 Tergat runs into the History
Books
Steven Downes for the IAAF
Belfast, Sunday March 28 – Paul Tergat
laid claim to being possibly the greatest cross-country runner in history here in Belfast
today when he won the IAAF senior men's title for an unprecedented fifth consecutive time,
and so led the Kenya to their 14th successive team gold medals. More... The race calls from Saturday's and Sunday's
events and more interviews in Multimedia
Maranga makes it all
look easy
Nick Davies for IAAF
Rain, 40 mile per hour winds, churned up mud,
downhill bends with 4 foot cambers – nature and the organising committee would have
struggled to make conditions more authentically "European". And although
Kenya’s Jackline Maranga showed that the fittest runner will win regardless of the
conditions More...
 Wami makes it a perfect day
for Ethiopia
Nick Davies for IAAF in Belfast
Ethiopia’s Gete Wami – a winner in 1996 and bronze medallist in the last two
editions – returned to the top of the podium today after the women’s long course
race. But she had to do it the hard way.More...
 Limo engineers men’s
short race victory
Phil Minshull for the IAAF
Benjamin Limo knew what the men’s short race gold medal looked like
long before it was hung around his neck on Saturday. The 1998 winner John Kibowen is his
next door neighbour at their village just outside the Kenyan town of Eldoret.More...
 Paul Tergat
describes course as "toughest yet" on eve of World Cross Country Championships
Paul Tergat, the legendary Kenyan distance runner who aims to win an historic fifth
consecutive title on Sunday, described the course of the 27th IAAF World Cross
Country Championships as "the toughest I have ever seen". More...
Real audio from Paul
Tergat in Belfast
 David Trimble
and John Hume meet IAAF President Primo Nebiolo
A day before the start of the 27th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in
Belfast, IAAF President Dr Primo Nebiolo was received at the Parliament building in
Stormont by David Trimble, First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and John Hume,
leader of the SDLP party. More...
 A day in the life of Mary
Peters
Steven Downes for the IAAF
It is more than a quarter of a century since Mary Peters won her Olympic gold medal at the
1972 Munich Olympics, yet the British pentathlete remains a popular and recognisable
figure in her sport and in her home city of Belfast, venue for this weekend’s IAAF
World Cross Country Championships. More...
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