The varied landscape and altitude around the iconic race track offers a range of enticing and challenging options for cross country running. The event will also benefit from the established major event facilities on site, including grandstands, administration offices, team areas and a full media centre, which will significantly reduce the costs and complexity of organising the biennial championships. Athletics Australia president Mark Arbib said the event would embrace both elite and recreational runners in a celebration of the art of cross country.
We are over the moon to bring the World Championships to Australia and Bathurst. The Sydney Olympics, and particularly Magic Monday of the athletics programme, remains one of the best experiences of my life as a sporting spectator, so I am delighted that we will be returning to New South Wales. I am confident that it will be a great success under their stewardship. McMahon will still be 19 years old when she runs in Poland.
She won the Lisa Ondieki m at the Zatopek meeting last December and has continued to develop. Poignantly, the trials were held just two days after the tenth anniversary of the severe bushfires which struck Canberra in Jaunary Robert de Castella was one of several hundred Canberrans who lost their homes in the fires, which also largely destroyed the pine plantations of Stromlo Forest, where he did most of his training.
Teenage talent triumphs Tasmin McMahon then broke clear of Sophie Barker and Tara Palm to take the 8km race in , nine seconds clear of an elated Barker, with Palm another 11 seconds back in third. Cross country is not for the faint of heart. Do you think you could handle them?
Conditions here are often wet and rainy, and the race saw runners up to their knees in water, splashing their way to the finish.
The European XC Championships saw runners tackle a long, tough climb almost as soon as the race started.
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