2016 African Cross Country Championships

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IV Africa Cross Country Championships
OrganisersCAA
Edition4th
Date12 March 2016
Host cityYaoundé, Cameroon
Events4
Participation151 athletes from
16 nations
2018 →

The 2016 African Cross Country Championships was the fourth edition of the international cross country running competition for African athletes organised by the Confederation of African Athletics. It was held on 12 March at the Yaounde Golf Club in Yaoundé, Cameroon – the first time a West African nation had hosted the event since its re-launch in 2011. There were four races on the program: 10 km for senior men, 8 km for senior women, 7 km for junior men and 5.5 km for junior women.[1]

For a fourth successive time, Kenya dominated the event, led by men's winner and women's winner Alice Aprot Nawowuna. The country also provided the junior winners ( and ) and topped the team podium in all four races. Only two non-Kenyans won an individual medal: Phillip Kipyeko of Uganda was the men's runner-up and Eritrea's Aron Kifle took third in the men's junior race. Kenya swept the medals on the women's side, including a perfect score of ten in the junior race.[2][3]

The men's race had 46 finishers, the men's junior race 43 finishers, 29 women finished the senior race, while the women's junior race had 33 finishers, making a total of 151 competitors. The competition had reduced international participation, with only 16 nations sending athletes – eight fewer than had done so in 2014.[4]

Medallists[]

Individual[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Senior men's 10 km   (KEN) 26:34  Phillip Kipyeko (UGA) 26:35  Charles Yosei Muneria (KEN) 26:46
Senior women's 8 km  Alice Aprot Nawowuna (KEN) 29:52  Sheila Chepkirui (KEN) 30:44   (KEN) 31:08
Junior men's 7 km   (KEN) 21:33   (KEN) 21:44  Aron Kifle (ERI) 21:48
Junior women's 5.5 km   (KEN) 18:31   (KEN) 18:39   (KEN) 18:40

Team[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Senior men's 10 km  Kenya (KEN)
Rungaru
Muneria

 13  Uganda (UGA)
Kipyeko


Moses Kurong		 30  Ethiopia (ETH)
Getaneh Tamire
Birhan Nebebew
Mogos Tuemay
 41
Senior women's 8 km  Kenya (KEN)
Nawowuna
Chepkirui
Mutai
 11  Ethiopia (ETH)



Fotyen Tesfay		 33  South Africa (RSA)
Dina Lebo Phalula
Lebogang Phalula

 65
Junior men's 7 km  Kenya (KEN)
Kipsang
Kiprotich

 12  Ethiopia (ETH)



 38  South Africa (RSA)



 81
Junior women's 5.5 km  Kenya (KEN)
Cherop
Kite
Mbithe
 10  Ethiopia (ETH)



 26  Morocco (MAR)



 82

Participation[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ TECHNICAL REGULATIONS OF THE 4th CAA AFRICA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPSYAOUNDE (CAMEROUN) 12 MARCH 2016 Archived 2016-09-18 at the Wayback Machine. CONFEDERATION OF AFRICAN ATHLETICS. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
  2. ^ Evans, Kip (2016-03-12). Kenya rules at African Cross Country Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
  3. ^ Ayodi, Ayumba (2016-03-12). Mighty Kenya has no equal at Africa Cross Country. Daily Nation. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
  4. ^ Kenya rules at African Cross Country Championships Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine. WebCAA. Retrieved on 2016-09-18.
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