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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.
Ruth Lillian Christmas (12 November 1904 – 2 April 2001) was a British middle-distance runner. Christmas and her sister Esther followed their father into athletics. Ruth began competing in Cambridge in the 1920s, then moved to London and joined the London Olympiades women's athletics club.
All events within the sport are forms of running, walking, jumping or throwing. These events are divided into the sub-sports of track and field, road running, racewalking and cross country running. The Olympic athletics programme has played a significant role in shaping the most common events in the sport.
This category is for the sport of athletics, comprising track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking. It is not to be used for competitors in other sports or to categorize anyone who is physically fit , two other meanings associated with the word athletics .
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Cross country running venues (1 C, 28 P) W. World Athletics Cross Country Tour (4 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Cross country running" The following 3 pages are in this ...
World Athletics Cross Country Championships is the most important competition in international cross country running. Formerly held annually and organised by World Athletics (formerly the IAAF), it was inaugurated in 1973, when it replaced the International Cross Country Championships. It was an annual competition until 2011, when World ...
Gideon Mendel/In Pictures/Corbis/Getty Images While religious elementary schools in the United States may put on nativity plays, they are arguably much more popular and part of the culture in Britain.