African Southern Region Cross Country Championships

The African Southern Region Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition between Southern African nations, organised by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA). Established in 1997,African Southern Region Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-09-10. it is one of three regional cross country championships organised by the CAA, alongside the North and East African Cross Country Championships.East African Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-09-10.North African Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-09-10.

The competition is one of three senior athletics championships organised for the Southern region, alongside the main African Southern Region Athletics Championships and the African Southern Region Half Marathon Championships.CAA Southern Region half-marathon championships, Antananarivo (Madagascar) 4/09/2016. Africathle. Retrieved 2019-09-10.CAA Southern Region championships, Reduit (Mauritius) 5-6/07/2019 . Africa Athle. Retrieved 2019-09-10.

Senior and under-20 level races are held for both men and women, which have both individual and national team rankings. The championships previously featured senior short races over 4 km,Quirin, Reynolds (2005-02-21). South Africans shine in African Southern Region Cross Country Championships. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-12. but these were discontinued after 2006, in line with changes to the IAAF World Cross Country Championships programme.

Editions Edition Year City Country Date Nations Athletes 1 1997 ? 2 1998 ? 3 1999 Vacoas-Phoenix–Candos Hill Mauritius 4 2000 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe 5 2001 Blantyre Malawi 6 2002 Mohale's Hoek Lesotho 7 2003 Luanda Angola 8 2004 Lobamba Swaziland 9 2005 Vacoas-Phoenix–Candos Hill Mauritius 19 February Southern Region Crosscountry Championships 2005. ARRS. Retrieved 2019-09-11. 10 2006 Kumakwane Botswana 25 February Africa Southern Region Crosscountry Championships 2006. ARRS. Retrieved 2019-09-11.Ouma, Mark (2006-02-25). Southern Region Cross Country Championships. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-12. 11 2007 Zomba Malawi 24 February Southern Africa Crosscountry Championships 2007. ARRS. Retrieved 2019-09-11. 12 2008 Lusaka Zambia 23 February Southern Africa Crosscountry Championships 2008. ARRS. Retrieved 2019-09-11. 13 2009 Gymkhana Mauritius 28 February Quirin, Reynolds (2009-03-01). African Southern Region XC Champs: A South African affair. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-12. 14 2010 ? Mauritius February Mokoka fears the weather in Poland. IOL (2010-03-17). Retrieved 2019-09-12. 15 2011 Cape Town South Africa 6 March Zambia: Breweries Gives Zaaa K8.7 Million for Championship. Times of Zambia (2011-02-14). Retrieved 2019-09-12. 16 2012 ? Mauritius 3 March Southern Region Cross Country Team. Time To Run (2012-03-01). Retrieved 2019-09-12. 17 2013 Maseru Lesotho 2 March CAA Southern Region Cross Championships 2013. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2019-09-11.CAA Southern Region Cross-Country Championships, Maseru (Lesotho) 2/03/2013. Africathle (2013-03-02). Retrieved 2019-09-11. 18 2014 Cancelled Seychelles Kanjere, Peter (2014-12-26). Council assessing Southern Africa Cross-Country offer. Malawi Nation. Retrieved 2019-09-12. 19 2015 Blantyre Malawi 21 February Kasiteni to represent Malawi at Southern Africa Cross Country. Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust (2015-02-12). Retrieved 2019-09-12. 20 2016 Cancelled Swaziland 26 March SOUTHERN REGION JUNIOR CHAMPS POSTPONED. AllAthletics (2016-05-21). Retrieved 2019-09-12. 21 2017 ? 22 2018 Vacoas-Phoenix Mauritius 24 February ASA selects 9 for CAA Southern Region XC Championships in Mauritius. Athletics Africa. Retrieved 2019-09-11. 23 2019 ?

Champions Long course YearMen's long courseMen's long course teamWomen's long courseWomen's long course team19992000??2001??20022003??200420052006?? Short course YearMen's short courseMen's short course teamWomen's short courseWomen's short course team2000??2001?Not heldNot held20022003?Not heldNot held20042005Quirin, Reynolds (2005-02-21). South Africans shine in African Southern Region Cross Country Championships. World Athletics. Retrieved 2021-01-23.2006??

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