africa (RSA)
Ikageng Gaorekwe
Kabelo Melamu
Rowhaldo Ratz
Kabelo Seboko 		81
Junior women's 5.5 km  Kenya (KEN)
Cherop
Kite
Mbithe
Lucy Cheruiyot 		10  Ethiopia (ETH)
Muliye Dekebo
Tersit Desalgn
Zerfie Limeneh
Tiblet Getaneth 		26  Morocco (MAR)
Hanane Bouaggad
Imane Bouhali
Rahima Tahiri
Meryam Kamali 		82

Participation

See also

References

  1. ↑ TECHNICAL REGULATIONS OF THE 4th CAA AFRICA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPSYAOUNDE (CAMEROUN) 12 MARCH 2016. CONFEDERATION OF AFRICAN ATHLETICS. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
  2. ↑ Evans, Kip (2016-03-12). Kenya rules at African Cross Country Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
  3. ↑ Ayodi, Ayumba (2016-03-12). Mighty Kenya has no equal at Africa Cross Country. Daily Nation. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
  4. ↑ Kenya rules at African Cross Country Championships. WebCAA. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
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