REGION’S TOP RUNNERS ARRIVE FOR ARAB CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
Jan 03, 2019
The 23rd Arab Cross Country Championships will be hosted by the Jordan Athletics Federation on Saturday at the Bisharat Golf Club.
The event will welcome the leading endurance runners from 14 countries including Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Tunisia, Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine and Jordan.
Event Manager, Muntasir Al Momani, declared that preparations and logistics are complete with most of the runners arriving by Thursday in Amman.
The schedule will include six races and is the second major international cross country event held in the Kingdom following the successful 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, held on the same track.