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The 2024 USA Cross Country Championships were the 133rd edition of the USA Cross Country Championships.The races took place at Hanover County, Virginia's Pole Green Park in Richmond, Virginia, on 20 January 2024, [1] and served as the US Trials for the 45th edition of 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships (6 member teams), to be held on March 30 in Belgrade, Serbia.
The Park City, Utah, native won her first junior championship in 2015 and turned professional at age 17. Batten competed in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, finishing ninth in the cross-country ...
Each country was able to enter a maximum of three athletes for each individual event on the Paris 2024 athletics program. The qualification period for all track and field events (except the 10,000 metres, heptathlon, and decathlon) ran from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.
The Senior women's race at the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships was held at Belgrade, Serbia, on March 30, 2024. Beatrice Chebet from Kenya won the gold medal by 3 seconds over Kenya's Lilian Kasait Rengeruk and Kenya's Margaret Kipkemboi , who finished third.
In 2024, the wide, wide world of sports saw repeat champions, first-time titlists, a grand Paris summer and some epic fails. The winners and losers:
Parkway sophomore Brennan Robin won the 2024 District 1-5A All-District cross country meet and earned MVP honors. Division I Girls MR – 17:28.69, Catalina Reichard, Mt. Carmel, Nov. 13, 2023
Traditionally a winter sport, the scheduling of cross country within a summer event caused organisational issues. The sport was dropped after 1924 Olympics, when most of the runners dropped out due to extreme heat and pollution from a nearby power station. [1] Over its three appearances at the Olympics, Finnish runners dominated the event.
In April 2024, the official Olympic video game titled Olympics Go! Paris 2024 was announced for release in June by Animoca Brands on Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows devices. [190] [191] The 2024 Summer Olympics became the first Summer Olympics in over 30 years to not have an official console video game. [192] [193]