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Cal Calamia is a non-binary transmasculine runner, sports activist, poet, and educator. [1] He [a] was born in 1996. [2] Calamia was the first winner of the non-binary division of the San Francisco Marathon and has been an advocate for transgender and non-binary runners since 2022.
Centrowitz was born in New York, New York, the son of Theresa (Corrigan) and Sid Centrowitz. [1] His father was Jewish and his mother was an Irish immigrant. [3] He attended Power Memorial Academy, where he won state championships in the half mile, one mile and two mile events and became the first New Yorker to break nine minutes in the two mile run (8:56.2). [2]
A member of Newbury Athletic Club, [3] Fry finished fourth in the 5000m at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Boras, Sweden in 2019.In March 2020, she reached the number one in the world junior cross country rankings and straddled that with top-10 finishes at the 2019 and 2021 European Cross Country Championships in the age-group category events, winning gold as part of the women ...
Born in Kigumo, Muranga District, John Ngugi's earliest international successes came at the World Cross Country Championships, where he won a record four consecutive titles between 1986 and 1989 and five titles overall. Ngugi established himself as a track runner when he won his heat of the 5000 m at the 1987 World Championships in Rome. In the ...
Herb Lindsay (born November 12, 1954) is an American former long-distance runner.He competed in track, road and cross country running disciplines. He was the silver medalist in the 5000-meter run at the 1979 Pan American Games, finishing behind compatriot Matt Centrowitz. [1]
The Midland Counties Amateur Cross-Country Association was formed in 1879, the Northern Cross-Country Association in 1882, and the Southern Counties Cross-Country Association was established in 1883. Then also in 1883 the National Cross-Country Union was formed, with Walter Rye, the founder of Thames Hare and Hounds, as first President.
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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.