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2011 African Cross Country Championships

2011 running competition

Field	Value
Name	I Africa Cross Country Championships
Organisers	CAA
Edition	1st
Date	6 March 2011
Host city	Cape Town, South Africa RSA
Races	4
Previous	1985
Next	2012

The event consisted of four race categories, featuring senior and junior races for men and women. The Kenyan athletes took a complete sweep of the competition, winning all the individual medals and the four team titles. Mercy Cherono, a former World Junior Champion, took the women's senior title while the less well-known John Mwangangi won the men's senior race. Japhet Korir and Caroline Chepkoech won the men's and women's junior gold medals, respectively. Sigosi Chesonane, representing the host nation, was the only non-Kenyan to reach the top five in an event, finishing fifth in the men's senior race.

Although Kenya dominated the competition, none of its runners at the African event ran at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships two weeks later. Athletics Kenya sent the best performers at that year's Kenya Cross Country Championships to the world event, while those ranking seventh to tenth in the national race were sent to the event in Cape Town. The continent's second foremost nation in cross country, Ethiopia, did not send any athletes to the competition.

The Kenyan team's jubilant celebrations led to the entire squad of 30 runners and officials missing their flight for Nairobi, scheduled later that day at Cape Town International Airport.

Medallists

Individual

Junior women's 6 km	Caroline Chepkoech	19:59 min	Mary Mananu	20:00 min	Zipporah Wanjiru	20:05 min

Team

Junior women's 6 km		pts		pts		pts

Participation

References

;Results

NOTOC

References

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[http://www.webcaa.org/CaaLettreInformation/lettreaout2009.html CAA COUNCIL in Berlin] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-07-19 . Star Africa (2009). Retrieved on 2011-03-07.)
Ouma, Mark (2011-03-07). [http://www.iaaf.org/WXC11/news/kind=100/newsid=59486.html Cherono and Mwangangi victorious at inaugural Africa Cross Championships]. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2011-03-07.
Gichinga, Leila (2011-03-06). [http://www.athleticsafrica.com/www2/news/2011/03/06/kenya_dominates_african_cross_country_champs_cape_town/686.html Kenya dominates at African Cross Country Champs in Cape Town]. Athletics Africa. Retrieved on 2011-03-07.
Mutuota, Mutwiri (2011-02-19). [http://www.iaaf.org/CROS11/news/newsid=59341.html Mutai and Masai take hard fought wins in Nairobi; reigning World champs Ebuya and Chebet won't defend]. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2011-03-07.
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