2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

Overview

The senior individual titles were won by Kenyan athletes. Geoffrey Kipsang, a former junior champion and reigning world half marathon champion, took the men's title by a margin of eight seconds. The 19-year-old Agnes Jebet Tirop was the women's champion, establishing herself as a senior athlete for the first time after her runner-up finish in the junior race at the 2013 edition. This made her the second youngest ever winner of that title, after Zola Budd in 1985. Aside from these victories, it was Ethiopia that had the most success: Yasin Haji and Letesenbet Gidey were crowned the junior champions{{ Citation |access-date = 29 March 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150330201612/http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2015-5540/news/report/men/junior-race/final |archive-date = 2015-03-30 |url-status = dead |access-date = 29 March 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150331160409/http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2015-5540/news/report/women/junior-race/final |archive-date = 2015-03-31 |url-status = dead

The host choice reflected the increasing prominence of China in the world of athletics. Having only staged one major IAAF event before 2006, the country quickly rose to host the 2006 World Junior Championships, the 2008 Olympic athletics, 2010 World Half Marathon Championships, and 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup. The cross country event preceded Beijing's holding of the 2015 World Championships in Athletics later that year.

The course for the competition was a former horse racing course around 30 km from the city centre, which had hosted the Asian Cross Country Championships in 2005 as well as ten editions of the Chinese Cross Country Championships. In addition to the main competition, mass participation races over 2 km and 4 km were held in the morning before the official opening ceremony, aimed at improving public engagement in the sport.

Preparation

In the year before the competition, the Guiyang International Half Marathon was inaugurated, increasing local running participation. This added to the history of athletics in the region, which included a long-running Guiyang road race in its 44th edition that year.

Schedule

All four races were held in the afternoon in the usual traditional, with junior races preceding the senior races, and the senior men's event concluding the programme.

Medallists

Results

Senior men's race

Main article: 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

• 111 entrants, 110 starters, 108 finishers.

|| 20 |-

|| 20 |-

|| 54

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Senior women's race

Main article: 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

• 83 entrants, 82 starters, 80 finishers.

|| 17 |-

|| 19 |-

|| 101

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Junior men's race

Main article: 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

• 118 entrants, 118 starters, 113 finishers.

|| 19 |-

|| 33 |-

|| 52

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Junior women's race

Main article: 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

• 101 entrants, 100 starters, 87 finishers.

|| 11 |-

|| 33 |-

|| 52

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Medal table

• Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation

A total of 410 athletes from 51 countries participated, excluding non-starters. This represented an increase of ten nations from the previous edition and thirteen additional participating athletes in total.

• ALG (19)
• AUS (22)
• BHR (15)
• BLR (1)
• BHU (2)
• BRA (4)
• BDI (3)
• CAN (22)
• CHN (24)
• TPE (1)
• DEN (6)
• ECU (4)
• EGY (1)
• ERI (16)
• ETH (24)
• FIJ (1)
• FRA (13)
• GBR (17)
• IND (2)
• INA (2)
• ITA (6)
• JPN (21)
• JOR (2)
• KEN (24)
• KGZ (1)
• MGL (2)
• MAR (11)
• NEP (2)
• PRK (4)
• PER (12)
• POL (4)
• POR (2)
• QAT (4)
• RWA (4)
• KSA (1)
• SEY (1)
• SIN (2)
• RSA (23)
• ESP (14)
• SUD (5)
• SWE (1)
• SUI (1)
• TJK (2)
• TAN (5)
• TUR (1)
• UGA (19)
• USA (24)
• UZB (4)
• YEM (6)
• ZAM (1)
• ZIM (2)

References

References

1. link. (2015-04-02 {{in lang). zh. Guiyang 2015 (2015-03-05). Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
2. (2012-11-24). "China to host 2015 world cross-country championships". xinhuanet.com.
3. Mills, Steven (2015-03-28). [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2015-5540/news/report/men/senior-race/final Kamworor maintains his perfect championship record in Guiyang]. IAAF (2015-03-28). Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
4. Sammet, Michelle (2015-03-28). [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2015-5540/news/report/women/senior-race/final Teenage talent Tirop triumphs in Guiyang]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
5. [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-junior-championships/news/presidents-speech-for-press-conference-of-iaa-1 President’s speech for Press Conference of IAAF World Juniors in Beijing ]. IAAF (2006-08-14). Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
6. [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-half-marathon-championships/news/iaaf-loc-press-conference-nanning-2010 IAAF / LOC Press Conference - Nanning 2010]. IAAF (2010-10-15). Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
7. Minshull, Phil (2014-05-02). [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-race-walking-team-championships/news/press-conference-iaaf-world-race-walking-cup Press conference highlights – IAAF World Race Walking Cup Taicang 2014 ]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
8. [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/news/iaaf-president-lamine-diack-iaaf-world-cross President Diack: "Guiyang is a truly significant moment for cross country"]. IAAF (2015-04-28). Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
9. [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/news/course-iaaf-world-cross-country-chamionships Course and scoring details – IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015]. IAAF (2015-03-25). Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
10. Mills, Steven (2015-03-27). [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/news/guiyang-iaaf-world-cross-country-championship Guiyang capitalises on being IAAF World Cross Country Championships host]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
11. Zeng, Jun (2014-05-22). [http://guizhou.chinadaily.com.cn/2014-05/22/content_17534617.htm Guiyang to hold 2014 Guiyang International Half Marathon]. ''China Daily''. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
12. The 2015 Chinese national championships a month before the global event were not contested at the same course, instead being held in [[Qujing]]. [[Zhang Xinyan]] won both the women's long and short course titles, while [[Zhu Renxue]] and [[Wang Ligang]] won the men's long and short races, respectively.Wu, Vincent (2015-02-28). [http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/chinese-cross-country-championships-2015-zhan Zhang Xinyan does the double at Chinese Cross Country Championships]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
13. [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2015-5540/timetable/byday Timetable by day]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
14. [https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitiondocuments/pdf/5540/AT-XSE-M-f----.RS6.pdf?v=-1694342464 Results Senior Race Men]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
15. [https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitiondocuments/pdf/5540/AT-XSE-W-f----.RS6.pdf?v=-203296845 Results Senior Race Women]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
16. [https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitiondocuments/pdf/5540/AT-XJ-M-f----.RS6.pdf?v=1750921538 Results Junior Race Men]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
17. [https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitiondocuments/pdf/5540/AT-XJ-W-f----.RS6.pdf?v=-948386265 Results Junior Race Women]. IAAF (2014-03-28). Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
18. [http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2015-5540/country/all Countries IAAF World Cross Country Championships 2015]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-28.
19. [https://iaafmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/competitioninfo/a7f6728d-3619-4652-9727-4bfcac244440.pdf IAAF World Cross Country Championships Guiyang 2015 Facts & Figures]. IAAF (2015). Retrieved on 2015-03-28.