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IAAF World Cross Challenge

Field	Value
sport	Cross country running
founded	1990
folded	2000
continent	Global

|}} The IAAF World Cross Challenge was an annual global series of cross country running competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Athletes accumulated points in the series' cross country meets during the season, which typically began in December and finished in March prior to the annual IAAF World Cross Country Championships. The series was based upon the IAAF Grand Prix track and field circuit and the IAAF hoped to similarly boost the sport of cross country running. The last series was held in 1999–2000, after which point it was replaced by the IAAF Cross Country Permit Meetings series which featured similar races but did not have a point scoring format.

Editions

Ed.	Year	Start date	End date	Meets	Ref.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1990–91
1991–92
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97			12
1997–98			12
1998–99			7
1999–2000			7

Meetings

#	Meeting	City	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99
Lotto Cross Cup Brussels	Brussels	Belgium	X	X	X	X
Great North Cross Country	Durham	United Kingdom	X	X	X	X
Cross Internacional de Itálica	Seville	Spain	X	X	X	X
Almond Blossom Cross Country	Vilamoura	Portugal	X	X	X	X
Nairobi International Cross Country	Nairobi	Kenya	X		X	X
Chiba International Cross Country	Chiba	Japan	X	X	X	X
IAAF World Cross Country Championships	Various	Various	X	X	X	X
Belfast International Cross Country	Belfast	Northern Ireland	X	X
Cross Zornotza	Amorebieta-Etxano	Spain	X	X
Cross Auchan	Tourcoing	France	X	X
Eurocross	Diekirch	Luxembourg	X	X
Cinque Mulini	San Vittore Olona	Italy	X	X
Mombasa International Cross Country	Mombasa	Kenya		X

Results

Men

1999-00	Paul Tergat
Kenya	107	Patrick Ivuti
Kenya	104	Assefa Mezgebu
Ethiopia	102

Women

1999-00	Lydia Cheromei
Kenya	122	Gete Wami
Ethiopia	119	Ayelech Worku
Ethiopia	94

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/19970223020239/http://www.iaaf.org/competition/wcc.html World Cross Challenge]. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-09-23.
[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/xc.htm IAAF World Cross Challenge]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
[https://www.iaaf.org/Competitions/iaaf-cross-country-permit/calendar/1999 IAAF Cross Country Permit 1999]. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
[https://web.archive.org/web/19970223025654/http://www.iaaf.org/rdb/xcc97/index.html 1996–97 IAAF Cross Country Challenge]. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
[https://web.archive.org/web/19981202103215/http://www.iaaf.org/rdb/xcc98/index.html 1997–98 IAAF Cross Country Challenge]. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20000525120822/http://www.iaaf.org/Results/xcc99/index.html 1998–99 IAAF Cross Country Challenge]. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20000616123124/http://www.iaaf.org/Results/xcc2000/index.html 1999–2000 IAAF Cross Country Challenge]. IAAF (archived). Retrieved 2019-10-20.

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