The 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 24, 2007. The races were held at the Mombasa Golf Course in Mombasa, Kenya. Four races took place, one for men, women, junior men and junior women respectively. All races encompassed both individual and team competition. The short race for men and women that was run between 1998 and 2006 was scrapped and the World Cross Country Championships went back to one-day format. Reports of the event were given in the Herald, and for the IAAF.
The 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 28, 2009. The races were held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan. Four races took place, one for men, women, junior men and junior women respectively. All races encompassed both individual and team competition. Amman is also only the second occasion on which Asia has hosted the World Cross Country Championships, which are the oldest IAAF World Athletics Series event, first celebrated under the IAAF banner in 1973.
The Senior women's race at the 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Mombasa Golf Course in Mombasa, Kenya, on March 24, 2007. Reports of the event were given in the Herald, and for the IAAF.
Umberto Pusterla is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at 11 editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
Gianni Demadonna is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at five editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. He also won a national championship at the senior level. He currently works as an athletics agent.
Italo Tentorini is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at one edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level (1976), He won one national championships at senior level.
Ranieri Carenza is an Italian male former long-distance runner who competed at five editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. He won one national championships at senior level (1987).
Giuseppe Miccoli is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at five editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. He won two national championships at senior level.
Carlo Terzer is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at three editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. He won one national championships at senior level.
Renato Gotti is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at three editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. He won two national championships at senior level.
Paolo Donati is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at three editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. He won one national championships at senior level.
Maurizio Leone is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at four editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. He won two national championships at senior level.
Simone Zanon is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at five editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. He won two national championships at senior level.
Michele Gamba is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at two editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. and four of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
Fabio Cesari is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at one edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level (2006). He won one national championships at senior level.
Patrizia Tisi is a former Italian female long-distance runner who competed at four editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. and two of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
Sara Palmas is a former Italian female middle and long-distance runner who competed at one edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level (2001).
Giulia Aprile is an Italian middle-distance runner who competed at one edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level (2017).
Touria Samiri is a female Moroccan-born Italian middle distance runner and steeplechase runner who competed at one edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level (2013).
Lorenzo Perrone is a former Italian male middle-distance runner who won two national titles at senior level and that in 2003 ranking in 24th place at the end of season in the World list of the 3000 metres indoor, thanks to this good performance he participated at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
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