He was the Swedish national cross-country champion in 1947 and 1948.

The day's most celebrated athlete was Lynn Jennings, the world cross-country champion.

She is the Catholic high schools cross-country champion.

Ayhan's father is a former amateur athlete, a local cross-country champion of her hometown Çankırı.

Tergat, the five-time world cross-country champion, made his marathon debut at London last year and ran 2:08:15.

Ngugi, a perennial world cross-country champion, took an early lead and loped most of the race 20 to 30 meters in front.

He also became cross-country champion in 1927 and 1930 with a silver in 1923.

Masai did not, however, achieve anything until 1999, when she became the national cross-country champion, at the age of 32.

Pieterse, the former two-time world cross-country champion, did not even participate in her country's national track and field championships two weeks ago.

She also won two 440-yard run championships and in her senior year, she was state cross-country champion as well.