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Frank Tickner
Francis (Frank) Tickner (born 12 October 1983) is a British cross country runner. Career Tickner placed 1st in the English Cross Country Championships in 2007 and 2009. He has represented Great Britain at World championships: * Tickner finished 45th in the senior men's race at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. * Tickner was 73rd in the senior men's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. * Tickner came 72nd in the senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. * Tickner was placed 83rd in the senior men's race at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Tickner has also represented Great Britain at European championships. He finished 10th in the men’s individual 10km at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships. Education Frank Tickner studied French and English at Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surg ...
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Cross Country Runner
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 earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road and minor obstacles. It is both an individual and a team sport; runners are judged on individual times and teams by a points-scoring method. Both men and women of all ages compete in cross country, which usually takes place during autumn and winter, and can include weather conditions of rain, sleet, snow or hail, and a wide range of temperatures. Cross country running is one of the disciplines under the umbrella sport of athletics and is a natural-terrain version of long-distance track and road running. Although open-air running competitions are prehistoric, the rules and traditions of cross country racing emerged in Britain. The English championship became the first national ...
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2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior Men's Race
The Senior men's race at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Myślęcinek Park in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on March 24, 2013. Reports of the event were given in the Herald and for the IAAF. Complete results for individuals, and for teams were published. Race results Senior men's race (12 km) Individual Teams *Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. Participation According to an unofficial count, 102 athletes from 30 countries participated in the Senior men's race. * (6) * (5) * (1) * (5) * (1) * (6) * (2) * (1) * (5) * (6) * (4) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (3) * (5) * (4) * (5) * (4) * (3) * (1) * (5) * (1) * (5) * (6) * (1) See also * 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race * 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race * 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race References {{DEFAULTSORT:2013 IAAF World Cross Countr ...
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2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior Men's Race
The Senior men's race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course in Amman, Jordan, on March 28, 2009. Reports of the event were given in ''The New York Times'' and for the IAAF. Complete results for individuals, and for teams were published. Race results Senior men's race (12 km) Individual Teams *Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. Participation According to an unofficial count, 145 athletes from 44 countries participated in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athletes from did not show. * (1) * (2) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (4) * (5) * (4) * (2) * (1) * (5) * (6) * (6) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (4) * (1) * (1) * (5) * (6) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (6) * (5) * (2) * (1) * (6) * (6) * (2) * (1) * (3) * (2) * (6) * (6) * (6) * (1) * (3) See also * 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's ...
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2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior Men's Race
The Senior men's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on March 30, 2008. Reports of the event were given in '' The New York Times'', in the '' Herald'', and for the IAAF. Complete results for individuals, and for teams were published. Race results Senior men's race (12 km) Individual †: Fathi Meftah from finished 35th in 36:44 min, but was disqualified because of doping violations. Teams *Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. Participation According to an unofficial count, 179 athletes from 45 countries participated in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published. The announced athletes from , , and did not show. * (8) * (1) * (8) * (1) * (5) * (1) * (6) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (9) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (8) * (9) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (7) * (4) * (8) * (1) * (9) * (1) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (1) * (9) * (1) * (1) * (8) ...
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2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior Men's Race
The Senior men's race at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Umi-no-nakamichi Seaside Park in Fukuoka, Japan, on April 2, 2006. Reports of the event were given in ''The New York Times'', and for the IAAF. Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published. Race results Senior men's race (12 km) Individual Teams *Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. Participation According to an unofficial count, 140 athletes from 40 countries participated in the Senior men's race. * (6) * (1) * (4) * (4) * (4) * (5) * (4) * (6) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (4) * (5) * (6) * (2) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (4) * (6) * (1) * (6) * (4) * (6) * (6) * (5) * (5) * (1) * (2) * (4) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (6) * (5) * (6) * (1) See also * 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race * 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships ...
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2008 European Cross Country Championships
The 15th European Cross Country Championships were held at Brussels in Belgium on 14 December 2008. Serhiy Lebid took his eighth title in the men's competition and Hilda Kibet Hilda Kibet (born 27 March 1981 in Keiyo District) is a Dutch runner of Kenyan birth. She is the sister of Sylvia Kibet and the niece of Lornah Kiplagat. She obtained Dutch nationality in October 2007. Kibet's longtime partner is Dutch marath ... won the women's race. Results Men individual 10.0 km Total 77 competitors Men teams Total 12 teams Women individual 8.0 km Total 64 competitors Women teams Total 11 teams Men U23 individual 8.0 km Total 85 competitors Men U23 teams Total 16 teams Women U23 individual 6.0 km Tota 66 competitors Women U23 teams Total 11 teams Junior men individual 6.0 km Total 94 competitors Junior men teams Total 16 teams Junior women individual 4.0 km Total 81 competitors Junior women teams Total 11 teams References ...
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Birmingham University
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as the William Sands Cox, Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery), and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), making it the first English red brick university, civic or 'red brick' university to receive its own royal charter. The present iteration of the university was modeled after Cornell University. It is a founding member of both the Russell Group of British research universities and the international network of research universities, Universitas 21. The student population includes undergraduate and postgraduate students in 2019–20, which is the List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrollment, largest in the UK (out of ). The annual income of the university for 2020–21 wa ...
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1983 Births
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazism, Nazi war crime, war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for 1983 Australian federal election, elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden ...
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Alumni Of The University Of Birmingham
This is a list of notable people related to the University of Birmingham. Chancellors The University of Birmingham has had seven Chancellors since gaining its Royal Charter in 1900. Joseph Chamberlain, the first Chancellor, was largely responsible for the university gaining its Royal Charter in 1900 and for the development of the Edgbaston campus. Vice-Chancellors & Principals * Sir Oliver Lodge, physicist, Principal of the University of Birmingham 1900-19 * Sir Charles Grant Robertson, British academic historian, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Principal of the University of Birmingham 1920-1923, Vice-chancellor & Principal of the University of Birmingham 1923-1938 * Sir Raymond Priestley, geologist and early Antarctic explorer, Vice-chancellor & Principal of the University of Birmingham 1938-1952 * Humphrey Francis Humphreys, academic, Vice-chancellor & Principal of the University of Birmingham 1952-1953 * Sir Robert Aitken, Vice-chancellor & Principal of the ...
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