2011 African Cross Country Championships
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| Organisers | World Cross Country Championships from every year to a biennial format.[2]
The event consisted of four race categories, featuring senior and junior races for men and women. The Caroline Chepkoech won the men's and women's junior gold medals, respectively.[3] Sigosi Chesonane, representing the host nation, was the only non-Kenyan to reach the top five in an event, finishing fifth in the men's senior race.[4]
Although Kenya dominated the competition, none of its runners at the African event ran at the Kenya Cross Country Championships to the world event, while those ranking seventh to tenth in the national race were sent to the event in Cape Town.[5] The continent's second foremost nation in cross country, Ethiopia , did not send any athletes to the competition.
The Kenyan team's jubilant celebrations led to the entire squad of 30 runners and officials missing their flight for Nairobi, scheduled later that day at Cape Town International Airport.[6] MedallistsIndividual
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