- The 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Edinburgh 2008 won the Event of the Year Award at the Sunday Mail/sportscotland Scottish Sports Awards 2008 held in Glasgow, Scotland on Thursday 4 December.</P>
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Success of Edinburgh World XC is recognised

- The 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Edinburgh 2008 won the Event of the Year Award at the Sunday Mail/sportscotland Scottish Sports Awards 2008 held in Glasgow, Scotland on Thursday 4 December.</P> <P mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P>... Read more

-&nbsp;Edinburgh, Scotland&nbsp;– The idea that Leonard Patrick Komon would go on to take the individual silver medal in the Senior Men’s race at the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships here today would have seemed faintly absurd to anybody hearing the suggestion midway through the Kenyan trial to pick the team four weeks ago.</P>
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Komon the fighter – Edinburgh 2008

-&nbsp;Edinburgh, Scotland&nbsp;– The idea that Leonard Patrick Komon would go on to take the individual silver medal in the Senior Men’s race at the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships here today would have seemed faintly absurd to anybody hearing the suggestion midway through the Kenyan trial to pick the team four weeks ago.</P>... Read more

- As inspiration goes it takes some beating. Only minutes after becoming the most successful woman in the history of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Tirunesh Dibaba stood in the flapping white tent that served as a media/athlete mixed zone in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park and insisted it wasn’t her own victory that had painted the broad, joyful smile on her mud-spotted 22-year-old face.</P>
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Dibaba sisters make it a family affair – Edinburgh 2008

- As inspiration goes it takes some beating. Only minutes after becoming the most successful woman in the history of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Tirunesh Dibaba stood in the flapping white tent that served as a media/athlete mixed zone in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park and insisted it wasn’t her own victory that had painted the broad, joyful smile on her mud-spotted 22-year-old face.</P>... Read more

There was a familiar name on the vest and a familiar smile on the face of Genzebe Dibaba as she bounced down the final, muddy slope of the three-lap course at Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park this afternoon and sped across the line to become the 2007 IAAF World Junior Cross Country champion emulating her older sister Tirunesh who won the title in 2003.
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Younger sister leads the way - Edinburgh 2008

There was a familiar name on the vest and a familiar smile on the face of Genzebe Dibaba as she bounced down the final, muddy slope of the three-lap course at Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park this afternoon and sped across the line to become the 2007 IAAF World Junior Cross Country champion emulating her older sister Tirunesh who won the title in 2003.... Read more

After three years in Kenyan hands, Ethiopia regained the Junior Men’s individual title over 8 kilometres today as Ibrahim Jeilan used his proven track speed to see off his challengers in the <STRONG>36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships </STRONG>at Holyrood Park. Jeilan, the World Junior 10,000m champion, thus made up for his failure to finish in the corresponding race in Mombasa last year and for his fifth place in Fukuoka two years ago.
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World Junior 10,000m champion makes up for Mombasa 'dnf'

After three years in Kenyan hands, Ethiopia regained the Junior Men’s individual title over 8 kilometres today as Ibrahim Jeilan used his proven track speed to see off his challengers in the <STRONG>36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships </STRONG>at Holyrood Park. Jeilan, the World Junior 10,000m champion, thus made up for his failure to finish in the corresponding race in Mombasa last year and for his fifth place in Fukuoka two years ago.... Read more