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EVENT INFORMATION

 

The World Athletics Cross Country Championships, Bathurst 2023 will feature a range of public events which will see everyday runners competing over the actual World Cross Country Championship Course. From School Challenges and Clubs races through to the Golden Ticket races which will see placegetters make it through to the actual World Championships.

 

It will give everyday runners the opportunity to experience first hand what the worlds best distance runners will experience - the hills, the boomerang, the billabong, the vineyard and that glorious World Championship feeling in a once in a lifetime opportunity. 

 

MASS RACE SCHEDULE

 

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2023

TIME

ACTIVITY

8:00am

Golden Ticket Races

 - U20 Women & Men 4km (2 laps)

Top 7 into WXC

 

 

8:30am

Golden Ticket Races

 - Open Women 6km

Top 7 into WXC

 

 

9:10am

Golden Ticket Races

 - 0910: Open Men 6km

Top 7 into WXC

 

 

10:00am

Schools Challenge:

 

 - 1000: Girls & Boys U13 2km Cross Country

 - 1015: Girls & Boys U14 4km Cross Country

 - 1040: Girls & Boys U16 4km Cross Country

 - 1105: Girls & Boys U18 & U20 4km Cross Country 

 - 1130: Teachers Hot Lap, 2k (men & women)

 

1:00pm – 5:00pm

World Athletics Teams warm up on track

 

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Hotlaps: any age, any start time

 

 

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2023

TIME

ACTIVITY

9:00am

Corporate and Public Teams Relays: 4 x 2km

10:00am

Ambulant Races: men & women (distance 2km)

10:40am

World Masters Championships, Relay 4 x 2km

2.30pm

Pre Game Show on Main Stage. Interviews with the greats!

3:00pm

Opening Ceremony (Welcome to Country)

3:30pm

Mixed relay – 8km

4:10pm 

U20 Women WXC 6km Championships    

4:50pm

U20 Men WXC 8km Championships

5:30pm

Senior Women WXC 10km Championships 

6:30pm

Senior Men WXC 10km Championship

7:10pm

Medal Ceremony – Mixed Relay

7:15pm

Medal Ceremony – U20 Women (individual)

7:20pm

Medal Ceremony – U20 Women (team)

7:25pm

Medal Ceremony – U20 Men (individual)

7:30pm

Medal Ceremony – U20 Men (team)

7:35pm

Medal Ceremony – Mixed Relay

7:40pm

Medal Ceremony – Women (individual)

7:45pm

Medal Ceremony – Women (teams)

7:50pm

Medal Ceremony – Men (individual)

7:55pm

Medal Ceremony – Men (teams)

 

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2023
TIME ACTIVITY
7:00am

Cross Country Challenge

 - U7 Boys & Girls, 800m

 - 08 Boys & Girls, 800m

 - U9 Boys & Girls, 800m

7:15am

Cross Country Challenge

 - U10 Boys & Girls, 2km

 - U11 Boys & Girls, 2km

 - U12 Boys, 2km

 - U12 Girls, 2km

 - U13 Boys, 2km

 - U13 Girls, 2km

 - U14 Boys, 2km

 - U14 Girls, 2km

7:35am

Cross Country Challenge

 - U15 & U16 Boys, 4km

 - U15 & U16 Girls, 4km

 - U18 Boys, 4km

 - U18 Girls, 4km

 - U20 Boys, 6km

 - U20 Girls, 6km

8:20am

 World Masters Championships

 - 70+ age group – 4km

9:10am

 World Masters Championships

 - 35-69 age group – 6km

10:00am

Cross Country Challenge

 - Open Men, 10km

11:15am

Cross Country Challenge

 - Open Women, 10km

 

ABOUT MOUNT PANORAMA (WAHLUU)

 

Mount Panorama (Wahluu) is part of Australia’s DNA. Crowds keep coming and growing, as all-comers from motorsport to athletics ascend on the mountain to stake their claim at immortality.

 

A nation becomes transfixed; the spectacle of sport at Mount Panorama is a national institution. A theatre of power, adrenaline and endurance. 

 

The World Athletics Cross Country Championships always attract a roll call of the very best there’s ever been. There’s no other distances here – no medal for 3000, or 5, or 10. Just one chance. Dominated by a select few.

 

Ethiopia and Kenya have won every women’s team medal since 1995. And only once in 40 years has the men’s team medal gone to anyone else.

 

But they’ve never done it here; Mount Panorama (Wahluu), Bathurst New South Wales.

 

The mountain. A spiritual home of Australian Sport. Relentlessly challenging. And now home to the first World Athletics Series event on the island continent in 25 years.

 

On Saturday, February 18, 2023, immortality awaits. 

 

 

FOOD AND BEVERAGE:

 

We are delighted to have a variety of local food vendors serving delicious local food and beverages across breakfast, lunch and dinner each day:

 

Public Bar: 

 

  • Harvest Café - local beer, wine, soft drinks, cold drinks, hot pies, fresh salads

 

Food Trucks:

 

  • The Cheesecake Co & Paddock to Plate Woodfired Pizzas – pizza, cheesecake, coffee
  • Epic Wedges – Wedges, fish & chips, hot chips, salt and pepper squid, cold drinks
  • Robi's Kitchen – Sri Lankan rolls, samosa, falooda, mango lassi
  • Cool Delights – Mini Melts ice cream
  • Le Waffle Bean – Waffles, churros, ice cakes, soft serve ice cream, coffee
  • Saltbush Lamb - Lamb rolls

 

EVENT PROGRAM

 

The official event program for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 23 can be downloaded from the link below.

 

 

VENUE MAP

 

The World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 2023 event site takes advantage of the incredible array of facilities at world-class Mount Panorama circuit and pit complex. 

 

With thirty-six pit bays in the pit complex, international teams will be allocated their own pit-bay as their team base and create a unique spectacle in the world of athletics. 

 

Hospitality, fan zones, presentation areas and expo are all located within close proximity to the Mount Panorama pit complex making an easy to get around event site with plenty of on-track and off-track action accessible within a matter of metres.