The 2023 World Cross Country Championships Were Crazy

Drama. Speed. Upsets. Glory. The 2023 World Cross Country Championships were wild.

Huge Shout out to Elliot Tom for the great footage from the World Championships.
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[RobertJWaid]

Leo Young finished 16th as the first runner not from Kenya, Ethiopia, or Uganda. He led team USA to a third-place finish. What a run, going from 50th to 29th to 19th to finish 16th.

[mtuflani]

Fun fact for those who might not know, the Kenyans and the Ugandans in most long distance running are from the same tribe (Kalenjin). One large community separated by a border.

[YourFitnessQuest]

Watching Gidey collapse just in front of the finish line just tore my heart out. The interference from her coaches only compounded the tragedy prompting the DQ. Congrats to Chibet for her amazing final 100 meters. What a brutal sport. My hat's off to all of these incredible runners in all of the different divisions.

[travishillier]

Not to mention the Aussies took home their third ever medal - Ollie, Stewy, Jess and Abbey bringing home the bronze in the 2x4 mixed relay 👑

[htmonaro]

The weather was just typical late summer here in Australia, especially west of the Great Dividing Range. Bathurst is notorious for hot dry conditions that turn stormy, almost on a whim. It was awful watching several athletes, not just Gidey, collapse within metres of the line, but the Aussie mixed relay team took home the bronze, which was awesome.

[stoicrunner]

The women's race was epic. Stunning finish. Still cannot believe Gidey didn't win.

[jakereuter]

I've never understood how big XC races haven't become a more popular thing. I love watching things like the NCAA championships on TV. This race is way more exciting than watching a long distance track race. XC has hills, turns, different surfaces. XC could be a BIG thing!

[Thegardener]

The speed these videos get posted after the event is impressive. 👍🏻

[thedailystride]

Cross country always brings such interesting drama. Cant wait to watch

[Self-Duality]

Finally an event that lives up to the title! 💥💥💥💥

[AnthonyMcqueen]

It’s been said that the WCC is the most challenging running event to win. Why because you don’t have specialists in this race. You have the best runners from all over the world who run from the 1500 all the way to the marathon competing.

This challenges everyone and showcases how much strength is needed to win this prestigious race.

[Vadeemers]

I think Leo Young has proven NXN was a fluke and cemented an argument for the best U.S. high school cross country runner this season 22/23. He was the top U.S u 20 performer at Nationals and World at 8k ahead of Kole Mathison who won Champs and was fourth at NXN. Lex and Leo moved back their competition season in anticipation of competing at U20 nationals and worlds which impacted their early high school season schedule.

[Penfold]

I love that someone called G’day came so close to winning the Australian hosted race…

[EthanM]

I was fortunate enough to be able to run there myself in one of the earlier races and the course was brutal. Very tricky to navigate well and very crowded. Great, challenging course though with a load of steep, punchy hill, not to mention the nearly 40 degree heat (celcius). So glad to have been able to witness it and run on the same course as the pros.

[DGM-ufny]

Great job on getting this video out so quick

[kimanimzalendo]

The pressure and pace of Beatrice Chebet was great in the final 200M, and pushed Gidey into error/exhaustion. Even without her falling, Chebet was set to overtake her.

[ethanwhiting]

People underestimate how wild, and unpredictable the weather in inland nsw is, Mount panaram is also a big race track

[alanmansfield]

I was there.

Wonderful. Hulls warm up got the ground excited,

The junior races were tough particularly for those who earnt a wild card entry from Friday.

Such fine racing.

There was no where to hide and cruise on this course.

Watch the finals of the Senior races from the finish straight.

Chebet ran the tangents. Gidey actually had a hitch in her stride at the top of the course watch the video back.

Wow. I just saw a current wr holder for ten and five k, at the time of the race, nearly win. Nearly. Chebet is very good as well.

The men’s race! Wonderful. Joshua was the only winner who had time to celebrate in the finish Shute.

You observed it as a friend of mine observed he has run well under thirty minutes! Wow.

Two forty eight on that course! Oh my.

Joshua is such an easy mover. NYC half marathon. World Half Marathon Chsmps. He is very special.

Watching this in preparation for enjoying another athletics season.

[beth-rgbm]

To run that hard for that long only to be disqualified is heartbreaking.

[JoeMac]

I can relate to Gidey. Back in my prime, when I was much faster than I am now, I was running the best times of my life and putting in 70 mile weeks. I was so confident and signed up for a fast course on a 5k. Not a long distance at all... except it was 95 degrees Fahrenheit. I'd never run in a race that hot. For the first time in my life, with at least 100 5k races under my belt at that time, I was walking at the 2 mile mark. I simply couldn't cool my body off with the effort I was giving it and was radiating heat like a furnace.