The IAAF World Cross Challenge was an annual global series of
cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and soil, earth, pass through woodlands and ope ...
competitions organized by the
International Association of Athletics Federations
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(IAAF). Athletes accumulated points in the series' cross country meets during the season, which typically began in December and finished in March prior to the annual
IAAF World Cross Country Championships. The series was based upon the
IAAF Grand Prix track and field
Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...
circuit and the IAAF hoped to similarly boost the sport of cross country running. The last series was held in 1999–2000, after which point it was replaced by the
IAAF Cross Country Permit Meetings series which featured similar races but did not have a point scoring format.
IAAF Cross Country Permit 1999
IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Editions
Meetings
Results
Men
Women
See also
* IAAF Combined Events Challenge
* IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge
* IAAF Race Walking Challenge
References
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Recurring sporting events established in 1990
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2000
World Cross Challenge
Cross Challenge
Annual athletics series