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Cross Country European Championship 2022

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Cross Country European Championship 2022

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The Cross Country European Championship will take place on December 11th in Torino-La Mandria

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The curtain is raised on the World Athletics Cross Country Tour in Europe this weekend with the famous Lidingöloppet race, near the Swedish capital Stockholm, taking place on Saturday (24).
The main race will be over the traditional distance of 30km - significantly longer than the usual World Athletics Cross Country Tour distances of between 9-12km for men and 6-10km for women - but nevertheless still has a cachet and prestige that is hard to beat, with the event having been inaugurated in 1965.

With participant numbers returning to pre-pandemic levels, the organisers expect about 25,000 runners across their nine races across the weekend with just under half of them contesting the main event on Saturday.

A new name will be on the men's roll of honour as no previous winner of the TCS Lidingöloppet will be on the start line and so the mantle of being the slight pre-race favourite falls on the shoulders of Samuel Tsegay.

Tsegay, having been cleared to run for Sweden in June after having previously competed for his native Eritrea, made his international debut in the famous gold and blue apparel at the European Athletics Championships but unfortunately failed to finish in the marathon.

However, he will be determined to bounce back and take a place on the podium after finishing just off it 12 months ago when he came home fourth in last year's Lidingöloppet race.

His strongest challenge is expected to come from the experienced Dane Abdi Hakin Ulad - a European U23 10,000m bronze medallist back in 2013 - who, like Tsegay, had a disappointing marathon in Munich when he could only trail in 27 th.

In the women's race, last year's winner, the Denmark-based Kenyan Sylvia Medugu - who also won in 2018 and 2019 - could do battle with Sweden's 2019 SPAR European Cross Country Championships bronze medallist Samrawit Mengsteab who was third in 2021. Sadly, the 2021 runner up Linnea Senstrom withdrew on the eve of the race due to injury.

The event website (in Swedish and English) with results can be found here.

This winter, there will be five more World Athletics Cross Country Tour Silver and Bronze meetings - which come under European Athletics auspices - across the length and breadth of Europe and in as many different countries.

Four of these meetings come ahead of the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Piemonte-La Mandria Park on Sunday 11 December. A full calendar is available here.

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Lidingöloppet gets the European 2022-23 cross country season underway | European Athletics

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The curtain is raised on the World Athletics Cross Country Tour in Europe this weekend with the famous Lidingöloppet race, near the Swedish capital Stockholm, taking place on Saturday (24).

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"Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir is one of the finest middle-distance talents Team GB has seen in some time – and right now that’s a crowded field. Despite starting 2022 with an injury, she has recently come back with some incredible times, including a 1:57.23 800m at the British Milers in June, as her sights lock in on three huge summer events: the Worlds in Oregon in July, closely followed by the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and August's European Championships in Munich." (Moreton, 2022)

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Cross Country is a running event in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain. The courses used at these events may include grass, mud, woodlands, hills, flat ground and water. It is a popular participatory sport, and usually takes place in temperate regions during the autumn and winter when soft conditions underfoot prevail.

It is one of the sports which, along with track and field, road running, and racewalking, makes up the umbrella sport of athletics. The foremost elite competition is the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Cross country also features as part of themodern pentathlon at the Summer Olympic Games. Cross country featured on the Olympic athletics programme between 1912 and 1924 but was dropped for following editions. (Seven Lakes High School, 2022)

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Kipchoge's new marathon record, 30 seconds faster than his previous one. He ran this last 25th September the marathon of Berlin in 02:01:09.

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Best Of Kipchoge's Bottle Man, Claus-Henning Schulke at the 2022 Berlin WR Marathon

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UTMB® - Sommet Mondial du Trail Running Del 22 al 28 de agosto de 2022

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"I consider myself a 360º mountain athlete because I like the versatility to be able to be in the mountains every day. I like running, racing in either ski mountaineering or trail running, crossings, climbing summits, chaining peaks...

Now I live in Norway with my family where I continue to enjoy the mountains, trying to seek more versatility than excellence always in a light, simple and dynamic way.

I like being able to contribute with my experiences to inspire people to get outside and discover the mountains. It should be by respecting nature and being aware that it's our duty to preserve and protect it. [...]" (Kilian Jornet, 2021)

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This year with the IPCC report we could only confirm what we already knew: it's important to take action to fight climate change from now. We all can do individual choices, from our diet to the movility, here some tips on what we can do as individuals.

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A Norwegian 22 year old records breaker. He won the gold medal in the 1500m event and set Olympic and European records

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Triple jump bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 