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Chiba International Cross Country
The races are held in the Showa Forest near Chiba
DateMid-February
Location Chiba, Japan Japan
Event type Cross country
Distance12 km and 4 km for men
6 km for women
8 km junior men
5 km junior women
Established1966

The Chiba International Cross Country is an annual cross country running competition which takes place in Chiba, Japan in mid-February. It is one of the IAAF permit meetings which serve as qualifying events for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. [1]

Initiated in 1966, [2] the Chiba Cross Country is held in Showa-No-Mori Park and features a competition schedule of eight races. [3] These include a senior men's long course (12 km), a senior women's course (6 km), and a senior men's short course (4 km). Furthermore, there are three races for junior athletes which are of shorter distances, as well as two 3 km races for high school runners. [4]

Four of the races act as qualifiers for the World Cross Country Championship: the men's 12 km and the women's 6 km allow athletes to enter the senior world competition while the junior men's 8 km and junior women's 5 km enable runners to qualify for the junior section of the championships. [5] The competition is one of three in which Japanese athletes can qualify for the World Championships; the others being the annual Fukuoka International Cross Country and the biennial Asian Cross Country Championships. [6]

Over a thousand runners compete at the meeting each year, although the attendance record set in 1991 featured nearly twice as many participants. [2] A select number of international athletes are invited to compete each year, although the majority of the field typically comprise a mix of Japanese runners and Japan-based Kenyan athletes. [4] Previous winners include Olympic gold medallists Samuel Wanjiru and Derartu Tulu, eight-time European cross country champion Serhiy Lebid, and Tegla Loroupe – twice winner of the New York City Marathon. [2]

The competition is televised on the NHK BS-1 channel by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, the country's public broadcaster. [7] After the International Chiba Ekiden, the Chiba International Cross Country is the prefecture's premier athletics event. [8]

The Chiba International Cross Country has also hosted the Asian Cross Country Championship race on two occasions (1995, 1997). [2]

Past senior race winners

Two-time Chiba winner Samuel Wanjiru at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Tegla Loroupe won the women's race in 1997 and 1999.
  • Note: Race data unavailable prior to 1987. [2]

Key:    Asian Championship race   8 km course (All other men's races 12 km and women's races 6 km)

Edition Year Men's winner Time ( m: s) Women's winner Time ( m: s)
1st 1966 Not available — Not available —
22nd 1987   Shuichi Yoneshige ( JPN) 35:17   Jacqueline Perkins ( AUS) 19:45
23rd 1988   Andrew Lloyd ( AUS) 35:03   Carolyn Schuwalow ( AUS) 21:19
24th 1989   Arturo Barrios ( MEX) 34:28   Carolyn Schuwalow ( AUS) 19:33
25th 1990   Brahim Boutayeb ( MAR) 34:04   Carolyn Schuwalow ( AUS) 19:01
26th 1991   Addis Abebe ( ETH) 34:39   Derartu Tulu ( ETH) 19:36
27th 1992   Thomas Osano ( KEN) 35:03   Delilah Asiago ( KEN) 19:24
28th 1993   Mathias Ntawulikura ( RWA) 36:01   Viktoriya Nenasheva ( RUS) 20:04
29th 1994   Gert Thys ( RSA) 35:35   Nadezhda Galliamova ( RUS) 19:25
30th 1995   Daniel Njenga ( KEN) 35:32   Tudorita Chidu ( ROU) 19:17
31st 1996   Brad Barquist ( USA) 36:37   Iulia Olteanu ( ROU) 20:05
32nd 1997   Mathias Ntawulikura ( RWA) 35:50   Tegla Loroupe ( KEN) 19:55
33rd 1998   Julius Gitahi ( KEN) 36:32   Sally Barsosio ( KEN) 20:37
34th 1999   Julius Kiptoo ( KEN) 35:14   Tegla Loroupe ( KEN) 26:00
35th 2000   Serhiy Lebid ( UKR) 35:38   Yoshiko Ichikawa ( JPN) 26:53
36th 2001   Samuel Kabiru ( KEN) 23:33   Iulia Olteanu ( ROU) 19:26
37th 2002   Craig Mottram ( AUS) 35:29   Benita Johnson ( AUS) 25:43
38th 2003   Ricardo Ribas ( POR) 36:27   Benita Johnson ( AUS) 26:09
39th 2004   Samuel Wanjiru ( KEN) 35:04   Benita Johnson ( AUS) 18:38
40th 2005   Samuel Wanjiru ( KEN) 34:54   Miwako Yamanaka ( JPN) 20:01
41st 2006   Ryan Hall ( USA) 35:22   Sara Hall ( USA) 19:12
42nd 2007   Joseph Gitau ( KEN) 35:05   Anália Rosa ( POR) 19:15
43rd 2008   Harun Mbugua ( KEN) 35:27   Lucy Wangui ( KEN) 19:50
44th 2009   Bedan Karoki ( KEN) 34:40   Yuko Shimizu ( JPN) 19:38
45th 2010   Bedan Karoki ( KEN) 34:52   Misaki Katsumata ( JPN) 19:39
46th 2011 [9]   Bedan Karoki ( KEN) 33:58   Hitomi Niiya ( JPN) 25:53
47th 2012 [10]   Charles Ndirangu ( KEN) 34:59   Susan Wairimu ( KEN) 26:41
48th 2013 [11]   Charles Ndirangu ( KEN) 35:01   Rosemary Wanjiru ( KEN) 26:08
49th 2014 cancelled due to snow storms
50th 2015 [12]   Charles Ndirangu ( KEN) 36:14   Zoe Buckman ( AUS) 28:37
51st 2016   Rodgers Kwemoi ( KEN) 25:05   Yuki Kanehira ( JPN) 29:04

References

General
Specific
  1. ^ IAAF Cross Country Permits. IAAF (2010). Retrieved on 2010-02-12.
  2. ^ a b c d e Chiba International Crosscountry. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2009-02-15). Retrieved on 2010-02-12.
  3. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2001-02-18). Chiba International Cross Country. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-12.
  4. ^ a b Nakamura, Ken (2010-02-12). Chiba Cross Country to determine Japanese World Cross teams – Preview. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-12.
  5. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2008-02-08). Chiba International Cross Country - PREVIEW. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-12.
  6. ^ Tulu versus Johnson in Chiba - Preview. IAAF (2004-02-13). Retrieved on 2010-02-12.
  7. ^ 大会情報 Archived 2010-02-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese). JAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-12.
  8. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2009-02-15). Karoki and Shimizu the winners at Chiba Cross Country. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-12.
  9. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2011-02-13). Karoki and Niiya win at Chiba Cross Country. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-02-13.
  10. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2012-02-12). Kenyan high schoolers dominate at Chiba Cross Country. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-02-12.
  11. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2013-02-10). Kenyans Ndirangu and Wanjiru win Chiba cross country races. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-02-28.
  12. ^ Nakamura, Ken (2015-02-09). Ndirangu and Buckman win at the Chiba Cross Country. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-02-09.

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